Opera 10.0 Alpha 1 available for Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD
Tim Altman
now available:
http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2008/12/03/peregrine-takes-flight-opera-10-0-alpha-is-here.
Highlights:
* Presto 2.2 Engine
* Performance boost
* 100/100 and pixel-perfect on the Acid3 test
* Auto-update
* Inline spelling checker
* Widget Improvements on Linux
* Opera Mail improvements, including rich text composition and delete
after X days
For complete changelogs and download links, see:
- Windows: http://snapshot.opera.com/windows/w100a1.html
- UNIX: http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/u100a1.html
- Mac: http://snapshot.opera.com/mac/m100a1.html
We invite users to discuss the Alpha in the Forums and Newsgroups.
When reporting bugs, please refer to our bug reporting guidelines:
http://www.opera.com/support/bugs/.
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Eik
wrote:
> * Inline spelling checker
I installed Aspell with Opera 7, and since then every new installation has
automatically picked up the Aspell installation and dictionaries.
Does Opera 10 still use this with its new inline checking or will the user
have to download new dictionaries from somewhere and add all their custom
words again?
Rijk van Geijtenbeek
Opera should be able to help you getting the dictionaries (later, not in this alpha). The Aspell dictionaries will not be used.
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ge...@none.net
> Opera 10.0 Alpha 1 for Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris is
> now available:
With Opera 10 installed in a separate folder, will there be any
crossover with v.9.62, such as in Docs and Settings (XP), that can
cause problems now or later? I've been using the classic installer.
Gene
Eik
> With Opera 10 installed in a separate folder, will there be any
> crossover with v.9.62, such as in Docs and Settings (XP), that can
> cause problems now or later?
It's your job to find that out and tell *them* - It's an alpha! ;-)
Since Opera 6,you can install as many versions as you like so long as they
go in different folders. Each installation creates its own set of folders
for mail storage and settings within the "Documents and settings" folder
(or whatever the equivalent is on non-XP systems) so a new installation
shouldn't mess the others up. You could even install two instances of the
same version, if you wanted to.
However, this is an alpha so by definition it's buggy, perhaps nastily so.
If you're worried about nasty bugs it's better to wait for beta releases,
or just wait until the final product arrives. Its alpha state means that
anything could be wrong with it, and here's the potential for damaging
other installations. It might have bugs in the code that lets you import
bookmarks and email from other versions, and these could wipe the original
files!
But it might not. The point of using pre-release software is to find out
for sure and then report back to Opera so they can fix it and finally come
up with a version that's stable and clean enough to release to the wider
public.
Eik
I forgot to say that when I last used the MSI installer on XP with 9.50,
Opera kept hijacking my file associations and icons even though it wasn't
set to be the default browser (Opera 8.54 is my default). The classic
installer doesn't have this problem.
The only other way I can think of Opera 10 Alpha affecting your other
installation is if it somehow makes itself your default browser, but all
you have to do is disable that in 10 and make sure that 9.62 is still set
to be the default in its settings.
Jernej Simončič
> * Inline spelling checker
It would be nice if the spelling checker allowed you to select several
languages at once, so it wouldn't be necessary to switch dictionaries all
the time.
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Don Kirkman
<20081204192337...@none.net>:
>Tim Altman <do....@spam.me.invalid> wrote:
To my pleasant surprise, after a "Classic" install into a new folder I
found that A10 had located and set up my bookmarks. I haven't checked
other settings yet--they're less immediately important to me.
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Don Jackson
<ri...@opera.removethiz.com> wrote:
>
> Opera should be able to help you getting the dictionaries (later, not in
> this alpha). The Aspell dictionaries will not be used.
>
And -in the meantime (thanks to fearphage) or, as in my case, always-
ospell.js works fine, after a slight edit:
<http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/show.dml/2778455?startidx=100#comment6521512>
I'd like to keep aspell, too... (I'm just not a fan of inline spell
checking.)
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Valentin Brueckel
> on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:47:26 -0500, Tim Altman wrote:
>
>> * Inline spelling checker
>
> It would be nice if the spelling checker allowed you to select several
> languages at once, so it wouldn't be necessary to switch dictionaries all
> the time.
AOL
Is it possible that the spellchecker incorrectly handles punctuation marks? I had a lot of underlined words with periods or commas trailing them - putting a space before the punctuation mark made the red underline disappear.
Val
Rijk van Geijtenbeek
<vb.usen...@gmx.com>:
> On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:36:51 +0100, Jernej Simon�i�
For those curious about it: we know encoding support is broken in the mail
composer in this alpha release!
Paul Warner
>On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:35:30 -0800, Rijk van Geijtenbeek
><ri...@opera.removethiz.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Opera should be able to help you getting the dictionaries (later, not in
>> this alpha). The Aspell dictionaries will not be used.
>>
>
>And -in the meantime (thanks to fearphage) or, as in my case, always-
>ospell.js works fine, after a slight edit:
><http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/show.dml/2778455?startidx=100#comment6521512>
>
>I'd like to keep aspell, too... (I'm just not a fan of inline spell
>checking.)
Hmm . My inline spell checker seems to have stopped working. I
can't see any check box for it unless I'm missing it..