Newly released Opera 9.5 bundles more protection

Opera 9.5, code-named Kestrel, on Thursday became available for download for Windows and Mac.

The new version of the browser, whose release candidate was released earlier this week, is a security-enhanced version of Opera 9. It includes antiphishing protection from Netcraft and malware protection from Haute Secure, as well as support for Extended Validation Secure Sockets Layer (EV SSL).

The browser also has a new "eurotechno" look and feel, a QuickFind address bar feature, better synchronization with its mobile cousin, and a Speed Dial feature for visually bookmarking nine of your favorite sites.

Scandinavia-based Opera Software still finds its browser in fourth place, behind Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Mozilla's Firefox, and Apple's Safari, in terms of overall browser market share.

[thedreaming]

I'm happy Opera is still making it's browser. Whenever they mention browsers, it's always IE, Firefox and now Safari, but they never mention opera and it's really not a bad browser at all. It's very fast, isn't targeted like other browsers and even has widgets you can have running while you browse the web.

[sharpestsharpy]

This is a really techy comment, but Opera 9.5 allows a web designer to use a Scaleable Vector Graphic in a Style Sheet. This is huge and should make designing for the web so much easier, but we'll have to wait until IE, Firefox and Safari catch up before we can make use of this development.