Opera 9.50 (beta 9716)

The road to Kestrel, the 9.50 revision of the Opera browser has not been quite as smooth as many of the other revisions. This is probably because the other revisions from 8.5 to 9.25 (the current non-beta version) have all been changes that were incremental, and any bugs that were noted were small. I admit that I have not noticed some of the bugs in the 9.5 builds, as I don’t use the mail portion of the browser.

I have used the mail in Opera before and was happy with it, but it is not as full featured as Eudora, Outlook, or Windows Live Mail. It is certainly serviceable, and this latest beta squashes many of the bugs that have lingered in the recent alpha and beta builds.

What I am very critical of, and what has been (seemingly) completely fixed is the rendering of web pages. Every alpha, and beta, as well as 9.24 and 9.25 versions have had problems rendering pages written here. Now I can happily report that the problems are gone, and at least 70% of the change in speed of the first Kestrel builds is back.

I have yet to record a single flaw…this might be the one.

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[tags] Opera 9.5, Kestrel, beta, browsers, Acid2 compliance [/tags]

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