It’s always a negative!

After noticing that 9.5 alpha release of the world’s greatest browser was available for download, I quickly took it upon myself to grab it and I’ll say, nothing less than expected from the Opera team.

• The first thing I noticed right off the bat was of course the status bar is on by default now.
• The speed was amazing, pages were noticeably loading faster and displaying much more quickly than its stable brother.
• Memory usage was again on the list of things they updated, and of course it was using far less than stable. Granted all this was on my Vista laptop, but I’m sure it same will be true for the Linux build. Once it goes beta I’ll throw it on the beast to give it a whirl.
• The open page in another browser is definitely a useful feature, I didn’t really mess with that much, but wasn’t all that concerned with it.
• The synchronization option is a neat addition, it logged me in just fine and sync’d my data with out any problems. I regularly go from machine to machine, so I will utilize this feature quite a bit. Although the idea was kinda borrowed from our friendly plug-in developers for Firefox.
• The little search thing that’s integrated in the address bar is pretty nice. I didn’t go to more than 20 sites, so there wasn’t much for me to search, but from what I saw it was fast and fairly accurate.

As you can tell the Opera is hard at work, and can’t wait for them to finish. Oh they also updated to QT4 for us KDE users should mean a bit more customization ability and likely work a bit more efficiently. *shrug* only time will tell.