By Ruari Ødegaard.
Thursday, 5. November 2009, 13:29:55
stability, 10.10, snapshot, unite
...
Time for another snapshot and also time for another team member to announce it!
Since I'm involved in UNIX/Linux testing it seems appropriate that I should be the one to announce a snapshot with some nice UNIX fixes. Firstly it seems we got around the Qt 4.5.3+ 100% CPU issue. Also a fix for freezes during DST-to-normal time switch. Finally, we noticed that a few of you were having problems getting Opera to pickup your default Qt style. If you are one of those users try running Opera with the new '-systemstyle' argument.
Of course it is not just Linux specific fixes. There are several Windows stability improvements, crash fixes, Unite fixes, tweaks to improve old features (e.g. check out the list of search engines in doubleclick menu.) ... But I won't list them all here, scroll down to the change log for the full details.
Oh, and before I go remember the
Unite Apps competition!
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By Tommy A. Olsen.
Monday, 2. November 2009, 15:09:21
mobile phone, prizes, competition, unite
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This is a teaser for a
Unite Apps competition we have recently started.
Prizes will be awarded each week to the developer with the best application. The winner will be determined by a team of Opera employees. Up for grabs are gift certificates to online retailers equal the value of a Nintendo Wii or a brand new mobile phone!
If you want to enter the competition, you don't need to do anything special, just submit the application to
unite.opera.com. Read
more about it here.
By Haavard.
Thursday, 29. October 2009, 11:00:00
Here's another Unite build for testing.
As you can see, the changelog isn't very big this time around. This is partially due to a seminar we attended last week, but a lot of the desktop resources have been moved to the next "major" version of Opera as well. We are not quite ready to share any details about this yet, but stay tuned.
I won't go into too much detail about the seminar either, but among the subjects that were covered were some plans for the next couple of major versions of the desktop browser, and some pretty awesome news for Opera Mobile and Opera Mini users. You will have to visit the
Opera Mobile and
Opera Mini blogs for more on that, though, when the time comes.
Work on Unite in 10.10 will continue, so expect more Unite builds in the near future.
Unix users will be happy to know that this build should finally work with Qt 4.5.3+. 
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By Claudio Santambrogio.
Wednesday, 28. October 2009, 09:14:44
Opera, 10.01, security, stability
We published today Opera 10.01, a recommended stability and security update. Thanks to the new automated crashlogging in Opera 10, we collected a lot of the issues that users were seeing, and had a good tool not only to identify some crashers difficult to reproduce in controlled environments, but also to prioritise issues that were affecting a lot of users. A great Thank You to everybody submitting their logs!
See the full changelogs:
WindowsMacLinux/UNIXAnd then go go
download Opera 10.01!
By Remigiusz Bondarowicz.
Thursday, 15. October 2009, 12:28:13
desktop, widgets
This is the first time I'm posting on the desktop team blog, so let me introduce myself quickly.
I'm Remigiusz Bondarowicz and I'm leading the desktop team in Poland.
For the last couple of months we have been working hard on bringing
Opera Widgets onto the next level … first-class web applications.
Today we posted an
Opera Labs release , so you can already preview the result!
With the new Opera Widgets for Desktop we managed to break the dependency between widgets and the browser interface. From now on you don't have to have the Opera Browser open to run a widget. Furthermore, each widget runs in a separate process and integrates with the platform much better. We also give into your hands a new widget mode called “Application” so you can equip your widgets with the system default window decoration theme.
These are just some of the many new features and enhancements introduced with the new Opera Widgets for Desktop.
For a complete list of features please refer to the article
Opera Desktop Widgets Evolved.
Warning:
This is a development snapshot: it may contain some bugs and incomplete features.
By Tommy A. Olsen.
Wednesday, 14. October 2009, 08:49:10
10.10, unite, beta
Finally, we can
officially release 10.10 Beta. You have all been really helpful with testing, and loads of improvements have been made across the board.
We've been working really hard on Unite before this release. The backend servers, and especially the proxy, have been almost completely rewritten, to gain more performance and reliability. The Unite applications have also been redesigned, with some nice features added. Overall, Unite has become even easier to use, more stable, faster, better™, so please
download this build and
use it! One word of caution though: If you've used Unite before, remove all traces of the old installation before installing this one. We can't guarantee that it works otherwise...
The beta build is mostly the same as the same as the previous snapshot, with some improvements to translations and installation.
Go grab it!
By Manuela Hutter.
Friday, 9. October 2009, 14:33:55
unite 10.10 snapshot webserver
It's just too hard to find a good title for this blog post, so I used a random word generator to come up with one. It even almost makes sense.
Anyway..
Here's another round of builds from the busy bees in the Desktop team.
As for Opera Unite, we focused on improving how easy it is to find and start Unite. The Unite panel is open by default (for now) in clean installs, and we made it easier to install and start Unite applications from a web page. For that, we introduced version checking of the Unite applications.
Other than that, the Unite applications have been updated (and the Sonar testing application has been removed), and we have Core fixes for application discovery and encoding issues. So the applications should now work with files that have Russian or Chinese characters.
Also, if you experienced problems with plug-ins on Mac in the last snapshot, that should be fixed now (still present on *nix, you'll get the fix next time 'round there).
Happy testing!
Known Issues
- No autoupdate since it's Friday
- UNIX: Users of Qt 4.5.3 may experience difficulties with Qt4 packages (use a Qt3 package instead)
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By Helge Gjølme.
Thursday, 1. October 2009, 17:00:00
10.10 unite
We are still working hard on Opera 10.10, and here is the result so far.
This build has mainly got Unite stability and bug fixes, but we also fixed an encoding issue when selecting an entry in the addressbar dropdown.
Since I focus mostly on crashes, I would like to thank all of you who use snapshot builds and report crashers to us. In order for us to reproduce these crashes more easily, please make your comments as detailed as possible when submitting.
Known Issues
- No Solaris builds this time around
Note: Some Unix builds may be missing, but they may be uploaded later
Highlights
- Addressbar dropdown fixes (fixed issue with %20 instead of spaces)
- Change Unite attention icon on Windows.
- IPv6 fixes for UNIX (Some sites would not load)
Download
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Macintosh (Universal) / Macintosh (Intel-only)
UNIX/Linux
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By Tommy A. Olsen.
Friday, 25. September 2009, 12:41:39
snapshot, 10.10, unite
And a new build, for you!
We're fixing more and more bugs, and our
webapps team is getting closer to the ideal design for Unite Applications. But many of the recent changes in the Unite Applications didn't make it into the builds. How about album art in the media player? You got it, but only from the
Opera Unite application repository.
Highlights
- Many Unicode fixes for Unite
- Unite local (IP-address) connections to Mac should work now. If you have more than one machine on your network, you can see others running Unite by clicking the Unite icon, or right-clicking the Unite panel
- Text-shadows in Opera Widgets on Windows aren't magenta anymore
- Switch to use PNG instead of XPM for the application icon on UNIX. Should improve the icon in most Desktop Environments, but it is also a bit buggy at the moment
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By Daniel Aleksandersen.
Monday, 21. September 2009, 10:50:45
unite, crash feedback, Sonar
Another new snapshot for your testing pleasures! We have put a lot of work into finalizing Unite.
The biggest change comes from the Land of Marketing and Usability Testing. We are re-branding Unite Services as Unite Applications in the name of simplicity. (Apparently, no one knew what a service was.)
We still want all of you to focus on testing Unite, and ask that you leave the Sonar application running. Sonar is bundled in this snapshot, so there is no excuse for not turning it on. There are also UI changes to the default apps, so go have a look!
For Unite Application Developers (hey! you just got a new title), there are some new technical details for serving an Unite Application from your own servers. Use the new file extension .us .ua and serve it with the MIME type application/x-opera-uniteapplication. Users will get a security warning if the application is served from a non-trusted site (similar to add-ons in Competitorfox).
We are also experimenting with giving feedback on the most common crashes. This feedback page will be populated as a new tab in your session after recovering from a crash.
Known Issues
- F2 dialog in non-browser view opens tabs in background instead of foreground
- ‘Search the Web for’ from address drop-down doesn’t work
Highlights
-
Unite Services renamed Unite Applications
- Unite Applications facelift
- Sonar bundled for this snapshot (please enable!)
- Experimental crash feedback
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