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Happy Easter

By Claudio Santambrogiocsant. Tuesday, March 18, 2008 1:51:33 PM

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It's been a while since our last snapshot build. Some things fell apart while others were shaping up nicely - so we are very happy to show you some good improvements now!

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:
  • Opening Help causes Opera to crash.
  • There are some funky parsing problems on YouTube.
  • "Open With" other browsers doesn't work.
  • Save As for a web page only lets you save as "HTML file" on Windows.
  • The progress bar does not show if it's set to "Pop-up at the bottom".
  • On OS X, scrolling to the bottom of a page with the scrollbars does not work.

General changes:
  • Fixed inline find.
  • Fixed downloading attachments in the new Yahoo! Mail.
  • Fixed async XMLHttpRequest to never be blocked by a slow script.
  • Fixed internal plugin methods not accessible from javascript engine when data attribute defined.
  • Fixed an issue where new mail messages would not be detected.
  • Opera Mail now handles mailto links with encoded characters correctly.
  • Improved handling of subscription to temporary subscription to news groups.
  • Fixed some offline mode issues.
  • And lots more of stability fixes!
Acid3 fixes:
  • getSVGDocument is now supported in an iframe.
  • createDocumentType now throws an exception for malformed qualified name.
  • Fixed NodeFilter returning true => 1.
  • Fixed HTMLTableRowElement.rowIndex and .sectionRowIndex returning undefined for table rows created via DOM.
  • HTMLButtonElement.type now defaults to "submit".
  • Fixed form control collection not indexed by name when outside the main document tree.
  • Fixed Range.surroundContents().
  • Fixed insertNode to not collapse range.
  • Fixed removeNamedItem() and removeNamedItemNS() to throw a not-found error.
  • Fixed NodeIterator to function well also under dynamic changes.
  • Fixed Date.UTC() to do proper 1900 year offsetting.
Windows-specific:
  • Better performance with plugins.
Mac-specific:
  • Shift+space for Page Up works again.
  • Function keys work again.
  • Opera now uses the proper OS X Downloads folder by default.
  • Changed the icon in alert and prompt dialogs to something prettier.
UNIX-specific:
  • Fixed crash when closing tab with Flash.
  • Several plugin fixes.

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Macintosh
UNIX

Enjoy the new build, and Happy Easter!

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Comments

Tamil Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:34:16 PM

happy

GrantTLC Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:34:43 PM

Fixed inline find



Woo-hoo! bigsmile

Thanks for the new build, I was starting to worry about you guys!

lamarca lamarca Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:35:13 PM

thanks for the new snapshot

Irontiger Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:37:53 PM

thanks smile
Happy Easter
IT

Zaferarzafen Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:38:31 PM

Thanks a lot!
Is debian package for the shared available?

rallye Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:38:59 PM

No shared .deb? worried

illiad Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:39:24 PM

"Save As for a web page only lets you save as "HTML file" on Windows."

eh????

wasn't that FIXED in 9815 ????

and have you fixed 'edit' in this blog??

illiad Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:40:39 PM

nope. still getting 401.... PLEASE remove or fix....

humerus Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:41:30 PM

Inline search fixed! Great!
But panel history is still a loop, no search happens here!

Kristofferstoffix Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:41:35 PM

Thanks bigsmile
Have a happy Easter now smile

Tim AltmanJunyor Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:43:02 PM

@illiad: Fixing editing of blog comments is a problem for the MyOpera team.

silencer22 Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:48:39 PM

sad Ohhhh nooooo! Old bug with moving bookmarks and folders... sadsadsad I'm so disappointed on this build... cry

Jan Frode Høinesmaake93 Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:50:53 PM

Thanx a lot...

Good to see improvments on acid3

silencer22 Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:51:08 PM

And still some bugs with mouse gestures. sad

GrantTLC Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:55:09 PM

What score does this build get in ACID 3?

BohwaZbohwaz Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:55:31 PM

No .deb shared package, only static ones sad

BohwaZbohwaz Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:56:50 PM

(for intel-linux)

MartinezZ Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:57:04 PM

""Open With" other browsers doesn't work."

cry

berend ytsmaytsmabeer Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:57:36 PM

acid3:77/100

orinoco Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:57:55 PM

77/100 on Acid3, good work!

AFAIK there has been no official comment from Opera about the latest test. What is the company approach to Acid3? Any specific policy? Are there any Opera specific horrors in this test? Is the test just a bragging rights thing to you guys or do you feel it is more important?

sentio Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:58:18 PM

@GrantTLC: 77/100

silencer22 Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:58:28 PM

77/100 new score wink (New Safari gets 75/100)

Edmund BlackadderHypnotoad Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:00:25 PM

bug-315728 definitely fixed, bug-315545 appears to be as well.

Google reader still blue for everyone?

illiad Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:00:34 PM

Junyor: yeah.... but irked... bigsmile

But add *good* news, remove the non-existant 'bug report' ! bigsmile

- on windows 2000 at least, you CAN save in any format! up

The YeOKYeOK Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:00:39 PM

Thanks for the build, noticed the desktop team taking some stick on the last few releases. Just like to say, I love 9.5, its shaping up to be a fine browser, its fast, solid and has all I need to enjoy browsing.

Thanks to all the Opera Desktop Team. Happy Easter to you all.

GeekK Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:02:05 PM

@Hypnotoad: yes it is. The entire page is marked as visited link (spatial navigation).

Azamadt SmaguloffprofiT Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:02:23 PM

Better performance with plugins.


Thanks a lot.

Yay, now sites that was built on Adobe AIR (like nick.com) works a lot faster!.. CPU usage is still a problem, though (compared to IE and Mozilla). But as of now -- i am already content with it.

Thanks again.

Arthur WilkinsonGT500 Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:03:37 PM

Is it just me, or does this build seem faster?

Anyway, thanks for the new build. wink

Frithjof "DotCom" Felsbergfelsberg Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:03:51 PM

Thanks for the new build, but .....
since upgrade, Opera doesn´t start anymore.
What´s wrong ?

GrantTLC Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:05:33 PM

Thanks Sentio, ytsmabeer. I'm at work or I'd have tested it myself.

I did an wee blog article on ACID 3 compatibility last week (not on my Opera blog), where FF preb5 got a higher score than Kestrel 9815 - this latest build leap-frogs it into first place again. bigsmile

Congrats Opera. Here's hoping you're the first to get to 100, especially considering all the talk you've been laying down about standards recently! wink And I second the question posed by Orinoco - what is the company stance on ACID 3?

Rafał MiłeckiZajec Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:07:15 PM

Several plugin fixes.

Pitty that it's not enought to make SWFDEC working.

Edmund BlackadderHypnotoad Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:09:48 PM

@Orinoco and GrantTLC regarding ACID3:

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/findpost.pl?id=2476054

Dan Alexandrudantesoft Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:13:32 PM

Yeey!

lamarca lamarca Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:18:35 PM

Originally posted by Hypnotoad:

Google reader still blue for everyone?


yes! and the search dropdown menu is messed up

Kirilljarinkirill Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:19:03 PM

>What score does this build get in ACID 3?

77

Maciekkal8 Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:19:28 PM

77/100 good job smile Safari 3.1 gets 75/100

Alexis DeveriaFyrd Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:19:59 PM

Yay! Great news on the Acid3 fixes. yes

I think you guys have a pretty good chance of being the first browser to pass, mostly because you're the only ones supporting animation in SVG.

FataL Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:22:43 PM

Thanks for explicit changelog for the Acid 3 test! up
And congrats for 77 points in the test!

rseiler Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:24:42 PM

Can anyone confirm that the button next to the address field (which normally opens to reveal URLs or lines that are not that helpful, but still) does not work at all in this release?

Milan PetrovicGDragoN Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:27:19 PM

This new build doesn't event start. I have WinXP SP2 and when I run Opera opera.exe process takes 99% of CPU time, and it doesn't even starts. I have to kill process in Task manager.

tynopex Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:30:10 PM

Hrm.. is Acid2 supposed to work in this build? It doesn't render properly for me and I thought it worked properly in previous snapshots but maybe I'm confused.

Thanks for fixing inline search!

João Davidpiroxicam Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:31:14 PM

Oh my god, it looks like you gave vitamins to this latest snapshot. It's working and opening pages at an amazing speed. I've never seen any build like this one. Super super fast.

Great build. Thank you Opera Team and Happy Easter

rseiler Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:32:56 PM

Disregard that previous post about the URL pulldown. Must have been an issue here (I'd edit the post, but...).

AndrewAndrewNi Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:36:08 PM

This build is really quick compared to previous builds when installed fresh (not upgraded).

Happy Easter Opera dev team! cheers

lamarca lamarca Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:36:14 PM

the tray icon is back and "go to last post" works now. just missing the progress bar at bottom.

Tim AltmanJunyor Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:40:53 PM

@tynopex: Acid2 works fine here.

rseiler Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:41:08 PM

Originally posted by GrantTLC:

I did an wee blog article on ACID 3 compatibility last week (not on my Opera blog), where FF preb5 got a higher score than Kestrel 9815 - this latest build leap-frogs it into first place again.


Don't forget WebKit Nightly, at 93%:
http://www.anomalousanomaly.com/2008/03/06/acid-3/

Steve DarkenDarken Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:43:50 PM

Woohoo! Excellent new build!

GeekK Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:44:09 PM

About Opera not starting: it seemed also not to start here, but it just took a long time... not nice.

Alexis DeveriaFyrd Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:46:27 PM

Are there any further plans for improving Javascript performance? When Kestrel was first released, Opera was fastest, but since then Webkit and Gecko have improved their engines, unfortunately putting Opera in third place. sad

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