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Opera Link duplicates

By Petter Nilsen. Friday, 10. October 2008, 11:23:53

Yesterday, our Opera Link server monitors noticed an increase in the server load on our Link server farm. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be because of increased traffic of items being added and synchronized, an increase far higher than expected from a new release alone. Our Opera Link server team soon realized that this was triggered by a bug in the 9.60 desktop browser and we went to work trying to identify the bug.
I'm happy to say that we managed to reproduce the bug and our Opera Link server team implemented a workaround on the server that is now live and seems to be running fine.
The users that were affected should no longer see this problem and duplicate bookmarks that got generated should all be gone.

This is also a good place to remind people that we do have a way to remove duplicate bookmarks for all to use. Go to the Opera Link web interface, then use the "Remove my duplicates..." link that is located on the left side.

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First 9.60 Snapshot!

By Adam Minchinton. Friday, 22. August 2008, 13:55:30

WEBFEEDS, M2, link, RSS ...

Hot on the heels of Wednesday's 9.52 release comes our first snapshot of 9.60.

Everyone here at on the Desktop Team has been working hard to add new features to your favorite browser, and here's what you can look forward to in 9.60:

Opera Link
Custom search engines and typed history* are now joining bookmarks, speed dials, personal bar, and notes in Opera Link.

Feed Preview
Now you can preview an RSS/Atom feed before subscribing.

Opera Mail: Low Bandwidth Mode
Low Bandwidth Mode is a setting on mail accounts that makes Opera Mail use as little bandwidth as possible. For IMAP, this means that Opera will only synchronise new messages and it will not fetch message attachments unless requested. For POP, Opera will not fetch more than the first 100 lines of a message unless requested.

Opera Mail: Follow/Ignore threads and contacts
Follow and Ignore are new features for users that receive a lot of messages. It makes it easier to dismiss unimportant messages and easier to recognise important messages.

Opera Mail: Go To Thread
You can now also "Go to thread" which means that you can view only the messages from that thread. Useful for those that uses flat view.

Enjoy!

_{* Typed history is only the history you explicitly type or select from the address bar}

WARNING: These are development snapshots: they contain the latest changes, but they also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, they may not work at all.

Known issues

Follow/ignore thread misses some messages

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Windows Classic
Macintosh
UNIX

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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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Link should be working again now

By Petter Nilsen. Monday, 4. February 2008, 13:44:53

link

Due to an internal misunderstanding, the new authentication code used for Opera Link was only active on our test authentication server and not on our live server. This caused problems for people that logged out and then in again with Link.
This should be resolved now.
Happy testing!

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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!