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beanboy89
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07 Feb, 2006 3:40 pm Opera 9 Preview 2 available [sdp=70063]  
Opera 9 Technical Preview 2 has been released. According to the Opera Labs page, there are some significant new features in this preview, including Opera Widgets, BitTorrent support, a tab thumbnail preview, and an improved content/popup blocker.

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07 Feb, 2006 3:52 pm [sdp=70064]  
A recommendation to Mac users who want to save space: You can save space by installing only the resources to your architecture (i.e. x86 or powerpc) by using the following command after opening the Disk Image, instead of dragging Opera.app to your applications folder:

Code:

ditto --arch $(arch) /Volumes/Opera/Opera.app /Applications/Opera\ 9.app


This will copy Opera to your /Applications folder and strip the bits from the other architecture, saving about 50MB. This procedure works similarly for any other application.

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DJGM
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07 Feb, 2006 5:03 pm [sdp=70068]  
If that's going to be the case with Universal Binaries, then some kind of installer or executable script is
going to be needed to automate that, so the less tech savvy users won't have to use the Terminal.

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07 Feb, 2006 9:35 pm [sdp=70078]  
From Opera webpage,
Quote:
Changes Since Opera 9.0 Technology Preview 1
(...)
New Opera Widgets feature. Widgets are small Web applications that live outside the Opera window. Press F6 to enter widgets mode. See the widgets tutorials for more details.


That's interesting. I guess everybody likes widgets.

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08 Feb, 2006 9:51 pm [sdp=70124]  
Is the snapshot of webpage showing when you move the mouse cursor to a tab that's not active new to this version?

Please see this short demonstration (261.4 KB).

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beanboy89
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08 Feb, 2006 9:55 pm [sdp=70125]  
Antony wrote:
Is the snapshot of webpage showing when you move the mouse cursor to a tab that's not active new to this version?

Please see this short demonstration (261.4 KB).

Yes. That would be the "tab thumbnail preview" that I mentioned.

Or as Opera's site states it:
Opera wrote:
Thumbnail preview – Opera conserves system resources and uses less memory than other browsers so it's easy to have many tabs open at once. But just what tab had that video you wanted? Using the thumbnail feature, you can find out by resting the mouse on any tab.


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beanboy89
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13 Feb, 2006 6:57 pm [sdp=70316]  
The Opera Desktop Team is announcing that new Opera "Weekly Builds" are available.
Opera Desktop Team wrote:
Here are the first weekly builds made available on this blog. UNIX builds are missing this time.

Download links
Windows build 8219
Mac build 3224

Release Notes

* Fixed some NTLM proxy issues.
* Added ability to save to disk from source viewer.
* Improved handling of plug-ins when no data attribute is specified.
* Removed support for "javascript:" URLs in CSS.
* Several fixes for the position style.
* Corrected encoding when redirecting e-mails.
* Fixed an issue with favicons.
* Fixed :required :optional :read-only :read-write and :default pseudo-class selectors.
* Improved handling of the autofocus attribute from Web Forms 2.0.
* BitTorrent fixed on Mac.


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Fulvio
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26 Feb, 2006 12:31 am [sdp=70896]  
I wonder what the Help|Check for new release means. A final version.
I had buil 8031, and was expecting a new one, but this is the first place that I saw anything about any new build.

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20 Mar, 2006 3:44 pm [sdp=71773]  
"I" found nothing special with this release. I was hoping for some drastic changes. The browser is fast and can be customized which i like. but certain sites still don't work. (Yahoo music, AOL music, MTV Overdrive, Turbo Nick on Nick.com, VH1.com , Billboard.com etc. etc....) There should be some kind of Plugin help for these sites. Thank God for IE Tab on firefox. Plus no major improvements to the Opera (M2) mail program Either.

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DJGM
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20 Jun, 2006 6:23 am [sdp=74490]  
Opera 9 (Final) has now been released. Please use this new thread to discuss the new release.

As such, this thread is now closed.

Thanks,
DJGM - SD701 Moderator.

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