Opera 9 Released

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Ekhaatvensters

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Finally, the final version is out.

go check it out guys, you might be pleaseantly surprised..

www.opera.com

But Ive been following the weeklies and I thought there were a few more problems to sort out before the final release, maby everything came right over this last weekend.. who knows.

oh and my download for this is still going.. at 8kb/s?? Either their servers are REALLY bogged down by all the downlaods or im capped. anyone like to test it for me?
 
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Oh Ekhaatvensters, you like Opera? I didn't know that. You should have said something.... :rolleyes:
 
Opera is a very good browser, I like it more than FireFox
 
Just downloaded it, have transferred from IE7. So far I have found it pretty impressive. One problem, I couldn't find an easy way to check RSS feeds, but other than that, I am really happy with it.
 
yes, Opera 9 is free.. just downloaded and installed, checking all the new stuff :D
 
Ekhaatvensters said:
Finally, the final version is out.

go check it out guys, you might be pleaseantly surprised..

www.opera.com

But Ive been following the weeklies and I thought there were a few more problems to sort out before the final release, maby everything came right over this last weekend.. who knows.

oh and my download for this is still going.. at 8kb/s?? Either their servers are REALLY bogged down by all the downlaods or im capped. anyone like to test it for me?
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I was downloading at 45kb per second
 
MrG said:
I was downloading at 45kb per second
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mine roared down at 30KB on a Telkom 384 ADSL line (Telkom, proudly charging you more for less!).
 
Mozilla Firefox is probaly the most bugged / crash prone browser out there!

Mozilla Suite (now called Seamonkey) is way way way way more stable.
 
Jeeva said:
Mozilla Firefox is probaly the most bugged / crash prone browser out there!

Mozilla Suite (now called Seamonkey) is way way way way more stable.
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At least when it crashes is doesnt affect your Windows system, with IE you have to reboot after it crashes.
 
neio said:
At least when it crashes is doesnt affect your Windows system, with IE you have to reboot after it crashes.
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Or you open up task manger, kill explorer and all IE processes and click file, new task and type in explorer.exe and press enter :D

Voila!

Just joking btw. I love firefox, it's never been crash prone with me. But this opera release is pretty fast>>>>>>>>
 
neio said:
At least when it crashes is doesnt affect your Windows system, with IE you have to reboot after it crashes.
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Spoken like a true computer n00b

Control Panel > Folder Options | VIEW >

[x] Launch folder windows in seperate process
 
^ haha.. wow if I rebooted everytime IE crashed I'd be on linux by now.

Um the RSS feeds, dude at the end of the adress bar a RSS icon comes up when you can have RSS feeds. Then you get a whole seperate tab that handles RSS feeds, quite nice.

okay and guys, in the preferences you can change (under browsing) rendering speed to instant for faster rendering. Then there is also a opera:config page (just type that into adress bar.. like FF) where you can go to user prefs and change update delay from 200 to anything you want. 0 works fine as a value and gives you fastest brwosing by far.. but the pages start to load up incomplete, so a higher value might be good try it out.
Everything can be tweaked from there, oh and the content blocker is a perfectly good built-in ad blocker.
 
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I have just downloaded Opera 9 to try on your advice and after using it for half an hour, I must say it rocks! my first impression is that it is smooth!.

I have looked at the email client as well. It is kinda need to have your email integrated into your browser! and am thinking of chucking Outlook Express into ancient history folder. Is there any problems that you guys are aware of? And is there a way that I can import/export my mail between Express and Opera.
 
best thing about opera 9 is that the myadsl frontpage is now looking like it should.
 
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