Opera 9.6 final has been released today!
Thanks for bug hunting and giving feedback.
Opera 9.6 adds synchronization of custom searches and typed history with Opera Link, several new features in Opera Mail, a nice preview page for feeds and last but not least: improved stability and performance. Read the full changelog for all changes since 9.52.

Discover Opera
We also launched a new site today: Discover Opera. It shows in simple steps how to use many of the powerful Opera features. Do you know them all?
What is your favorite feature in Opera? Tell us which feature you like most and what others should discover in Opera

Now check out the brushed-up Choose Opera Blog and download Opera!

Enjoy!
The Deskop Team

Hot on the heels of Wednesday's 9.52 release comes our first snapshot of 9.60.

Everyone here at on the Desktop Team has been working hard to add new features to your favorite browser, and here's what you can look forward to in 9.60:

Opera Link
Custom search engines and typed history* are now joining bookmarks, speed dials, personal bar, and notes in Opera Link.

Feed Preview
Now you can preview an RSS/Atom feed before subscribing.

Opera Mail: Low Bandwidth Mode
Low Bandwidth Mode is a setting on mail accounts that makes Opera Mail use as little bandwidth as possible. For IMAP, this means that Opera will only synchronise new messages and it will not fetch message attachments unless requested. For POP, Opera will not fetch more than the first 100 lines of a message unless requested.

Opera Mail: Follow/Ignore threads and contacts
Follow and Ignore are new features for users that receive a lot of messages. It makes it easier to dismiss unimportant messages and easier to recognise important messages.

Opera Mail: Go To Thread
You can now also "Go to thread" which means that you can view only the messages from that thread. Useful for those that uses flat view.

Enjoy!

_{* Typed history is only the history you explicitly type or select from the address bar}

WARNING: These are development snapshots: they contain the latest changes, but they also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, they may not work at all.

Known issues

• Follow/ignore thread misses some messages
  

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Coming back from a two week vacation just to find the office half empty because the others have gone on vacation is a bit boring, but at the same time it is very relaxing, giving me a slow start.... The boring part is that so little happens at work when people are on vacation. While I was expecting to make a small changelog this time, I didn't expect it to be this small. Anyway, give the build a spin, we're closing in on 9.52 final now.

WARNING: These are development snapshots: they contain the latest changes, but they also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, they may not work at all.

Changelog

• Readded the Windows shell menu to the Transfer context menu
  
• Fixed an issue with lists not displaying correctly when text rendering is RTL
  
• Fixed opening of files in external applications when disk cache is off
  
• Fixed issue with low quality on YouTube video previews
  
• Fixed mail appearance when Opera is installed in a folder with a "#" character in its name
  
• Fixed RealPlayer on BBC
  
• Added work-arounds for problems with various POP servers
  
• Fixed problem updating signature when switching accounts
  
• Quite a few stability fixes
  

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After lots of late night testing and bug fixing, 9.5 was released today.
We would like to share some fun facts with you:

• Opera is now available in 29 languages, 6 more than in 9.27 and more are coming
  
• The number of Opera users has more than doubled since the release of 9.0
  
• We fixed a new record of bugs, including 2350 showstoppers
  
• The desktop team ate 12 pizzas while fixing bugs in 9.5 RC
  
• IMAP is up to 4 times as fast in 9.5 than in 9.2
  
• Almost 500.000 of you were already using betas of 9.5
  

Opera 9.5 is now available on www.opera.com/download
Enjoy!

The desktop team

If you're using the latest build, then browsing just got safer!

Since 2006, Opera has featured Fraud Protection, which protects you against phishing pages, and not too long ago we upgraded the backend part of it to provide even better protection using data from Netcraft, widely regarded as the best performing protector against phishing.

In collaboration with security experts Haute Secure we're now proud to announce the newest functionality to our Fraud Protection feature; Malware protection.

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