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:
• UNIX: Speed dial config dialog has an ugly shadow
• UNIX: Dragging images turns them grey
• UNIX: Can't connect to IRC
• UNIX: Downloading torrents can exhaust memory and uses 100% CPU
• Sometimes crashes on exit
• Some images don't load fully

Changelog:
• Added MathML support
• Added support for the XSLT document() function
• New and improved mail authentication dialog
• New nice icon for mail whose body isn't downloaded
• Fixed a bad crasher that occurred on a lot of sites when closing a tab
• Again possible to open directories directly without file://localhost/ in front
• Fixes to pre and code font sizes
• Fixed top links in gmail
• Fit to width now works even if the window is larger than 1600px
• getters and setters are now prototypable in node interfaces
• getSeconds() no longer returns -1
• Hovering input/radio buttons on websites now shows the normal cursor again
• Several Opera Link bugs squashed
• A bunch of XPATH fixes
• A bunch of XSLT fixes