Opera 6.0b2 released

[medea]

http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/
Version 6.0b2 adds the following:

* Added support for Java under 8.6 - 9.2.
* Keychain support in forms.
* Support for favicons in tabs.
* Added support for sheets under Mac OS X.
* Many bug fixes.
User interface

* Enabled mouse gestures.
* More "Maclike" buttons in toolbar.
* Added stop button for bookmark searches.
* Added grab scrolling.
* Added toolbar in transfer window.
* Enabled autofill of forms.
* Enabled Quick Preferences (F12).
* Enabled "open new window" when clicking on the Opera icon in the dock when no window is open.
* Added cookie manager.
* Enabled the Link bar.
* Added encoding to the View menu.
* Enabled fallback encoding in the language preferences.
* Reading proxy settings from Internet preferences (except no proxy for...)
* Added support for panels in the bookmark window.

Though this has some updates I still prefer Chimera, but it's nice to have options

 

[cb911]

what exactly is Opera? a web browser?

 

[electric]

Yes. A browser

They have also fixed display of flash files.
Flash embedded files before would blink for half a second in the upper left corner before relocating to their proper location.

 

[FelixDerKater]

This beta seems very sporadic on speed. Some sites pop up as fast as on an OS 9 or PC browser, but for others, it just sits there and does nothing. If all sites would come up, this would be a general winner on speed, with the possible exception of Chimera, which seems to continue to be able to add features without taking a performance hit. Neither Opera, nor OmniWeb are able to properly support .Mac homepage creation.

Overall, this is nice release, and appears promising, but still has work left to be done.

 

[beez7777]

i used to use opera a lot when i my pc was my main computer, i found it ran better than ie most of the time. haven't yet tried it out on the mac. does anyone prefer opera over chimera or omniweb?

 

[scem0]

I am going to test it out on my PC, I will get back to y'all on the PC speeds.

 

[scem0]

Well, after using it for 5 minutes, I can't tell whether I like it more then IE or not. It isn't that fast, but it isn't slow. It is sporatic. It can be faster then IE, but usually it isn't. I think I like IE better. Opera has never been that great. It has always been decent...