Opera 9.0 beta released

Posted April 24, 2006 at 11:44 PM by Adam Berger

Section: Web, Web Browsers

Opera released the first public beta of their 9.0 software. The new releases comes with many features including widgets, BitTorrent support , and an advertisement blocker.

The ‘widgets’ are essentially plug ins that sit inside a program. Konfabulator, which is now known as the Yahoo! Widget Engine, popularized the technology. Apple Computer included widgets in their Mac OS X 10.4 update. Activating the widget feature is as simple as clicking on the “Opera Widgets” button or pressing F6. Widgets can now be used for multimedia, news feeds, games, and more.

When browsing a website with torrent files, Opera can download them instead of relying on a separate BitTorrent program. Opera 9 also supports the RSS icon that is used in Mozilla Firefox, and now Internet Explorer 7.0 Beta 2. Opera is still the smallest, major browser out there with IE, Firefox, and Safari ahead of it, but it has certainly made headroom on the past few years.

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