Opera Desktop Team

A short changelog

By Johan Borg. Friday, 23. March 2007, 16:34:12

Just thought we should bring you the latest and greatest before the weekend, so here's an update with a few small, but hopefully significant fixes.

Keiki from our Tokyo office asked me a few questions for his Japanese blog last time he was in Oslo, so if you speak the language you may want to have a look

Changelog

Fixed the crasher when right clicking certain places
Fixed title for redirected pages in speed dial
Improved plugin detection on Solaris

Known issue

This week only lasted one day, sorry about that

Download:
Windows MSI
Windows Classic
Macintosh
Unix

from the UNIX front9.2 Beta

Comments

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mark_poleon # 23. March 2007, 17:57

neoscorp # 23. March 2007, 18:00

Thanks for changelog !

Tamil # 23. March 2007, 18:00

I installed build 8758 before 1 hour.

Thanks.

impotent # 23. March 2007, 18:01

even I got a word of appreciation for that

Thanx...

Kuja-IX # 23. March 2007, 18:03

Thx ^^

hurug # 23. March 2007, 18:03

Thanx for the crash fix.

Investor # 23. March 2007, 18:09

That's the spirit...

(btw. no crashes in 10 hrs, all is fine)

Cyro # 23. March 2007, 18:10

What happened to the languages? Brazilian Portuguese is gone!

minime1000 # 23. March 2007, 18:13

no opera-9.20-20070323.6-shared-qt.i386-en-617 rpm for intel-linux ?

gilb # 23. March 2007, 18:15

Thank you for fixing

DjiXas # 23. March 2007, 18:19

Thanks :-)

bmisiekb # 23. March 2007, 18:21

THX

DjiXas # 23. March 2007, 18:24

Hm... Why do images in setup are so squared? :-) Looks like win 95

SteveKong # 23. March 2007, 18:25

Wow, that is really fast - THX!

And, you've fixed the installer. =)

firstnight # 23. March 2007, 18:28

Got it. Thanks for the quick work on fixing the ''right-click'' crash.

quiris # 23. March 2007, 18:37

Are there Berit Framnes and Espen Øverdahl on a setup picture?

csant # 23. March 2007, 18:39

minime1000, sorry, but the .6 rpm package is not available this time.

HerwigF # 23. March 2007, 18:41

Great! Thanks!
I had to revert to the previous build a week or so after too many crashes, but the current build seems to be quite stable.

BTW, I have read about a potential FTP PASV security problem on heise.de today (sorry, German text):
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/87271
They write that Bindshell was reporting the flaw to the Opera team in January but got no answer so far. I did not read a comment in the desktop team blog either. Heise recommends to disable Javascript. - Any comments from the team?

Cheers, Herwig

Darken # 23. March 2007, 18:42

Got it. Thanks for the quick work on fixing the ''right-click'' crash.

csant # 23. March 2007, 18:42

Any comments from the team?

It's fixed in the weeklies.

SoulOfDoinel # 23. March 2007, 18:48

Great, I love bug when it's fixed in few hours.
Thanks.

Vempire # 23. March 2007, 18:53

Opera team Ruuuuuules

rghammo # 23. March 2007, 18:55

I am having problems with http://www.cnn.com/ on this build. The reload wheel for CNN's thumbnail was spun forever the first time I reloaded my speed dial (it's one of my 9 obviously). Then I visited CNN and had a problem loading the last image, which went away when I hit stop and then reload. Now the CNN page loads fine (when I visit the page itself) but the thumbnail on my speed dial does not reload with F5 (all other thumbnails show a spinning icon until they reload but the CNN thumbnail shows no spinning). Right clicking and reloading manually also does not ever show any spinning for CNN. Can anyone confirm? You would have to have CNN as an entry on your speed dial to check this.

SoulOfDoinel # 23. March 2007, 19:05

I've tried to put CNN in my speed dial and perfectly work (when I use F5 show spinning icon and reload).

rghammo # 23. March 2007, 19:07

OK, thanks for checking. I had cleared the cache before, but just now I cleared and closed/restarted and all is fine. All better.

Darken # 23. March 2007, 19:07

hummm, new installer "splash screen"?

Screenshot

Nice

Alnag # 23. March 2007, 19:13

Now this speed of fixing issues I really appreciate! Thanx a lot.

fearphage # 23. March 2007, 19:24

in reference to css3...

Originally posted by haavard:

I don't think you can expect a lot of new things until Kestrel or Peregrine.

I overall didn't expect any major changes or feature additions in the near future. However, this was sharply contrasted by the speed dial feature. I'm just wondering if it is opening the door for more features or was that something someone felt was one of the last features the next release needed?

Just wondering if we are starting up new features or winding down. Is there a target set for the bundle of css3 additions?

I know the bug tracking system is closed and all but could we possibly get some insight into bug stats? like opened, confirmed, fixed, etc? Also, I recall reading that changelogs for releases are generally incomplete. Is there somewhere to get complete logs or even raw (cvs/svn) logs? I'm not sure what I would/could do with that but more info is always better.

EDIT: I posted the reply in this release because I'm not sure if the other release will be viewed much now.

kyleabaker # 23. March 2007, 19:27

Fantastic! I had a feeling that a fix for the right click crash would come quickly. I like seeing the fast response and patch that you all have been doing over there!

[EDIT]The classic installer got an upgrade, hehe. I see you guys decided to put a more professional looking image in the classic installer. Good move in my opinion.

Darkolord # 23. March 2007, 19:31

To everyone from Opera:

http://www.hallmark.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ecard|10001|10051|664858|-102001;11444;-102234||P1R6S|ecards

ermir # 23. March 2007, 19:33

I installed build 8758 before 15 min. and FULLLY customise it, thanks))

dfyfe # 23. March 2007, 19:47

...and it's f..a..s..t !!
Imac G5, 2Ghz, 512Mb, OS X
Build 3659

intelimac20inch # 23. March 2007, 19:59

wow new build already thats fast! :-D

cousin333 # 23. March 2007, 20:24

Great new build!

When I open a page from Speed Dial, the Speed Dial thumbnail also refreshes. But usually badly aligned (aligned to left, when it should be centered...).

In newsfeeds, when I check the Get name from feed (or what), the feed's name changes to the URL, and the name field is greyed out (so far it's good behaviour). But if I press Send/Recieve button, the field become editable again (with the new name, it got from the feed), and the option is unchecked. Is it deliberate or is it a small bug?

If the feed name was selected before clicking Send/Recieve, the new feed name is not shown (not updated) until I click somewhere else.

But these are pretty small bugs, so you should not have to pay too much attention to them...

Pretty good (fast&stable) new build anyway. I like the new "setup splash screen picture" too. The former one was boring now, anyway.

Alnag # 23. March 2007, 20:37

Seeing the speed of new builds, new set-up picture and other "Signs" I guess we are near to final, aren't we?

vinodkk1 # 23. March 2007, 20:55

Nice new build .But still dont see an easy way to update all feeds in one go .Pending request feature

cousin333 # 23. March 2007, 21:00

I wrote: "(aligned to left, when it should be centered...)"
I meant: aligned to the RIGHT...

ResearchWizard # 23. March 2007, 21:29

Herwig: link to the English version is below the German version:
http://www.heise-security.co.uk/news/87291
(about FTP rerouting also possible in Opera and Konqueror)

Csant: great to hear it's already fixed in the weeklies - I suppose this will push the release date for Opera 9.2

Investor # 23. March 2007, 21:57

@quiris:

Are there Berit Framnes and Espen Øverdahl on a setup picture?

My thought as well

Theme point is fine, but take is not 100% professional... Looks like 2 shots pasted together.

Berit does the trick, really nice... but Espen needs... different angle, expression... ???

lazy_bum # 23. March 2007, 22:03

Still waiting for something like:
* Fixed the "gray screen of flash death"

Linux flash sucks. /:

Galileo # 23. March 2007, 22:16

"Known issue
This week only lasted one day, sorry about that"

csant # 23. March 2007, 22:19

Originally posted by lazy_bum:

Linux flash

We don't develop Flash.

ViperAFK # 23. March 2007, 22:32

speeddial is perfect now that I can middle click pages to open them in the background. the tab thumbnails amgically decided to worka gain for me too.

Oskamcor # 23. March 2007, 22:45

When using the full screen in Youtube. I can't return to the common view.

ViperAFK # 23. March 2007, 22:46

I'm having a problem I do not remember having with the last build, on digg.com when I digg someone up it redirects me to the main page. however it works when I mask as firefox. It also makes me repetitivly have to login

olli # 23. March 2007, 22:50

ViperAFK: works for me

Darken # 23. March 2007, 22:55

@ViperAFK: All works fine with this latest build + Digg.

TreeGo # 23. March 2007, 22:59

Widgets won't display as 'Always on Top' in Build 8762 upon closing and reopening any widget.

Changing the properties of any widget to 'Always on Top' is ignored by Build 8762 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.