Alpha Release of Opera 9.5

Alpha Release of Opera 9.5

Tags

Recent visitors

Comments

Comments

Write a comment

My Opera news » Alpha Release of Opera 9.5

Tuesday, 4. September 2007, 08:18:39

The world's fastest...now even faster.

Following the release of Opera 9 last year, we re-wrote Opera's rendering engine for the coming Opera 9.5 release. As a result, Opera 9.5 contains more than a year's worth of speed, standards and performance improvements. For more information we urge you to head over to the Desktop Team blog or click here if you want to get to know Kestrel better.

Are you planning to share your thoughts on the new alpha? We'll collect and share them in this blog post throughout the day. Link to your post as a comment here or submit using this form.

Official feedback should still be listed in the forums! So, don't forget to report bugs, but check the Known Issues list in the changelogs and discuss them in the forums or newsgroups first.

We hope everyone will enjoy today's release!

manni # 4. September 2007, 08:24

Wow, just using 9.50

schmienz # 4. September 2007, 08:27

Me 2 i think =)

Tamil # 4. September 2007, 08:33

baby_2u # 4. September 2007, 08:35

Jurisprudence # 4. September 2007, 08:44

Only had a quick test but pages such as www.pcmag.com which made all previous versions of Opera grind to a virtual halt are now blisteringly fast. Thanks guys and congratulations on the fastest browser yet. And its only an alpha. Brilliance in a browser.

baby_2u # 4. September 2007, 08:48

wonderful...but I had to hunt down all my skins...still love it...

pfelelep # 4. September 2007, 09:15

alpha version?
I'll wait for the betas

shadowk # 4. September 2007, 09:18

just lovin' the speed...can't stop browsing must open new tabs...must reconfigure keyboard shortcuts.

kuad # 4. September 2007, 09:48

Downloading now.

Klemen # 4. September 2007, 10:03

Awesome!!!
I love full history search and synchronization.
The best Opera so far. And it is only alpha!
Congratulations to the Opera team!

Olifia # 4. September 2007, 10:19

Well:yes: but hangs when trying to synchronize bookmarks
Sorry for my English)

Erinyes # 4. September 2007, 10:25

Currently looking awesome. Good job guys!

Nikio # 4. September 2007, 10:36

wohaaaa

let's test it!

Haxi7 # 4. September 2007, 11:09

i dont feel hanging when synchronizeing bookmarks....
awsome version i like it from HUNGARY !!

DD LOL

dafalias # 4. September 2007, 11:14

Pretty stable so far.
And ... it ist fast. Really fast.

CaptainSeagull # 4. September 2007, 11:17

I didn't even think that the internet was ABLE to load that fast no matter how well you built a browser! I can't wait for the official FULL release. This is insane, and also you need to keep the Espen set-up photo.

Indigo_myst # 4. September 2007, 11:18

Holy Cow - this is good for a first release... I have crappy dial up and woo hoo - the pages load so fast!!

Had to reload my web page as it went right out of whack, but second time round it's there as quick as a flash and looks normal.

sgunhouse # 4. September 2007, 11:27

Minor bug ... in the Linux version, the "document" icon doesn't seem to be using transparency (in the corner of a restored window, or in the menu bar if "Show close button on each tab" is disabled).

Maulkin # 4. September 2007, 11:48

Wow!

I really lie the right click option for opening the page in another browser. (e.g. the browsers you have actually installed)

Bustan # 4. September 2007, 11:51

Very nice, Thanks for sharing.

diskcd # 4. September 2007, 11:58

maravilha, bom demais, baixem e usem, otimo !!!!

bupahs # 4. September 2007, 12:03

Woo hooo!! Finally an easy way to sync my bookmarks!!

zoligrg89 # 4. September 2007, 12:32

It's so faaaaaaast!

zoligrg89 # 4. September 2007, 12:34

btw. why is that download button on your post only for windows?It won't change to "download opera for linux" on Ubuntu...

Bustan # 4. September 2007, 12:44

realy i did not try

CsendesMark # 4. September 2007, 12:47

Good

I can't wait for the final!!

Merijn # 4. September 2007, 12:56

Thanks, it's so fast!!

taurius1 # 4. September 2007, 13:04

sweet!!!!

Im on a 2 megabit connection, so i never had any problems with most sites. But some sites stubbornly refuse to load fast. Seemes like i was using dialup for any regular sites.

But omg omg omg opera rendered all three of my favorite "slow" sites sooo faaaassttt!!!

I've already begun making my new wand on opera 9.5

mirobe # 4. September 2007, 13:12

9.5 Seems to be running fine.

It would be great if you could sync online opera settings/blocking filters as well.

Thanks for the new version!

the_N # 4. September 2007, 14:04

Best first release ever.
No problems until now, great job and thanks for making Opera more awesome than it already was

snapper # 4. September 2007, 14:07

I'm running FreeBSD 6.2 stable on i386. I've just moved to 9.5 alpha and it seems to consume all available CPU resources =(

ALLY_G # 4. September 2007, 14:11

Yooohoooooooo

Great!

Thank you very much.

Nerak # 4. September 2007, 14:31

WOOT!

dannii # 4. September 2007, 14:45

Hey Espen! Am I gonna keep my config & bookmarks?

emperial # 4. September 2007, 14:48

I've started using it today and so far so good. I haven't had the opportunity to give it a good go but one feature that I really think should be added is a spell check option.

TheLastSheikah # 4. September 2007, 15:34

Spell check can already be installed, I believe, but I'm not sure exactly how...

I've just installed it. Remaking all my IRC accounts and stuff is taking a while. -_-

uptonpark # 4. September 2007, 15:38

Downloading now...

can't wait...

JM.BLADE # 4. September 2007, 16:35

Raramir # 4. September 2007, 17:15

http://www.opera.com/support/tutorials/opera/spellcheck/ this is a small tutorial for spell-checking with Opera

CapZap # 4. September 2007, 17:16

Hmmm. Keyboard shortcuts don't work for me. Anyone else have this problem?

experttease # 4. September 2007, 17:36

also get GT500's ospell from his blog for inline spell check. just about to download the birdie...

GhostRidah # 4. September 2007, 17:37

just needs in line spell checking and "active" google search and I will wet myself.

godpimp # 4. September 2007, 17:38

Seeing as its alpha, will it crash and corrupt my computer?
Thanks for any responses... (i love that cartman avy, its sooo wicked)

godpimp # 4. September 2007, 17:41

Dear Opera Winfrey,
Your bird better not make me crash, as i am not insured against Kestrel or any wildlife accidents :-)

nenericardo # 4. September 2007, 18:07

I love opera !

leushino # 4. September 2007, 18:27

I'm impressed. This release appears very stable, has loaded all of my favority pages without a hitch and is about as fast as I've ever surfed before... actually the pages are definitely rendering faster than previously. When it becomes a final product, I am certain it will become my default browser (sorry, Firefox).

SoundOfVision # 4. September 2007, 18:52

I just downloaded it, and it seems awesome! Had to download all widgets and skins again, but never mind, I didn't have many of them, so it wasn't a problem.

There's one thing bothered me a bit with old version too: when I'm looking at my bookmarks I need to click on 'More Items' - would it be possible in near future to just scroll down instead of going down at the bottom and clicking 'More items'? I have lots of folders and subfolders so it bothers me a bit.

Anyway, great job people! Keep getting better and better!

When can we expect Beta?

dannii # 4. September 2007, 19:22

I won't lose my settings and favourites?

ADuda # 4. September 2007, 19:33

This is great, but I think I'll wait for the final version

SgtDirtbag # 4. September 2007, 20:10

I must say I'm VERY impressed by this alpha, great work!

But there is still one feature that I'd love to see in opera and that is Firefox's way of handlin RSS feeds in a drop-down menu in the personal bar:
http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/850/rssffij4.png

It's more intuitive than Opera's way of handling RSS feeds, so I have to use both browsers:
Opera for general browsing and Firefox to check my RSS feeds.

But if Opera gets that feature sometime in the feature, I can finally settle on one browser. : )

1 2 3 4 Next »

Showing comments 1 - 50 of 175.

June 2009August 2009