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Go and get Opera 9.5 alpha!

By Huib Kleinhouthuibk. Tuesday, September 4, 2007 6:40:32 AM

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Fasten your seatbelts, and get ready to test drive Kestrel yourself. After more than a year of development, we invite you to test Opera 9.5 alpha and tell us what you think about it.
In short, Opera 9.5 alpha is:
  • Performance
  • Full history search
  • Improved site compatibility
  • Access for everyone
  • Improved platform integration
  • Preview of bookmark and Speed Dial synchronization
  • Magic Windows build number jester
And much more! Take a look at the huge changelogs faint to see what is new:
Windows
Mac
UNIX

Don't forget to report bugs, but check the Known Issues list in the changelogs and discuss them in the Beta Testing forum, in the opera.beta newsgroup, or in #weekly first.

And now: go and get it! cheers We recommend that you make a clean install and copy over your profile data (but not your preferences file) if you'd like to test the upgrade procedure. You may not be able to downgrade if you upgrade an existing install!

Stay tuned for more updates and builds on the Desktop Team blog.

Download:
Opera 9.5 alpha for Windows
Opera 9.5 alpha for Mac
Opera 9.5 alpha for Unix

Focus Areas during Kestrel DevelopmentOpera Link explained

Comments

Tomas Prochazkatprochazka Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:05:00 AM

Great!!!!

Benjamin JacobsenEinar1975 Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:05:17 AM

This is great!

Tamil Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:05:55 AM

party

Nice changelog. Thanks developers. up

Preferences window closes faster. up

pejakm Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:06:30 AM

Jihaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

rejdi Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:06:39 AM

Ahhh, Kestrel has landed ... let's take a look under the wings!

Tomas Prochazkatprochazka Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:06:40 AM

On the czech Opera comunity server (http://www.operacesky.net/) is already info about new version ;-)

XenoM Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:07:09 AM

yo!

sleepyheadbooz0r Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:07:51 AM

AWESOME

ColKilkenny Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:07:55 AM

Thanks guys (and girls).
First impression is that Kestrel is reaaaaally really fast.

keisan12 Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:09:14 AM

omg,finally its out!gonna test it

Ulli Haasethesuperstereo Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:09:38 AM

Ja is denn heut' scho Weihnachten?! smile
Can't wait to test it. Thanks!

MathiasMathiasfr Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:09:39 AM

Great !! Thanks !

Michael ThompsonMichael83815 Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:09:56 AM

So fast I can hardly believe it!

Raistlin Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:09:58 AM

Change version info at top of your blog.

theoddbod Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:11:15 AM

bigsmile

Soul Of DoinelSoulOfDoinel Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:11:54 AM

200 days from the uncover of code name, the first time that I've heard the name Kestrel. (16. February 2007)

137 days from the announcement on this blog of the Kestrel work's are begining. (20. April 2007) nervous

74 days from "Kestrel is coming" post with its screenshot and the announcement "Within a few weeks we will publish 9.5 weeklies on this blog so everyone can start playing with it." (22. June 2007) nervous nervous

6 days from the declaration of the real pubblication date. (29. August 2007) nervous nervous nervous

Now on 04 September finally the waiting is ended. cheers happy
Now I'm go to try it. bye

Thanks for yours work.

And one question ... when Peregrine ??? p p p

Doliprane'Doliprane Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:14:22 AM

yahooooooooooooooooooo finally, no needs of wait now bigsmile

NeXTie Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:14:34 AM

Yeah! =)

Doliprane'Doliprane Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:16:25 AM

one question which link to choose for My feisty fawn (ubuntu) ?

arghwashier Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:16:34 AM

Yippeee, finally tab switching finally smooth under linux, havent seen a grey flash area yet (but it's still soon) on a side note operapluginwrapper takes abot 85-95% X86 .6 shared build (without causing performance damage though)

smile

@doliprane .6 shared is best

edit: grey flash areas are still here sad

Ralf Demuthlachralle Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:17:23 AM

Welcome Kestrel! Let's try the macification stuff smile

Martin RauscherHades32 Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:18:49 AM

YEEEEEHAAAA!
THANK YOU!!!!

Jeremiah LaRoccojlarocco Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:19:23 AM

Wow! This is *much* faster than 9.23.

The AMD64 build for Debian rocks.

Tuttle Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:19:34 AM

Great, writing from 9.5 smile

It's so faaast

Northgrove Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:19:57 AM

Things that happened September 4:
- 476: The last emperor of the Western Roman Empire is deposed of.
- 1886: The "Kodak" trademark is registered.
- 1953: The IBM RAMAC 305, the first commercial computer that used magnetic disk storage, was introduced.
- 2007: Opera 9.50!

wink

UnknownFactor Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:21:08 AM

Half an hour ago, and this wasn't here bigsmile
Installing as I type.

MyOpera team, please fix this!fearphage Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:23:30 AM

Thanks everyone involved and a special thanks to the changelog producer.

dramov Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:24:04 AM

30 minutes and no crash under vista - for me perfect (till now)

sleepyheadbooz0r Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:26:25 AM

favicons don't get saved in my bookmarks, only for very few pages... HALP

Hypezor Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:27:25 AM

Thanks for opera on unix !
Tabs are much faster, and i pretty much enjoy new features. (sync works just fine, didnt test mail yet tho)
Woo !

Ravindran NavaneethanRavindran Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:28:34 AM

The speed is really impressive. Thanks folks

Tuttle Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:29:32 AM

Just a problem of privacy, when you delete private data (Tick all options, as a paranoid), and then
use opera:historysearch you can still see the history of visited webpages. Even if I restart Opera.

deadHarlequin Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:30:43 AM

One of the most awaited features for me:
At save session dialog, you can save only window tabs!!!

Thus you can manage your tabs to windows, and save them as sessions accordingly.

Many people wanted a better session manager, no complaints anymore.

somairotevoli Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:30:49 AM

Thanks guys! so far so good, except after 2mins of the first use, computer froze when accessing cnn.com. Will see if I can replicate it;)

Dr. iTandramkler Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:31:41 AM

Thanks guys!!!

lamarca lamarca Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:32:21 AM

thanks a lot!!

sleepyheadbooz0r Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:32:29 AM

damn... crashed my compt 3 times already... guess it's back to 9.23 sad

onlsd Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:32:43 AM

Finally after months and months of testing weeklies, http://video.news.com.au finally works wiht 9.5 alpha


Good stuff & keep it up!

Northgrove Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:33:07 AM

Just one thing: The bug report tool doesn't have an alternative for reporting bugs for Opera 9.50, only Opera 9.23 as latest. The build number is submitted properly though so until that's fixed I guess you could still figure things out.

Zotlan Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:33:21 AM

Liking the speed, but simply loathing the new shortcuts (CTRl+F6 to switch tabs?) Oh well, at least they are easily changed smile

Rijk Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:33:33 AM

@Tuttle: for permanent reference to issues, please use the Beta forum. A separate thread where we can discuss this historysearch feature in connection with Delete Private Data in detail would be good smile

@Fearphage: 'twas Tim this time (he's still sleeping I hope), and me for the shortcuts doc.

MossMan Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:34:16 AM

Currently making copies of my entire profile and mail database. Despite all the warnings I still want to install over to see how it goes... smile

But this time I'll keep the original folder to use with 9.23 until Kestrel is proven safe and things like delete from POP server work.

Łukasz Janiklukjan Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:36:47 AM

please, add synchronization preferences opera

Eugenewwiii Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:37:46 AM

going to test...

Thank you very-very

appa Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:38:35 AM

Well, I'm disappointed, the new Opera still uses the same strange profile storage system. Perhaps Opera9.5 is faster but that's not so cool as some exportable settings that one could easily backup without having to copy the entire Opera's folder.

Jack Malmostoso Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:40:00 AM

Installed it, feels fast and stable.

One question though: I can't find the option to enable the "X" button on every tab. Can someone help me?

Great work tho, can't wait to try the 64bit on Debian!

EDIT:
Ups found it, it is enabled but it's not working. Frist bug bigsmile

Martin Suelzlemarsu Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:40:04 AM

Wow, it's so faaast. smile But my Pages have now some JS-Errors of " Cannot convert undefined or null to Object". I will investigate it.


EDIT:
if(typeof x == 'object') -> if(String(typeof x)=='object')
I can live with that.


And the content of the initial Speed Dail Page is one pix over the content in all others Speed Dail Pages.

(only after Delete Private Data)

wink

Denis A. Yurashkufuaim Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:41:19 AM

Yaaaa!!!
At last!!!
bigsmile

dramov Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:41:57 AM

stil stable smile
no auto-complete IE type

Manuelpaterfamilias Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:42:02 AM

Great!

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