Saturday, April 08, 2006

Opera 9 beta 1 close to being released

The first beta version of Opera 9 is close to being made public.

In addition to the weekly builds of Opera 9 being released, over the last couple weeks Opera has also released some mid-weekly builds in order to get more feedback and squash more bugs. If all goes well with this week's build, the beta should be out soon.

Some of the new features in Opera 9 include Widgets, a new and improved opera:config, BitTorrent support, site specific preferences, editable integrated search, and a rewrite of important parts of the rendering engine. (It still doesn't have the status toolbar enabled by default.)

Opera 9, codenamed Merlin, will also pass the Acid2 test.

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