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Focus on Desktop

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Arjan van Leeuwen
on October 9, 2008
in Apple, Linux, Mac, Microsoft, Opera, Ubuntu, Web Browsers and Windows
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As you might know, Opera is continously hiring new employees.
We're glad to announce that several new people joined the Desktop Team lately. :D
Wrocław
Recently 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 UK
But 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!

An Opera Skin to Match the Ubuntu Dust Theme

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kyleabaker
on October 8, 2008
in Linux, Open Source, Opera, Ubuntu and Web Browsers
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I’ve been using Ubuntu 8.10 for a while now, since the first alphas were released, and I’ve been watching the artwork for Intrepid Ibex develop.

Now I think I’ve decided which theme I will be using in Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and that is the Dust theme. You can get an idea of what it would look like on the Dust page, but I have mixed the dust theme with one of the proposed wallpapers for Intrepid Ibex that seems to mix well.

After mixing those, I realized that I couldn’t find a good skin for Opera to match the rest of the desktop so I set out to make my own.

I’m really not a big fan of the current default Opera skin, so I set out to find a skin that I felt was universally considered intuitive and easy to follow. That theme to me was the Google Chrome theme.

I had checked weeks ago on Opera Skins and found that no one had made a Google Chrome theme yet. Fortunately, this time I found one and it was done pretty well.

I grabbed the skin Chrome 1.92 and extracted the contents. Then the fun part began. All I had to do was replace a couple of images to make the header tie into the Dust theme title bar and desaturate the rest (or a great deal of them).

After that, zipped it up and tested it out. Here is what I got:

Opera is on the left, compared to Firefox on the right with a theme that was developed by someone else to match the Dust theme.

I will most likely make a Dust skin from the default Opera skin as well, but for now I’m enjoying the Google Chrome-Dust theme. :D

I’ll upload it to the rest of my Opera skins soon. I just need to polish up a few graphics and implement the Dust scroll bar (as seen in Firefox) for consistency.

UPDATE (2008-10-08 @ 6:06 PM):
The “Opera Google Chrome Dust” or “Dusty Chrome,” which ever you prefer, is now available in it’s initial release:
http://kyleabaker.com/goodies/opera/skins/opera-google-chrome-dust/

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Opera 9.6 released: Discover Opera!

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Arjan van Leeuwen
on October 8, 2008
in Apple, Linux, Mac, Microsoft, Opera, Ubuntu, Web Browsers and Windows
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Opera 9.6 final has been released today! :cheers:
Thanks for bug hunting and giving feedback. :up:
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 Opera
We also launched a new site today: Discover Opera. It shows in simple steps how to use many of the powerfull 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 :sherlock:

Now check out the brushed-up Choose Opera Blog and download Opera!

Enjoy!
The Deskop Team

Opera 9.6 RC 2

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Claudio Santambrogio
on October 4, 2008
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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 :whistle:
  • 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


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Typical browser users (picture)

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Tamil
on October 1, 2008
in Apple, Linux, Mac, Microsoft, Opera, Ubuntu, Web Browsers and Windows
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I saw this funny comparison of typical browser users on Choose Opera.

Typical browser users

Opera 9.6 RC 1

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Desktop Team
on October 1, 2008
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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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9.6 approaching

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Arjan van Leeuwen
on September 26, 2008
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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 :ninja:

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Upgrading Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10

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kyleabaker
on September 23, 2008
in How-To, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems and Ubuntu
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I’m seeing a lot of search results coming in for this topic and while I have answered this in the past, it was for a different version update and will lose relevance.

Also note that Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex is not scheduled to be released automatically until October 30, 2008. Upgrading at this point will update your system to Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 6. If you wait until October 2nd you will upgrade to the Beta Release and waiting until October 23rd will upgrade you to the Release Candidate.

I’ve been using Ubuntu 8.10 since Alpha 1 and it has been stable and amazing the entire time!

Upgrading from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10

To upgrade from Ubuntu 8.04, run “update-manager -d” using the update-manager package from hardy. You can do this quickly by pressing Alt+F2 to launch the Run Application dialog and paste and press enter.

This will launch the Update Manager, but it will also at the same time search for release updates.

After the Update manager has launched you should see a button above the updates list box that says:

New distribution release ‘8.10′ is available

There should be an “Upgrade” button to the right of it. Clicking this button will guide you through upgrading to the latest release.

Below is an image similar to what you should see:

So here’s a really quick overview:

  1. Press Alt+F2 to launch the Run Application dialog.
  2. Copy and paste “update-manager -d” and press enter.
  3. Click the “Upgrade” button in the Update Manager window.
  4. Follow the steps and make sure to reboot when you’re told to.
  5. Finished!
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Another step…

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Claudio Santambrogio
on September 19, 2008
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…closer to 9.60 - with a special attention to our Chinese mail users :)

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.

Known Issue
  • Dragonfly is still a bit unstable…


Changelog
  • Several stability fixes
  • Fixed copying of multiple entries from history manager
  • Fixed DCC transfers in IRC
  • Fixed quick find in feeds
  • Added popular Chinese mail providers in mailproviders.xml


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A New Snapshot and My First Post Here

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Arjan van Leeuwen
on September 12, 2008
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Hello, my name is Øyvind and this is my first post here since I joined the Opera's Desktop Team less than two months ago. It has been a busy time for me, but at the same time, I think it was the perfect time for me to join. I have already witnessed the release of 9.52, and we are getting close to releasing 9.6.

Before I started, I was just a MyOpera member roaming the #weekly IRC channel. Fridays were always a highlight. That's when I got the answer to all my questions. Did someone fix my bugs? Were there any new features enabled? When is the next version due? Now when I am on the inside I get to know all this information every day I go to work. And the best of all, I can now fix bugs myself, as well as play and contribute new functionality for the next release. So now I get to have fun every day. What more can I ask for?

Today we have formally EV-enabled Verisign and Comodo in Opera v9.5 and later, which you can read more about in Yngve's blog post. So go and try out our new snapshot, and have a lovely weekend.

- ØØ -

WARNING: This is a development snapshots: 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.

Known Issue
  • Dragonfly is a bit unstable

Changelog
  • Special characters are now displayed properly in the Address bar drop-down
  • Sorting by progress in Transfers now works
  • Cache files from feeds no longer show up in Transfers
  • Speed Dial thumbnails no longer disappear when deleting private data
  • Page encoding in site preferences can now be reset to automatic
  • Dragonfly element highlighting no longer stays on the page after closing the developer tools window
  • Browsing Intranet sites now works after changing proxies in a running session

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