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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

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Comments

tdzark Thursday, September 13, 2007 9:12:01 AM

This beautiful website is borked in 9.5: http://abriefmessage.com/

Steve DarkenDarken Thursday, September 13, 2007 3:15:54 PM

In http://forum.kaspersky.com/ I can't send any Personal Message. And you& Do you have any problems with Personal Messages at Opera 9.5?


All works fine for me >

Your message 'test' has been sent. They will now be informed that they have a new message.

Please wait while we transfer you...

Saddle Magic Friday, September 14, 2007 3:59:10 AM

@HeeZy
All are known issues, try "Ctrl+Click" to save images.

aegeus Friday, September 14, 2007 7:26:35 AM

Unfortunately http://shiftdelete.net is displayed wrong. The main menu on the left side is on top of the middle section. Opera 9.23 displays this site well.

qwz Friday, September 14, 2007 9:25:19 AM

Opera Crashes when reindexing message number 12160 of 12243
always
just don't write anything in storeupdate.log file

may be i can locate and delete this message file?
(but how?)

xpahos Friday, September 14, 2007 9:38:26 AM

Can't use CTRL + F, if cursor focused in textarea(And CTRL + A too) or when opening sources of page.

illiad Friday, September 14, 2007 12:12:21 PM

if you want better answers etc, try posting in the beta forum... this is just a blog.....
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/forum.dml?id=31

Jakobjakob Monday, September 17, 2007 1:46:14 PM

so, what's what with Opera 9.5 and flash 9 on Ubuntu 6.20-15
Where do I have to put the libflashplayer.so and flashplayer.xpt?

/usr/lib/opera/plugins is not working, or I have to do something else?

Claudio Santambrogiocsant Monday, September 17, 2007 4:57:32 PM

jakob, you only need libflashplayer.so - any location is good, as long as you point Opera to it. What exactly do you mean with "is not working"? smile

Jakobjakob Monday, September 17, 2007 5:12:40 PM

Hey, well whenever I visit somebody's blog at my.opera.com with Opera 9.5 I get an option to download the flashplugin again. That is what I mean by not working. But if Opera is not yet linked to the libfl...so and flashpl., which I copied to the plugin folder, then what do I need to do?

I donwloaded and untared them, then sudo cp to folder.

Is there a rights issue: chmod 777 or something else I need to do?

Claudio Santambrogiocsant Monday, September 17, 2007 7:07:37 PM

All you need to do is tools > preferences > content > plugin options and then configure the plugin path to include /usr/lib/opera/plugins , "find new plugins" and you are done smile (or should be done, at least...)

Jakobjakob Monday, September 17, 2007 7:19:36 PM

Ok, great. Will try that at work tomorrow. thx.

Jakobjakob Tuesday, September 18, 2007 9:09:06 PM

hmmm, there are no plugin options any longer. at least not in pref/advanced/content! There is style option and javascript option. Both windows and linux version

Saddle Magic Tuesday, September 18, 2007 9:21:38 PM

Try, Tools > Advanced > Plug-ins

Opera 6 may have had them under preferences.

Jakobjakob Tuesday, September 18, 2007 9:28:55 PM

I checked it out, and it's a web page. How can edit that one in Linux. I'm trying to tie Opera in with Flash 9 in Linux.

Saddle Magic Tuesday, September 18, 2007 9:34:36 PM

I don't know Linux, have you tried the forums?

Claudio Santambrogiocsant Wednesday, September 19, 2007 6:47:51 AM

Originally posted by jakob:

hmmm, there are no plugin options any longer. at least not in pref/advanced/content!



Do you mean there are *none*, or they are greyed out? If there are none, you must have screwed up your installation somehow... Does it work when testing with a clean profile?

opera -pd /tmp/testing

Aletta Mesalettames Wednesday, September 19, 2007 7:03:34 AM

What ever happened to plugin search buttons and non-bar plugins, closest are the alternative quicktime and real.

Jakobjakob Wednesday, September 19, 2007 10:26:22 AM

Ok, her we go.

1. did find the plugin option
2. in tools>advanced>plugin it says no plugins
3. searching for plugins in the pref>advanced>plugin options
I got this message : opera encountered a problem during plug-in setup.
plug-ins will not work properly
check your installation

could not locate plug-in 'libnpp.so'
this executable is included in the install package (whatever that means)

could not locate plug-in executalble 'operapluginwrapper'
This executable is included in the install package (???)

Search directory:

But: libnpp.so exists

jakob@VAIO-UBUNTU:~$ locate libnpp.so
/usr/lib/opera/9.50-20070903.6/libnpp.so
jakob@VAIO-UBUNTU:~$

Dafindafin Monday, October 1, 2007 1:33:48 AM

Cant wait to give this a test drive smile !

IrONia Wednesday, October 3, 2007 2:04:29 PM

block content doesen't work..

and unable to wand on www.155.it

cheers

Haavardhaavard Monday, October 8, 2007 10:38:17 AM

IrONia, please post in a more appropriate place than an old blog post, such as the beta forum.

IrONia Thursday, October 18, 2007 1:25:40 PM

ok

Pattty Saturday, October 20, 2007 8:01:41 PM

It's cool!! ^_^

Marcelus Trojahntrojahn Friday, October 26, 2007 4:03:27 AM

link.opera.com ROCKS!

Now I can really manage my bookmarks... And they dont duplicate anymore! Cool smile

下雨天kejunshi Friday, October 26, 2007 8:23:13 AM

like

williamstam Tuesday, October 30, 2007 6:15:29 AM

the statusbar doesnt apear.. which caused some headaches.. in that since its not apearing yet enabled i wasnt getting tooltips of urls.. but couldnt figure out why since there is no statusbar

Parteroner79 Tuesday, February 12, 2008 3:31:21 PM

Moderator edit: English please.

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