Meet the browser: Opera Next

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Originally posted by Aviram

Opera is known as the fastest and smallest full-featured browser, a first choice for people using older PCs and Windows 95 and a brilliant alternative to the default IE from Microsoft.

This new version has a chance to actually beat IE hands-down because it has a truckload of new and exciting features. It complies to all the current web-page standards, it has a completely new interface (you can choose from single window and multi-window view), built-in search, a download manager, an advanced mail/news reader, print preview, a huge bookmark collection and much more in a 2Mb free package! Well, the free package also includes banner ads, but Opera is believed to be completely free of spyware, unlike some of its competitors. It?s lightning fast as well as stable and it looks gorgeous. It?s simply perfect! For a complete list of features check out the official website, there?s vastly more to discover.

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? Hotmail localization fixed

? Save image as doesn't put it in transfers anymore

? Last used search engine is now remembered

? Using namespace in widgets now works

? Find in page with same search word on newly loaded pages now works

? Search engines now can't be added without a keyword

? Newsfeeds can now be renamed

? Multiple stablity fixes

Download Opera 9.01 Weekly Build 8509

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I wish they'd fix the text misaligned out of menu boundary on Gmail, SGI, Dell and other sites that use such menu. And that sites would update every time you visit them, especially when you first start the browser, now even if I set Check Documents/Images to Always, on start up I see cached page, ennoying. And what do we get? Ability to rename things... I mean aside from that Hotmail fix none of that stuff is any use.

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Another one is out, and I think it's about time this thread gets a convenient link to their build page too :)

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

With the minimal focus on features and everything about bug fixing and stability, 9.01 looks to end up like a really good version.

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Build 8518 Released

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Spell checking now works on Gmail

Allowing third party cookies in site prefs when allowing only site-cookies globally now works

NTLM should now work through HTTP proxies

Improvement to interaction with plugins on Mac

Typed history is now removed when deleting history from prefs

Fixed a display problem relating to Windows media player

Added support for exls:node-set in XSLT

Links in ismap/map now works properly

Several SVG fixes

Several stability fixes and memory usage optimizations

Several IMAP fixes

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Steve Gosselin

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Build 8533/3471/387 Released

Changelog

Empty spam puts messages in trash again

Fixes to contenteditable

Several stability fixes

Several IMAP fixes

Open image in mail does now opens in new tab

Fixed bug where inline error messages opened blank

Fixed bug where Java Applet did not load when width and height set to 0

Chat colors (re)fixed

Search field now shows dropdown when using the down arrow key.

Fixed bug where Error console constantly appeared by renaming preference from "Console Filter" to "Error Console Filter"

Filters with huge numbers of mail will now act significantly faster.

UNIX notes

Fixed dependencies in rpm packages

Running install.sh while Opera is running doesn't crash Opera anymore

Improved options tab in Print dialog

Background (shape) color for widgets is now grey (#505150) instead of dark blue. (#375175).

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Steve Gosselin

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...are these builds safe to install overtop of the existing Opera...

yeap, upgraded from v9.0 to v9.01 without problem. All seems to works fine for me with latest build. For me, only two application crashs (block content dialog) with v9.0 and v9.01... :)

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Anyone notice how in build 8533, when my.opera.com/desktopteam is loaded, a Widget icon appears right beside the RSS icon? I swear it wasn't there before... :huh:

In any case, it downloads a mini RSS widget for that blog. Pretty nice.

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Anyone notice how in build 8533, when my.opera.com/desktopteam is loaded, a Widget icon appears right beside the RSS icon? I swear it wasn't there before... :huh:

In any case, it downloads a mini RSS widget for that blog. Pretty nice.

Yeap, nice addon! // https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?show...amp;p=587717431 ;)

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Steve Gosselin

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Build 8542/3482/395 Released

One more weekly release on the road to 9.01 - and this week's focus is on NTLM. We would greatly appreciate any feedback from those that have experienced NTLM problems in the past.

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Performance fixes for widgets on Windows

Several stability fixes

Lots of NTLM fixes

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Build 8543/3486/396 Released

The week just started - but you won't have to wait for a new build, not even until mid-week! Few fixes in this build:

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Cookies are now autosaved

Flash in feeds now works again

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Build 8552/3489/400 Released

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Fixed bug where onload event wasn't sent to frames in some circumstances. Broke f.ex video on cnn.com.

More NTLM fixes.

Fixed some incorrect handling of cookies when loading pages setting/using cookies from feeds and email.

Fixed problem with authentication and only if modified checks.

Fixed missing space character in test for inline uuencoded content.

Fixed a bug where dragging config.xml into 0pera does not open the widget.

Made sure Flash that was bundled with Opera 8 is kept when upgrading to Opera 9.

More stability work.

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9.02 Build 8573

Changelog:

Lots of stability fixes.

Support for the Windows XP Media Center Edition remote control.

Several fixes to saving of images.

HTML editing in Wordpress and TinyMCE makes content no longer disappear.

Page title is now shown (again) under name column in History.

Fixed functionality on the new Flickr Organizer.

It is now possible to stop a newsfeed checking for updates.

Fixed Site Preferences & content blocker being greyed out on some sites.

Properties in Contacts and Bookmarks panel do not get disabled anymore.

Opera no longer crashes when trying to save a downloaded file to a full disk.

Windows specific:

Files can now be attached to e-mail messages if the file is read-only.

Mac specific:

Fixed crash with last.fm.

UNIX specific:

Telnet links now open in terminal by default.

And make also sure you do not forget that we also have a

Known Issue:

When subscribing to a feed you are not prompted the question whether you would like to subscribe.

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Changelog:

Lots of stability fixes.

Support for the Windows XP Media Center Edition remote control.

Several fixes to saving of images.

HTML editing in Wordpress and TinyMCE makes content no longer disappear.

Page title is now shown (again) under name column in History.

Fixed functionality on the new Flickr Organizer.

It is now possible to stop a newsfeed checking for updates.

Fixed Site Preferences & content blocker being greyed out on some sites.

Properties in Contacts and Bookmarks panel do not get disabled anymore.

Opera no longer crashes when trying to save a downloaded file to a full disk.

Windows specific:

Files can now be attached to e-mail messages if the file is read-only.

Mac specific:

Fixed crash with last.fm.

UNIX specific:

Telnet links now open in terminal by default.

And make also sure you do not forget that we also have a

Known Issue:

When subscribing to a feed you are not prompted the question whether you would like to subscribe.

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The changelog doesn't show all fixes that are in. We highlight the most visible ones

-- source // http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/show....#comment2079754

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Steve Gosselin

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Just installed, do you guys do a clean install? or an 'upgrade'? I did a clean install because it I wasn't sure. Also is this build faster? It feels a little faster, but could just be the placebo effect.

Two latest builds are really faster. :yes:

Upgrade --> Official 9.01 to Official 9.02 to Official 9.03 to ... ... ... ...

Clean Install --> Official 8.54 to Official 9.0x

Upgrade or Clean Install --> Weekly build 9.01 to Weekly build 9.01

Clean Install --> Weekly build 9.01 to Official 9.02

:)

Build 8584/3511/427 Released

9.02RC1

By toman. Monday, 18. September 2006, 09:13:149.02, RC2

This is RC1 for 9.02, so please look out for regressions since 9.01. That means comparing bugs you find in this build to 9.01 and labelling them as [regression] when you find that the bug is new. Happy hunting!

Changelog

Fixed crash on live.com

Dialog again appears when subscribing to feeds

More fixes to falsely greyed out properties on bookmarks

More fixes to Gmails spellcheck

Yahoo mail beta should now work better

Fix for flash videos not always working on youtube and elsewhere

Added support for selectNodes and selectSingleNode

Updated OpenSSL due to http://secunia.com/advisories/21982/

ECMAScript

Made Slashdot Discussion2 beta work properly (Parse INT larger than 8388608)

UNIX

Copying and pasting now works properly on gmail

There are Intel Solaris builds as well this time

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Shubert's PDF plugin now works

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