Opera 8 is a web browser developed by Opera Software ASA, available for download in full install version for Windows platforms from legacy sources. This version of Opera was officially released on 2005-04-19 for public access and a brief summary of important updates and change log pertaining to this edition can be read below.

Opera 9 has been built on Presto rendering engine and there are about 11 builds contains 3 beta versions from its first beta version 8.0 beta 1 released on 23-Dec-2004 to the final edition 8.54 released as late as on 05-Apr-2006 spanning more than 18 months.

There are huge list of changes in this edition and important one among them includes Opera's Extensible Rendering Architecture (ERA), Blocked Pop-up Notification, Retrieval of closed pages, Voice Functionality, Automated Weekly Update Check etc.

Extensible Rendering Architecture (ERA) has been implemented in this edition which improves the functionality of Opera's visual appearance and page rendering. Now accidental closure of the browser, can be regained with all open tabs alive during the exiting of the browser.

With Automated weekly update user has the option to keep the opera check for updates at regular intervals. This is an option and can be enabled or disabled by the user. With Fit-to-Width option, you can avoid the scroll bars for viewing the website content.