Opera Desktop Team

New year, new build

By Joachim Blaabjerg. Friday, 4. January 2008, 14:09:36

Welcome to 2008! I hope you all had an excellent celebration, and that you're rested and ready for some more testing. Here's a new Kestrel build for you. Happy new year!

Also, check out this little gem: Ctrl(Cmd)+Alt+Click and drag a page. woot!

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 304257] Sorting mail by date is still broken on Windows.
opera:historysearch is currently disabled - work in progress
Sparc Solaris builds still crash when you try to use mail
Sometimes, the address bar dropdown stays open after submitting

Bugs fixed

Fixed getClientRects and getBoundingClientRect
[Bug 299224] Fixed broken account settings when adding a new IRC/Chat account
[Bug 303604] Fixed Link icon in the toolbar not showing
[Bug 304214] Fixed crasher on emptying trash
[Bug 303586] Fixed spatial navigation
Sync'ing new bookmarks in folders works again.
Importing *.mbs files now works again. Recursively importing is still work in progress.

Mac-specific

Help window no longer opens behind Preferences dialog

UNIX-specific

We now search also for Acrobat Reader 8.
32-bit plugins (like Flash) and 64-bit plugins now work out-of-the-box in 64-bit Linux builds.

Download

when X-mas comes early…And another one

Comments

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ar1pe # 4. January 2008, 14:30

Happy New Year. Thank you:D

GregLand # 4. January 2008, 14:33

Thanks a lot !!!!
And Happy New Year !!!

WOFall # 4. January 2008, 14:33

Yay!

"check out this little gem" woot!

lamarca # 4. January 2008, 14:36

thanks for the new build and happy new leap year!!

piroxicam # 4. January 2008, 14:36

Thank you for the new build

YeOK # 4. January 2008, 14:36

Happy new year to all the Opera Team, build seems good so far, everything is working as expected. Keep up the good work.

Opera X86_64. Flash working out of the box!

piroxicam # 4. January 2008, 14:41

What the deal about the Ctrl+Alt+Drag-page thing? My mouse's scroll wheel does this for ages.

Also, www.Egotastic.com still broken and does not open. It still freezes Opera.

seemille # 4. January 2008, 14:43

Happy New Year~~ everyone

EricJH # 4. January 2008, 14:44

Happy New Year. Thanks for the new weekly. I wasn't sure if you would have had enough time because of the holiday season to get one out today. Very much appreciate it.

Uzm # 4. January 2008, 14:46

GIF-animations still not fixed.
A few examples: 1. http://www.talk.ee/images/03.gif 2. http://www.talk.ee/images/08.gif 3. http://www.talk.ee/images/20.gif 4. http://www.talk.ee/images/58.gif

haavard # 4. January 2008, 14:48

Originally posted by piroxicam:

What the deal about the Ctrl+Alt+Drag-page thing? My mouse's scroll wheel does this for ages.

Not with the same degree of control (and not everyone has a wheel mouse).

alexs # 4. January 2008, 14:51

Happy new year and thanks for the build.
but:

videos at spiegel.de doesn't work (playing ~10sec.). bug 305539
build can't rendering css when local .html saved without BOM. testcase bug 305539
crash when open irc channel list
can't scrolling in (Widgetize) widgets with scrollbar
link target in widgets dosn't work

loupy # 4. January 2008, 14:59

Java still crashes it under linux

Bill_P # 4. January 2008, 15:02

In Linux 64bit on YouTube the fullscreen option doesn't work - the fs window pops open then disappears (site preferences set to allow all pop-ups).

Also, when running Flash operawrapper uses lots more (read massively more) cpu then in 32 version, and it keeps using cpu after the video has played as long as the tab is still open - but it does play

I can't desplay my home directory error: "You tried to access the address file://localhost/home/XXXXX/home, which is currently unavailable". Please make sure that the Web address (URL) is correctly spelled and punctuated, then try reloading the page. But I can open a local pdf and have it display.

Opera still keeps loosing my plugins though when asked to find new ones it say 'none' but finds and loads them anyhow.

32 bit Acrobat and flash work as does 64bit Mplayer-plugins - this is awesome as FF requires nspluginwrapper to create wrappers,

lamarca # 4. January 2008, 15:03

fast history navigation still not working

MakoCSH # 4. January 2008, 15:03

When will we see Beta 2?

FS0903 # 4. January 2008, 15:04

"Ctrl(Cmd)+Alt+Click and drag a page" is nice, but not usable for left handed. Strg + AltGr doesn't work.

WOFall # 4. January 2008, 15:09

just use AltGr

lwiczek # 4. January 2008, 15:09

Extentions still aren't added while saving anything (images and other downloadable files) - most anoying thing imho...

EricJH # 4. January 2008, 15:13

Originally posted by lamarca:

fast history navigation still not working

Copy that. It's been ages now.

Originally posted by lwiczek:

Extentions still aren't added while saving anything (images and other downloadable files) - most anoying thing imho...

Copy that too.

olli # 4. January 2008, 15:13

lamarca: On what page does it fail?

lamarca # 4. January 2008, 15:16

Originally posted by olli:

lamarca: On what page does it fail?

every page. fast history navigation simple doesnt work

Junyor # 4. January 2008, 15:21

@lamarca: Bug number?

Kildor # 4. January 2008, 15:22

Strange.
CtrlAltDrag — does behaviour change in this build?
It`s worked for me from first builds of Kestrel, at least in my 9613 ;-)

Bill_P # 4. January 2008, 15:25

Linux 64 bit

After a crash Opera would not restart, seems to have hung on searching these 2 dirs for plugins /opt/kde3/lib64/kde3 &
/opt/kde3/lib64/kde3/plugins. Editing plugin-in file so that the 2 dirs were set to 0 (though I don't think they ever were displayed in the plugin config screen before)

After clearing the cache Opera will not load pages in background, the tab opens and the url appears in the address bar but nothing is loaded, restarting Opera fixes it.

olli # 4. January 2008, 15:25

lamarca: It works here for me..

Is opera:config#UserPrefs|HistoryNavigationMode set to 1?

lamarca # 4. January 2008, 15:29

Originally posted by olli:

lamarca: It works here for me..

Is opera:config#UserPrefs|HistoryNavigationMode set to 1?

i tried navigation mode set to 1 and 3. noone of them work on my clean install.

arghwashier # 4. January 2008, 15:29

I thought the linux version supported xembed for a few weeks now but on adobes homepage the menu still disappears behind the flash (32bit opera and flash latest flash 9.115)

Also still /usr/share/applications/opera.desktop is missing in the linux packages, so opera won't appear in the menu if you do an uninstall first!

lamarca # 4. January 2008, 15:32

Originally posted by Junyor:

@lamarca: Bug number?

bug ##293723

tsarhan # 4. January 2008, 15:32

In the last two builds I see a lot of issues with a scroll bars:

http://fotki.yandex.ru/hall-of-fame/

http://direct.yandex.ru/

and others.

tsarhan # 4. January 2008, 15:36

Also, we can see

Copyright © 1995-2007 Opera Software ASA. All rights reserved.

And not © 1995-2008

Bill_P # 4. January 2008, 15:38

Linux 64 bit

Opera would not restart after a crash - seems to hang on searching these 2 dirs for plugins /opt/kde3/lib64/kde3 &
/opt/kde3/lib64/kde3/plugins. Editing plugin-in file so that the 2 dirs were set to 0 (though I don't think they ever were displayed in the plugin config screen before) fixed.

Opera will not load pages in background after clearing the cache, the tab opens and the url appears in the address bar but nothing is loaded, restarting Opera fixes it.

"Save link to download folder" doesn't. Transfer window shows "default ?", "from=http://urlinfo", "size=?", "transferred=1.8kb".
The file saved is in html and reads "you tried to access the address file://localhost/controller.php?url=urlinfo&ref=,"

KORraN # 4. January 2008, 15:39

Thanks for this snapshot! The newest build properly finds Flash plugin on Linux so I don't have to add it always after starting browser

.

Happy New Year!

SiMcarD # 4. January 2008, 15:40

GIF-animations still not fixed.
A few examples: 1. http://www.talk.ee/images/03.gif 2. http://www.talk.ee/images/08.gif 3. http://www.talk.ee/images/20.gif 4. http://www.talk.ee/images/58.gif

Try to select with mouse the entire message above (in the orignal post)it hangs, why?

PS: also in my message

Steffen74 # 4. January 2008, 15:41

Hallo,
Opera chrashes when I try to edit the filtes and I cannot delete mails from filters; CTRL+X does not work. Someone told me the new version is Shift+Del, but this deletes only these mails.

joshas # 4. January 2008, 15:45

Happy new build!
It would be nice to see even more new features. How about improving feed reader? Especially the subscribing part. Make it open some special webpage or toolbar, to select rss reader. Current dialog is very annoying.

MetalRaise # 4. January 2008, 15:50

Originally posted by tsarhan:

Also, we can see

Copyright © 1995-2007 Opera Software ASA. All rights reserved.

And not © 1995-2008

Very well observed.

illiad # 4. January 2008, 15:54

4 days does not make a year.... and there are much bigger bugs to hunt!!

SoulOfDoinel # 4. January 2008, 16:02

Happy New Year !!

Junyor # 4. January 2008, 16:07

@lamarca: Thank you.

@Steffen74: Yes, Shift+Delete will delete messages in filters. Delete removes messages from filters.

@joshas: http://snapshot.opera.com/faq.html#where-rfe

artemeas # 4. January 2008, 16:19

"Also, check out this little gem: Ctrl(Cmd)+Alt+Click and drag a page. woot!"

and? that was in the build 9716 too!

Cyro # 4. January 2008, 16:27

@32-bit plugins (like Flash) and 64-bit plugins now work out-of-the-box in 64-bit Linux builds.

I got this error message while trying to use it.

Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_destroy: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
opera: Plug-in 12140 is not responding. It will be closed.
opera: Define environment variable OPERA_KEEP_BLOCKED_PLUGIN to keep blocked plug-ins.

Note: Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon AMD64 using "opera_9.50-20080103.2-shared-qt_amd64.deb" and latest release of Adobe 9 (stable)

rseiler # 4. January 2008, 16:29

@Junyor: Please see #295434 about the Fast History Navigation problem as well, in case the earlier report only covers the Favicon part of the problem (there's also #anchor issues, in which Opera jumps to the anchor position when pressing back/forward instead of remembering the last scroll position). Since Lamarca has posted "fast history navigation still not working" (in bold, yet) in exactly the same way in this blog every week for about three months--some suspect that he's actually a bot--I'm a little surprised.

On another matter, the monumentally annoying blinking issue is still with us somehow:
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=206950

Junyor # 4. January 2008, 16:36

@rseiler: Noted.

mrkukov # 4. January 2008, 16:43

Happy New Year!

toadbee # 4. January 2008, 16:51

Forgive me if this has been reported in the past...
In M2, Threaded emails:
Say I have 2 emails threaded and collapsed, i see a "(2)" at the end of the subject. Now if a third email in the thread arrives nothing happens. The thread is not highligthed as if a new message and the count is not updated. Basically I have to click on all the threaded emails to see where the new mail is...if any. Once clicked on, the count is updated. This is an old on going problem for me by the by.

Bill_P # 4. January 2008, 16:52

Lost, repeat LOST, all email message contents and sent date when upgrading to 64bit Linux from 32bit. Headers show correctly (except for dates) but there is no content

Newly received messages appear to work correctly

Certain emails with a diff icon (looks like the top of an unopend envelope) when clicked appear to attempt to receive the message from the server as a "authentication failed" message pops up. All accounts are pop3.