updates Meet the browser: Opera Next

[Steve Gosselin]

Any timeframe for the release of Opera 10, e.g. Q2 2009, ect?

Good question > Opera Peregrine

[JOHW]

Opera 9.52 RC 2

By olli. Friday, 15. August 2008, 08:50:43

Hey

One more RC was needed to fix the upload regression :-)

Download

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Opera 9.52 RC1

By blaabjerg. Thursday, 14. August 2008, 09:36:29

Here's the first release candidate for 9.52. Please focus your testing on regressions since 9.51. :)

WARNING: These are development snapshots: they contain the latest changes, but they also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, they may not work at all.

Known Issues

Uploading files does not work.

Changelog

Added Help button to "Engine Init() Failed" error message on start-up to inform users about problem (article not written yet).

Fixed a problem with M&T Bank.

Fixed a problem with POP accounts where message bodies weren't downloaded.

Fixed a small memory leak in the BitTorrent code.

Added bookmark path to autocompleted bookmarks in the address bar to better distinguish them from visited pages.

Disabled APOP authentication for new accounts at online.no (not supported by them). Users experiencing problems with online.no account should switch to Plaintext authentication.

Fixed a crash that could occur when opening mail notification popups on a secondary monitor.

Fixed a few icon/skin issues.

Added a "Close Tab" entry to the File menu on Windows and Linux.

Fixed some translation errors.

[JOHW]

Apparently RC2 (10108) is the final build for 9.52 :)

[thealexweb]

When I opened Opera 9.51 today it asked me to upgrade to 9.52, it's finished!9.5

[wellofsouls]

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2008/...t-9-60-snapshot

First 9.60 Snapshot!

By minch. Friday, 22. August 2008, 21:55:30

WEBFEEDS, M2, link, RSS ...

Hot on the heels of Wednesday's 9.52 release comes our first snapshot of 9.60.

Everyone here at on the Desktop Team has been working hard to add new features to your favorite browser, and here's what you can look forward to in 9.60:

Opera Link

Custom search engines and typed history* are now joining bookmarks, speed dials, personal bar, and notes in Opera Link.

Feed Preview

Now you can preview an RSS/Atom feed before subscribing.

Opera Mail: Low Bandwidth Mode

Low Bandwidth Mode is a setting on mail accounts that makes Opera Mail use as little bandwidth as possible. For IMAP, this means that Opera will only synchronise new messages and it will not fetch message attachments unless requested. For POP, Opera will not fetch more than the first 100 lines of a message unless requested.

Opera Mail: Follow/Ignore threads and contacts

Follow and Ignore are new features for users that receive a lot of messages. It makes it easier to dismiss unimportant messages and easier to recognise important messages.

Opera Mail: Go To Thread

You can now also "Go to thread" which means that you can view only the messages from that thread. Useful for those that uses flat view.

Enjoy! :smile:

* Typed history is only the history you explicitly type or select from the address bar

WARNING: These are development snapshots: they contain the latest changes, but they also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, they may not work at all.

Known issues

* Follow/ignore thread misses some messages

Download

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http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2008/...pshot-bug-fixes

Opera 9.6 Snapshot: Birthday Edition

By Junyor. Friday, 29. August 2008, 21:18:21

We're making steady progress on Opera 9.6, fixing several of the issues reported within the last week. Please continue to test and report problems help us improve Opera. Thank you!

PS: Don't forget to wish Jon a Happy Birthday (that's "Gratulerer med dagen" in Norwegian). Five other employees had their birthdays today, too!

WARNING: These are development snapshots: they contain the latest changes, but they also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, they may not work at all.

Known Issues

* Some feed previews load continuously and Opera crashes when closing a tab in this state

* Some feed previews show as unstyled XML on initial load (reloading the tab fixes the problem)

Changelog

* Fixed problem synchronizing with Opera Link on Windows and Mac. If you still get this problem, exit Opera and delete the file called link_queue_myopera.dat in the "Opera directory" listed in opera:about, then try again.

* Fixed problem where follow/ignore missed some messages

* Remember bookmark panel position after restart

* When setting opera:config#TransferWindow|KeepEntriesDays to 0, actually remove transfer history when restarting

* Load feed previews even when JavaScript is disabled

* Don't show both GUID and LINK elements when viewing feed items in Opera Mail

* Fixed crash when subscribing to feeds while Opera Mail is disabled

Download

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Macintosh

UNIX

:cool:

[Crazysah]

9.60 beta 1 RC

By toman. Friday, 5. September 2008, 15:05:00

Thats right, Opera 9.6 is soon ready for its first beta flight. We have now frozen all features and only critical fixes go in. Really soon now, the beta will be released, but we want more feedback from you guys before we do so.

Changelog

?Added Presto/version to the User Agent string, currently Opera/9.60 (<platform>; U; en) Presto/2.1.1. In the future, this will be part of the UA on all devices

?Sites with http authentication are now saved in history (only the URL, not the page content)

?Properly stop loading pages with iframes when closing the page or pressing stop

?Fixed problem where dynamically added xml-stylesheet processing instructions were ignored

?Removed the document object from iframe

?Added support for the caller property on functions

?Fixed yet another case of having to press the back button twice

?Improvements to feed preview page

?Made reloading speed dial while in offline mode actually reload all thumbs

?Fixed Opera Link issue where notes could end up blank after being synced

?Opera Link queue file not created anymore before using Link

?Fraud protection dialog now works when using a proxy

?Made it possible to remove speed dial search again by unchecking the "use as default speed dial search"

?Fixed text input on Windows Tablet PC Edition 2005

?Fixed open/save of images in mail when using the image context menu

?Made all top-level access points (except All Messages) selectable

?Fixed a problem deleting drafts from the Drafts view

?UNIX: Additional fixes to flash plugin handling. Freezes when using flash should now be mostly gone.

Download

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http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2008/.../9-60-beta-1-rc

Gets me :cool: on the Acid3 Test!

:cool: I particularly like this build. Works much better than the last one and is a little bit faster than the last one.

[wellofsouls]

yup seems Opera 9.6 is shaping up good :cool:

[JOHW]

Opera 9.6 beta released

By olli. Wednesday, 10. September 2008, 08:24:27

Hei

We released Opera 9.6 beta today.

Thanks for your testing.

We fixed 2 issues after the RC and added Ukrainian language file :-)

Fixed:

*Sessions broken after crash

*FCKeditor Demo didn't load (broke alot of other stuff aswell)

Enjoy the beta

Windows version is Build 10424

[wellofsouls]

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2008/...first-post-here

A New Snapshot and My First Post Here

By NoteMe. Friday, 12. September 2008, 15:41:00

9.6, snapshot, noteme, ev

Hello, my name is ?yvind and this is my first post here since I joined the Opera's Desktop Team less than two months ago. It has been a busy time for me, but at the same time, I think it was the perfect time for me to join. I have already witnessed the release of 9.52, and we are getting close to releasing 9.6.

Before I started, I was just a MyOpera member roaming the #weekly IRC channel. Fridays were always a highlight. That's when I got the answer to all my questions. Did someone fix my bugs? Were there any new features enabled? When is the next version due? Now when I am on the inside I get to know all this information every day I go to work. And the best of all, I can now fix bugs myself, as well as play and contribute new functionality for the next release. So now I get to have fun every day. What more can I ask for?

Today we have formally EV-enabled Verisign and Comodo in Opera v9.5 and later, which you can read more about in Yngve's blog post. So go and try out our new snapshot, and have a lovely weekend.

- ?? -

WARNING: This is a development snapshots: it contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all.

Known Issue

* Dragonfly is a bit unstable

Changelog

* Special characters are now displayed properly in the Address bar drop-down

* Sorting by progress in Transfers now works

* Cache files from feeds no longer show up in Transfers

* Speed Dial thumbnails no longer disappear when deleting private data

* Page encoding in site preferences can now be reset to automatic

* Dragonfly element highlighting no longer stays on the page after closing the developer tools window

* Browsing Intranet sites now works after changing proxies in a running session

Download

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BTW, Happy Mid-Autumn Festival:cool:ol:

[JOHW]

Another step…

By csant. Friday, 19. September 2008, 11:01:53

…closer to 9.60 - with a special attention to our Chinese mail users :)

Known Issue

Dragonfly is still a bit unstable…

Changelog

Several stability fixes

Fixed copying of multiple entries from history manager

Fixed DCC transfers in IRC

Fixed quick find in feeds

Added popular Chinese mail providers in mailproviders.xml

Windows

Windows Classic

Macintosh

UNIX

[wellofsouls]

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2008/...9-6-approaching

9.6 approaching

By blaabjerg. Friday, 26. September 2008, 20:42:44

9.6, snapshot

The first release candidate for 9.6 is just around the corner now, but there are still a couple of issues left to resolve. Now is the time to let us know about any regressions so we can fix them before the RCs :smile:

WARNING: This is a development snapshot: it contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all.

Changelog

* Fixed the Dragonfly crash

* Improved performance with large wand.dat files

* Don't highlight script focused elements

* Stability fixes

* Feed preview pages now load properly when reopened from trash

* Fixed syncing of removed labels in Mail

* Fixed an issue where the mail signatures wouldn't change if the default account signature ended with a space

* Fixed an issue where sent message bodies could disappear under certain circumstances

* Made Mail cope better with broken POP servers that send empty message UIDLs

* Made sure Mail respects the "Large font" setting for mail subjects

* Fixed an issue where feed titles were truncated before ":" characters

* Fixed a problem where mails would be reported as incomplete when the server reports the wrong message size

* Fixed importing of mail files with LF line endings only

* Disabled indexing of HTML and CSS in feeds

* Fixed an issue where feed status could get stuck on fetching

* Made sure filters created by IMAP keywords are saved on exit

* Made form buttons with zero padding prettier on Mac

* Fixed an issue where opening the Java Console would freeze Opera on Mac

* Fixed a bug that could cause notes to be lost when using certain characters

* Various Opera Link fixes

* Feeds are now detected even when served as text/html

* Fixed dataloss situation when note folders had more than one line in their name

* Fixed saving of svg when right clicking

* Fixed spurious highlighting when using the space character in inline find

* Upgrading Opera on Debian no longer resets default x-www-browser

For those of you on Intel Macs, we're trying out a new download option to save you some bandwidth. Check out the Intel only download below :ninja:

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wow, quite a changelog ;)

[wellofsouls]

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2008/.../opera-9-6-rc-1

Opera 9.6 RC 1

By olli. Wednesday, 1. October 2008, 18:58:03

Hey Guys:

We now have an RC so please look out for any regressions since 9.52. :-)

Changelog

* Fixed error pages when entering unknown protocol.

* Fixed an issue where custom search engines would not get a favicon.

* Fixed an issue that would prevent links in frames *from* being opened by keyboard

* Fixed Fast Forward on Google search results pages.

* Fixed an issue where only a few feed itmes would be fetched.

* Text strings on the feed preview page are now localizable.

* Added a fallback feed title for feeds without titles, and added handheld style sheet to the feeds preview.

* Changed default global history to 1000.

* Added new default speedial.ini.

Mail:

* Fixed an issue where followed contacts would not be properly unfollowed.

* Fixed an issue where only the first followed contact would be shown in the Followed Contacts access point.

* Fixed an issue where the Followed Thread icon would be lost after restart.

Windows:

* Fixed a bug where network paths that start with \\ would not work, which in particular caused issues with sent mail when storing profiles on network drives

* Fixed installation problems on Windows NT 4.0

UNIX:

* Fixed an issue where text with specified size suddenly disappears on Qt4 builds.

* Qt4 builds are static - for now.

Download

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[wellofsouls]

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2008/.../opera-9-6-rc-2

Opera 9.6 RC 2

By csant. Saturday, 4. October 2008, 22:52:35

9.6, rc

Were you already giving up on the hope of a new toy for the weekend? Don't despair: we have a new RC for the upcoming 9.6 release. Happy testing!

Changelog:

SSL error pages now display again :whistle:

Fixed an issue where RSS 1.0 feeds sent as text/html would not be recognized

Fixed an issue where opening links with the keyboard after an inline find would open the link twice

Some stability fixes (proxy crasher should be fixed, please test those that reproduced it before)

Download

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UNIX

[JOHW]

Opera 9.6 RC2 is 9.6 Final :)

[Crazysah]

Good question > Opera Peregrine

Thanks for this. Am getting it now!

[frogger]

Thanks for this. Am getting it now!

Isn't that old now?

thats 9.6 beta 1 and there's 9.6 final out.

[Crazysah]

9.61 is out now. Go grab that instead.

[wellofsouls]

I hope they can put up a nightly for 9.7 soon :shiftyninja:

[Steve Gosselin]

I hope they can put up a nightly for 9.7 soon :shiftyninja:

or Opera 10 alpha... :shiftyninja:

[wellofsouls]

Experimental Opera 9.62 build with Video, 3D Canvas and File I/O support

http://labs.opera.com/news/2008/11/25/

Video, 3D canvas and File I/O: Repeat!

Posted on November 25, 2008

by Chris Mills

We’ve done it again - we’ve made a new build available of Opera with support for video, file I/O and 3D canvas. If you enjoyed the builds we released last time, then you should upgrade - you’ll enjoy the increased stability of this build, along with other things like low-bandwidth mail mode, and various security upgrades (These new builds are based on the Opera 9.62 stable release).

If you haven’t tried video, now might be a good time. Whatever the case, click on these links and get cracking:

Opera 9.62 Video, 3D canvas and File I/O build for Windows

Opera 9.62 Video, 3D canvas and File I/O build for Mac

Opera 9.62 Video, 3D canvas and File I/O build for UNIX

These builds are officially experimental so may contain bugs. Please remember to back up your data before installing any experimental build. (Remember to back up your data anyway. Computers don’t last forever).

HTML 5 video

If you’re not sure what this is all about, it is all about being able to put videos on the web as easily as this:

<video controls="controls" src="some.ogg">

Better to have backup content in case <a href="some.ogg">your video file</a>

doesn’t work for the user. Perhaps they don’t have a nice Ogg-playing browser.

Perhaps they don’t have the bandwidth for video. Perhaps they can’t see it anyway,

or just choose not to. You can add a <img src="some.jpg" alt="random picture">

in the backup content, of course.

</video>

There are more links in the release notes from the last video build.

File I/O

Second, this release is all about being able to build applications that can run a real file system - one the user can see and play with within the application the same as they would on a local machine. This is achieved using the File I/O API we released earlier this year.

3D Canvas

Third, using this build you can run cool 3D applcations created using our 3D canvas implementation, which is included in this build.

Note: 3D canvas doesn’t work on all systems. If you don’t have the right stuff in your machine this build will simply not render 3D canvas objects.

Enjoy!

curiously the installer says Opera 10 :p

[halcyoncmdr]

Peregrine takes flight... Opera 10.0 Alpha 1 is here!

It seems like yesterday we released Opera 9.6 and now you can all get your hands on Opera 10.0. Rather than ramble on, here's a quick list of what's new:

• Presto 2.2 Engine
  
• Performance boost
  
• 100/100 and pixel-perfect on the Acid3 test
  
• Auto-update
  
• Inline spelling checker
  
• Opera Mail improvements, including rich text composition and delete after X days
  
• Widget Improvements on Linux
  

Can't wait to get your hands on Opera 10.0 Alpha 1, then get it now!

Download

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What's New

Below is an overview of the new functionality in Opera 10.0 Alpha 1.

Presto 2.2 Engine

Opera 10.0 Alpha 1 includes Presto 2.2 (Kestrel includes Presto 2.1.1), an updated version of Opera's Core. Presto 2.2 features numerous new features and loads of bug fixes, such as:

• 100/100 and pixel-perfect on the Acid3 test
  
• New regular expression engine, which greatly improves performance
  
• Improved CSS performance
  
• Pretty-printing of unstyled XML
  
• Web font support
  
• RGBA and HSLA support
  
• Selectors API support
  

Auto-update

The long awaited auto-update functionality is here! That's right, Opera will now update itself as new versions are released. And for those of you who want every single snapshot release just enable the "Download All Snapshots" setting (opera:config#AutoUpdate). Please be aware that if you do so, you will be upgrading to all snapshots - and as you know: snapshots contain the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, they may not work at all. You have been warned

Inline Spelling Checker

Opera now checks your spelling as you write! The inline spelling checker is enabled by default for multi-line edit fields and this Alpha comes with a US English dictionary. Use the context menu of input fields to change the settings, and to correct spelling errors. See the detailed changelog for information about using other dictionaries.

Opera Mail Improvements

Rich Text Composition

Opera Mail can now send rich text messages! You can insert inlined images, styled text, links, custom HTML, and more! You can also forward and redirect rich text messages or reply to them with styled text.

In the account settings select "Prefer HTML formatting" in the outgoing tab so that you can start writing rich text mails by default in our WYSIWYG editor!

Remove from server after X days (POP-only)

This new feature is for our POP users with limited server space. Opera Mail can now remove messages from the server that have been there for X days. Of course you can limit Opera Mail to only remove read messages from the server, and/or only fully downloaded messages, which works great in combination with low-bandwith mode.

Other Changes

When viewing a message, the message subjects are now a text field again instead of a button. We have added also a "Thread" button to the message list toolbar to make some features more visible.

Widget Improvements on Linux/UNIX

We have added experimental support for true transparency for widgets on Linux/UNIX. For this to work you have to have an X Server that provides a 32-bit visual device and a running composite manager. If you start Opera from a terminal it will print this message if it detects a suitable 32-bit visual device: "(experimental) ARGB visual detected: Use '-visual 0x6f' to activate it".

If you have a composite manager running you can then try it out by starting Opera with: "opera -visual 0x6f" (0x6f may be another number on your machine).

Detailed Changelogs

Windows

Mac

Linux/UNIX

Enjoy!

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2008/...0-alpha-is-here

[HitmanX]

I just started using Opera 10.0 Alpha 1.

It is a whole lot faster than Firefox. :D

[wellofsouls]

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2008/...ristmas-edition

The Christmas Edition

由 espens. Friday, 19. December 2008, 22:39:44

peregrine, Opera

Hi all,

This is my first release message for about four years I believe. Needless to say it is

the first on the blog. In the good (bad?) old days mail lists and usenet ruled but it

has to be a bit more fancy nowadays.

A new snapshot is available for you to try out. As usual it includes a lot of fixes and

improved features.

WARNING: This is a development snapshot: it contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all.

PS: For those of you who want to use autoupdate in every single snapshot release just enable the "Download All Snapshots" setting (opera:config#AutoUpdate).

Changelog

Several backend improvements to autoupdate

Made content filter rules with a whitespace at the end work

All languages are now included but not all are completed. Please do not file bugs on English text in the UI when using another language for your interface.

Made spellchecking work on contenteditable elements

Switching between html and plain text mail composition works better now

Added option to doubleclick a tab to close it opera:config#UserPrefs|DoubleclicktoCloseTab

Fixed crash when undeleting and running a widget

Improved stability in the search engine which indexes webpages and mail

Plus tons of behind the scenes changes, the low level changelog is more than 1000 lines.

Mac: Fixed startup crash on Mac OS X 10.3/Panther

Mac: Fixed the mail/chat counter background

Mac: Fixed low framerate on fullscreen YouTube videos

Happy holidays from everybody in the desktop team

Download

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:cool:

[wellofsoulswolf]

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2009/...w-year-snapshot

New Year snapshot!

由 andre.reffhaug. Tuesday, 13. January 2009, 19:44:04

Opera, Browser

Hidy ho,

You haven't seen my face around here before, but Olli felt it was time I made a timely appearance, so here I am! I work in Desktop QA, doing cross-platform stuff, with my feet deeply planted in the Mac-part of our little camp. We have a new snapshot ready for you, with some nice fixes and improvements!

WARNING: This is a development snapshot: it contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all.

Known Issues:

May crash when showing certain certificate dialogs.

Changelog:

General

Added ability to open mailto links in webmail providers, such as Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, and Windows Live Hotmail.

Fixed loading web pages when clicking on a link while the document still is loading.

Fixed "Bookmark All Open Pages" action.

Fixed skin color schemes - you can use your favorite color scheme again!

"Lock Tab" icon should now be better visible on locked tabs.

Several stability fixes.

Opera Mail

Improved message composition window context menu.

Fixed loss of mail drafts if several drafts were open when closing Opera.

Fixed sending link by mail in plain text format.

Improved message encoding detection.

Fixed several bugs in the compose window related to navigation and editing (also applies to designMode and contentEditable).

Windows-specific

Fixed problem with text styled with opacity.

It's no longer necessary to restart Opera after changing the external source viewer.

Download

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and the new auto-updater is working sweet! :cool:

[halcyoncmdr]

Valentine's Snapshot

Takk for sist! It's been a while since the last snapshot and the Desktop Team has been working hard to improve Peregrine. In addition to a load of fixes, there are some important changes:

Easily Subscribe to Online Feed Readers

It's now possible to subscribe to online feed readers directly from the feed preview page. The list of online feed readers will be expanded soon.

Web Mail Providers Changes

The previous snapshot included a new feature where clicking a mailto link could open a user's preferred Web mail provider, including Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, and Windows Live Mail. Unfortunately, the Open The Web Team constantly struggles to resolve new issues that pop up with those providers because they don't officially support Opera. Thus, we have decided not to include any Web mail provider by default that doesn't officially support Opera. The Opera Team greatly desires to provide the best support for the services Opera's users use most, but when those services do not reciprocate, tough decisions have to be made. The Open The Web Team is working hard to get Opera officially supported by Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, and Windows Live Hotmail.

In this snapshot, the following Web mail providers have been added: Opera Web Mail, Fastmail, and Yandex.

Integrated Crash Logging (Windows-only)

The IIXII Inspector tool has been integrated directly into Windows builds. Now, if Opera crashes, a log file will be written to the system temp. directory. This is just the first step in improved crash logging.

WARNING: This is a development snapshot: it contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all.

Changelog

• Fixed crash when showing authentication dialogs for feeds
  
• Fixed problem that could make Opera send blank e-mails
  
• No more progress bar for XMLHttpRequest (i.e. no more constant progress bar at Gmail)
  
• Improved spelling checker underline
  
• Several contentEditable/designMode fixes
  
• Deactivated scrollmarker by default
  
• Stability improvements
  
• Auto-update improvements
  

Download

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Macintosh (Universal)

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UNIX

SOURCE - Desktop Team