It's here

Tuesday, 6. May 2008, 18:47:55

Opera Dragonfly is finally released. This is an initial alpha, so beware that there will still be bugs, missing features and performance optimisations that need to be done. Never fear, as we can now use Opera Dragonfly to debug itself.

If you run Mac OS X, there is a bug which Opera Dragonfly managed to hit (it is an expert bug hunter), where OS X's video memory gets corrupted on exit. Due to this we blocked access to Opera 9.5 beta 2. A new build which works around this problem can be found here.

This was my first project as Product Manager, so it was an interesting experience, but everything fell into place, and we seem to have had a smooth launch so far, even hitting Techcrunch.

Being an alpha, the main reason for this release is to gather developer feedback, so if you have time to test it out, we've very much appreciate it if you could send us your feedback and feature requests. You can do this on the feedback page. We also have a new Team Dragonfly blog.

Happy bug hunting.

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Comments

Congratulations! It's like a new baby for you, yes? So you can be a proud parent...

By yehezkelshb, # 6. May 2008, 19:27:03

So far it looks very promising. You did a fine job and I can't wait to see it grow.

Gratz to you and your team. Tusen takk!

By Schalandra, # 6. May 2008, 19:45:18

Just like the Tweet I sent you... great job. I can't wait to start to use it on my new project.

By Khadgar, # 6. May 2008, 23:10:37

You've done a great job, you and your team. So far, I've only seen positive reactions.

Dragonfly has a lot of potential (it looks good even now). I'm especially happy that I can debug widgets with it.

Thanks.

By hzr, # 7. May 2008, 12:22:41

Just wanted to mention that Germany's number one tech-newsticker "heise online" published a short, but nice article about Dragonfly:

german version
english version

By Schalandra, # 7. May 2008, 16:22:38

Brian LePore writes:

First let me start off by saying that I am thoroughly impressed by Dragonfly. Get the edit-in-place functionality working and get something like the Tamper Data Firefox extension (or at least something that shows HTTP requests) worked in and I think I've got a new developer testbed to work in.

One thing that I noticed that seems odd to me is that my test page Opera doesn't seem to support @font-face. I swore that Opera had support for this before Safari did. Looking at the style sheet through Dragonfly it see that there was a @font-face definition, but it ignores all the rules that I specified for it.

By anonymous user, # 8. May 2008, 14:26:31