Opera 9.6 browser for Windows Released
Opera has released their latest version of the desktop browser 9.6 on 8 Oct’08. With this release it has also targeted the Indian market by making the browser available in Hindi, Telugu and Tamil.
Besides this, the new features are something to be looked at. Let’s have a look at some of the coolest features.
Latest features in Opera 9.6
Opera link
Lets us synchronize custom search engines and type history. What it means is, any website address we typed in one computer will be available in all our other computers. Typed History is only the history we explicitly type or select from the address bar.
Feed Preview
Provides the option to view the RSS/Atom feed before subscribing or even book marking it. The view has a clean and efficient layout formatted for our window size.
Speed Enhancement
This version has faster page loading than the previous versions.
Opera Mail
Follow/Ignore threads or contacts
Follow and Ignore are new features for users that receive numerous messages. It makes it easier to dismiss unimportant messages and easier to recognize important messages.
- Activate this feature by selecting Follow/Ignore in the email context menu (or click the message subject header), then select either Follow Thread or Ignore Thread.
- Also, we can click the names in the From or To headers to enable the following or ignoring of contacts.
Go To Thread
We can now also use “Go to thread” which means that we can view only the messages from that thread. This is useful for those that employ flat view.
Low Bandwidth Mode
Low Bandwidth Mode is a setting on mail accounts that makes Opera Mail use as little bandwidth as possible. These settings vary for both IMAP and POP.
- For IMAP, it will only synchronize new messages and will not fetch message attachments unless requested.
- For POP, it will not fetch more than the first 100 lines of a message unless requested
This way it reduces the data downloads as much as possible enabling us to check the email faster when on move.
Opera Scroll Marker
The Scroll Marker makes it easier to continue reading when we scroll through the page. It will also indicate the previous position of the bottom of the screen at the end of the page so that we can easily see where to continue reading.
Using the opera:config Preferences Editor, we can also set Opera Scroll Marker to show every time we scroll less than a full page down or up. These are the options available.
- 0 – off
- 1 – show when reaching the bottom or top of the page
- 2 – always show when scrolling
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Nice review… I will try it
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