http://www.osnews.com/story/13657/Opera_Starts_Weekly_Builds_Program Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 22 May 2013 14:40:35 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?95259 http://www.osnews.com/thread?95259 It is like mozilla.org's nightly software.

Next step : opening source code ? Mon, 13 Feb 2006 22:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fredb1974) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?95263 http://www.osnews.com/thread?95263 Don't count on it. Companies that gravitate toward closed source software usually have to have one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel before they issue the "We've always loved Open Source and are going to structure our whole business around it" press release.

I'm an OSS advocate, but it is only half in jest that I say that Open Source is where dying companies go to die. ;-) Opera's not there yet. Mon, 13 Feb 2006 22:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sbergman27) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?95271 http://www.osnews.com/thread?95271 Please please please no. There is no good reason to open-source the code. Mon, 13 Feb 2006 22:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sappyvcv) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?95298 http://www.osnews.com/thread?95298 I like the direction in which they are heading..
They launched Opera Labs about a week ago and now we are also going to get weekly builds.. Mon, 13 Feb 2006 23:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Moparx) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?95316 http://www.osnews.com/thread?95316 Opera owns. It's always been my favorite browser. I'm happy to see that they are gonna do weekly builds. But please God, don't open the source.

One thing I have always wanted to see (and use) however ever since the release of M2 (my fav. mail client as well), is a release of M2 as a seperate piece of software (*Sigh* yeah in the tradition of Firefox, thunderbird but I thought of that (with opera) a long time ago).

I'm glad Opera is doing so well.

Note: If none of that makes sense or looks crappy, bad spelling, etc. it's because I have not slept for 48 hours. Tue, 14 Feb 2006 01:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Jedd) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?95318 http://www.osnews.com/thread?95318 One of the biggest wish of full-blood opera fans in their forums is more frequent updates, stability be damned :-)

I'm spoilt for choice on OSX ...

safari: fast but minimal features.
firefox: fantastic extensions but slow
opera: fast, some good features but not extensible

I may end up with Opera though, because the geek in me can't help the urge to upgrade to the latest and greatest version of my software. It feels good to use something that has the feeling its progressing and getting better every week. Tue, 14 Feb 2006 01:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Johan) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?95374 http://www.osnews.com/thread?95374 I was joking. Try to learn how to read a comment.

But weekly builds are the same idea as nightly builds from mozilla.org.

Only time will tell if it is a good idea or not. Tue, 14 Feb 2006 08:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fredb1974) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?95375 http://www.osnews.com/thread?95375 Let's hope it will make Opera better - at least on MacOS-X. Tue, 14 Feb 2006 08:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fredb1974) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?95382 http://www.osnews.com/thread?95382 Opera is the best right now on OS X. It puts Safari to shame regarding the memory consumption, speed of flash content and a ton of other smaller issues.
Quite surprising actually, I thought it will never come to that. Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Riba) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?95383 http://www.osnews.com/thread?95383 Let me disagree. Opera is not really "os-x" like. Safari is more faster for some little things, and I am seeing less rendering problem with Safari.

For me :

1) Gecko based browser
2) Safari
3) opera

But everybody as we say in french "peut voir midi à sa porte". Don't know the english version for this. Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fredb1974) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?95392 http://www.osnews.com/thread?95392 could they at least release a build for freebsd amd64?Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (MobilePhone PM-8200/US/1.0) NetFront/3.1 MMP/2.0 Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous.) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?95415 http://www.osnews.com/thread?95415 But everybody as we say in french "peut voir midi à sa porte". Don't know the english version for this.
i tried several online translators and all of them say it's "can see midday with its door", which makes no sense at all... Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous.) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?95424 http://www.osnews.com/thread?95424 Yeah, I know. Those kind of sentences are not translable word to word.

Well, maybe wikipedia could help me ;o) Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fredb1974) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?95455 http://www.osnews.com/thread?95455 english: To each his own.
french: Chacun voit midi à sa porte.
literal: Everyone sees noon at his door. Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (peejay) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?95499 http://www.osnews.com/thread?95499 Kind of. Nightly builds are not tested. Opera's weekly builds are (just not as much as betas or previews). Tue, 14 Feb 2006 18:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sappyvcv) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?95540 http://www.osnews.com/thread?95540 Nightly not tested ?

Ehr ? You said something wrong. I am only using nightlies since 2001, either Mozilla, or fx, or thunderbird.

Here is the useragent of my fx :

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060214 Firefox/1.6a1

Which is clearly a nightly build. I am using homemade nightlies... Tue, 14 Feb 2006 20:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fredb1974) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?95589 http://www.osnews.com/thread?95589 Maybe you should go read up on nightlies. One of the first things said about them is that they are barely tested. As long as it compiles, it goes up. There are scripts to run unit testing on these builds, but even if they fail, the nightly is still available. Tue, 14 Feb 2006 22:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sappyvcv) Comments