Opera is known as the fastest and smallest full-featured browser, a first choice for people using older PCs and Windows 95 and a brilliant alternative to the default IE from Microsoft. This new version has a chance to actually beat IE hands-down because it has a truckload of new and exciting features. It complies to all the current web-page standards, it has a completely new interface (you can choose from single window and multi-window view), built-in search, a download manager, an advanced mail/news reader, print preview, a huge bookmark collection and much more in a 2Mb free package! Well, the free package also includes banner ads, but Opera is believed to be completely free of spyware, unlike some of its competitors. It’s lightning fast as well as stable and it looks gorgeous. It’s simply perfect! For a complete list of features check out the official website, there’s vastly more to discover.

Opera, first of all, is client World Wide Web, that is the program for extraction of the information from WWW as the documents created with help HyperText Markup Language (language of a marking of hypertext HTML).
Low requirements to resources of system. Opera will work even on 386 computer about 6 Mb of operative memory. MDI the interface. You can open without special expenses of memory any quantity of windows inside one working window, having chosen thus a tabulared or cascade mode.

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Known issues:
• "Open With" other browsers doesn't work
• Save As for a web page only lets you save as "HTML file" on Windows
• Unable to print pages with objects or iframes
• Some downloads do not appear in the transfer manager
• Inline find stops working after entering one letter (using Ctrl/Cmd+F still works as expected)
• Keyboard input is problematic for some people on Mac

Changelog:
• Fixed IMAP and POP synchronization problems
• RSS items that are already read are not shown in the notification anymore
• It is now possible to set Opera as default mail application from Control Panel
• When right-clicking in Speed Dial search field you you can easily reach the "Search options"
• Fixed cut-n-pasting bookmark folders
• Fixed selecting or creating a new bookmark file with Sync
• "Save to download folder" works again
• Context menu in transfers panel now work again when no other tabs are open
• Content-disposition: attachment filename suggestion now respected when saving files
• Fixed saving multiple files from the links panel
• Some initial implementation for flipping scrollbars on RTL web sites (to permanently flip, enable opera:config#UserPrefs|Left-handedUI)
• Fixed problem finding new POP messages when using the "Leave messages on server" setting
• Better search results when using Quick find in Opera Mail
• Windows: File open/save dialogs are resizable again
• Windows: Fixed a crash on startup on Windows 98
• Mac: Opera now works again in Mac OS X 10.3.9.
• Mac: Fixed scrollbars to not loose their blue color
• Mac: Fixed unread count in Dock icon
• Mac: Some stability fixes to plugins
• UNIX: Prevent GTK from changing the global locale settings - this would occasionally make text disappear or shrink on web pages after using the GTK filechooser
• UNIX: Autoscroll/pan now appears where clicked, not in middle of page
• UNIX: Fixed plugin detection for .1 and .5 builds
• UNIX: Several more plugin fixes