Opera 9 Tech Preview 2

I installed the latest tech preview of the Opera browser. Lots of new cool and useful features, like built-in BitTorrent support and Widgets.

Widgets?...
Ever used anything like Samurize?
Basically they are floating objects programmed with HTML/JavaScript embedded in the browser that do something. Like an analog clock, the latest news, TV shows, the weather, you name it.

Makes me wish I had two monitors... having the Widgets float on top of everything else forces you to hide them at times. They need to add a feature to force the Widgets to only show up on the desktop.


Another useful new feature is "Create Search"... You might already know, that you can add custom searches to Opera's search dropbox and to the URL search (eg. type "g foo" as the url to search Google for foo)... that feature lacked any inuitive and easy way of adding new searches.

Now you can just go to the search engine you want, right click on the search field and choose "Create Search". Easy, isn't it?


Opera 9 Tech Preview 2 changelog
More about Opera Widgets


Watch out Firefox, if the word about Opera gets out more, you'll have a tough competitor!