Opera Desktop Team

Beta 2 is Coming...

By Adam Minchinton. Thursday, 17. April 2008, 12:32:30

Things here in the Desktop Team have been very, very hectic lately as we approach Kestrel Beta 2. The good news it that the wait is almost over.

Introduced in this build is a new fraud protection back-end. It's better, more reliable and allows us to block malicious sites more quickly than ever before. Fraud protection is now enabled by default.

For all of you non-native English speakers out there, most translations are included in this snapshot. Of course, someone will have to tell you what this blog post actually says for you to get the snapshot.

So download it, enjoy, and submit your feedback.

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

[Bug 324643] "Remove from toolbar" doesn't work
[Bug 324645] Right-clicking an IRC channel prevents it from showing new messages
[Bug 322553] The "Execute program" action fails in certain circumstances
[Bug 324678] Mail attachment options don't work on Windows
[Bug 324696] The "Go to Web Address" action fails
[Bug 324699] Crash when choosing "Open Opera" from the tray icon after hiding Opera on Windows when the mail client is disabled
[Bug 324700] "Save image" context menu item doesn't work

Changelog

New fraud protection back-end
Enabled fraud protection by default
Setting an external source viewer now works properly
Open with... for other programs now works properly
Starting without tabs works again
Several security UI improvements
Opera Link: Fixed a bug where notes would not be synced when you upgraded to a build that supports syncing them
Opera Widgets: Fixed form submission
Opera Widgets: Fixed opening links in iframes
Paste & go doesn't open the address in the background anymore
Added a special menu for selected text which is a link
Spatial navigation now properly uses text selection for links
Made address field focusable from an empty workspace
Fixed find in page from the Find in page search field
Increased number of lines in the address field drop-down
Removed encoding of slashes when opening local files
Fixed print preview of mail and pages with iframes
Large plain text documents are no longer cut off
Fixed an issue with using bookmark nicknames as your home page
Fixed progress bar when set to pop-up at bottom

Mail

Top-level account access points can now be selected via the mouse and show all messages for the selected account
Better icon for e-mails without bodies
Saved passwords are now indicated by the text "Click to change password" instead of six asterisks
Fixed IMAP authentication/connection issues
Fixed problem downloaded POP mail when using "Leaves messages on server" on certain servers
Removed confirmation dialog when unchecking "Leave messages on server" for POP accounts; all messages on the server will automatically be removed
Better labeling of "Delete" button
Fixed problem where messages on the server are redownloaded after importing mail
Download message bodies before exporting
The default account when sending new messages is now chosen more intelligently
Added confirmation dialog when deleting newsfeeds
Fixed issue where the spam filter would not learn from its mistakes
The Mail panel button now correctly indicates new mail
Re-added message body settings for newsgroups
Stopped generating plain text version of newsfeeds that contain HTML (and vice versa), which makes photo newsfeeds more usable
Fixed long-standing issue where deleting drafts from the Drafts view while the compose window was open would render the draft unusable

Platform-specific

[Windows] Tray icon now indicates when new mail has arrived
[Windows] When hiding Opera (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+H), a tray icon is created
[Windows] Fixed DCC transfers on Windows
[64-bit Linux] Fixed a crash when saving things

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Comments

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quark # 17. April 2008, 16:06

Eeeeee!!! Great Build! Downloading... Thanx...

hurug # 17. April 2008, 16:06

thxs

Olihen # 17. April 2008, 16:06

thx

EricJH # 17. April 2008, 16:07

Just installed it.... Glad to see the status bar pop up is back..

Marcelo Javier # 17. April 2008, 16:07

eeeeeeeeeeeeeee good job!!

lamarca # 17. April 2008, 16:12

thank for the new snapshot.

mulB # 17. April 2008, 16:17

Still no close-button on new tabs with some skins e.g. my fav "Metal Blue o7r".

A setting for Zoom in site preferences would be great!

Thanx so far

GregLand # 17. April 2008, 16:17

Nicest !!!

Benjamin # 17. April 2008, 16:19

New Opera crashes. EventViewer shows 0x0034e296.
I upgraded.
bug 324727: filed.
crashlog: sent

the.qubit # 17. April 2008, 16:20

Unfortunately there are no intel-linux *.5-shared-qt.i386-1929 Builds.

Tim Altman # 17. April 2008, 16:24

@mulB: The skin probably needs to be updated.

WOFall # 17. April 2008, 16:25

tnx

Originally posted by Minch:

Setting an external source viewer now works properly

I was getting worried. A few months ago i was told in irc that this might not be fixed for the final.

oscardt # 17. April 2008, 16:26

Although I hate using IE i'm glad the InIE button now works again!

great job desktop team!

smallfox # 17. April 2008, 16:26

great! thanks

ottoflick # 17. April 2008, 16:29

The Czech version of the installer seemed to have some problems with the character encoding, so I'm using the English one ... but still, thanks! Can't wait to see the final version

Maxim # 17. April 2008, 16:35

On one of previous build, while it doesn't have popup progress bar, I put "Progress status"-element on status bar. Now I can't remove it!

Opera just ignore my command remove it

istylem # 17. April 2008, 16:37

Thanx for the new snapshot biuld

joshin # 17. April 2008, 16:46

Would be nice if the finance.yahoo.com page's "streaming quotes" would update. Both FF and IE do.

-J

olli # 17. April 2008, 16:47

vivabrevis: Did you file a bug report with crashlogs?

Grrblt # 17. April 2008, 16:50

upgrading from 9903 reverted my ctrl+n (open new tab) back to the default open new window

update: it reverted my "open with default program" setting for torrent files too.

Nils S. Normann # 17. April 2008, 16:50

My Feeds delete button has changed from "Delete" to "M_MAIL_REMOVE", and my mail delete button has been replaced with a "undelete" pulldown menu.

Lali # 17. April 2008, 16:52

I download the windows version, but in the installer are this: TelepÁ-t"tc....=This is the Choose your languge , with Hungarin, but i think, that in encoding are mistake, because the Hungarian specific caracters dont see, just this: Telep"tCs...

DOOOMKULTUS # 17. April 2008, 16:57

Fixed progress bar when set to pop-up at bottom.
Thanks finally for this.
"Delete" to "M_MAIL_REMOVE", I confirm it as well,

Darn Celsius # 17. April 2008, 16:58

Thank you. Your hard work is appreciated!

berend ytsma # 17. April 2008, 16:59

Reported the wrong feeds delete and mail delete button as
Bug #324635

SiMcarD # 17. April 2008, 16:59

What languages are included?
I have tried to enable italian but it didn't work.

Cyro # 17. April 2008, 17:00

YEAH BABE, YEAH

alf245 # 17. April 2008, 17:00

Regression compared to 9.27 (visited links):

When "Preferences->Advanced->History->Empty on exit" is checked, visited links are not coloured grey anymore after a restart. It would be extremely nice to have 9.50 on par with 9.27 here.

berend ytsma # 17. April 2008, 17:01

@SiMcarD:Italian sits in the windows package

Lena # 17. April 2008, 17:04

"Delete" to "M_MAIL_REMOVE" - the same! I don't like it! And where is Russian language?

Andres # 17. April 2008, 17:06

Thanks a lot for fixing progress bar, and please, remove that "feature" wich Opens the Transfers Tab every time you save an image or something from a web page, it's annoying. Just let it for Transfers that need time to download, as it used to be.
...Yes I know you can change Transfers Tab preferences in order to stop that tab pop-up behavior. But we know that because we are Opera fans and experts, normal people will find that annoying and they won't know how to deal with it.
Please

lamarca # 17. April 2008, 17:11

mail body is not displayed (just the subject, date, time) for forwarded messages. (winxp)
anyone else?

Ednilson Maia # 17. April 2008, 17:11

Yeah!

[Windows] When hiding Opera (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+H), a tray icon is created

For me is Ctrl+H only

Version 9.50 beta
Build 9937
Platform Win32
System Windows XP

Ke11ett # 17. April 2008, 17:22

The notes list is still sorting in alphabetical order rather than the custom order i have my notes set in but display correctly on the Insert Note menu.

The bug with RSS feeds with pictures getting "cut-off" seems to be solved.

Hurray for search on the context menu on highlighted text that is inside a hyperlink

On the Open With context menu why is there a separator between FireFox & Internet explorer?

alf245 # 17. April 2008, 17:23

Regressions compared to 9.27 (address/search field drop-down):

1) The width of the address field drop-down decreases when a few buttons are added to the address bar. Not so with 9.27.

2) The height of the address field drop-down is still smaller in comparison to 9.27: Two lines are missing (Linux build).

3) The height of the search field drop-down has been drastically reduced: 22 simultaneously visible entries in 9.27, just 12 simultaneously visible entries currently. Way too little for me.

Шуйский Николай [krigstask, Ŝtérkrìg] # 17. April 2008, 17:34

Who did report bug about Ctrl-F/Find in page? It's still alive

Cyro # 17. April 2008, 17:41

I can't remove any buttons. Only move them. Can anyone confirm?

GrantTLC # 17. April 2008, 17:45

"as we approach Kestrel Beta 2"

You mean we aren't even near the final yet???

*Resigns self to another few months of waiting*

D'n Russler # 17. April 2008, 17:47

YAY! Thank you, Desktop Team!

And the best thing: Find In Page STILL WORKS!!!

Win 2K SP4...

thobi # 17. April 2008, 17:58

wohoo, thx

The YeOK # 17. April 2008, 17:59

Not seen a single issue so far. Great build.

Thanks Opera Desktop Team.

Andres # 17. April 2008, 18:01

Originally posted by GrantTLC:

"as we approach Kestrel Beta 2"

You mean we aren't even near the final yet???

*Resigns self to another few months of waiting*

Man, It's some time needed to fix all bugs and give shape to Opera 9.5 Kestrel, almost sure there will be more betas, and similar time between them, so yes, we have to wait "a few months", maybe not for Kestrel final, but for Beta 3. So be pacient, those guys are not making bread, they're developing the best browser on earth. So, as the colombian bear company Bavaria says: Best things on live take time

PiTRiS # 17. April 2008, 18:02

confirming - cant remove items from some bars...

and selecting non-hotlink links http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=222377 is still broken... like 10th build in a row :/

Andrew Frazier # 17. April 2008, 18:03

Is it deliberate that when upgrading that the Windows Media Player plugin is deleted from the plugins folder?

Charlie # 17. April 2008, 18:07

I am now able to log in to Wachovia's web site again.

underman # 17. April 2008, 18:09

I was on stable Opera 9.27 and got fooled too quickly by the annoncement (lol) so i installed what i thought was new beta2

Anyway... I got a problem with mail
I updated like this:
uninstall with cccleaner, then re-run the cleaner to start on a empty sheet.
Then installed using the .msi intaller build into "\Opera" directory where v9.27 was before.

At first launch, Opera presented me a screen to update some mail database, clicked yes, then restarted as asked.
On restart, asked me to upadte database again. Clicked yes, then restarted.

Now at every launch Opera gives me an error message about mail:
"There was a problem initializing Opera Mail.
Engine Init() failed"

And under Tools tab, the section 'Mail and Chat accounts' is greyed out.

Any advice?
i'm on Vista 32bits system btw.

Frank # 17. April 2008, 18:13

The new build doesn't work for me. It crashes at startup. I first upgraded the old 9.50 build. Then I uninstalled 9.5, cleaned the AppData\Roaming\Opera 9.5 folder and installed again. But still the same error.

Windows event viewer shows me:
Provider

[ Name] Application Error

- EventID 1000

[ Qualifiers] 0

Level 2

Task 100

Keywords 0x80000000000000

- TimeCreated

[ SystemTime] 2008-04-17T18:04:20.000Z

EventRecordID 94751

Channel Application

- EventData

opera.exe
9.50.9937.0
48076824
Opera.dll
9.50.9937.0
48076867
c0000005
0034e296
12d8
01c8a0b572926366

I also have Opera 9.27 installed and I am using Windows Vista Business SP1. Installed the German version of Opera 9.5 .