Opera 9.5 now available

How's the add-on world of Opera? I've always felt that FireFox was a bit heavy on Apple (may be wrong on this), but because I can have my nice add ons like the Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer, Scribefire, and the ebay add on, I stick with Firefox. On my old Mac Mini 1.42ghz G4, ever since I put Leopard on there, FireFox has been feeling really slow - especially if i have a DVD playing. I usually just fire up Safari for something quick.

Opera is totally the little company that could. I have nothing but respect for them. Only thing I wish is that the OS X version was a bit more... OS X. It only it felt like it was more a part of the eco-system, ya know?

On Windows however, it's the very first thing I install. Firefox can shove it.

I hope they continue to keep up the hard work though, they do make a great web browser.

Am I the only one that noticed that the hi-lights on the "O" are seriously off? It makes it look like a cylinder on an angle instead of a flat "O." How is it that they didn't check that before release?

The shadow is wrong also (to be pickier still)

I have to say that i absolutely love Opera and have been using it as my main browser for the last 5-6 years. I'm using it on both Mac and Windows and it works really well. 9.5 has some new looks and seems to be even faster than before, which was no slouch either. I especially like how fast Opera is when you go one page back. I mean, back then when i was on Windows and using IE, it used to take forever to go forward, or back, but with Opera it zipps back and forth really quickly!! That is for me very important if i surf the web and jump form page to page, back and forth. Been in love ever since! I use 98% Opera, 1,9% FF and 0,1% Safari (Yuck!)

Oh well, each for their own!!:-)

But tell me, is it still ugly as sin?

There is just no excuse for browser chrome that ugly. Not to mention the horrible and irrevocable placing of the tab bar.

Wonder what this test is based on. I take it for absolutely nothing, since the site is totally lacking of any information whatsoever as to what exactly this "tests". For all I know it's programmed to work on this guy's favorite browser and no others...

Are there any browsers that pass Acid3 100%?