Opera 9.5 alpha release download
The Opera team has released Opera 9.5 alpha - codenamed Kestrel. Here's a quick gist of some of the important features:
- Synchronize your bookmarks, Speed Dial sites, and Personal Toolbar with multiple computers.
- Full history search: search the complete content of the webpages you visited directly from the URL toolbar. As you begin typing, Opera will not only search previously visited URLs and page titles, but also the content of the page.
- Thousands of bugs fixed in Opera’s rendering engine, thus improving Opera’s compatibility with many sites.
- Fixed problems seen in various Google’s sites.
- Improved support for Opera on Windows Vista.
- Opera in 64-bit version.
For now Opera Synchronization is doing what “synchronization” would imply - it completely mirrors your bookmarks/speeddial changes, so they can be available on different machines, on-the-fly.
We’re not, in fact, simply uploading/downloading the full bookmark list to our service but rather - we dynamically update the state of them as you go. Therefore, if you chooose to delete items, the changes are propagated through the service to all your browsers that you’ve chosen to sync. (Read: no, it’s not what oSync and FF plugins do, we’re trying to do something more funky here)
Also, some keyboard shortcuts have been changed…one of which I like and another I hate. Ctrl+B was previously used for “paste and go” which inserted a URL from your clipboard into the Address Bar, and then executed that URL. The key combination for that is now Ctrl+Shift+V which I’m not too fond of. On the bright side of things you can now focus the Address Bar using the Alt+D shortcut! There is a long list of shortcut changes that keyboard lovers should probably review, some of which were inspired by cross-browser compatibility. Now if only they would make Ctrl+Clicking on a hyperlink open it in a background tab instead of Ctrl+Shift+Clicking.
Note: For your everyday browsing, please continue to use 9.23. Opera 9.5 alpha will by default install separately from your previous version of Opera. If you choose to install it on top of your previous installation, please make sure you have proper back-up of Opera and Opera Mail.
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Hi Daniel,
Thanks for the correction, it was mistakenly posted and I was about to correct after finishing my posting work.
Deepak, I don't think it's a good idea to link directly to the installation file (as we may have to update the build number). I would rather link to either the landing page for Opera 9.5 or the desktop team blog post.
As you know we have versions of Opera for Windows, Mac, and Unix/Linux. Linking to any of the above pages will allow also non-Windows users to get the right download. :)