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By olli. Thursday, 22. March 2007, 17:24:55

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Hi all. Good to be back from vacation and being able to offer you guys a new weekly build. (No static UNIX builds for now, sorry).

  • Fixed issue with replacing personal search engines on startup
  • Support for downloading search engine icons on first start and upgrade
  • Fixed a fair number of cosmetic issues in speed dial
  • Added a limit on how many page thumbnails can be in memory, should result in lower memory usage over time
  • Added thumbnail tooltip to the windows panel list
  • Enabled plugins in feeds again
  • Fixed a heap of prominent and non-prominent crashers
  • Most translations should now be up to date, please test!

UNIX
  • Fixed deadkeys on GMail (finally!)
  • Fixed spellchecker on FreeBSD (look for the right libaspell...)
  • Improved protection against running two instances of Opera using the same settings directory

mac
  • Opera now supports the AppleAntiAliasingThreshold property which allows you to turn off antialiasing (font smoothing) separately from the system setting; a bug in not respecting the system setting has also been fixed


Known issue:
  • Rightclicking causes crashes in various contexts.


Download:
Windows MSI
Windows Classic
Macintosh
Unix

Speed Dial closer to completionfrom the UNIX front

Comments

Adam Dziura 22. March 2007, 22:43

Most translations should now be up to date, please test!


But when Unix users will have a international version Opera?

Torstein Larsson 22. March 2007, 22:53

Norwegian MSI also displays scandinavian characters in wrong format. Letters ÆØÅ look like an explosion in a noodle factory.

grogge 22. March 2007, 22:59

Still unable to delete the first default search (Google)! :frown:

Wojtek Kowaluk 22. March 2007, 23:17

Thumbnails in Window Cycle are broken in this version:
http://files.myopera.com/dodd/pliki/zrzut%20ekranu28.png
Anybody confirms?

Pierre 22. March 2007, 23:17

Thanks for improvements, 8758 still not crashing here (upgrade from 9.10, XP) :D

"French Community improved translation" updated and tested: OK.
http://www.opera-fr.com/dl/lng/v9.0x/French.lng

grogge 22. March 2007, 23:36

"Price comparison" search returns after a restart when it was deleted via the search manager the session before. :frown:

Darkolord 22. March 2007, 23:37

Installer (still) displays strange characters and offers chooses Bulgarian (which is wrong) by default

RSD 22. March 2007, 23:40


speeddial/top-left.png
speeddial/top-right.png
speeddial/bottom-right.png
speeddial/bottom-left.png

Should measure 7x7 instead of 8x8.

grogge 22. March 2007, 23:48

I found the solution to many all of my search engine worries: delete "search.ini" in the Opera program folder!

After that everything works like before. I can edit my searches and they actually stay intact. And there's no need to leave the (deactivated) default searches in my personal search.ini, I have deleted them with a text editor and they don't reappear.

:smile:

Yahia 23. March 2007, 00:16

Yeah. And still no way to edit headers/footers in print.

Cryptobionika 23. March 2007, 00:52

Awesome that some crash-related bugs have been fixed.

but that:
"Rightclicking causes crashes in various contexts." is sad... :frown:

WildEnte 23. March 2007, 01:05

will you have default pages in the speeddial slots in the final?

How about moving the search box from the top to the side of the speeddial entries (seeing that most screens are wider than tall, this gives a little more space for the thumbnails)

Are the speeddial pages loaded from disk cache or are they reloaded completely when I open them from the speeddial page?

Andres 23. March 2007, 02:18

Tks a lot

Jeff ™ 23. March 2007, 03:57

Cool new Build! alot more stable! :-)

Raafel 23. March 2007, 04:27

Unfortunately 'Orkut' website can't logon and enter directly anymore. This is a well know bug with older versions of Opera, but I didn't expect this with newer versions.

Ah! The 'Adrenaline' website (http://www.adrenaline.com.br) can't show the abstract of the topics ('últimas do fórum', at left side) with newer versions of Opera. Really odd.

BTW, thanks and keep going.
Opera rules!

Amadeus Demarzi 23. March 2007, 04:34

To the Devs:
Any news when Mac smooth scrolling will befixed? It would make a hell of a difference! :D

TreeGo 23. March 2007, 04:44

Widgets won't display as 'Always on Top' in Build 8758 upon closing and reopening any widget.

Changing the properties of any widget to 'Always on Top' is ignored by Build 8758 upon successive re-openings of the said widget. After closing the widget upon selecting 'Always on Top' and re-opening the same widget, the widget displays as 'Normal' with the separate Windows taskbar entry display as a result.

Kyle Baker 23. March 2007, 06:04

@Junyor
http://www.bmw.com/ does not render correctly in Opera and it is not related at all to browser sniffing/detection. The page however, does appear to be fine on other browsers. Has very odd behavior. Click on the drop down menu and watch what happens...

Also, http://www.bmw.de/ complains about compatibility issues. Looks like I might need to open up a can of web on their...haha, well send them an email or something. I can't believe some companies. It's 2007 now and we still have sites that are golden oldies and are "Best viewed in Internet Explorer 4 with a screen resolution of 800x600.", lol, how lame. They should definitly be fixing the false warning. Works fine here. (requires shockwave for those wanting to test).

The "Google Bookmark" button is not working at all for me. Is this a known to not work in Opera already?

MeTaTRóN 23. March 2007, 06:42

To OperaBuddy:
Bug confirmed. I use Win2000 Pro.

Rico Neubauer 23. March 2007, 07:58

Hi,
German umlauts are messed up in the MSI-installer (someone already wrote that).
Also: Who translated "speed dial" to "Schnellwahl"? :wink:

mixxers 23. March 2007, 08:03

Nice build, and finally the interactive map in map24 works as should:))

Axel Siebert 23. March 2007, 08:25

MrEasy: What's wrong with "Schnellwahl"? I think it's even better than "speed dial" - with "Schnellwahl" the slightly silly telephone connotation isn't as strong.

Galileo 23. March 2007, 08:43

Working with the new build. Thank you. :smile:

MisterE 23. March 2007, 08:52

Wow! Speed dial opens instantaneously in this build. This makes it usable unlike the previous builds.
I think I will use it a lot from now on.
Congratulation! You got it right this time. Thank you!

P.S.: It would be great if the search box at the top of the speed dial was a combo box with all the search engine (already suggested).

Jasmo 23. March 2007, 09:02

Please cooperate with www.beatport.com somehow to fix compability with Opera 9.2 and Beatport.com!

MisterE 23. March 2007, 09:34

A very, very small issue: you forgot an (empty) "CVS" directory in standard_skin.zip\speeddial.

yksyks 23. March 2007, 09:57

I'd like to ask for help once more (nobody replied so far):

When opening an URL from an outside program (e-mail, shortcut, or even the Run dialog), the page opens in the CURRENT tab, overwriting its contents. This is really annoying. Or did I miss something?

Of course, "Reuse current tab" is unchecked, as well as opera:config#UserPrefs|NewWindow is checked. Changing these two has absolutely NO effect.

In all despair I completely uninstalled Opera and reinstall from scratch, but this behavior persists. It appeared a couple of builds ago, I'm not quite sure.

Could someone find any advice? Thanks in advance.

(WinXP SP2, Opera Build 8758)

Even Nedberg 23. March 2007, 10:09

Image from the Windows install in Norwegian. Messed up letters...

http://www.nedberg.net/images/install.opera9.2.win.jpg

nebbus

kiaM 23. March 2007, 10:12

German MSI Installer has the same Problem.

Morten 23. March 2007, 10:21

Would prefer SD thumbnails to use (nick) names, the same names as on bookmark dropdown list. The URLs are renamed, for a purpose :wink:

sebastian schuster 23. March 2007, 10:24

Originally posted by ||x||:

What's wrong with "Schnellwahl"? I think it's even better than "speed dial" - with "Schnellwahl" the slightly silly telephone connotation isn't as strong.


I thought about the same and also came to the words "Schnellwahl" or "Schnellauswahl".

Soul Of Doinel 23. March 2007, 10:40

All perfectly work!
Thanks for this thursday weekly!

Only one thing, I'm italian and I use italian translation, but personally I prefer the english/international name "Speed Dial" to the italian translation "Accesso Rapido".

berend ytsma 23. March 2007, 10:52


Only one thing, I'm italian and I use italian translation, but personally I prefer the english/international name "Speed Dial" to the italian translation "Accesso Rapido".


And why do you prefer that?

Soul Of Doinel 23. March 2007, 11:17

>And why do you prefer that?

I prefer that because it's underline that this beatiful tool was born for mobile phone and after developed for PC.
And because in Italy (and I think not only here) in informatics are used some english word and in this case, with the translation we lost something because "Accesso Rapido" is alredy used while "Speed Dial" is only for this and, seen the oneness of this feature, I like that it have a unique name.

illiad 23. March 2007, 11:59

Zomm bug still not fixed... see here for details..

No crashes so far!! :smile:

Originally posted by WildEnte:

How about moving the search box from the top to the side of the speeddial entries (seeing that most screens are wider than tall, this gives a little more space for the thumbnails)

Even better, is it possible to give a 'position' to the searchbox?? (Top/bottom right/left)

- this would be a help for those using 'startbar' - it will only close when an 'active element' is clicked..(the searchbox)

yes, the speeddial has the same properties as 'blankpage' ie, inactive.. unless you can remove the 'inactive' property, and just click the 'blankspace' as usual???

Hank_Chinaski 23. March 2007, 12:02

Ftp-client Implementation Flaw, the one responsible for Firefox' 2.0.0.3 release, exists in Opera 9.10 as well, heise online writes today. It further states that the Opera developers have been informed about this flaw but haven't answered.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/87271
http://bindshell.net/papers/ftppasv/ftp-client-pasv-manipulation.pdf

Hank_Chinaski 23. March 2007, 12:13

Good Article in the Guardian about Opera where the author, who likes and praises Opera, explains why he had to switch to Firefox: http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,2039107,00.html
Spot on.

illiad 23. March 2007, 12:15

yksyks: that does not happen here.. (win98SE) - but then I dont use 'opera:config#UserPrefs|NewWindow' ('open window with no tabs' in prefs, tabs.. )

Vygantas 23. March 2007, 12:31

Hm...

Strange problem I have with Back button.

When I am in my site admin panel, doing some stuff I do need to click it twice in order to back.

When I click one time, favicon just flashes but nothing happens...

Hope it can fixed very soon, annoying bug :-/

Martin Tang 23. March 2007, 12:37

Nice to have a more stable release.

Also, the thumbnails on the windows panel are useful when many tabs are opened.

saito 23. March 2007, 12:38

No plugins error at console with build 615 Linux, but flash is not working, that's the reason why we have no error!
i.e. no movie at YouTube on Linux.

Andrew 23. March 2007, 12:41

To Cryptobionika

"Rightclicking causes crashes in various contexts." is sad...

+1

paulgca 23. March 2007, 12:45

No static build :frown:

I find the shared build will seg fault when I spell checking on CentOS 4.4. Anyone else has this issue of is it my just my box? Works nice on my WinXP and Mac OS X box.

Thanks

illiad 23. March 2007, 12:54

consalt: what does '+1' mean? that you like this relese?? p:
- surely this needs a title, that you only get in the community forum....

WhineWhine 23. March 2007, 13:41

How about discussing the weekly, sidrocket76? What's with the off-topic comments?

Andrew 23. March 2007, 14:05

To illiad:

It means than in this bild rightclicking causes crashes in various contexts and it is very sad... :smile:

I pay attention to this problem :smile:

Something wrong? :smile:

SteveKong 23. March 2007, 14:06

Character problems of MSI-version confirmed, umlauts, quotation marks and others aren't displayed correctly. Seems like the UTF-8 code is interpreted as ascii.

And I've figured another problem. Since several versions the encoding option in use (View -> Encoding; e.g. "automatic selection") is no longer checked. I am using the international MSI-Installer, German local, but interface in English.

Zoli 23. March 2007, 15:38

Finally:)
I'm looking forward to the final Opera 9.20 very soon to appear
Good luck!

gilb 23. March 2007, 15:39

Thank you for new build.

Opera crash in M2 when using "right mouse button" for copy and paste,

but I can copy and paste with Keyboard without crash...

Torleif Persson 23. March 2007, 15:50

Every preview-window is botched for me (in the speed dial and elsewehere where they occur) due to the fact that my screen has widescreen ar, and the thumbnails doesn't reflect that. I had hoped that this would be fixed.

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