Opera Desktop Beta 2 (Kestrel) now available for download

[0iD]

Opera today unveiled the second beta preview of the forthcoming Opera 9.5 desktop browser, code-named Kestrel. The new beta improves on security, speed and performance, while refining some of Opera ’s most popular features. For download, please visit Opera browser

[Funkstar]

wow! better speed and performance!

Thats great, because that badly performing speed was a real pain in the ass

No, this is cool. I've been using Opera for a while now at home. I like it, but it does have a few problems with a couple of pages. Specifically the heavy use of JS in the new SqueezeCenter web interface.

[MarcLister]

Saw this on FileHippo earlier. Can't wait for Opera 9.5 full. Gonna be good. Opera have also announced their own version of the Firefox dev tools. Called DragonFly. Was apparently going to be with Opera 10 it seems but now going to be a separate download.

Should be good. I've just done a final year project website manually coding with Notepad++ and having the dev tools in Opera will help me in the future.

Opera Dragonfly
Opera Dragonfly announced

In short Opera is brilliant and is getting brillianter.