Opera 9.5 Alpha

It's fast, it's cool. Go get it. There are some font rendering issues on Windows XP but am sure it'll be fixed in next release. Works great on Mac too (something I hold against Firefox). Ars has a review.

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This should be good news. I've been using Opera (on Linux) since version 5 (or was it 6? can't recall now), and provided you ignore the .0 release (SOP -- standard operating procedure), it tends to get better and better...

Having said that, you might notice I'm using Firefox to read/reply to this SciBlogs post. There's only(?) one reason for that: The mozex plugin, which allows me to use an external editor of my choice. A real editor is vastly superior to the braindead nonsense of HTML forms entry!