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Opera 9.5 RC - Prepare for launch

By Huib Kleinhout. Tuesday, 10. June 2008, 15:01:38

You might have noticed we've focused on stabilizing the Opera 9.5 snapshots lately, waxing the new look and feel of Opera, improving performance, security and most of all fixing a lot of bugs. Almost two years after the release of Opera 9.0, Opera 9.5 is now (almost) ready to be released.

Thanks for your feedback on Opera Link, Quick Find, Dragonfly and EV and all the new features, usability improvements, new skin, tweaks and bugfixes. We hope you all feel proud of making Opera 9.5 the best choice for surfing the web!
Announcement of 9.5 release by Jon von Tetzchner

Tell your friends about Opera!
Even though everyone reading this blog knows that there is a difference between one browser and another, there are still too many people who don't. We need your help to spread the word!

WARNING: On Windows, this build will by default replace the default installation of Opera. Take special care when installing

Changelog

Copied the latest Dragonfly to the live servers - Check out their blog for the latest info
Various stability fixes
Opera no longer wants to update a nonexistent mail store when upgrading from 9.2 to 9.5
'Download message bodies' is now enabled on all POP accounts
Fixed a loss of filter rules on upgrade from 9.2
Fixed an issue with a missing Panel button
Fixed an issue where the 'New tab' toolbar was hidden behind the panel toggle button when no tabs were open
Added sharper panel selector icons
Fixed dragging of multiple items in the bookmark manager
Fixed Russian and German dictionary search
Improvements in backwards compatibility with skins
Fixed login with cookie on the 31st of all months

Mac specific changes

The disk image should work on Mac OS X 10.2 again
Some improvements to the Mac Native skin

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9.5 Beta 2 is out!

By Huib Kleinhout. Thursday, 24. April 2008, 09:18:53

performance, launch, quickfind, link ...

Opera 9.5 Beta 2 is available now!

Beta 2 introduces Notes syncing support using Opera Link, EV certificate support, improved Fraud protection, many performance and usability improvements in Quick Find (also known as history search), improvements in website rendering and performance, plugin support and of course lots of bug fixes. Check out the changelogs for the details.

We would like to thank the community for all testing, suggestions, and other feedback! Congratulations everyone with making 9.5 Beta 2 a great release! :-)

Stay tuned for the upcoming release of Opera Dragonfly and more exciting updates on this blog.

Build Numbers

Windows: 9945
Mac: 4789
UNIX: 1933

Known Issues

[Bug 325677] POP mail download doesn't work on web.de (and some other servers)
[Bug 324727] The Octoshape plug-in causes Opera to crash on start-up
[Bug 322553] The "Execute program" action fails in certain circumstances

Changelog (since the last snapshot)

Fixed Bug 324643: "Remove from toolbar" doesn't work
Fixed Bug 324645: Right-clicking an IRC channel prevents it from showing new messages
Fixed Bug 324678: Mail attachment options don't work on Windows
Fixed Bug 324696: The "Go to Web Address" action fails
Fixed Bug 324699: Crash when choosing "Open Opera" from the tray icon after hiding Opera on Windows when the mail client is disabled
Fixed Bug 324700: "Save image" context menu item doesn't work
Fixed a crash on start-up for some POP mail users
Fixed a problem where inline find highlighting didn't work correctly in mail (or when using "white-space: pre-wrap")
Fixed incorrect label on "Remove" button in newsfeed views
Re-added the "Delete mail" action for backwards compatibility

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Opera 9.5 beta released

By Huib Kleinhout. Thursday, 25. October 2007, 09:15:36

launch, link, beta, rock ...

Opera 9.5 beta is available for download! Since the first alpha release hundreds of bugs have been fixed. Website rendering has been significantly improved, along with performance, stability and usability.

Opera Link
With Opera Link, it's possible to get access to your bookmarks and Speed Dials everywhere. Get Opera Mini 4 beta and login to Opera Link to get your desktop bookmarks, or login to link.opera.com to access your bookmarks with any other browser.

The Desktop Team would like to thank everyone in the community for testing the weeklies, reporting bugs, and giving feedback on this blog and the forums!