By hicksdesign.
Tuesday, 11. November 2008, 13:26:04
Hi folks, I've now started as Lead Designer at Opera, and this is my inaugural post on the Desktop Team Blog! I'm looking forward to blogging here about the process as much as I can.
I'm currently working on a strategy on how to take the Opera User Interface forward, and I'm eager to get your opinions on a particular subject: Native look and feel.
How much does Opera feel like native application on your operating system? How much does it matter to you? Those using Opera on just one platform may want it look utterly native, whereas those using it on multiple platforms might appreciate a consistent 'family' look. This is one of the things I'll be looking at, and striving to find the right balance and approach.
I'm predominantly a OS X user, so I'm particularly looking for (constructive!) feedback from users on other platforms. In the past, I'd always thought that the Mac was the only platform where where Opera looked like it didn't quite 'fit', but I need to be sure!
Please let me your thoughts via this
simple survey form. Thanks for all your help!
By csant.
Thursday, 30. October 2008, 12:58:58
9.62, release, desktop
We released 9.62 today, which addresses some security issues. This release is a recommended upgrade for all those running the latest stable releases.
Changelogs are available:
WindowsMacLinux/UNIXGo
download it!
By toman.
Tuesday, 21. October 2008, 08:49:31
Hot on the heels of 9.60, we had to release
Opera 9.61 to address problems in
Opera Link. Alone, each issue we discovered was miniscule and shouldn't have caused any problems, but together, and coupled with some server issues, it turned out to be more serious than we thought.
If you've been using Opera Link and has had problems with Opera freezing, getting duplicate bookmarks from nowhere, eternal syncing or other problems, you should
upgrade to 9.61, especially since it
also has some security fixes.
By olli.
Wednesday, 15. October 2008, 14:59:33
Oki everyone now it's time for "yo mama jokes".. or not really
Some of you are interested in what kind of tools we use. Brian has made a blogpost about an internal search tool. We use it to find information and sites where we can test Web technologies. In short, MAMA is a miner, a database, an analyzer, and a search engine. It indexes not the
content of a Web page as "traditional" search engines, but everything else (markup, scripting, etc.).
Check out our MAMA:
http://my.opera.com/operaqa/blog/2008/10/15/mama-what-is-the-web-made-of
By mitchman2.
Friday, 10. October 2008, 11:23:53
desktop, link, kestrel
Yesterday, our Opera Link server monitors noticed an increase in the server load on our Link server farm. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be because of increased traffic of items being added and synchronized, an increase far higher than expected from a new release alone. Our Opera Link server team soon realized that this was triggered by a bug in the 9.60 desktop browser and we went to work trying to identify the bug.
I'm happy to say that we managed to reproduce the bug and our Opera Link server team implemented a workaround on the server that is now live and seems to be running fine.
The users that were affected should no longer see this problem and duplicate bookmarks that got generated should all be gone.
This is also a good place to remind people that we do have a way to remove duplicate bookmarks for all to use. Go to
the Opera Link web interface, then use the "Remove my duplicates..." link that is located on the left side.
By huibk.
Thursday, 9. October 2008, 11:43:53
poland, graphics, jobs, Opera
As you might know, Opera is
continously hiring new employees.
We're glad to announce that several new people joined the Desktop Team lately.
WrocławRecently the desktop team
invaded Sweden. Now the desktop browser will be developed from Poland too. The Polish Opera office is situated in the friendly city Wrocław. The Polish office has opened in 2006 and since then many talented programmers have joined.
Graphics++ from the UKBut not only talented programmers are joining Opera. Opera Desktop and
Opera Mini will soon get a visual boost with
the help of Jon Hicks. Jon Hicks is well known for his fabulous designs and involvement in the browser community.
Welcome to Opera:
Remik, Patryk Obara and
Jon Hicks!
Read more...
By huibk.
Wednesday, 8. October 2008, 07:56:00
discover, 9.6, feeds, acid3
...
Opera 9.6 final has been released today!
Thanks for bug hunting and giving feedback.
Opera 9.6 adds synchronization of custom searches and typed history with
Opera Link, several new features in Opera Mail, a nice preview page for feeds and last but not least: improved stability and performance. Read
the full changelog for all changes since 9.52.
Discover OperaWe also launched a new site today:
Discover Opera. It shows in simple steps how to use many of the powerful Opera features. Do
you know them all?
What is your favorite feature in Opera? Tell us which feature you like most and what others should discover in Opera
Now check out the brushed-up
Choose Opera Blog and
download Opera!
Enjoy!
The Deskop Team
By csant.
Saturday, 4. October 2008, 14:52:35
9.6, rc
Were you already giving up on the hope of a new toy for the weekend? Don't despair: we have a new RC for the upcoming 9.6 release. Happy testing!
Changelog:
- SSL error pages now display again
- Fixed an issue where RSS 1.0 feeds sent as text/html would not be recognized
- Fixed an issue where opening links with the keyboard after an inline find would open the link twice
- Some stability fixes (proxy crasher should be fixed, please test those that reproduced it before)
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By olli.
Wednesday, 1. October 2008, 18:58:03
Hey Guys:
We now have an RC so please look out for any regressions since 9.52. :-)
Changelog
- Fixed error pages when entering unknown protocol.
- Fixed an issue where custom search engines would not get a favicon.
- Fixed an issue that would prevent links in frames *from* being opened by keyboard
- Fixed Fast Forward on Google search results pages.
- Fixed an issue where only a few feed itmes would be fetched.
- Text strings on the feed preview page are now localizable.
- Added a fallback feed title for feeds without titles, and added handheld style sheet to the feeds preview.
- Changed default global history to 1000.
- Added new default speedial.ini.
Mail:
- Fixed an issue where followed contacts would not be properly unfollowed.
- Fixed an issue where only the first followed contact would be shown in the Followed Contacts access point.
- Fixed an issue where the Followed Thread icon would be lost after restart.
Windows:
- Fixed a bug where network paths that start with \\ would not work, which in particular caused issues with sent mail when storing profiles on network drives
- Fixed installation problems on Windows NT 4.0
UNIX:
- Fixed an issue where text with specified size suddenly disappears on Qt4 builds.
- Qt4 builds are static - for now.
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By blaabjerg.
Friday, 26. September 2008, 12:42:44
9.6, snapshot
The first release candidate for 9.6 is just around the corner now, but there are still a couple of issues left to resolve. Now is the time to let us know about any regressions so we can fix them before the RCs
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.Changelog
- Fixed the Dragonfly crash
- Improved performance with large wand.dat files
- Don't highlight script focused elements
- Stability fixes
- Feed preview pages now load properly when reopened from trash
- Fixed syncing of removed labels in Mail
- Fixed an issue where the mail signatures wouldn't change if the default account signature ended with a space
- Fixed an issue where sent message bodies could disappear under certain circumstances
- Made Mail cope better with broken POP servers that send empty message UIDLs
- Made sure Mail respects the "Large font" setting for mail subjects
- Fixed an issue where feed titles were truncated before ":" characters
- Fixed a problem where mails would be reported as incomplete when the server reports the wrong message size
- Fixed importing of mail files with LF line endings only
- Disabled indexing of HTML and CSS in feeds
- Fixed an issue where feed status could get stuck on fetching
- Made sure filters created by IMAP keywords are saved on exit
- Made form buttons with zero padding prettier on Mac
- Fixed an issue where opening the Java Console would freeze Opera on Mac
- Fixed a bug that could cause notes to be lost when using certain characters
- Various Opera Link fixes
- Feeds are now detected even when served as text/html
- Fixed dataloss situation when note folders had more than one line in their name
- Fixed saving of svg when right clicking
- Fixed spurious highlighting when using the space character in inline find
- Upgrading Opera on Debian no longer resets default x-www-browser
For those of you on Intel Macs, we're trying out a new download option to save you some bandwidth. Check out the Intel only download below
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