Opera 11.0 Alpha out

[Maxxwire]

Thanks. Opera 11 is turning out to be pretty good.

Yes it is, I think I'll continue down the Alpha trail with the new Opera 11 Alpha build 1060 snapshot.

~Maxx~

 

[stve]

One problem I'm having is that nearly every time it starts it crashes forcing me to restart with the new option minimal restart no tabs or extensions.
A workaround if you want to start with the tabs you had last time is to save the session before you quit & load it in after you start.
In use I find it very stable with no extensions but less so with extensions.

 

[Maxxwire]

I've never had Opera 11 Alpha (or any version of Opera for that matter) crash whether opening with tabs or not.

~Maxx~

 

[stve]

I can understand that.
I get the crashes mainly because of visiting the Opera desktop blog & checking out the problem pages.
Opera Desktop Team - Desktop Team
I also move my toolbars a lot which seems to cause more problems with Opera 11 probably something to do with extensions.

 

[Maxxwire]

I checked out the Opera Extensions, but there wasn't anything there that interested me. I also start Opera 11 Alpha 2 on the Speed Dial page so there are no multitude of tabs to deal with.

~Maxx~

 

[yowanvista]

Fifth build released
link

 

[yowanvista]

Sixth build released (1094)
link

 

[Maxxwire]

Thanks yowanvista! Opera 11 Alpha b1094 has a lot of new features including a safer address field.

~Maxx~

 

[stve]

Hate the new visual mouse gestures its a good idea for the first time user but they have to make it optional.
Reading the Opera Desktop blog i have never seen so many users hating a new feature.
I would turn mouse gestures off but if you do that the right click context menu stops working.
The worst gesture for me is close the page / the keyboard equivalent is Ctrl W

 

[Maxxwire]

stve- With Opera 11 Alpha b1094 for the first time since I first started using Opera v10.70 I am able to use the 'page back' button on my Logitech MX Revolution mouse! I had been forced to use mouse gestures with v10.70 and the previous builds of Opera 11 Alpha, but I'm so glad to be free of that now!

~Maxx~

 

[stve]

I've had to turn off mouse gestures it was driving me nuts I'm having to right & left click the mouse to go back & right & left to go forwards takes some getting used to.

 

[Maxxwire]

Tell me about it! I did a lot of right clicking while dragging the mouse left to go back a page. I didn't buy a top of the line Logitech Wireless Mouse with dozens of functions just to have to click and drag my way around the internet. Everything's fine now though!

~Maxx~

 

[yowanvista]

New build released (1104) link

 

[swarfega]

Theyre coming much quicker than firefox updates

 

[yowanvista]

Opera 11.00 Beta 1 released (build 1111)
Link

New build features App tabs as in FF4

 

[Maxxwire]

yowanvista- I just checked the Opera Developer's Page and the latest snapshot they have is b1104 it looks like you're 1 snapshot ahead of them!

~Maxx~
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[yowanvista]

yowanvista- I just checked the Opera Developer's Page and the latest snapshot they have is b1104 it looks like you're 1 snapshot ahead of them!

~Maxx~
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Yes the beta build will be officially announced tomorrow but the build has already been compiled and is available on the ftp server

 

[swarfega]

Thanks again yowanvista.

 

[stve]

Thanks for the heads up re the beta the mouse gestures now work properly & the visual gestures are still there for the noobs or even old timers to learn the more obscure ones.
Another improvement is pinning tabs they now shrink the same as in Chrome , some skins already did this but it was very slow & did not display correctly , very quick & smooth now.

 

[VaynardX]

Here's a new neat feature that opera will be using:

YouTube - Tab stacking in Opera 11