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Opera 9.6 beta is out

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 Published September 10th, 2008 8:25 PM EDT By Daniel Goldman

The Opera desktop team today released the first beta of the Opera 9.6 browser.

Major new features include a nicer preview of RSS feeds and a ‘Low bandwidth mode’ for the Opera Mail client. In addition, the typed url history can now also be synchronized between various Opera browsers using Opera Link.

The new RSS feed preview allows you to preview the feed before giving you the option to subscribe to it with Opera’s built-in feed reader. This is certainly an upgrade from the previously unstyled feeds, though I hope Opera will also include some links to subscribe using other feed readers, such as Google Reader and Bloglines (FeedBurner already does this).

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  1. 1 AHP Sep 11th, 2008 at 2:11 am
    using Opera Opera 9.60 on Windows Windows XP

    I’d love to see Opera ‘catch-up’ with every other browser on this feature!

    But, until then, here’s my workaround for sending feeds from Opera + FeedDemon.

  2. 2 Peace_Destroyer Sep 11th, 2008 at 9:10 am
    using Opera Opera 9.52 on Windows Windows XP

    is it just my imagination or these Norwegians are so full of energy since their summer vacations? Since their return, they just don’t stop making the news these days – of course it’s something I will not complain about. :D

  3. 3 Chuck Monroe Sep 11th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.52 on Windows Windows Vista

    Great tip AHP!

  4. 4 Esteban Sep 11th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.60 on Linux Linux

    Don’t forget that search engines are also synchronised now! :-D

    That’s a feature I had been waiting for actually ;-)

  5. 5 Mary Sep 15th, 2008 at 4:24 am
    using Opera Opera 7.50 on Windows Windows XP

    hello room. am new here just wann ask if is posible for me to synchronised my opera mobile browser to my laptop and brows with my laptop why chang on my mobile opera page.. I`ll be very happy if i can see some one to put me ture.
    Thanks
    Mary

  6. 6 Esteban Sep 16th, 2008 at 11:10 am
    using Opera Opera 9.60 on Linux Linux

    Mary,
    Opera *Mobile* doesn’t have Link. *Opera Mini* does have Opera Link though, see http://www.opera.com/products/link/
    And, are you really using Opera 7.5??? In any case you need 9.5 or higher…

  7. 7 Авиалегкобыстрый автомобиль Sep 26th, 2008 at 8:31 am
    using Internet Explorer Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows Windows XP

    Автор молодец! Тема почти раскрыта. Приглашаю почитать мою статью о авиалегкобыстром автомобиле будущего

  8. 8 Google Chrome Sep 27th, 2008 at 4:10 am
    using Safari Safari 525.19 on Mac OS Mac OS X

    http://webkit.org/blog/280/full-pass-of-acid-3/

    http://webkit.org/blog/214/introducing-squirrelfish-extreme/

    Open source once again proves its superiority over closed source browsers like Opera and IE.

  9. 9 QR Code Generator Oct 6th, 2008 at 9:36 am
    using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.17 on Ubuntu Linux Ubuntu Linux

    Ouch, another version. I still haven’t even converted this box to Opera :-(

  10. 10 Давыденко Иван Егорович Oct 7th, 2008 at 11:39 am
    using Internet Explorer Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows Windows XP

    Спасибо большое за написаное! Помогло для написание реферата.

  11. 11 ersi Oct 8th, 2008 at 12:50 am
    using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.16 on Windows Windows XP

    Hey, I’m about to say something that I didn’t want to say at the latest post. This important Opera promo site isn’t issuing posts often enough. Why don’t you give a detailed overview of features of the new Beta a post per feature. For example, how do scrollmarker or “follow thread” features work… And “nicer RSS preview” is certainly an understatement. Latest stable version has no RSS preview at all.

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