Opera Desktop Team

New snapshot: Introducing advanced tab activation

By CarlSabatzki. Monday, 11. February 2008, 11:29:00

This build implements a much requested option for all you users switching from other browsers.

You can now get that Safari, Firefox, IE or <insert alternative browser of choice here> tab handling in Opera, too.

To take advantage of that, simply change Preferences > Advanced > Tabs > "When closing a tab"
to your desired behavior:

Activate the last active (default)
Activate the tab to the right
Active the first tab opened from closing tab

Now start closing them tabs like there's no tomorrow!

Known Issues

Plug-ins crash Opera on UNIX/Linux.
Some plugins on Mac don't work at all.
Format selector when saving pages is broken.
Opera will not fetch more than 50 new IMAP messages in one go - you'll need to reset the account to get more.
Inline find stops working after entering one letter (using Ctrl/Cmd+F still works as expected).
Advanced tab activation currently does not work on Mac or UNIX/Linux.

Changelog

Added a new preference in Preferences > Advanced > Tabs which controls which tab to activate when closing a tab.
Fixed crash when composing mail with empty signature
Fixed crash when emptying history and VPS was disabled
css3 :target now works on targets identified using name attribute
New spatnav highlighting, similar to the one used in Opera Mini 4 and the Wii browser
iframes with contenteditable are now in in the tabbing order (Another gmail 2 fix)
64-bit: Again possible to open (image) attachments in mail
Some more improvement to fast forward.
Opera Link now works better when using Work offline
Again possible to open links from widgets
UNIX: Drag and drop now works properly in the ION window manager

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.

Download

Link should be working again now9.26 - coming soon!

Comments

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zoquete # 11. February 2008, 14:45

alpha-toxic, kiaM:

Works for me again (XP SP2). Try clean profile.

harish # 11. February 2008, 14:54

woot!

save as still broken?
(upgrade install WinXP SP2)

kiaM # 11. February 2008, 14:55

@zoquete: I did a clean install. gif animation still broken for me. (WIN XP, SP 2)

Martin Rauscher # 11. February 2008, 14:56

I love "New spatnav highlighting" but the bug with the "."-search is really annoying...

Lars Andersson # 11. February 2008, 14:58

bug-311659 is fixed in this build. Thanks

Edit: Also, the new spatial navigation highlighting looks great

Martin Rauscher # 11. February 2008, 14:59

@olli: well spoken. This is not the official download section...

Andres # 11. February 2008, 15:07

Hi, thanks for this new build.
Well, 2 weeklies ago, when I tried to download the weekly, clicking on the links to download, I got this message from Opera 9.5: Opera.exe - Unable to Locate component This application has failed to start because xpcom-dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem. I re-installed Opera, and didn't fix the issue, last build I made a complete uninstall and a new instalation in new folder...didn't fix the problem. Today I uninstalled and downloaded the classic installer (using FF) and installed again Opera with the classic installer...and it didn't fix the problem.
To download new weeklies I've been using Firefox, Internet Explorer and even tried with Safari Beta, It worked in all of them. (Opera 9.25 works too) But 9.5 has a problem. Anyone with the same issue?

adze # 11. February 2008, 15:25

@FS0903: Yes, I'm AGREEING with you. If you'll re-read my post you'll see it was directed towards the devs. Not you.

netwolf # 11. February 2008, 15:25

http://alpha-toxic.hit.bg/gifs/index.html is working here on XP SP2.

Too bad that POP3 fetching is still brokwn :-(

When I click a link to an .exe file, the file is opened now inside the browser instead of showing me the download (open/save...) dialog.
Didn't happen with 9770.

zoquete # 11. February 2008, 15:37

I get the download dialog and a blank page.

fetching pop3 was not broken, I gess.

Luchio # 11. February 2008, 15:39

Definetely needs "select tab to the left" in that list. Otherwise, thanks for fulfilling that frequent forum request!

bobrock # 11. February 2008, 15:39

linux + plugin pages still doesn't work (it used to).
While I know I am testing snapshot build(s), this makes it pretty much unusable on linux (as most pages have some kinda plugin these days).
well, only option is to go back to FF3 I guess..

ESAD_AUT # 11. February 2008, 15:42

Will there be a speed limiter for http/ftp transfairs in futre? would realy like it have it

rseiler # 11. February 2008, 15:49

Originally posted by marsu:

Downloading a file with "Run" causes a "File not found Dlg".

That started with the last build, not this one. It's known, however.

berend ytsma # 11. February 2008, 16:04

@andresruiz:You can fix that by setting
application/x-msdownload
and
application/x-msdos-program
to the right setting
Ask for as I believe.
Tools->Preferences->Advanced->downloads

Joey Wagh # 11. February 2008, 16:06

I have outlook opened with my work IMAP account and Opera opened with the same IMAP account at the same time. When I send an email from Outlook, Opera now crashes. This only began in this weekly.

hobe # 11. February 2008, 16:22

Strange, I tried Firefox and switched back to Opera partly because of its annoying Tab activation. I always liked the way Opera did handle this.

not working inline search with . is almost a reason for not installing this weekly. This is probably the feature of Opera I use most. But then: I want to see the new spatnav-highlighting

. So, downloading and installing.

Hope the linux plugin crash is fixed soon. This is really annoying (at least I don't have to use IE for sites that use plugins

)

Tim Altman # 11. February 2008, 16:25

@netwolf: How is POP3 broken? What's the bug number?

netwolf # 11. February 2008, 16:31

POP3 is broken in a way that it does not fetch new mails if set to "Leave messages on server".
I though this way known, as an 'official' (TheAtilla?) sounded as if it was known.
With 9770 it 'sometimes' downloaded quite a bunch of new mails right after start, but then no more for the entire session.
With this build I haven't received one single mail yet (with 3 pop accounts), though I have about 20 new mails.
Will see if I can find the forum thread.
Sorry, don't remember the bug number

@Junyor: no, actually it was you

(second page of the thread)

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=204189

tim71 # 11. February 2008, 16:32

This UNIX-plugin-crasher is BAD thing still to have - it just makes impossible to test many things...

One thing making it even worse is the fact, that I do not see the way to have both Opera versions (stable 9.25 and Kestrel) to be installed on the system - which is quite easy to do in Windows environment - so Opera can not be used for normal browsing when testing and regression to 9.25 is not an option either. So it seems like sticking with 1772...

Kenneth Crudup # 11. February 2008, 16:33

Plug-ins crash Opera on UNIX/Linux.

... y'all do have a source-control system with changelogs and time-constrainable diff, right? In 10 days time, certainly someone should know what causes this, right?

Cyro # 11. February 2008, 16:37

Originally posted by andresruiz:

Anyone with the same issue?

Yes.

Phred # 11. February 2008, 16:39

Originally posted by albertomolteni:

Bug #306062 appears to be solved

Anyone have a clue what this bug number refers to?

Originally posted by andresruiz:

Opera.exe - Unable to Locate component This application has failed to start because xpcom-dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.

Confirmed. Only noticed this error in the last build though. Did anyone file this? Is it known?

thobi # 11. February 2008, 16:41

wtf is the spatial navigation highlighting?

IkE Blaster_CZE # 11. February 2008, 16:43

Big problems with quick search (!!!), but email client is more "powerful" (sometimes it ignore new mails and sometimes notify for new email, that i've already read)

pino # 11. February 2008, 16:43

no import bookmarks, no find bookmarks, no import contacs, no import certificates no..... EHHHH opera 9.25 rules.

winxo sp2

MrFrodo # 11. February 2008, 16:45

Tabs that work just like Safari! Um, unless you have a Mac! Oh, the irony! LOL. Just kidding guys. Keep up the great work!

naphil # 11. February 2008, 16:50

I recently found out that Opera 9.25 is aspacked and windows disable DEP on opera process for that reason.

This beta don't cause DEP to be disabled for Opera process.
Please support DEP also in Final releases too.

Thanks.

zoquete # 11. February 2008, 16:59

thobi:
Spatial navigation highlighting:
The rounded border around

http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/4213/spatnavlz1.jpg

zoquete # 11. February 2008, 17:03

pop3-fetching works for me with "Leave messages on server" checked.

Gousti Fruit # 11. February 2008, 17:04

The previous build was unusable on Linux because of that problem with plugins, so I won't even try this one :-(
Concerning tabs, I already get the behaviour I prefer by redefining the close action (when closing with [Ctrl + W] or with mouse gesture) to "close and switch to the previous tab" :-)

Lutz Kessler # 11. February 2008, 17:07

Videos at http://spiegel.de are finally working! Yeah!

On the downside:

Title attribute still not rendered e. g. 50%

at http://www.heise.de/extras/foren/S-Special-Off-Topic/forum-130317/list/

Navigating backwards by mouse gesture can lead to pages that won't stop loading.

A search at http://imdb.com also results in an everloading page that won't react to mouse clicks or spational navigation unless one stops the loading process manually.

Andres # 11. February 2008, 17:14

Originally posted by "ytsmabeer":

@andresruiz:You can fix that by setting
application/x-msdownload
and
application/x-msdos-program
to the right setting
Ask for as I believe.
Tools->Preferences->Advanced->downloads

Thanks a lot, I solved it using your info, I setted them as Action=show download dialog.
@Cyro
Can you solve it in that way?

my New Yahoo Mail is crashing Opera's new build, can anyone confirm?

grogge # 11. February 2008, 17:15

Navigating backwards by mouse gesture can lead to pages that won't stop loading.

I have that problem 100% of the time when posting at www.heise.de. It's very annnoying. The text I've entered in the text field before I pressed "Vorschau" is not reloaded when going back from the Preview, but instead the text that in it before entering my own text (for example a quotation) is in there and the page won't stop loading. It's only loading the page from tha cache so what connection is Opera waiting for?

Tim Altman # 11. February 2008, 17:22

@netwolf: Thank you for the additional details. Just saying, "Too bad that POP3 fetching is still brokwn" does not provide enough information about the issue you're seeing so that I know the issue has been reported.

@kennycrudup: We know the cause of the UNIX plug-in crash and we are working daily on fixing it. The issue does not have a simple fix.

Bartek Sumowski # 11. February 2008, 17:24

THAT IS AWESOME.

Michal Zimmermann # 11. February 2008, 17:25

Hi, great to see the new weekly, nevertheless, I still have some issues with downloading files - Opera simply does not see file-type, so instead of saving xyz.zip, I get just xyz. It is annoying. Help anyone?

PS: XP SP2, last weekly, new installation

schneider # 11. February 2008, 17:31

still missing windows shell extentions in right click menu of the download panel/window. as i am used to use eraser to delete my files from harddisk and some more, i am really really missing the windows shell extentions in opera since 9.50

(windows vista home premium 64)

Shane R. Monroe # 11. February 2008, 17:48

The "Jump to new posts" when reading a post with new posts in VBulletin 3.6.x no longer works this build (worked last build). Very odd, as there are no errors issued; just doesn't work. I'm pulling apart the code to see if I can nail down EXACTLY what is being called and why it isn't working.

This, along with the inline find makes this build really tough on me

Ludvig # 11. February 2008, 17:50

@ darkuni
Confirmed

Edit: Not only for v. 3.6.x ...

SiMcarD # 11. February 2008, 17:51

Feed messages counter is still broken.

grogge # 11. February 2008, 17:58

Originally posted by schneidr:

still missing windows shell extentions in right click menu of the download panel/window. as i am used to use eraser to delete my files from harddisk and some more, i am really really missing the windows shell extentions in opera since 9.50

I think it's gone for good. There was a discussion and many complaints about it when it was removed, I don't remember the reason why it was removed tho, sorry.

I'd like to see it reintroduced again, or at least a "delete" option. (I don't need secure deletion, my system partition and all the others are encrypted.

) I hate to clean up my download directory via windows explorer, when I could have done it much quicker via Opera's download sidepanel.

netwolf # 11. February 2008, 18:08

If shell-extension for downloads is gone for good, that's definitely a wrong and bad decision

Until this is confirmed, I consider it a bug.
(actually I'll always consider it a bug...)

schneider # 11. February 2008, 18:12

"There was a discussion and many complaints about it when it was removed (*the shell extentions within the download panel/window*), I don't remember the reason why it was removed tho, sorry."

i would really like to be pointed to a possible discussion thread. if anyone knows, please feel free

netwolf # 11. February 2008, 18:12

@Junyor: sorry, I was really of the opinion that this POP3 issue was internally known.

Shane R. Monroe # 11. February 2008, 18:16

I found out why Vbulletin is broken ...

<element>.scrollIntoView()

... DOM function is broken.

Drats ... I was hoping for some sort of work around. Might have to roll back a build myself.

Phred # 11. February 2008, 18:21

Originally posted by ytsmabeer:

@andresruiz:You can fix that by setting
application/x-msdownload
and
application/x-msdos-program
to the right setting
Ask for as I believe.
Tools->Preferences->Advanced->downloads

@andresruiz & cyro: did you recently install silverlight? I did. Those were both set to use the silverlight plugin.

Originally posted by netwolf:

If shell-extension for downloads is gone for good, that's definitely a wrong and bad decision

Can a staff member confirm or deny this?

grogge # 11. February 2008, 18:24

@netwolf, schneidr & fearphage: ~~I don't think I have to do the forum search for you three. neither have the devs...~~

*Sigh* Ok, here's the official (but IMHO not very conclusive) answer:

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=204063&t=1202754728&page=1#comment2237496

Shell extension in that place was never a problem. Anyone noticing complaints in forums about it being used there in the transfer window? I didn't.

PS: Found a bug with permalinks! The last part "#comment2237496" is somehow omitted when following the "Permalink" link. I had to use Internet Explorer to get the complete URL for the above post.