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Getting ready for Dragonfly...

By Joachim Blaabjergblaabjerg. Tuesday, May 6, 2008 2:30:00 PM

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Here's a new snapshot with a nice mix of bugfixes, enhancements and new bugs. Oh, and be sure to keep an eye on the Dragonfly blog later today cool

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 328318] Wand usually doesn't work
  • [Bug 327180] Dragonfly does not work when JavaScript is disabled
  • [Bug 324985] International installer on Windows is broken when using some languages
  • [Bug 324377] Save Linked Content As fails sporadically
  • [Bug 327333] Some SVGs do not paint on Windows
  • [Bug 328186] Crash when using Master Password
  • [Bug 324727] The Octoshape plug-in causes Opera to crash on start-up
  • The tab bar on Mac may mix up favicon/text placement

Changelog
  • Line breaks in Notes are now preserved when sync'ing data
  • application/x-msdownload files are not always saved with an .exe extension anymore
  • Lots of improvements on certificates UI
  • Improvements on certificate handling and on the new certificate repository
  • New look for the address field dropdown
  • New cookie confirmation dialog
  • Several stability fixes
  • Several performance improvements to JavaScript
  • Offline mode is improved

Mail
  • Fixed a crash when reindexing mail
  • Fixed problem fetching POP mail from web.de (and many other providers)
  • Show "Password not displayed" instead of always showing six asterisks for Opera Mail passwords
  • Improved POP performance when checking for new mail
  • SMTP authentication will now default to Auto instead of None
  • Fixed problem where many feed items were not downloaded

Platform-specific
  • [Mac] New tab look (thanks lachralle!)
  • [UNIX] Fixed some CJK issues in the UI


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Comments

GuillermoGuille Tuesday, May 6, 2008 2:49:12 PM

great!

VarunVarunM Tuesday, May 6, 2008 2:50:43 PM

Nicely done,Thanks.
Dragonfly already available in the repository of dragonfly blog,i think thats what it is.

Daned4n3 Tuesday, May 6, 2008 2:50:48 PM

excellent, i can hardly wait for dragonfly smile

tCfkaDA Tuesday, May 6, 2008 2:53:26 PM

Synchronization still does not work sad

sebt Tuesday, May 6, 2008 2:56:11 PM

suhweet bigsmile

Jeff Parkkiz Tuesday, May 6, 2008 2:58:45 PM

When I go to some sites (like www.osnews.com) it will load the site but when I start to scroll down, opera locks up.

I'm using the x86_64 rpm build on RHEL 5 and the KDE desktop.

Any ideas?

Ar1Pear1pe Tuesday, May 6, 2008 2:59:48 PM

Thank you up

FataL Tuesday, May 6, 2008 3:03:11 PM

Offline mode is improved

Excellent! Many people will appreciate this. Now, let's test it...

Will next build break 10000? wink

chris34 Tuesday, May 6, 2008 3:05:42 PM

great

EricJH Tuesday, May 6, 2008 3:06:45 PM

Thx for the neew update. Just installed it....wizard

Efekanefekan258 Tuesday, May 6, 2008 3:07:24 PM

Thanks... Great!!!

lamarca lamarca Tuesday, May 6, 2008 3:12:10 PM

thanks for the new snapshot

GuillermoGuille Tuesday, May 6, 2008 3:14:01 PM

"Tools > Advanced > Developer Tools > Coming very soon"!!!!

You really want us to suffer

VarunVarunM Tuesday, May 6, 2008 3:16:11 PM

go to repository on dragonfly's blog.

Tim AltmanJunyor Tuesday, May 6, 2008 3:16:20 PM

It's not 6pm CET yet....

Raistlin Tuesday, May 6, 2008 3:18:27 PM

Opera crashes on mapa.targeo.pl. Could anyone confirm?

PS
What is it: http://dragonfly.opera.com/app/zips/protocol-3/ ?

Johnnyrhonnysparks Tuesday, May 6, 2008 3:19:24 PM

thanks, the new dropdown menu for full history search is sweet!

quarkdrunkensurgeon Tuesday, May 6, 2008 3:20:24 PM

Sweeeeeeeeeet... smile

40 minutes left... can't wait...

Jeff ™intelimac20inch Tuesday, May 6, 2008 3:20:57 PM

Sweet New build thanks. up coffee

Ar1Pear1pe Tuesday, May 6, 2008 3:22:53 PM

Hmm. This build doesn't find any of my saved wand passwords

Bill PBill_P Tuesday, May 6, 2008 3:27:38 PM

refetching email previously read and deleted from m2 but not from pop3 server

KurtChrisDavey Tuesday, May 6, 2008 3:29:16 PM

@ar1pe
i can confirm..

Justasdrumblius Tuesday, May 6, 2008 3:34:39 PM

Uppy bigsmile

FataL Tuesday, May 6, 2008 3:40:53 PM

First impressions from Dragonfly:
  • A little bit slow, but understandable because it is all written on JavaScript
  • No Net graph yet (HTTP requests watch)
  • Questionable way to show DOM path to selected element: 
    HTML > HEAD + BODY > DIV + DIV > UL
    instead 
    HTML > BODY > DIV#navigation > UL
    ...And elements of DOM path not clickable for fast navigation to parents.

lamarca lamarca Tuesday, May 6, 2008 3:42:07 PM

Originally posted by ar1pe:

Hmm. This build doesn't find any of my saved wand passwords



same happens to contacts.adr

ZdenekLei Tuesday, May 6, 2008 3:43:10 PM

Select text link with right doubleclick don't work...

Raistlin Tuesday, May 6, 2008 3:43:23 PM

@man on the street and @ar1pe
I can't

Wladimiruntitled1 Tuesday, May 6, 2008 3:49:48 PM

my file choose dialog looks like here:

http://i29.tinypic.com/2gxi71v.png

on kde 3.5.9, kubuntu 8.04 32bit and 64bit...

i don't like the default file chooser and would use the gtk one, i f it would show the main elements... it would be better to implement the default kde/qt file chooser like the konqueror's one....

or does someone knows how to fix this ugly design??

thanks!

Steve DarkenDarken Tuesday, May 6, 2008 3:53:41 PM

Originally posted by lamarca:

Originally posted by ar1pe:

Hmm. This build doesn't find any of my saved wand passwords

same happens to contacts.adr


Same problem. Wand button doesn't work but ctrl+enter work fine.

Raistlin Tuesday, May 6, 2008 4:03:18 PM

Do you have empty fields in Site Preferences | Cookies | Cookies?

FataL Tuesday, May 6, 2008 4:05:22 PM

Digg Dragonfly! up

panyawo Tuesday, May 6, 2008 4:05:58 PM

"Execute program" action fails on build9972
The 1st argument is strange.

http://fatalerrorjp.blog27.fc2.com/blog-entry-1229.html

kaiwainz Tuesday, May 6, 2008 4:06:03 PM

Hello?! Whats happened to Solaris x86 builds - come on, we need Solaris x86 builds!

Bill PBill_P Tuesday, May 6, 2008 4:06:54 PM

@Raistlin - think they've been blank for a long time (at least for me) but seem to appear correctly in preferences -> cookies -> manage cookies

lamarca lamarca Tuesday, May 6, 2008 4:06:55 PM

i have opera:config is set to 3, but delete new cookies when exiting opera not working.
anyone else?

Originally posted by Raistlin:

Do you have empty fields in Site Preferences | Cookies | Cookies?



that's an old issue.

sebt Tuesday, May 6, 2008 4:08:01 PM

untitled1: i don't like the default file chooser and would use the gtk one, i f it would show the main elements... it would be better to implement the default kde/qt file chooser like the konqueror's one....

or does someone knows how to fix this ugly design??



Set this opera:config option to 1 to use standard (windows-style) QT widgets. If that's set to 2 (as in your case I'm guessing) it will use GTK (gnome-style) widgets.

Like you, I'm hoping for a 3rd option for using native KDE widgets (file choosers etc) in the very near future - 9.5 final would be nice... wink since I don't like the GTK widgets nor am I a particular fan of the standard QT windows-style widgets. Full KDE support would round things off nicely for Opera (which would then have native Mac, Windows, KDE and Gnome widgets and support), and will be even nicer when using KDE 4.

Seb smile

Txl Tuesday, May 6, 2008 4:09:46 PM

How about fixing google agenda ? I've filed a bug report and it's still no change at all, I think A LOT of people are using google agenda so it's a shame it's not fixed yet...irked

Raistlin Tuesday, May 6, 2008 4:15:58 PM

@Bill_P and @lamarca
Yes, this cookie issue is old... so old, that I've worried that is my settings fault. But only Opera's developer forgot about it.

itochan Tuesday, May 6, 2008 4:16:01 PM

bigsmile

http://www.opera.com/dragonfly/index.dml


Wladimiruntitled1 Tuesday, May 6, 2008 4:17:48 PM

@sebt: ok.. thx sad lets hope it will be added soon! (yes i have tried the setting "2", now set back to 1)

Steve DarkenDarken Tuesday, May 6, 2008 4:19:01 PM

Originally posted by Pekcxi:

Still problems with Content blocker(?). Many sites get stuck loading elements. Useless build.


Partially broken since 3 last builds. ( http://www.winmatrix.com )

bug-322811

berend ytsmaytsmabeer Tuesday, May 6, 2008 4:19:03 PM

@Txl:Google calendar work fine, there's noting wrong with it.
Is there a forumtopic about this?

Bill PBill_P Tuesday, May 6, 2008 4:20:05 PM

@untitled1 that is the Gtk one, to change edit in opera:config#FileSelector|DialogToolkit where 0=auto 1=qt 2=gtk

MyOpera team, please fix this!fearphage Tuesday, May 6, 2008 4:23:38 PM

Dragonfly button

sebt Tuesday, May 6, 2008 4:37:51 PM

New look for the address field dropdown



It would be nice to see some options for ordering the address dropdown too. For example, when I type news.bbc in, I see all the bbc news links I visited, but usually I just want to go to the root, ie. http://news.bbc.co.uk. Often I see very deep pages first, and have to ctrl-backspace to get the root url.

So, for me, it would be nice to have an option to sort groups of identical dns-pages by root->leaf, where urls sharing the same dns, and also the option to sort the entire list root->leaf, so that the root dns pages are at the top, followed by leaf pages. In all cases the sort order to leaf is by directory depth.

Unless there's something I'm missing?

Seb smile

zix Tuesday, May 6, 2008 4:45:25 PM

Thanks for the new build...

BUT:
Opera is damn slow in establishing connections. Sometimes I have to wait up to 30 seconds before Opera loads a page, which is a pain in the ass.
I'm using the latest MacOSX Leopard (10.5.2). Can anyone confirm this? When I use Opera 9.27 everything is good and other browsers are fast too. But Kestrel wastes my time.

Nice Tabs by the way!

@sebt
I totally aggree with you. What I would love to see, too would be that the first entry in the dropdown-list will get selected by pressing the COMMAND-Key. Like under MacOSX Tiger in Spotlight.

MyOpera team, please fix this!fearphage Tuesday, May 6, 2008 4:56:11 PM

New look for the address field dropdown

Why does opera save EVERYTHING to the address bar dropdown but a lot of it is not retrievable by typing parts of. For instance, if i type 'dragon fly' in to the field it will search google for dragon fly as expected. This search will be saved in the address bar. However, if i start typing the word dragon my previous search will not appear in the drop down. The same can be said for 'javascript:alert(0);'. Although it is saved in the dropdown, it is not retrievable.
The same is true for data uris (data:text/plain,catpants). Javascript and data uris actually make sense to be saved in the dropdown to me. However, neither of them can be retrieved without manually pulling down the address bar.

@staff: What is the purpose of saving things to the dropdown if you can't retrieve them conveniently?

Bill PBill_P Tuesday, May 6, 2008 4:59:07 PM

address bar dropdown - I'd like to be able to select the colors

asmodai Tuesday, May 6, 2008 4:59:14 PM

Junyor/Blaaberg:

#326088 seems fixed as well as the other JavaScript CPU churn I reported. Logging in to Google Mail and Live Mail works as it should again.

#326084 also seems fixed, can connect as it should be to bugs.opera.com, no more ssl issues.

#326089 also works as it should with the pop-up insta-search when using /.

So only #326086 left, the 2 line textarea of http://translate.google.com/

Thanks for fixing those JavaScript issues and the other stability issues, much appreciated.

Yngve Nysæter Pettersenyngve Tuesday, May 6, 2008 5:01:48 PM

zix: You left out the most important part of your report.

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