Daniel Hendrycks - If I were Opera now

If I were Opera now

Saturday, February 20, 2010 1:54:07 PM

Recently, Microsoft decided to change the release of the Windows Ballot screen to March 1st. Opera is trying to get Opera 10.5 to a finalized state on March 16th. With this change I am sure Opera will still try and get Opera 10.5 out to the public when the ballot goes live. The best solution I thought of is: releasing Opera 10.5 Beta 2 and putting it on the http://opera.com/browser/ site. Safari 4 put their beta on the download page when the beta was released. IMO I think this choice is better than taking a unfinished release and calling it a final release.

Opera 10.5 site mock-upCarakan's Speed Improvements

Comments

WOFall # Saturday, February 20, 2010 3:58:08 PM

From what I understand, the ballot screen gives a direct link to the installer, cutting out the download page altogether. Perhaps Opera could request that a link is given to the beta, but tbh, if it's going to be the default download, it makes as much sense to just call it final. I also think Opera will try to push the release for the ballot, but if it's not stable enough, they're not going to do it. I doubt even they know for sure if they'll get things done on time!

Then again, we have seen releases with fairly big bugs, eg. Opera 10 and NSL. We'll just have to wait and see how it goes. I'm confident any serious bugs can be ironed out, but minor bugs are a given. No release is entirely bug free, it's just a matter of priority and making sure users are not confronted with bugs that will earn Opera a bad reputation.

And of course, we both know that Opera 10 is good enough for everyone, but at the moment the media only care about benchmarking and ‘artificial’ speed. Opera badly needs this publicity...

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks # Saturday, February 20, 2010 4:07:22 PM

Originally posted by WOFall:

Then again, we have seen releases with fairly big bugs,

True, the main bugs we gripe about is bugs that average users will not see. So stability for this week if they release it this upcoming week.

Originally posted by WOFall:

we both know that Opera 10 is good enough for everyone

Eh... the look is very important too. 10.5 is pretty like Chrome, 10.1 isn't as pretty.

WOFall # Saturday, February 20, 2010 10:36:19 PM

Originally posted by DanielHendrycks:

Eh... the look is very important too. 10.5 is pretty like Chrome, 10.1 isn't as pretty.

Good point, if you're talking about Aero integration. I don't use Win7/Vista so it's not a factor for me

Edit: I hope the somewhat extreme memory usage doesn't get too much of a bashing...

techlawsam # Sunday, February 28, 2010 2:43:24 AM

Originally posted by WOFall:

Edit: I hope the somewhat extreme memory usage doesn't get too much of a bashing...

I hope they curb memory usage as much as they can opera 10.5 is like a memory hog but that is b/c they had to think about performance and look but I believe it still can be curbbed

Unregistered user # Sunday, May 9, 2010 11:39:28 AM

GouineMum writes: I must say the I'm _very_ annoyed with the strongly increased memory usage between Opera 10.10 and 10.5x, especially while seeing no increase in performance.Thinking about downgrading back.

Unregistered user # Friday, May 14, 2010 6:31:53 AM

MAv writes: @GouineMum, the increase is because of better performance. The JS engine alone is, like, several times faster. And then you have Vega and all that.