

The rendering engine of this browser is very good. From the resources point of view, Opera is one of the most resource friendly browsers while it provides a lot of functionality. It has a very good startup and rendering speed, in the same time being resource friendly. And because Opera doesn't want you to have the impression that something is missing, you can find there a RSS/Atom news-feed reader. You can also send emails because it features SMTP support. In order to have a good communication with the rest of the world it comes with a built in IRC client and with an e-mail client which can access POP/ IMAP mail accounts. You have to configure this feature from the browser's 'Preferences' panel. You can fill in very quickly all kind of Web forms when you need to register for certain Web services. This means that you can easily restore an accidentally closed tab.Īnother very good feature of this browser is the form filler engine. In order to have a better browsing session it has built in a Trash Can where it places a closed Web page if you accidentally close a tab. It comes with a very good tabbed browsing engine, mouse gestures, a very good password manager and my favorite feature: the possibility to save the browsing session. It still has the features that were implemented in the previous versions of Opera. Since a certain minor version of Opera 9, the developers introduced the Speed Dial functionality which can be used in order to quickly access some predefined Web pages. This version comes with the possibility to add your favorite search engines. It has built in the widgets support, a BitTorrent client, a thumbnail preview when you hover over a browsing tab, a site preferences engine and it has also an improved rich text editing features. The 9th version comes with a lot of new features and it is a real upgrade if you are still using Opera 8. Opera is an Internet browser and it has built in a lot of tools in order for you to have a safe and easy browsing session.
