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Preview 2 of Opera 9 to be released tomorrow (2/7/06)

Published February 6th, 2006 9:52 AM EST By Daniel Goldman

The second preview of Opera 9 is scheduled to be released tomorrow (2/7/2006), which will include BitTorrent and widgets support.

Update (2/6/2006 2:03PM): Opera spokesman Thomas Ford told Opera Watch that tomorrow’s technical preview of Opera 9 will launch with approximately 12 widgets. Some of those will be general tools and others will feature third-party content.

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  1. 1 daniel Feb 6th, 2006 at 10:08 am

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  2. 2 Mag-X Feb 6th, 2006 at 10:09 am

    I’m gonna need new pants. =D

  3. 3 daniel Feb 6th, 2006 at 10:12 am

    oh i have no doubt that it will blow our mind :) i can’t wait to see its coming :) i hope i could be the 1st downloader of asian region :D

  4. 4 sherman Feb 6th, 2006 at 10:29 am

    Only a couple of hours to go :D Lets just hope it really comes :P

  5. 5 wee Feb 6th, 2006 at 11:08 am

    seems that widgets are closer to Apple’s Dashboard Widgets, than Firefox’s extensions.

  6. 6 Daniel DeVaney Feb 6th, 2006 at 12:33 pm

    I am still a little skeptical about widgets within a web browser, on paper that is, but maybe once we’ve seen the actual implementation in the flesh and blood it will be cool.

  7. 7 el_rocie Feb 6th, 2006 at 1:09 pm

    O yeah, baby!!!(c) :) Thats great news! :))

    p.s. hope the java bugs fixed O=)
    ______________________________
    hot hugs from Russian users ;)

  8. 8 CYH Feb 6th, 2006 at 1:36 pm

    it should be widgets for desktop, but if a widget (ajax program) can act as a “toolbar” or a “toolbar item”. If the widget can be integrated to the browser interface, it would be perfect.

  9. 9 Sairam Nagulapalli Feb 6th, 2006 at 4:07 pm

    Daniel, Any idea on what the widgets can be.

    And what third party authors are creating the wdigets.

    P.S. I can finally uninstall my Bit Torrent clients

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