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Miscellaneous technobabble from a Swede in Norway.

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Opera Software partners with most annoying company, ever

Monday, 18. August 2008, 09:39:35

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According to a press release today, Opera Software is partnering with Jamba, the leading provider of annoying advertisments for over-priced mobile phone ring-tones, wallpapers and other annoying so called “premium” content. The Jamba ads is one of the reasons why I have stopped watching MTV, they are so annoying, and so frequent, that I just can’t stand it (the top reason of course being that MTV no longer plays any music, so the reason to actually watch the channel is gone).

I hope this doesn’t mean that the Opera Mini start page will start blinking and playing “Crazy Frog”-remixes…

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Opera 9.51

Wednesday, 9. July 2008, 10:49:50

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Apparently Opera 9.51 happened while I was away on honeymoon last week. A friend of mine claims 9.50 is extremly crash-prone (and 9.51 just slightly less so), but I haven’t seen these problems myself, all my 9.50/9.51 installations have been very stable.

Also included in the 9.51 version is an updated language file, which means that the embarrasing incorrect string that crept in to my Swedish translation for the hot-click menu is now gone, while there still is an untranslated one in the Save Session dialogue. Hopefully that can be corrected for the next minor release.

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Opera 9.5 coming very soon

Wednesday, 11. June 2008, 09:52:52

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So, the desktop team is producing release candidates and CEO Jon von Tetzchner is addressing the community. This can only mean one thing, that the release of Opera 9.50 final is, finally, drawing near. Two years have passed since Opera 9 was released, almost one year since the first public alpha, and too many weekly builds and betas to count have passed review through the desktop team’s blog, so it is about time…

I wonder if this is the right time to panic about not quite having finished off the Swedish translation of the help files? Probably. But I do hope they will be finished in time for the release. The actual program translation is the only part that is embedded in the installation archive, and that is already complete, the help files are stored on a remote server, so they do not have to be finished immediately. But the sooner, the better…

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100/100 on the Acid 3 test

Thursday, 27. March 2008, 06:03:06

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Tim Altman writes that Opera reaches a 100/100 score on the Acid3 test, which, together with Safari makes it the first browser to do so, even if it in Opera’s case is an unreleased internal test build (“WinGogi” is one of the internal testing platforms used by the Core team to test the most bleeding edge code, without having to rely on any of the platform teams to supply a full user interface), and in Safari’s case is the version on the trunk of their version control system.

Reaching 100 doesn’t necessary need the test passed, as there are other criteria, and the posts are silent on whether those have been reached as well. Of course, just after Opera reached 100, Ian goes ahead and changes the tests, so it might take a few more builds before it reaches 100 again, but it is still great work, from both of the teams.

Now the race is on to be the first browser to actually release a public build with the changes, and to release a non-beta version that passes. And for the other browsers to catch up.

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Opening the web

Monday, 25. February 2008, 09:03:59

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Norwegian IT news site Digi has an article about Opera’s work on opening the web, featuring Opera’s “Chief web opener”, David Storey.

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