Opera 9 for computers

Opera 9 brought more new ideas than any version before it. Opera 9.00 (Merlin), in June 2006, brought widgets, a built-in BitTorrent client, a content blocker and per-site preferences, and passed the Acid2 test; Opera 9.10 added Fraud Protection and Opera 9.20, in April 2007, Speed Dial. Opera 9.50 (Kestrel), in June 2008, brought Presto 2.1, a much faster engine, Opera Link synchronization and the Opera Dragonfly developer tools.

Code names: Merlin (9.00–9.27), Kestrel (9.50–9.64)

What was new

Widgets, BitTorrent, content blocking and site preferences (9.00)
Acid2 and opera:config (9.00)
Fraud Protection (9.10)
Speed Dial and the first developer tools (9.20)
Opera Link, Opera Dragonfly and history search (9.50)
Feed Preview and the Scroll Marker (9.60)

Opera 9, as shown on opera.com.

opera.com on July 1, 2007.

In numbers

First release: 2006
20 releases, 31 builds
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris

Downloads

Betas and previews are shown in grey. Dates come from Opera's FTP server when available, otherwise from the release history.

Version	Released	Platform	Downloads
9.64	March 3, 2009	Windows	Installer 6.4 MB
		Mac	.dmg 13 MB Intel .dmg 7.9 MB
		Linux	32-bit .tar.bz2 9.1 MB 32-bit .tar.gz 11 MB 64-bit .tar.bz2 7.6 MB 64-bit .tar.gz 9.0 MB
		FreeBSD	64-bit .tar.bz2 7.6 MB Intel .tar.bz2 7.1 MB
		Solaris	SPARC .tar.bz2 9.0 MB SPARC .tar.gz 11 MB Intel .tar.bz2 12 MB Intel .tar.gz 14 MB
9.63	December 16, 2008	Windows	Installer 5.4 MB
		Mac	.dmg 13 MB Intel .dmg 7.8 MB
		Linux	32-bit .tar.bz2 9.1 MB 32-bit .tar.gz 11 MB 64-bit .tar.bz2 7.6 MB 64-bit .tar.gz 9.0 MB
		FreeBSD	64-bit .tar.bz2 7.6 MB Intel .tar.bz2 7.1 MB
		Solaris	SPARC .tar.bz2 9.0 MB SPARC .tar.gz 11 MB Intel .tar.bz2 12 MB Intel .tar.gz 14 MB
9.62	October 30, 2008	Windows	Installer 5.4 MB
		Mac	.dmg 13 MB Intel .dmg 7.9 MB
		Linux	32-bit .tar.bz2 9.1 MB 32-bit .tar.gz 11 MB 64-bit .tar.bz2 7.6 MB 64-bit .tar.gz 9.0 MB
		FreeBSD	64-bit .tar.bz2 7.6 MB Intel .tar.bz2 7.1 MB
		Solaris	SPARC .tar.bz2 9.0 MB SPARC .tar.gz 11 MB Intel .tar.bz2 12 MB Intel .tar.gz 14 MB
9.61	October 21, 2008	Windows	Installer 5.4 MB
		Mac	.dmg 13 MB Intel .dmg 7.9 MB
		Linux	32-bit .tar.bz2 9.1 MB 32-bit .tar.gz 11 MB 64-bit .tar.bz2 7.6 MB 64-bit .tar.gz 9.0 MB
		FreeBSD	64-bit .tar.bz2 7.6 MB Intel .tar.bz2 7.1 MB
		Solaris	SPARC .tar.bz2 9.0 MB SPARC .tar.gz 11 MB Intel .tar.bz2 12 MB Intel .tar.gz 14 MB
9.60	October 8, 2008	Windows	Installer 7.1 MB
		Mac	.dmg 13 MB Intel .dmg 7.8 MB
		Linux	32-bit .tar.bz2 8.4 MB 32-bit .tar.gz 9.5 MB 64-bit .tar.bz2 6.9 MB 64-bit .tar.gz 7.8 MB
		FreeBSD	64-bit .tar.bz2 7.5 MB Intel .tar.bz2 7.0 MB
		Solaris	SPARC .tar.bz2 8.9 MB SPARC .tar.gz 11 MB Intel .tar.bz2 12 MB Intel .tar.gz 14 MB
9.60 RC 2		Windows	Installer 8.6 MB
9.60 RC 1		Windows	Installer 7.0 MB
9.60 beta 1	September 10, 2008	Windows	Installer 4.8 MB
		Mac	.dmg 14 MB
		FreeBSD	64-bit .tar.bz2 6.9 MB Intel .tar.bz2 6.4 MB
9.52	August 20, 2008	Windows	Installer 4.8 MB
		Mac	.dmg 14 MB
		Linux	32-bit .tar.bz2 8.8 MB 32-bit .tar.gz 10 MB 64-bit .tar.bz2 7.3 MB 64-bit .tar.gz 8.5 MB
		FreeBSD	64-bit .tar.bz2 7.3 MB Intel .tar.bz2 6.8 MB
		Solaris	SPARC .tar.bz2 8.7 MB SPARC .tar.gz 10 MB Intel .tar.bz2 12 MB Intel .tar.gz 14 MB
9.51	July 3, 2008	Windows	Installer 4.7 MB
		Mac	.dmg 16 MB
		Linux	32-bit .tar.bz2 8.8 MB 32-bit .tar.gz 10 MB 64-bit .tar.bz2 7.3 MB 64-bit .tar.gz 8.5 MB
		FreeBSD	64-bit .tar.bz2 7.3 MB Intel .tar.bz2 6.8 MB
		Solaris	SPARC .tar.bz2 8.6 MB SPARC .tar.gz 10 MB Intel .tar.bz2 12 MB Intel .tar.gz 14 MB
9.51 RC 2		Windows	Installer 8.5 MB
9.51 RC 1		Windows	Installer 8.5 MB
9.50	June 12, 2008	Windows	Installer 4.8 MB
		Mac	.dmg 16 MB
		Linux	32-bit .tar.bz2 8.8 MB 32-bit .tar.gz 10 MB 64-bit .tar.bz2 7.3 MB 64-bit .tar.gz 8.5 MB
		FreeBSD	64-bit .tar.bz2 7.3 MB 32-bit .tar.bz2 6.8 MB
		Solaris	SPARC .tar.bz2 8.6 MB SPARC .tar.gz 10 MB Intel .tar.bz2 12 MB Intel .tar.gz 14 MB
9.50 beta 2	April 24, 2008	Windows	Installer 4.3 MB
		Mac	.dmg 14 MB
		Linux	32-bit .tar.bz2 5.4 MB 32-bit .tar.gz 5.7 MB 64-bit .tar.bz2 6.0 MB 64-bit .tar.gz 6.5 MB
		FreeBSD	64-bit .tar.bz2 6.0 MB 32-bit .tar.bz2 5.5 MB
		Solaris	SPARC .tar.bz2 7.4 MB SPARC .tar.gz 8.4 MB Intel .tar.bz2 10 MB Intel .tar.gz 12 MB
9.50 beta		Windows	Installer 4.2 MB
		Mac	.dmg 12 MB
		Linux	32-bit .tar.bz2 5.2 MB 32-bit .tar.gz 5.5 MB 64-bit .tar.bz2 5.8 MB 64-bit .tar.gz 6.2 MB
		FreeBSD	64-bit .tar.bz2 5.8 MB 32-bit .tar.bz2 5.3 MB
		Solaris	Intel .tar.bz2 9.8 MB Intel .tar.gz 11 MB Intel .Z 16 MB Intel .tar.Z 16 MB
9.27	April 3, 2008	Windows	Installer 4.0 MB
		Mac	.dmg 11 MB
		Linux	32-bit .tar.bz2 4.8 MB 32-bit .tar.gz 5.1 MB 32-bit .rpm 5.1 MB 32-bit .deb 5.0 MB
		FreeBSD	32-bit .tar.bz2 4.9 MB 32-bit .tar.gz 5.2 MB
		Solaris	SPARC .tar.bz2 5.9 MB SPARC .tar.gz 6.7 MB Intel .tar.bz2 8.4 MB Intel .tar.gz 9.1 MB
9.26	February 20, 2008	Windows	Installer 6.4 MB
		Mac	.dmg 11 MB
		Linux	32-bit .tar.bz2 4.8 MB 32-bit .tar.gz 5.1 MB 32-bit .rpm 5.1 MB 32-bit .deb 5.0 MB
		FreeBSD	32-bit .tar.bz2 4.9 MB 32-bit .tar.gz 5.2 MB
		Solaris	SPARC .tar.bz2 5.9 MB SPARC .tar.gz 6.7 MB Intel .tar.bz2 8.4 MB Intel .tar.gz 9.1 MB
9.25	December 19, 2007	Windows	Installer 4.0 MB
		Mac	.dmg 11 MB
		Linux	32-bit .tar.bz2 4.8 MB 32-bit .tar.gz 5.1 MB 32-bit .rpm 5.0 MB 32-bit .deb 5.0 MB
		FreeBSD	32-bit .tar.bz2 4.9 MB 32-bit .tar.gz 5.2 MB
		Solaris	SPARC .tar.bz2 5.9 MB SPARC .tar.gz 6.7 MB Intel .tar.bz2 8.3 MB Intel .tar.gz 9.1 MB
9.24	October 17, 2007	Windows	Installer 4.0 MB
		Mac	.dmg 11 MB
		Linux	32-bit .tar.bz2 4.8 MB 32-bit .tar.gz 5.1 MB 32-bit .rpm 5.0 MB 32-bit .deb 5.0 MB
		FreeBSD	32-bit .tar.bz2 4.9 MB 32-bit .tar.gz 5.2 MB
		Solaris	SPARC .tar.bz2 5.9 MB SPARC .tar.gz 6.7 MB Intel .tar.bz2 8.3 MB Intel .tar.gz 9.1 MB
9.23	August 15, 2007	Windows	Installer 3.9 MB
		Mac	.dmg 11 MB
		Linux	32-bit .tar.bz2 4.8 MB 32-bit .tar.gz 5.1 MB 32-bit .rpm 5.0 MB 32-bit .deb 5.0 MB
		FreeBSD	32-bit .tar.bz2 4.9 MB 32-bit .tar.gz 5.2 MB
		Solaris	SPARC .tar.bz2 5.9 MB SPARC .tar.gz 6.7 MB Intel .tar.bz2 8.3 MB Intel .tar.gz 9.1 MB
9.22	July 19, 2007	Windows	Installer 6.4 MB
		Mac	.dmg 11 MB
		Linux	32-bit .tar.bz2 4.8 MB 32-bit .tar.gz 5.1 MB 32-bit .rpm 5.0 MB 32-bit .deb 5.0 MB
		FreeBSD	32-bit .tar.bz2 4.9 MB 32-bit .tar.gz 5.2 MB
		Solaris	SPARC .tar.bz2 5.9 MB SPARC .tar.gz 6.7 MB Intel .tar.bz2 8.3 MB Intel .tar.gz 9.1 MB
9.21	May 21, 2007	Windows	Installer 4.0 MB
		Mac	.dmg 11 MB
		Linux	32-bit .tar.bz2 4.8 MB 32-bit .tar.gz 5.1 MB 32-bit .rpm 5.0 MB 32-bit .deb 5.0 MB
		FreeBSD	32-bit .tar.bz2 4.9 MB 32-bit .tar.gz 5.2 MB
		Solaris	SPARC .tar.bz2 5.9 MB SPARC .tar.gz 6.6 MB Intel .tar.bz2 8.3 MB Intel .tar.gz 9.1 MB
9.20	April 11, 2007	Windows	Installer 4.0 MB
		Mac	.dmg 11 MB
		Linux	32-bit .tar.bz2 4.8 MB 32-bit .tar.gz 5.1 MB 32-bit .rpm 5.0 MB 32-bit .deb 5.0 MB
		FreeBSD	32-bit .tar.bz2 4.9 MB 32-bit .tar.gz 5.2 MB
		Solaris	SPARC .tar.bz2 5.8 MB SPARC .tar.gz 6.6 MB Intel .tar.bz2 8.3 MB Intel .tar.gz 9.1 MB
9.20 beta	March 28, 2007	Windows	Installer 4.0 MB
		Mac	.dmg 11 MB
		Linux	32-bit .tar.bz2 4.8 MB 32-bit .tar.gz 5.1 MB 32-bit .rpm 5.0 MB 32-bit .deb 5.0 MB
		FreeBSD	32-bit .tar.bz2 4.9 MB 32-bit .tar.gz 5.2 MB
		Solaris	Intel .tar.bz2 8.3 MB Intel .tar.gz 9.1 MB Intel .tar.Z 13 MB Intel .Z 13 MB
9.10	December 18, 2006	Windows	Installer 3.9 MB
		Mac	.dmg 13 MB
		Linux	32-bit .tar.bz2 4.7 MB 32-bit .tar.gz 5.0 MB 32-bit .rpm 5.0 MB 32-bit .deb 4.9 MB
		FreeBSD	32-bit .tar.bz2 4.8 MB 32-bit .tar.gz 5.2 MB
		Solaris	SPARC .tar.bz2 5.8 MB SPARC .tar.gz 6.5 MB Intel .tar.bz2 8.2 MB Intel .tar.gz 8.9 MB
9.02	September 21, 2006	Windows	Installer 3.8 MB
		Mac	.dmg 13 MB
		Linux	32-bit .tar.bz2 4.7 MB 32-bit .tar.gz 4.9 MB 32-bit .rpm 4.9 MB 32-bit .deb 4.9 MB
		FreeBSD	32-bit .tar.bz2 4.8 MB 32-bit .tar.gz 5.1 MB
		Solaris	SPARC .tar.bz2 5.7 MB SPARC .tar.gz 6.5 MB Intel .tar.bz2 8.2 MB Intel .tar.gz 8.9 MB
9.01	August 2, 2006	Windows	Installer 3.8 MB
		Mac	.dmg 13 MB
		Linux	32-bit .tar.bz2 4.7 MB 32-bit .tar.gz 4.9 MB 32-bit .rpm 4.9 MB 32-bit .deb 4.9 MB
		FreeBSD	32-bit .tar.bz2 4.8 MB 32-bit .tar.gz 5.1 MB
		Solaris	SPARC .tar.bz2 5.7 MB SPARC .tar.gz 6.5 MB Intel .tar.bz2 8.2 MB Intel .tar.gz 8.9 MB
9.00	June 20, 2006	Windows	Installer 3.9 MB
		Mac	.dmg 13 MB
		Linux	32-bit .tar.bz2 4.6 MB 32-bit .tar.gz 4.8 MB 32-bit .rpm 4.8 MB 32-bit .deb 4.8 MB
		FreeBSD	32-bit .tar.bz2 4.7 MB 32-bit .tar.gz 5.0 MB
		Solaris	SPARC .tar.bz2 4.5 MB SPARC .tar.gz 4.9 MB Intel .tar.bz2 7.7 MB Intel .tar.gz 8.3 MB
9.00 RC 1		Windows	Installer 4.4 MB
9.00 beta 2	May 23, 2006	Windows	Installer 3.7 MB
		Mac	.dmg 12 MB
9.00 beta 1	April 20, 2006	Windows	Installer 3.7 MB
		Mac	.dmg 12 MB

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