Норвежская компания Opera Software выпустила новый beta-релиз
версии 9.5 популярного веб-браузера для персональных компьютеров.

Opera is known as the fastest and smallest full-featured browser, a first choice for people using older PCs and Windows 95 and a brilliant alternative to the default IE from Microsoft. This new version has a chance to actually beat IE hands-down because it has a truckload of new and exciting features. It complies to all the current web-page standards, it has a completely new interface (you can choose from single window and multi-window view), built-in search, a download manager, an advanced mail/news reader, print preview, a huge bookmark collection and much more in a 2Mb free package! Well, the free package also includes banner ads, but Opera is believed to be completely free of spyware, unlike some of its competitors. It’s lightning fast as well as stable and it looks gorgeous. It’s simply perfect! For a complete list of features check out the official website, there’s vastly more to discover.


Opera, first of all, is client World Wide Web, that is the program for extraction of the information from WWW as the documents created with help HyperText Markup Language (language of a marking of hypertext HTML).
Low requirements to resources of system. Opera will work even on 386 computer about 6 Mb of operative memory. MDI the interface. You can open without special expenses of memory any quantity of windows inside one working window, having chosen thus a tabulared or cascade mode.

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Known issues:
• Wrong cursor on form buttons and labels
• Plugins on UNIX might be even more broken - big changes coming up... (Do not bother filing plugin bugs on UNIX)
• Still no sparc builds
• [BUG 296670] Animated gif images get corrupted on Windows
• [BUG 267632] Images don't display when printing
• [BUG 213115] Queued mail is sent at the next check, instead of waiting for manual action
• [BUG 295195] Web archives are broken if you ever have changed the default action of a file type in Preferences

Changelog:
• Several stability and crash fixes
• Scrolling with mouse wheel now works over Flash objects with onRollOver handler
• Fixed linebreaking and white-space handling in designMode
• Fixed long content makeing scrollbars disappear and disabling scrolling
• Missing table cells have no more a green background
• Fixed 1 pixel high Gmail compose window
• Fixed crash when opening the Info panel
• Fixed sorting of IRC channels
• Fixed message priority not being displayed in Mail
• Fixed wrong context menu shown for selected text that is a link
• We are now splitting too long IMAP commands into smaller chunks
• Fixed wrong port when creating NNTP or IMAP account with Gmail e-mail address
• Fixed fetching of new POP3 mail once you empty trash

Windows specific:
• Opera runs on Windows 95 again! (but there are still some bad issues, be patient)

UNIX specific:
• Fixed broken expansion of "~"
• Fixed flickering of notifications
• Fixed crash when connecting to chat
- FreeBSD .5 is "the new .1" - it is a static build
- FreeBSD .7 is a FreeBSD 7 build (available both for amd64 and x86)