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Plugin Milestone Build Part II

By Patricia Aaspsmaas. Friday, February 22, 2008 4:00:00 PM

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This build demonstrates the plugin work that has been done recently. Most of this work is not visible and is only testable through regression testing: compare with an older build and see if something broke. wink A lot of this work is cross-platform, so we would appreciate feedback on plugins on all platforms. Note, however, that a lot of the bugs around plugin detection are still unresolved, so this work is only testable on the plugins that you can actually see. bigsmile

On *nix these changes are combined with a bunch of bug fixes and redesigns. First of all, libnpp.so is now built into Opera and all known plugin bugs that result in Opera crashing are resolved (including using 64-bit Opera with 32-bit plugins). We added a work-around for the Flash player crashes with r48 and a lot of other fixes. Please retest any issues you have had with plugins and report back on the relevant bug reports what you find. If you find any new bugs: report, report, report! We really do want to make Kestrel the best release for plugins ever on *nix. smile Note that although most of the work has been focused on Linux, the work so far is *nix platform independent: more work on FreeBSD and Solaris is planned. Please also note that because of the fix for the 64 vs. 32-bit issue, this release is incompatible with previous pluginwrappers. There are also some fixes that will affect Java, so we are interested in feedback on that as well.

Have fun and enjoy! smile

Known issues
  • Cut'n'paste and drag and drop a bookmark folder will make it disappear
  • "Save to download folder" is broken
  • Format selector when saving pages is broken.
  • Inline find stops working after entering one letter (using Ctrl/Cmd+F still works as expected).


Changelog
  • Fixed text selection when selecting from bottom left to top right
  • Crashing plugins should no longer crash Opera on Mac and Windows. Please test.
  • Fixed crash when opening certain files (especially PDF files)
  • Fixed crash when changing interface language
  • Some changes have been made to the tab mode "Activate first tab opened from current tab" (whose name might change in the future): If you open several tabs in the background from one page, Opera will remember that they are related and will switch focus between them when you close one of them. In the previous weekly you had to close the parent tab before this occured.
  • "Activate tab to the right" preference now works on UNIX and Mac. The mode described above still doesn't work.
  • Windows: Tray icon is now gone if you don't have mail enabled
  • UNIX: Made Flash 7 work again
  • UNIX: When closing a tab, flash animations in other tabs will not be killed anymore
  • UNIX: And a lot of other plugin fixes


Mail
  • Really delete associated messages when deleting accounts
  • Fixed crash when downloading IMAP mail sent from Outlook
  • Attempt to clean up ghost messages on start-up
  • Fetch more than 50 messages at a time from IMAP accounts
  • Fixed unread count inconsistencies
  • Fixed problem with subscriptions for nested IMAP mailboxes
  • Fixed problem getting all new messages for IMAP accounts
  • Fixed problem with stuck IMAP connections when fetching headers/messages
  • Better synchronization handling after waking computers on Windows and OS X
  • Decode body parts before indexing them
  • Fixed overzealous IMAP expunging


Mac
  • Fixed quadruple mouse click
  • Fixed Event.ctrlKey and Event.metaKey with onkeydown
  • Fixed plugins
  • Emacs-style keyboard shortcuts are back
  • Reactivated the asynchronous draw timer
  • Fixed an issue with Java disabling minimization and quitting
  • Fixed a very common crash related to plugins and links with anchors


More details about the Mac-specific fixes are available in the new Mac Team blog.

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9.26Yet another snapshot build

Comments

lamarca lamarca Friday, February 22, 2008 4:25:13 PM

thanks for the new build

MyOpera team, please fix this!fearphage Friday, February 22, 2008 4:26:44 PM


EVERYONE read this please:

Originally posted by Known Issues:

Inline find stops working after entering one letter (using Ctrl/Cmd+F still works as expected).



Thanks for the new build.

@remco: care to add/identify bug numbers?

Ar1Pear1pe Friday, February 22, 2008 4:29:52 PM

Great bigsmile

edit:"Windows: Tray icon is now gone if you don't have mail enabled" I have mail enabled (and working), but the icon is gone now. Restart didn't change that.

Hypezor Friday, February 22, 2008 4:30:01 PM

Wow, at least i know why i waited for this one.

Getting hands on build, and i'l try to give feedback about bugs i already reported and not yet fixed, and others ! bigsmile

Thanks !

"We really do want to make Kestrel the best release for plugins ever on *nix."

Loved that line. :>

Tamil Friday, February 22, 2008 4:30:25 PM

up

bug-308729 not fixed. sad

BleedingHeart Friday, February 22, 2008 4:31:58 PM

The four "ghost" messages I've had for a long time just went, so theres one success so far bigsmile

CRaZie_ Friday, February 22, 2008 4:31:59 PM

Thanks for this guys! bigsmile

The improved "activate first tab opened from current tab" is hella useful

Justasdrumblius Friday, February 22, 2008 4:33:07 PM

Thanks

Martin RauscherHades32 Friday, February 22, 2008 4:42:42 PM

Will Silverlight now work? (I heard it was more than just the Silverlight.js browser detection...)

Serpher Friday, February 22, 2008 4:42:56 PM

Wow, new build.

KujaIXKuja-IX Friday, February 22, 2008 4:43:22 PM

Very good build, lot of bugs and crashes fixed yes

Wade Friday, February 22, 2008 4:44:28 PM

sounds cool,thank you

Miłosz SakowskisysakPL Friday, February 22, 2008 4:46:20 PM

Hey. Why can't you get rid of the issue with saving files without their extensions? It's really annoying and it's one and only thing (for me) which is messed up It's broken since 9745 (not sure) and i don't belive that it's so hard to fix. Saving is an absolutely basic ability so plz work on that.

Dark_MX Friday, February 22, 2008 4:47:26 PM

Firefox 3 post-beta 3 (daily snapshots) javascript was faster than opera 9.5 sad

are you planning more performance upgrades for kestrel? (or opera 10?)

João Davidpiroxicam Friday, February 22, 2008 4:52:02 PM

Windows: Tray icon is now gone if you don't have mail enabled



Finally! At least!

MaximSailorMax Friday, February 22, 2008 4:54:31 PM

What happend with page title in title bar, when open internal source viewer? wink
Not on all pages, but, for example, on this page title is moved to up.

Adam Dziuraadas Friday, February 22, 2008 4:56:50 PM

When you released a Internation Opera for Linux?
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=170270

Alexis DeveriaFyrd Friday, February 22, 2008 4:57:19 PM

Cool, a Mac Team blog! Thanks for all the fixes!

Also: Glad I'm no longer on OSX 10.3 cool

Hypezor Friday, February 22, 2008 4:59:17 PM

For those having issues with the gtk file selector on Unix, take a look at this post http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=214327

Seems this one will be fixed in next build, and a workaround is detailled to solve the issue.

Did i mention i loved that build?

Thanks Toman and csant wink

MyOpera team, please fix this!fearphage Friday, February 22, 2008 5:00:20 PM

Originally posted by SailorMax:

What happend with page title in title bar, when open internal source viewer?

Weird its specific to this page.

João Davidpiroxicam Friday, February 22, 2008 5:01:34 PM

- Bug #309448

Feeds counting is not displaying correctly - BUG IS GONE!


- Bug #313648

http://www.sony.pt/view/View.action?section=ODW+SS+ALL+Products&productcategory=HDO+Performance+In-ear&site=odw_pt_PT&page=ProductRetiredSeriesHome

This page crashes Opera - BUG IS GONE!


- Bug #312107

http://diariodigital.sapo.pt

Page not loading. Get stuck at "Elements: 20/20" - BUG NOT GONE!

Magnus HoffLarrix Friday, February 22, 2008 5:11:06 PM

It seems that "Left-handed back and forward gestures" is enabled by default. It has been like this for some weeklies now. This can not be right wink

MyOpera team, please fix this!fearphage Friday, February 22, 2008 5:11:23 PM

@SailorMax: Filed as bug #314415

@piroxicam: You know they have a whole team (qa) and software (bts) that does that job. Check this out: http://snapshot.opera.com/faq.html#what-feedback

Bill PBill_P Friday, February 22, 2008 5:13:06 PM

64bit Linux plugins - could someone help me (or point me)

I've got adobe and flash working so far and flash uses a lot of cpu (much more than 32bit Opera)

Mplayer plugin not really working, avi files provides sound only and mpeg and qt seem to load and then just stop. But files loaded from the harddrive seem to work.

Is java supposed to work? I've got the 32bit version pointed to but nothing shows on any java test page. This should be correct 'cause there's no 64bit browser plugin from Sun

And I don't grok the following statement "Please also note that because of the fix for the 64 vs. 32-bit issue, this release is incompatible with previous pluginwrappers."

Also got the following error when searching for plugins
"/usr/lib/opera/9.50-20080221.2/operapluginwrapper-native: symbol lookup error: /opt/kde3/lib64/libkexidb.so.2: undefined symbol: _ZN7KGlobal23unregisterStaticDeleterEP18KStaticDeleterBase"

thank,

update - I tried to change the plugin used though I have mplayer, gxine and kaffeine plugins I can't change to anything but mplayer


João Davidpiroxicam Friday, February 22, 2008 5:14:33 PM

I've enjoyed the new "Save Linked Content As..." feature. Finally a description that matches the purpose.

lamarca lamarca Friday, February 22, 2008 5:18:04 PM

my mail is enabled and i dont have the tray icon.

Joey WaghWajo357 Friday, February 22, 2008 5:20:37 PM

When I read a feed post, it doesn't update the "unread" number. Deleting a feed does subtract one from the total and unread values.

The YeOKYeOK Friday, February 22, 2008 5:20:51 PM

The Opera Devs have just made my day!

Linux x86_64 build, plugins working. Not had a lot of time to test it out, but so far not a single crash. Keep up the great work!

Claudio Santambrogiocsant Friday, February 22, 2008 5:23:08 PM

Originally posted by Larrix:

It seems that "Left-handed back and forward gestures" is enabled by default



Could you please provide details on your system?

Tim AltmanJunyor Friday, February 22, 2008 5:28:49 PM

@sysakPL: http://snapshot.opera.com/faq#why-bug

Magnus HoffLarrix Friday, February 22, 2008 5:31:15 PM

@csant: Doesn't everybody know? wink 32bit (Gentoo) Linux with the .6-shared tar.bz2-package. Hmm... don't know what more to say. I have no left-handed settings anywhere else on my system (that I am aware). Help->About Opera says "Qt library 3.3.8". Reproducible by running with a clean -personaldir.

James438james438 Friday, February 22, 2008 5:37:05 PM

qwest no longer crashes for me smile bug-307893 is fixed smile

Ar1Pear1pe Friday, February 22, 2008 5:37:22 PM

@Junyor: is there a way to bring back the tray icon? (mail enabled)

Tim AltmanJunyor Friday, February 22, 2008 5:39:17 PM

@ar1pe: No, seems like the fix was overzealous.

Kenneth Crudupkennycrudup Friday, February 22, 2008 5:41:06 PM

My plugins are back! Thanks Patricia et al. !!

rwf Friday, February 22, 2008 5:41:30 PM

Videos at wwww.reuters.com and Flash 115 cause the wrapper to seg-fault. (.6). Tested w/ -pd option. The ad plays and then seg-fault.

Core was generated by `/usr/local/lib/opera/9.50-20080221.6//operapluginwrapper 40 43 /home/me/.opera'.
Program terminated with signal 4, Illegal instruction.
#0  0xb6bb7388 in ?? () from /home/me/.opera/flash115/libflashplayer.so
(gdb)

paulgca Friday, February 22, 2008 5:51:03 PM

Here is one issue:

When I try to move mail from my INBOX to another folder on our imap server, it *appears*n not to work. When I restart Opera, the move is completed. I can see that the e-mail is no longer in my INBOX.

I will try to rebuild by .opera directory and post results.

Adam Dziuraadas Friday, February 22, 2008 5:52:59 PM

Flash map from http://www.pr.pkp.pl/w-regionach.html doesn't work in Opera on linux... sad

wirusek Friday, February 22, 2008 5:53:48 PM

"UNIX: When closing a tab, flash animations in other tabs will not be killed anymore"

Yes Yes Yes party party party

thanks

Andresandresruiz Friday, February 22, 2008 5:54:38 PM

Maybe is not necesary to say this but PDF related bug-36189 isn't solved

rseiler Friday, February 22, 2008 5:56:45 PM

Originally posted by mgillespie:

Ahh man, upset to hear that inline find is still broken. I was distraught enough when there was no weekly last week to fix it, and now it's still there this week :-(

Still the joys of beta testing....


Or not testing, at least as my primary browser, as 9.5 has been for months. That's a deal-breaker for me, but maybe next week. I'm sure curious how such a thing could be broken for this long though. Is there some major work going on with this feature or is it incidental?

Alexis DeveriaFyrd Friday, February 22, 2008 5:58:01 PM

Argh! Think I just discovered a disturbing bug...Command-P just printed the page without going to a dialog box! Surely that's not intentional?

Same with the print button and menu option, no dialog box, just straight to the printer. *throws away all printed pages*

Thankfully window.print() does show the dialog box.

pejakm Friday, February 22, 2008 6:12:52 PM

Thanks for da build! smile

By the way, PJIRC applet, like the one here doesn't work (nore did worked in previous builds): http://www.pjirc.com/

berend ytsmaytsmabeer Friday, February 22, 2008 6:27:11 PM

@mgillespie: Go to tools->Preferences->advanced->download and check if you exe files are opened by something elts than Opera

rwf Friday, February 22, 2008 6:37:16 PM

Originally posted by adas:

Flash map from http://www.pr.pkp.pl/w-regionach.html doesn't work in Opera on linux...



1. The map of Poland appears for me.

2. I can click on one of the 'provinces' and I get information.

3. I do Back and the map appears.

4. If I click on another province; the province is highlighted, but no information on the province appears.

Is that what you mean by 'doesn't work'?

Even Nedbergnebbus Friday, February 22, 2008 6:55:53 PM

On www.nordea.no I can not use bankID. The Java applet is started and seems to work fine, but I can't enter anything into the 'password' and 'key' fields.

Using Kubuntu Gutsy with Java version 1.6.0_03 from Sun.

stefanblixawillbargeld Friday, February 22, 2008 6:57:16 PM

thanks a lot! so far everythings working...

Tim AltmanJunyor Friday, February 22, 2008 7:02:37 PM

@andresruiz: That doesn't seem to be the correct bug number....

@rseiler: http://snapshot.opera.com/faq#why-bug

juksu Friday, February 22, 2008 7:03:16 PM

Now opera find totem, but operapluginwrapper crashes every time if totem try open.

DarNDarn71 Friday, February 22, 2008 7:11:03 PM

Could the old way of positioning the cursor center screen on middle click be put back? Please?

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