Opera fans rejoice. The very first beta of Opera 9.5 codename Kestrel has been released to the public. The biggest change is a new feature called Opera Link which offers a way to access all of your bookmarks and Speed Dial picks from one place. It does not matter if you access the Internet with Opera 9.5, with Opera mini or another browser, the bookmarks are always available.
If you do use Opera Link with Opera you can synchronize all bookmarks with Opera while other browsers obviously only have access to the web version. The changelog lists a lot of changes since Opera 9.5 Alpha including heaps of changes to the Rendering Engine and JavaScript / DOM.
Opera 9.5 beta seems to render websites faster than Firefox and Internet Explorer. I could make another performance test to see if the tests show that my subjective feelings are right.
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WOOT !!
Nuff said.
Awesome! Opera 9.5 is a lot faster than Opera 9.2! Besides, the whole program is more stable and many rendering bugs have been fixed. It’s definitely the best browser on the world!
@Kaixi:
>> It’s definitely the best browser on the world!
Man, you said it ! :)
opera has consistently been faster at everything honestly – i totally use it always