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Introducing new bugs

By Johan Borgborg. Friday, October 20, 2006 3:17:34 PM

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As promised last week, here's the first build with built-in Fraud Protection. It's a very early preview of the technology, so everything is not entirely done yet, some sites actually show up wrong (silly bug with CNET sites!), and the icons are kind of ugly. Even the version number is wrong smile

But that's what this blog is all about: Bleeding edge. Enjoy!

Known issues:
  • High CPU usage on Google maps
  • UNIX - Crash when changing file handler from download dialog
  • Opera will in some cases not start on upgrading. (use clean install)


Changelog:
  • Improved stability
  • Prevented page reload when navigating to "#"
  • Fixed problem where pages showed the incorrect favicon
  • Fixed problem where multimedia keyboard shortcuts would not work when Opera was focused
  • Attempted to fix problems experienced on some pages when using a slow Internet connection by increasing opera:config#Network|HTTPLoadingDelayedTimeout to 60 seconds
  • Fixed bug where document.body.currentStyle.height reported the wrong value
  • Fixed bug where currentStyle.width was not correct if width is set by a script
  • Fixed bug where 'Open all' from Widgets menu was broken
  • Fixed bug where BCC header was visible to recipients in resent messages
  • Fixed bug where cookies could not be removed using XMLHttpRequest
  • Fixed bug where one could not log in to Gmail with "Accept only cookies for the site I visit" enabled
  • Changed Mozilla ID string spoof to mimic Firefox
  • Fixed bug where browser.js wasn't cached correctly
  • Fixed issue where stored passwords were lost after enabling/disabling the master password
  • Made IE ID string spoof as Windows on Linux/UNIX and Mac
  • XMLHttpRequest didn't handle redirects
  • Enabled use of the Authorization header in XMLHttpRequest
  • "Save target as" and "Save to disk" now play well together
  • "Save directly to" now works
  • Improved error message when a dictionary isn't installed for the spelling checker

    Mac-specific:
  • Use the multi-line form field font in the source viewer
  • When saving multiple times, use the directory saved to during the previous save operation





Windows MSI
Windows Classic
Macintosh
Unix

Opera Backstage: Opera 9.1 will include Fraud ProtectionNo build this week

Comments

Kostia RomanovKildor Friday, October 20, 2006 4:08:53 PM

first?
Big thanks… ;-)
Especial for «Fixed problem where pages showed the incorrect favicon»
will it fixes favicons in personal bar?

Azamadt SmaguloffprofiT Friday, October 20, 2006 4:09:06 PM

Yay!

HydanSeeker Friday, October 20, 2006 4:09:46 PM

:-D

gilb Friday, October 20, 2006 4:09:58 PM

Thank you

Remco Lantingremcolanting Friday, October 20, 2006 4:10:10 PM

w00t!

superjoppe Friday, October 20, 2006 4:10:33 PM

FINALLY A NEW BUILD

MathiasMathchoustone Friday, October 20, 2006 4:13:01 PM

Thanks !!!! smile

Danieldan1el Friday, October 20, 2006 4:13:12 PM

Yay smile

y0r1c Friday, October 20, 2006 4:13:24 PM

yay, cool

PS: i'm in 10

João EirasxErath Friday, October 20, 2006 4:15:16 PM

wow ! What a great changelog !! Candy to my testing.

kisu kangcielkisu Friday, October 20, 2006 4:15:51 PM

it's worth waiting smile

Ryan Octavianusphilry4n Friday, October 20, 2006 4:16:19 PM

yes downloading ......

Tamil Friday, October 20, 2006 4:16:53 PM

up

Non-Tropponon-troppo Friday, October 20, 2006 4:25:41 PM

"cannot initialise opera due to lack of memory" for my normal profile - a virgin profile is OK.

EDIT: high CPU on a number of other sites probably related to Google Maps problems...

Yahia Friday, October 20, 2006 4:26:05 PM

Long live those beautiful Opera bugs bigsmile

Szőts Ákosszotsaki2 Friday, October 20, 2006 4:27:25 PM

A new build, yeah!

But the localhost cookie bug is not fixed. (bug-230350).
(When I disable all cookies and enable in Page Preferences to the Localhost, after an Opera restart it "forgets" the enabled cookie state.)

Oh, and the localhost is also reportable in the Fraud protection dialog smile

Espen B. AnderssonEspenA Friday, October 20, 2006 4:28:39 PM

non-troppo, same here. Reported.

dajmg Friday, October 20, 2006 4:32:01 PM

Can not input chinese with 8629.

Non-Tropponon-troppo Friday, October 20, 2006 4:32:45 PM

Tamil: /settings almost works apart from urlfilter.ini wink

Ar1Pear1pe Friday, October 20, 2006 4:35:42 PM

Finally bigsmile

G-Bojkokrusha Friday, October 20, 2006 4:35:48 PM

"Cannot initialise opera due to lack of memory"

:-(

Kyle Bakerkyleabaker Friday, October 20, 2006 4:35:57 PM

Sweet build team!

rseiler Friday, October 20, 2006 4:36:42 PM

Can someone shed some light on this?

"Prevented page reload when navigating to "#""

Twilo Friday, October 20, 2006 4:38:03 PM

thanks for opera smile

Alexis DeveriaFyrd Friday, October 20, 2006 4:40:54 PM

Yay! Fun stuff. *downloads*

Kc4 the Greatklingoncowboy4 Friday, October 20, 2006 4:41:22 PM

Changelog:
Improved stability


Always a good thing

Fixed problem where pages showed the incorrect favicon


That was getting annoying their for awhile

Attempted to fix problems experienced on some pages when using a slow Internet connection by increasing opera:config#Network


I will admit that I haven't used a slow connection for over a year now (no I haven't used any version of Opera 9 on a slow connection) but in the past Opera has always performed the fastest for me, followed by FF, Lynx and finally IE.

Changed Mozilla ID string spoof to mimic Firefox


Probably more useful then plain Mozilla

Additions:
Made IE ID string spoof as Windows on Linux/UNIX and Mac


Definitely more useful, though I would love to see the reaction of someone who didn't know about Opera or IE4Linux going through their hit log and seeing "Internet Explorer, Linux" lol.

Tim AltmanJunyor Friday, October 20, 2006 4:54:47 PM

We're aware of the "Cannot initialise opera due to lack of memory" problem. No additional bug reports are needed. Thank you.

@rseiler: If a page contained a link to "#", often used for JavaScript events, then Opera would reload the page when the link was clicked. We don't anymore.

Raistlin Friday, October 20, 2006 5:00:47 PM

Opera freezes still...

wupperbayer Friday, October 20, 2006 5:02:20 PM

Someone has phishing sites to test the fraud protection? wink Very nice changelog otherwise! (besides the bugs, of course) smile

Dan Alexandrudantesoft Friday, October 20, 2006 5:09:53 PM

up for XMLHttpRequest and relatives

FataL Friday, October 20, 2006 5:16:18 PM

Couple useful links about phishing (you can find here links to phishing sites):

Ryan Octavianusphilry4n Friday, October 20, 2006 5:17:54 PM

am i just too excited or the rendering felt faster smile

Tamil Friday, October 20, 2006 5:25:09 PM

Originally posted by non-troppo:

Tamil: /settings almost works apart from urlfilter.ini

yes but the following empty folders are created in default location.

bt_metadata, cache4, images, keyboard, menu, mouse, opcache, skin, toolbar, voice & widgets

wupperbayer Friday, October 20, 2006 5:27:41 PM

@FataL: Sorry, I didn’t want sites about phishing, I wanted actual phishing pages to test the fraud protection wink Sorry if this wasn’t clear.

Raistlin Friday, October 20, 2006 5:31:08 PM

css:
body, html {font: normal 12px Georgia, Verdana, Sans-serif;}

now, in html it should style any element (ie. div, p, etc. and recursive elements), like in the past and other browsers. But it don't.

FataL Friday, October 20, 2006 5:34:02 PM

Sorry, I didn’t want sites about phishing, I wanted actual phishing pages to test the fraud protection

Did you actually open the links? wink

wupperbayer Friday, October 20, 2006 5:37:06 PM

The first one only, FataL, and I only found anti-phishing links (so I’m probably half blind or something like that wink), so I thought you did misunderstand my question...

Rafald.i.z. Friday, October 20, 2006 5:40:04 PM

Very nice changelog indeed. Gonna go through all my bugs.

But first, I want to quickly bring this fix to the table:

Prevented page reload when navigating to "#"


Look at this page: http://zajec.net/bug/input.event (the testcase is actually about other bug, but thats not relevant)
"Click me to break" link actually triggers page reload.
Link looks like this:
< a href="#" onclick="document.getElementById('editka').style.display='';" >

According to this fix, it should not trigger reload. But it does and what's more, it didn't before this fix.
Please look into it.

MyOpera team, please fix this!fearphage Friday, October 20, 2006 5:45:48 PM

I prayed for a new build last night. Thank you God and devs.

Szőts Ákosszotsaki2 Friday, October 20, 2006 5:47:30 PM

On this (by FataL provided) link there are a lot of phishing sites.

The good news is you can test Opera.
http://www.dslreports.com/phishtrack?pid=4905&urls=1

The bad news is that Opera fails in a lot of cases...

wupperbayer Friday, October 20, 2006 5:47:56 PM

Thanks for the links, FataL, especially the second one is very good for testing.

One suggestion: As many of the newer phishing pages can’t be verified, it would be nice if this wouldn’t be said by a grey-on-grey question mark, but by a yellow "NOT VERIFIED" sign directly in the task bar. Same for "VERIFIED" on a green background. Or the same chars as now, but with yellow and green background. Grey isn’t very catchy.

wupperbayer Friday, October 20, 2006 5:52:26 PM

@szotsaki2: I wouldn’t say it fails. As most of these pages are less than or slightly more than a few hours old, it is nearly impossible to mark them all as “fraud”. But as there is a questionmark instead of an “i” (as it should be on pages as eBay, PayPal etc. pp.), it is very likely this page is a fraud.

lexluthor5 Friday, October 20, 2006 5:54:24 PM

Where is the user cache for phishing site status stored locally?

FataL Friday, October 20, 2006 5:55:18 PM

I prayed for a new build last night. Thank you God and devs.

lol bigsmile

Szőts Ákosszotsaki2 Friday, October 20, 2006 6:03:53 PM

@wupperbayer: You are right, these were the newest one. But one in the ads was that the locally-stored blacklist is not so good because new phishing pages appear in every hour.

Of course it is not the mistake of Opera, GeoTrust is a bit slow, and hope they will be faster because Opera uses their technology.

wupperbayer Friday, October 20, 2006 6:06:21 PM

Of course it is not the mistake of Opera, GeoTrust is a bit slow, and hope they will be faster because Opera uses their technology.


Well, you can send suspicious web pages to GeoTrust, I’ve done this already for one of the not detected web sites smile

robertFalledAngel Friday, October 20, 2006 6:33:20 PM

Nice! Thanks Opera Team

wupperbayer Friday, October 20, 2006 6:33:22 PM

It doesn’t do here, szotsaki2. Weird.

Michael Xeningem Grayxeningem Friday, October 20, 2006 6:33:48 PM

Bug in logic of work "Site report".
In NOMINATE SITE field with comments clear every time when I click in this. sad

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