Download Opera 9.50 beta++

The developers of Opera have released a new beta version of Opera 9.50 beta 1. The update has version number 9.50 beta++ and can be downloaded via this page for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. Opera 9.50 comes with Link, a built-in Full Text History Search and an improved mail client. In addition, the necessary improvements have been made in performance, website rendering and usability. The beta++ version has the following changes:

WARNING: These are pre-beta builds: they contain the latest changes, but they also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, they may not work at all. Before downloading, make sure you read the known issues:

• Gmail compose window is just 1px tall
• *NIX builds crash when connecting to IRC

Assorted changes since Beta

• Find in page now continues search from the location of the last mouse click
• Fixed a freeze when syncronizing Opera
• Fixed skandiabanken.no certificate installation
• Fixed crash when reindexing mail
• Removing mail from filters now works again
• Removed support for namespace
• Confirm exit while logged in to link now works
• Fixed an issue with link not synchronizing some bookmarks (XML errors)
• Fixed nickname handling in addressbar
• Setting cache to off really means nothing is written to disk. (PS: View source doesn’t work without disk cache… )

UNIX specific

• Plugins sometimes don’t work properly
• We have FreeBSD 7 builds!
• Added a lot of applications in the Suggests line in deb packages
• The command line switch -notrayicon is now respected again

Mac specific

• This build will use the same settings as 9.50 Beta