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By Johan Borgborg. Monday, February 13, 2006 4:01:13 PM

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The release of Opera 9 Preview 2 marks the start of a new tradition: The Weekly Builds. Every week until the final version of Opera 9 is ready, we intend to ship a weekly updated version of Opera 9 on this blog.

The goal is to further open up our development process to our devoted users and allow you to be more involved at an earlier stage than when we ship the next public beta.

The Weekly Builds are snapshots, they are not as thoroughly tested as a Technology Preview or a Public Beta. You should only use these builds if you are not afraid of losing data (e-mail, bookmarks, anything) or crashing your computer.

First Weekly Builds

Comments

numberz guy Monday, February 13, 2006 4:37:50 PM

Great! Thanks. I'll try the builds at home (and send feedback, if I have any). I'll stick to using the more tested software while at work smile

Espen B. AnderssonEspenA Monday, February 13, 2006 5:26:11 PM

Fantastic! bigsmile

Philip Seyfiseifip Monday, February 13, 2006 6:04:58 PM

cool! bigsmile thnx

David Blangstrupdavidcrickett Monday, February 13, 2006 6:05:24 PM

Widgets but no calendar? Like those little shiny Mac toys and no functionality... wink

Tim AltmanJunyor Monday, February 13, 2006 6:48:51 PM

davidcrickett: You mean like http://my.opera.com/community/customize/widgets/info/?id=3445?

scipio Monday, February 13, 2006 7:38:50 PM

The Weekly Builds are snapshots, they are not as thoroughly tested as a Technology Preview or a Public Beta.

Will Previews and Betas still be released?

Idan AdarYtseJam Monday, February 13, 2006 7:46:22 PM

It's been mentioned in the forums that yes, betas are still scheduled. I believe previews as well.

MihLab Monday, February 13, 2006 8:05:43 PM

Да традиция хорошая

janbar Monday, February 13, 2006 8:29:01 PM

We dont know what you said, MihLab.
We will see how it'll be works, I hope that's good move. smile)

Pozdrawiam,

janbar.smile)

bquillen Monday, February 13, 2006 10:33:54 PM

Where should I report bugs at ?

Tamil Monday, February 13, 2006 10:42:39 PM

cool happy

Tamil Monday, February 13, 2006 10:48:32 PM

cool happy

//markpoleon Tuesday, February 14, 2006 12:04:04 AM

Where should I report bugs at ?


https://bugs.opera.com/wizard/

KonstantinSTNG Tuesday, February 14, 2006 12:32:17 AM

2 Opera Development Team

Thanks for good news! This is great tradition. We are ready for testing Opera's fresh builds... every time, everywhere smile.
But some suggestion. Please read Wish-List forum (sometimes) and release new requested functions and features (some of them).

//markpoleon Tuesday, February 14, 2006 1:08:12 AM

Originally posted by STNC:

Thanks for good news! This is great tradition. We are ready for testing Opera's fresh builds... every time, everywhere .
But some suggestion. Please read Wish-List forum (sometimes) and release new requested functions and features (some of them).

yes

olli Tuesday, February 14, 2006 1:08:23 AM

STNG: We do, thus preview 2 added ctrl+enter for prefilling www and .com and gui for adding searches etc :-)

Kostia RomanovKildor Tuesday, February 14, 2006 3:22:15 AM

olli, how about categories for newsfeeds?
And possibility to set max number of lines in multiline wrapping of toolbars? ;-)

PS: Thanks for news… $)
Огромное вам спасибо… wink

子尧waterside Tuesday, February 14, 2006 7:32:23 AM

that's cool!
新氣象,好,好

Johan Borgborg Tuesday, February 14, 2006 7:46:29 AM

Another feature that has been requested by a lot of you is the Content blocker. We have a few planned improvements to it that you will see over the coming weeks..

PS
I see that my Russian lessions are finally starting to pay off p

Mihai Sucanrobodesign Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:05:21 AM

Suggestion: Make the weekly builds also available on labs.opera.com so that site is *the* site for *geeky* stuff about Opera: previews, betas, weekly builds and whatever is coming.

Currently, things are scattered over many places wink. Maybe also make something like Planet Opera, but only with technical blog posts from all people at Opera Software, talking about current or future builds. This would fit very nicely in labs.opera.com, so it would be a single place to visit.

János, Vinczevinczej Tuesday, February 14, 2006 10:48:27 AM

Sensational! We will enjoy the new builds! up

Garyhootchboy Tuesday, February 14, 2006 11:21:16 AM

Hopefully you have the processes and people to absorb the torrent of feedback that will come. Back in the day, we found that we were unable to keep pace with the flood of feedback and how to prioritize trade-offs on bugs vs. UI and other design elements, but we certainly gained our share of notoriety. - hootchboy

Kyle Bakerkyleabaker Tuesday, February 14, 2006 3:25:00 PM

this is the greatest news i've heard so far today! this is going to be great not having to wait so long anymore for fixes and new releases.

thanks! thats a really good move in my opinion!

--kyleabaker

WillYum Tuesday, February 14, 2006 6:23:16 PM

Yeah, I agree with hootchboy. People come out of the woodwork when they feel they actually get a say so. There will be a flood of persistent feedback, pestering people and plain' old stupid people.

Will there be good? Sure! I'm just afraid this won't last long if it becomes flooded. Hope big O is prepared but can anyone ever really be prepared for fame?

Best of luck and generally, I think this is a really great and wonderful idea. Just hope it lasts.

Yum

NathanTHCi Tuesday, February 14, 2006 7:15:52 PM

Great Idea!

Will be interesting to see Opera 9, and hopfully edititions into the future, develop thier functionality even further.


Great work Opera! bigsmile

Jithesh Mjitheshm Thursday, February 16, 2006 8:12:54 PM

I am expecting opera 9 to fully support all the w3c standards.

And I really want to compose html messages in the mail client in opera 9.

One Eyed Pikerfalkons54701 Thursday, February 16, 2006 10:36:56 PM

Please keep me updated on this thank you falkons54701

Hank Jijihaiming Saturday, February 18, 2006 8:10:42 AM

My opera always go down and it's error is that: "0x500bf974"指令引用的"0x0000e7f"内存.该内存不能为"read";

RickPasquanel Monday, February 20, 2006 2:06:48 PM

Great job! Since switching to Opera I have never looked back.

luoyiiyoul Tuesday, February 21, 2006 1:38:44 AM

I think the 8219 is better than 8225

DustinBosserman Friday, February 24, 2006 5:48:01 AM

I must strongly agree with "robodesign" about making the Opera weekly builds (and whatever else is coming) available on "labs.opera.com."

There needs to be a single depot for those interested in participating in the development of this remarkable product.

I seldom participate in any kind of forum. But after experiencing Opera, whatever its imperfections (at present), I cannot be happy with any other browser (and that includes firefox, even with all of its extensions).

Developers, whatever your reasons for working on the Opera project, I hope you will take me seriously when I say that what you are doing matters in a very big way.

With that in mind, I wish to reiterate the need for a more centralized singular access point for all things Opera. Perhaps something more acessible from the Opera.com main page...something that says "For Beta Testers"...set off to the side, but still in plain view.

Thank you for the opportunity to voice these thoughts.

jimpublic Sunday, May 28, 2006 9:47:40 PM

With opera 9 release 9414, "checking for updates" does not find a later version. Downloading opera 9 beta just re-installed the same 9414 build. Only by going an Opera page that had a build 9432 radio button, was I able to update.

qicaispace Monday, May 29, 2006 10:36:59 AM

we found that we were unable to keep pace with the flood of feedback and how to prioritize trade-offs on bugs vs. UI and other design elements, but we certainly gained our share of notoriety.

Johan Borgborg Monday, May 29, 2006 12:37:08 PM

jimpublic: Opera only checks for updates of official release versions, not even betas. It's a function that keeps your browser up to date with the most stable and secure version, not with the most experimental features wink

qicai02 Friday, June 2, 2006 4:31:25 AM

bigsmile p

Twilo Saturday, June 24, 2006 6:50:38 PM

Opera 9 is great! yes

xubuntu Saturday, June 24, 2006 10:53:38 PM

opera i need you yes

qicai02 Thursday, June 29, 2006 3:21:22 PM

Great! Thanks. sing

Olihen Sunday, July 6, 2008 11:46:59 PM

cheers

WEEBLIESweeblies Monday, July 14, 2008 1:12:36 PM

Opera 9.51 - Mail - not usable as default MAIL pgm in Windows XP Home:
1)need command line & parameters for MAILTO
2)need command line & parameters for desktop notifier (Pop Peeper).
while "opera.exe /mail" works here, the problem in 1) & 2) is that Opera Mail toggles between ALL UNREAD and ALL RECEIVED `by itself' and needs the toggle button pressed some of the time. Typical users want ALL RECEIVED settable as default, no MAIL/CONTACTS side-panel, all received mails shown together CRUCIALLY with a TO COLUMN (the most glaring ommision EVER) so they know to which address mail is TO.
3)MAIL VITALLY NEEDS a TO COLUMN URGENTLY - simply showing a TO contact icon (for each mailbox) - instead of the FROM icon duplication!!!
4)Windows Live & Http mail - my mail notifier POP PEEPER does, has persistent notification of mail & mailboxes AND low resources. I'd strongly suggest collaboration with POP PEEPER, AVG plus GOOGLE!!!
5)AVG 8 native plugin so I know email plus attachments OK in & out, as well as antivrus/antispyware on websites, downloads, etc. Users DON'T CURRENTLY KNOW WHAT IS SAFE AT ALL!
6)Opera skin & users' eyesight: BLACK ONES not distinguishable!
7)Fix these URGENTLY and give Opera the success we all want to see!!

Babylischlaefer Friday, October 23, 2009 11:02:14 AM

Very interestingly and beautifully written article!

Kittyferdenantlom Friday, December 18, 2009 1:38:15 PM

wizard

hdimari Saturday, December 11, 2010 5:04:08 PM

Wow, I did not like how they have implemented the issue of clustering in this version. Now any link on a page is opened and group by default, either in the foreground or background. They should have left this feature (which is not bad at all) for gupos already created manually, not all tabs

hdimari Wednesday, December 15, 2010 5:41:33 AM

The operating technicians forgot to translate into Spanish the help file explains the installation and configuration of the extensions on the RC1 version 11 hdimari

hdimari Wednesday, December 15, 2010 8:30:39 PM

I still can not drag tabs to SpeedDial

Moreover, I find it very fast!

hdimari Friday, December 17, 2010 3:13:21 AM

Hopefully fixed as quickly as possible the bug Opera.com in Spanish, not centered as expected, placed english and see the difference. hdimari

Chetan G. Khatatechetan619 Friday, February 25, 2011 5:40:47 AM

In my opera if enable to synchronization link there is login window opens & if i login there then error comes that "could not connect to authentication sever" can anyone help me on that problem. Plz mail me on chetan.khtt@gmail.com

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