Opera Software has released the second beta of the web browser Opera 7 for Windows. Note that it appears to be called b1b instead of b2. With all of about 10 minutes using it with a couple dozen pages open it appears to work okay. If you are heavy browser user and all you know is MS IE it might be worth your while to give Opera a try. My favorite browser is Mozilla at this point but Opera is coming along quite nicely.

Update: Two things annoy me about v7 as compared to v5: First, it doesn't have a Go button to the right of the URL control. Second, if you right click in the URL control the pop-up does not have the Cut/Copy/Paste options. So one has to use the keyboard more when copying and pasting in and out of URL control. If you want to grab a URL out of a control to, say, put in a blog post its more work to move from mousing to keyboarding to to it.

I ought to go to their news server and complain about this.

Update II: The correct file to download is ow32enen700b2j.exe (thanks to DJ SkaM for pointing out the difference). The File I originally downloaded really was for beta 1b. My guess is that I downloaded it so soon after beta 2 was announced that b2 hadn't propagated out to the servers yet. Beta 2 does fix the ability to right click on the URL control to do Copy/Cut/Paste on it. Though it still does not have the Go button.