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
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!
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 OperaWe 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
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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I saw this funny comparison of typical browser users on Choose Opera.
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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I finally got around to uploading the source code to my Power Hour program. I hadn’t looked at it in about a year and just recently have been getting comments and emails about it.
It looks like I may need to start it back up and see if I can finish it since I stopped shortly after getting most fo the features working last year.
It would also be nice to go in a clean up the code and stabilize it a little more with some error checking and such. If anyone is interested in fixing and patching the errors with me feel free. My contact information can be found on the “About” page (linked to above).
I also took some time recently to convert the code from the original Visual Basic 2005 format to the newer Visual Basic 2008 format just to keep up with the times. If you don’t have Visual Basic 2008, you can download it for free and get a free registration code from Microsoft. I use the Express Editions and they offer everything I would need.
The Visual Basic 2005 code is available for v0.4, so if you already have that then you can just start contributing code from that and I can quickly convert and make it fit into the Visual Basic 2008 code.
I’m working towards Power Hour v0.5 and I plan on publishing it after the application becomes very stable and all currently pending “tickets” are resolved. If you want your name added to the credits just send in some form of a patch or fix and I’ll add your credits to the program!
Until then just enjoy the program and show your friends. 
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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Digsby released a much intended performance update to the now very popular instant messaging client today.
Overall performance of the instant messenger has dramatically improved cutting CPU and Ram usage down up to by up to 75%!
There have been a number of stability fixes and general messenger improvements as well.
Major changes in this release include:
- RAM Usage: We optimized from the ground up and fixed memory leaks to lower RAM usage by almost 75%. This has been the number one complaint since our launch and we are proud to introduce this massive improvement.
- Performance: User interface elements draw twice as fast for better performance. We have made changes to the architecture that will improve GUI responsiveness and CPU utilization across the board.
- Connectivity: Every IM protocol automatically tries multiple connection methods and ports to improve the odds of getting through restrictive firewalls and proxy servers.
- LinkedIn: Digsby now supports LinkedIn in addition to the other social networks. Functionality includes a full newsfeed, alerts when new messages arrive, and the ability to set status right from Digsby.
- Bug Fixes: We have fixed hundreds of bugs, making Digsby more stable than ever. There have been almost 3,000 revisions in our codebase since the last release so there are too many fixes to list in our changelog.
If you haven’t noticed the update yet and would like to update Digsby now then the easiest way is to close Digsby and reopen it. Upon reopening, Digsby will search for updates and apply them automatically. 
If you noticed major improvements and didn’t know why, then now you know!
UPDATE:
Apparently the update is only automatically pushed to people using the test builds. All others will need to manually download and install the update. Thanks Jeffrey for clarifying that in the comments.
Just to clarify: digsby will automatically update for those users who were on the test builds. Everyone else must actually download and reinstall to get the latest version. The easiest way to find out is by checking your Digsby version by going to “About -> Digsby”. If the build is 15142 or lower then you must download and reinstall manually.
Related Posts:
How-To: Digsby+Wine
…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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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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