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stingray

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From: Lima, Peru SA

Registered: 2006-03-24

Posts: 188

Opera 5.0 beta just got better...

I had tried the Opera 5.0 beta because someone had mentioned that it fixed the problems with flash stuff working in more than one tab... anyway, it did for me so I started using it on all my computers. But soon found a couple of little things that didn't work right, so reverted to the stable opera package on all but one of my systems.  We after updating that system today, which included an update of the Opera beta, those little things are fixed and working...

What little things:
1) the "Find in page" search box would not work right, it would find the fist letter entered, but then make the main content active, instead of leaving the "Find in page" search box active. So if I typed in "arch" it would only search for "a" because the "rch" was not being typed in the search box.
2) when clicking on a like that opened a new URL but displayed a page link lower down on the page, it would not goto that page link lower down. For example in the forums when click  [ new posts ], it would load the topic, but not take you to the first new post.

Anyway, that was enough for me to drop the beta and use Firefox when using flash heavy stuff in more than one tab...  But now all works great again.

Note: To try the beta uncomment the Unstable repository in your /etc/pacman.conf then install opera-devel. "pacman -S opera-devel"

McQueen

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From: Arizona

Registered: 2006-03-20

Posts: 387

Re: Opera 5.0 beta just got better...

What build number is this particular 9.5 beta? Help -> About Opera.

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Sole

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Registered: 2007-04-09

Posts: 42

Re: Opera 5.0 beta just got better...

1) the "Find in page" search box would not work right, it would find the fist letter entered, but then make the main content active, instead of leaving the "Find in page" search box active. So if I typed in "arch" it would only search for "a" because the "rch" was not being typed in the search box.

Some of the bugs were mentioned and fixed on later builds I think
You can check on the development and changelogs on their blog.

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/

Edit: sorry I think I might've misread your post as you mentioned they all worked great again

Last edited by Sole (2008-03-29 08:13:20)

stingray

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From: Lima, Peru SA

Registered: 2006-03-24

Posts: 188

Re: Opera 5.0 beta just got better...

What build number is this particular 9.5 beta? Help -> About Opera.

Version information

Version 9.50 Beta 2
Build 1875
Platform Linux
System i686, 2.6.24-ARCH
Qt library 3.3.8
Java Java Runtime Environment installed

kezar

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Registered: 2007-08-14

Posts: 61

Re: Opera 5.0 beta just got better...

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/ as Sole said.
Latest version is build 1887. The AUR opera-devel package is out of date, but you can alter the PKGBUILD to use the latest Opera build.

ph0tios

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Registered: 2008-02-23

Posts: 126

Re: Opera 5.0 beta just got better...

Isn't the PKGBUILD in ABS up to date?

McQueen

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From: Arizona

Registered: 2006-03-20

Posts: 387

Re: Opera 5.0 beta just got better...

@kezar: thanks....checking it out.

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ramjet

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Registered: 2005-02-16

Posts: 37

Re: Opera 5.0 beta just got better...

why the QT3 dependancy, shouldnt the new opera be able to utilize qt4?

tsweetser

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Registered: 2008-02-11

Posts: 10

Re: Opera 5.0 beta just got better...

Yeah, but there's just a static qt4 build of the beta--no shared build like with qt3. Not really sure on the reasons behind it.

stingray

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From: Lima, Peru SA

Registered: 2006-03-24

Posts: 188

Re: Opera 5.0 beta just got better...

Latest version is build 1887. The AUR opera-devel package is out of date, but you can alter the PKGBUILD to use the latest Opera build.

I noticed that someone updated the one I use in the Unstable repository, it now shows 1887.

So Thanks for the update!

Rick

Last edited by stingray (2008-03-31 04:25:18)

kwurzel

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Registered: 2008-03-25

Posts: 14

Re: Opera 5.0 beta just got better...

why the QT3 dependancy, shouldnt the new opera be able to utilize qt4?

The (static) Qt4 version is available in AUR, see http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15228 for more details.

matsche

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From: .at

Registered: 2004-04-27

Posts: 120

Re: Opera 5.0 beta just got better...

My latest Opera 9.5 build 1904 crashs when i want to edit my email filters. Do you have the same experiences?

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Rasi

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-14

Posts: 1,914

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Re: Opera 5.0 beta just got better...

why the QT3 dependancy, shouldnt the new opera be able to utilize qt4?

The (static) Qt4 version is available in AUR, see http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15228 for more details.

everyone who uses this, should start opera with "opera -style plastique" or whatever themes come with it... makes it look more qt4'ish

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