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First Opera 11.10 "Barracuda" snapshot available for download
Swarthy surfers, you can now take Barracuda for a test swim! The first snapshot build of Opera 11.10 is ready to download, bringing with it a handful of network interoperability tweaks and Web Open Font Format support. Opera's Core has also received a minor version bump, though apart from the network and font changes the update is mostly about bugfixes (and there were plenty).
Opera has promised to add some special sauce to one "popular feature," but we don't think it's been poured on in this first snapshot. When we asked Opera's Thomas Ford if he could provide any additional insight, he told us "What I can say is that the enhancement we alluded to is definitely a feature that already exists in Opera, and is one of our most popular. Beyond that I can't say, but do expect a snapshot soon for people to start checking out."
Opera has promised to add some special sauce to one "popular feature," but we don't think it's been poured on in this first snapshot. When we asked Opera's Thomas Ford if he could provide any additional insight, he told us "What I can say is that the enhancement we alluded to is definitely a feature that already exists in Opera, and is one of our most popular. Beyond that I can't say, but do expect a snapshot soon for people to start checking out."
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Subscribe to commentsHafkieFeb 17th 2011 3:31PM
I have a feeling it will probably be an update to the speed dial. While it was pretty amazing, the Speed Dial hasn't changed much since its inception. There's a lot more that could be done with it.
JeffreyFeb 17th 2011 3:39PM
I'll never use Opera until they fix their incorrect keyboard shortcuts, removes all of the gimmicky features no one uses (I'm looking a you fast forward button), lay off of the in app promotions of their services (I don't care about Opera's Premium Web mail.
Oh, and open sources their core engines (Presto) or uses one of ones already open (Webkit, Gecko).
JarasMFeb 17th 2011 4:42PM
@Jeffrey You know you can just change, reconfigure or disable all those things you mentioned, don't you? Well, apart from the last one, which is basically "until it changes it's name to Chrome". Also, what do YOU need Presto's sources for?
altariusFeb 17th 2011 4:45PM
@Jeffrey
well...all shortcuts are the same for me as in firefox or chrome. you can just remove the fast-forward button: rightklick on it, customize->remove from panel.
opera web mail isn't promoted in any kind. there is a menu-entry with mail and a mailbadge on the panel at the left, but nothing specific to their service.
HafkieFeb 17th 2011 5:20PM
@Jeffrey
Opera isn't Chrome. You can actually change almost all of the default features. Keyboard layout, interface, gestures, etc. Yes, Opera does some things different, but it's extremely customizable and you can make an interface that matches any other browser out there.
As for the Presto complaint, well, You're really grasping at straws here.
JeffreyFeb 17th 2011 8:33PM
@All the Opera apologists
I don't want to have to learn how to customize that stuff. I don't want to have to customize that stuff. I want it to not suck by default.
Also, in this day and age it makes no sense for at least* rendering engine to be open source. In fact it would be better if the whole browser were open source. It's not like they still charge for it. They make money the same way Mozilla Corp does but their software is still closed. Why?
hectormaciasa79Feb 18th 2011 8:07PM
@Jeffrey You surely will miss users like you.
DrekeFeb 17th 2011 3:46PM
"apart from the network and font changes not much is said about what the update brings with it"
You mean apart from hundreds of bug fixes?
Lee MathewsFeb 17th 2011 3:48PM
@Dreke Good call, Dreke..we had some verbage get lost in editing proces. :)
JarasMFeb 18th 2011 1:25PM
@Jeffrey This is not "apologizing" for Opera, it's a feature. In fact, I find my shortcuts in Chrome missing and guess what? I can't change them... unless I change and recompile the open sources, hooray! And still, you go on and on about the source code, yet you didn't answer my question - what do YOU, as a user, need the source code for?
DrekeFeb 20th 2011 11:14AM
@Jeffrey This is laughable. You can't even read the source code, so why do you care about whether it's open-source or not?
And as for the rest of your nonsense, Opera is the most keyboard friendly browser, so it doesn't make sense to change things and destroy that. And the features you don't use are irrelevant. They don't even affect you.
And if you are whining about "in-app promotions", you can't use any browser, hypocrite.
KualaBeeFeb 17th 2011 9:12PM
So Opera 11.10 is what version 11 should have been? If you read the blog page, some of the fixes should have been hardblockers like "frequent crashes for Mac users on Facebook, Live Mail/Hotmail, and Google Docs"?
DrekeFeb 18th 2011 3:00AM
@KualaBee Those crashes didn't necessarily appear until recently. Just because there's a crash doesn't mean it's easy to fix or is obvious right away. Especially with a tiny user base like Mac it might have taken some time for crash reports to stack up.
So no, 11.10 is not what version 11 should have been. 11.0 was clearly more stable than 10.6, which made it ready anyway.
All released software will have known buts. Saying that some future version "is what this versions hould have been" is just silly, and shows a severe lack of knowledge of how software development works.
villezFeb 18th 2011 1:59AM
I am not touching this until they remove the horrible side"panel" which has all those useless buttons.
It always pops up open when I check bookmarks or etc...
DrekeFeb 18th 2011 3:01AM
@villez Opens when you check bookmarks? Huh? Never happened here. And the panel actually has a lot of useful buttons, including history, bookmarks, downloads...
KualaBeeFeb 18th 2011 3:57AM
@Dreke You can't be serious....are you actually reading what you are writing?
"Opera 11, is buggy ....yeah and not where it should have been.... but it's hard to fix hardblockers that would normally stop other companies from releasing but yeah...... and even through the crashes were easily producible and frequent because opera 11 was releases just 2 months ago, it only was for Mac users so who cares, and how dare you expect software to work b/c you ignant about software development"
This isn't your advanced programming class' final project, where rush to send in barely completed code and hope it doesn't crash when it gets reviewed.
DrekeFeb 20th 2011 11:17AM
@KualaBee Huh? What are you talking about? Are you drunk or something?
You really should put down the crack pipe. You are not making sense.
JeffreyFeb 28th 2011 11:56PM
@Dreke & JarasM
Honestly, I don't need the source code. Although, if Opera goes out of business, makes a change I don't like, drops support for a platform I use, or development just slows down it would be nice to have the possibility of a fork. The truth is there are far better browsers out there that are open source. If I'm even going to care about what they do then they should open the source.