Wow, some exciting new features...

http://labs.opera.com/news/2006/02/07/2/

Built-in search engine customization, improved content blocker, improved pop-up blocker, and site-specific preferences (for cookies and CSS).

Also includes BitTorrent support, thumbnail previews, "Opera Widgets," and a whole bunch of other changes.

I think I'm gonna give it a try...

I may aswell give it a try, sounds pretty cool to me .

omg, wdz advertising

ban him!

looks nice indeed, but I'm gonna wait for a public view .

Omg, i love opera, now i'll love it even more

Its really good, i've had Opera since version 4, and this version is really awesome. The changes they've made to the mail client are awesome

... bittorrent?

WHY

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Originally posted by Millenium_edition
... bittorrent?

WHY

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this has been out for a few days now an ur just posting it DZ?

I like it. I really do. The bar at the bottom is gone and reintegrated at the top..takes less space..it's very nice

just downloaded and i dont like it

some1 post a screenie of it

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Originally posted by Animal
some1 post a screenie of it

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well the GUI is almost the same to the 8.5 version

thanks DT now it'll alow people to see what its like

www.banthem.net/files/opera

I just took a load of random screenshots of what people might be interested in, rss feeds, memory usage, widgets. Didn't try the bit torrent feature.

It's a good piece of software, i'm still firefox mad though.

it doesnt look to bad.. the calculator widget is annoying,, i mean who would need that in a browser when you got a calculator in the operating system?

Yeah, the whole widget thing has to be one of the most pointless features i've seen in a browser in my life, they just get in the way tbh.

its the same as netscape8.1, few pointless features in there also

ah, if they manage to get people to actually develop useful widgets for this, it won't be that pointless

aah good news from opera community...
when the final is supposed to be released..
any expected date... ??????

Just what Opera really needed, widgets.

Intergrated bittorrent clients suck, uTorrent for the win.

I agree that the widgets look stupid... I guess they might have some limited potential, but overall it's probably a dumb idea.

The integrated BitTorrent client might be useful to n00bs, but n00bs shouldn't be allowed to use BT anyway.

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Originally posted by Animal
this has been out for a few days now

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Live mail support? on it yet?

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Originally posted by WDZ

The Opera site says "Feb 07, 2006."

Today = February 7

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Using opera:config you can disable the Bittorrent, and you don't have to use widgets. I think both are a cool feature. (Although the Bittorrent compatability needs improvement)

Just remember: it's still a BETA!

tbh its surprising that dz isnt just looking at the feature list

Bah .... i have never tried opera (apart for my cellphone ... its built it ... got mobile firefox, will install ) how big is it ?? i might consider downloading it just to give it a shot.
If i can spend my time downloading IE 7 beta's then for sure i can try out opera cause opera is better (imo .... dont start a war ¬¬) than IE

bring on Firefox2.0 i say

I agree we want Fireforx 2.0