


On April 5, 2006, version 8.6 was released and was also the first version to support Symbian OS 9.This version introduced password management and form auto-filling functionality, added some more languages for localized versions, and made some improvements to stability and reduced-screen rendering quality. On November 14, 2005, version 8.5 was introduced.This was also the first version to support dynamic HTML, and greatly improved compatibility with several web standards. This version introduced the Opera Mobile Accelerator, a technology that uses an Opera-run external server to slim-down the pages' content to reduce the traffic to the phones. This version was the first to require Symbian OS 7 (previous ones could function in Symbian 6.1). On July 13, 2005, almost two years after the previous iteration, version 8.0 was launched.

It was also the first version to support proxy servers, WAP pages, and the first one to be released in localized versions for 9 different languages.
