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Opera 9.50

Tue 01 July 2008

I finally got around to trying the Linux version of Opera 9.50, the newest version of the Opera web browser. Here’s what I think of it after a couple weeks of using Opera 9.50 as my main web browser, particularly how it compares to Firefox 3.0. Things I like in the latest Opera:

Things that I still prefer about Firefox 3.0:

So that’s my little mini-review. If you haven’t given Opera a try yet, now would be a great time to do so. But if features and flexibility are of the utmost importance to you, you’ll probably end up sticking with Firefox.


I'm Mark Shroyer, a software engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with particular interests in development tools, distributed services, and embedded systems.

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