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wellofsoulss

Feb 13 2009, 05:50

I wonder if that means they'll update Opera Web Mail to be more... up-to-date...

wellofsoulss

Mar 10 2009, 14:26

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2009/...peregrine-build

Quote -

New Peregrine build

由 haavard. Tuesday, 10. March 2009, 20:51:34
We've finally got a new snapshot available for testing. As always, try to keep the comments on-topic. If you are wondering what, where and how you should post, take a look at the FAQ.

[color="#FF0000"]WARNING: This is a development snapshot: it contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all.[/color]

What's new?
This time around there are lots of fixes all over. Some things are work in progress, such as the spell checking feature (see the changelog).

Mail database corruption check
In this build, Opera will also check the mail database for corruption on startup. If one of the files is found to be not consistent, Opera will try to recover that file. You can find information about how the process went in the recovery.log file in the mail folder. At the moment, this consistency check happens on every startup, and will delay the startup a bit. This is going to be improved in future builds, and the consistency check will likely happen for every update or on a monthly schedule.

Known issues
Sending private messages at Facebook doesn't work
Spelling checker isn't working (moving to the Hunspell API)
Mail corruption recovery: The lexicon file will not be deleted and reindexed
The names in the online feed dropdown are not showing correctly in the feed preview page

General changelog
Core fixes (including fixes for getElementsByClassName, which should now work with multiple classes in className)
Regex \b is now correctly not matching the point between a letter and underscore
Several autoupdate fixes (disabling it should work now)
Several stability fixes
Fixed Facebook chat
Some UI cleanup and polishing (moved "Remove From Toolbar" and other toolbar customization options into a submenu, added the ability to reset toolbar customization, and the mail spinner should look better)
Fixed search field crash
Added more online feed readers to the feed preview page

Mail
Mails can now have horizontal scrollbars
Fixes to mail compose - and adding links to HTML mails should now work fine
Added a recovery mechanism for corrupt mail databases
Fixed feed progress stuck on non-existent resources
Attachments in multipart/mixed part of multipart/alternative mail are now correctly displayed

Windows
Fixes for font fallback problems, particularly for those using Russian as their default language in Windows

Unix
Fixed painting of windowless plugins
Java now works again!

Mac
Fixed position of plugin windows
Fixed crash on startup in Mac OS X 10.4
New Dock menu items

Download
Windows
Windows Classic
Macintosh (Universal)
Macintosh (Intel-only)
UNIX

I guess the weekly is becoming monthly

babyHacker

Mar 13 2009, 21:31

Quote - (wellofsoulss @ Mar 10 2009, 09:26)

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2009/...peregrine-build

I guess the weekly is becoming monthly

I just downloaded 1345 (the latest) and surprise, it has not crashed once unlike their public betas. But I am sad to see that their spell check is not working. Opera is way behind the times and integrated spell check is the biggest thing missing in a browser in the past two years. I have actually started using other browsers because I can't spell all so great and I do not want to cut and paste my twitter posts from Word all the time since their previously way of spell checking was so terrible.

Hopefully the final 10.0 comes out soon. Other features that need to be added are.

Private windows (is Opera too proud to copy others?)
Multi processed tabs
Ability to export toolbar settings or sync them online (the default is terrible down to the theme)
Did I mention spell check?

sirnh1

Mar 23 2009, 08:17

Quote - (babyHacker @ Mar 13 2009, 22:31)

Opera 10 will include a spell check engine, but it doesn't work in the current build (that was a known issue when they made the build public. See http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2009/...peregrine-build)

(Opera 9.50 already used aspell for spell checking, by the way...)

wellofsoulss

Apr 4 2009, 03:23

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2009/04/03/turbo-in-10

Quote -

Turbo in 10

由 huibk. Friday, 3. April 2009, 14:12:52

peregrine, crashlogs, pleasebackup, turbo

Opera Turbo included in 10
If you have a laptop, use slow wifi or mobile networks it's time to start using Opera 10 snapshots: Opera Turbo is now included! Since the labs release, a number of improvements have been implemented

We introduced a new (experimental ) Turbo setting: Automatic. If you enable this feature Opera will turn on Turbo when the network is slow. You can enable automatic mode in the Web Pages tab in the preference dialog. Opera will also show you a special notification when you are on a slow network and Turbo is not yet on.
Fixes to downloading of images
Impossible to click links on some sites
Gmail problems solved
Improved performance

New file layout in installation and profile directories
Traditionally the files installed by the Opera installer are named and layout differently per platform. For instance on Mac, preferences are stored in "Opera 9 Preferences" while on Unix and Windows this file is called "opera6.ini". In Opera 10 these differences will disappear. If you upgrade to this snapshot, the files will be renamed and moved to the new location.
WARNING: Please only test upgrading if you have backed up your Opera profile!
Known bugs when upgrading:

favicons are missing after upgrade
speeddials are empty after upgrade

New sprelling cshecker
In this snapshot Opera now uses the hunspell library as spelling checker. This provides better spelling suggestions and improves compatibility with several dictionaries.

Crashlog reporting, now on Linux!
In the previous post on this blog we asked you to upload crashlogs generated by Opera. Please continue to send logs, several crashes have been fixed thanks to your help!
Linux builds now also automatically create crash logs. You can find them in /var/tmp

WARNING: This is a development snapshot: it contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all.

Download

halcyoncmdr

Apr 4 2009, 23:56

Turbo is interesting but buggy. On my 6mb connection here it was activating when set to auto and reducing image resolution drastically.

Astrophizz

Apr 8 2009, 04:48

Yeah, it will reduce the image quality no matter what if turned on. I turned it off after trying for a bit (21 mb connection here) but it still likes to bug me, saying that my internet is slow and would benefit from turbo when the only thing that really slows down page loading is script execution locks that have occurred lately for me.

Crazysah

May 18 2009, 08:06

Quote -

Auto-updated already?
By Rijk. Wednesday, 13. May 2009, 11:18:48

peregrine, oldnewface, AUTOUPDATE

A new face on the blog! Well, not really new, I've been part of the inventory at Opera for longer than most other team members

Anyway, here's the latest snapshot. This time, we've told the auto-update server before posting here. Everyone with the option opera:config#AutoUpdate|DownloadAllSnapshots checked should get the new build automatically (or be informed, in the case of Unix/Linux users) when going to Help > Check for updates, or after 24 hours of running Opera, or after restarting Opera if it didn't check in the hour before restarting. Please use this method of updating so we can test our systems

We still recommend regular backups of your profile, but everything should just keep working now if you upgrade from 9.6x to this latest build. If you still see problems with some profile data not getting migrated correctly to the new locations, please tell us! The only thing that will not get migrated are manual additions you might have made to the old operadef6.ini files.

Known Issues

The license dialog when adding languages to the spelling checker is work in progress, it is not usable yet

[DSK-250495] Linux: Spellcheck no longer working in some Linux distributions (Mandriva, Fedora) after recent changes to locations of configuration files.

Changelog

Highlights

New context menu on the Turbo button

Core

Reverted [CORE-17828] GetBoxRect gives incorrect result for inline which contains block (caused the regression with empty anchors)

[CORE-6713] Absolutely positioned sibling of a relatively positioned child of a block with overflow hidden is not visible until all text is selected

[CORE-19778] Scripting does not resume if embed is replaced with CSS "content" property (stream.cz)

[CORE-20253] Facebook links wrap to new lines with Norwegian layout

[CORE-20438] Query stripped from hash - mobile books on Google does not work properly

[CORE-20596] portal.cyberjapan.jp never stops loading with Delayed Script Execution enabled

[CORE-132609] Nested absolutely positioned element disappears if ancestor has non-visible overflow

[CORE-12143] Incorrect cursor behaviour when 'moving back' in a RTL textarea

[CORE-20179] User can use spellchecker to retrieve passwords

UI

Work on license dialog for spell checking dictionary downloads

Crash logging: Some improvements and rollbacks to crash upload dialog, startup will NOT be skipped

Increased the width of the inline find pop-up

[DSK-249030] (null) in the server security icon instead of server name

[DSK-249277] Server name button in authentication dialog gives info for originating URL

Mail

[DSK-246549] Kill the lexicon file if it's corrupted, and let it be reindexed

BitTorrent

[DSK-252091] "Use system default" dropdown in the BitTorrent download dialog should be inactive when that radio button isn't selected

[DSK-252084] BitTorrent dialog only works the first time you click a torrent link

Opera Turbo

Added info menu item in Turbo context menu

Changed Turbo info URL

Tweaks to the detection of slow connections

Small fix for Turbo not enabling when clicked

Dragonfly

[CORE-15825] Crash in DOM inspector when inspecting document object with 'node' setting

Unix

Prefs setting to control display of crash dialog

[DSK-228856] Address field not updated on redirect for tab opened in the background): Don't handle focus different for unix desktop

[DSK-251817] Crash when opening menus

[DSK-251930] Linux builds do not upload any crashlogs

Mac

[DSK-252561] Flash content loses its position when scrolling

WARNING: This is a development snapshot: it contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all.

Download

Windows MSI / Windows Classic

Macintosh (Intel-only) / Macintosh (Universal)

UNIX/Linux

This one seems to be snappier and more responsive for me.

manosdoc

Jun 3 2009, 14:58

Still the same

Bugs in engine too ( Check the Tab in the wikipedia page )
This is @ Win 7 with full WDDM 1.1 drivers.
IE 8 is even better in this than Chromium, but close. ( IE 8 uses haevily Directwrite optimizations and more )
Click to view attachment

guru

Jun 30 2009, 23:24

good news: new snapshot on autoupdate.
bad news windows native skin is still messed up

d_ralphie

Jul 1 2009, 20:34

Quote - (halcyoncmdr @ Apr 5 2009, 01:56)

Turbo is interesting but buggy. On my 6mb connection here it was activating when set to auto and reducing image resolution drastically.

That's kind of the point. Turbo compresses stuff. You don't need it on your fast connection.

vinczej

Jul 5 2009, 20:30

Quote - (halcyoncmdr @ Apr 4 2009, 23:56)

Turbo is interesting but buggy. On my 6mb connection here it was activating when set to auto and reducing image resolution drastically.

I use Turbo on my 4 MB ADSL frequently, if I download with large bandwidth. It reduces the demand on bandwidth, so my downloading can be very undisturbed and fast.

Kommode

Jul 10 2009, 19:30

I found Turbo is only useful on dialup connections when needed. If you have a broadband connection, whether it is simple dsl or a cable connection, tubro does speed up a few pages but at the same time reduces the quality of images you would have otherwise received at a high resolution.

Also in my sig, the link to "Opera Weekly Builds" let's you try the latest release of Opera (with Unite included).

neostyle

Jul 11 2009, 17:10

in the latest build there seems to be a new icon for opera

kyller

Jul 11 2009, 17:50

Quote - (neostyle @ Jul 11 2009, 14:10)

in the latest build there seems to be a new icon for opera

i cant confirm
using 10.00 Beta 2 Build 1631 in new profile

neostyle

Jul 11 2009, 21:37

Quote - (kyller @ Jul 11 2009, 19:50)

i cant confirm
using 10.00 Beta 2 Build 1631 in new profile

maybe u shoiuld check

C:/Program Files/Opera/styles/images/Opera_256x256.png

xp1ode

Jul 11 2009, 21:43

^ man that icons looks pretty nice. I'm going to have to add that to my icon theme in jaunty. Thanks for posting it.

yanowhiz

Jul 11 2009, 23:14

By kristine. Thursday, 9. July 2009, 11:14:08

Hi!

My name is Kristine and I'm in Desktop QA doing first-line bug testing on Windows. I've been working at Opera since 2006, but i've used Opera all my life. In fact, it was the first browser I ever used

This new snapshot contains stability fixes based on crashers reported by users. Other highlights are Unite fixes and skin fixes such as updated icons. On Mac, admin password is no longer needed when reporting crashes. On 64-bit Linux, Opera will find plugins more easily.

There is also a new design for error pages, fraud warning page and internal pages so upgrade and check out the new opera:about and error page design.

Enjoy!

Highlights
New design for info panel, error pages, internal pages (e.g., opera:about), and fraud warning page
Skin fixes, including updated icons
Stability fixes
Unite fixes
Admin password is no longer needed when reporting crashes on Mac
Improved plugin detection on 64-bit Liux

Known Issues
opera:drives and opera:historysearch not yet updated to new design
The bottom (white) part of the new error pages might not load every time
The skin is still work in progress
Some Unix builds may be missing, but most of them will be continuously uploaded

WARNING: This is a development snapshot: It contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all.

Download
Windows MSI / Windows Classic
Macintosh (Intel-only) / Macintosh (Universal)
UNIX/Linux

Read more...

Comments

//From July 9, 2009

rm20010

Jul 11 2009, 23:17

I like how the builds are coming along. The skin looks pretty darn nice at this point. The native skin still looks a bit butchered for Windows.

The new icon - if that's it - looks okay. A bit rough on the edges though.

Mike

Jul 11 2009, 23:41

The new icon is part of the updated internal pages (opera: ones), go to opera:about and the icon is in the top right (although mostly cut off)

yanowhiz

Jul 16 2009, 16:39

More Than Beta 2
By manooh. Thursday, 16. July 2009, 09:00:00
server, snapshot, unite, beta ...

Hi, I'm Manuela and I'm yet another first-time poster. And I'm a Desktop UI developer by the bye

I was mostly working on Opera Unite the last couple of months, so it's nice to see it being public now, getting real-life feedback on it. Currently, we are making an effort to polish the feature. We are ironing out some smaller UI glitches, and are making Opera Unite even more usable.

In this build, you'll find everything that Opera 10.00 beta 2 has, plus Opera Unite. Due to remaining issues with the Opera Unite infrastructure, it has been decided that Unite isn't quite ready for beta yet. But don't worry, we're working hard to fix it

The crash logger has been improved and now works on Mac.
Important: Mac users, if you have submitted crash logs using the crash logger in previous builds, please re-submit them. We changed the format of the log, and old logs cannot be parsed.

Enjoy the snapshot!

Highlights:

Jon Hicks has been working hard polishing the new skin
The error pages are now less red
Plus many many more fixes...

WARNING: This is a development snapshot: It contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all.

Download

Read more...

134 Comments

d4rkn1ght

Jul 21 2009, 23:13

Opera keeps getting better and better! I like the direction they are going with Unite!

The new skin rocks!... and the browser it's even faster!

yanowhiz

Jul 21 2009, 23:15

Yea I think they are on beta 2, with the latest weekly build.

Frank Fontaine

Jul 21 2009, 23:18

Great to see that they are working really hard on ensuring a top quality release, they are doing a quiet awesome job with Opera 10

mwpeck

Jul 21 2009, 23:23

Finally an Opera post in the most recent 10 NOT bashing the company. Anyone elses Auto Update not updating to this latest build? I have it set to download all Snapshots and it thinks I am running the latest (I am running the "More Than Beta 2" build right now)....either way, updating now.

rm20010

Jul 22 2009, 00:01

It gave me an auto update almost immediately after I woke my laptop from sleep. I still insist on downloading the installers as I apply my icon patch right after each build upgrade.

Now for visual changes done to the skins for this build:

- The tabs for dialogs are way too puny in the standard skin.
- Windows Native finally looks more native. The Panels bar looks a bit weird though. Navigation buttons look a bit Tango-ish in the Native skin. (Then again, most of the new icons bear a slight resemblance to the icons from the Tango project.)

edit:

Quote -

Mac build may leave zombie processes running on your system which will feast on the brains of the living (related to crash logging)

Frank Fontaine

Jul 22 2009, 00:41

Quote - (mwpeck @ Jul 22 2009, 00:23)

I didn't get a prompt on my laptop

petrossa

Jul 22 2009, 09:41

Quote - (mwpeck @ Jul 21 2009, 23:23)

yep me. I have to get the snapshots manually. If i force get updates it tells i have the latest version (which i didn't)

GreenMartian

Jul 22 2009, 09:49

Quote - (Frank Fontaine @ Jul 22 2009, 10:11)

I didn't get a prompt on my laptop

Heh weird. Me too.
Both my desktop and laptop are set to grab snapshot builds, yet only the desktop gets updated...

red.

Jul 22 2009, 10:44

Quote - (rm20010 @ Jul 22 2009, 01:01)

Agreed about the dialog window tabs.

I'm using the Windows native skin and it seems to fit well except, as you mentioned, the panels don't seem to be done yet and also i don't think the tab bar fits in with the rest of the toolbars if they are enabled (main bar, etc.). I don't have them enabled, but for people who do, it doesn't look very good.

rm20010

Jul 26 2009, 18:44

Just for future reference, if you turn on this option:

opera:config#AutoUpdate|DownloadAllSnapshots

you'll get prompted when a new snapshot is available.

Also, I should add that if you use the Windows Native skin on a XP visual style, the visual separation between the thumbnails divider and the navigation toolbar is terrible.

I really like how the standard skin's coming along, but Opera still has a long way to go to please those who favour a native look for their applications.

mwpeck

Jul 26 2009, 18:49

Quote - (rm20010 @ Jul 26 2009, 10:44)

Just for future reference, if you turn on this option:

opera:config#AutoUpdate|DownloadAllSnapshots

you'll get prompted when a new snapshot is available.

I have always had that option checked.....I even ensured it was checked when the last snapshot was posted and it never prompted me, it kept saying I was on the latest version.

rm20010

Jul 26 2009, 18:51

Try hitting the Reset button in the Auto Update category in opera:config, then turn the snapshots option back on. See if that fixes it.

petrossa

Jul 27 2009, 06:13

Quote - (rm20010 @ Jul 26 2009, 19:44)

Just for future reference, if you turn on this option:

opera:config#AutoUpdate|DownloadAllSnapshots

you'll get prompted when a new snapshot is available.

has always been like this:

motorhead

Jul 31 2009, 16:46

theres a new snapshot out

petrossa

Jul 31 2009, 16:53

Quote - (motorhead @ Jul 31 2009, 16:46)

theres a new snapshot out

tnx for the headsup, automatic update still on the fritz:

mwpeck

Jul 31 2009, 16:57

Quote - (petrossa @ Jul 31 2009, 08:53)

tnx for the headsup, automatic update still on the fritz:

Yup, mine says I am on the latest update as well......Download all snapshots is still checked.

motorhead

Jul 31 2009, 17:00

chck this

CODE

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

New build version: 1679

Lovell

Aug 11 2009, 15:33

Version
10.00 Beta 2

Build
1691

Windows MSI

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2009/...ots-on-the-tabs

asim0

Aug 15 2009, 03:11

Just got notified to update to 10.00 Beta 3

JOHW

Aug 17 2009, 03:35

There has been a flurry of updates over the weekend. Latest is 1708 (I believe)
Windows MSI
Windows Classic
Mac (Intel)
Mac (Universal)
Linux

Pretty satisfied with this build. Some bugs that I experience on Digg has seems solved

asim0

Aug 21 2009, 01:27

Quote - Opera Desktop Team

Here's another snapshot.

Today you have two options to choose from: You can choose Opera 10.0 or Opera 10.10 with Unite. We're still working on polishing Opera Unite. We'll release the beta version of Opera 10.10 as soon as possible after the release of 10.0.

If you've installed any of the older snapshots or betas and set Opera to download all snapshots in opera:config you should automatically get updated to today's snapshots of Opera 10.0.

If you want to test out Unite, however, you'll have to download today's build of Opera 10.10 and install it manually. After that you'll be autoupdated to the next snapshot of Opera 10.10.

Highlights
Opera should now run on FreeBSD 8

Known Issues
No AMD64 FreeBSD 7/8 build
Clicking the preview as a visitor in the photo sharing service does not work with restricted/private access

WARNING: This is a development snapshot: It contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all.

Download Opera 10.0 Snapshot
Windows MSI / Windows Classic
Macintosh (Intel-only)/ Macintosh (Universal)
UNIX/Linux

Download Opera 10.10 Unite Snapshot
Windows MSI/ Windows Classic
Macintosh (Intel-only)/ Macintosh (Universal)
UNIX/Linux

rm20010

Sep 11 2009, 07:38

From http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2009/09/10/moar-bilds:

Changelog:

Quote -

User Interface

Cleanup + support for persistent favicons. Favicons fetched for searches and default bookmark file will not be deleted on clean private data
Improved favicon lookup to allow more matches than before and improved notification to the rest of UI when icons are updated or removed (prevents random empty buttons in UI)
Load predefined bookmark icon (if any) as a separate request when activating the bookmark. Helps restoring lost favicons
New mail.ru mailto URL with UTF8 support
Support for ICONFILE field in regular bookmarks
Update favicon for a bookmark entry when activating it if the entry contains a ICONFILE tag
Update one bookmark icon only once per session
Align the button menu correctly even when the tab bar is disabled
Fixed Bug CORE-23532 (Desktop should show a dialog if the proxy refuses due to being too old)
Fixed Bug DSK-263397 (The menu button disappears on Opera restart)
Fixed Bug DSK-261132 (Text is cut off in Unite Setup dialog [de][ru][fr][nl])
Fixed Bug DSK-261133 (Text is cut off in Unite Service Config dialog [de][ru][nb][it][fr][es][nl])
Fixed Bug DSK-261147 (Strings don't fit on Link Config dialog [nb])
Fixed Bug DSK-261148 (Strings don't fit on Unite Adv Config dialog [it])
Fixed Bug DSK-261233 (Strings don't fit on Unite Setup dialog [de][fr][it][pl][ru])

Core

Added debugging to get better crash info for Bug DSK-248074 (Opera crashes on laptop wake up)
Fixed Bug CORE-22207 (Skip body if inside a frameset)
Fixed Bug CORE-22795 (Two charsets in the same style crashes Opera)
Fixed Bug CORE-23766 (Don't throw an exception for illegal indices for StaticNodeList.item())
Fixed Bug DSK-264007 (Crash pressing Enter in custom search field)
Fixed Bug DSK-264708 (Implement sharedPath() and unsharePath() in DOM)

Opera Unite

Updated Unite services to use the new Yusef library
Partial fix for Bug DSK-261504 (No error messages on failure to install service with an invalid servicepath)

Windows

Fixed the serialized names to point to the correct folders
Implemented the new webfonts API
Reverted most of the mordernization of the menus
Don't check the flat menu setting before painting the menu background
Fixed Bug DSK-263409 (Opera crashes on startup when installed in path with 2-byte character)
Fixed Bug DSK-243052 (Command line URL length limited if browser already running)
Fixed Bug DSK-264426 (Large favicons in bookmarks list): Always restrict max favicon size to 16px, scaling down larger ones.

Mac

Implemented platform webfont handles
Added new {LargePreferences} and {SmallPreferences}
Workaround for Bug DSK-263933 (Cannot access Google.com in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (IPv6 and slow DNS))

Unix

Updated the SVG icon to have a square bounding box
Fixed Bug DSK-240834 (Opera Qt4-shared uses Qt3 settings when installed via install.sh)

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