Post-Alpha Opera 9.5 Release
By Adam Minchintonminch. Friday, September 14, 2007 2:19:22 PM
Previously the term weekly has been used to describe our "weekly" releases. As most of you know they don't always appear at the end of every week, therfore we will be endeavouring to deliver a steady stream of builds as they are ready. So be prepared, the next release may come on a Tuesday or any other day of the week.
So what have we been doing?
We have been working hard on performance and fixing bugs, so go and grab the build and help us make Opera 9.5 even better!
Known Issues
- Some Linux/UNIX packages are not available this time
- Won't run correctly on Windows 95 or 98
- OS X version may cause persistent freezes on start-up
- POP server cleaning has been disabled: When disabling the "Leave messages on server" option, existing messages on the server are not removed
- Files are often saved with the incorrect file extension
- [BUG 271585] The last directory used is not remembered in the Save As and Open dialogs
- [BUG 284852] Wand doesn't save new passwords; old passwords should work properly
- [BUG 284849] Yahoo! Mail beta may crash Opera
- [BUG 278770] Gmail does not work on 64-bit
- [BUG 264975] Graphical smilies do not work
- [BUG 280261] Removing messages from filters does not work
- [BUG 184894] Native OS X UI elements cannot be used in skins
- [BUG 213115] Queued mail is sent at the next check, instead of waiting for manual action
- [BUG 280536] Opera on OS X will sometimes freeze when exiting Preferences
- [BUG 281679] Bookmarks are not sorted correctly
- [BUG 274352] Upgrading with no mail/RSS accounts causes a mail upgrade that never finishes
Known Issues Fixed in this Release
- [BUG 277681] Some order lists are displayed as unordered lists
- [BUG 279302] Line wrapping does not work correctly in some cases, causing overly long lines of text and horizontal scrollbars; often seen at Wikipedia
- [BUG 280763] On OS X, menus on some web sites won't work if they open over Flash content
- [BUG 281550] Setting an external source viewer does not work
Other Changes
- The View bar is available in the Appearance dialog again
- Added APNG 1.0 support for use on web pages and in skins
- Made Opera Mail multi-threaded for improved performanced
- Further notification improvements, including a close button on notifications
- Added ability to select an application from the Download dialog to open the file if no application is associated with the file type
- Numerous stability fixes
- Several rendering engine fixes
- Fixed a problem where the cursor in the source viewer was positioned at the end
- Fixed a problem where the text color (inside tables) would change when closing the Content Block dialog
- Fixed a problem where numbers (and borders) were not shown in configured Speed Dial entries
- Fixed a problem where text was squished/mashed together after removing a Speed Dial thumbnail
- Fixed a problem where links focused by inline find could not be activated by pressing Enter
- Fixed IE bookmark folder import
Windows-specific
- Greatly improved performance with alpha transparency (animations, scrolling)
Mac-specific
- Further tweaking of tabs in native skin
- Removed page loading spinner from Address bar
- Rounded edges on many dialog Title bars
- Fixed application window focus/activation problems
- Fixed problems with Flash problems with wmode=opaque and CSS hover
- Prevent some start-up freezes
- Pulsing progress bar
Download:
Windows
Windows Classic
Macintosh
Unix



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Ar1Pear1pe # Friday, September 14, 2007 2:47:21 PM
edit: no unread messages for me, but Send/receive stays as red X all the time. Doesn't seem to affect sending/checking mail though
edit2: Solved. Removed it from my toolbar and brought it back and now it's ok.
Sergio Uribesuribe # Friday, September 14, 2007 2:54:09 PM
Thanks
mrd # Friday, September 14, 2007 2:54:56 PM
Maybe that one needed edited before going online?
mrd # Friday, September 14, 2007 2:55:53 PM
lamarca lamarca # Friday, September 14, 2007 2:56:35 PM
sebt # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:00:11 PM
Simon Houstonshoust # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:00:32 PM
Hernán Gabriel GonzalezCamus # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:02:09 PM
Congrats!
olli # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:02:11 PM
Alexschmitty8225 # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:02:16 PM
Soleen # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:04:01 PM
But thank you developers for hard work
sebt # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:05:19 PM
Fixed pending further tests. [bug-283015] Links panel ignores mimetypes when downloading media links
Not fixed. [bug-283018] Javascript menus for corporate Intranet site broken (using .net navigation.js)
Not fixed (windows) pending linux testing. [bug-283020] UI - Smooth scrolling problems (linux, but also using cursorkeys in XP)
Not fixed. [bug-284081] CSS rendering incorrect colors, corrected upon scroll (sebt blog demonstrates problem)
Adam Dziuraadas # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:05:35 PM
olli # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:05:53 PM
mrd # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:06:31 PM
Thinking I might wipe my profile and start again given that one
Good stuff.
Hermenhermen2048 # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:06:55 PM
Simon Houstonshoust # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:07:43 PM
@schmitty8225 This is a post alpha, pre beta build, aka weekly. In general they can be as stable as the alphas if not as stable as a final.
mrd # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:09:48 PM
It's great to see though. Hopefully the feedback gained is worth any such pain because I definitely will enjoy a less "milestone" based system of desktopteam builds.
Kaaleppi Suursyömärikasakka # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:09:54 PM
Seems like the Speed Dial thumbnails not saving correctly bug is still there and Novell Groupwise webmail is still messed up (I think it was a bit better in 9500?).
TheMajor # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:11:39 PM
grafio # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:12:04 PM
Ar1Pear1pe # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:12:10 PM
johannordholm # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:13:04 PM
Alnag # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:18:05 PM
Hypezor # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:20:57 PM
Thanks!
berend ytsmaytsmabeer # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:21:28 PM
eddie # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:24:42 PM
Claudio Santambrogiocsant # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:24:42 PM
Originally posted by Soleen:
Nope, apologies
Stifu # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:26:55 PM
Originally posted by hermen2048:
Works fine here (Vista 32).
Thanks devs.
MyOpera team, please fix this!fearphage # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:27:40 PM
Originally posted by olli:
Some of us wouldn't mind such things...Horst GutmannzeroK # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:31:48 PM
mrd # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:32:32 PM
That seems quite a quirky thing to add unless you have some idea for it that you're heading towards? Some desired use of it yourselves already on one of the mobile/embedded platforms?
Bill PBill_P # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:33:14 PM
there's no unix specific changelog meaning there's no unix specific changes?
lamarca lamarca # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:34:01 PM
zombux # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:36:38 PM
Alexsalexs # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:37:39 PM
But none filename extension in the cache, please option in opera:config.
AndreyRikz # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:39:47 PM
mabdul # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:41:59 PM
i think by these tags it is a new alpha ^^
mulB # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:42:40 PM
I still miss Zoom in the 'Edit Site Prefereces'.
Thanx so far!
Soul Of DoinelSoulOfDoinel # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:44:56 PM
Thanks !!
rseiler # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:45:06 PM
What are the chances that multithreading will be added to the browser itself, particularly each tab?
Charbel Hindibetatest # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:46:05 PM
Still high cpu usage while scrolling up and down with the scroll bar on http://www.anandtech.com/
Aphenitry # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:46:35 PM
Damn, you guys are pretty quick to comment around here
Lets hope the url hickups are fixed.
Ice ArdorIceArdor # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:51:50 PM
I wasn't expecting a weekly this early, but I guess it makes sense if you want the highest quality feedback—fix the bugs as fast as you can and get this released the moment it's ready. Is that the plan?
Hank_Chinaski # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:53:28 PM
Alexis DeveriaFyrd # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:55:03 PM
So still no Kestrel for me.
Could you at least add Mac OSX 10.3.9 to "Won't work on win98/95", so no one else gets their hopes up?
Soleen # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:55:51 PM
АлександрOrlando # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:56:57 PM
Thanks developers!
Some demos:
http://littlesvr.ca/apng/stickback.html
http://people.mozilla.com/~dolske/apng/demo.html
http://www.gamani.com/apng.htm
FataL # Friday, September 14, 2007 3:58:52 PM
Now testing...
Zalex ;-) Zalex108 # Friday, September 14, 2007 4:02:14 PM