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Opera 9.5 beautifully engineered

Beautifully engineered

Today we released the final public release of our flagship Web browser, Opera 9.5. Opera's cross-device expertise, support for open Web standards and commitment to speed and performance has culminated into our most powerful browser yet.

What's new in Opera 9.5:

Opera Link: Your bookmarks, Speed Dial and even notes taken in the Opera browser can follow you anywhere. Opera Link keeps you synchronized between any Opera 9.5 desktop browser and Opera Mini, Opera's free browser for your mobile phone. In Opera 9.5 write a note - copy directions, create shopping lists or jot down anything you need to remember - and access it on any Opera 9.5 browser by simply logging in.

Find anything: Remember a word from a page you've read earlier? Find that page easily with Quick Find. Just enter a word in the address bar to find matching text from any page you have visited.

Looking sharp: Opera makes a move to modernize its look and feel to a sharp new skin with clean lines and clear icons. The 'New Tab' button and other elements have been modified to make the switch to a better Web experience more intuitive. You may also select any of our platform-specific skins to help Opera's appearance adapt to your operating system of choice.

Strengthened defense against malware and phishing: Opera's Fraud Protection not only protects you from fraudulent Web sites, it is now the first browser publically available to protect you from malware and other malicious software on the Web. Powered by Haute Secure, Netcraft, and PhishTank, Opera's Fraud Protection technology automatically blocks offending Web pages to keep you out of harm's way.

Speed: Opera continues to lead in performance. Opera 9.5 makes dramatic speed improvements to the e-mail client, RSS feeds and the browser itself, so you can spend more time getting things done online.

Of course Opera 9.5 includes many features Opera users have already come to know and love. Speed Dial, notes, the ability to save and restore browsing sessions after you close the browser, a trash can for accidentally closed tabs or e-mails, mouse gestures and many others bring a fresh approach to browsing the Web. Discover Opera for yourself today.

Jon S. von Tetzchner"Opera 9.5 represents the culmination of two years spent listening to our community and transforming our browser to add features and capabilities they have requested," said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera. "Opera 9.5 offers new possibilities and capabilities. It's faster, lighter and pushes us further out in front of other browsers, by blending the mobile and desktop worlds together in new and powerful ways. We invite everyone to join us as we continue to shape the way the Web will evolve."

Download:

Opera is a free download from http://www.opera.com/

Community

Now that Opera 9.5 is released we want you help us spread the word. If anyone has promoted Opera 9.5, please let us know here as a comment and we'll add your effort to a list of contributions. smile

Also, feel free to use any of our new Kestrel wallpapers. Add a download banner to your blog, or any other social networking site you're a member of to support the good cause! cool

If you think this is good, then help us digg it! Opera 9.5 Wallpapers

New wallpapers

Download banners:

Just copy and paste the code provided below each image.

Opera 9.5 - beautifully engineered
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Comments

Tamil Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:09:11 AM

party If you are new to Opera 9.5, see Opera FAQs from #74.

(88)

Dan Alexandrudantesoft Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:12:43 AM

Yey!

Почтальон ПечкинPostmanPechkin Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:14:04 AM

yes

vladlat Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:15:07 AM

Where are Opera 9.5 for Russian?

theoddbod Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:15:21 AM

jester

ÁngelGaleth Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:18:17 AM

Yeahh! ^^

Ruben Garciaeztigma Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:25:46 AM

Cool, so now it's official!

Hein Torezyph Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:28:04 AM

FANTASTIC! bigsmile bigsmile bigsmile

Ralf Demuthlachralle Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:30:46 AM

Congratulations!drunk

MartinSnapphane Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:34:42 AM

Got the RC1 yesterday, is it me that's slow or Opera that's fast p

DanielGEO Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:37:17 AM

Why is the version contained by "Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron" opera-static?

I used most of the daily builds and always used gcc4-qt3-shared and it always worked. Now I have that ugly looking font in the (context-)menus... why?!


Pls fix that or many linux user will be disapointed!

Thx
Daniel

seaempty Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:40:04 AM

\o/ party Great news - I shall be downloading this as soon as I get home!

liviuf Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:40:31 AM

"Opera 9.5 represents the culmination of two years spent listening to our community and transforming our browser to add features and capabilities they have requested," said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera.


are you listen to us also the people who are asking about the opera 9.5 mobile version also? Cos it look like you dont answer ower questions from Friday, 28. March 2008, 10:16:24 ....

A. DudaADuda Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:41:51 AM

Nice. Now, I can tell all my friends that Opera is out, and Firefox is late bigsmile

Go Opera! party

PozsonyiMarkCsendesMark Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:44:01 AM

Good!
and you beat firefox smile

miyuru Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:48:38 AM

Just promoted it at http://mobileroyale.tk .

Michél-AndréBersiboy Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:50:09 AM

Woohoo yes

Mathieu 'p01' HENRIp01 Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:51:24 AM

Loving it ... ever since the first previews. A MASSIVE improvement over 9.2

Benjamin JacobsenEinar1975 Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:52:45 AM

Super cool. The new skin is so sleek! It does seems much faster, too.

dudekracked Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:55:05 AM

congratulations opera!

keisan12 Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:56:21 AM

finally~yes

ayembee Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:56:58 AM

beautifully engineered, yes -- but UNBELIEVABLY UGLY sad

thank god for a backup of the old skin, which i have immediately applied. i don't want my browser to look like a high-end amplifier, i want it to look like it belongs to my operating system... huge mistake, but the technology looks better -- i haven't seen the colossal memory leak that was killing me earlier in the build-cycle for 9.5, so good job there.

i also like the new slim panel (and the removal of the irritating side-panel toggle by default), although it is a massive shame to lose the download info that showed you how long your downloads had left "at-a-glance".

summary: good new tech, *AWFUL* new skin.

with the huge strides made by firefox 3 (after 4 years of trying, they have finally made it feel 90% as fast as opera), i can't wait to see how quickly peregrine (opera 10) can get out of the door. hopefully that will be a real game changer.

cheers...

Igorigorditerni Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:59:57 AM

Looking sharp: Opera makes a move to modernize its look and feel to a sharp new skin with clean lines and clear icons. The 'New Tab' button and other elements have been modified to make the switch to a better Web experience more intuitive.


What??? Clear icons??? But if them are all black and indistinguishable!
What??? "New tab" button switch to a better Web experience??? But if i can't find it because it moves with my tabs!!!
no no no
cry cry

However i'll promote on my website as usual. wink

Ciao, Igor ninja

trinest Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:01:20 AM

I love the new design for the browser.

solidcopper Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:02:58 AM

Fan-bloody-tastic !

Igorigorditerni Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:03:43 AM

And why if in Ubuntu64 8.04 i open a new tab with mouse central button click it open and go to the text i have copied first and in Windows it opens with the speed dial?!?!?!

Remembermyid Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:13:48 AM

yes Congratulations!yes


_i love it_

Rainstopyurainstop Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:14:08 AM

Go Opera!! Love it!

Egor Tal'yanovET57 Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:15:42 AM

yes you'r best!!

Arkansaw Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:17:21 AM

I want the windows classic skin back!
But anyway I've set it as my signature on gbatemp!

miki69 Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:21:47 AM

Finally! I was so excited downloading Opera 9.5, couldn't wait to finish. Desktop wallpaper is FENOMENAL! I adore it smile

Thank you Opera team for your great efforts.

my download is complete now, see u later navigator smile

BR
Miki

Hein Torezyph Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:22:26 AM

I've published a news article and uploaded a banner to my two social community sites, zyphnet.no and Mittdyr, respectively.

Patkos Csabapatkoscsaba Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:29:22 AM

A post on my blog with image and download link for Opera 9.5 here: http://my.opera.com/patkoscsaba/blog/2008/06/12/opera-9-5-a-venit-e-aici

A post on the romanian MandrivaUsers site, only text + download link: http://www.mandrivausers.ro/

... many many mails sent to my friends bigsmile

shadowKshadowk Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:30:31 AM

too bad the opera.com web page does not load sad

angelobainah Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:35:30 AM

Tongasoa opera 9.5 (malagasy)
welcome opera 9.5 (english)

http://my.opera.com/bainah/blog/2008/06/12/welcome-to-opera-9-5

Congratulation smile

Tamil Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:35:42 AM

Originally posted by shadowk:

too bad the opera.com web page does not load

yes Got Proxy Error.

Pallab DeIndyan Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:37:05 AM

This is surprising! This is the first time that I am seeing opera.com go down.

Senthil RajSenthilraj Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:37:53 AM

Yes... opera.com web page does not load.

Too much of traffic i guess :-)

Zolizoligrg89 Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:40:29 AM

here to..
bigsmile

liviuf Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:41:16 AM

binek86 Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:48:03 AM

Hello there!

After updating to Opera 9.5 I have no access to my previous mail and RSS channels (which never happened before in the updating process). I have imported it, but seems like it merged my RSS feeds with e-mails and I can't access the feeds directly from RSS channels menu (also there is no sites listed in channel manager in channel menu).

Higiohigio Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:48:47 AM

cool!!!

Patkos Csabapatkoscsaba Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:49:14 AM

Mirror on the Romanian Educational Network (it works):
http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/ftp.opera.com/linux/950/

Johnnyrhonnysparks Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:51:03 AM

home page is now working again.

also for those interested it's build 10063 (windows)

rinki1121 Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:51:36 AM

bigsmile bigsmile
congratulations!

Patkos Csabapatkoscsaba Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:52:05 AM

Build 2042 UNIX

A. DudaADuda Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:53:25 AM

There we have it, added some Opera Buttons for everyone to see bigsmile

http://aduda.blog.hr/

Phantom2 Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:53:39 AM

cheers

ayembee Thursday, June 12, 2008 9:02:16 AM

ok, i'm wrong. there is a MASSIVE memory leak in this final build... sad

merely by opening the new opera 9.5 (from a completely clean install) with NO pages open apart from the speed dial, it leaks nearly 100KB *PER SECOND*. even better it seems to have a 100% CPU bug going now too.

"oh dear" no

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