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:
• [BUG 295195] Download preferences are broken after saving changes. This leads to many seemingly separate bugs, such as wrong MIME-type when uploading JPG images or headers displayed in MHTML documents
• [BUG 299224] Account settings broken when adding a new IRC/Chat account
• [BUG 292685] Occasional crashes when opening download links from mail/newsfeeds
• [BUG 299767] Opera on UNIX might crash if you close a tab while flash is being initialized
• [BUG 292802] Opera on UNIX crashes when Java is initialized

Changelog:
• Unread count inconsistencies should be fixed
• Animated GIFs should be fixed, for real this time
• Fixed crash when clicking on the widget panel
• Single clicking no longer behaves like drag and drop in bookmarks panel
• Content Blocker now works again if you have disabled Speed Dial
• Fixed various SVG crashers
• Fixed various XSLT crashes

UNIX specific:
• Sparc Solaris builds now start... but crashes when you try to use mail

Windows build 9694 International (MSI Installer) - 5.1 MB