Opera's latest browser beta worth the download

April 25, 2008 (Friday) | Opera

Opera released the second beta of its Opera 9.5 browser and typically I'm skeptical of both betas and alternative browsers. The usual chain of events goes like this: I download a new browser, play with it for a bit and then go back to old reliable Firefox. That said the latest Opera is pretty snazzy. I was checking the browser out for its security features, but the thing that won me over was the so-called speed-dial feature. You open a new tab and you get nine of your go-to sites instantly. That may not mean much to most folks, but I often have a dozen or more tabs open. And often forget where I was or what I was doing....