Opera Software has released a beta of its upcoming desktop browser, code-named Kestrel, which can synchronize bookmarks between a PC and a mobile device. The update to Opera 9.5, released Thursday, also fixes "hundreds of bugs" that were in the alpha version, said Huid Kleinhout, desktop team manager, in Opera"s desktop blog. "Web site rendering has been significantly improved, along with performance, stability and usability," he wrote.
The synching feature, called Opera Link, can sychronize bookmarks between Opera"s mobile and desktop browsers. When a person uses Opera Mini 4.5, a mobile browser that"s also in beta, and the desktop browser, new bookmarks are copied to a server and made available in both browsers. The bookmarks can also be accessed from any other browser by logging into the Opera Link Web page.