No build this week

October 27, 2006 · by Junyor

Hi, folks. We just wanted to let you know that there will not be a build this week. Thank you all for your continued testing efforts and have a great weekend!

Readers' comments

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

pessotti27. October 2006, 16:07:49
WAAHH!! :'(
FataL27. October 2006, 16:09:26
Now when everyone depends on Weekly drugs, Opera can start charging for browser again.
krusha27. October 2006, 16:10:05
there also won't b a great weekend :-(

I.e.: no new build - no great w/e ;-)
krusha27. October 2006, 16:11:59
hey, guyzzz, why r my comments marked as spam all the time? :-(((
Alienz27. October 2006, 16:21:45
Thanks alot
Tamil27. October 2006, 16:23:39
_Grey_27. October 2006, 16:31:43
Thanks for notifying us
igorditerni27. October 2006, 16:32:19
No problem... but waiting is hard!!!
cyb0y27. October 2006, 16:39:22
Where is language support in latest build? Czech translation is not function.
ResearchWizard27. October 2006, 16:40:54
Thanks for the information.
Eddie_Lopez27. October 2006, 16:55:19
Scene: Friday night, the family living room

users: "Desktop Team... we've been noticing. There have been weeks when you've been releasing builds a little later than the verbal understanding we've had. If you're going to be doing some development past Friday, your mother and I would appreciate a quick post on the blog to let us know your safe and coding away."

Desktop Team: *sigh* "Yes users...."

Fade out...

Scene: Opera Cantina, same night...

Desktop Team: "Man, I just got off the blog with the friggin' users... they *always* want me to check in with 'em, so I just told them we were working on the next release."

Community Developers: *laughs* "Dude, you should just take some pictures of computers and empty boxes and just tell them you got some new hardware."

Desktop Team: "Niiiice. I'll have to remember that. What time are the Widget guys gonna be here? They're bringing the beer or what?...."

Community Developers: "When do they *not* bring beer? Oh hey, better yet... just take down your blog page and replace it with a monkey. You should be good for at least the rest of the night. Tell your users that you had a bad gateway or your server broke down...something, they won't know the difference."
mrd27. October 2006, 17:12:02
I just woke up with a bloody awful cramp in my left leg. Nursed it into some semblance of being a usable leg and came up here.

Now I see why I had the cramp.
FataL27. October 2006, 17:24:47
@Eddie_Lopez:
Serpher27. October 2006, 17:41:59
buu... ;( I want a new build! ;(
Oh, well I'll wait than.

PS.
Plz fix the title of the Transfers Tab.
kyleabaker27. October 2006, 18:05:54
lmao, nice scene Eddie_Lopez, funny,
lakeview27. October 2006, 18:22:35
gregbzh27. October 2006, 18:23:29
BooHoo! Here I was, having just downloaded my first ever build, all enthusiastic about my second ever build...et voila!
浮生若梦27. October 2006, 18:46:55
oh!!!in this case,usually we would say "tu xue"....
fearphage27. October 2006, 18:58:19
Thanks for the notification. Better luck next week guys...
illiad27. October 2006, 20:21:15
to continue from Eddie_Lopez...

web designer: hey guys, theres this new guy, he's come to talk to us about this 'real world' thing......

cast, in unison: whaaaaaa? but thats the world outside <www.opera.com> isnt it???? y'know, yahoomail, google, and even (gulp) MSN???

web designer: no, he's talking about something made with 'paper' .....
AndrewNi27. October 2006, 20:26:31
Thanks for letting us know.

I've noticed that Yahoo is quite slow with this build (8629) though.
Jimmy70427. October 2006, 20:30:24
As i know, the best GUI is always subjective.
But here is suggestion how the 9.10 security information box should look a like.

http://files.myopera.com/Jimmy704/albums/88900/secinfo_v3all.gif

So what do you say?
Zybex27. October 2006, 20:53:44
Images must be always showed in 'fraud information' dialog and in 'find more skins' dialog, when default settings is 'cached images/no images'.
Dark-Dx27. October 2006, 21:46:30
I'm waiting for opera 9.10

I know this is the best web browser, so many people says "firefox" but they are not good programmers or they are not. The EXPERTS recognize the best of the best. Respect to the builds, I'm waiting that phishing protection.

By the way, are we gonna see speed improvements?
sarah26027. October 2006, 22:45:35
ill give you 5 dollars a month for daily builds
OPC27. October 2006, 22:56:20
BOO!!!

(and no, I am not practicing for Halloween)
GaaraZanta27. October 2006, 23:20:21
Well, hope the build next week is great, keep up the good work.
sidfirex28. October 2006, 03:39:05
keep up the good work guys have great weekend you guys too.. and looking forward for the next weekend
andresruiz28. October 2006, 03:40:53
How can we have a good weekend without the weekly build ?

I said my girlfriend: "...baby this saturday we can't date, I'll be busy testing the new Opera build..." !!!!

Now what am going to do ?

mmm. Thanks for notifying us.
anyway I really don't have a girlfriend.

Have a good weekend too
klingoncowboy428. October 2006, 06:26:55
all well

Should probably have reported this earlier but images don't download properley from wiki engines in this build.
n-blue28. October 2006, 06:52:54
It's Ok. wait for next week for new build but thanks for good communication, letting us know what's is goging on.

Well, still some rotten brain around here need to be the first who post?
Le()niD28. October 2006, 08:16:09
Yo!

At least thank U for your feedback

have a nice weekend (well a could have it too without a new build) ))

and keep doing a good job

Opera 4ever!
Die firefox DIEEEE!!!!
Terumo28. October 2006, 10:19:39
Jeg så også fram til ny build av Opera, men det var et nedsig at det ikke kom noen ny build.
Så da er det bare og være på pinebenken i en uke til, da får vi bare krysse fingrene at det komme noe da.

Den nye versjoen blir så bra at en får lyst til å synge Opera.

Terumo
ThArGos28. October 2006, 12:03:31
hehe nice Eddie.
Thanks for notifying!
Have a good week end everybody!
Orff28. October 2006, 18:59:44
www.etology.com's forms do not work with Opera, at least the Wand cirtainly doesn't.
It only worked after starting it with MFF and launching it from the confirmation link straight into the account.
bobpage8728. October 2006, 19:27:20
Just wanted to report a bug, on the current mac version. The extras on jkrowling.com don't work. For example, type 62442 into the phone on the main page, and you get a special extra, but clicking the link to open it doesn't work.
IceArdor28. October 2006, 19:31:25
It seemed like 8629 was a slower GUI all around. I'd revert to 8585 (9.02 Final), but I'm being lazy. Please relieve me of this slow version with a new weekly. Monday or Tuesday, maybe? Thanks, you guys are awesome.
repellent28. October 2006, 19:55:33
Hello all

I'm checking back to see what has been done for these issues:

1. Getting back old download dialog behavior (as in Opera 8.54, prior to temporary_download)

The links below explain this issue in detail:

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=130916
http://operalover.tntluoma.com/tips/temporary_downloads/

2. Inline search always reverts to the first searched item on a webpage once F3 is pressed. Is there any way to start searching from the middle of a webpage (by means of highlighting start location, as in Opera 8.54)?

Any feedback is appreciated. Developers?

Thanks.
michBergen28. October 2006, 22:26:20
bobpage87 - It is a popup.
andresruiz29. October 2006, 00:26:45
I Installed Opera mini on my Sony Ericsson K310i

It looks cool, although I don't have Internet Access, jeje, I installed it only to show to my friends that Opera is great.

I saved some pages on the phone's memory, but Opera mini doesn't have "Open" button to browse my cellphone memory and open html saved on it. So I tryied to set opera as "default" but it doesn't have that function.

I don't why I say that to you, maybe it doesn't matter. But I don't have anythig to do this saturday night. jejeje

Bye
FataL29. October 2006, 02:45:13
@andresruiz: you better post all that in Opera Mini forum.
BTW, Opera Mini can't open anything "local". Because browser engine actually lies on Opera servers. You should have Opera Mobile to open local files, I think.
Rafal56029. October 2006, 09:42:59
worse.. I'm ex Polish why may me irrational
Evo2Me29. October 2006, 16:54:21
I gladly wait a little - if Opera Software gets a grip on the damn cookie/log-in troubles.

I am unable to use Opera with Google Mail, not just my own computer but also on someone's whose machine and Opera is not highly customised [Opera defaults].

And since last week I have problems with some pages in my Amazon accounts, i.e. when I want to change anything in my Recommendation pages I have to log-in, which gets me into a loop instead of the Recom page. And when Amazon recognises me and I want to have a look at the newest recoms I have to reload the page every time I change anything - not to show the changes but to get personalised recoms instead of generic ones.
ShawnSR29. October 2006, 20:21:33
Figures. Give us a crappy build and wait 2 or 3 weeks to get us a better build. I'd rather have a really good build then a mediocre build.
ShawnSR29. October 2006, 20:23:47
I swear...I'm almost ready to switch to Firefox. I hope Opera gets back on track and stops trying to be "everything to everybody" and focus on being the fastest and best browser available.
chrislu29. October 2006, 21:08:58
I swear...I'm almost ready to switch to Firefox. I hope Opera gets back on track and stops trying to be "everything to everybody" and focus on being the fastest and best browser available.
i can sign this! even ie7 starts to look very interesting.
nelsson29. October 2006, 21:32:20
If you think Firefox is the holy grail of browsers, you are in for a surprise. Needless to say, though, if you switch to Firefox because of bugs in a weekly build of Opera you have completely failed to grasp the concept of testing unfinished software.

Stick to 9.02 if you are not prepared for the latest cutting edge software and the new bugs that active development inevitably brings. Don't complain if untested and unfinished software is buggy. You should have known what you were getting yourself into when you downloaded and installed the weekly.

And if you think Opera being just a browser is getting back on track, you apparently do not know that Opera has never been just a browser.
jjulagay29. October 2006, 23:02:05
while watching a movie on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJo81ldR0q8&feature=PlayList&p=21F02B94B27E914F&index=22 the movie begins to stop playing within 2 minutes of playing. it just begins to flicker and opera becomes unresponsive. is this a bug?
kyleabaker29. October 2006, 23:51:46
@nelsson
Well said.
ShawnSR30. October 2006, 01:43:48
Nelsson, I definitely don't think Firefox is the holy grail of browsers. In fact, it's been installed on my computer and I seldom use it. My browser of choice is Opera. I download the new builds, unstanding that they're not tested, but when you (Opera) starts to try and be "everything to everyone" it gets on my nerves. Opera wasn't founded on this principle, but yet they're going down that road.

1. Why in heck would you release a build that isn't even compatible with Google Maps? Boggles my mind. I use Google Maps almost daily.

2. Do we really need this anti-phishing crap that is now in Opera? I think not.

3. Widgets? Come-on.

I've using Opera for a long time, I'm not some newb or ex-Firefox user.

Nelsson, and if you think Opera has always "been everything to everyone" you're sadly mistaken. I believe that if Opera continues to be more than a lean, fast browser / email client it'll die a quick death in the coming years.

---------
Shawn
Hoping Opera gets back on track