Plugin Milestone Build Part II

By psmaas. Friday, 22. February 2008, 16:00:00

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

Download

9.26 - coming soon!9.26

Comments

thanks for the new build

By lamarca, # 22. February 2008, 16:25:13

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?

By fearphage, # 22. February 2008, 16:26:44

Great

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.

By ar1pe, # 22. February 2008, 16:29:52

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 !

Thanks !

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

Loved that line. :>

By Hypezor, # 22. February 2008, 16:30:01

bug-308729 not fixed.

By Tamil, # 22. February 2008, 16:30:25

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

By BleedingHeart, # 22. February 2008, 16:31:58

Thanks for this guys!

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

By CRaZie_, # 22. February 2008, 16:31:59

Thanks

By drumblius, # 22. February 2008, 16:33:07

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

By Hades32, # 22. February 2008, 16:42:42

Wow, new build.

By Serpher, # 22. February 2008, 16:42:56

Very good build, lot of bugs and crashes fixed

By Kuja IX, # 22. February 2008, 16:43:22

sounds cool,thank you

By Wade, # 22. February 2008, 16:44:28

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.

By sysakPL, # 22. February 2008, 16:46:20

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

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

By Dark_MX, # 22. February 2008, 16:47:26

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

Finally! At least!

By piroxicam, # 22. February 2008, 16:52:02

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

Not on all pages, but, for example, on this page title is moved to up.

By SailorMax, # 22. February 2008, 16:54:31

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

By adas, # 22. February 2008, 16:56:50

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

Also: Glad I'm no longer on OSX 10.3

By Fyrd, # 22. February 2008, 16:57:19

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

By Hypezor, # 22. February 2008, 16:59:17

Originally posted by SailorMax:

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

Weird its specific to this page.

By fearphage, # 22. February 2008, 17:00:20

- 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!

By piroxicam, # 22. February 2008, 17:01:34

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

By Larrix, # 22. February 2008, 17:11:06

@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

By fearphage, # 22. February 2008, 17:11:23

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

By Bill_P, # 22. February 2008, 17:13:06

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

By piroxicam, # 22. February 2008, 17:14:33

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

By lamarca, # 22. February 2008, 17:18:04

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.

By Wajo357, # 22. February 2008, 17:20:37

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!

By YeOK, # 22. February 2008, 17:20:51

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?

By csant, # 22. February 2008, 17:23:08

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

Still the joys of beta testing....

By mgillespie, # 22. February 2008, 17:25:43

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

By Junyor, # 22. February 2008, 17:28:49

@csant: Doesn't everybody know?

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.

By Larrix, # 22. February 2008, 17:31:15

qwest no longer crashes for me

bug-307893 is fixed

By james438, # 22. February 2008, 17:37:05

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

By ar1pe, # 22. February 2008, 17:37:22

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

By Junyor, # 22. February 2008, 17:39:17

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

By kennycrudup, # 22. February 2008, 17:41:06

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)

By rwf, # 22. February 2008, 17:41:30

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.

By paulg_ca, # 22. February 2008, 17:51:03

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

By adas, # 22. February 2008, 17:52:59

Can ANYONE explain the xul.dll error I constantly get when trying to download files?

Both my PC's are doing it, and it's driving me bonkers. It's been happening on the weeklies for about a month now...

By mgillespie, # 22. February 2008, 17:53:02

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

Yes Yes Yes

thanks

By wirusek, # 22. February 2008, 17:53:48

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

By andresruiz, # 22. February 2008, 17:54:38

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?

By rseiler, # 22. February 2008, 17:56:45

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.

By Fyrd, # 22. February 2008, 17:58:01

Thanks for da build!

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

By pejakm, # 22. February 2008, 18:12:52

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

By ytsmabeer, # 22. February 2008, 18:27:11

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'?

By rwf, # 22. February 2008, 18:37:16

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.

By nebbus, # 22. February 2008, 18:55:53

thanks a lot! so far everythings working...

By blixawillbargeld, # 22. February 2008, 18:57:16

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

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

By Junyor, # 22. February 2008, 19:02:37

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