Help them help me

Saturday, 20. January 2007, 11:08:25

Normally they don't ask to install a weekly on top of a final version, but if I dare do so this time it will help they get more correct data, making sure that they continue to make a better browser for ME.
[adapted from yesterday's Opera Desktop Team's blog.]

The idea is that while some people tell us about their wishes and concerns in the blog and forums, thousands of people download the weeklies without giving direct feedback. By using a build with feature reporting, they will also contribute to improving the product for all of us.

I have submitted wishes and concerns in the blog in the past, but there are so many (irrelevant) comments each time the Desktop Team release a build or a final, that my wishes and concerns must have drowned in the noise. I can't be bothered to comment what rank I am downloading their build. And I expect they are bothered that people do.

I welcome very much this experimental build.

Precious thingsApple crumble

Comments

I was keeping o912w_3602.dmg in my Temporary Downloads folder, in case I would want to revert easily to the previous version. Just as I fired o912w_3607, I saw the other dmg vanish. Maybe this happens every time I get a newer build.

By koalie, # 20. January 2007, 11:18:46

Hmm, zarb. I have a downloads folder that I use for things I want to keep (Temporary isn't a word I associate with stuff I am trying to hang on to...)

By chaals, # 22. January 2007, 19:41:39

Good point. I don't know why but I tend to keep them forever ;)
You said once that you keep dmgs and programs and I started to do it too.

By koalie, # 22. January 2007, 21:25:30

I do keep them forever (or until I am sure I am going to stick with something newer, for example with test builds of Opera). Just not in a place called Temporary

I once went to a place called Temporary, somewhere in the desert in Australia. I have never been able to find it on a map, and I only have a vague idea of where it is. I was navigating for a teacher who was driving to a school camp, I was tired, and we drove through. It was a railway siding with wheat silos or something similar, and if I recall correctly there was a shop/petrol station and very little else. Mr Swaney said it had been built for some temporary purpose, and never went away. On the other hand, he also taught me (and an entire class of 9- and 10-year-olds) about how to avoid the dangerous hoop snake. (You put the door of the tent downhill, so when the said snake curls into a hoop to roll down the hill it doesn't find itself in your tent when looking for prey).

By chaals, # 22. January 2007, 22:28:37