Final version of Opera 9 released: BitTorrent!

There’s a new version of quite a popular web browser Opera 9 available at the homepage. It’s already time since you can get this browser free and coders are still working hard on many improvements. In my point of view, Opera tried exactly different approach than another popular alternative browser, Mozilla Firefox. While Firefox targets mainly new users with easy interface and limited amount of functions and features, Opera’s plan is to bundle everything you *could* need into one package. If I can share my opinion, I prefer the first method used by Firefox and expanding the area of functions by installing many of these widely available plugins, but there may be also many of you who gave their preference to all-in-one pack.

The new versions offers many new features, but the one is the most important for us, filesharers. There’s a support of BitTorrent protocol included in this new version. Developers decided to make it very easy, so it looks like normal file download with a little of additional info like the amount of peers, tracker url etc. An another nice new feature is support for IRC, which is still popular by some group of users. If you want to get little more info about new Opera, you can visit either the official homepage or one review written by some blogger. English version of Opera 9 has 4.2 MB which is almost the same filesize as for Firefox, you can also choose to download international one with more languages. It’s worth a short try, definitely better browser than IE…