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Last week, a new browser has released its first beta version. This week, another browser release its beta version, Opera 9.6. In this new version, Opera claims that it’s faster than the previous version. But for interface, Opera 9.6 beta doesn’t have any changes at all. Maybe they save it for stable release or they really never want to have any changes from the beginning. Althought there’s some rumors that Opera will make Indonesian Localization, it seems there’s no language file available until now.

There’s some interesting new features in Opera 9.6 beta. The first one is typed website address history and custom search can be synchronize with Opera Link. It makes any website address typed in one computer will be available in all computer. Quite convenient for people who using more than one computer (a desktop computer at home and a notebook for work).

Opera now will show a feed preview before you can subscribe it if the RSS icon in address bar clicked. Here’s the screenshot for feed preview page.

A new low bandwidth mode are intoduced in email client which makes Opera use bandwidth as little as possible. For IMAP type email, Opera will only synchronize new messages and it won’t fetch any attachment embeded unless requested by user. As for POP type email, Opera will only fetch first 100 line of a message unless requested by user.

Another feature in Opera’s email client is “Follow/Ignore Thread” which allow you to pick which thread do you want to follow or to ignore. Very usefull if you participate in some mailing list and there’s a (or two) spammer(s), just ignore the thread, hehe.

Opera’s layout engine improved, just a little bit. Opera 9.6 beta got 85 points in Acid3 test which previously got only 83 points.

That’s all. If this review lack of something, feel free to add it in comments