Opera 9 Is Music to eWEEK Labs' Ears
Just like people, software providers are followers or leaders. Some are cautious about real innovation, always reluctant to try out new things, while others are constantly seeking ways to improve their products and to innovate in their technology areas.
An excellent example of the latter is Opera Software, with its eponymously named Web browser. Opera was the first to offer many of the browser features that we commonly use today, such as tabbed browsing and cookie management.
So it's a good bet that if you want to see the features that other Web browsers will be adding in a year or two, you should download Opera 9, which was released on June 20. The free Opera 9 is available in Windows, Linux, Solaris, BSD and Mac OS X versions.
In our tests, we found Opera 9 to be one of the best Web browsing tools we've used in a long time, which is why we are giving Opera 9 an eWEEK Labs Analyst's Choice award.
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good for web development
Opera is great for web development too. If you code sloppy or make a syntax mistake Opera doesn't try to guess what you want like the mozilla browsers. It shows the page screwed up, so you can see the error in the display. It has helped me catch mistakes much faster than in Firefox.