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Opera browser 9.50 beta 2

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kyleabaker
on April 24, 2008
in Applications, Linux, Mac, Opera, Video, Web Browsers and Windows
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Speed, security, and performance matter.

The Opera Desktop Team has released yet another beta of their Opera browser. With this latest beta the team has added support for:

  • Notes synchronization via Opera Link.
  • Spatial Navigation! Links are now highlighted blue by default when they are selected.
  • Extended Validation (EV) certificates support has now been added! This means that Opera will visually alert you of sites that are EV safe as well as the usual “secure” sites.
  • Fraud Protection is now turned on by default in beta 2! The included fraud protection has matured enough to be enabled by default now!
  • Full text history search! If you can’t remember the address a page you viewed last week, but you can remember what it’s about then you can now just type in some keywords in the address bar and Opera will list pages that you visited previously with matching content! It’s amazing!
  • Alternative tab-closing behaviors. The preferences now include the following options when closing a tab:
    • Activate the last active tab (default).
    • Activate the next tab.
    • Activate first tab opened from current tab.
  • Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right for Back and Forward are no longer specific to Mac, but also apply to Windows/Unix.
  • Any many more! To view the full changelog since Opera 9.5 beta 1, click here.

CNET did a really good review of the newest Opera beta:
http://www.download.com/8301-2007_4-9927854-12.html

Changelog for Opera 9.50 Beta 2 for:

Opera Press Release:
http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2008/04/24/

Opera 9.5 beta 2 for Linux x86_64:
ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/linux/950b/final/en/x86_64/

Online video demo:

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Opera is the first to pass the Acid3 Test!

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kyleabaker
on March 26, 2008
in Opera and Web Browsers
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Congratulations to the Opera Desktop Team for being the first browser to reach 100% on the dom portion of the Acid3 test!

So far, only an internal build of the Opera browser is sporting 100% on the Acid3 test. They’ve also announced that a technical preview of the internal Opera build that appears in the screenshot below will be posted on labs.opera.com in approximately a week.

acid3 100 opera

The screenshot above shows the Acid3 test as rendered in our latest WinGogi Desktop build. WinGogi is the Windows version of our reference builds used for the internal testing of Opera’s platform independent Core.

The contest came down to WebKit vs. Opera. Opera’s latest weekly build, which is available on the Desktop Team blog, scores a 77/100 on the acid3 test. WebKit had announced that they had achieved a score of 96/100 very recently! However, soon after WebKit’s announcement, Opera announced that they had achieved 98/100 and less than a day later 100/100! CSS3.info has a good read about this on their website. You can find that here.

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Opera: Easter egg!

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kyleabaker
on April 3, 2007
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The Opera Desktop Team has released a build today with some bug fixes that we get the honor of hunting for ourselves, lol.

Opera Desktop Team:

After a boring weekend we’re finally allowed to be funny again.

Personally I really look forward to the dress as a troll day, hope to bring you pictures of that.

In the meantime, here’s a new build with minor fixes all over the place. Our QA is too busy testing to even write a changelog, so finding the fixes will be our way of hunting easter eggs, I guess…

Known issue
he .6 rpm doesn’t start on Linux. You can fix it by replacing
“OPERA_BINARYDIR=/usr/lib/opera/9.20-20070403.10/” with
“OPERA_BINARYDIR=/usr/lib/opera/9.20-20070403.6/”
in the startup script “/usr/bin/opera”

Known changelog
Further improvements to flash 9 plug-in on UNIX

If you’d like to check it out for yourself you can grab the build here.

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