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Opera 9.5 Alpha - Kestrel
Opera have released Opera 9.5 alpha, code named Kestrel.
I'm guessing Kestrel signifies agility and speed...
Internal benchmarks show up to 50 percent increase in speed compared to the previous core version in Opera 8.
http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/alfa/alfa.dml
The improved support for CSS3 and Javascript/DOM is comprehensive and detailed in full in the Changelog
Synchronize is added in this version..
Kestrel contains a sneak preview with support for bookmarks, Speed Dial and personal bar synchronization between desktop versions of Opera. To check it out, just click File - Synchronize with My Opera and follow the instructions. Get your stuff anywhere!
If your a browser tragic or seriously looking for an alternative browser, then this alpha release is worth a test flight. Note, alpha means you should not use this release in place of your regular browser. It's still far from final release and could crash.
Opera 9.2 with Speed Dial
Opera deserves a larger slice of the browser market.
This release adds another reason why...
check out Speed Dial Demo and an introduction to Speed Dial.
To save a Web address as a speed dial entry, open a new tab and click on one of the nine squares. A dialogue box presents a multitude of options, including frequently visited pages and open pages: you may select a Web page from the list or type in a new address. It is also possible to drag and drop from bookmarks, panels, or any other location where Web addresses are displayed.
Example Speed Dial bookmark.
The full page Speed Dial presentation is easy on the eye and gives fast visual access to regular destinations.
Louie, at 3 years of age, will be delighted when we upgrade his version of Opera. He can now have all his favourites on one image rich page as an alternative to regular bookmarks or his icon riddled home page we set up for him.
Well done Opera... one question, can I change/delete that Yahoo search box?
The unforgiving Firefox
The convoluted CSS file for this site is a gzipped PHP file.
During a recent edit of the CSS, I accidentally deleted the PHP code from the top of the main CSS file.
The result was interesting....
Firefox 2.0.0.3 (Mac/Win) would not load the css.php file at all.
In all other modern browsers the css.php rendered as normal with the page fully styled.
Opera 9, IE7 and IE6 and Safari all ignored my stupidity while Mozilla based browsers refused to play or forgive.
IE7 Final released
The final, full bottle IE7 is available for upgrade or download.
I've yet to check for any major improvements over the last beta release.I thought this update was to be delivered via Windows Updates but it wasn't available. I went through the daunting .exe download and after some error messages and two restarts, here we are.
Review: IE 7 doesn't leapfrog the competition
"The bottom line: IE 7 was Microsoft's one chance to leapfrog ahead of the competition, but the company has only barely caught sight of the current front-runners. For more features and greater security, switch to Mozilla Firefox."
Browser page similarities?
Now I'm not about to call anyone a Scab, however the page layouts for these two browser sites are amazingly similar. Notice the horizontal colour split, grey gradients, green download buttons, red and black name/version branding and background circles for computer images.
Open these two sites in separate tabs and just flick between them. The similarities go much further than the above images show.
Paint by numbers for browser download pages?
Eivind Skjellum, designer of the Opera Page:
When I designed this page (yes, it's my work), it was pointed out to me that there were similarities to the Firefox download page.
What surprises me is that an outfit like Opera, who make a very good browser, are satisfied to go with what they recognise as a similar design in what is virtually a three player market.
The release of Firefox 2.0 and the associated great redesign of the Mozilla sites now makes this post redundant. Comments are now closed.
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