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More stability and speed

By Tommy A. Olsentoman. Tuesday, July 10, 2007 2:56:12 PM

We're in a bittorrent bugfix mode right now, so this new build on the 9.22 branch is both faster with high speed peers, and more stable.

Remember to break this "weekly" wink

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Yet another merlin buildMacification

Comments

SamuelHeadsick Tuesday, July 10, 2007 3:40:34 PM

First!!!
Cool, a new build...

Hope, 9.5 will come soon.

Lg Headsick

Geoff GirardinG-off Tuesday, July 10, 2007 3:41:35 PM

Woohoo!

Ryan Octavianusphilry4n Tuesday, July 10, 2007 3:42:06 PM

ahhh classic! smile

Gustavo Pedra gustavo pedra Tuesday, July 10, 2007 3:44:49 PM

good!!!!!!!!!! wanting for 9.5

MukiEX Tuesday, July 10, 2007 3:47:20 PM

Opera's "weakest" component is, in fact, its bittorrent capabilities (tho in Linux, second to its plugin integration, oh if Linux only had more than 0.2% of the market) ; has it gotten significantly better since the olden days? I would LOVE to make Opera my BT default, if it was even HALF as fast as uTorrent manages =3

TopiMrFukov Tuesday, July 10, 2007 3:47:27 PM

Yay new weekly...

Hmm.. my webserver (with azureus) is currently downloading one really slow torrent and there is over 900mb downloaded. Should I try to download that same torrent over the 100/100 ethernet connection? Well.. Let's try it. idea

Waiting the first relase of 9.5...

Miketaussick Tuesday, July 10, 2007 3:48:00 PM

oooooh, nice p star

Steve DarkenDarken Tuesday, July 10, 2007 3:48:24 PM

Wooohooo yes

Tommy A. Olsentoman Tuesday, July 10, 2007 3:48:41 PM

@MukiEX: Then you're certainly trying out this build, right? smile

Doliprane'Doliprane Tuesday, July 10, 2007 3:48:58 PM

Thanks Guys, at least we can play a little bit before kestrel up

AlexandrZybex Tuesday, July 10, 2007 3:52:31 PM

Waiting for Kestrel wait wait wait

Tamil Tuesday, July 10, 2007 3:57:44 PM

Nice build #8800.

Arthur WilkinsonGT500 Tuesday, July 10, 2007 4:19:07 PM

The Windows side looks good. I'm on a 1.5Mbps DSL connection, and I'm downloading a 1+GB torrent, and it's coming down at 80+KBps. While that's less than half of my total bandwidth, it's still faster than Opera's BitTorrent client has ever performed on any of my computers.

Thanks for the hard work guys. up

RafalJanocha Tuesday, July 10, 2007 4:21:35 PM

gr8 smile

JasmoJazmo Tuesday, July 10, 2007 4:26:55 PM

Is there any other changes but bittorrent, is there a reason for me (i don't use bittorrent) to try this weekly? (I've 9.21 final installed)

CharlieBAMAToNE Tuesday, July 10, 2007 4:27:07 PM

/me downloads the classic build before it gets stolen again! wink

Navarr Barniernavarr Tuesday, July 10, 2007 4:34:54 PM

Good work guys, the problems that I was having with flash in the last build are also fixed bigsmile

I think you need to do a lot more work on CSS3 instead of Bittorrent though! Shouldn't implementation of CSS3 be high on the list?

Soul Of DoinelSoulOfDoinel Tuesday, July 10, 2007 4:42:01 PM

Great !!!
I hope to have a surprise on friday...

Tim AltmanJunyor Tuesday, July 10, 2007 4:44:10 PM

@SoulOfDoinel: If you're hoping for a Kestrel build on Friday, there won't be one.

@navarr: We're working on CSS3 stuff for Kestrel, not Merlin. Merlin is receiving maintenance fixes only.

Martin Tangmartintang007 Tuesday, July 10, 2007 4:46:31 PM

BT pings much faster than before.up

Michael ThompsonMichael83815 Tuesday, July 10, 2007 5:11:29 PM

I gave it a try but it is still to slow for me. I'm sticking to utorrent.

PJElliot Tuesday, July 10, 2007 5:15:55 PM

I was trying to download a 800MB linux file and was seeing 1.2k/s

With the new build I'm at 60k/s...

I don't know if it's the build or the low number of seeding machines, but it looks promising!

freekey Tuesday, July 10, 2007 5:18:14 PM

finally.. this is a good one..

i've never been logged out from forum anymore..

and i can see a major speed improvement!!

Good!

Thanks.

Ice ArdorIceArdor Tuesday, July 10, 2007 5:22:49 PM

Yay! New weekly!

Tim AltmanJunyor Tuesday, July 10, 2007 5:32:43 PM

@tsharan: There's a wishlist forum you should use instead of this blog.

FataL Tuesday, July 10, 2007 5:33:42 PM

Originally posted by tsarhan:

On my keyboard installed 4 langs and I have a big trouble with it when I try to type an any internet address. And I ask you to add an option that could switch a keyboard lang to english when I put a mouse's cursor to address bar and restore lang setting when I go out from address bar.

This would be great! up
Please submit this also to wishes forum.

RSD Tuesday, July 10, 2007 5:33:45 PM

I think there is something wrong with Opera 9.22 weeklys and this page: http://www.noticias3d.com/

Sometimes the text and dates on the middle of the page overlap the grey colum on the right.

Screenshot

I don't remember that happening with previous versions. But it may have just been a coincidence.

doknir Tuesday, July 10, 2007 5:54:40 PM

Yippee!

http://snapshot.opera.com/windows/o922w_8800.exe

Cheers, Roman

sleepyheadbooz0r Tuesday, July 10, 2007 5:58:21 PM

woo, first comment on a weekly... finally signed up

LaliLali19871014 Tuesday, July 10, 2007 6:08:31 PM

I have problem with special hungarian characters, for example: á, é, ö, ő...
Here is a screenshot:
http://files.myopera.com/Lali19871014/operahiba/torrent.jpg
He write this:"Inkák kincse divx"
But this is the good: inkák kincse divx

Andriy Podanenkopodarok Tuesday, July 10, 2007 6:12:07 PM

Tnx for the classic install version 8)

NicolasSalocinHB Tuesday, July 10, 2007 6:13:01 PM

Thanks for bringing the classic installer back!

Tim AltmanJunyor Tuesday, July 10, 2007 6:30:50 PM

@tsarhan: Developers are interested in feedback on the Merlin build posted, nothing else. Thank you.

senyorito Tuesday, July 10, 2007 6:32:37 PM

For the first time, I've tried to the BT's capability and it works well so far.

Uwe aka JaDaJada0007 Tuesday, July 10, 2007 6:40:17 PM

Version 9.22
Build 652
Platform Linux
System i686, 2.6.21-ARCH
Qt library 3.3.8

It's getting better. But still crashing in flash websites if you use forward or backward butten.

snapshot Opera Linux build 652


RafaelMnz Tuesday, July 10, 2007 6:54:57 PM

I just want some things to be improved:

1°) Let us customize the number of speed dial pages!!! (Or you could implement a similar style for bookmarks!)

2°)You could implement a delicious button like Maxthon did!
http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/7105/20070710152422jf4.jpg

3°)You could rebuild the RSS reader like Maxthon (The Subscription on the top-left, the News on the bottom left and the whole page of news on the right...)
http://img407.imageshack.us/my.php?image=20070710153110zp8.jpg

4°)Like Maxthon (well, I'm already waiting the answers of some guys saying: change to Maxthon....) you could implement a customizable way of block some contents:
http://img67.imageshack.us/my.php?image=20070710153758zo5.jpg

So, I think it's just it... Maxthon copyed a lot of Opera, so it's fair if you copy little things of them too... I hope this message be read...

Sorry for my English...

MukiEX Tuesday, July 10, 2007 7:04:43 PM

Daggit, Toman, you forced my hand. ^_^

Hmmm, doesn't seem any better than last time. =( Basically from my experience, if it's not OpenOffice, it's not a fast DL. =( I'll get an order of magnitude more speed on this exact same torrent through uTorrent or Azureus. However, those two clients are essentially "the holy grail", and like I said, if Opera even ever hits HALF their standard performance I'd immediately dump 'em and make Opera my default.

I know most IRC clients are better than Opera's, but you CANNOT beat how easy it is to get it working in Opera. Mostly 'cause :

1. I download one thing I was already downloading to get it to work. (www.opera.com is the first site I *always* go to if I'm cleaning up my system or wiping a relative's. Seriously, http://www.opera.com/ is IE's entire history. PERIOD.)
2. They save it with the mail account, so I when I transfer my mail folder (I'm dual booting Linux and Windows, and they both access the same mail folder) all my chat info goes with it.
3. irc:// links. OMFG is that easy to use. I can bookmark 'em too! =3

It's too bad you guys got rid of the IM client. By the time I found out about it, it was long gone, so I never got to find out if it was any good or not. Tho at some point you guys're gonna end up with a 10 meg operating system wink

Rijk Tuesday, July 10, 2007 7:06:02 PM

Originally posted by RSD:

I think there is something wrong with Opera 9.22 weeklys and this page: http://www.noticias3d.com/

Sometimes the text and dates on the middle of the page overlap the grey colum on the right.



I see this for a second or two after a refresh, but then everything shifts to the correct location.

Pedro Albuquerque Santospetersaints Tuesday, July 10, 2007 7:07:45 PM

Another build to play with unfortunately Bittorrent on Opera is not a feature I use. So it's just for the sake of staying up-to-date!

Vicsites.web.pt Tuesday, July 10, 2007 7:10:51 PM

Boooring... I want Kestrel!

FavDjiXas Tuesday, July 10, 2007 7:13:55 PM

Since I don't use torrents, is it worth to upgrade my browser?

Does it fixes/adds/does anything else besides torrents?

FavDjiXas Tuesday, July 10, 2007 7:18:13 PM

Junyor, regarding CSS3 fixes, didn't it passed whole the css3.info test?

Tim AltmanJunyor Tuesday, July 10, 2007 7:34:45 PM

@RafaelMnz: Do not post feature requests here. There's a forum for that. If you don't have comments about this build, don't post anything.

@DjiXas: Not Merlin.

Arthur WilkinsonGT500 Tuesday, July 10, 2007 7:35:41 PM

You guys need to make a new RPM package for Fedora 7. The ones you guys make has a dependency error (a library called "libstdc++.so.5" is missing), and I have to disable dependency checking when I install it.

Interestingly enough, Opera works fine without that library, so my guess is that Fedora 7 just has a newer version of it. I did a search the first time I had this issue, and I don't remember what the results were (other than the fact that "libstdc++.so.5" is an ancient version), but I do remember that I came to the conclusion that Fedora 7 just had too new a version of that file. Unfortunately I don't actually remember why I came to that conclusion. I guess I should have mentioned something then, as my memory is worthless... wink

zoquete Tuesday, July 10, 2007 7:45:22 PM

Come on Bird, come on! :-)

AndrewAndrewNi Tuesday, July 10, 2007 7:48:25 PM

Happy Windows build 8800! I have nothing to download via torrent, though...

rseiler Tuesday, July 10, 2007 7:51:42 PM

Originally posted by DjiXas:

Does it fixes/adds/does anything else besides torrents?


Yes! No! Actually, I haven't the slightest friggin' idea, and since it looks like your question was skipped over, I guess we'll have to talk amongst ourselves to try and figure it out. For now, I'm going under the assumption that if there was something worth mentioning they would mention it. Bittorrent fixes have been mentioned multiple times, at least, so maybe they're starting with the most important things first.

pejakm Tuesday, July 10, 2007 7:54:31 PM

The main reason I don't use Opera's bittorrent client is that I can't choose which files to download, and which to skip.
Also, Opera's built-in download/transfer manager doesn't have much to show (Although I must say it's very fast - for me it uses about 98% of my bandwidth).

Uwe aka JaDaJada0007 Tuesday, July 10, 2007 7:55:02 PM

Originally posted by "AndrewNi, # 10. July 2007":


Happy Windows build 8800! I have nothing to download via torrent, though...



Here I will give you guys something to download ;)

http://www.slackware.com/torrents/slackware-12.0-install-dvd.torrent

I hope you guys will have fun with it :D

appa Tuesday, July 10, 2007 7:56:17 PM

wow, I'm impressed, browsing my 20.000 news feeds is now a real pleasure, they open instantly, it seems now to be at least 1000 times faster then before... thank you for the best Feeds manager-reader I've ever seen!

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