It's out!

October 14, 2009 · by Tommy A. Olsen

Finally, we can officially release 10.10 Beta. You have all been really helpful with testing, and loads of improvements have been made across the board.

We've been working really hard on Unite before this release. The backend servers, and especially the proxy, have been almost completely rewritten, to gain more performance and reliability. The Unite applications have also been redesigned, with some nice features added. Overall, Unite has become even easier to use, more stable, faster, better™, so please download this build and use it! One word of caution though: If you've used Unite before, remove all traces of the old installation before installing this one. We can't guarantee that it works otherwise...

The beta build is mostly the same as the same as the previous snapshot, with some improvements to translations and installation.

Go grab it!

Readers' comments

Comments left by My Opera members under the original post: the first 50, as archived.

Tamil14. October 2009, 09:03

Originally posted by toman:

The beta build is mostly the same as the same as the previous snapshot
Thanks.
HellbillyDeluxe14. October 2009, 09:03
Congratulations for Opera 10.10 reaching Beta. You guys and gals did an amazing job on Unite
archive114. October 2009, 09:06
feature request
- youtube autoreplay
- download youtube to hdd in mp4/hq
zoquete14. October 2009, 09:07
how can I remove all traces? Uninstall all services first?
RSD14. October 2009, 09:10
The search in Kelkoo, 'History search' and 'Find in page' have been removed in this build.
d4rkn1ght14. October 2009, 09:13
toman14. October 2009, 09:13
To remove traces of Unite, you can delete the services, exit Opera and then upgrade.
clean14. October 2009, 09:18
Woo Hoo!
kubm14. October 2009, 09:28
Awesome! One more for ya!
And finally The task manager.
mtrusz14. October 2009, 09:42

Let's hope that this time Unite will rule
Vectronic14. October 2009, 09:44
Media Player (haven't tested the rest yet, also I'm using v3.8, not v3.7 which worked even less) just...well, doesn't work.

In Opera:
1. Of the 1328 tracks I have in the folder it's using, only 2/3rds of them show up.

2. Although all 1328 have both IDv1 and IDv3 tags, it's only showing the tags for about a 1/8th of the songs (of the 2/3rd that it's showing)

3. Probably an inability, but some songs play in the Media Player, others, open the VLC plug-in to play them (CBR, VBR, ABR, doesn't seem to matter, but I suspect that's the problem, for the record they are all MP3, not WMV, OGG, or anything else renamed to have an MP3 extension)

4. Still haven't seen it use any Album art.

In Any Other Browser:
(Chrome 2.x, Firefox 3.5, Safari 4.0, IE8)
1. All tracks are displayed (yippee)

2. Not a single track will play.

Granted, it's looping back on itself, (Playing from the Same PC that's holding the content) but previously that didn't seem a problem (in the B1600, and B1700's)

Win XP SP3, yet to try Vista, or Win7
megaf14. October 2009, 09:49
wow, good nows to see in the morning, i just woke up and went here to check for something new.

thanks!
DjiXas14. October 2009, 10:01
http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/windows/

Will you add 10.10?
aust14. October 2009, 10:15
Visible to the naked eye the performance is increased. Thanks very much. But 1 bug with dictionary is reached: spellchecking is not work with .oow after restart Opera despite the fact that the added words is already presence in file.oow.
hurug14. October 2009, 10:21
Fantastique
fearphage14. October 2009, 10:23
Will there be a huge waiting period after 10.10 goes final before we get the next core? There usually are several weeks/months of silence after something goes final, but I'm being hopeful.
ariesptn14. October 2009, 10:39
Originally posted by HellbillyDeluxe on Friday:

Since the changelog is rather small than in previous Snapshots, I'll guess we see a Beta pretty soon.
He was right.
olli14. October 2009, 10:41
fearphage: We hope to avoid having long dryperiods here :-)
Sasquatch14. October 2009, 10:43
I still haven't seen my bug being fixed for Qt4 builds on Linux where Opera just stops working and a kill -9 is needed to close Opera.
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=283139
and
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=284568
Bug # DSK-261395
Wade14. October 2009, 10:49
FYI:

FI-NWPS HTTP site gives 'The requested URL /pub/www/browsers/Opera/linux/1010b1/beta1/en/i386/opera_10.10.4672.gcc4.qt3_i386.deb was not found on this server.'
ouzoWTF14. October 2009, 10:50
Thanks for the new build! Now lets proceed with the next steps everybody wants to see: Core 2.4, Carakan, Vega
Sertse14. October 2009, 10:52
The bug with Qt4 > 4.5.2 needs to be fixed soon (especially before any finals). It know Qt3 is recommended, but this isn't your usual bug, but render it nigh unusable.

Still a great browser though. Can't yet to go back to using it.
Wade14. October 2009, 10:54
www.break.com videos still not showing, they do play because i can hear the sound! Linux build
alberto.stella14. October 2009, 11:18
ARGH, new Opera install changed my default search (search in page) as Wikipedia search!
Anyone can help me how replace "search in page"?

Opera is the best!!!
fearphage14. October 2009, 11:25
Originally posted by olli:

We hope to avoid having long dryperiods here :-)
Fantastic news. I'll be hoping right along with you.
Galileo14. October 2009, 11:28
Originally posted by alberto.stella:

ARGH, new Opera install changed my default search (search in page) as Wikipedia search!
Anyone can help me how replace "search in page"?

Opera is the best!!!

Right click the toolbar>Customize>Appearance>Buttons>search and drag the search in page again, then click wiki search again>Customize>Appearance>remove from toolbar
godjonez14. October 2009, 11:30
Originally posted by alberto.stella:

ARGH, new Opera install changed my default search (search in page) as Wikipedia search!
Anyone can help me how replace "search in page"?

Go to Tools -> Options -> Search. There delete the extra search engine that has appeared and it should bring the search fields back normal. At least it did for me when I deleted the "Shopping" entry that was not there previously.
redpok14. October 2009, 11:45
One image says it all:
patkoscsaba14. October 2009, 11:52
Galileo14. October 2009, 12:09
redpok about the names of the Privacy options, delete the services and download them again, they should be ok.
kubm14. October 2009, 12:10
Originally posted by redpok:

One image says it all:

@translations - the same thing happened to me, try delete media player and install a new one.
DanielHendrycks14. October 2009, 12:12
Thanks, I'll give some feedback.
Vectronic14. October 2009, 12:16
Originally posted by redpok:

One image says it all:

Version 3.8 of Media Player, fixed the weird (Japanese for me) symbols, and the {{plugin}} stuff.

However, it did not fix the Tag reading/displaying, most tracks are still just Track Name with no Artist even though they are tagged properly, and even the file names are Artist - Track.mp3 (which is what it should default to when tag reading fails)
EricJH14. October 2009, 12:18
Originally posted by olli:

fearphage: We hope to avoid having long dryperiods here :-)
That would be mighty good news.

And of course congrats on the beta release.
zoquete14. October 2009, 12:22
Originally posted by redpok:

One image says it all:

Not at this small size
godjonez14. October 2009, 12:27
Originally posted by zoquete:

Not at this small size

One can click on it to see bigger version that has the problems quite clearly visible.
samMD14. October 2009, 12:29
sweet! . I hope finalized Opera 10.10 will have more "features" than Unite as I have been reading . But I for now , its time to test again!
kubm14. October 2009, 12:31
Originally posted by Vectronic:

2. Not a single track will play.

I've created an issue. I was able to play music in ff and ie8, but not in opera. You should create an issue too, about the rest of the stuff, but for me, I can confirm only the opera problem i've written there.
samMD14. October 2009, 12:31
sweet! . I hope finalized Opera 10.10 will have more "features" than Unite as I have been reading . But I for now , its time to test again!
hogehogehoge14. October 2009, 12:40
*Menu bar bug
Wolf-214. October 2009, 12:40
There is a problem with forum-software Burning Board 2.3.4 (by WoltLab GmbH). The Threads are not show complete. They stopped in the middle; for example is the last line: <s
Filip00714. October 2009, 12:52
Very impressive build and all works out of the box.

You are still using single file for all opened tabs in memory, not very handy if one crash then Opera crash.

Not really sure but if you have separate memory footprint you can have better parallelism with CPU, just my theory.
sebt14. October 2009, 13:06
So if this is the same as the last snapshot I take it that the completely broken media player hasn't been fixed

I'm a bit mystified why Opera would announce Unite to the wide world the second time round with one of its components so badly broken.

Here is the first blogpost about this, the are several other confirmations and further info later in the blog.

Ah well, roll on the next snapshot I guess...

Seb
Sasquatch14. October 2009, 13:08
Originally posted by zoquete:

does not work
check it befor answering nonsence, thanks

Yes it does work: http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/3948/errorsthumb.jpg
Ockendorf14. October 2009, 13:47
Thanks for the hard work....
IKoke14. October 2009, 14:49
icare14. October 2009, 15:29
Congratulations ! Thanks for the hard work.
kamalesh14. October 2009, 15:36
Originally posted by toman:

To remove traces of Unite, you can delete the services, exit Opera and then upgrade.

Can you clarify this for me? I should delete all the Unite Svcs/Apps first, then shut down Opera to upgrade manually?

Auto-update not an option...because I'm getting the updater dialog...?

I'm assuming this sequence is for this alpha/beta transition only...my parents/family aren't going to find this upgrade process fun.
donny8514. October 2009, 15:36
QT 4.5.3 :: OPERA FREEZING PROBLEM WORKAROUND:
(in case you don't want to downgrade qt to 4.5.2)

mkdir /tmp/_opera_workaround
cd /tmp/_opera_workaround
wget http://arm.kh.nu/extra/os/i686/qt-4.5.2-7-i686.pkg.tar.gz
tar vxzf qt-4.5.2-7-i686.pkg.tar.gz
sudo cp usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4.5.2 /usr/lib/opera/
sudo cp usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4.5.2 /usr/lib/opera/
cd ~
rm -r /tmp/_opera_workaround

and then run Opera using this command (forces Opera to use some older qt libraries):

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/opera/libQtCore.so.4.5.2:/usr/lib/opera/libQtGui.so.4.5.2 /usr/bin/opera
intelimac20inch14. October 2009, 16:09
Congrats on getting 10.10 beta out.