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The Opera 9 web browser was released yesterday. Here’s an overview of what’s new.
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Frequent user of BitTorrent? Usually you would need your own application to use BitTorrent, but not with Opera 9! Opera 9 has its very own BitTorrent client built in. Ready for you to use right out of the box!
Tired of those annoying ads? Or are you a Firefox user who’s in love Adblock? Either way Opera 9 makes it easy. Right click, “Block Content…” Once again ready right out of the box! No need to install an extension just to have this functionality!
If you love tabs and use them a lot, then you should know how hard it is to figure out which tab is which, especially when they have the same name. Opera 9 has a solution to this too! Simply hover over the tab and a small thumbnail preview appears of the site you were viewing in that tab!
ScreenshotsThumnail Preview
Opera Cares
SecurityFact: Opera has a better security track record than any other browser.
Click to read more on security…
So download Opera and give it a try now, you won’t be disappointed!
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Site: Opera.com
Source: Opera 9 Press ReleaseI am so excited! I <3 Opera, nice find ES :P. There is nothing better than Opera, I am telling you this, it's got it all, speed, security and fuctionality!
Call me stupid and slap me silly, but how exactly does the ad blocking work? I don’t see a block content option when right clicking an advert. Am I alone on that one?
Right click a WEB SITE. You should see it now.
You then click Details… and add the images you want to block by clicking on Add. This way, it’s fully customisable and is set per-site.
If you need more power, you can install UserJS’s and use User CSS to block whatever you want too but I don’t see why you would do that.
Let me block the “Live chat now!” image.
OK, I was just kidding. You COULD do it that way or you could right click a WEB SITE and press the Block Content button.
The site should partially disappear. Click on any image you wish to remove. Click done and it’s gone 🙂
I’m actually glad you “converted” me EvilSeph, this is great! Especially the block content feature, the “Paste & Go”, the “continue from last time” when you open Opera, and the loading of text first and then of images 😉
I don’t get it, on one page that I am trying to block content on, it’s blocking all images on the site. For example http://blahblah.com/images/picture1.jpg and http://blahblah.com/images/picture2.jpg… if I wanted just picture2.jpg blocked, it’s actually blocking http://blahblah.com/images/*. I can’t work around that unless I add each URL seperatly. Anyone else have this happen to them?
This has been the best thing that has happened to Opera. With this release I am seriously considering switching from Firefox. It’s too bad Opera isn’t given that much of a chance. I suppose it could have jumped on the popular bandwagon had it not a browser you had to pay for long ago. It has everything almost everything I could ask for. The only thing missing is a good looking feed reader. 😛
Since when didn’t Opera support feeds?
I remember it back in Opera 8 actually.
Now you can switch to Opera 9 🙂
I know it has a feed reader. I said a good looking one is what I would like. heh. It’s just so plain looking.
P.S. Any way to get rid of that annoying system tray icon? It’s pointless!
Disable E-Mail or check your E-Mail if you use Opera for E-Mail, that only shows when you have new E-Mail or you hit the keyboard shortcut for Private Mode (Minimize to tray quickly).
After a month of using Opera I decided to make it my default browser. I love everything about it especially it’s speed. I click back on a website and don’t have to wait for it to load again, it’s just BAM right there. The new block content features rock. Built in irc, news reader, and pop mail. I’m sold.
Of course Firefox will still be in my computer as there are still some sites that are not working properly with Opera such as Writely and Meebo.
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