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Opera v6.0 beta available
By ron carlson, Insanely Great Mac
September 25th 2002
It's fast, it's compliant and it's ready for a personal test drive
Opera Software has announced the launch of Opera 6.0 for Mac Beta 1, the newest Mac
release of the software since version 5 was made available in January.
"Opera 6.0 for Mac is the most advanced browser currently available for Mac OS X in
terms of speed, usability, accessibility and language support," said Dean Kakridas,
VP, desktop products. "The ultimate goal of our Mac product is to bring the most
popular and beneficial features from Opera on other platforms to Mac. We intend to set
a new standard for the best overall browsing experience on the Mac."
"We are fully committed to delivering a top-quality native Mac browser that offers Mac
users from all corners of the world the fastest, most secure, and most usable product
possible," said Kakridas. "This is exactly what the Mac community needs - a great OS X
browser."
Mac users who have eagerly awaited its arrival will not be disappointed. This release
includes a vast array of new features, including user interface changes, to enhance
the overall browsing experience. Great efforts have been made to make Opera look and
feel like a proper Mac OS X application.
In this release, the address entry and search fields are complemented with a zoom bar
to increase or decrease the size of the viewing area. Professional features have also
been added, such as OperaShow which allows for desktop presentations in full-screen
mode. Most importantly, the long-awaited tabbed browsing mode makes its first
appearance for Mac, allowing for multiple windows to be opened within a single Opera
browser.
Unicode support has been added in this version in order to support all major
non-Latin-derived languages. Language support for Asian languages such as Chinese,
Japanese and Korean is present and highly functional. In this release, Opera has taken
the first step towards filling our promise to Arabic and Hebrew users by adding
support for bi-directional (BIDI) languages. Great progress is being made to allow
Hebrew and Arabic to display correctly. Most pages are already readable and render
properly.
The Opera 6.0 beta can be downloaded here.
Editor's note: I downloaded and installed this beta, and can note a couple problems.
First, I can't import bookmarks from either Explorer or Mozilla. The second problem is
a bit esoteric for most users -- Opera doesn't support Chinese "Big 5," which is the
format used to display traditional characters.
Otherwise Opera is wicked fast in loading pages and they display correctly.
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