Download Opera 9.0 beta 1

Norwegian company Opera Software today released the first beta version of Opera 9 announced. Opera 9 beta 1 can be downloaded for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux i386, Linux PPC and Linux Sparc. Opera is a free to use internet browser with features such as tabbed browsing, pop-up blocker and email program with spam filter. In beta 1, in addition to the standard features of the web browser, a number of new features can also be tested, including Widgets with AJAX functionality (Asynchronous Javascript and XML – more information can be found this Wikipedia article), the baked-in BitTorrent client, and the content blocker. Below are the new features of Opera 9 posted, for a detailed overview you can visit this document:

New features in Opera 9 include

• Widgets – Small Web applications (multimedia, newsfeeds, games and more) that make your desktop experience more fun. Any Web developer can create their own Widgets and share them, regardless of operating system. Try the Widgets in Opera 9 by pressing F6. Look for further development of Opera Widgets in future releases.
• BitTorrent – Instead of having to use a separate BitTorrent application for downloading large files, users can now simply click a torrent file and start the download
• Content blocker – Choose the content you want to view. Remove ads or images – it’s up to you. Right-click on the Web page and choose “Block content”
• Improved rich text editing – Take advantage of rich text editing capabilities when using the latest Web mail or blogging services
• Customize your search engines – Use your favorite search engine in the search box. Right-click on the site’s search field and select “Create search” from the menu
• Thumbnail preview – It’s easy to have many tabs open at once in Opera. But exactly which tab had that video you wanted? Hover any tab to see a thumbnail preview
• Site-specific preferences – Do you need to view a site in a different way or deny certain cookies? Want to block pop-ups on certain sites only? Site specific preferences hold the key

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