Lazy weekend..

April 28, 2006 · by borg

We have a problem or two with the builds today, so we sadly can't have a weekly ready before (crossing fingers) tuesday next week.

On the bright side: You will see changes in the next weekly

Readers' comments

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

humerus28. April 2006, 15:20:57
Relax for the weekend!!!!!!!!!! |-)
Fyrd28. April 2006, 15:22:46
cielkisu28. April 2006, 15:22:53
hey thx for hard work going on~, plz be innovative and creative as always.
i can't wait next tuesday
GreyWyvern28. April 2006, 15:25:18
I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a weekly build today...
superjoppe28. April 2006, 15:25:33
What can the changes be? I'd hope for a unified toolbar and a drawer in the macbuild, but its prolly just some shit for the windowsversion -_-
WildEnte28. April 2006, 15:29:00
just make sure you don't work over the weekend but ... have a creative pause (c:=
FataL28. April 2006, 15:30:10
We all need to relax...
Ahui88628. April 2006, 15:42:32
bad news!
waiting.......
YtseJam28. April 2006, 15:51:14
Oh shucks.
krusha28. April 2006, 16:02:01
Guys r probably having a little vacation 4 the May Day ;-), as we in Ukraine do. Will b @ office on tuesday next week. Hope 2 b able 2 dnld a fresh portion of art ;-)
eestlane28. April 2006, 16:02:21
No problem, I would be too lazy to download the new one anyway...not really
babox28. April 2006, 16:05:25
gahbmwM528. April 2006, 16:07:36
Borg,

Although slightly disappointed, your attitude is quite refreshing and your candor is quite appreciated!

Looking forward to next week...
lukefab28. April 2006, 16:24:56
Changes ? What kind of changes? Isn't a beta supposed to have the feature list frozen and to be tested in order to find remaining bugs ?
mgillespie28. April 2006, 16:29:44
@superjoppe

Buy a windows PC then. Don't buy a mac, then complain about being in a minority group, with minority software support. That's what buying a mac is all about..
babumuchhala28. April 2006, 16:30:19
Damn

But hey anxiously waiting for the changes

@lukefab a Beta dosent necessiarly mean Feature Freeze. Features can still be added. Also they could be talking about changes to the stuff thats already there.
Kai_Fr28. April 2006, 16:30:20
yes, if it can besten the release of Opera, we can surely wait for it.
kyleabaker28. April 2006, 16:30:52
ah, put me on the waiting list...

can't wait!
velmu28. April 2006, 16:32:31
Indeed... enjoy yer May Day... oh, and hoping to see Mini 2.0 soon too
parsien28. April 2006, 16:41:20
The suspense...
aimzz28. April 2006, 16:54:06
Have a good holiday. You know we are always waiting
pholie28. April 2006, 17:01:26
The change may be the JAJAH VoIP I've recently about. But I don't care much about this feature.

But I would be happy if I could run mplayer-plugin too. The implementaion inlucded like 2 weeks ago hasn't made it working for me. That would be the change
klingoncowboy428. April 2006, 18:16:58
My life is falling apart! First CBC takes away my friday comedy's then this. IS THERE NO CONSITANCY IN THE WORLD ANYMORE?
adamos28. April 2006, 18:23:43
long weekend in Poland logg waiting for weekly build
CharleneFerrara28. April 2006, 18:49:54
Take your time, no need to rush it. Let the others commit mistakes by overhasting things. Not you, Opera knows that only quality rules. What's worth having is worth waiting for
See you next week.
tarzanek28. April 2006, 19:44:00
Wondering if you guys will have time to fix a somehow silly bug in resuming downloads ...

Hit stop in transfers, then resume ... the progress bar, time and speed stays the same, but apparently download resumed (just no info is updated to transfer manager)
(this was in easter build and also in opera 9 beta, too lazy to check if you already fixed it

TIA

and yeah ... if I am already bugging U, the widgets get dimmed (bug in transparency) when I turn another display (on external output)

;) thnx
vivabrevis28. April 2006, 19:56:02
Relax! You already did a great job!
Indyan28. April 2006, 20:00:15
Changes= new feature?
kyleabaker28. April 2006, 20:32:05
@Indyan
we can only hope so
HeadHunter228. April 2006, 21:12:47
if you have more than 10 tabs open you loose the overview.
Why not make a new window open when more then 10 tabs are used?
Or put the majority a line more down.
Tamil28. April 2006, 22:32:18
g4qb29. April 2006, 06:10:26
check this bug out

in Op 9 build 8372

1. go to:
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:Sn1cCeYV4OMJ:www.ipodbatteryfaq.com/+ipod+mini+battery+test&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=opera

2a. find "test"
2b. search for whole word

note that "test" is NOT found in the body of the page.

compare with 8.54 which works OK.
schrode29. April 2006, 07:01:12
@HeadHunter2: Right-click toolbar, select customize, change the Wrapping. Possibility two: Use the Window panel.
roioly29. April 2006, 10:17:51
好的...支持更好的版本!
Digidani29. April 2006, 10:36:20
@g4gb: The word "test" is found here in bottom of the page... I use the 8372.
sybs29. April 2006, 10:57:50
>You will see changes in the next weekly.

could this be a hint for a new standard skin?
yuri729. April 2006, 12:00:10
Good luck with new build!

BTW, online help is not comfortable for dial-up users
May be, ZIP or CHM it for O9 final?
vinczej29. April 2006, 19:58:30
I hope, that the new weekly will be at least so stable, like build 8372. Nothing crash, unlike to earliers.
Khurrad29. April 2006, 22:00:27
I've found a bug in Opera 9.00 Beta Build 8371 (Windows XP) and illustrated it here:
http://www.drachenasche.de/tmp/DoubleClick.html
searchme29. April 2006, 22:44:11
My advice:

1. Stick to fridays. Skip a week to keep on a weekly schedule. I doubt that the mid-weeklies in the run-up to beta-1 were well-advised. As a one-time planner, I can say that those who object to timescale deadlines are in the right. Sole exception: military planners. Regular deadlines are useful, nevertheless, for progress releases. Weekly deadlines are good but tight. Interim deadlines to meet unrealistic expectations are counterproductive. From what I can see, new bugs are pretty well identified within a week by a (very) limited number of testers. So weeklies (not nightlies) seems to be a good schedule for opera builds. Interim builds is not a good idea, however. If you miss one, move on to the next friday.

2. Be a little more transparent about work-in-progress. Focus your testers. That doesn't exlude discovery of new bugs or old ones. Just let testers know what preoccupies you at the moment, so that they can test those areas more thoroughly.

My conclusion. Opera is the best browser on this planet or any other planet in the solar system. I reserve judgement on the universe.
Halocast30. April 2006, 07:20:00
hmm.. does the next build fix the css bug? just asking?
l0ne30. April 2006, 08:03:48
Another bug I have reported re: widgets... if I use a PHP script to serve a .wdgt with the correct MIME type, as in:

<?php
header('Content-Type: application/x-opera-widgets');
readfile('TheWidgetFile.zip');
?>

Opera 9 (latest build) fetches the .zip in the Widgets UI, then crashes.
The .zip was produced by Apple's Finder, which has been known to make unfriendly .zips, so I'll have to try again with the command-line zip tool.
wurzelchensen30. April 2006, 10:02:36
@ mgillespie

you don't know very much don't you!
mgillespie30. April 2006, 11:25:51
@wurzelchensen I know that if you buy a mac, your buying a whole heap of trouble if you want to do anything other that surf the net and write a few emails...
ChepA30. April 2006, 13:14:43
make OPERA FASTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
lfom30. April 2006, 16:32:14
Enjoy the weekend! Thanks for all the good work folks. Can't wait for the new build.

@wurzelchensen
I do agree. It looks that some people still live in the XX century.

@ChepA
Opera 9 is fast! Just has some bugs yet. I am sure the final version will take care of them.
mgillespie30. April 2006, 18:21:35
How much faster do you want it? It's already faster than any other graphical browser out there...
johnf330. April 2006, 20:48:08
Hello,

I have thoroughly enjoyed the weekly builds put out by the team.

Today, I attempted to install a UserJS file. This is the first of this nature that I have ever had any experience with. I created a directory for storing the User JavaScript files. Then, went to Tools -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Content -> JavaScript Options and added the location of new directory to User JavaScript files.

When adding any file, it is not recognized. I have restarted Opera and confirmed my settings. No Luck.

Are the files required to be name.js or name.user.js?

Is this not compatible with this build? Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks,
John
WinXP
Opera Build 8372
RakuPL30. April 2006, 21:24:36
It's a shame that I'm gonna be away from home on Tuesday, so I won't see earlier than Wednesday the next build
Junyor1. May 2006, 03:42:47
@mgillespie: You couldn't be more wrong. Macs are great.