Opera 9.0 Preview 2 is now available for download

I just downloaded it today and it's not bad. I don't really care for widgets. It's not that Opera didn't make them well I think they did and better integration with the panels would make it a lot better. I just don't see the need for widgets sometmes since I get some of the stuff they provide already else where. Anyways I'll have to post again once I get some more use of new beta.

Nice - can't wait to get this up and running. The best browser just keeps getting better.

I've been using it for an hour or so and it's definitely an improvement over previous versions. The only thing stopping it from being my primary browser is that it still has problems rendering some websites. Like Latino I don't really think there's a need for the widgets but I'm sure people will come up with inventive ways of making use of the feature.

well its getting better and better every release, I'm a ardent Firefox User and I'm actually thinking of Switching to Opera after testing this release.

Though I'm a looong-time opera user, and I still consider it to be one of(if not _the_) best browser, I have to say that I don't think widgets has anything to do in a browser. At the very least they should be made part of the actual ui.

I was impressed by the SVG/scripting capabilities of the last beta. I had scripted an SVG clock using Firefox 1.5's SVG support, and it worked pretty much perfectly in Opera without any changes. Good stuff.

I like the thumbnails of the tabs you have open and also love the fact you can switch through the tabs with CTRL + TAB, much like you can switch between open windows with ALT + TAB.
I was a big time Firefox user with lots of tabs open and always wanted that feature, and now I get it in Opera9. Since Opera went free I have been using it more and more and the memory hogging Firefox less.

Opera on the PDA is very good too. It is much quicker than Pocket IE and seems to render text much better, making browsing on a 320x240 that much easier.

I usually use firefox, and on and off used opera. But lately i realized, all the plugins i have for firefox make it load up pritty slowly. Opera has most of that stuff built in and is still "the fastest browser on the planet" which i believe to be true. Loading time for the browser its self and loading time for pages is soooo fast compared to firefox. This update is pritty nice, in my opinion. I just wish the few pages that don't work perfectly with opera would work...

I think there is good potential for the widgets from a creative standpoint. Its integration is a bit flawed at the moment but that will change. Im not sure if it was there in 8.5 but i like the content blocking feature as well. Overall, its very stable even with widgets, etc. Looking forward to next preview.

I like Opera. Much better than Firefox. Though ya, it does not render a lot of sites properly -- sometimes coz of the sites' fault, sometimes coz of Opera not implementing feature. I use Opera and Flock as my primary browsers. I like Flock's philosophy, and I find it a much browser than Firefox. Its easy having Opera and Flock as primary browsers coz my bookmarks can be stored online, my news feeds can be stored online, and so I am not really "tied in" into any one particular browser. I just use whatever I feel like using at the moment (except for checking Yahoo! Mail, for which I use Flock, as Opera doesn't work well with Yahoo! Mail).