Opera 9.5 (Kestrel) Alpha is out - Page 8

Joe 90 · 17-10-2007, 17:04

whoo i win this time - build 9600 out

9.5 beta coming -

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Thursday next week (25 Oct), Opera 9.5 beta will be released.

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/

MarcLister · 17-10-2007, 17:18

Feck. I hate you.

Does 9600 fix your personal bar bug?

We both beat LeperousDust anyway.

I only check that page on a Friday so meh!

Joe 90 · 17-10-2007, 18:38

thankfully its in the fixed list

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Known issues fixed
[BUG 264975] Fixed display of smileys in mail and chat
[BUG 290358] Bookmarks cannot be selected from the Bookmarks menu
[BUG 290355] Opera crashes when clicking bookmarks in Personal bar
[BUG 280536] Opera on OS X will sometimes freeze when exiting Preferences

MarcLister · 17-10-2007, 18:47

Raay!

MarcLister · 17-10-2007, 20:44

Opera 9.24 released. Fixes http://secunia.com/advisories/27277/

http://www.opera.com/download/

Joe 90 · 22-10-2007, 09:11

9603 - http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/

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Changes:
Several stability fixes
Fixed problem loading Babelfish when trying to translate selected text
Disabled thumbnails in tab cycle by default; re-enable using opera:config#UserPrefs|UseThumbnailsinWindowCycle
Included Opera 9.2-compatible keyboard shortcuts file
Improved performance of history searching in the address bar drop-down
Fixed problem where web pages could load in chat tabs
Fixed some margin collapsing issues
Improved Opera 7+ mail importer
Fixed several issues with Windows 98
Fixed mail header display on OS X
Added an option on UNIX to chose the dialog toolkit: opera:config#FileSelector|DialogToolkit. 0 is auto detection, 1 is Qt dialog, 2 is GTK dialog.

Known Issues Fixed
[BUG 284849] Yahoo! Mail Beta crashes Opera.
[BUG 291258] Framesets don't work. Gives blank page on Gmail and other sites
[BUG 291335] Bookmarks in sub-folders are moved to the root folder
[BUG 290618] Viewing messages with smilies in Opera Mail may cause Opera to crash
[BUG 291267] Filters in M2 don't work
[BUG 290943] This build fails the Acid2 test

Known issues
[BUG 291580] Mails are blank on first click if messages bodies aren't downloaded when fetching
[BUG 291608] Clicking any mailto link will cause a confirmation dialog
[BUG 290416] Widgets don't work after restarting Opera
[BUG 267632] Images don't display when printing
If you used the Brushed Metal skin in the previous release, Opera for OS X will crash on startup
Won't run correctly on Windows 95
OS X version may cause persistent freezes on start-up
POP server cleaning has been disabled: When disabling the "Leave messages on server" option, existing messages on the server are not removed
[BUG 287170] On OS X, UI thumbnails have black backgrounds when using native skins
[BUG 184894] Native OS X UI elements cannot be used in skins
[BUG 286384] Yahoo mail is broken
[BUG 280261] Removing messages from filters does not work
[BUG 213115] Queued mail is sent at the next check, instead of waiting for manual action

Jasper · 22-10-2007, 11:11

Better is a matter of opinion. I tried Opera when Firefox was so slow that it became nigh on unusable, but they've sorted out the speed issues with Firefox so I've got no reason to keep using Opera. For me, the way to use it wasn't intuitive enough, and I actually ended up binning it because I couldn't figure out how to stop it using its own RSS reader. It also doesn't have a decent web developer toolbar.

I can't wait for the new version of Safari, personally - it seems to have all of the features I use for day-to-day browsing (re-open closed tabs, re-open history tabs, amazing ctrl-f function, that sort of thing), and I can switch to firefox when I need to work.

LeperousDust · 25-10-2007, 15:04

Beta's out guys, sorry to beat you to it

Better is a matter of opinion you're right Jasper, but Opera is fairly easy to configure and use in my opinion, for instance RSS feeds would be in preferences - advanced - downloads type in xml in the search field there make sure hide operas whatever isn't checked and then either select use system default or force it to use something totally different...
On the Dev note it seems to have a pretty bloody big dev following if you ask me, i'm not one so i don't really know properly, but there dev section is lively helpful and apparently pretty good...

Joe 90 · 25-10-2007, 16:38

cheers alex.

i agree with Jasper on the dev side tbh.
the firefox dev toolbar is great, can't beat it tbh.
the opera dev javascript 'thing' is okay, but just not as good - but thats not enough to stop my opera usage... i just have a stripped down copy of firefox for any quick dev needs that spring up.

MarcLister · 26-10-2007, 00:49

Looking good (the beta). Might try it at the weekend. Which starts now I suppose. Yay.

25-10-2007, 15:04	#78
LeperousDust Bananaman Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Liverpool/Edinburgh Posts: 4,817	Beta's out guys, sorry to beat you to it Better is a matter of opinion you're right Jasper, but Opera is fairly easy to configure and use in my opinion, for instance RSS feeds would be in preferences - advanced - downloads type in xml in the search field there make sure hide operas whatever isn't checked and then either select use system default or force it to use something totally different... On the Dev note it seems to have a pretty bloody big dev following if you ask me, i'm not one so i don't really know properly, but there dev section is lively helpful and apparently pretty good... __________________ Last edited by LeperousDust; 25-10-2007 at 15:08.

25-10-2007, 16:38	#79
Joe 90 Absinthe Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Chester Posts: 2,345	cheers alex. i agree with Jasper on the dev side tbh. the firefox dev toolbar is great, can't beat it tbh. the opera dev javascript 'thing' is okay, but just not as good - but thats not enough to stop my opera usage... i just have a stripped down copy of firefox for any quick dev needs that spring up. __________________ 360 Blog \| Join GiffGaff \| Twitter

17-10-2007, 17:18	#72
MarcLister Absinthe Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Leighton Buzzard Posts: 1,282	Feck. I hate you. Does 9600 fix your personal bar bug? We both beat LeperousDust anyway. I only check that page on a Friday so meh!

17-10-2007, 18:47	#74
MarcLister Absinthe Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Leighton Buzzard Posts: 1,282	Raay!

17-10-2007, 20:44	#75
MarcLister Absinthe Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Leighton Buzzard Posts: 1,282	Opera 9.24 released. Fixes http://secunia.com/advisories/27277/ http://www.opera.com/download/

22-10-2007, 11:11	#77
Jasper Simple & Red Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 535	Better is a matter of opinion. I tried Opera when Firefox was so slow that it became nigh on unusable, but they've sorted out the speed issues with Firefox so I've got no reason to keep using Opera. For me, the way to use it wasn't intuitive enough, and I actually ended up binning it because I couldn't figure out how to stop it using its own RSS reader. It also doesn't have a decent web developer toolbar. I can't wait for the new version of Safari, personally - it seems to have all of the features I use for day-to-day browsing (re-open closed tabs, re-open history tabs, amazing ctrl-f function, that sort of thing), and I can switch to firefox when I need to work.

26-10-2007, 00:49	#80
MarcLister Absinthe Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Leighton Buzzard Posts: 1,282	Looking good (the beta). Might try it at the weekend. Which starts now I suppose. Yay.