Opera Desktop Team

Go and get Opera 9.5 alpha!

By huibk. Tuesday, 4. September 2007, 06:40:32

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

And much more! Take a look at the huge changelogs

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!

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

tprochazka # 4. September 2007, 08:05

Great!!!!

Einar1975 # 4. September 2007, 08:05

This is great!

Tamil # 4. September 2007, 08:05

Nice changelog. Thanks developers.

Preferences window closes faster.

pejakm # 4. September 2007, 08:06

Jihaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

rejdi # 4. September 2007, 08:06

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

tprochazka # 4. September 2007, 08:06

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

XenoM # 4. September 2007, 08:07

yo!

booz0r # 4. September 2007, 08:07

AWESOME

ColKilkenny # 4. September 2007, 08:07

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

keisan12 # 4. September 2007, 08:09

omg,finally its out!gonna test it

thesuperstereo # 4. September 2007, 08:09

Ja is denn heut' scho Weihnachten?!

Can't wait to test it. Thanks!

Mathiasfr # 4. September 2007, 08:09

Great !! Thanks !

Michael83815 # 4. September 2007, 08:09

So fast I can hardly believe it!

Raistlin # 4. September 2007, 08:09

Change version info at top of your blog.

theoddbod # 4. September 2007, 08:11

SoulOfDoinel # 4. September 2007, 08:11

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)

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)

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

Now on 04 September finally the waiting is ended.

Now I'm go to try it.

Thanks for yours work.

And one question ... when Peregrine ???

Doliprane # 4. September 2007, 08:14

yahooooooooooooooooooo finally, no needs of

now

NeXTie # 4. September 2007, 08:14

Yeah! =)

Doliprane # 4. September 2007, 08:16

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

arghwashier # 4. September 2007, 08:16

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)

@doliprane .6 shared is best

edit: grey flash areas are still here

lachralle # 4. September 2007, 08:17

Welcome Kestrel! Let's try the macification stuff

Hades32 # 4. September 2007, 08:18

YEEEEEHAAAA!
THANK YOU!!!!

jlarocco # 4. September 2007, 08:19

Wow! This is *much* faster than 9.23.

The AMD64 build for Debian rocks.

Tuttle # 4. September 2007, 08:19

Great, writing from 9.5

It's so faaast

Northgrove # 4. September 2007, 08:19

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!

UnknownFactor # 4. September 2007, 08:21

Half an hour ago, and this wasn't here

Installing as I type.

fearphage # 4. September 2007, 08:23

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

dramov # 4. September 2007, 08:24

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

booz0r # 4. September 2007, 08:26

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

Hypezor # 4. September 2007, 08:27

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 # 4. September 2007, 08:28

The speed is really impressive. Thanks folks

Tuttle # 4. September 2007, 08:29

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 # 4. September 2007, 08:30

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 # 4. September 2007, 08:30

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;)

dramkler # 4. September 2007, 08:31

Thanks guys!!!

lamarca # 4. September 2007, 08:32

thanks a lot!!

booz0r # 4. September 2007, 08:32

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

onlsd # 4. September 2007, 08:32

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 # 4. September 2007, 08:33

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 # 4. September 2007, 08:33

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

Rijk # 4. September 2007, 08:33

@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

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

MossMan # 4. September 2007, 08:34

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...

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.

lukjan # 4. September 2007, 08:36

please, add synchronization preferences opera

wwiii # 4. September 2007, 08:37

going to test...

Thank you very-very

appa # 4. September 2007, 08:38

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 # 4. September 2007, 08:40

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

marsu # 4. September 2007, 08:40

Wow, it's so faaast.

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)