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Opera 9 Technical Preview 2 due out tomorrow...Looks interesting

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tinyvillager:
Source:http://operawatch.blogspot.com/


Along with "widgets" i'm guessing this what a Firefox user would call extensions,Opera will be opening a new
sub-domain,Opera Labs-http://labs.opera.com/-where users can get a behind the scenes look at Opera
technologies.


If you haven't tried Opera i highly recommend it.And give it a real chance.Run it for a month.I installed Opera
while waiting in between Firefox's 1.5 and 1.5.01 releases and though i still have Firefox on my machine and
always will i rarely use it after giving Opera a chance.The first thing you will most likely do is start saying,
this isn't like Firefox,Firefox can do this why can't Opera,after tweaking it a bit you'll most likely get it to do
everything Firefox has done for you and then some.That's not bashing Firefox,it's a great browser,anything
is better than I.E.,cause we all know it's a security flaw waiting to happen...and it kills kittens.Little helpless
defenseless kittens.

allen:
Another really cool addition is its upcoming native support of bittorrent downloads.  One less application I have to have running to accomplish the same tasks.

Josh:
Is a widget just like a firefox extension or is it more just a way to add little info panels to opera like yahoo's konfab does? I.E., will this finally allow roboform to incorporate itself into the opera web browser?

tinyvillager:
It's Up....

http://labs.opera.com/downloads/

Changes Since Opera 9.0 Technology Preview 1:Source:http://snapshot.opera.com/windows/w90p2.html

Be back after install... :)

tinyvillager:
So far so good when it comes to regular surfing the internet.I hate the (AJAX)Widgets.I guess it will depend on what
one finds usefull though,to each it's own.It seems to me their either glorified graphic rss feeds or silly apps like calculaters and clocks,i hold out faith someone will hack up a google map or Chat Client,lack of substance aside the
widgets are cumbersome,you should be able to bookmark them to bring them up individually,hard to express in
words but they have it rigged up where you can tack one to the screen while making the other invisible,it's annoying.


In my opinion this Menu should expand into the widget you want to show ,instead of just show widgets 

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