Opera 9.5 Coming
Wednesday, 11. June 2008, 13:40:55
After almost two years in development cycle it looks like Opera 9.5 is finally reaching its Final milestone. While I can't say I am totally pleased with its BiDi support, I do praise it for the giant leap forward in that support since the 9.2x days.Opera Link, Speed Dial, more new features, new technologies, better support for existing ones, many many many fixed bugs, better stability, perfomance and speed, a new skin (which I have come to love, although it still has some minor issue), and more (I'm sure we'll get the complete list soon enough). All of these make Opera 9.5 IMO a very good release, amongs a stiff competition from Firefox 3 and Safari. Each with its own set of weaknesses and strong points.
That said, there are unfortunatly new regressions in 9.5 compared to 9.2x in respect to BiDi, but also luckly threre are less regressions than new bugs or fixed bugs.
I am sure that 9.5x, 9.6(?) and 10.0 will have more fixed BiDi bugs and also hopefully new things in store for us.Here is for Opera 9.5, the best Opera release yet (can't please them all, of course)...!
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