Opera 9.5 alpha released

The new browser`s enhancements include a faster and less-memory intensive ECMAscript engine, a greatly improved layout algorithm, significantly improved font-rendering speed, along with the tiling of bitmaps and much more responsive user interface.

• Synchronize: The preview
  Log in just once. Then access your stuff anywhere, anytime.  

• Full History Search
  Unlike previous and other browser history searches which only look at the URLs of the pages you have visited, full history search searches the actual content of the Web pages you have visited. When typing a keyword, Opera 9.5 will automatically search the text of Web pages in your history.

        Moreover, there is Full History Search directly integrated into the URL field of the Opera 9.5 
        browser, making it extremely easy and quick to find what you're looking for.

• Status bar with Zoom and Image control
  Opera's excellent zoom function and the bandwidth saving control of images are now made easily available on the Status bar. Tip: Add your own buttons like the developer console to the Status bar.

• Restore closed windows and changes in Speed Dial
  Kestrel has an improved version of the much loved trash-can feature by adding support for opening closed windows, not only the closed tabs. You can also use the undo function now for Speed Dial.

• Improved BitTorrent™ performance
  There is support for BitTorrent Peer Exchange added to allow you to connect to more download hosts and improve your download speeds.

• Platform integration
  Kestrel is even more integrated with your platform. Mac users can expect a nice new visual look and feel, while Opera for Linux will add a QT4 build, so you can easily adjust your skin to match the desktop. 64-bit Linux/FreeBSD packages will also be available.

• VoiceOver support
  Kestrel adds support for Apple's screen reader "VoiceOver" found in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. This allows visually impaired Opera users to more easily use all of the features in the browser. For more details, please see: www.apple.com/accessibility/voiceover

• Skin
  The skins in Opera 9.5 feature improved conformance to Apple Human Interface Guidelines. There is also a new native skin with a brushed metal appearance added for those of you into that sort of look.

• Mail improvements
  Kestrel features great stability and performance to Opera's integrated email client, Opera Mail. There is  a new mail backend and new IMAP support added. Opera Mail is also much faster than in previous versions of Opera.
  
  You can download Opera 9.5 alpha from here. Please note that if you are an existing Opera Mail user you will need to install this version on top of your existing Opera version to use this version for mail. Opera will then re-index all your email, something which can take several minutes if you have thousands of emails.