Opera Desktop Team

New snapshot

By Cato. Friday, December 14, 2007 2:54:10 PM

, ,

Hello all. Here's your snapshot for this week.

You haven't seen me before, but I've been on the desktop team for a few months already. I only now got pressured into writing a blog post though. My name's Cato, and I do mainly Windows testing.

As you may see, we now finally have sparc solaris builds! There are some issues with it (crashes when you try to use mail), but we thought you shouldn't have to wait longer.

In other news, we've written a handy FAQ for this blog, which you can locate in the equally handy sidebar we added over there on the right. We plan to link to useful articles there as soon as we write them so you don't have to search through the archives to find them.

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:
  • [BUG 295195] Download preferences are broken after saving changes. This leads to many seemingly separate bugs, such as wrong MIME-type when uploading JPG images or headers displayed in MHTML documents
  • [BUG 299224] Account settings broken when adding a new IRC/Chat account
  • [BUG 292685] Occasional crashes when opening download links from mail/newsfeeds
  • [BUG 299767] Opera on UNIX might crash if you close a tab while flash is being initialized
  • [BUG 292802] Opera on UNIX crashes when Java is initialized


Changelog:
  • Unread count inconsistencies should be fixed
  • Animated GIFs should be fixed, for real this time
  • Fixed crash when clicking on the widget panel
  • Single clicking no longer behaves like drag and drop in bookmarks panel
  • Content Blocker now works again if you have disabled Speed Dial
  • Fixed various SVG crashers
  • Fixed various XSLT crashes


UNIX-specific:
  • Sparc Solaris builds now start... but crashes when you try to use mail


Download

UNIX plugin milestone9.25

Comments

AyushAyushJ Friday, December 14, 2007 3:15:57 PM

getBoundingClientRect is broken in this build sad

Kyle Bakerkyleabaker Friday, December 14, 2007 3:15:57 PM

Running great!

What does this mean exactly:
"Content Blocker now works again if you have disabled Speed Disabled"..?

lamarca lamarca Friday, December 14, 2007 3:16:21 PM

thanks for the new snapshot

Ar1Pear1pe Friday, December 14, 2007 3:17:12 PM

Great!

edit: now I have more than 50 mails in unread, before the upgrade only 6 bigsmile Well, no harm done.

Cato Friday, December 14, 2007 3:17:45 PM

AyushJ: New issue? Can you report a bug?
kyleabaker: The content blocker buttons were disabled in previous build if you had disabled speed dial using the "Hide Speed Dial" button.

AyushAyushJ Friday, December 14, 2007 3:19:00 PM

Originally posted by Cato:

AyushJ: New issue? Can you report a bug?


Yes, new issue. Junyor(on IRC) said it's known.

el_esponjoso Friday, December 14, 2007 3:19:42 PM

Great build

#&

strat89 Friday, December 14, 2007 3:19:55 PM

thnx team cheers

Justasdrumblius Friday, December 14, 2007 3:21:15 PM

I've been checking your blog all day. Thanks

Kyle Bakerkyleabaker Friday, December 14, 2007 3:21:47 PM

@Cato
Nice to see a new face! bigsmile Thanks for the quick response. smile

NoobSaibot Friday, December 14, 2007 3:22:34 PM

Speed Disabled = Speed Dial

MyOpera team, please fix this!fearphage Friday, December 14, 2007 3:23:11 PM

welcome home bug numbers in the posts smile

Cato Friday, December 14, 2007 3:23:40 PM

NoobSaibot: Ah, woops. That would explain the confusion. Fixed now.

bfg10k Friday, December 14, 2007 3:25:23 PM

Java doesn't work yet...however now Feeds work again properly! smile Many thanks for the new build, you are awesome!

Hypezor Friday, December 14, 2007 3:25:50 PM

[BUG 292802] Opera on UNIX crashes when Java is initialized]

Seems like Java is broken for quite a long time now.
Just wondering, is it because of modifications actually going on Opera concerning Java?
Is a Unix Java "milestone" coming soon or something? :>

TSchmidt Friday, December 14, 2007 3:26:14 PM

Links (Latest Snapshots) are not current

Tim AltmanJunyor Friday, December 14, 2007 3:31:39 PM

@TSchmidt: They work fine here.

LudvigKanel Friday, December 14, 2007 3:34:30 PM

up

Single clicking no longer behaves like drag and drop in bookmarks panel


Finally! party

Wladimiruntitled1 Friday, December 14, 2007 3:36:28 PM

still no videos on spiegel.de with flash 9.0.r115 and amd64 (kubuntu 7.10) sad

Alexsalexs Friday, December 14, 2007 3:38:07 PM

- crash when open irc channel list
- build can't rendering css when local .html saved without BOM. testcase
- link target in widgets dosn't work
- can't scrolling in (Widgetize) widgets with scrollbar

tafugate Friday, December 14, 2007 3:41:31 PM

javascript (ext js 1.1) behavior has changed. instead of the contents of the javascript popup (leaderboard) here:

http://www.lspn.net/

all appearing in the lefthand column, the popup now never appears at all. at least it's not appearing incorrectly. (8

GeekK Friday, December 14, 2007 3:46:30 PM

Animated gifs not working here. sad

Example: http://tweakers.net/g/s/bonk.gif - does not animate, only shows first frame.

Tschmidt/Junyor: yeah they were not updated for a very short period of time.

Alexis DeveriaFyrd Friday, December 14, 2007 3:52:51 PM

Ooh, I love the FAQ and other article links! Thanks!

Suggestion: Supply some ids to the FAQ headers so one could directly link to a question. smile

Tim AltmanJunyor Friday, December 14, 2007 3:53:07 PM

@GeekK: Please provide an example of a GIF that's not working and a description of the problem.

Zarko Hristovskizarkoh Friday, December 14, 2007 3:56:32 PM

Go Cato gO! B)

Alexsalexs Friday, December 14, 2007 3:57:02 PM

Originally posted by GeekK:

Animated gifs not working here.


yes and no example #1 – example #2

Danielzadar Friday, December 14, 2007 4:06:33 PM

This Site is some kind messed up by showing It in Opera http://www.enbw.com/content/de/privatkunden/index.jsp;jsessionid=5146A535815C7DE1D4C3A5C0F9E53B13.nbw05
and they are still no check boxes showing on Ebay by choosing selling with all options (after masking opera as firefox) !,Opera has really problem also with some other pages by showing check boxes.I cant give a links cause u have to be registered there.
greetz!

Ferrisferrisnox Friday, December 14, 2007 4:06:57 PM

Thanks for the new build. Http://digg.com will still not load an image in speed dial.

mrmass Friday, December 14, 2007 4:07:00 PM

Yay! A new snapshot! WOOHOO!!!

Also, you might want to check out the left menu in Google Reader. It changes its height erratically...

lamarca lamarca Friday, December 14, 2007 4:09:33 PM

fast history navigation still not working

pgweiss Friday, December 14, 2007 4:14:57 PM

I've noticed for a while now that if I right-click a link and choose "Save link to download folder" it tries to download "default" and fails with an error. If I do it from the links pane it works.

I've just bug reported this (#303150). Can anyone confirm this behavior?

berend ytsmaytsmabeer Friday, December 14, 2007 4:15:40 PM

One big improvment I notice, is that Imap mail isn't reindexed anymore every time you start Opera.
This will speed up Opera.

MetalRaise Friday, December 14, 2007 4:20:44 PM

9694 crashed when I tried to customize my Panel buttons ([F4] -> right click on the Panel and selecting Customize... -> Panels) for the first time. The crash occured in the very moment I clicked the Panels tab in the Appearance dialog window. I couldn't reproduce that crash, though.

First line of Inspector IIXII crash log:
Opera.exe 9694 (beta) caused exception 80000003 at address 67E20A82 (Base: 400000)

Denton Jacobsdentonjacobs Friday, December 14, 2007 4:21:34 PM

@pgweiss: I've experienced the same issue for a couple of snapshots now.

Anthony Garneragarner Friday, December 14, 2007 4:25:42 PM

"Unread mail counts should be fixed"

but.......they've increased. Other than that -- GOOD JOB!!!!!!!!!!

Tim AltmanJunyor Friday, December 14, 2007 4:33:42 PM

@alexs: Those all work here. Since you didn't describe the problem, it's hard to tell what you're seeing.

Gölök Zoltán Leenderdt Franco BudayOrff Friday, December 14, 2007 4:45:06 PM

Here's hoping the bug keeping it on and on the tray when closed as well as the bug preventing
cache being emptied is fixed.

Ar1Pear1pe Friday, December 14, 2007 4:47:54 PM

@Junyor and @alexs:
They work here too

Kondratev Artemv1nx Friday, December 14, 2007 5:04:17 PM

gif animation is still broken(

like here http://www.animezone.ru/smf/Smileys/animated/grin.gif
or here http://homenet.corbina.net/style_emoticons/default/fool.gif

FataL Friday, December 14, 2007 5:16:18 PM

alexs, v1nx: can confirm buggy rendering of GIFs here (bunch of junk pixels appears after some time).

MartinezZ Friday, December 14, 2007 5:16:37 PM

M2 - one minute after instalation of this build, I was trying create new mail. Opera crashed without any "crash window". Ok, I opened it again, press Ctrl+E (old keyboard setup), write mail, klick on Send button and Opera try connect to my mail (POP3) account and... crash. Without any message. 3rd and following "tests" was OK. (Fresh instalation on WindowsXP CZE)

Serpher Friday, December 14, 2007 5:17:22 PM

For now we should use version 9.24 and wait for final version of Kestrel. Those 9.50 builds are too buggy...

FataL Friday, December 14, 2007 5:22:21 PM

Serpher, if this blog would be like Digg, I would definitely bury your comment.
Use 9.24 and wait for 9.50 release or help developers to make 9.50 less buggy.

MartinezZ Friday, December 14, 2007 5:24:31 PM

@Serpher: Really? When everybody waiting for final version, who will debugging/recognizing bugs? Raid or Pif-Paf? bigsmile (OT, I'm sorry)

UnknownFactor Friday, December 14, 2007 5:38:27 PM

Opera weeklies and beta's used to be great, I've ran every single beta/weekly/non-final as my main browser, thats upto 9.50. So to some extend I find that he has a valid point.

Right now I use the latest final as main, and just have 9.50 on the side. I support Opera fully, but that doesn't mean I'll use a buggy beta/alpha builds as my main browser for the sake of being helpful >_<!

piotersu Friday, December 14, 2007 5:50:08 PM

I don't understand your complaints about animated gif's. All of the given examples on my 1719 Linux build.

MartinezZ Friday, December 14, 2007 5:53:05 PM

@piotersu - but not on Windows build sad

OperaIsGreat Friday, December 14, 2007 5:53:21 PM

Problem with option window in vBulletin forum.

GregLand Friday, December 14, 2007 5:54:42 PM

Thanks for Stability fix & Animated GIFs! up
yes

Ar1Pear1pe Friday, December 14, 2007 6:03:00 PM

@MartinezZ; they work here, XP Pro SP2
@Fatal: I don't see that here

1 2 3 4 5 Next »

Showing comments 1 - 50 of 201.

Write a comment

You must be logged in to write a comment. If you're not a registered member, please sign up.

Latest Snapshot

Got feedback?

  • Desktop Team FAQ

    We recommend that you read the FAQ before participating.

  • Report a bug

    If you've found a bug in Opera, find out how to report it.

  • Feature requests

    This is the place to post your feature requests. Opera employees monitor this forum