"The release of Opera 9 Preview 2 marks the start of a new tradition: The Weekly Builds. Every week until the final version of Opera 9 is ready, we intend to ship a weekly updated version of Opera 9 on this blog. The goal is to further open up our development process to our devoted users and allow you to be more involved at an earlier stage than when we ship the next public beta."
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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. 
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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.
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