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New snapshot

By Joachim Blaabjerg. Friday, 1. February 2008, 15:46:16

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New snapshot with several interesting CSS and mail fixes today. Enjoy!

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
  • Crash when you clear history while history search is disabled
  • Format selector when saving pages is broken
  • Some plugins on Mac don't work at all
  • Plugins crash Opera on UNIX


Bugs fixed
  • Images in mail and standalone images are now printed
  • Significant mail startup speed improvement on systems with NTFS and ReiserFS filesystems, like Windows and openSUSE.
  • Fixed a rare crash when importing Thunderbird mail
  • Reduced CPU usage when downloading mail
  • Fixed the "prioritize excludelist" option in urlfilter.ini
  • Fixed import of IE favorites with dots in their name
  • Fixed issue where you would get duplicate trash folders when using Opera Link
  • Fixed a few spatial navigation issues (Shift+arrows to navigate on the page)
  • The spam filter should start remembering marked mail on Windows now
  • Fixed a CSS parser error that caused layout errors on Facebook, Yahoo! Mail, Last.fm etc.
  • Fixed dynamic updating of CSS3 selectors (:first-child, :last-child, :empty etc. selectors)
  • Opera now supports getClientRects and getBoundingClientRect
  • Added support for the CSS color and background-color properties for the ::selection pseudo-element
  • UNIX: Fixed a crasher when closing tabs when using the MDI controls (present without close button on tabs)
  • UNIX: Tooltip generation CPU usage is again back to normal
  • Windows: Torrent applications now show up correctly in the download dialog if you've disabled Bittorrent in Opera


Download

New snapshot: Experimenting with document.all cloaking Link should be working again now

Comments

Pavol Biely 1. February 2008, 18:15

I am not able to accept cookies with expiration time greater than 0. Does anyone have the same problem? (Kubuntu 7.10 x86_64, amd64 build of course)

subtitles 1. February 2008, 18:26

I'm having a problem loading the utorrent WebUI remote control page. I can log in, but the UI doesn't load. This was a bug that was introduced with the previous build, but has remained with this one.

Alexis Deveria 1. February 2008, 18:32

@Junyor

Okay, sounds reasonable enough. :smile: It'd probably get a little freaky if you selected text and it suddenly got positioned elsewhere in a larger font size or something. Or how about *::selection { display:none; }? That'd be fun!

Andres 1. February 2008, 18:33

Hi, tks for the build
I made a complete uninstall of my previous Opera 9.5 but I can't syncronize opera, it says "authentication Error". Opera Link not working?

Angelomon 1. February 2008, 18:44

Try to Download BitComet from:
http://us.bitcomet.com/achive/BitComet_0.99_setup.exe

give a new dialog Error box:
opera.exe - Unable To Locate Component
on other browses it works normaly
http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/3374/unableds5.jpg

Windows XP Pro SP2
Opera Upgrade Only

Phred 1. February 2008, 18:54

@Fyrd: css3 also has a user-select property that I'm sure they'll get around to eventually. This supports { user-select: none } which prevents user selection for the appropriate element(s).

Kenneth Crudup 1. February 2008, 18:55

Plugins crash Opera on UNIX


!!! :mad:

Any chance we *NIXers can get a midweek that fixes this?

Alexis Deveria 1. February 2008, 18:56

@fearphage

Interesting, didn't know about that one.

berend ytsma 1. February 2008, 19:06

@Angelomon:Go to: Preferences/advanced/downloads check under "application/x-msdownload and make sure it is set to "ask users".

more details in http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=220098&page=1#comment2425273

Kamalesh 1. February 2008, 19:07

This site's article text does not render in build 4634... Their front page is mangled also. (Cloaking issue maybe?)

rwf 1. February 2008, 19:21

The static (.1) bz2 image finds NO plugins -- so it's kinda hard for plugins to cause/generate seq-faults. GNU/Linux (Gentoo).

operapluginwrapper: [plugin probing] 
operapluginwrapper: [plugin failure] No NPP_GetMIMEDescription
operapluginwrapper: [plugin failure] No NPP_GetValue
operapluginwrapper: [plugin probing] dlclose returned : 0
operapluginwrapper: [plugin probing] Return value : 1 File :

Edit: The .5 image also finds no plugins. The .6 build seq-faults w/ plugins. Y'all have a good time w/ this snapshot.

János, Vincze 1. February 2008, 19:23

As I can see, the notes are in the name-sequence. Earlier it was in date-sequence, that I preferred much more. Why was changed the sequence? It would be very useful, if we can determine the sequence, like in mails. :frown:

Otherwise the http://subba.blog.hu became to right. But as I can see, not because of Opera, but the Subba-developers repaired the code. :smile:

Mark Gillespie 1. February 2008, 19:29

File downloads are badly borked on Windows.

Kurt 1. February 2008, 19:35

@andresruiz
Seems to be a bug.
I can confirm the same - as have others.

Angelomon 1. February 2008, 19:45

Originally posted by ytsmabeer:

Go to: Preferences/advanced/downloads check under "application/x-msdownload and make sure it is set to "ask users".


Thanks for the quick fix ytsmabeer
I checked "Show download dialog" it was on "plug-in DivX"... and now it works.

and Thanks to Opera Team for build/fixes
for now works more better, I will test it more in the next day

albertomolteni 1. February 2008, 19:53

Regression from last build:

http://www.tomshw.it/

whole page is displayed in bottom-right 100x100 pixels, perhaps something to do with CSS?

ruslano 1. February 2008, 20:06

Without plugins its unusable, rolling back to build 1772 :frown:

Naelphin 1. February 2008, 20:13

Still getting blank feeds, like in previous snapshot

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=222013

rwf 1. February 2008, 20:16

The issue w/ inline find and using the Window stock skin 'seems' to be resolved in this build. Now to drop back to 1772. (GNU/Linux -Gentoo).

Lutz Kessler 1. February 2008, 20:22

Videos at http://www.spiegel.de still not playing completely.
Title attribute still not rendered (100%) at e. g. http://www.heise.de/extras/foren/S-Special-Off-Topic/forum-130317/list/hs-16/
Cookies still not displayed in site preferences.

Zorglub

Martin Suelzle 1. February 2008, 20:30

Please update the loading time for the spead dial tab :cheers:

M.

sebastian schuster 1. February 2008, 20:34

Third time and 2 years without notice :frown:

Nevertheless the "bad" bugs that affect all sites are still there and there is no development.

The worst one (Opera doesn't continue loading when going backwards):
http://files.myopera.com/sacharja/files/back.html
(Bug-207229 affects every internet site).

Still maximized pop-ups when using windows instead of tabs and "Allow script to hide address bar" is disabled:
http://files.myopera.com/sacharja/files/bug-290456%20window_open.htm
(Bug-290456 affects every internet site)

This one affects every site that uses relative values, because Opera can't handle them:
http://files.myopera.com/sacharja/files/Width.html
(it was not submitted by me; if someone knows the bug number or original forum post please post)

On this site: http://groups.google.com/group/opera.linux/browse_frm/thread/b7b76ee77f8bef0e/b5%20%207635a6bc1c7c35 Opera fixed the overlapping dates. However the content has the wrong size now, a regression. That's not as urgent as the bugs above, but painfully that Opera is not able to display its own google group.

Another regression: http://groups.yahoo.com/ (search button is not diplayed in the same line).

noroslo 1. February 2008, 20:37

Videos at http://www.spielgel.de still not playing completely.


spielgel is a loser.
So, most probably Zorglub meant:
http://www.spiegel.de/video/
any flash video stops after a couple of secondes, same for
http://ftd.de/div/media.html
at
http://video.on.nytimes.com/
no nothing happens.

Anyway, IMHO this snapshot is a major step forwards (xpsp2 here).
Thank you Opera devs. :smile:

Gölök Zoltán Leenderdt Franco Buday 1. February 2008, 20:38

This damn thing is fragmenting and using up resources like crazy.

XP SP2 2002 Home.

Gateway MX6025
1GB
Gnet v .90 Modem (running over 100 Kbps.)

[Some might need to know how this works on ReactOS (XP compatible) as well].

vancouver.ca
www.capitalone.ca
searchsight.com

Examples of freeze ups and slow downs. Were system Mechanic shows a huge memory fragmentation,
goes blue when browser is shut down.

Uses 58,300 to 600,000+ MB Memory. Web 2.0 sites can at times be problems.

Daniil 1. February 2008, 20:46

Crash when run widget desktop team
http://widgets.opera.com/widgetize/Feed%20Reader/Advanced/?serve&skin=skin102&widgetname=Desktop%20Team&rel=myopera&ref=desktopteam

also Developer Console and DOM Snaphot don't work in this snapshot

noroslo 1. February 2008, 20:51

@Orff, both vancouver.ca and capitalone.ca are ok (no slow downs so far), the latter needs some login info to see whether it might work ok, searchsight.com is a no go on this build.

berend ytsma 1. February 2008, 20:54

@daniil.kuznetsov:widget causing crash is a known issue, has been there for 3 or 4 builds. bug #306825

Developer Console and DOM Snaphot work in this snapshot, but are blocked by popup blocker.

This reported. bug #310581

Lutz Kessler 1. February 2008, 20:55

So, most probably Zorglub meant:
http://www.spiegel.de/video/



Oops. You're right.

Zorglub

Marcin 1. February 2008, 20:57

http://hixie.ch/tests/evil/acid/003/ - 64 points :smile: Good, in latest snapshot - 61 points :smile:

rseiler 1. February 2008, 21:02

Originally posted by Ke11ett:

When I user the inline search (ie. "g example") it adds that to the address bar drop down.


It's worse than that:
http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/show.dml/1676017?startidx=150#comment4497156

noroslo 1. February 2008, 21:17

@rseiler, all this caboodle might be due to both their indexing algorithm 'live' and being unsave how to treat two or three Opera desktop browser instances parallel.
Most probably it's just another try'n'error deployment resp. development experiment on ongoing 9.5 SW process. :D

z-o-o-m 1. February 2008, 21:20

I used to double click on a link in a page to select it
but now it doesn't work in the same way ...
it just select a part (the end)

for example http://www.page.xxx/index.php

when I double click on "php" it just select this part and
not the whole link

Phred 1. February 2008, 21:21

@NetJaro: The new official page is http://acid3.acidtests.org

xet7 1. February 2008, 21:32


BUG 1:
------
I was at page:
http://blog.bjrn.se/2008/01/truecrypt-explained.html

and then I tried to post comment to blogger:
http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=38386338&postID=5013419673483799297

When I tried to post it, it gave error message like this
(I translated error message to English):
Operation made twice -error
The operation attached to this page has been already made.
You can try with your browser to go back to previous
page and try again.

When I try posting comment with Firefox, it works and
doesn't give this error.

BUG 2:
------
If I logout from Gmail and try to login again,
it doesn't log me in. I must restart opera and then it
logs in automatically.

toru vinn 1. February 2008, 21:38

I can live with the occasional crashes (yay for freeing potential leaks ;->), but there's one thing I'm really interested in. My friend confirmed that resizing Opera window above screen resolution (so that the Opera's window is *wider* than the actual screen) causes right part of the window not to be redrawn (easy to observe if you move the window to the left, hiding it's left side). This affects linux builds since the Christmas build, not visible on ALL sites, but most of them. Even "Compose message" has this problem. Could anyone else confirm it? It's mostly annoying with dualhead setups, as the resolution taken into account is the left/first monitor's resolution.
That's bug #308664, btw.

OME 1. February 2008, 22:00

I've been waiting a long time for a fix for external Torrent clients. Unfortunately this Windows external BitTorrent application fix seemingly still does not fix the issue with a litteral "%1" erroneously being sent to µTorrent as the first parameter and the torrent filename as the second parameter (causing µTorrent to fail to open the torrent) in Vista.

This happens when pressing "Open" in the download dialog when application/x-bittorrent is set to "Show Download Dialog" and has been a problem since the first public kestrel build, but is not a problem in 9.25 and below.

Removing "%1" from the torrent association in the Vista registry does help, but that breaks µTorrent integration/execution in more or less every other application, so this needs to be fixed in Opera. Hopefully before we get to the final.

IcyStorM 1. February 2008, 22:01

After installing this build a bug that have appeared in older builds and even 9.2x (I think) returns..

It's on http://www.lunarstorm.se after that you have signed in the content-frame gets sized down to only a small one, this one usually covers the whole screen..

Arkadiusz Miskiewicz 1. February 2008, 22:07

"Plugins crash Opera on UNIX", ups, this weekly is useless for typical unix people IMO :frown: Really crashes instantly after visiting some page that requires plugins.

Rijk 1. February 2008, 22:24

Originally posted by sacharja:

Another regression: http://groups.yahoo.com/ (search button is not diplayed in the same line).

Your style of repeating yoruself every makes our work harder, not easier. The older issues are most likely noticed and filed, and will not get fixed earlier by repeating them here. If you find new things, which means things that just broke, regressions from the last weekly, we might miss them this way. And those are the things that can probably easily be fixed right away because the cause can be found right away.

Andres 1. February 2008, 22:37

As confirmed by man on the street
If you completly uninstall Opera (deleting folder, etc) after making a whole new instalation, you can't syncronize Opera, it says "Authentication Error Occurred".
In my other PC I just upgraded Opera and it can syncronize. SO, THERE IS A BUG, please solve it :D Now I can't syncronize from my main PC:cry:

Eduardo Andres Martinez 1. February 2008, 22:40

Thank you for a new snapshot, I'm always expecting the best from Opera and don't want to quit using it.

Bug: Shockwave Flashplayer seems not working well. Opera 9.25 not a problem with flash player

Kurt 1. February 2008, 22:43

Is anyone having trouble opening mail attachments? (have tried opening .pps, pdf, xls, & doc - images open OK)
When I try to open an attachment I get a pop up telling me "file not found"

ayespy 1. February 2008, 22:48

@ man on the street:

No - works fine here, so long as you open from the attachment drop-down dialog in the mail header panel.

BUT!! Regression! Once again, trying to open an attachment using the link at the bottom of the email fails. This was fixed for a few builds, and is broken again.

- Edit - this is in Win XP SP2.

Kurt 1. February 2008, 22:59

@ayespy
Hmm - interesting. The only way I can open them is by saving first!
:confused:

Bartek Sumowski 1. February 2008, 23:01

is there a DIVX webplayer for Opera?

ayespy 1. February 2008, 23:04

Sorry to hear that.

Also, REGRESSION!

https://www.progressive.com/online-customer-service.aspx?

which was working until last couple of builds, now generates error message "must have javascript enabled" when one tries to sign in.

Needless to say, I DO have jevascript enabled, so this is improper behavior.

g4qb 2. February 2008, 00:00

bug semi-fixed - now can see gridlines
http://www.editgrid.com/user/g4qber/topfield_-_tv_timers
w00t

but F2 doesn't allow 1 to edit within the cell as in Op 9.25
eg.
1. enter "Opera" in A1
2. select A1
3. F2
Op 9.25, A1 is highlighted & cell can be edited in situ


6 more bugs to go in my list.

Bill P 2. February 2008, 00:16

Not all "mail fixes" are fixed.

I'm not seeing my emails again, Things seemed ok earlier in the day and now they're gone as described in week's previous postings - it's like Opera thinks they're on a server that's not available but they're in the mail store. It's the dreaded "ERR - MAILBOX LOCKED" error (all are pop3 accounts). Recieved folder appears ok, problem for now only occuring in sent folder and not all emails or a specific account.




noroslo 2. February 2008, 01:14

M2 (Opera mail client) in 9.5 snapshots comes with severe problems.
That part of Opera browser is not recommend for daily usage in this build either.

Easy. Better use 9.2x for Opera M2 purposes instead -- or switch to other e-mail client sw elsewhere.

Currently, after several month of snapshots, all in all consequences M2 seems to be very out-dated. Thus, you may want adapt to alternative e-mail clients (there are plenty out there).

Nevertheless, Opera desktop browser might stay (hopefully) the ultimate alternative to get best experiences on browsing websites.

:up: :yes: Opera desktop browser

Zenon 2. February 2008, 01:45

Still having issues with maps.google.com. The map is horribly slow and can hardly be dragged around for me. (Windows XP Pro)

Browser also crashes every time I clear my Private data.

I feel like Flash problems still persist.

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