Opera’s newest invention is coming on June 16th
72 CommentsPublished June 11th, 2009 12:17 PM EDT By Daniel Goldman
Opera is planning on releasing a new, hmm… how should I put it, well let’s just say that Opera is about to announce something really cool on June 16th.
The company is framing this new ‘thing’ as ‘Reinventing the Web.’ I’m excited about it; it definitely has the potential to be a game changer (for some).
Opera’s hint: We start our little story with the invention of the modern day computer. Over the years, the computers grew in numbers, and the next natural step in the evolution was …
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Hmm… no idea. Cloud computing?
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Is this Opera 10 release time? Turbo?
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can’t be opera 10, because turbo is not a reinvention of the web, it’s just a good aid for those lost in still-no-broadband-world. if someone claims to reinvent the web (with a client), it should rather be something more exciting than google wave…
expectations are high, so please don’t blow it opera!
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I’m waiting for Opera mobile 9.7 (or maybe 10 ) Final. But desktop version release also will be good
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I’m looking forward to it.
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Hmmm… cloud computing is my best guess (hence clouds in the picture). But how is it related to Opera?! I am very anxious to find out what it really is!!!
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I’m with you Tueksta. Google Wave could potentially alter/revolutionize the way we communicate so I’m intrigued to see what the geniuses at Opera have cooked up. Reinventing the web is setting a *very* tall order to fill. I am still optimistic though.
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Nice teasing….. we’ll have to wait to see
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Maybe it’s about open source, perhaps they continue adding sync. tools, after Yahoo!360 and MyOpera but with something really cooler than other toold because it’s Opera!
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They released desktop Opera Browser 10 beta,Opera mobile 9.7 beta with turbo for Windows Mobile.Is it Opera Mini next in line?
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Hm, perhaps offline cloud browsing?
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new and improved Opera Link? this is the loosen thread in Opera since it’s release: incomplete, buggy…
well, just a few days to know!
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Maybe UI settings are stored in Link or the UI itself is a web page, so after opera desktop, mobile and mini there will be a new software: Opera Star. Maybe
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Some more news :
“http://www.opera.com/freedom/ We are! We’ve put the internet on a USB stick so that you can always have a connection wherever you are!”
http://twitter.com/Hicksdesign/status/2115660578
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I’m almost sure that is the webcam support for recognizing face gesture. I rock!
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If you know more you should tell us. I really want to know.
I do hope that it is Opera bring back the bookmark star. I miss that so much
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Tabs? =D
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Such a tease…! Should be cool to see what the beautiful minds at Opera come up with, for us.
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A new better world of worldwideweb (WWW)?
Carakan? But they say it will not be in Opera 10…
New UI? We’ve seen already in pre-beta, not much different than new skin
HTML5? The draft isn’t finish by W3C…
Cloud computing? What to do with Opera? Maybe something more with Opera community?
We are! We’ve put the internet on a USB stick so that you can always have a connection wherever you are!…? We already see Portable Opera (Opera on USB)
Well let see it on June 16th
The one that i know about Opera and June 16th was this
http://www.ticketpolice.com/tickets-theater/phantom-of-the-opera-June-16-2009-716790.php
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And you are back to post these really maddering teasers. LOL
I wonder what Hicks means by putting the net in a usb (http://twitter.com/Hicksdesign/status/2115660578).
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Can’t be Opera Mini 5 since a beta wasn’t tested right ? Can’t be Opera Mobile too, since it’s not mainstream, right ?
But what else is the evolution after computers then ?
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What? What? What?!!!!!!
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The new Opera Portal?
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CAll me a geek, I saved the “www.opera.com/freedom” page and opened in notepad. Found this in it:
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The search keywords and I highlight BETA !
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Sorry damned HTML code! Here is the page content without the tags:
META name=keywords
content=”Opera, browser, internet browser, web browser, browsers, browser download, browser software, free browser, web browsers, webbrowser, best browser, secure, new browser, fastest, beta”
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I’m pretty sure it is a cloud based web browser or web browser hybrid that makes use of the cloud. Just look at the meta description: “The Web is your browser. Discover how fast and fun the Web can be” which seems to hint at this
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meta name = “description” content = “The Web is your browser. Discover how fast and fun the Web can be.”
Mmm, definitively cloud computing.
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Re: “The Web is your browser. Discover how fast and fun the Web can be.” – this is also the meta description on their standard download page. Is it definitely a new description then?
Our take on the mystery here: http://en.onsoftware.com/operas-special-announcement-will-not-be-opera-10/
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In the source code of http://www.opera.com/freedom/.
And this:
http://twitter.com/Hicksdesign/status/2115660578
I can’t see the relation between cloud computing and USB sticks.
The freakest thing I thought about was an USB wireless adapter with Opera preinstalled, but I think that is too freaky
The other thing I just thought about was about storing live sessions on an USB stick so you take your sessions from your desktop computer to your laptop, etc. and with the ability to view it offline.
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If you are a follower of Opera Twitter, that hidden code everyone is posting about gets updated in there tweets too.
Also I think John Hicks/internet on a USB stick, was meant as a joke.
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In March 2008, the homepage had “Opera – The Fastest Browsers on Earth” as the description.
<meta name=”description” content=”Opera – The Fastest Browsers on Earth” />
On June 11, 2009, it was “Opera gives you the full Web experience everywhere”
<meta name=”description” content=”Opera gives you the full Web experience everywhere” />
See:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080307161939/http://www.opera.com/
and
http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:IPflJ8BuWUUJ:www.opera.com/+opera&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
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We start our little story with the invention of the modern day computer.
Over the years, the computers grew in numbers, and the next natural step in the evolution was to connect them together. To share things.
But as these little networks grew, some computers gained more power than the rest and called themselves servers …
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I hope it’s something innovative and exciting
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Hi Daniel! Long time, no see!
Hmm… Seems I might know what Opera prepared! http://pfs.fotki.com/ Something similar?
PFS (Personal Fotki Server) was (roughly 5 years ago) essentially your own tiny personal web server for sharing photos and other stuff with any users. I worked for Fotki then and created user web interface for it.
After you set is up people can see your stuff (and even upload) on PC through URL similar to this: http://pfs.fotki.com/fatal
Unfortunately PFS no longer works (probably shut down because too few people used it). So would be really nice if Opera created something similar to PFS. I’m exited already! But wait, these are just my guesses! Lets wait a bit longer and see.
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@FataL I really, REALLY hope it’s not that.
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Opera 9.80?
Where do I find the download?
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This is Opera 10 beta actually.
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New Opera Portal?
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And those “Windows NT” are actually Windows 7.
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Firefox will have an extension available of Opera’s “secret” in a bout 3 days lol j\k
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OMG! It’s awesome!
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2Lonesome George: Of course it will, that’s why FF will never become a real browser but only a program for plugins which are stolen from other browsers lol.
And btw im the only 1 who’s hoping that’s new Java Script ? =[ I know they said it wont make it to Opera 10 but that’s the thing
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Three more days. :wait:
I hope this lives up to the hype.
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This kind of announcement corners Opera asa in the position of have-to-deliver; let’s hope it doesn’t backfire. (If it does, Apple will quietly add this enw thing as the 151st Safari innovation.)
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@Lonesome George
Firefox will have an extension available of Opera’s “secret” in a bout 3 days lol j\k
And that extension will stop working with the next firefox update
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Opera 9.80?
“This is Opera 10 beta actually.
And those “Windows NT” are actually Windows 7.”
Thanks FataL and Zeus II.
A failing with Opera 10?
I have tried a couple of times to put the alpha / beta on my iMac, which has OSX 10.29, and both attempts have failed. The other day I checked the system requirements and Opera 10 beta will not work with less than OSX 10.39.
Opera 9.64 is the only up to date browser that works with earlier versions of OSX – current versions of Firefox, Safari, iCab, etc. all require 10.39 upwards. I would be very disappointed if Opera 10 would not run on my Mac, and working on older Macs broadens the potential usage base.
If there is the odd feature that will not work without 10.39 upwards, could there be a second Mac version suited to the older OS?
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Opera 10
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I suggest opera can kill OS .
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Isn’t it only a joke?
On 16th they might put there: “We are reinventing the web…”
On 17th: “Yesterday, we reinvented the web.”
On 18th: “The previous day, we reinvented the web.”
On 19th: “We reinvented the web 3 days ago.”
On 20th: “We reinvented the web 4 days ago.”
etc…
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someone knows what would happen ?
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Daniel,
Is this the secret project due to which you almost stopped posting in operawatch?
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@ZeusII: The Opera 9.8 on your comment is because lots of sites broke for opera when they put the number 10 in their user agent string. Many sniffers ignored the 0 and though it was Opera 1.0 ^^
Read more here:
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/opera-ua-string-changes/
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i understand, now, why my post about New Year’s Weekly translation file was unanswered, then deleted
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Pierre
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Yeah!!! SVG site?! Opera rulezzz!
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Please God, let them not disappoint me…
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They keep updating it:
“Today, millions of people are connected together in a great web …”
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9am CEDT? Does that mean they’re not counting Summer Time, which would be CEST?? Is it 8am UTC, or 7am UTC???
Why can’t they just advertise things in UTC?
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CEDT = Central European Daylight (saving) Time = CEST = Central European Summer Time
Wolfram Alpha shows 9 AM CEST in relation to your local time:
http://www69.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=9%3A00+a.m+CEST
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It’s gotta be Opera Link, as was talked about in his Q&A. That would certainly make sense with the Freedom URL.
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Hmmm, I’m using build 1551 of Opera 10 beta, not 9.80
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@Joel CEDT means Central Europe DAYLIGHT Time, its the new/correct/proper way of saying Central European Summer Time.
Daylight saving time = Summer time = UTC+2.
So it’s 7am UTC.
I dont think they advertise it as UTC as CEDT is their local time (also my local time so I ain’t complaining
haha).
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I’m speechless!!!
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@FataL you were right, man!!!!
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Let’s get united!
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Maybe the developers have figured out a way to prevent Opera from freezing up and crashing when it can not decide if it wants to render a page or not.
That would really impress me I would give Opera its 100th chance over the years to replace Firefox as my default browser.
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Umm.. Great!
I think?
Very interesting technology but certainly won’t reinvent the web.
Getting it to work through firewalls will be another wrinkle they will have to iron out. Had to go into server to make appropriate settings.
(love that hiding the menu gives me a little menu button.. so i no longer have to download a custom button for that.
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Cool!
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Dead yet?
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