Opera 9.0 Preview 2 is now available for download. Introducing Opera Labs.

Opera 9.0 Preview 2 is now available for download. Introducing Opera Labs.

The second preview of Opera 9.0 ("Merlin") is now available for download.

For more information on what's new in this release, please visit the Opera Labs.

For the download link and a more detailed changelog, visit these pages:

- Windows (discussion)
- Unix (discussion)
- Mac (discussion)

We welcome your feedback, and encourage you to discuss the preview here in the forums or in the newsgroups (Mac and Linux/Unix uses can post issues specific to their platform in the Mac and various Unix forums and newsgroups respectively).

Before reporting bugs, please read our newly updated Guidelines for Reporting Opera Bugs.

Note: This release uses the new account storage format from TP1. If you install over an existing pre-9.0 profile, you will be prompted to convert all accounts into the new format. This will not require a re-index. You will not be able to use the reformatted e-mail with previous versions of Opera.

Enjoy Opera 9.0 Preview 2, and be sure to give us your feedback!

Many thanks, downloading as we speak:)

egads, an adblocker, now there's a surprise

Thanks Opera team! This release is as big jump as it was between versions 6 and 7.

YAY!

Thank you
Thank you Chessss

wooot

-Znore

Congratulations!

Where can i set that experimental NTLM autentification?????
i searched menus, about:config.... and nothing :'(

I love you guys <3

Excellent! I'll be grabbing it now

Don't work with IIS 6.0 or what hell is there as a proxy :-)
i hate ntlm !!!!!

Where is bookmarks' star?

but that new settings are amazing!!! good job :-) simply, best browser <3

Ah at last. After a much awaited long wait, its finally here.

Greetings, as this is the first issue I've ever had with opera, I thought I'd post it. Perhaps this has come up in an other version, however I can't seem to find anything about it using the search. Most of the program text is all crazy.

http://my.opera.com/fryjs/homes/files/2opera9-what.png

**Edit**
Ah, fixed it by changing the panel, toolbar and dialogue fonts to arial fron avant garde in opera:config.

woohoo! Time to see if any pet bugs have been fixed.

Right now is the best time. I've got plenty of hope that they have, and anticipation, while knowing I will be using it in a couple minutes. And I haven't yet discovered that none of that have been

*EDIT*

Damnit
http://img301.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dropdownmess6xc.png

previous discussion

After my 10-minutes test drive, it looks and feels great. And you can even scale the widgets by Num+ and Num- !

Tutorials on content blocking, thumbnails and search editing/adding:

http://my.opera.com/mitchman2/

Looks good

The "newline on copy" bug is solved. YES! Now I can play wit opera9!

Oh yes, thank you Opera for implementing the popup blocker I have always asked for.. being able to control it site-per-site plus including the wonderfol content blocker.

Keep up the good work, looking forward to the final version!

would be better to have all but the current thumbnails small while cycling the pages.

btw: for some reason i can't authenticate on our corporate proxy any more! while i'm still able to authenticate with other browsers and opera 8.5

aha! my bankingsite (Postbank) seem to be functioning again, excellent.


BtW, Is it me of have several setting disappeard from the preferences menu?

I hope that in the Final Opera is masked as Opera not still IE ..

I don't know if this has been post before but try to right click on tab and than choose lock tab .Nice you can't close it any more .

This is fantastic! Thanks.

Originally posted by qazqazqaz:

I don't know if this has been post before but try to right click on tab and than choose lock tab .Nice you can't close it any more .

That was also in TP1

i think the reason for my problem is the current stage of NTLM authentication. is there a way to disable this?

YAY!!!

The Good:

• Notifications (sounds) work
  
• Browser seems faster (is it just me?)
  

The Not So Good:

• small typo under advanced->history 'addresses' is mispelled
  

Thanks guys/gals for all your hard work!!!

Congrats! It's great to have new and new versions coming up; each one better than the previous!
I hope the memory issues have been solved with this. The previous version used to crash oftener; but then that was a preview version.

Yes--This looks excellent --congratulations--great work !!!

Yes!! The content blocker supports wildcards and wasn't a silly blocker just taking exact URL's.

And it seems it supports Flash as well!

If you know what you're doing, enter its "details" mode and adjust e.g. ad server matching as you wish.

That and the fixed Wikipedia CSS link bug (all links looking like external links) was the happiest things to see for me. Of course, BitTorrent support in the latest build instead of a "special" build is also very nice.

Well, a site-specific prefs UI wasn't so shabby either, hehe. There's a lot going on in this build!

In case there's no big performance hit, I'd like to be able to customize the tab preview popup delay to be quicker though. I don't want to wait while hovering; that loses a bit of the point with the feature to me.

Anyway, thanks!

Quick first impressions are very good - the new line bug is fixed, widgets to play with, the opera:config stylesheet is much better, bittorrent is included and I like the tab previews. Thankfully the star in the address bar is no more - yay!

The one thing that I don't like is the fact that when I close all the tabs, I'm left with a blank tab. I've just closed all the tabs, so why have I now got a new blank one? I can get rid of it by detaching the blank one, and then closing it, but why can't I get rid of it by clicking on the "x" like all the other tabs? Doesn't make any sense to me ... hopefully this will be changed in a future release (or at least give me the option to specify that "close all tabs" really means close all tabs, and not "close all but one tab that is then blank")

Complex.

Well, the NTLM authentication is a start, but it doesn't authenticate yet. So, NTLM still does not work. I hope it works for Opera9 Final, Opera with NTLM was the best news I had all week.

Originally posted by Complex:

The one thing that I don't like is the fact that when I close all the tabs, I'm left with a blank tab. I've just closed all the tabs, so why have I now got a new blank one? I can get rid of it by detaching the blank one, and then closing it, but why can't I get rid of it by clicking on the "x" like all the other tabs? Doesn't make any sense to me ... hopefully this will be changed in a future release (or at least give me the option to specify that "close all tabs" really means close all tabs, and not "close all but one tab that is then blank")

Complex.

Originally posted by changelog:

Tabbed browsing mode now opens a new tab if all existing tabs are closed.

To disable that behaviour disable the "x" on the tabs.

Originally posted by haavard:

The second preview of Opera 9.0 ("Merlin") is now available for download.

Ok!

It's really nice and pretty good!

But... here is some kind of problem this new widgets feature: if Opera setting for loading images set to "No images" - widgets not displayed!
may be exist some tricky way?..

See attach for sshot (widgets analog clock and calculator at right side of window)

1widgets_problem.gif

Widgets will currently open using the settings for new pages. Most widgets are not designed to work without images, so that's a problem (known).

I really like all the new features!

Widgets is really something to be playing with (and develop for!)
Opacity, XForms, overall performance and usability really puts Opera more on top of the rest!

Originally posted by Zotlan:

Originally posted by changelog:

Tabbed browsing mode now opens a new tab if all existing tabs are closed.

Zotlan: Yes, but why? What does the blank tab do, apart from annoy me?

Complex

EDIT: See Oli's answer above.

Great news!

+ widgets
+ site preferences UI
+ search engines UI
+ block content
+ new history panel
+ syntax highlighting
+ automatic userCSS
+ CSS for config, about, ...
+ HTML/CSS/JS improvements

- bug not fixed (http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=110359)
- still not convinced about the mail storage format
- lack of a warning when automatically importing bookmarks from 8.51

If that first bug is fixed on 9 final, bye bye 8.51

By the way, is there a list of new shortcuts/menu options, so I can import my 8.51 settings?

Somebody have problem with accessing gmail?
Opera trying to load page (after autorization), but page still blank...

Originally posted by nsk_goodman:

Somebody have problem with accessing gmail?
Opera trying to load page (after autorization), but page still blank...

Nope, Gmail is working better then before here. At last the "back"command works.