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Today, Opera 9.6 was released.

My favorite new feature is the feed preview. Before it just chunked out a pile of crap and asked me if I wanted to subscribe... Now I can actually get a feeling of what it's all about before I start receiving news. Sweet. I'm also a big fan of the new color scheme used for this product release. It's way lighter and much easier on the eye than 9.5's dark colors. Kudos to our graphics designers for that.

It strikes me that Opera's much more than just another browser. Choosing a browser has become a very personal choice. It says a lot what kind of person you are and who you identify yourself with... Or maybe it just has something to do with the ridiculous amount of time I spend online. FireFox, Chrome, Safari, IE, etc. does not come close (from my point of view) to the functionality of Opera. A colleague of mine watched me work using Opera the other day and I was bouncing back and forth using tabs, history, custom search, before he blurted: "You gotta show me how you just did all of that." Muahahah, it's fun to show off browser skillz.

We also made a new video for this release called "Sketch of my life". It came out pretty good, given the time frame (it was made in two weeks) and budget we used. It's fun to see that people also are using Choose Opera, our 'community marketing portal'... Does anyone know of a better word, seriously?

Cool beans everybody, kthxbai.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYQ6jD8k4f4

Here you'll find a collection of pictures from my vacation during summer 2008.