Opera 9.0 Tech Preview 2 released

[LuDaCriS66]

http://snapshot.opera.com/windows/w90p2.html

new features: bittorrent support, widget support, adblock, web page thumbnails

 

[n0cmonkey]

Not directed at opera specifically, but this is a convenient thread: I wish the browser devs would stop adding features for a bit and just audit what they have. :sigh;

 

[dragonic]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Not directed at opera specifically, but this is a convenient thread: I wish the browser devs would stop adding features for a bit and just audit what they have. :sigh;

You do know that they have different teams doing new features and working on fixing and enchancing old features?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: dragonic

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Not directed at opera specifically, but this is a convenient thread: I wish the browser devs would stop adding features for a bit and just audit what they have. :sigh;

You do know that they have different teams doing new features and working on fixing and enchancing old features?

Some do, some don't. I'm guessing it would be hard to audit the entire code base if an entirely different group was changing everything though...

 

[Schadenfroh]

adblock

All I have been waiting for.

/uninstalls FireFox and installs Opera

 

[Schadenfroh]

now posting from Opera 9 preview 2

 

[xtknight]

Added support for CSS 3 opacity.

:thumbsup:

 

[LuDaCriS66]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh

adblock

All I have been waiting for.

/uninstalls FireFox and installs Opera

its adequate but nothing great from what I've tried so far. Its the same method of adblocking as in previous builds of Opera except now they implemented a user interface for it.

and unless someone can compile a good filter, figuring out expressions to block some types of ads can be a bit of a pain unless you already know the expression... such as intellitxt ads or google adsense ads

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

BitTorrent support is fast and works well, but it's nothing to write home about feature wise. Download speeds are surprisingly fast (much slower on other clients), but I've yet to see the upload go over 10KB/s while downloading, even after manually specifying bandwidth caps. After download is finished and the verification check passes though, it uploads at the specified rate.

AdBlocking in a nice touch, but I'll stick with proxomitron until a list is compiled.

Widgets? Eh...

Thumbnail: A nice touch, but I'd prefer something like IE7's method better. (all tabs preview at once)

User addable search engines? :thumbsup:

Syntax highlighting in source viewer? Good

New Opera: xxxx windows? good

ctrl-enter? About damn time. Even though it automatically added it anyway.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: LuDaCriS66

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh

adblock

All I have been waiting for.

/uninstalls FireFox and installs Opera

its adequate but nothing great from what I've tried so far. Its the same method of adblocking as in previous builds of Opera except now they implemented a user interface for it.

and unless someone can compile a good filter, figuring out expressions to block some types of ads can be a bit of a pain unless you already know the expression... such as intellitxt ads or google adsense ads

Your right, this is no adblock... it seems to only do flash ads and banner ads, does not realize the iframes or the others are there I wish i had not been so hasty in uninstalling firefox.

 

[xtknight]

Get Proxomitron. You'll like it even more than FireFox's AdBlock (I did at least).

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Originally posted by: xtknight
Get Proxomitron. You'll like it even more than FireFox's AdBlock (I did at least).

Seconded

 

[hans030390]

Is anyone else having horrible speeds on bittorrent. This is with a lot of seeds too.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Originally posted by: hans030390
Is anyone else having horrible speeds on bittorrent. This is with a lot of seeds too.

I was maxing out my line (4mbps) on a 24 bittorrent. Just took a minute or two to pick up, that's all.

 

[hans030390]

Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy

Originally posted by: hans030390
Is anyone else having horrible speeds on bittorrent. This is with a lot of seeds too.

I was maxing out my line (4mbps) on a 24 bittorrent. Just took a minute or two to pick up, that's all.

Mine had over 80 seeders, 20 some leechers...after about 5 minutes it averaged 1kbps...wtf.

Azureus does way better than this.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Originally posted by: hans030390

Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy

Originally posted by: hans030390
Is anyone else having horrible speeds on bittorrent. This is with a lot of seeds too.

I was maxing out my line (4mbps) on a 24 bittorrent. Just took a minute or two to pick up, that's all.

Mine had over 80 seeders, 20 some leechers...after about 5 minutes it averaged 1kbps...wtf.

Azureus does way better than this.

Opera uses TCP/UDP port 18768 for BitTorrent. Be sure to properly forward it on your router's configuration page. (Or change the default port to something that's already open)

 

[Looney]

Still has the same bug that doesn't allow me to choose the brand and model of cars at www.autotrader.ca

 

[hans030390]

Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy

Originally posted by: hans030390

Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy

Originally posted by: hans030390
Is anyone else having horrible speeds on bittorrent. This is with a lot of seeds too.

I was maxing out my line (4mbps) on a 24 bittorrent. Just took a minute or two to pick up, that's all.

Mine had over 80 seeders, 20 some leechers...after about 5 minutes it averaged 1kbps...wtf.

Azureus does way better than this.

Opera uses TCP/UDP port 18768 for BitTorrent. Be sure to properly forward it on your router's configuration page. (Or change the default port to something that's already open)

I've changed it to what Azureus uses (since thats fast) and it still either doesnt work or goes slow.

It is a beta though, so I can't expect much.

 

[LuDaCriS66]

Originally posted by: xtknight
Get Proxomitron. You'll like it even more than FireFox's AdBlock (I did at least).

I don't like it personally. I've had problems with it..... such as random images not loading and my save dialog popping up when clicking random threads or other links

 

[Howard]

I still want the ability to open a bookmark in a folder on the personal bar in a new tab. The way it works right now, I can only open one on the current tab by left-clicking, or open all of them (with the first bookmark in the current page) by clicking on Open All or whatever.

Doesn't seem like it would take much effort to code in, either.

And customizable wildcard searches would nice (like Crazy Browser's).

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: Howard
I still want the ability to open a bookmark in a folder on the personal bar in a new tab.

Middle-click or shift click the bookmarks? In fact this works with almost everything, including "Go to URL" and "Dictionary" on the context menus.

 

[Howard]

Middle-click... shift-click does work (didn't know that) but I'd still like the menu to stay open so I can open multiple tabs sequentially. When I shift-click the menu closes and the focus goes to the new page.

 

[Malak]

Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy
BitTorrent support is fast and works well, but it's nothing to write home about feature wise. Download speeds are surprisingly fast (much slower on other clients), but I've yet to see the upload go over 10KB/s while downloading, even after manually specifying bandwidth caps. After download is finished and the verification check passes though, it uploads at the specified rate.

Fact that it's integrated makes it much easier. I rarely use torrents except out of necessity, and I usually uninstall the software when I'm done(that rarely). This will help me a lot.

AdBlocking in a nice touch, but I'll stick with proxomitron until a list is compiled.

Heard Prox is great from everyone that has used it, but I don't even notice ads so I've never tried it. If Opera has it built in, one less reason to bother.

User addable search engines? :thumbsup:

? I've been adding search engines for as long as I can remember. This has been around for years as far as I know...

ctrl-enter? About damn time. Even though it automatically added it anyway.

What's the point to this function? It's two keystrokes you never had to do in the first place. If you type microsoft into the URL bar, it'll go to microsoft.com with no other input from ya. If anything, this was a waste of their time.

 

[rise]

i left everything going when i fird up a game tonite, opera 9, a couple instances of rosetta, outlook express etc... so i noticed a little stuttering and didn't think anything of it as its EA (madden) i was playing.

then i go to my desktop and i'm browsing around, slow as hell. i check task manager and i have 1700mb of ram committed :Q wtf is that. so i see opera eating up 700+ by itself. i shut it down and restarted and the commit was back to normal, ! 20mb iirc. but the opera cpu usage is ~ 50-60%.

anybody see anything like that? i didn't even think it was possible for a browser to use that much cpu.

 

[Fish11]

Originally posted by: rise4310

opera cpu usage is ~ 50-60%.
anybody see anything like that? i didn't even think it was possible for a browser to use that much cpu.

Is it on a site with javascript?

Try disabling javascript and see if that helps.