Opera 9.5 ? out now

Opera Website

From Opera 9.5 Brings Speed and Syncing to the Browser

 

oh noez, firefox has competition /sarcasam

 

I tried Opera a year or so ago, and it was missing things and functionality (can't remember what it was that I didn't like but it was something)that I needed but I thought it was pretty decent. I'll give 9.5 a try

 

Besides the claim of increased speed, doesn't sound like anything new added.

 

does it still load every other site incorrectly, not display images etc.. ?

 

/sarcasm of sarcasm

FF does have competition.

 

Im trying it now, but i'm limited b/c i'm using my phone as a modem, but so far it's doing pretty good. Everything has loaded correctly.

edit: Uses alot less memory than FF. FF RC3 is leaking constantly. 2 tabs open and 121,000k memory being used. Opera is holding steady at about 42,000k. Actually it went down to 36,000k

 

Dwld right now,let's see if it can speed up my 27 tab loading needs

 

Why do you need 27 tabs (-_-)

most tabs i've had is probably...8? maybe

 

8 tabs open holding under 90,000k mem usage. Firefox 2 tabs = 100,000k

Ooo Sprint's EvDO network is blazing today. i cant believe i loaded all those tabs so fast...

edit: ooo I like the search engine function in the address field: type "g notebookreview" and it google searches notebookreview or "y notebookreview" does a yahoo search. W does wiki e does ebay. I'm starting to fall for this thing...

 

There is probably a lot of surplus bandwidth since a lot of us cancelled when they imposed a cap on our unlimited plan without any price reduction.

 

Oh goodie. More bandwith for me

$15/month is a bargain if you ask me...

 

The unlimited plan that had the cap imposed was for use with a PC card, not for via a phone/PDA or tethered and cost $59.99 a month.

 

9.5 seems actually slower than my previous 9.27,takes much longer to start all my 27 tabs(28 now)...
Oh well,and it's dark top line is weird

 

Oh...I connect via my ppc. $60/month = no thanks

 

I'll ask again...why do you need 27 tabs opened at once???

 

I downloaded Opera 9.5 now that it is final to try out.

 

. 10June08:RC (buggy like he**)
. 12June08:Final (after eating 16pizzas as they claimed, wondering if that would have affected their thinking)
. go figure

my 2 (u.s.) cents, after downloading it and "testing" it:
. piece of junk!
. most of the (my) issues during beta phase are still present
. worthless, comparing to 9.27
. but since it is official, i am taking it off the alpha/beta thread,
. let the real users having pain
. let the "blind" fangirls/boys having a field day

cheers ...

 

I tried Opera 9.5 and will stay with Firefox 3

 

Scratch that, O9.5 is much faster than .27
It's a keeper

 

just another personal observation:
. vista users
. stay away from it if you can
. it was never stable during my beta test
. and it just blew my vista away (cpu spike, hang ..)

cheers ...

 

sure, when it finds a site that it can work with.

cheers ...

 

It's worked with every site ive been on so far

 

. u r on vista?
. good for u, congrats - do share when u hit a snag
. or share with us (me) how ur environment looks like. I might screw up on mine

cheers ...

 

- No i'm on XP.
- If I hit one of course i'll share

i'll test it more thoroughly when I get home from work

Firefox has it beat when it comes to Add-ons though

 

. xp = ok, it is usable under this OS

cheers ...

 

Opera 9.5 seemed to work under Vista on my PC, I just prefer Firefox 3, and I do not like having software installed that I do not use, so no Opera is installed. Too bad I cannot say the same about IE.

 

Its just your setup,mine works perfectly.
Running Vista 32bit SP1.

 

I think Opera is going to suffer some critisism for sending their server every site the user loads. It looks like this:

http://sitecheck2.opera.com/?host= www.notebookreview.com&hdn=Uu/0SIGStrS6%2BDk1Mo2Qgw==

Placing *.opera.com/* in the blocked content window fails to block. The requests obviously don't run through the content filter. Even though Opera uses a custom script file to manage site compatability, and these requests are probably for that purpose, I don't care for it.

Hosts will kill it, though.

 

34 Tabs in FF RC 2 at 192,000K mem usage
I do like opera though

 

I'm thinking IE does this exact same thing with the anti-phishing filter. Firefox probably did this with an add-on that accumulated a database of sites. Now the user sites are probably cross-checked with that database. Of course, that's just a guess.

 

what do u see?
http://www.anandtech.com/rss/articlefeed.aspx

cheers ...

 

Using Opera 9.5 in my work PC (XP Pro), and working fine for the moment. I like the new default skin, reminds me to the Vista look, very polished.

 

I get a popup asking whether I want to add the rss feed for that site.

 

That hadn't occured to me, and I bet that is what it is. I checked, and fraud protection is on by default. I'll clean up my hosts file and have another look with fraud protection off. Thanks for the heads up.

Edit: Yup, just fraud protection.

 

yep, from the "security" page, it looks like they integrated technology from Haute Secure into the browser-very nice. I use the standalone version of Haute Secure and it's saved me a couple of times

hmm, I guess I'll have to try Opera again-haven't used it in a while due to the lack of add-ons compared to Firefox, esp. SiteAdvisor. Haute Secure kinda makes up for it in a way, so...

 

try the site again under other browser and see

cheers ...

 

You beat me there, my Opera uses a lot more even for 16 tabs.
But I'm fine, I paid for RAM, so I use it.

 

34 tabs and 179,000k mem usage in FF.

edit: About the same thing in Opera. About 172,000 - 177,000k

 

After installing, it auto launched and hung up.

 

You can turn that off under the Opera security settings.

Here is the doc on the Opera website regarding fraud protection (and how to turn it off).

 

Opera can render every single website I use. The only exception is Windows Update, for obvious reasons. I'm updating to 9.5 right now

 

Bugs? 99% of the bugs are - "z0mfg luk, go to dis webby and cliq on da link an c on da bottom right dat the line which is supp0zzd to b at 50 degrees to the taskbar is at 51 degrees."

83/100 on the ACID test? Who gives a flying ****? It's free, people, they're not charging you anything, and are making it for FREE! I mean, if you like it, use it, if you find bugs, report them and if the devs at Opera find it important and don't have other important fixes to make, they'll fix it. If you don't like it, use some other browser and move on.

Come on Opera!

 

That's just a bunch of crap! You might as well go and marry Firfox!

Been using the weeklies ever since they started rolling them out with both Vista Home Premium (x32), and Vista Ultimate (x64), no problems here. I usually open 3 windows in the morning, with 40+ tabs each, and it has NEVER given me any problems. In some weeklies (one or two), it did reach 500MB, but I have 4 GB of RAM so I couldn't care less to be honest. No "CPU hike" as well, ever, as far as I know.

 

Nah. The browser couldn't render anything before version 7 (even then pages would be garbled sometimes), and ubiquitous flawless rendering wasn't until version 9.

9.5's biggest improvements are in drawing "heavy" websites such as iGoogle, Gmail, Facebook, Digg, and IGN.

 

I meant the 9.5 weeklies, if your reply was aimed at me. Though I don't use iGoogle or Digg.

 

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cheers ...

 

Bugs? Yes, of course, they were snapshots, Alpha releases, what do you expect? I reported them, and they work now....so?

 

P.S - I used the weeklies with Windows XP Pro as well, in my office, so whatever bugs were there, they existed with XP as well.

 

Gotta say I'm impressed. I switched to Opera from FireFox a few weeks ago because FireFox leaked several hundred MBs of memory. So far no major problems with Opera, and it just got 'Vistafied' which I like because I'm a fan of Vistas GUI. Realplayer also got 'Vistafied'.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v101/Futtis/Vistafied2-1.png