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By IceArdor anchor Wednesday, 7. May 2008, 07:43:31

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I assumed that Dragonfly would be a seperate download for my computer, either as a stand-alone binary or as a technical preview binary release of Opera. Nowhere on dragonfly.opera.com does it say that Dragonfly is not a download, but rather is already contained in the browser, and is accessible via "Tools/Advanced/Developer Tools, in Opera 9.5 beta 2 and above" as said in the Dragonfly Mailing List. The button to download Opera 9.5 beta 2 was confusing, since it was the only thing for me to download. But I already had Beta 2 installed on my computer.

Once I saw a link to the Dragonfly button (which one should seriously be made for Kestrel, instead of relying on someone else's button to open up Dragonfly), I knew I had Dragonfly on my computer. Nonetheless, the dragonfly website is still alpha-like too. It needs to include more information about how to get Dragonfly, what the license of it is, how to download the source, etc. dragonfly.opera.com is lacking some of those details.

By leoplaw anchor Thursday, 26. June 2008, 10:54:28

avatarAbsolutely! I was also confused, until I googled for "Opera Dragonfly download" and found out that it came installed with Opera 9.5. Please Opera team take note and make it clearer. You want more people to use your browser, so help them out.

By dstorey O anchor Thursday, 26. June 2008, 17:07:47

avatarThe updated web pages for Opera Dragonfly alpha 2 contains this information already, when it is updated to go with that release. We've just released the RC for alpha 2, but have only added this as a note on the current site so far.

By IceArdor anchor Friday, 27. June 2008, 03:31:52

avatarMake sure to mention that Dragonfly is accessible at "Tools...Advanced...Developer Tools". (Might also want to rename Developer Tools to Dragonfly, or do something to make it obvious the feature to look for when people open Opera. I was expecting to see a link that said "Dragonfly" somewhere in the Opera interface, and there isn't.

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