Opera Sure Moves Quickly

If you’re a user of the Opera Internet Suite, you might have received a popup dialogue box today that looks like this:

Click on the above image for a larger, full-screen view.

I must have fallen asleep and missed Opera versions 10 through 89.

To be sure, when you actually download the requisite file, the decimal point will be in the correct place, as you can see in the following screenshot (click for full-size):

When you install the new version (or, in the case of Suse Linux, Zen autoinstalls it after you enter your root password), and do Help -> About Opera, you will also see that the decimal point is in the correct place in the following screenshot (click for full-size):

For those of you who are familiar with the *NIX file system, you know why I deliberately blacked out certain areas of the latter two images.

I should say that Opera will probably get to version 90 before Internet Explorer gets to version 9.