Opera 9.5 has been released, beating Firefox 3.0 to the punch which is supposed to be released soon as well. The marketing speak: "Opera's cross-device expertise, support for open Web standards and commitment to speed and performance culminate to create the most powerful Opera browser yet. Making its desktop debut in Opera 9.5, Opera Link blurs the boundaries between computers and mobile phones by enabling a seamless Web experience from device to device." Get it from Opera.com.
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Member since:2005-07-06
Yes, you are having soem problems (Software isn't problem free) - but unless you disclose the website, the plugins, and more importantly, what operating system you are running it on - its all shouting into the wind.
Me? I'm running it on Opera; and had it hang once, but thats due to the hideous flash plugin; its a problem no matter what platform flash exists on. Apart from that, I love the new skin, love the new tabs, love the new buttons - love everything about it.
As mentioned on the blog, I'll buy some stuff of them to show my appreciation for it 
Member since:2005-12-15
Member since:2007-02-05
OS: Windows XP SP3
The website the 'o dread MySpace.
(Specificly a bandsite: http://www.myspace.com/kvelertak )
Anyway, I wasn't doing a bugreport so I was simply assessing what my impression of it was. Obviously a bug like that didn't higher my impression of Opera. Espescially since I never had problems with the RC.
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2007-02-05
That's certainly the shortest RC I know of.
And I would say it was a mistake do have it that short.
Personally I find this "final" version to me quite unstable to the (rock solid) RC. I just installed the final... and within 30 seconds I had it crash on me.
Of course, it was a page with flash-content, but flash haven't crashed Opera that easily on the RC.
I sincerely hope this is a mistake. Sureley they can't release so unstable software? (Or I hope: I'm unluck, but from comments on other sites it doesen't look that way.)
This is *not* the quality I'm used to see on a an actual final release from Opera software.
EDIT: Aside from that stability issue it's excellent of course! Though the skin have some bugs(more precicely: kinda kills the flexibility I'm used with Opera regarding the GUI.)
But it's faster than ever and having many tabs is no problem.
Dragonfly is not up to par with Firebug yet(the Opera-devs admit this) but it's at least making progress, and I wouldn't be suprised if it's on Firebug's level on day. What's interesting is if it will ever surpass Firebug. Now that's a challange!
Edited 2008-06-12 12:09 UTC