Comments on: Opera 9.5 beta to be released at Rock Opera party next week

By: suribe

suribe — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:38:31 +0000

I have just downgraded from kestrel to 9.24
I hope the beta of Kestrel will be enough estable for daily use

By: vinczej

vinczej — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:19:35 +0000

(Very intelligent blog-motor!)

I correct myself: “…a beta too important to lose the renounce.”

By: vinczej

vinczej — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:16:49 +0000

Muph: “whatever2, it’s a beta launch, not a final….You obviously don’t know much about software development anyway, considering your posting history.”

Your right, beta hasn’t to be perfect, can consist bugs. But alpha can have major bugs, but beta directly not! Nowadays a media-hype about a beta version is too important to **** the renounce up.

By: pleh

pleh — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:31:46 +0000

LOL @ whatever2

By: muph

muph — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 06:59:22 +0000

whatever2, it’s a beta launch, not a final.

Besides, the first 9.5 alpha was very well received, almost like a final.

You obviously don’t know much about software development anyway, considering your posting history.

By: vinczej

vinczej — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:09:17 +0000

The new 9603 build is a good step to fix the major problems. But they are many, yet. I hope for the beta.

By: Phantom

Phantom — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:22:51 +0000

Opera is going to rock everything from sky- to ground level

By: Berend Ytsma

Berend Ytsma — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:43:36 +0000

For those who like testing Opera just put up an new snapshot.

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2007/10/18/a-snapshot-a-day-keeps-the-bugs-away

By: whatever2

whatever2 — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:47:22 +0000

“The list of known issues on the desktop team blog is quite small, and looks like everything can be fixed.”

i just happen to remember 9.0 release so i reserve myself the right to doubt it. i also know a bit about software development, and happen to know, that if this (9600) build is an equivalent to internal builds from 2weeks ago, then 9.5 will flop loudly. there is no time to fix bugs like that. just because somethin horribly wrong and unpredicted must have happened if stuff like ‘no frames’ or ‘overwritting files without asking’ or ‘yaho mail crashes’ even happened.

opera seems to have forgotten Safari 3.0.0 lesson.

By: pleh

pleh — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:36:04 +0000

Why do certain uninformed people assume that the beta will still have issues like the frames thing? It’s a beta. All it needs is that all the most serious stuff is fixed. The list of known issues on the desktop team blog is quite small, and looks like everything can be fixed.

Certain people seem to insist on whining in advance, just in case they don’t get the chance later

By: Huib

Huib — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:16:12 +0000

@DMXell: please retest this in the latest weekly. Both issue should be fixed now
@whatever2: framesets are fixed in the next build

By: whatever2

whatever2 — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:11:58 +0000

current state of 9.5 builds is no more than early alpha. relasing it, even with half bugs fixed leaves still tOO MANY known and serious issues. if stuff like ‘framestest dont work’ gets to public beta Opera is going to be LOL’ed all over the net. safari casus was enough

releasing stuff just to meet a deadline = lousy quality product, bad PR, unhappy customers

By: James Cassell

James Cassell — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:57:30 +0000

Cool beans!

I hope it is much more stable than the current build, though. I’m looking forward to all the new features, but will be customizing many of the keyboard shortcuts back to the older versions.

I wonder why Ctrl+Q was disabled on Windows…

At any rate, I’m glad there will be a release

By: Khaled Khalil

Khaled Khalil — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:01:29 +0000

yes, me too i think kestrel still needs some time for refinery before it goes to beta phase K3M15@, opera already released alphas for testing, so it is their for whom knows it is still under heavy development but still want to try it though, i prefer if the final is released today, i will miss opera, but that will not be very hard, since i will miss the internet

By: DMXell

DMXell — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:51:40 +0000

Kelson, this has been a great month overall!

October 18th – Ubuntu 7.10 Released
October 25th – Opera 9.5 Beta (dropping the Alpha!)
October 26th – Mac OS X Leopard Released and possibly a reworking of the Apple line-up.

A few other good/comical things have happened as well, such as the comedian Steven Colbert deciding to run for US President as both a Democrat and a Republican (if he’s elected other countries will probably laugh at the US, even I will and I live in the US).