work in progress

By csant. Friday, 9. November 2007, 14:25:49

Even though we present experimental video-enabled builds, work procedes as usual on Kestrel - and we have a new build with lots of fixes (and ongoing work).

WARNING: These are development snapshots: they contain the latest changes, but they also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, they may not work at all.

Known issues:

GMail top menu bar broken
Wrong cursor on form buttons and labels
Plugins on UNIX might be even more broken - big changes coming up... (Do not bother filing plugin bugs on UNIX)
Still no sparc builds
[BUG 296670] Animated gif images get corrupted on Windows

[BUG 267632] Images don't display when printing

[BUG 213115] Queued mail is sent at the next check, instead of waiting for manual action

[BUG 295195] Web archives are broken if you ever have changed the default action of a file type in Preferences

Changelog:

Several stability and crash fixes
Scrolling with mouse wheel now works over Flash objects with onRollOver handler
Fixed linebreaking and white-space handling in designMode
Fixed long content makeing scrollbars disappear and disabling scrolling
Missing table cells have no more a green background
Fixed 1 pixel high Gmail compose window
Fixed crash when opening the Info panel
Fixed sorting of IRC channels
Fixed message priority not being displayed in Mail
Fixed wrong context menu shown for selected text that is a link
We are now splitting too long IMAP commands into smaller chunks
Fixed wrong port when creating NNTP or IMAP account with Gmail e-mail address
Fixed fetching of new POP3 mail once you empty trash

Windows specific:

Opera runs on Windows 95 again! (but there are still some bad issues, be patient)

UNIX specific:

Fixed broken expansion of "~"
Fixed flickering of notifications
Fixed crash when connecting to chat

A little note about some UNIX packages:

FreeBSD .5 is "the new .1" - it is a static build
FreeBSD .7 is a FreeBSD 7 build (available both for amd64 and x86)

Download

Experimental <video> build released on Opera LabsEven more work

Comments

By AyushJ, # 9. November 2007, 15:22:41

Thank you

By Wade, # 9. November 2007, 15:22:59

Any chance of supporting notification daemon?
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=155156

By desperado666, # 9. November 2007, 15:29:27

THX

By bmisiekb, # 9. November 2007, 15:33:59

to Opera Team

Good work

By Angelomon, # 9. November 2007, 15:36:57

"Plugins on UNIX might be even more broken - big changes coming up..."

Quite puzzled, but i love the second part of the sentence.
Im regularly facing crashes of opera because of plugins, but i'm so curious i'll get it anyway.
Thanks for this anyway.

By Hypezor, # 9. November 2007, 15:39:04

"Fixed long content makeing scrollbars disappear and disabling scrolling"

Thanks but the problem is not fixed, try this page : http://www.avast.com/eng/vps_history.html

By Kuja IX, # 9. November 2007, 15:40:30

Weeeee....
We're still waitin' for final version

By Serpher, # 9. November 2007, 15:41:46

please, look at this issue x) O:) ..... downloading @ http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=210712

By taussick, # 9. November 2007, 15:45:23

Image loading bug under Linux still not fixed

bug: 295428

By agony, # 9. November 2007, 15:45:31

Thank you for new build, but http://www.germanwings.com/index.de.shtml FLÜGE SUCHEN Button still not working !
Some other question , is it normal that CPU usage on many pages with Plug-in content by scrolling this pages very high is ? I mean is this gonne to be fixed in the next builds , cause i have always to disable Plug-ins in Site Preferences.
Thx in advance !
p.s.
I do not sorry about my bad english

By zadar, # 9. November 2007, 15:48:23

Does anyone else's Gmail look funky?

By topplehat, # 9. November 2007, 15:49:44

Does this build include Video support, like experimental video-enabled builds?

By tsarhan, # 9. November 2007, 15:51:49

JPG images are saved with JPEG extension.

By Tamil, # 9. November 2007, 15:51:52

Good!!
Though I'm not really a very tough tester, but it seems to me that next or over one BETA-build is quite ready for the installation as the primary browser to check whether it is really that faster and more compatable (as I do hope so!) :-)

By f1avalanche, # 9. November 2007, 15:53:47

freezing at start...

By padule, # 9. November 2007, 15:56:25

topplehat:

same here :-/

By Indeyets, # 9. November 2007, 16:00:39

Thanks for the new build.
"Go to Web Address" is broken.
Select any text, right click and choose "Go to Web Address" you will get an error page with http://%t.

By Orlando, # 9. November 2007, 16:01:18

Interface issue: Reloading a speed dial entry causes a very ugly refresh icon.

/edit:
Whoops, sorry...

[BUG 296670] Animated gif images get corrupted on Windows

By Pathetic, # 9. November 2007, 16:04:53

When repair in Opera 9.50 these errors:

1) cursor position in bookmarks (do not remember latest position)
2) full size downloadig file (example: 123 456 789)

By Trasak, # 9. November 2007, 16:07:08

@tsarhan: No, this build does not include the video element.

By Junyor, # 9. November 2007, 16:07:19

Originally posted by Orlando:

"Go to Web Address" is broken.

Confirmed

Please report it

Originally posted by Pathetic:

Reloading a speed dial entry causes a very ugly refresh icon

I think that's the known gif bug:

[BUG 296670] Animated gif images get corrupted on Windows

By AyushJ, # 9. November 2007, 16:07:31

latest 2 builds doesn't redraw screen in up-to-date debian sid/lenny i have to switch tab's to see refreshed page. is it known problem ?
edit:
screenshot http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/2384/operakalahi7.png
content gets refreshed when some other window is hovered over Opera

By yllar, # 9. November 2007, 16:09:14

Some Widgets don't work ?... eg. touchtheSky and Calculator, and Calendar freeeeeeeezes my Opera on windows XP

By Investor, # 9. November 2007, 16:14:31

My opera still crashes when I close Opera (windows XP SP2):

Crash info:

AppName: opera.exe AppVer: 9.50.9649.0 ModName: opera.dll
ModVer: 9.50.9649.0 Offset: 0000cffc

Please fix it. thx

By Olihen, # 9. November 2007, 16:17:57

Yay! You fixed the GMail 1px compose box!

By Merijn, # 9. November 2007, 16:19:05

This build still doesn't work with pound signs for inpage forwarding.

I.E. http://www.msxsecurity.com/csh/FS-Asus-Striker-Extreme-Motherboard-t44962.html&st=0#entry359637

Which instead only gives you this:
http://www.msxsecurity.com/csh/FS-Asus-Striker-Extreme-Motherboard-t44962.html&st=0

Notice the #entry359637.

This feature works great in both FF and IE7.

And get this, if you just click the link it works fine.
It's only when the user is forwarded via clicking "Get new posts" that
it fails.

:sadface:

By 1stOTHfan, # 9. November 2007, 16:19:10

nice build,

but when refreshing the speed dial, the turning buttons don't work out.

By liu.yun, # 9. November 2007, 16:22:33

Not funny any more :/

Will this ... tray icon stay forever?

By bexs, # 9. November 2007, 16:25:58

Erm, okay, one Gmail bug is fixed, and we warmly welcome another one!
What i'm talking about is http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/6488/operagmailtk4.jpg

By Uzm, # 9. November 2007, 16:30:05

In my mail panel there now shows all my individual mail accounts, but there appears to be no reason/function for this as they do not change when being retrieved from and clicking on them does nothing. Is this for a functionality to come?

By Bill_P, # 9. November 2007, 16:38:23

coooooooool

Rock on Opera!

By afzalnaj, # 9. November 2007, 16:40:24

ok guys 1st of all thx alot for this build i was waiting for this... and then i just installed it and im observing a small freez( 2-5s)specially in facebook....and its frequent...after a reload...
i think its somethn to do with scrolling..
thanks

By Novindu, # 9. November 2007, 16:54:06

I have the same ugly rendering on Gmail.
Since last build, when opening an image, it doesn't show entirely, the progress bar is frozen. But if we click in the address bar and hit Enter, the image shows instantly.
History search is freezing again Opera since last build.
Triple clicking still doesn't work.
Otherwise, thanks for fixing Google Video bug.
I'm using Opera on MacOS 10.4.
In my opinion, it should be great that submit buttons keep the hand cursor, regarding accessibility.

By Romain Vigier, # 9. November 2007, 17:09:04

When are U going FIX this?? :

1)Star bar doesnt work

2)Blocked content toolbar doesnt appear

3) Gmail top menu - is up side down!!

Opera 9.5 9649
Java 1.6
Win XP SP 2 (With all updates)

This problems appear me from previous build! - and I made clear install.

By StaticX, # 9. November 2007, 17:10:18

Thank you for fixing this!!!!:

*Fixed wrong context menu shown for selected text that is a link*

I thought I was going to lose my mind...

By dieburnbot, # 9. November 2007, 17:13:36

Videos are not playing at CNN and FoxNews.
All videos plays at the same time when you go to On10.net.
(Intel, WinXP_SP2, all needed plugins, o950s_9649m.exe)
Oh, I almost forgot - Please reconsider putting big grey question mark in every URL bar of Opera. It's confusing for new users.

By Micky, # 9. November 2007, 17:16:35

Thanks

By ar1pe, # 9. November 2007, 17:20:57

gif animation = artifacts....=(

By v1nx, # 9. November 2007, 17:23:53

Hi, Thanks for the new build
Sorry but, again I have to say that saving images using "Save Image" still opens the Transfers Tab, that's annoying Team !!
Yep, and again I have to say that Opera downloads all attachments from Hotmail as "GetAttachment.aspx" file, so...wrong filename and extension. In my case, as I have Dreamweaver installed, Opera tries to open every attachment with Dreamweaver.
In New Yahoo Mail, still can't get my attachments downloaded after click on "Save"
@Serpher
Don't you think is very soon to talk about final version ?
Again Thanks

By andresruiz, # 9. November 2007, 17:25:29

Drop-down menus are not working properly and videos are not playing at http://www.spiegel.de/
"Go to URL" in the context menu is broken.
Opera build 9649.

By Zorglub, # 9. November 2007, 17:28:58

@Bill_P: Yes, functionality to come.

By Junyor, # 9. November 2007, 17:54:43

I can fix, that the new empty mails can issue, if I open the new mails directly from the "Mails"-popup, not from the menu. If I close with 'X' the popup, and opens the Unread folder from menu, doesn't appear the empty-mail symptom.

By vinczej, # 9. November 2007, 17:56:15

Headers in http://www.seedmagazine.com/news articles are overlaping main menu. This was fixed in earlier betas and now the bug is back.

By Micky, # 9. November 2007, 17:57:07