Opera Desktop Team

Happy Easter

By Claudio Santambrogio. Tuesday, 18. March 2008, 13:51:33

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.

Download
Windows
Windows Classic
Macintosh
UNIX

Enjoy the new build, and Happy Easter!

Yet another snapshot buildOpera and the Acid3 Test

Comments

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Alexis Deveria # 18. March 2008, 16:46

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.

Olihen # 18. March 2008, 16:53

progress bar set as pop-up at bottom doesn't work

berend ytsma # 18. March 2008, 16:54

@Fyrd:Kestrel hasn't been released yet, You probably mean the Beta version

tynopex # 18. March 2008, 16:56

@Junyor:
Hrm.. interesting. This is what I see http://my.opera.com/tynopex/albums/showpic.dml?album=492807&picture=6803391 after a fresh install of this build (9841) on WinXP SP2.

Bill P # 18. March 2008, 16:56

Linux plugins (64bit version) other than flash and pdf do not work for me. Says it's getting, then buffering but nada using Mplayer-plugin. Also, in preferences can't change plugin used to Kaffeine or Gxine as Opera just reverts back to Mplayer as soon as I click ok.

Zafer ARICAN # 18. March 2008, 16:59

I am having problem with gmail.
After I login, it gets stuck in loading page (white page with the red text "loading" on top right.) and does not show the inbox.

Linux build 1875 static 10 debian package

Alexis Deveria # 18. March 2008, 17:01

@ytsmabeer

I guess what I meant was "the first released Kestrel build", which was technically an alpha.

berend ytsma # 18. March 2008, 17:01

@tynopex:You've got "fit to width" on

rseiler # 18. March 2008, 17:01

Weird effect: The Personal Bar "goes out":

1) Have Personal Bar on.
2) Bring up a dialog box of some kind (Edit Set Preferences, Tools Preferences, etc).
3) Note that the Personal Bar is now grayed out.
4) Dismiss dialog box and find that Personal Bar is still grayed out.
5) Click anywhere in main browser window to "activate" Personal Bar again.

Vista

chosenone437 # 18. March 2008, 17:02

if i right click on a image click image properties personal bar disapears and come backs or wen wan pop up asking if to save a password

Stifu # 18. March 2008, 17:06

No matter how many times I restart the Acid3, I get 76, not 77. Through refresh or by revisiting the page. Maybe a Vista-specific bug?

Alexis Deveria # 18. March 2008, 17:08

@Stifu

It might depend on which page you're viewing Acid3. They recently changed one of the tests where all browsers get one more point.

chosenone437 # 18. March 2008, 17:11

also personal panel becomes on clickable

anyone can confirm this?

Tim Altman # 18. March 2008, 17:14

If you're having problems with Gmail, try closing all Gmail tabs, deleting cookies, and deleting cache. That may help it to work.

Tamil # 18. March 2008, 17:15

Cursor goes to start of first line after clicking smiley.

lnforMed # 18. March 2008, 17:24

youtube works if you make opera identify as Firefox!!!!!! Linux version!

This new build is the fastest!

Thanks and keep the good work!

thobi # 18. March 2008, 17:29

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".

surfer dude # 18. March 2008, 17:35

Where's the Solaris Sparc build?

quark # 18. March 2008, 17:36

No progress bar here too...

Cyro # 18. March 2008, 17:36

@Junyor: Did you test this windows build on Windows Vista w/ SP1 ?
The context menu is not showing icons at all.

altmind # 18. March 2008, 17:38

fix file saving dialog asap, please.
opera is unusable untill it is done.

Шуйский Николай [krigstask, Ŝtérkrìg] # 18. March 2008, 17:38

You told us there's nothing big coming! Liars!

Thanks!

What about non-working anchors, though?

Bartek Sumowski # 18. March 2008, 17:43

GMail does NOT open at all

Eric # 18. March 2008, 17:44

Wheres the shared linux .deb

I guess the linux majority is stuck with static builds this rev

I'll give it a shot and report back

Alexis Deveria # 18. March 2008, 17:45

I wonder how many of those Acid3 fixes are actually of any practical value.

Guess I just need to work on improving my javascript/DOM knowledge for that to become apparent.

Abílio Araújo # 18. March 2008, 17:47

As the previous build, at the end of the installation, it tells me I don't have the necessary rights to make some changes. I do use and admin account though... If I deny to roll back the changes made up until that point, then it works and seems to be the correct version.
Last build used to crash a lot, specially going back to previous pages. In a few ocasions, when trying to restart Opera, it would hang in there doing nothing. I managed to fix it by going to the cache folder and delete all files (and why the heck there are always more than 1000 tiny files?).

topplehat # 18. March 2008, 17:47

Every time I try to get to the Opera Help the browser crashes. This happens whenever I press F1 or select it from the help menu.

Alexs # 18. March 2008, 17:48

@tynopex
No problem with Acid2, you have enable fit to with (ctrl+F11).

Herwig # 18. March 2008, 17:57

This bug is present since the last few builds:

Opening .htm files in Windows Explorer does not work.

If Windows Explorer is configured to launch Opera for .htm files and when I click on such a file, Opera is actually launched, but it displays its normal start page instead of the local .htm file.

Bug report filed: 318896

Cheers
Herwig

Hypezor # 18. March 2008, 17:59

Thanks for build !
Even www.deezer.com works better, but not 100% yet.

rseiler # 18. March 2008, 17:59

Originally posted by topplehat:

Every time I try to get to the Opera Help the browser crashes. This happens whenever I press F1 or select it from the help menu.

Yes, and that definitely should be added to Known Issues.

Morten # 18. March 2008, 18:00

topplehat : Every time I try to get to the Opera Help the browser crashes. This happens whenever I press F1 or select it from the help menu.

Confirmed... Opera.exe 9841 (beta) caused exception C0000005 at address 67BE4C08 (Base: 400000)

win xp

João David # 18. March 2008, 18:03

Originally posted by "stranded":

GMail does NOT open at all

Here, Gmail is working both in Vista and XP SP2.

Unfortunately, my dear and old friend bug #314466 is still present. I still get to see icons in Opera only in the first usage. After I close Opera, icons are gone for ever. Today I did a fresh install. Deleted all my Opera profile folders but it is still broken.

juksu # 18. March 2008, 18:18

Still no windows shell integration on Windows and Totem player seems to crash Opera Pluginwrapper(Fedora8) like it dit in older builds , MPlayer works but it is not good player for me.

Anyway good and fast build.

Stifu # 18. March 2008, 18:21

Originally posted by Fyrd:

@Stifu

It might depend on which page you're viewing Acid3. They recently changed one of the tests where all browsers get one more point.

Yeah I know, but it's not that. I just installed the latest Opera build at home (XP), and I get 77/100 this time, on the same test (the first result on Google).

GrantTLC # 18. March 2008, 18:23

Sweet Monkey jesus...! I did a seperate install of this latest build after months of upgrades (read it here in an earlier comment) and found there's a noticeable speed increase across the board! Almost - but not quite - as good as going up from 9.25 to Kestrel!

Great work, guys!

serious # 18. March 2008, 18:23

* Fixed inline find. [...] plugin methods not accessible from javascript engine when data attribute defined [...] And lots more of stability fixes!

nice, nice and nice ^^

about youtube: well, it's still useable and even feels a little faster esp on the main page, so who cares about some broken stuff? (makes the layout a little bit tidier anyhow

)
about acid3: nice work, with 9.5 final you'll surely hit at least 80-85

João David # 18. March 2008, 18:27

Just one question, in Inline field search how do we jump to the next highlighted result? Is there any keyboard shortcut to do that?

Iron Bone # 18. March 2008, 18:28

I use on my iGoogle page Google Calendar. Unfortunately it reloads every second and opera take more the 50% CPU.

Blaz Pristy # 18. March 2008, 18:29

Nice even better...ACID3 test is now 77% before was 65%

But still Safari 3.1 beta +WebKit have 88%

Keep it coming....

Opera 9.50 ACID3 77%

tynopex # 18. March 2008, 18:32

@ytsmabeer:
Ah! Thanks. I always forget about that option. It does make some websites angry when I leave it on and I forget to try without.

illiad # 18. March 2008, 18:36

altmind, thobi: Please check properly what you get when you press Ctrl S ...

Tiju # 18. March 2008, 18:39

@piroxicam:
Just use F3

illiad # 18. March 2008, 18:39

I get the above on 9815, 9841...

and yes, I do get crash when pressing F1...

GrantTLC: a good reason for making a separate install, then!!

Kurt # 18. March 2008, 18:42

I have noticed that when adding a bookmark my entries in the personal bar grey-out!

FataL # 18. March 2008, 18:44

Originally posted by piroxicam:

Just one question, in Inline field search how do we jump to the next highlighted result? Is there any keyboard shortcut to do that?

F3 -- next result, Shift + F3 -- previous.

Teal_One # 18. March 2008, 18:48

Wow, thanks a lot for this build. Especially fixing the inline find and the acid3 improvements.

Happy Easter to the Opera Team and keep up good working!

PS: http://freenet-homepage.de/teal_one/opera2.html isn't fixed yet. Of course I made a BugReport (but don't have the BugID at the moment