Opera’s Opera Next is a new, easy way to stay up to date with and check out Opera alpha and beta releases. Opera Next runs side by side with your main Opera stable final installation, which is untouched and will not be changed or otherwise affected. The latest is version 11.50b1 for Mac OS X, a test version of Opera’s next major release.

Opera 11.10′s marquee new feature is an enhanced Speed Dial page that displays larger previews of featured websites, and support for dynamically showing live content as sites are updated. Users can also now custom-configure the number of Speed Dial columns displayed and will be able to add or edit the name of site thumbnails. Speed Dial can now be zoomed and there’s a new dialog when adding/editing Speed Dials.

Opera has just released version 9.5 of its operating system for Mac and PC. It’s a free download, weighing in at 15.6MB. Some of the features include… “QuickFind” options for customizing the browser Improved security with “Fraud Filter” and content blocking Tabs and Sessions The browser scores an 83/100 on the Acid3 test. You can more »