Opera 8.01 Preview 1 for Windows Released


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Opera 8.01 Preview 1 for Windows is now available for download.

http://snapshot.opera.com/windows/w801p1.html

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Build: 7583

Released: May 6, 2005

Release Notes

Unfortunately, a number of users have been experiencing frequest crashes when clicking links on certain pages since installing Opera 8.0 Final. This build contains a fix for these crashes. Your feedback about the stability of this release compared to Opera 8.0 Final is greatly appreciated.

Changes since Opera 8.0 Final

Display (Presto)

Fixed a crash that could occur when clicking links

Improved handling of the HTTP 204 status code

Plugged a memory leak related to XMLHttpRequest (seen at Gmail, for instance)

SVG

SVG animations are now disabled along with GIF animations (F12)

Fixed several crashes

Fixed various small problems

User Interface

Fixed a problem with UTF-8 BOM characters that could prevent setup files from installing

Source: http://my.opera.com/forums/showthread.php?...05&goto=newpost

I just switched to firefox cause opera 8 was getting too much buggy for me.

My most common bug is that a page would load/render very fast and will stop at the last image or something and stay there waiting..... After a month I had enough of that.

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Thanks for sharing that with us...

Thanx for the ironic comment.

I've been using opera since version 6.5 something....

I just lost my patient with 8.

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That comment wasnt even ironic... Do you know what ironic means?

Anyways, I've experienced almost no problems with Opera 8. There was a few times where I closed a tab and the whole browser closed but I opened and I chose the option to open up where I left off so no harm done. I'll update when its a final release.

Thanx for the ironic comment.

I've been using opera since version 6.5 something....

I just lost my patient with 8.

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you are probably hammering website with some preset of connection per server

8 or 16 should be the maximum!

besides that, thanks for the update

On the F12 menu there has always been an option to disable GIF animation (great to stop some annoying ads or bright flashing colours). My assumption is that this now also controlls SVG animation.

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Yes, it stops both GIF and SVG animation. You can test it at Opera's SVG page. http://www.opera.com/features/svg/

Preview one? Shouldnt this just be a patch or somthing? :/

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A patch? This is not a release. It's a preview (alpha) - a version for public testing. It is not a new release. It isn't supposed to be a patch, because there's nothing to patch.

I just lost my patient with 8.

Naw, you didn't lose him. He probably got better, and is now using Opera.

A patch? This is not a release. It's a preview (alpha) - a version for public testing. It is not a new release. It isn't supposed to be a patch, because there's nothing to patch.

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Um, what about the crashes that it states where fixed in the change log..? :unsure:

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