updates Meet the browser: Opera Next

[petrossa]

^ Simple:

1. Open GMail

2. Login

3. ???

4. HOLY MEMORY USAGE

Lol. Had to make an account, but indeed mounting steadily whilst doing nothing. Its bugreported ?already i assume?

[Mike]

I believe so, same with the GDI leak.

[Mike]

New snapshot if you didn't notice: http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/java-is-back

Doesn't appear to change anything but the RSS / Java changes. GDI leak / memory leak are both still present

[petrossa]

New snapshot if you didn't notice: http://my.opera.com/...og/java-is-back

Doesn't appear to change anything but the RSS / Java changes. GDI leak / memory leak are both still present

Tnx, yes doesn't do much different. Strange the snapshot widget says latest snapshot 3228 but in tiny letters 3234:

and this problem cropped up:

[Subject Delta]

The new geolocation stuff seems to have really bulked up the installer, and I really hope they get that gmail memory leak fixed by beta, it's pretty bad

[Mike]

They're kicking out builds rather quick recently, 2 in one day now:

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2010/02/08/acid3-and-more

Nothing to fix the gdi / memory leaks yet though. Guess they have a list of more important bugs to get through.

[mattbonner]

beta RC is out

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

[Denis W. Veteran]

beta RC is out

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

... which fixes the GDI/memory leaks. The leaks were getting a bit out of hand. :p

[Neoauld]

Wow they werent kidding when they said theyd speed up dev, faster than chrome's dev even i think, and mozilla's ass is being kicked hard

Wish theyd add a few things

-Some sort of extension system

-Right Clickable Menus

-Socks support

Sadly, theyll never add it, so no market share for them, which is too bad cause its a good browser otherwise

[Subject Delta]

Having read into their dev blog a bit more, I get the impression that Vega will have support for hardware accelerated rendering, but that it won't actually be included. I hope I am wrong, but that is the impression I get

[Denis W. Veteran]

Contrary to what I said before... the memory leaks are still there. (not the GDI leaks though).

-Right Clickable Menus

Could be possible. They're already using custom drawing code for the menus; that's how they're doing non standard things such as menu icons lighting up. Personally I hope they get native menu styling soon, seeing how they tacked on glass support.

[PreKe]

Having read into their dev blog a bit more, I get the impression that Vega will have support for hardware accelerated rendering, but that it won't actually be included. I hope I am wrong, but that is the impression I get

Looks like hardware acceleration will be standard, and supported anywhere DX9 is supported. Just not in this version.

[Nebuchadnezzar]

RC2: http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2010/02/10/beta-rc2

[Denis W. Veteran]

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/crash-fixing-performance-work-and-widgets-in-a-panel

The latest weekly fixes the two outstanding bugs on Neowin's front page. :)

[Mike]

^ which were those?

Anyways, new build http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2010/02/19/post-beta-fixes which fixes a regex bug that stopped news comments loading if they had unicode escaped chars in. Also some decent fixes like the new tab mouse gesture not showing speed dial and the auto hiding taskbar fix (Y)

[petrossa]

this latest build is pretty good and worth the effort of installing:

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2010/02/25/more-fixes

[petrossa]

wow they are really going fast now:

Opera 10.50 RC for Windows

http://snapshot.opera.com/windows/Opera_1050_3291_in.exe

[bogas04]

Oh crap , another download :D

So , IF , no problem arises, this is the final , right?

[petrossa]

Oh crap , another download :D

So , IF , no problem arises, this is the final , right?

I guess they want to meet the deadline of the Ballot screen release. I've got still a few issues with this release, but they are minor.

[bogas04]

I guess they want to meet the deadline of the Ballot screen release. I've got still a few issues with this release, but they are minor.

yeah , that seems to be the only reason for so rapid development. Anyways , a 10.51 or maybe 10.6 might fix some of those.

[+KibosJ Subscriber²]

Well now this is RC I am going to give it another go :) I'm liking it so far, it's quick. The only thing I miss from Chrome is Adblock :(

The Adblock solutions for Opera suck, if i could find one that works I'd love to give it a go but I don't really want to add lots and lots of entries into Opera's content blocker, it is a solution that doesn't work all too well. It doesn't hide the elements properly either.?

Other than that, this browser is coming along nicely :D

[Mike]

Oh crap , another download :D

So , IF , no problem arises, this is the final , right?

I hope not, still some annoying issues with the 10.5 builds :(

Iakobos: opera fanboy adblock, google it :ninja:

[+KibosJ Subscriber²]

Iakobos: opera fanboy adblock, google it?:ninja:

Thanks :) I'll give that a go

[PreKe]

Did they fix the thing where it wouldn't cache stuff and just download everything all over again?

[petrossa]

Thanks :) I'll give that a go

Works like a treat, add the Content Blocker button to your toolbar, so you can easily toggle it. The urllist blocks a lot.....

?"Set preference"="Set preference, "Network|Enable Content Blocker=1", , "Content Blocker", "Blocked" | Set preference, "Network|Enable Content Blocker=0", , "Content Blocker", "Blocked""