Opera desktop team

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.

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!

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 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 :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 (proxy crasher should be fixed, please test those that reproduced it before)
  

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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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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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…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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Hei
We released Opera 9.6 beta today.
Thanks for your testing.
We fixed 2 issues after the RC and added Ukrainian language file :-)
Fixed:
*Sessions broken after crash
*FCKeditor Demo didn't load (broke alot of other stuff aswell)

Enjoy the beta :drunk:

Thats right, Opera 9.6 is soon ready for its first beta flight. We have now frozen all features and only critical fixes go in. Really soon now, the beta will be released, but we want more feedback from you guys before we do so.

Changelog

• Added Core version (currently "Presto/2.1.1") to the User-Agent header; all our products will include this feature soon
  
• Sites using HTTP Auth are now saved in typed history
  
• Added setting to prevent bookmarks from showing in the Address field auto-completion drop-down
  
• Properly stop loading pages with iframes when closing the page or pressing stop
  
• Fixed problem where dynamically added xml-stylesheet processing instructions were ignored
  
• Removed the document property from iframe objects for compatibility with Gecko, WebKit, and the Acid3 test
  
• Added support for the caller property on functions
  
• Fixed yet another case of having to press the back button twice
  
• Improvements to feed preview page
  
• Made feed preview page template location customizable
  
• Made reloading Speed Dial while offline actually reload all thumbnails
  
• Fixed Opera Link issue where notes could end up blank after being synced
  
• The Opera Link queue file is no longer created before using Link
  
• The fraud protection dialog now works when using a proxy
  
• Made it possible to remove Speed Dial search again by unchecking the "Use as default Speed Dial search"
  
• Fixed text input on Windows Tablet PC Edition 2005
  
• Fixed open/save of images in Opera Mail when using the image context menu
  
• Made all top-level access points (except All Messages) selectable
  
• Fixed a problem deleting drafts from the Drafts view
  
• UNIX: Additional fixes to flash plugin handling. Freezes when using flash should now be mostly gone.
  

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We're making steady progress on Opera 9.6, fixing several of the issues reported within the last week. Please continue to test and report problems help us improve Opera. Thank you!

PS: Don't forget to wish Jon a Happy Birthday (that's "Gratulerer med dagen" in Norwegian). Five other employees had their birthdays today, too!

WARNING: These are development snapshots: they contain the latest changes, but they also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, they may not work at all.

Known Issues

• Some feed previews load continuously and Opera crashes when closing a tab in this state
  
• Some feed previews show as unstyled XML on initial load (reloading the tab fixes the problem)
  

Changelog

• Fixed problem synchronizing with Opera Link on Windows and Mac. If you still get this problem, exit Opera and delete the file called link_queue_myopera.dat in the "Opera directory" listed in opera:about, then try again.
  
• Fixed problem where follow/ignore missed some messages
  
• Remember bookmark panel position after restart
  
• When setting opera:config#TransferWindow|KeepEntriesDays to 0, actually remove transfer history when restarting
  
• Load feed previews even when JavaScript is disabled
  
• Don't show both GUID and LINK elements when viewing feed items in Opera Mail
  
• Fixed crash when subscribing to feeds while Opera Mail is disabled
  

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Hot on the heels of Wednesday's 9.52 release comes our first snapshot of 9.60.

Everyone here at on the Desktop Team has been working hard to add new features to your favorite browser, and here's what you can look forward to in 9.60:

Opera Link
Custom search engines and typed history* are now joining bookmarks, speed dials, personal bar, and notes in Opera Link.

Feed Preview
Now you can preview an RSS/Atom feed before subscribing.

Opera Mail: Low Bandwidth Mode
Low Bandwidth Mode is a setting on mail accounts that makes Opera Mail use as little bandwidth as possible. For IMAP, this means that Opera will only synchronise new messages and it will not fetch message attachments unless requested. For POP, Opera will not fetch more than the first 100 lines of a message unless requested.

Opera Mail: Follow/Ignore threads and contacts
Follow and Ignore are new features for users that receive a lot of messages. It makes it easier to dismiss unimportant messages and easier to recognise important messages.

Opera Mail: Go To Thread
You can now also "Go to thread" which means that you can view only the messages from that thread. Useful for those that uses flat view.

Enjoy! :)

* Typed history is only the history you explicitly type or select from the address bar

WARNING: These are development snapshots: they contain the latest changes, but they also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, they may not work at all.

Known issues

• Follow/ignore thread misses some messages
  

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We released 9.52 today, which addresses several security and stability issues. This release is a recommended upgrade for all those running the latest stable releases.

Changelogs are available:
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Go download it!