Opera 9 preview for windows
There's a technology preview (translation - alpha release) of the new opera 9. It seems to be going after FireFox in a big way by matching feature for feature in FireFox's upcoming 1.5 release - including the Canvas tag! That can only be good news for us users as competition always tends to bring out the best (and worst) in people. I've even seen Canvas demos that were designed for Firefox work in Opera 9. Nifty. I'll probably never convert from Firefox, but to know that there are other browsers out there that support emerging standards like that makes me very happy.
posted by Andrew @ 1:51 AM
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" It seems to be going after FireFox in a big way by matching feature for feature..."
LOL, as if Firefox hasn't been copying Opera's features all along. Long ago Opera had tabbed browsing, popup blocking, privacy and security features (including Firefox's "new" 'delete private data' feature), rss, etc.
Opera has simply geared up to fight Firefox, a browser which has taken almost all of it's features from earlier versions of the former.
Sure Firefox has stolen a lead over the past few years due to some excellent marketing campaign by the good folks at spreadfirefox.com.
But the truth is Opera has always took the lead in innovating, for eg. their "browse by speech" facility whereby you can browse just by voice commands.
Competition is ofcourse, always good for the consumer!! But lets not forget about the innovator here ...
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