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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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Opera 9.5 - beautifully engineered
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Opera 9.5 - beautifully engineered
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Opera 9.5 - beautifully engineered
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Opera 9.5 - beautifully engineered
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Comments

Tamil 12. June 2008, 07:09

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

(88)

Dan Alexandru 12. June 2008, 07:12

Yey!

Почтальон Печкин 12. June 2008, 07:14

:yes:

vladlat 12. June 2008, 07:15

Where are Opera 9.5 for Russian?

theoddbod 12. June 2008, 07:15

:jester:

Ángel 12. June 2008, 07:18

Yeahh! ^^

Ruben Garcia 12. June 2008, 07:25

Cool, so now it's official!

Hein Tore 12. June 2008, 07:28

FANTASTIC! :D :D :D

Ralf Demuth 12. June 2008, 07:30

Congratulations!:drunk:

Martin 12. June 2008, 07:34

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

DanielGEO 12. June 2008, 07:37

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 12. June 2008, 07:40

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

liviuf 12. June 2008, 07:40

"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. Duda 12. June 2008, 07:41

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

Go Opera! :hat:

PozsonyiMark 12. June 2008, 07:44

Good!
and you beat firefox :smile:

miyuru 12. June 2008, 07:48

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

Michél-André 12. June 2008, 07:50

Woohoo :yes:

Mathieu 'p01' HENRI 12. June 2008, 07:51

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

Benjamin Jacobsen 12. June 2008, 07:52

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

dudekracked 12. June 2008, 07:55

congratulations opera!

keisan12 12. June 2008, 07:56

finally~:yes:

ayembee 12. June 2008, 07:56

beautifully engineered, yes -- but UNBELIEVABLY UGLY :frown:

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...

Igor 12. June 2008, 07:59

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 12. June 2008, 08:01

I love the new design for the browser.

solid copper 12. June 2008, 08:02

Fan-bloody-tastic !

Igor 12. June 2008, 08:03

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 12. June 2008, 08:13

:yes: Congratulations!:yes:


_i love it_

Rainstop 12. June 2008, 08:14

Go Opera!! Love it!

Yegor Talyanov 12. June 2008, 08:15

:yes: you'r best!!

Arkansaw 12. June 2008, 08:17

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

miki69 12. June 2008, 08:21

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 Tore 12. June 2008, 08:22

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

patkoscsaba 12. June 2008, 08:29

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 :D

shadowK 12. June 2008, 08:30

too bad the opera.com web page does not load :frown:

angelo 12. June 2008, 08:35

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 12. June 2008, 08:35

Originally posted by shadowk:

too bad the opera.com web page does not load

:yes: Got Proxy Error.

Pallab De 12. June 2008, 08:37

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

Senthil Raj 12. June 2008, 08:37

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

Too much of traffic i guess :-)

Zoli 12. June 2008, 08:40

here to..
:D

liviuf 12. June 2008, 08:41

binek86 12. June 2008, 08:48

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).

Higio 12. June 2008, 08:48

cool!!!

patkoscsaba 12. June 2008, 08:49

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

Johnny 12. June 2008, 08:51

home page is now working again.

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

rinki1121 12. June 2008, 08:51

:D :D
congratulations!

patkoscsaba 12. June 2008, 08:52

Build 2042 UNIX

A. Duda 12. June 2008, 08:53

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

http://aduda.blog.hr/

Phantom2 12. June 2008, 08:53

:cheers:

ayembee 12. June 2008, 09:02

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

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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