Opera Desktop Team

Stability is this week's word

By Claudio Santambrogiocsant. Tuesday, May 20, 2008 1:38:12 PM

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Lots of work has gone into stability this last week. Other highlights are new package names (see details here), and fully localized UNIX packages.

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
  • Some dialogs do not have initial focus
  • [Bug 327180] Dragonfly does not work when JavaScript is disabled
  • [Bug 324377] Save Linked Content As fails sporadically

Changelog
  • Address field buttons are now updated correctly in all circumstances
  • Fixed international installer on Windows
  • Fixed several Wand issues

Lots of stability fixes:
  • crash on digg.com
  • crash with master password
  • crash on google maps
  • crash on a rather common javascript function...
  • crash when printing
  • crash when reloading a page...

Mail
  • Fix for Apple Mail import.
  • Filters and folders are now distinguishable
  • Attachments in multipart/related body part are now recognized properly
  • Reverted special handling of Delete in filter views - 'Del' always moves to Trash bin, 'Shift+Del' now deletes completely without using the Trash bin.

Several fixes to the undo functionality, such as e.g.:
  • undo after marking all as read should work now.
  • undo now reverts marking as spam
  • undo removing from filter

Windows specific:
  • Fixed painting of some SVG

UNIX specific:
  • It is now possible again to drag'n'drop URLs
  • All packages are now fully localized!

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Comments

GregLand Tuesday, May 20, 2008 2:11:33 PM

Thanks a lot ! up

berend ytsmaytsmabeer Tuesday, May 20, 2008 2:12:57 PM

UNIX:
All packages are now fully localized!

Yes thank you, this is a great one

Kristofferstoffix Tuesday, May 20, 2008 2:14:19 PM

Yeah, thanks, finally a new build to test bigsmile

Sigil ThaneCrinos512 Tuesday, May 20, 2008 2:30:24 PM

http://www.betanews.com/ still does not work.

berend ytsmaytsmabeer Tuesday, May 20, 2008 2:32:55 PM

@Crinos512 and garyy811:Is fine here on linux.
What is the problem

adiq90 Tuesday, May 20, 2008 2:33:21 PM

Magic number of 10000 passed XD Hope that Kestrel will be finally released before 20000 x)

Justasdrumblius Tuesday, May 20, 2008 2:33:31 PM

thanks cool

johnnysaucepn Tuesday, May 20, 2008 2:42:21 PM

Feels very responsive - maybe just my machine. Does this build use PGO?

Haavardhaavard Tuesday, May 20, 2008 2:49:36 PM

"Does not work" is not very informative, unfortunately. If you are having problems, please try to be specific about them, and describe them in sufficient detail.

Rijk Tuesday, May 20, 2008 2:50:06 PM

Originally posted by johnnysaucepn:

Does this build use PGO?

Yes, the Windows versions do.

Tuttle Tuesday, May 20, 2008 2:56:55 PM

Thanx Opera desktop team.

When will it be acid3 combliant ? up

Stevesgunhouse Tuesday, May 20, 2008 2:57:04 PM

BetaNews is a known content blocker issue, see multiple threads on the issue. No idea on OSNews, works fine here.

lamarca lamarca Tuesday, May 20, 2008 2:57:28 PM

thanks for the new snapshot.

sebt Tuesday, May 20, 2008 2:57:40 PM

Sweet smile

Has the progress bar flickering, when set to pop-up at bottom, been fixed?

MBmich4711 Tuesday, May 20, 2008 2:58:51 PM

The read X doesn't disappear after downloading e-mails.
Why?

berend ytsmaytsmabeer Tuesday, May 20, 2008 2:58:53 PM

@sebt:no that's stil there

Efekanefekan258 Tuesday, May 20, 2008 3:03:09 PM

Waooww that's very fast and stable Thanks bigsmile

cbinusa Tuesday, May 20, 2008 3:07:21 PM

I have debian AMD64 build no. 1962 installed on my Ubuntu Hardy machine. When I tried to install the May 20, build no. 1971, it said "error, later version already installed" and would not install. I don't know if relevant but I think Ubuntu just updated some qt files, as of a couple of days ago.

mrskman Tuesday, May 20, 2008 3:11:33 PM

I get the same error as cbinusa on my Ubuntu HH. My last package is opera_9.50-20080508.6-shared-qt_i386.deb

berend ytsmaytsmabeer Tuesday, May 20, 2008 3:11:54 PM

@cbinusa and mrskman:Look at the file of Opera, then you see that the naming is changed and now most linux system think that itś an older version.
Sollucion1:Uninstall old Opera and reinstall Opera
sollucion2:do it by hand (sudo dpkg -i filename)

sebt Tuesday, May 20, 2008 3:12:14 PM

@ytsmabeer: thanks.

Any news on PGO under Unix?

Maybe it's me, but this build does seem significantly quicker.

TFMF Tuesday, May 20, 2008 3:15:02 PM

I'm not sure if this was intentional, or if this is just me, but the address bar seems to be "all blue", where as before, the address part was green, and the description was blue. Very trivial, and like I said, could be just me.

I hope that made sense.

Otherwise - another fantastic build. Well done DT. smile

siringo Tuesday, May 20, 2008 3:15:15 PM

Everything is fine!
BUT why saving image open "Transfer" tab?

Jeff ™intelimac20inch Tuesday, May 20, 2008 3:17:06 PM

up Thanks for new stable snapshot! coffee

Tamil Tuesday, May 20, 2008 3:18:31 PM

up

mrskman Tuesday, May 20, 2008 3:19:37 PM

ytsmabeer: thanks

berend ytsmaytsmabeer Tuesday, May 20, 2008 3:20:02 PM

@Tamil:you are late, wat happened, no banana smile

Prasoon Agarwalprasoon271 Tuesday, May 20, 2008 3:23:07 PM

yes thanx................yes

EricJH Tuesday, May 20, 2008 3:25:15 PM

Sweet... was getting a bit bored with the old version.....party

lamarca lamarca Tuesday, May 20, 2008 3:28:11 PM

great! delete new cookies when exting opera works perfectly.

Antonio J.inventao Tuesday, May 20, 2008 3:33:12 PM

Thanks. yes

Betanews work fine for me, i use Vista x64

lamarca lamarca Tuesday, May 20, 2008 3:48:33 PM

there are two options missing on delete private data

clear history of typed-in addresses
clear history of visited links

unodgs Tuesday, May 20, 2008 3:51:47 PM

From few builds www.osnews.com www.osnews.pl and other pages stop loading in the middle. That's really annoyoing..

Hypezor Tuesday, May 20, 2008 4:02:11 PM

héhé, new new naming for Unix builds ? smile
Well, it's more understandable than .1 .6 .9 .10 wink
Trying this build after posting this useless message.

Kyle Bakerkyleabaker Tuesday, May 20, 2008 4:07:26 PM

Well, good to see that this build fixes the address field button bug that I just mentioned yesterday! That was fasts! Impressive changelog!

sacharja Tuesday, May 20, 2008 4:08:10 PM

Flash is still not working:

- http://www.pautina.net/ (flash ad not "closable")
- http://www.sciam.com/video.cfm (video not playing)
- http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=de-de&vid=be9075bb-df0a-41c9-8d86-7ded46627e26 (site is totally crippled, but hurray the error is constant despite fixed-back-fixed-back wink)


Apart from that, many sites are "empty":
- http://www.crazyfrogonline.com/ bug-327301
- http://www.rainbow-ct.de/ bug-327301
- http://www.volkswagen.gr/ bug-327301

bug-327292 (history panel search not working when VPS is deactivated) is fixed now, but now the same happens when opera:config#UserPrefs|VisitedPages is deactivated.

bug-327296 (VPS results are on top of the search results in history panel) not fixed? So it's supposed that the URL drop-down shows the results with the search word included within the URL first and then the VPS results. In contrast history panel shows them mixed!! I think a search for "desktop" in the history panel should show URL results (e.g. my.opera.com/DESKTOPteam) first and then all other pages that contain "desktop" in their body text.

John BarnettJohn164 Tuesday, May 20, 2008 4:08:47 PM

BetaNews Works OK here on my system Windows XP Home + SP3

John BarnettJohn164 Tuesday, May 20, 2008 4:10:45 PM

OsNews works OK on my System Windows XP Home + SP3

johnnysaucepn Tuesday, May 20, 2008 4:13:08 PM

LOVE that Volkwagen site!
function browserRedirect()
{
  var ns4 = document.layers;
  var ns6 = document.getElementById && !document.all;
  var ie4 = document.all;
  
  if(ns4) URLStr = "http://213.16.144.180/volkswagen/site/index1.html";
  else if(ns6) URLStr = "http://213.16.144.180/volkswagen/site/index1.html";
  else if(ie4) URLStr = "http://213.16.144.180/volkswagen/site/index1.html";
  else URLStr = "http://213.16.144.180/volkswagen/site/index1.html";
  location = URLStr;
}

<body onLoad="location.href='site/index1.html';">
</body>

So, unless you happen to fit their idea of browser sniffing, there's no exit from the loop!

MyOpera team, please fix this!fearphage Tuesday, May 20, 2008 4:30:26 PM

FYI: Setting Max visited pages to 0 is no longer the off switch for history search. It seems the new option en/disabler is address bar content search.

XPATH is 100% broken in WINDOWS cry
JavaScript - http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=160450&t=1211300359&page=2
Javascript URL thread: "javascript:alert(document.selectNodes('//div').length)"
Error:
name: Error
message: TYPE_ERR


If you're in windows using any recent userjs scripts, most or none of them will work in this build. I'm downgrading back to crashfest 08 (build 9981).

ionbulgar Tuesday, May 20, 2008 4:31:40 PM

I would like it to remember that I don't want google to be my search engine (every time I restart opera it uses google, which I don't want). And also I can't place website icons in my address bar (like I used to before 9.5) which was a great feature.

grogge Tuesday, May 20, 2008 4:49:11 PM

Originally posted by ionbulgar:

I would like it to remember that I don't want google to be my search engine

Delete search.ini in the program directory. You may have to delete your personal search.ini, too, in case you have deleted some of the default searches, because they get added to your personal search.ini when you do that (being marked as deleted).

This "feature" was introduced quite early in the Kestrel development. The default search.ini will be added each time you install/upgrade, btw.

The YeOKYeOK Tuesday, May 20, 2008 4:59:57 PM

This build seems a lot more response. Thanks Opera Team.

I also noticed the new version numbers, so as a note to all Linux users, as already said, remove opera before installing.

opera x86_64 on Fedora 9.

Ke11ett Tuesday, May 20, 2008 5:03:35 PM

Is there a problem with user.js? Mine does seem to be working since I upgraded.

I'm still having the problem with the progress bar jumping around on page loading. i.e. www.hardocp.com

stranded Tuesday, May 20, 2008 5:07:12 PM

thanks guys

cousin333 Tuesday, May 20, 2008 5:08:29 PM

I think the colors used in 99810's URL bar were better than this one's. We need clear, distinguishable letters for title, URL, text parts AND for highlighting. Black and dark (and light) blue is simple not enoght. I don't say, that that green black blue combo is the best it can get (although very "Firefoxish"), but was better than this. Come on, surprise us! (and make the colors changeable from opera:config)

Soleen Tuesday, May 20, 2008 5:13:43 PM

This is so great! Fully localized Unix builds, AND A new Sparc Solaris Build smile
Thank you, thank you, thank you! And I do like the new naming scheme, it make more sense!

Miladin MiladinoskiEagleMKD Tuesday, May 20, 2008 5:13:49 PM

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!up yes

I don't have to use Firefox anymore to surf digg.com!!

MyOpera team, please fix this!fearphage Tuesday, May 20, 2008 5:15:19 PM

Originally posted by Ke11ett:

Is there a problem with user.js? Mine does seem to be working since I upgraded.

This is an opera problem (bug #331562) not the script(s).

Michael ThompsonMichael83815 Tuesday, May 20, 2008 5:15:25 PM

Flash on this site still does not work.
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/home

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