The menace of the Opera

So apparently Apple has been biting at Microsoft because of some factual erros in their marketing videos:

http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft-Laptop-Hunters-ad-gets-changed-at-Apples-behest/1248451097


Wonder when Apple will follow that standard themselves?

From: http://www.apple.com/safari/features.html

"Safari was the first browser to let you organize tabs by dragging and dropping."



Sorry but this we did like 30 years before Safari was more than a hike in the bush.....

So today we released a labs release of Opera Turbo
http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2009/03/13/opera-turbo-labs-release

http://labs.opera.com/news/2009/03/13/

So when do you want Turbo?
Right now I do not need it.. Why? Well because my network connection @work is pritty good..
But last year I traveled around around in India and boy trust me I wish i had Turbo at hand back then..
Also the year before when I traveled to Thailand/Cambodia/Malaysia... Turbo is excellent when the connection is slow as sheize..

So who else would benefit fro Turbo?
Well.. What if you are on a laptop using a mobile connection? You could spare a lot of money..
So... Please test it out and remember:


How to test Opera Turbo

Not on a slow connection or out in the outback? You can still pretend to be by emulating slow network speeds following these steps:
Windows
Download and install NetLimiter 2 Pro
Run NetLimiter 2
Set the Units on the top right to KB (kilobyte)
Double-click on the Incoming limit for your user and set to “100”
Check the Limit box next to the “100”
Open Opera and enable Turbo.
Mac
Open the Terminal and type: sudo ipfw pipe 1 config bw 100KByte/s
Then type: sudo ipfw add 1 pipe 1 src-port 80
To remove the bandwidth limitation type: sudo ipfw delete 1


From: http://portal.opera.com/startup/

So we released Opera 9.6 today.
What not many people noticed is the installer size

Opera_960_en_Setup.exe 5523 KB

vs

Opera_952_10108_en.exe 6876 KB


and

Opera_960_int_Setup.exe 7268 KB

vs

Opera_952_10108_in.exe 8721 KB

Hope ya'll enjoy the new release..


*Starts testing Peregrine and Inline Spellcheck*

:-p

Our Core team has started a blog:

http://my.opera.com/core/blog/

Check it out you might see some goodies here from time to time and get some more insight in what they are working on :-)

After reading: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/01/21/compatibility-and-ie8.aspx and http://www.alistapart.com/articles/beyonddoctype I can do nothing but point to:


http://www.opera.com/company/jobs/opening.dml?id=67

http://www.opera.com/company/jobs/opening.dml?id=53

We will need more people to debug shitty IE behaviour. We already have top notch people working in these departments, but they want more friends :-)

Going to the Web Directions North conferance in Canada?
If so check here

The fuzz is all over the place.. and it feels like the twilight zone somehow....




Anyways Håvard put up a nice FAQ:

http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/show.dml/1582238

Uploaded some pictures :-)

Basically we found a way to make extra $$. Remove something that will make a group of users scream out loud then offer the poor guys working in frontline some money to put it back so they wont be slapped by the users for too long. So Håvard offered us some cash to put back the viewbar (disabled by default, but available in the appearance dialog) and also to offer the old keyboard shortcuts in the keyboard setup dialog.

We will make changes later on that people won't like. Especially when we are broke and need more money from Håvard :-p

So it seems Alastorhttp://www.avencius.nl/?q=node/597Alastor tagged me and I have to make a post about my top 5 feature wishes for opera.
I must admit this is not easy for me as I never have the "user mind" when I use Opera.. I always look for bugs. That might reflect my choices a bit :-)

1.Automatic crash reporting
2.Developer tools
3.Auto update and auto install of plugins ondemand
4.Updated GUI
5.Improved import/export of settings

So my turn to tag folks:
Non-Troppo
Csant
Shoust
Johan Borg
Tommy