Comments on: Opera 9 Technical Preview 2 Released

By: LatinSnakester

LatinSnakester — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 02:01:00 +0000

Opera 9 P2 is awesome. I just started using it today. Kinda takes some getting use to with the new stuff but it rocks!

By: FonMax

FonMax — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 07:36:00 +0000

well, have a question.

do you use komfabulator’s widget engine in Opera?

FonMax.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 20:18:00 +0000

Why don’t you use F6 to show/hide them, seinman?

By: moo

moo — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 09:09:00 +0000

A great release! Can’t wait to see it improved.

It brings in lots of things that have been requested for ages (site-based prefs; search engine editor; content blocker) and they’re mostly implemented very well.

So now of the perennials we’re waiting still for HTML email and rich-text copy to clipboard…

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 22:47:00 +0000

The CTRL+T/CTRL+N was changed in the previous preview version.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 21:50:00 +0000

loving the fact that you can now use ctrl+enter and opera will put http://www. & .com for you.

I hope they wait a lot longer for the final release, cause they have lot of improvements to make.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 20:04:00 +0000

But you can always change the shortcut combinations by yourself, so the ctrl-t shouldn’t be a problem.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:30:00 +0000

not loving the fact that they changed new tab from ctl+n to ctl+t

By: vixenk

vixenk — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 14:05:00 +0000

I’m very pleased with this new release. IMO, Opera has really outdone itself with this one.

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 03:34:00 +0000

The bookmarks button is still under the address bar, Opera just disabed the ’start bar’ by default. You could enable it by right clicking on the address bar > Customize > Toolbars > Select ‘Start bar’.

By: seinman

seinman — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 22:05:00 +0000

I’m happy with P2 overall, but VERY dissapointed with widgets. I’m a huge fan of Konfabulator (now Yahoo widgets, or some dumb name like that), and I was hoping for a similar experience. Having the widgets above all windows is a huge mistake, especially with the size of them. Opening the calendar takes up way too much of the screen, for instance.

By: Internet Explorer Rocks

Internet Explorer Rocks — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 22:00:00 +0000

Opera 9 p2 looks good.

It’s a shame that Bookmark Button in the URL Bar was removed. I really liked that (actually I liked Flock’s Bookmark feature more, it was better)

good to see widgets, but i was hoping they’d be something like firefox’s extensions.

bit torrent support is quite cool and the error pages have imporved a lot

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 21:46:00 +0000

Hmmm, 3 comments till now on your blog on such an important day. I guess everyone is so busy tryingthe new Opera out that they do not find the time to comment here.

Anyway, TP2 is suppercool, I hope they improve widget management though. They run in one mode only - above everything.

By: Jeena Paradies

Jeena Paradies — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 19:36:00 +0000

Can someone tell me why they don’t use a monospace font for the syntax highlighting, or how to change it?

By: aditya

aditya — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 13:13:00 +0000

I blogged about this before you did! (for once!)

I’ve also written out the problems I faced with these new features! I don’t know if you tested out the respective features, but most of them didn’t work for me!

Wanna look into it?