One More Snapshot

By csant. Friday, 21. September 2007, 14:17:25

It's Friday again - and we have managed to get some builds ready for you! Lots of fixes this time around as well (yes, our weeks are busy).

Known Issues Fixed in this Release

[BUG 284852] Wand doesn't save new passwords; old passwords should work properly.
[BUG 278770] Gmail does not work on 64-bit.
[BUG 281679] Bookmarks are not sorted correctly.

Other Changes

Scrolling when GMail chat window open causes no more repaint corruption.
Messages will no longer erroneously be marked as drafts or unread when upgrading mail.
String.localeCompare now works correctly.
Getters and setters now work on DOM interface prototypes.
opera:config settings are correctly stored now.
Files are now correctly saved with file extensions.
Lots of SVG fixes.
Lots of stability fixes.

UNIX-specific

Several fixes to plugins.
The operapluginwrapper should not take 100% CPU anymore.
Scrolling with keyboard is now much smoother.

Mac-specific

Removed proxy icon (icon in title bar).

And as always, do not forget to read the Known Issues:

Won't run correctly on Windows 95 or 98.
Won't work correctly on Mac OS X 10.3.
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.
[BUG 286384] Yahoo mail is broken.
[BUG 284849] Yahoo! Mail beta may crash Opera
[BUG 286186] There are no buttons in the customization dialog.
[BUG 286345] Search in widgets is broken.
[BUG 285741] Opera might freeze for a while when opening the feeds menu.
[BUG 271585] The last directory used is not remembered in the Save As and Open dialogs.
[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 274352] Upgrading with no mail/RSS accounts causes a mail upgrade that never finishes.

Download:
Windows
Windows Classic
Macintosh
Unix

Post-Alpha Opera 9.5 ReleaseSnapshot extravaganza

Comments

Thanks for fixing 285111!

By jarinkirill, # 21. September 2007, 15:08:33

Thanks

By hurug, # 21. September 2007, 15:09:14

Kestrel is suuweeeeet!

By rgrover, # 21. September 2007, 15:09:31

Thanks a lot...

By efekan258, # 21. September 2007, 15:10:21

Could any one check if the start bar can be turn on, cause with me it's greyed out.
Check please!

By ytsmabeer, # 21. September 2007, 15:13:14

Note, the Appearance dialog is pretty broken...

EDIT: yep, I didn't read the known issues properly...

By non-troppo, # 21. September 2007, 15:14:00

Installed

By ar1pe, # 21. September 2007, 15:15:06

richt click for photo and save picture don't working opera freeze! /vista

By giesu, # 21. September 2007, 15:15:37

There's a "0" missing in "opera-static_9.50-20070920.1-static-qt_i386.deb".. it should be "opera-static_9.50-20070920.10-static-qt_i386.deb"

By aleksanteri, # 21. September 2007, 15:15:49

great! a new kestrel test build

By lamarca, # 21. September 2007, 15:16:14

haha see known issues weird!

anyways thanks.

By Doliprane, # 21. September 2007, 15:16:48

Thanks. Glad to see the builds coming more frequently

By elitegeek, # 21. September 2007, 15:17:29

Non-Troppo, see known issues list

By csant, # 21. September 2007, 15:18:19

Nice to see the operapluginwrapper issue fixed!

Thanks a lot!

By Camus, # 21. September 2007, 15:19:26

good. still no tab-behaviour customising

and still old feed-reader...

By migatron, # 21. September 2007, 15:20:50

Installed it. Let's see how it behaves after the all anonymous stability fixes...

By EricJH, # 21. September 2007, 15:23:15

Installed

How many alphas will there be before the beta?
It's looking like there will be a fair few.

By WOFall, # 21. September 2007, 15:26:52

big thanks for BUG 284852, Now I can to upgrade from 9500 4)

By Kildor, # 21. September 2007, 15:30:53

Thanks for your work, continue to build the best Kestrel as possible

By Kuja IX, # 21. September 2007, 15:31:21

I was waiting for this release, but unfortunately it is not usable on Solaris

~$ opera --personaldir newop
Bus Error (core dumped)

Right after launch, this is static build.

On S10 and S9 the error is the same, but I had T1 proc. To verify that it is not because of T1, I ran it on Ultra Sparc IV with S11_b72, the core dump is a little more descriprive on s11:
~$ op --pd newop
*** libc thread failure: take_deferred_signal(): __sigresend() failed
Abort (core dumped)

By Soleen, # 21. September 2007, 15:32:11

@WOFall: How should someone know after how many alphas a product gets beta status? Depends pretty much on how many issues appear that prevent Kestrel being in the state of getting called a beta version.

I love this new alpha

The 2nd Snapshot made me switch back to 9.23 - this build will hopefully make me stick to 9.5 a bit longer (switching back to 9.23 was a hard desicion

)

By eisteh, # 21. September 2007, 15:32:38

I can not confirm that gmail is working again (64bit xp). Its just in some infinite loop.

By fearphage, # 21. September 2007, 15:33:59

Last two builds have overwritten my opera6.adr from 9.23, this was mentioned last week here in the comments but I guess there's no bug report? is it known?.

Also, fraud protection is enabled by default since last weekly...
shared .6 and .9 running from tarballs.

By Tracio, # 21. September 2007, 15:35:18

Lots of SVG fixes.

Still very buggy when SVG as backgouns is zoomed.

Files are now correctly saved with file extensions.

...but still saves any XML-like formats (XSD, XSL, etc.) with XML extension.

By FataL, # 21. September 2007, 15:36:43

Same problem - Alt+LeftShift switches input box to RightToLeft mode, which is completely useless, I'm not using any RTL language.
Forgot to say, that Alt+LeftShift is used very-very often because it switches my keyboard layout.

By 9Val, # 21. September 2007, 15:37:48

Great !!
Another step to the perfection.

By SoulOfDoinel, # 21. September 2007, 15:47:25

Thanks for this build, but another (redirect) translate URL please.
babelfish.yahoo.com

By alexs, # 21. September 2007, 15:47:39

"The operapluginwrapper should not take 100% CPU anymore."

Yes, please thank you!

By Wade, # 21. September 2007, 15:47:48

Good.

But content blocker seems to fail a lot...anyone else?

By NovemberDobby, # 21. September 2007, 15:49:30

Thanks for fixing the bookmark issue.
New Problem on Win XP:
If you click on "Hide Speed Dial" it's impossible to enable
Speed Dial in the same tab again, becaus "Show Speed Dial"
is not reacting.
To solve this you have to open a new tab.

By t1gershark, # 21. September 2007, 15:50:24

Here's to hoping the history-feature on unix does not lock up everything while entering an URL

By Aphenitry, # 21. September 2007, 15:53:40

@FataL
+ 1
it still saves in wrong fie extension.
At hotmail, I downloaded a .pps file and it downloads it as .aspx and tries to open it with Windows Media Player

So I don't know what they mean when say

Files are now correctly saved with file extensions.

Maybe they mean about extensions when you save an image with "save image..." now it works, great. but it still open the Transfers Tab, that's annoying. So the extensions issue was half solved.

But thanks a lot for this great new build.

By andresruiz, # 21. September 2007, 15:57:05

With the new build I noticed when I try to customize my button layout the buttons are all missing except for the "Defaults" category. The rest of the categories are empty.
Thanks

By ferrisnox, # 21. September 2007, 15:57:12

@ferrisnox: Please read the known issues list.

By Junyor, # 21. September 2007, 15:59:24

Wow, after reading all the know issues, I would hate to see a pre-alpha version of Kestrel!

By keanebean86, # 21. September 2007, 15:59:27

Tooltips for hyperlinks bug is still alive.
Cached Images bug is still alive.

By cancel, # 21. September 2007, 16:09:28

great thing! but i was hoped Alt+Shift form text alignment issue will be removed

very annoying... sorry

By melnichuck, # 21. September 2007, 16:10:15

There are still some bugs with file extensions:
Ctrl+Click on an avatar with image here in Comments -> Its's saved as html
Ctrl+Click on an avatar without image -> It's saved as gif
In both cases, the file extension is not shown behind the filname in save dialog.

By gun, # 21. September 2007, 16:15:22

Wow, GMail looks -awful- in this build.

On the bright side, it does scroll correctly.

It looks really bad, though. Everything used to line up nice and neat and orderly, and now it's kinda messy, in the message index. It looks sort of like the Basic View did, but it's in the advanced view.

Also, the Quick Contacts are drawing in big boxes over the message index.

Other than that, this looks great.. I hope that Gmail is fixed within a week or so, so I don't have to go and use IE.

By eblade, # 21. September 2007, 16:20:09

yeah, my.ebay.de login works again.
let's go shopping.

@gun: for me Ctrl+Click saving works with right extension.
seems some problems like my ebay-login-failure are user-dependent.

By thesuperstereo, # 21. September 2007, 16:24:05

"cached images" still does not work properly/consistently
- changing from f-t-w loads all images
- some sites washingtonpost.com works correctly, nytimes.com not

By Bill_P, # 21. September 2007, 16:26:06

>gun>Ctrl+Click on an avatar with image here in Comments -> Its's saved as html

Cannot confirm with your avatar (PNG), but it's true with Junior's and others JPEG avatars.

By jarinkirill, # 21. September 2007, 16:26:08

@melnichuck, seems you have the same problem...

By 9Val, # 21. September 2007, 16:40:15

also blogspot blogs don't appear ok

By geodimo, # 21. September 2007, 16:46:53

Same problem as #21.

When i open Opera, the speedials buttons aren't reactive and clicking them doesn't do anything. Have to open a new tab so they start being "active" again =)

(note: ctrl+1,2,3... still works fine though

)

By underman, # 21. September 2007, 16:50:32

right click ->search not working

Block Content seems to not blocking new ads

By Wade, # 21. September 2007, 16:54:41

"fraud protection" is on and can't be disabled

actually the "?" icon shows, when clicked says its disabled, also says it can't connect to sitecheck.opera.com

By Bill_P, # 21. September 2007, 16:56:09

@wade
right click ->search not working works for me

By Bill_P, # 21. September 2007, 16:58:01

> The operapluginwrapper should not take 100% CPU anymore.

Thanks for that :-)

By hzr, # 21. September 2007, 17:02:08

WOOT! Flash works! (I see y'all had to pretty much include GTK to do it- I'd right-clicked on the active flash plane!)

By kennycrudup, # 21. September 2007, 17:13:47

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