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Desktop Team on tour!

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Altijd al eens kennis willen maken met de halfgoden van het Desktop Team wink? Brandende vragen? Of gewoon een brandende dorst? Dit is je kans!

Op maandag 28 mei (tweede pinksterdag) zal bijna het voltallige Desktop Team aanwezig zijn bij een Opera User Meeting in Utrecht, waar wij hopen een drankje te nuttigen met eenieder die daar zin in heeft. Als dat je nog niet overtuigd heeft, is er als klap op de vuurpijl een kans om eigenaar te worden van een van de felbegeerde Opera t-shirts! Niet te missen dus.

De meeting zal plaatsvinden rond 13:00 in Cafe De Flater, Oudegracht 140, Utrecht. Als je van plan bent om te komen, reply dan even in deze thread, zodat we een idee hebben over het aantal mensen dat we kunnen verwachten. Meer informatie is te vinden in de forumpost van Mark Schenk.

Tot dan!

So you didn't get that?

In case there are people reading this blog that can't read Dutch, let me rephrase that.

The Desktop Team is getting ready for a full out invasion of the Netherlands, and we're taking no prisoners! However, if you happen to be in or around the city of Utrecht on the 28th of May, then this will be a perfect opportunity to have a friendly chat with the people behind Opera while enjoying a beverage of your choice. And if that's not enough, there's also a chance that you'll go home with one of the famous Opera t-shirts!

The meeting will take place at 13:00 in Cafe De Flater, Oudegracht 140, Utrecht. If you plan on attending, please leave a reply in this thread, so that we have some idea of the amount of people that might turn up.

See you there!

And by the way...
Opera 9.21 was just released! Go and update your browsers!

Opera 9.21 buildKestrel is coming!

Comments

berend ytsmaytsmabeer Monday, May 21, 2007 12:32:27 PM

Dit is al even schrikken als het rusisch.
Wat volgt een post in het Fries?
Jammer ik kan er niet zijn, iets met een elfstedentocht op de fiets.

This is just as is scared as rusian.
Whats next a post in Frisian.

To bad I can not be there, something to do with an 11citytravel on bike

Remco Brink aka flowrbb Monday, May 21, 2007 12:34:14 PM

Ik kom wel even langshobbelen smile

Serpher Monday, May 21, 2007 12:42:04 PM

Hmm.. T-Shirts... ;] I want one of them! bigsmile

Remco Lantingremcolanting Monday, May 21, 2007 12:43:27 PM

Natuurlijk zal ik er ook zijn

Albinonialbinoni Monday, May 21, 2007 1:20:54 PM

Ik wil eigenlijk ook wel zo'n t-shirt, maar ik heb geen tijd/zin om te komen. smile

edupav Monday, May 21, 2007 2:17:35 PM

Yessssss, a new release, thanks a lot smile smile smile

ŁukaszDro77naR Monday, May 21, 2007 2:24:57 PM

Strange,

when I want to download the package for OpenSuSE 10.2 there is the version from 10.05.2007. Something wrong?

berend ytsmaytsmabeer Monday, May 21, 2007 2:33:26 PM

Dro77naR:If I am not mistaken than than the final is the same as the latest weekly, so yea that seams right.

nedko Monday, May 21, 2007 2:54:30 PM

it wouldn't be bad if you specify the build of the Opera being released ... is it 8776 ?

Thijmen de GooijerAIRAC Monday, May 21, 2007 3:04:43 PM

Unless something comes in between I'll be there :-)
Does this have anything to do with the tweakers.net visit to you guys?

Zotlan Monday, May 21, 2007 3:04:56 PM

8776 it is.
hmm, 't is dat ik het dan vrij druk heb met m'n bachelor werkstuk anders zou ik misschien nog wel even aanwaaien.

FavDjiXas Monday, May 21, 2007 3:20:43 PM

So you are running away cause haven't finished 9.5? :-/

9.21 was released ages ago.

rejdi Monday, May 21, 2007 3:37:36 PM

Any plans to visit Slovakia on tour in future?

rseiler Monday, May 21, 2007 3:42:38 PM

I think a better justification is in order of why it took most of a week to "announce" the release of 9.21. It seems to me the timing of placing it on the FTP couldn't have been worse: You put it up the day before a holiday. The next day it can't be announced because it's a holiday. The day after that it can't be announced because of a curious restriction on announcing products on a Friday. Then comes the weekend.

Seriously?

Next time, put it up the day *before* the day before a holiday, particularly if the holiday falls on a Thursday, and particularly if said product has been finished for several days at that point anyway...or just wait until Monday.

Andresandresruiz Monday, May 21, 2007 3:44:19 PM

Hey..have a lot of fun

FavDjiXas Monday, May 21, 2007 3:44:42 PM

rseiler, haha.

I thought you will announce 9.5 or 9.22 or any other but not the same version...

Tim AltmanJunyor Monday, May 21, 2007 4:15:09 PM

@rseiler: About the curious restriction: Say that something goes wrong with a Friday release. Well, there's no one around to fix it until Monday.

scipio Monday, May 21, 2007 4:29:15 PM

Ik was ook van plan om langs te komen - heb het in Marks thread al bevestigd.

Hansapelle Monday, May 21, 2007 5:36:44 PM

Jammer genoeg kan ik niet even langs komen omdat ik nu eenmaal in Canada woon, alhoewel ik het liefste de Nederlandse versie van Opera gebruik om de taal bij te houden.

Zover heb ik ook met deze nieuwe versie er last van dat het wel meer dan een halve minuut duurt voordat Opera opstart, dat wel een beetje lastig is en met oudere versies had ik daar nooit last mee.
Hoe kan ik dat verhelpen?

MarcinMarsjanin Monday, May 21, 2007 6:57:24 PM

Come to Poland, Guys! ;-) And get lot of T-shirts. ;-)

Alexis DeveriaFyrd Monday, May 21, 2007 7:21:55 PM

Hmm, jammer dat ik nu in Amerika woon, anders zou ik er ook wel zijn... sad

Veel plezier in elk geval voor alle Nederlanders die er wel zijn! smile

Gemini-5 Monday, May 21, 2007 7:29:00 PM

Ik ben erbij! smile

Wido PottersTropos Monday, May 21, 2007 7:42:42 PM

Ik probeer erbij te zijn!

Ericbattousaix Monday, May 21, 2007 9:06:57 PM

Hello fellow Opera addicts,
I would like to suggest an automatic ad-blocking ad-block filter list updater to be integrated into Opera, since I do believe it would be an absolutely amazing new/improved feature for Opera.
I am suggesting this since I needed to use.....FF for a couple certain websites, I am a Linux/FreeBSD user, so I wince at the option of IE. So during my use I was just rummaging through the extensions to make my temporary stay in FF more bearable, like Mouse Gestures, etc. But one extension I was very impressed with and think our beloved Opera is missing is an automatic ad-blocker. Sure I have set myself approximately 60 generic (http://*.intellitxt.com/*) custom blocked objects within the options, and I basically have about every pop-up/ad/javascript blocked on the sites I do visit frequently. But other individuals may not have the patience as I do in order to create meaningful but overall USEFUL AND IMPRESSIVE ad-blocking filters. SO i say we/you make an option available that can be ticked on by a check box in the same preference section as the built in optional Fraud Protection.

We all know that once a FireFox user gets used to no adds from this Filterset.G list updater for FF extension, they will complain and think Opera as inferior, which we all know is not the case. wink

So having a built in, OPTIONALLY turned on ad-block filter list updater (and optional time between filter list checks like every 1-2 weeks) would make Opera an even more formidable opponent in the browser wars , which I wold love to assist in making opera the universal victor.

So some script or built in feature to read the http://www.pierceive.com/filtersetg/latest.txt file to see what the latest filter is, and refer to the most current filter to download, or some other kind of ad/pop-up blocker would be what I'm referring to. If you are using Windows, as I was ~4 months ago, I never worried about FF + AdBlock plus, because if you are using Windows you MUST try a blocking program called Ad Muncher (http://www.admuncher.com/). Since that is the approximate equivalent I would be comparing and referring to, as it was always a required/essential app on my XP box back then, and it worked wonders, no worrying about program slowdown either, since it was a totally standalone app that sat in the system tray, BUT if Opera had some sort of integration or cooperation/inspiration from this, I believe Opera would be making another significant leap ahead of the other available competition browsers.

So Opera Dev's, PLESAE consider considering/refining the ad-block/pop-up blocker to either up to or beyond the standard to other browsers with or without a stint helper extension or app, since I believe the Opera community does deserve a (web)life free of annoying, page delaying ads, no matter what platform they are using opera on, as just a checkable/selectable option like the Fraud protection

Thank you for reading my long post as it is the very first suggestion I have submitted to date, hope it wasn't too boring, and to give a shout out to the guys/gals who make Opera and it cross-platform magic possible, YOU RULE!!!!, OPERA 4 LYFE!! bigsmile

(I also put this post in the Desktop wish-list suggestion forum, but also here to help address the situation)

Kc4 the Greatklingoncowboy4 Monday, May 21, 2007 10:04:25 PM

WTH I get the first weekly and all of the sudden there is a final release?

Kyle Bakerkyleabaker Monday, May 21, 2007 11:37:56 PM

Glad to see the latest weekly was made into a final release, however, it wouldn't be bad to see a new build on here for us to play with.. particularly a 9.5x build. wink

Also, most likely won't be able to make it to the gathering. I'm about 99.99% sure I won't be able to make it. Too bad tho. I know it will be difficult, but do try to have fun with me there. p

Kamaleshkamalesh Tuesday, May 22, 2007 1:33:10 AM

Build 3678, despite going final as v9.21, apparently, does not load these two popular news sites here in the States (FT, ABC News). no

You can go into the FT site via deeper link, but the fly-out menu seems to be broken and does not instantiate in this build...

Galileo Tuesday, May 22, 2007 6:49:27 AM

@kamalesh I see no problem with www.ft.com, went to www.ft.com/letters from the menus, http://abcnews.go.com on the other hand its a little difficult to navigate.

RachidRachidNL Tuesday, May 22, 2007 9:03:44 AM


That's great; I'll be there! Unfortunately, I actually have to work that day so I can only stay for about an hour. Looking forward to meeting everyone! smile

impotent Tuesday, May 22, 2007 2:28:31 PM

suddenly.. this thread seems to be invaded by the dutch. (I presume, coz, I dont know dutch)
NE VE, gosh, I would love to have those Tees.

Wouter van der Graafwoutervandergraaf Tuesday, May 22, 2007 2:33:31 PM

Leuk! Ik zal er zijn!

(Sweet! I'll be there!)

Hansapelle Tuesday, May 22, 2007 4:04:27 PM

Like they say: "Keep in touch with the Dutch".
Or: "You're not much if you're not Dutch".bigsmile

Serously though; the comment regarding an ad blocker I am in full agreement with, as I occasionally use the new Maxthon2 browser for certain web sites, which uses IE7 as it`s rendering engine and has a very effective ad blocker.

Kaaleppi Suursyömärikasakka Tuesday, May 22, 2007 5:42:35 PM

I truly hope we will see improvements to the mail client and RSS reader in the next major version. They're still missing a lot of basic functionality found in other readers/mail clients.

For example limiting the amount of stored RSS feeds would be nice. I have to constantly clean feeds because they have 1000s of messages I'll never read again. Also they should stop Opera from freezing for a moment when several feeds are updated on first start.

People have also wanted a "delete message from server" option for the mail client so that once you delete a message it's also removed from the server. This is most likely familiar to anyone who has gotten spam and then has to go through some webmail to delete it from the mail server as well.

PS. Can we PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE get a WEBSITE SPECIFIC option to enable "UserJS on HTTPS" WITHOUT THAT ANNOYING NAG DIALOG? I need to use a Novell Groupwise webmail that's behind HTTPS and it shows all fucked up in Opera (no Next 50 messages buttons, messages show up in small windows and crap like that). This could be fixed with some UserJS but I don't want to have some click some stupid dialog every time I go read my mail.

Hermenhermen2048 Tuesday, May 22, 2007 6:45:40 PM

Ik kan maandag helaas niet komen sad

Kyle Bakerkyleabaker Tuesday, May 22, 2007 7:36:41 PM

@kasakka
If you've read around about 9.5 at all then you'd know that they have openly stated that they freezes have been eliminated in the internal builds of Opera 9.5x (Kestrel). This is the phase that is supposed to start introducing some extreme fixes and improvements.

breun Wednesday, May 23, 2007 12:01:52 AM

Ha, ik woon in de buurt. Kans dat ik wel even langskom dan.

Upcoming.org event: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/194556/

Gölök Zoltán Leenderdt Franco BudayOrff Wednesday, May 23, 2007 2:07:14 PM

Heh, If I was in Europe, man I'd be in Monaco on the 28th.
Man...anyway adbrite inline ads may not be working with current and past versions,
as with some Amazon ones.

memory_fault Wednesday, May 23, 2007 9:11:47 PM


I've downloaded the new version and works ok.
However i've found that yahoo mail beta is complaining about the browser.
With previous release (9.2) yahoo mail beta worked (not excellent but worked).
I've tried to mask or have opera to identify as a different browser but doesn't work.

Thanks

Alexschmitty8225 Thursday, May 24, 2007 12:28:27 AM

I think the reason Opera officially release 9.21 is because a flaw just recently got discovered that involves the torrent and people exploiting it to get access to your system.

Edgar P. NashNetegrof Thursday, May 24, 2007 1:07:26 PM

Opera Team never considered the option of come to Cuba, I think that you can take a lot experience here and maybe who know one or other contract with the Cuban Software Industries, share with the cubans Opera´s fans in this country and that can be other opportunity to expand yours limits.

Kyle Bakerkyleabaker Thursday, May 24, 2007 10:06:00 PM

Hopefully this will help out with the filters I've already got in place on my M2 account..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6688675.stm

Still waiting..very excitedly for a new release! (64-bit also, lol)

ThArGos Friday, May 25, 2007 7:43:05 AM

Wow it's cool to travel and see the users =)

Sadly, I can't be there.
Well, come to France =) For Great Justice!

Remco Lantingremcolanting Friday, May 25, 2007 9:48:08 AM

If you can't be there, you can get a piece of Opera sent to your home yes

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Kyle Bakerkyleabaker Saturday, May 26, 2007 12:44:15 AM

So I guess there are no updates this week, eh?

Andresandresruiz Saturday, May 26, 2007 4:04:45 AM

yep...no updates this week, only the Elite is testing 9.5...
we must wait some more.
happy weekend to all of you.

scherian Saturday, May 26, 2007 5:38:35 AM

Windows XP and IPv6 issue. Previous blogs indicate that Opera has been enable to take advantage of IPv6 TCP/IP stack on windows XP.

I did a try today and I have difficulty reaching web site enabled for IPv6 protocol.

Please visit the web url www.ipv6tools.com exprement Opera 9.21 support.

Any idea to resolve this will be helpful.

yurikoles Saturday, May 26, 2007 5:13:06 PM

Что это за баян? Билд 8776 был ещё две недели назад))

Kirilljarinkirill Saturday, May 26, 2007 6:33:13 PM

yurikoles, просто теперь он выложен не только в этом блоге, но и на главной страничке opera.com

Rijk Saturday, May 26, 2007 9:18:40 PM

I had a nice day with the team in Amsterdam today. They will try some more bars, I go home now. Pictures will follow soon!

Max Steepmaxstep Sunday, May 27, 2007 9:28:38 PM

Just wanted to say: I LOVE Opera! Thanks guys

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