Yeah, but what about us other users? It's also in your interest, if it causes something you've paid for to not work correctly, surely you want them to fix it so what you paid for does it appropriately?
Hell, if Bugzilla's too much of a pain (and it is, hence my work on taskt) let me know the URLs and if they cause repeatedly crashes on my 770, I'll report them.
Well, filing bugs is not one of my strengths; sometimes I drag myself to a projects' bugzilla and try to describe what happened. In this particular case, though: No way. Opera is a proprietary, commercial, closed-source product and I feel no obligation whatsoever to invest a second of my time. I don't work for them, they don't pay me.
I don't care if its open source or proprietary and/or I have to pay for the software or not. As a customer of any product I would like to be able to feedback issues to the originator of a given item in a community manner and be informed of the fixes that address them or not.
Bugzilla, is there to register base Nokia 770 issues, but its not the most user friendly tool where feedback on fixed items in each release i.e. latest OS2006 is not as clear/easy to find as it could be etc. (perhaps someone can enlighten me?)
However at the end of the day if we don't record the bugs they will never be fixed. Thanks Aflegg for taking the trouble to offer to input the particular Opera bug (I am not having this problem so far, post a URL thats causing the problem in Opera and I will give it a try too?)
Nice plug about your taskt Aflegg, how could we best use this with the Nokia 770 user community and say the latest OS2006 onwards....
Too bad. That makes it much harder on the rest of us. If I can find and identify a pattern to the crashes, I will most certainly report. I am looking out for the good of all of those with 770s, not for the good of a closed source vendor. The important part for me is that we have the most functional product for those who invested in one. One man's opinion only.
I know it seems like small potatos to the experienced hackers on the site, but for just "user people" like me, the support of 2 gig cards is a significant upgrade. It also means that the people at Nokia appear to be listening to the experienced user community and incorporating their ideas - pretty good in my book.
It looks like the upgrade is not yet "officially released" from my perspective, as the version offered on the US Nokia site is still the June 2006 release. I will wait just a bit longer and see if how long it takes to have it posted there.
Just as I was getting used to the bugs in the previous e-mail client, bizarre boxes appearing and failed scroll bars we now have gone back to utterly crazy time stamps a la 2005 ver clock problems. This time though the e-mail time has absolutely no bearing on anything, at least before you could set the thing to Helsinki time and it kind of worked. Anyone figured out what the Date field in the e-mail client might be based on?
I too have noticed some rather odd time related bugs in the new firmware. After having setting and verifying the correct time immediately after installing the new firmware, I came back the next day and the time was off by something on the order of 4 hours! I am running a good deal of third party software (as frankly, the 770 isn't very useful to me by default), but none of this software ever caused any issues on the older version of the 2006 fw.
Before this update I would have dropped and reconnected my WIFI connection at least once while typing this message.
Now I stay connected. Yay.
This was my #1 problem. It is now fixed.
Same here. This is enough for me to be satisfied with this new release.
I didn't notice any crash on websites that didn't happen before.
In Opera, streaming media now open directly in the video or audio player, without asking whether to open or download them. I had a lot of bugs in the old release, with the browser often hanging at this stage. Seems to be fixed. Maybe this was wifi related.
(-) In Xterm, some keys (Backspace...) don't behave as expected anymore. I don't know if this is a known issue. Edit: Fixed, thanks to ascherjim.
(-) In Opera, the address bar had disappear until I opened a new window.
No!!