i’ve been using opera 9.5 (alpha) for the last few days.

one thing i noticed is that it loads fast. and works even faster. i have a lot of extensions installed in firefox, but even on a fresh install firefox isn’t this fast.

some of things opera does out of the box you need an extension for in firefox. there’s a few things i’d like to tweak but there are no options for tweaking, at least i can’t find them via the opera interface. i haven’t hit the forums yet to see what kind of tweaking is available.

wand feature isn’t working for me at all, but given this is the alpha version i expect that will be fixed before it’s released. widgets are a nice feature but mostless useless.

i can think of a dozen useful widget ideas offhand that aren’t available at all. the create a widget feature is a nice idea but has a ways to go.

the quick dial page is a great idea. probably just a matter of time before there’s a firefox extension that does the same thing.

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