Version 3.50 addresses these concerns, at least in part. To this end, plug-in support has been widened to include Shockwave Director, Yamaha MIDI Plug and others. File upload, offline browsing and name completion are implemented too. Opera is still less than stunning as a mail client, but the introduction of free Web-based OperaMail accounts for all users will counteract any frustration on that count. Compared with the bulky and resource-hungry browsers from Microsoft and Netscape, Opera 3.50 provides access to the vast majority of Internet and intranet sites without the need for the very latest hardware.
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