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, butOpera 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 ofwindows inside one working window, having chosen thus a tabulared or cascade mode.

Changelog:
• Upgrading will now attempt to merge the default searches with your own. Look out for bugs! Make a backup!
• Put startbar back into the configuration - disabled by default
• Speed dial now doesn't load entries every time
• Added "reload every" to speed dial items
• Disabled plugins completely in speed dial
• Improved keyboard navigation in speed dial - menu keys now bring up the correct context menu, delete removes current entry
• Added opera:config option to configure speed dial . Has four modes: 0 = Folded, 1 = Shown, 2 = No editing allowed, 3 = Disabled
• New help tooltip in speed dial
• A bunch of other speed dial fixes
• Fixed bug where Opera wouldn't exit after visiting Yahoo! games
• Saving big images should now work better
• Skandiabanken.no's message about successful certificate installation is now shown

UNIX:
• Improved Shared memory on FreeBSD and Solaris
• Added more plugin paths on Solaris

Windows build 8746: 4 MB

http://snapshot.opera.com/windows/o920w_8746.exe
Windows build 8746 MSI: 6.2 MB

Macintosh build 3648: 11.2 MB

Unix Systems: build 598
http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/Weekly-598/