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- Opera UI feedbackNovember 11
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Hi folks, I've now started as Lead Designer at Opera, and this is my inaugural post on the Desktop Team Blog! I'm looking forward to blogging here about the process as much as I can.
I'm currently working on a strategy on how to take the Opera User Interface forward, and I'm eager to get your opinions on a particular subject: Native look and feel.
How much does Opera feel like native application on your operating system? How much does it matter to you? Those using Opera on just one platform may want it look utterly native, whereas those using it on multiple platforms might appreciate a consistent 'family' look. This is one of the things I'll be looking at, and striving to find the right balance and approach.
I'm predominantly a OS X user, so I'm particularly looking for (constructive!) feedback from users on other platforms. In the past, I'd always thought that the Mac was the only platform where where Opera looked like it didn't quite 'fit', but I need to be sure!
Please let me your thoughts via this simple survey form. Thanks for all your help! - 9.62October 30
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We released 9.62 today, which addresses some security issues. This release is a recommended upgrade for all those running the latest stable releases.
Changelogs are available:
Windows
Mac
Linux/UNIX
Go download it! - Opera 9.61 releasedOctober 21
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Hot on the heels of 9.60, we had to release Opera 9.61 to address problems in Opera Link. Alone, each issue we discovered was miniscule and shouldn't have caused any problems, but together, and coupled with some server issues, it turned out to be more serious than we thought.
If you've been using Opera Link and has had problems with Opera freezing, getting duplicate bookmarks from nowhere, eternal syncing or other problems, you should upgrade to 9.61, especially since it also has some security fixes. - Come to MAMA!October 15
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Oki everyone now it's time for "yo mama jokes".. or not really :doh:
Some of you are interested in what kind of tools we use. Brian has made a blogpost about an internal search tool. We use it to find information and sites where we can test Web technologies. In short, MAMA is a miner, a database, an analyzer, and a search engine. It indexes not the content of a Web page as "traditional" search engines, but everything else (markup, scripting, etc.).
Check out our MAMA:
http://my.opera.com/operaqa/blog/2008/10/15/mama-what-is-the-web-made-of - Opera Link duplicatesOctober 10
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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.