The only installer with non-English Opera is of MSI-kind. It has a huge bug. Only during first installation there is a choice to Upgrade or select New Installation. Upon next run of MSI installer, after one installation completed, there is only choice to Repair or Remove last installation of Opera – there is no way to choose Upgrade another installation.

Also, I wanted to point out in the post that the stategic choice of MSI installer as default might not be good even for English-languaged people – they have to look for so called “classic installer”, if they want to install 2 Operas or more. It’s counter-intuitive.

(please do not accept the comment you are reading right now of course)

1. Is development of M2 discontinued? You gave up to only-the-browser people? There were no updates from a long time. M2 is superior but there is need to improve it further, there are still many ideas for very useful improvements, even truly revolutionary enhancements. There’s plenty more on the Wishlist.

2. Opera has a tremendous number of very handy little features and made a great effort to integrate them simlessly, in non-intrusive way into default configuration – that’s Opera’s major competitive advantage. However most users know only a little fraction of the features. Many people (often refusing to use Opera) think Opera Suite is just about integrated mail client, chat and RSS and know nothing about all the handy tiny features. Lastly, I’ve heard a lot of people who claim they’ve used Opera and it doesn’t contain anything special over other browsers.
As shown above – Opera’s tremendous potential is wasted because users do not know what is so great about Opera even when they try using it.

My question is: Are you going to do anything about that – create an easy way people can learn how to efficiently use Opera?
Based on my long-time users observations I strongly believe Opera should much more actively help user discover its handy features.
For start look at my post – e.g. Tips panel doesn’t sound bad, neither intrusive, does it? I have more smooth ideas in this subject, if you’re interested.

@Ryan: We have plenty of positions available: http://www.opera.com/company/jobs/.

Use cases:
i have a webserver that keeps track of everything i do (it uses RDF/XML and it’s auto detects a lot of context so i don’t have to do much myself, kinda cool actually).
When using Opera, i’d like to use the ‘copy to note’ function. Opera could send the ‘note’ to my server and wait for it’s response. That response in my case is some tagging options and some projects i’m working on. Opera then let’s me interact with the response and sends the result back to my server.
When i open the ‘notes’ panel, opera should/could retrieve a list from my webserver.

Same principle could be used for my address books, email, etc.

Also: let opera export it’s settings to an online server so i can simply download and install opera wherever i am and use my cfg. It would maybe also make it possible to share settings across platforms.

Also: let opera archive to a webserver. It keeps opera files small and few while still having complete archives available.

Although I’m not watching the development of Opera mobile for phones too much, it is pretty easy to see on the download page that the newest version is 8.65 which is not capable of normal Widgets. But long before Widgets have been publicly mentioned there has been Opera Platform and there was (and is?) some information and a demo on the Opera pages. I have read pretty often that Widgets will run on mobile devices and it makes perfect sense thinking of Widgets being the incarnation of Opera Platform.

For the dates etc it seems obvious that even Opera developers don’t know about them. WIR as usual (When Its Ready). But all the publicly available information in the interviews and comments of Opera employees and following the development of Opera and other browsers makes the strategy, features and timeline emerge in my head. Normally I use this knowledge only to answer questions, but with my Opera blog I often deliver the information just to get it out of my head.

I’m sure the day will come I’ll be completely wrong because I don’t have insider information. And it would be less than half that challenging if the information would be easy available.

Christian

PS: You are completly destroying my prediction that there will be Opera9.5 by using Opera10 Well, I still believe there will be a 9.5.

Of course, since I’m not likely to get any tidbits about the next major release, I’ll simply ask this: Is a development project planned to create a cross-platform menu API for the desktop browser? Right now, as I’m sure you are aware, you get a context menu when you right-click on a bookmark in the Bookmarks menu in the Linux version (screenshot). In the Windows version, however, nothing happens when you right-click on a bookmark in the menu. For some strange reason there are a lot of people who want to manage their bookmarks by right-clicking in the Bookmarks menu (such as add new, rename, and delete bookmarks).

And a big thank you for doing this for us (assuming no one tells you to cut it out). I just hope that you didn’t bite off more than you can chew with this…

Oh, and chaals, I like the browser version you are using. When’s it coming out?