Thanks to caerma for the heads up. The long awaited version of this highly innovative browser has now reached final. :)
Opera Software today released 7.50 for Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris. Opera 7.50 offers users hungry for a better Internet experience the latest advancements in Internet technologies, with the same engineering excellence and inventiveness that made its browser rendering so famous, now also offers a top-notch e-mailer, newsreader, IRC-compatible chat client, contact database, support for RSS newsfeeds and much, much more. Still, with all the features, Opera remains the fastest, best coded, small browsing application in the world, weighing in at 3.5 MB.
Opera"s whole user interface has been revamped for 7.50. Along with fast, customizable browsing, users get complete integration of all their favorite Internet activities easily accessible from a new panel selector. Apart from Opera"s unique browsing experience, users can enjoy Opera Mail, the built-in e-mail client, offering intelligent e-mailing with support for fast content search, a contact database, a newsreader, automatic filtering, and now features a spellchecker and RSS newsfeeds. Opera"s debuting chat client is IRC- compatible and supports both private and group chats.
Changes at first glance:
- User interface redesigned
- Chat client
- RSS newsfeeds
- Fast full-text indexing of e-mail messages
- Support for spell check
- Graphical smileys in chat and e-mail