Opera 9 Technical Preview 2 Released
16 CommentsPublished February 7th, 2006 8:04 AM EST By Daniel Goldman
Technical Preview (TP) 2 of Opera 9 was released by Opera today with many new additional features.
Here is a rundown of some of the new features. Check out some of the for more details into certain features.
- Widgets – Opera added support for Widgets, which are small Web applications that run outside the Opera window. (Download Widgets)
- Content Blocking – Block content on a per-page basis. (More here)
- Graphical interface to modify the integrated search in the browser. (More here)
- Added site specific preferences user interface.
- Web page thumbnails are now shown when hovering over the tabs. Thumbnails are also available when switching tabs using Ctrl+Tab. (More here)
- History panel was modified; a grouping by date and site was added (very useful).
- Syntax highlighting has been added to Opera’s internal source viewer (useful for web developers for quick debugging).
- BitTorrent is back with this preview version.
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Links
Opera’s Arve Bersvendsen’s overview of this release with screenshots
Opera Labs
Complete changelog for this release
Download Opera 9 Technical Preview 2
woo hoo, first comment.. haha.. downloading and installing now.. looks fine.. can’t wait to try it out..
I blogged about this before you did! (for once!)
I’ve also written out the problems I faced with these new features! I don’t know if you tested out the respective features, but most of them didn’t work for me!
Wanna look into it?
Can someone tell me why they don’t use a monospace font for the syntax highlighting, or how to change it?
Hmmm, 3 comments till now on your blog on such an important day. I guess everyone is so busy tryingthe new Opera out that they do not find the time to comment here.
Anyway, TP2 is suppercool, I hope they improve widget management though. They run in one mode only – above everything.
Opera 9 p2 looks good.
It’s a shame that Bookmark Button in the URL Bar was removed. I really liked that (actually I liked Flock’s Bookmark feature more, it was better)
good to see widgets, but i was hoping they’d be something like firefox’s extensions.
bit torrent support is quite cool and the error pages have imporved a lot
I’m happy with P2 overall, but VERY dissapointed with widgets. I’m a huge fan of Konfabulator (now Yahoo widgets, or some dumb name like that), and I was hoping for a similar experience. Having the widgets above all windows is a huge mistake, especially with the size of them. Opening the calendar takes up way too much of the screen, for instance.
The bookmarks button is still under the address bar, Opera just disabed the ’start bar’ by default. You could enable it by right clicking on the address bar > Customize > Toolbars > Select ‘Start bar’.
I’m very pleased with this new release. IMO, Opera has really outdone itself with this one.
not loving the fact that they changed new tab from ctl+n to ctl+t
But you can always change the shortcut combinations by yourself, so the ctrl-t shouldn’t be a problem.
loving the fact that you can now use ctrl+enter and opera will put www. & .com for you.
I hope they wait a lot longer for the final release, cause they have lot of improvements to make.
The CTRL+T/CTRL+N was changed in the previous preview version.
A great release! Can’t wait to see it improved.
It brings in lots of things that have been requested for ages (site-based prefs; search engine editor; content blocker) and they’re mostly implemented very well.
So now of the perennials we’re waiting still for HTML email and rich-text copy to clipboard…
Why don’t you use F6 to show/hide them, seinman?
well, have a question.
do you use komfabulator’s widget engine in Opera?
FonMax.
Opera 9 P2 is awesome. I just started using it today. Kinda takes some getting use to with the new stuff but it rocks!