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License:
Free
- Editor's Rating:
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Downloads:
7,676,622
- Requirements:
Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista
- Limitations:
No limitations
- Date Added:
November 08, 2008
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Publisher's description of Opera
From Opera Software:Opera 9.6 expands Opera Link, allowing you to synchronize your custom search engines and typed history between different versions of Opera 9.6 and Opera Mini. RSS Reader now previews feeds, enabling you to see a feed before subscribing to it. Opera Mail has useful new features including ignoring and following email threads and managing emails faster in low bandwidth mode. Speed has also improved, meaning you can browse faster than ever. Opera 9.62 is a recommended security upgrade.
Editor's review of Opera
5.0 stars
- "Opera browser sings"
Opera 9.62 maintains the program's tradition of striving for the fastest, smallest, and most full-featured browser available. Opera covers the basics with tabbed browsing, mouse-over previews, a customizable search bar, advanced bookmarking tools, and simple integration with e-mail and chat clients. Mouse-gesture support, keyboard shortcuts, and drag-and-drop functionality round out the essentials.
Opera's extras push it to the top of the class. Integrated theme support previews themes from within the interface, and the new version sports a default redo that's an attractive balance between "dark" and "light" themes. Opera's desktop widgets can appear anywhere while Opera is running. The Wand utility combines autofill with saved passwords, and it's hard to ignore the addition of torrent support and real-time fraud protection. The latest version includes reasonable anti-malware protection courtesy Haute Secure.
The expanded features in 9.62 should make any non-believer do a double-take. Opera Link enables Bookmarks, the Personal bar, Speed Dial, and Notes synchronization across all other Opera instances. Quick Find improves the search tool, allowing for full text searching from the address field, the history panel, and opera:historysearch. The Status bar has been restored as a default, the Wand now lets users confirm a successful login before saving credentials, and spatial navigation--similar to Opera Mini and the Wii browser--has been introduced.
The new version is faster, has multiple back-end changes to handle code better, and expands Opera Link synchronization. We think Opera has what it takes to unseat even the biggest-name browsers. You just need to hear it sing.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.4 stars out of 2566 votes
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Version: Opera 9.62
Pros: Simple interface with built in alternative search engine without having to install an extra tool bar
Cons: No Cons to complain about
Summary: Takes a shoft time to learn as with any new program
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Opera 9.62
Pros: So many FEATURES! Proper zoom (not just text resize), session management, inline text search, "find in links", mouse navigation, tab cycle order(!), wand, notes, site preferences, search (don't browse) history, bookmarks, notes, mail, .... SECURITY.
Cons: Not 100% stable, though the fact that sessions are restorable not just with current location but with full history intact helps a lot. Not as widely supported as browsers with larger market shares (relatively few test with Opera). Slow torrents.
Summary: Opera has been at the frontier of web browser software for many years, but never reached the market share that it, in my opinion, deserves. There are a lot of casual users who may think IE is just fine. Opera is not for them.
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Opera 9.62
Pros: well organized
sleek look
speed dial
many themes that look great
tabs lay out is organized
running add-ons is hassel freeCons: geting in to the propertys is a bit of a hassel
running it with a proxy is slow and a pain
getting it to run with a proxy is a painSummary: this is one of the undiscoverd by the mass population browsers, it runs fine on my computer with out slowdown. but it has its cons see cons
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Opera 9.62
Pros: Handles lots of TABS and really does block popups very well.
Cons: Unusable for most bank secure operations
Many sites do NOT recognize Opera Javascript enabled
TOO MANY sites cannot be used
Firefox, Maxthon and Avant are better choice
Many sites do not render well enough to be able to read
NO HTML openwebmailSummary: I have used Opera since it first came out and I loved it then.
However, and I do not know why, more and more sites cannot be opened, read, or used in any manner as a result of many serious incompatibilities with this browser.
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Opera 9.62
"best!!! just give this baby time to sing!!!"
Pros: very good. fast startup. not that heavy in the memory.
Cons: nothing.....
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