Opera today released the final version of the long awaited browser, version 9.

After a plently of monthly,weekly and daily beta releases opera finally released the final version of the browser.

Opera 9 boasts some very interesting new features. The new features includes a Bittorrent client which can handle all your torrent downloads, a content blocker which helps you block certain images ads rather and save your precious bandwidth. Another useful feature added is a search engine utility through which you can add any search engine you use to the list already builtin the browser example if you most often use wikipedia you can very well add a link to its search engine in the drop down list that opera provides for the builtin search engines with a mere right click thus saving your time ,rather than going to wikipedias site you can straightaway select wikipedia from the drop down list punch in the keyword hit enter and voila you get your results.The Thumbnail preview feature is a feature in its own class ,hower your mouse pointer over any tab open and a thumbnail of that webpage the tab contains pops out,this surely help you when you have lots of tabs open and have to quickly find that webpage in between all those tabs. Some browser fans have even tried getting into the registry settings to increase the size of the thumbnail .To move on to the features another feature called the site preferences. Site Preferences helps you specify how a specific webpage should be handled by the browser i.e you can turn off or enable cookies for that specific sites turn off enable gif animations, customize the style of the webpage i.e turn off frames etc. enable disable java scripts .The new features include improved support for Rich Text Editors.
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