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Today we released the final public release of our flagship Web browser, Opera 9.5. Opera’s cross-device expertise, support for open Web standards and commitment to speed and performance has culminated into our most powerful browser yet.

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Please download and use the browser for a safer and faster Web experience. And tell all your friends about it!

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EspenAO had just said that we managed to reduce our downtime, and Boom! Community’s down.
Our main database master server just crashed badly. Investigations are underway.

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and I just finished restoring the services back online.
There are still some glitches here and there, but things are steadily coming back to defcon 5.

Oh, and please say ‘goodbye’ to these lovely “Proxy Errors” because we’re going to replace that message with something more comprehensible to human beings. However, our goal, of course, is to not have them at all Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas psp Chill hd

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A Wrinkle in Time the movie Even when we are not working the Opera Mini 4 servers, thanks to all of you, our users, are providing valuable performance statistics (and a few error reports). We are continously using this data to find bottlenecks and ways to improve our service.

We just released a server upgrade of the Mini 4 servers, which includes some quite significant performance improvements in many areas. Some typical numbers that we are seeing are an overall speed boost of 70% (see diagram), and the average time to transcode a page has almost been halved.

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:norris: We’re kick off the new year with a beast of an update. Let’s take a closer look at some of the changes.

New navigation

We got new drop down menus at the top of the page (or tabs, if you are surfing with a mobile). We added these to make it easier for you to find your way between your own page and the community pages. You will find all community related things under “Explore”, personal things under “My page”, and Opera stuff under… (yes, you got it) “Opera”.. :cool::cool::cool:

Some of you will surely ask: “What about my page, I use my own CSS. Have you changed any HTML?”.

Yes, we have changed the HTML for the top menu but it should look fine on your page because we always include the top menu CSS. In your account pages you can select if you want a black or white top menu, like before. (note: we changed the default settings for this, so some of you might have to reselect it)

The new menus also brings a stronger branding to all of our pages with a sweet My Opera logo on top. This has been done to create a feel of one community.

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My Opera now loads faster than before. We have optimized the default design a bit. This is the first step towards building a faster and more efficient site. (more)

Find other members from your country

Now you can easily find other My Opera members from your own country! All you need to do is to make sure that you have selected a country in your profile, and then you will be able to click the country name to see other members.

We have even added features for sorting by last updated status, name, forum posts, or newest members (if you want to see oldest members, just remove &inv=1 from the URL)

Watch > Subscribe

The old “watch” feature has changed name to “subscribe”, and you can now find an archive of all your blog and photo subscriptions in one place.

The subscription buttons have also moved from the (no longer existing) black top bar into the page itself. The buttons looks like this, and you can find them next to any blog post or photo album, etc:

The buttons have toggle functionality. This means that if you click them once they will spotlight/subscribe the specified item, and if you click them again you will turn the spotlight/subscription off.

Spotlights

The new spotlight buttons have also moved into the page, next to each item that you can spotlight:

The spotlights are no longer restricted to only 15. Now you can have as many as you like.

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It’s now possible to preview blog themes, and see what they look like before you apply it.

Smilie drop down

Next to each comment box (or quick reply in the forums) you will now find a smilie drop down, to make it easier to add smilies. :happy:

New help section

We have a brand new help section. It’s not complete, but we think it’s a good start. We also added a link to the help section from the footer of all pages.

New contact pages

The contact pages have been updated in the same style as the help pages.

Forums

We added a direct link to “all posts by this user” at the side of each forum post, and also a link to “find users by country”.

Photos

Some HTML have been changed on the photo page because of the new spotlight and subscribe buttons. We have also moved the zoom button, and fixed a bug that made the zoom button visible even for smaller images.

After you have uploaded a new photo to an album, you will now see a small thumbnail that has a direct link to the photo itself.

We fixed a bug so that the number of photo comments is always visible, even when the album is set to friends/members only.

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The encoding issues for Japanese posts should now be resolved.

New default photo

There is a new default picture (a camera) for members who have not yet added their photo.

People > Members

The name of this section has now changed to Members.

Opera

The Opera section has changed. It’s now easier to find the skins, and there’s even some new Opera buttons available. Why not take this chance to try the latest version of Opera and recommend it to your friends.

News items

If you get a new message, or a notification about a new comment, etc. Then it will be shown in a small bar below the top menus.

Edit status

The edit status feature is now mainly available on your profile page.

Account pages

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Messages

Fixed a bug that always showed sent messages as unread. Fixed a Wii CSS bug, and added a number on the top of the inbox tab, showing how many unread messages you have.

We also made it impossible to send messages for new users who have not yet activated their account (this is to stop spammers).

Edit friends/members

We have added a more visible link to the edit friends page and changed the layout from 3 to 2 columns (because it works better for people with lower screen resolutions).

Sign up

The page that is shown after sign up have been changed. Tell your friends to sign up now and take a screenshot, to find out how it looks…

Error pages

The error pages have been slightly updated.

Links

We have fixed some bugs on the links pages, and made sure that it no longer says “URL” below all links without description.

New favicon

We have a new favicon!

And..

a lot of small bug fixes..

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Lately we have been targeted by some bad spammers that fill their “wonderful” blogs with hundreds of posts about pharmacy, nurse schools and other crappy stuff. They probably use semi-automated tools, and for several reasons, this drains server and database power for “the good guys”.
This is the reason for so many proxy errors and site slowdown…

But don’t despair! We have just sent live an optimization regarding new blog posts that should hopefully help the database a bit when these spammers hammer us.

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Hi to all “devblog” friends,

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after some time spent on backend optimization, stress testing, and lately on a new file storage architecture (seen the new avatar paths?) and on MyOpera internationalization support, yes, that’s a lot of stuff, I’m back to regular bug fixing.

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• #1719: When saving events(countdowns) in a group you get redirected back to your personal page.
• #1650: Use less compression on JPEG user pictures. Now JPEG images are saved with quality setting to 95, which should be pretty good, and also, no more ugly black borders. Now images are scaled and automatically cropped.
• #1970: Sometimes a blog RSS feed was displayed differenly whether the URL ended with ‘/’ or not.

• #1783: User privacy settings are not saved properly. This means that in your personal account page, if you chose to show your login status only to ‘Friends’, it didn’t save the preference correctly. Now it does.
• Other random tickets, mostly not relevant for users.

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Though Opera Software's Quality Assurance (QA) department works tirelessly to find problems that affect end-users (that's you), it's impossible to test all possible configurations and to find all possible problems. Thus, we rely on end-users to help find the problems we've missed.

There are several methods end-users can use to communicate their feedback to us:

• Opera Software's Bug Tracking System (BTS)
• Opera Community Forums and newsgroups
• Report a Site Problem
• Blog Comments

The BTS is the best method when end-users run into issues they believe are bugs and they want them fixed. QA employees at Opera Software spend much of their time in the BTS, filing and analyzing bug reports, communicating with developers, and verifying bug fixes. The system makes it easy to track issues and compile relevant information, so any developer viewing a bug report can quickly understand the issue and spend time fixing it rather than analyzing it and gathering information.

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In most cases, the bug reports we receive have all the required information, so there is no reason to contact bug reporters. In a small number of cases, we need additional information, so the bug reporter is contacted through the BTS.

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The Opera Community Forums and newsgroups are a great place for end-users to discuss issues and gather information before filing bug reports. The forums and newsgroups are not an official way of contacting Opera's QA dept., though we do frequent both the forums and newsgroups. Thus, there's no guarantee that an Opera employee will see your post, let alone act upon it and follow-up internally. Developers generally do not visit the forums and newsgroups, as they're busy coding!

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Many of our development teams maintain blogs to communicate with end-users, such as the Desktop Team blog, Mac Team blog, Core Team blog, Opera Mobile blog

, and Opera Mini blog. Though these blogs do allow comments, blog comments are a suboptimal means of leaving feedback on a software release. Instead, forums or newsgroups should be used for discussing issues and the BTS should be used for submitting bug reports.

Your feedback is important, so please take a moment to think about which method is most relevant for the feedback you want to provide.

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As Opera Mini gains more users around the world we're trying to make sure that it works well for everyone. As part of this we're adding more of the data centres where the web pages you request are formatted, compressed and sent on their way to your phone. The first new data centre is in the USA.

To make this work we've had to make some changes in the Opera Mini server software. We need your help to test the system before we trust it with all the Opera Mini users (because that's a lot of people).
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So, if you want to help you just need to download and install a special version of Opera Mini 4.1. It can be installed on your phone at the same time as the normal version. You can find it here:
http://mini.opera.com/globaltest/

Edit: The test client is called "Mini Global Test".

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The main difference you'll probably notice is that page titles are all prefixed by either "[EU]" or "[US]" depending on which data centre you're currently using. You'll be allocated to one or another depending on where you are in the world and which is busier. There are some other changes and I'm curious to see if you spot them :D

Remember, this is a test so it might not always work correctly, we might sometimes have to make changes or fix things. You should keep your normal Opera Mini around as well.

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After we announced last week that the first beta was expected on July 15th, many of you asked if we would offer a Symbian version. We will offer a Symbian version of Opera Mobile, but you will have to wait a while. We do not yet know when the Symbian version will be ready because development and quality assurance on mobile devices is time consuming. In the meantime Opera Mini

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One of the reasons I like working at Opera is that we’ve always supported a number of platforms. One of the slides from our last quarterly presentation shows 20+ supported operating systems. It’s a challenge for a growing company, even with the engineering talent we’re fortunate to have. But supporting a variety of platforms is part of our DNA. It’s the foundation upon which Opera is built. We believe it’s the right thing to do because more people can get the Web where they are, on their terms, on their device. I think that’s a noble cause, but it takes time to do it right.

We have a unwavering focus on the craft and quality of our browser. That’s the main reason many of you choose Opera. We will never compromise that.

In the meantime, while you’re waiting for the first beta of Opera Mobile 9.5, here’s a list of some of the official Opera blogs:

http://my.opera.com/operamini/
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Have a great week, and rest assured that our engineers are working hard to give you a great browser next week..