Opera 9.50 Beta – the Speed Dial Rocks!
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I finally downloaded the Opera 9.50 beta this week. Although I have three different browsers loaded on my PC and ready to go at a moment’s notice, I love Opera the very best. There are a lot of reasons, but let me discuss my favorite feature.
As of version 9.2 Opera started a lovely thing called Speed Dial. Now when I open a new tab I get a page that shows me a 3×3 grid of boxes, or thumbnails. I can assign each box a URL and then a snapshot of that URL fills the box. Boom – I open a new tab and click one of my nine top sites. It’s like having my nice most visited sites on, well … speed dial.
Lovers of keyboard shortcuts can simply employ Ctrl + [1-9].
I also have a Yahoo search box at the top of my Speed Dial page. That rocks, too, because Google is kinda like the stinky kid in the corner who pooped his pants, not too popular right now.
I am sort of migrating to Firefox as of late. I used to use Opera all the time, and may just get around to downloading the beta.
BTW, do you know what happened to Jane May?