Comments on: Opera 9.5 released

By: Manoj

Manoj — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:02:58 +0000

Why on earth did they remove the cache file extensions? Any work around for this issue, so that I can use files on cache?

Plz help…

By: Christie

Christie — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:37:37 +0000

Opera 9.5 final is VERY buggy… I have had so many freezes since I installed it. I didn’t have any trouble with 9.27. It’s usually when you download or visit a site with pop-ups. I wouldn’t recommend it until the bugs are fixed…

By: Charlesdb

Charlesdb — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:56:11 +0000

I find this latest version of Opera fast and slick. Previously, frankly I could not see a difference in speed betwee Opera and Firefox, but now I can. Opera is really fast. I’m sorry the cache has been changed but I accept the security implications explained above. One other point. Firefox used to be my default browser, but I’ve changed to Opera. One of the reasons is that Firefox 3 shows an error 203, which means extensions cannot be installed or updated. This is a bug that Firefox acknowledge but no single person is working on it. Quite a few people have this bug, which keeps reappearing, even after work arounds. I also like the new Opera skin. But the main reason is I like the speed. Congratulations on your work. Excellent stuff!

By: raj santlani

raj santlani — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:44:45 +0000

yes opera 9.5 is much better …. thanks

By: raj santlani

raj santlani — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:40:57 +0000

i don’t find any difference between opera and fire fox but lets see opera 9.5 .hope it will be faster and secure.

By: Not Happy

Not Happy — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:54:19 +0000

It looks like Opera has gone the way they others with the search assistant tool bar. Am I the only one that finds this annoying? I deleted 9.5 and went back to an earlier version that doesn’t have this. I won’t use a new version until I have not choice. They should allow you to turn it off. If they do let me know, I can’t find it anywhere. It’s ****. It’s like another unwanted POPUP.

By: Carl

Carl — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:31:26 +0000

PDFs do not work with disk cache off in Opera 9.50. Hopefully gets fixed in the next update. Worked in 9.27.

By: lulz

lulz — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 08:54:26 +0000

@Tenobok

The cache would have been slower with extensions, and the old cache used to result in a lot of false positives from virus scanners. Also, it’s a security risk because simply viewing the cache folder could get you infected because of the way Windows works. Now it’s safe that way.

So at least 3 reasons to remove the extensions.

By: Tamil

Tamil — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:33:49 +0000

now its 100 times more difficult not knowing which file type is which

Use opera:cache

By: Tenobok

Tenobok — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:52:37 +0000

What was wrong with cache files extensions anyway??
It was useful to grab movies from browser players, flash animations and games without downloading them for the second time (since they are already downloaded to the cache dir), and now its 100 times more difficult not knowing which file type is which(as if the “oprxxxxx” file name wasn’t bad enough). Is there even a reasonable explanation why this feature was removed?

By: shantharam

shantharam — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:58:17 +0000

I recently downloaded Opera 9.5 and i must it is quite good. but i have faced some problems with this one and even with Opera 9.27. It is that whenever i browse for some secure sites ( eg: https:// …) it shows some error and does not display. also, some javascript problems with the yahoo mail and some sites with scrolling links.

Is there any plug-in which did not load while running the setup ? i have seen one plug-in called XHTML+Voice as not loaded. is this the reason? if so, can someone suggest from where can i get this plug-in?

Thanks

By: Tamil

Tamil — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:29:49 +0000

they diabled the left panel activation area

SHIFT+F12 → Panels → Show panel toggle at edge of window

By: rollinger

rollinger — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:25:56 +0000

sorry that i am here with that IE, but i am at work.
OK. right DOCs are working but not the spreadsheets. I testet it with taht java script, but it doesn’t run.
Hope they will do that in a future update. I need this google spreadsheets to share my sheets with other users.

By: ZH

ZH — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:53:32 +0000

The new interface is refreshing and browsing speed is definitely fast, but after spending few days with 9.5 I feel that it’s very buggy and in some ways worse than Beta 2. It freezes quite alot especially when security cert popups or ‘delete private data’ popup are launched. Once my Speed Dail images got moved to another slot (eg. My Gmail Speed Dail image was showing an image of another website in my Speed Dail list). Hope an update will be released very soon. I’m still an ardent Opera supporter ever since 8.5.

By: Fid0n

Fid0n — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:43:55 +0000

Why, out of all things that could be changed, they diabled the left panel activation area and cache folder file extensions?