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February 13, 2006 · by borg

The release of Opera 9 Preview 2 marks the start of a new tradition: The Weekly Builds. Every week until the final version of Opera 9 is ready, we intend to ship a weekly updated version of Opera 9 on this blog.

The goal is to further open up our development process to our devoted users and allow you to be more involved at an earlier stage than when we ship the next public beta.

The Weekly Builds are snapshots, they are not as thoroughly tested as a Technology Preview or a Public Beta. You should only use these builds if you are not afraid of losing data (e-mail, bookmarks, anything) or crashing your computer.

Readers' comments

Comments left by My Opera members under the original post: the first 31, as archived.

numberz guy13. February 2006, 16:37:50
Great! Thanks. I'll try the builds at home (and send feedback, if I have any). I'll stick to using the more tested software while at work
Pondus13. February 2006, 17:26:11
Fantastic!
seifip13. February 2006, 18:04:58
cool! thnx
davidcrickett13. February 2006, 18:05:24
Widgets but no calendar? Like those little shiny Mac toys and no functionality...
Junyor13. February 2006, 18:48:51
davidcrickett: You mean like http://my.opera.com/community/customize/widgets/info/?id=3445?
scipio13. February 2006, 19:38:50
The Weekly Builds are snapshots, they are not as thoroughly tested as a Technology Preview or a Public Beta.
Will Previews and Betas still be released?
YtseJam13. February 2006, 19:46:22
It's been mentioned in the forums that yes, betas are still scheduled. I believe previews as well.
MihLab13. February 2006, 20:05:43
Да традиция хорошая
janbar13. February 2006, 20:29:01
We dont know what you said, MihLab.
We will see how it'll be works, I hope that's good move. :smile

Pozdrawiam,

janbar.:smile
bquillen13. February 2006, 22:33:54
Where should I report bugs at ?
Tamil13. February 2006, 22:42:39
Tamil13. February 2006, 22:48:32
mark_poleon14. February 2006, 00:04:04
Where should I report bugs at ?

https://bugs.opera.com/wizard/
STNG14. February 2006, 00:32:17
2 Opera Development Team

Thanks for good news! This is great tradition. We are ready for testing Opera's fresh builds... every time, everywhere .
But some suggestion. Please read Wish-List forum (sometimes) and release new requested functions and features (some of them).
mark_poleon14. February 2006, 01:08:12
Originally posted by STNC:
Thanks for good news! This is great tradition. We are ready for testing Opera's fresh builds... every time, everywhere .
But some suggestion. Please read Wish-List forum (sometimes) and release new requested functions and features (some of them).
olli14. February 2006, 01:08:23
STNG: We do, thus preview 2 added ctrl+enter for prefilling www and .com and gui for adding searches etc :-)
Kildor14. February 2006, 03:22:15
olli, how about categories for newsfeeds?
And possibility to set max number of lines in multiline wrapping of toolbars? ;-)

PS: Thanks for news… $)
Огромное вам спасибо…
waterside14. February 2006, 07:32:23
that's cool!
新氣象,好,好
borg14. February 2006, 07:46:29
Another feature that has been requested by a lot of you is the Content blocker. We have a few planned improvements to it that you will see over the coming weeks..

PS
I see that my Russian lessions are finally starting to pay off
robodesign14. February 2006, 09:05:21
Suggestion: Make the weekly builds also available on labs.opera.com so that site is *the* site for *geeky* stuff about Opera: previews, betas, weekly builds and whatever is coming.

Currently, things are scattered over many places . Maybe also make something like Planet Opera, but only with technical blog posts from all people at Opera Software, talking about current or future builds. This would fit very nicely in labs.opera.com, so it would be a single place to visit.
vinczej14. February 2006, 10:48:27
Sensational! We will enjoy the new builds!
hootchboy14. February 2006, 11:21:16
Hopefully you have the processes and people to absorb the torrent of feedback that will come. Back in the day, we found that we were unable to keep pace with the flood of feedback and how to prioritize trade-offs on bugs vs. UI and other design elements, but we certainly gained our share of notoriety. - hootchboy
kyleabaker14. February 2006, 15:25:00
this is the greatest news i've heard so far today! this is going to be great not having to wait so long anymore for fixes and new releases.

thanks! thats a really good move in my opinion!

--kyleabaker
WillYum14. February 2006, 18:23:16
Yeah, I agree with hootchboy. People come out of the woodwork when they feel they actually get a say so. There will be a flood of persistent feedback, pestering people and plain' old stupid people.

Will there be good? Sure! I'm just afraid this won't last long if it becomes flooded. Hope big O is prepared but can anyone ever really be prepared for fame?

Best of luck and generally, I think this is a really great and wonderful idea. Just hope it lasts.

Yum
THCi14. February 2006, 19:15:52
Great Idea!

Will be interesting to see Opera 9, and hopfully edititions into the future, develop thier functionality even further.

Great work Opera!
jitheshm16. February 2006, 20:12:54
I am expecting opera 9 to fully support all the w3c standards.

And I really want to compose html messages in the mail client in opera 9.
falkons5470116. February 2006, 22:36:56
Please keep me updated on this thank you falkons54701
jihaiming18. February 2006, 08:10:42
My opera always go down and it's error is that: "0x500bf974"指令引用的"0x0000e7f"内存.该内存不能为"read";
Pasquanel20. February 2006, 14:06:48
Great job! Since switching to Opera I have never looked back.
iyoul21. February 2006, 01:38:44
I think the 8219 is better than 8225
DustinBosserman24. February 2006, 05:48:01
I must strongly agree with "robodesign" about making the Opera weekly builds (and whatever else is coming) available on "labs.opera.com."

There needs to be a single depot for those interested in participating in the development of this remarkable product.

I seldom participate in any kind of forum. But after experiencing Opera, whatever its imperfections (at present), I cannot be happy with any other browser (and that includes firefox, even with all of its extensions).

Developers, whatever your reasons for working on the Opera project, I hope you will take me seriously when I say that what you are doing matters in a very big way.

With that in mind, I wish to reiterate the need for a more centralized singular access point for all things Opera. Perhaps something more acessible from the Opera.com main page...something that says "For Beta Testers"...set off to the side, but still in plain view.

Thank you for the opportunity to voice these thoughts.