Web browser company Opera Software ASA has released a new beta
version of its Web browser for the Mac OS along with a new beta
version of its Mac OS X-native browser.
The browser, also called Opera, is in the beta-testing phase that
precedes the release of the finished 5.0 edition of the browser.
The releases mark the fifth beta for the Classic Mac OS version and
the third for the Mac OS X edition.
Along with a host of bug fixes, the new browsers add a handful of
new features including new ways to manage cookies, drag and drop
downloads, a 30-day banner-ad-free mode, interface enhancements and
more.
Opera is a small, standards-compliant Web browser, which supports
HTML 4.01, Cascading Style Sheets, XML, Javascript and WAP, among
other standards. The company also offers Windows, Linux, BeOS and
OS/2 versions of its browser.
Opera's browsers hold just under 1% of the worldwide Web browser
market, according to a study conducted by WebSideStory earlier in
the month. However, the study found that in some European countries
the company controls as much as almost 6% of the market.