Thread: Opera 9.6 Beta 1

While IE 8, Chrome and Firefox were released with much buzz going around, Opera launched the beta of their upcoming Opera 9.6 browser in a very quieter manner. So with this new version Opera offers new features and speed enhancement. Since Chrome had followed the suit of Opera in providing the thumbnail preview of most often visited sites while opening up a new tab. The same feature exists in Opera but is termed as speed dial, whereby a user can allocate each box a URL that he likes to visit most, unlike Chrome where this is dependent upon the users browsing history.



The newest feature in Opera 9.6 is of Opera Link that synchronizes the typed website address history and custom search. This is convenient for people who use different computers, and now with Opera Link they will be able to get their typed history and bookmarks on other machines as well. Another feature unique to Opera is of RSS feed preview, so now before subscribing to any feed a user can have a preview of that feed. And with their latest release Opera has introduced a new low bandwidth mode in their em ail client, which makes Opera use bandwidth as little as possible. The mail client interface is very simple and easy to configure. Coming to browsers performance, it is slow at start-up if you have set all the boxes of the speed-dial as it fetches the preview of each box's content online. While in case of Chrome, the thumbnails were displayed based on the browsers cache and so the browser didn't slowed up.