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Opera 9.5 RC - Prepare for launch
By Huib Kleinhouthuibk. Tuesday, June 10, 2008 3:01:38 PM
You might have noticed we've focused on stabilizing the Opera 9.5 snapshots lately, waxing the new look and feel of Opera, improving performance, security and most of all fixing a lot of bugs. Almost two years after the release of Opera 9.0, Opera 9.5 is now (almost) ready to be released. 
Thanks for your feedback on Opera Link, Quick Find, Dragonfly and EV and all the new features, usability improvements, new skin, tweaks and bugfixes. We hope you all feel proud of making Opera 9.5 the best choice for surfing the web!
Announcement of 9.5 release by Jon von Tetzchner
Tell your friends about Opera!
Even though everyone reading this blog knows that there is a difference between one browser and another, there are still too many people who don't. We need your help to spread the word!
WARNING: On Windows, this build will by default replace the default installation of Opera. Take special care when installing
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Thanks for your feedback on Opera Link, Quick Find, Dragonfly and EV and all the new features, usability improvements, new skin, tweaks and bugfixes. We hope you all feel proud of making Opera 9.5 the best choice for surfing the web!
Announcement of 9.5 release by Jon von Tetzchner
Tell your friends about Opera!
Even though everyone reading this blog knows that there is a difference between one browser and another, there are still too many people who don't. We need your help to spread the word!
WARNING: On Windows, this build will by default replace the default installation of Opera. Take special care when installing
Changelog
- Copied the latest Dragonfly to the live servers - Check out their blog for the latest info
- Various stability fixes
- Opera no longer wants to update a nonexistent mail store when upgrading from 9.2 to 9.5
- 'Download message bodies' is now enabled on all POP accounts
- Fixed a loss of filter rules on upgrade from 9.2
- Fixed an issue with a missing Panel button
- Fixed an issue where the 'New tab' toolbar was hidden behind the panel toggle button when no tabs were open
- Added sharper panel selector icons
- Fixed dragging of multiple items in the bookmark manager
- Fixed Russian and German dictionary search
- Improvements in backwards compatibility with skins
- Fixed login with cookie on the 31st of all months
- The disk image should work on Mac OS X 10.2 again
- Some improvements to the Mac Native skin
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skye11 # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 3:40:08 PM
WOFall # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 3:40:56 PM
Hope this is a stable one
lamarca lamarca # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 3:41:55 PM
new snapshotrelease candidatezoquete # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 3:42:28 PM
Galileo # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 3:43:12 PM
wirusek # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 3:43:55 PM
Tamil # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 3:44:23 PM
Morphdreamer # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 3:44:41 PM
Downloading....
Dark_MX # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 3:54:16 PM
Ednilson Maiaemaia # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 3:57:11 PM
varyform # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:02:17 PM
Publisher # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:02:44 PM
SpyBotspybot2d # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:06:54 PM
FataL # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:07:32 PM
Originally posted by varyform:
Believe or not there are things that are waaaay more important that Acid 3 test.... (No, Opera 9.5 will not pass the test, and devs never say that it will...
Efekanefekan258 # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:07:38 PM
Raistlin # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:07:53 PM
matt.porter # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:08:52 PM
Wade # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:09:38 PM
MyOpera team, please fix this!fearphage # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:10:31 PM
Originally posted by varyform:
You are correct.Worked as buttons in 10048. They don't work in 10051 or the latest rc. Is this a bug? Can anyone confirm?
Originally posted by matt.porter:
Good question. One of the best ways (maybe THE best way) is to file a bug. Then for sure they will know about it.hurug # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:11:44 PM
Tim AltmanJunyor # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:12:34 PM
@Dark_MX: Sounds like you didn't install in the correct directory.
EricJH # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:14:26 PM
Buchtic # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:18:45 PM
Michael PetrushinMisha v.3 # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:20:39 PM
finally I can remove from toolbar button which add new tab!
but button (cross at top-right) for close panels don't work (my wife said that it worked in 9.2x, but I never used it myself because of I either use F4 or click at left edge of screen).
Emperor Dariusemperordarius # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:20:40 PM
Memory usage now stable, was high in the previous build.
Delerue # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:20:52 PM
This is a minor problem, but I think it deserves a little look.
This site here can't open the top links inside the bottom frame; instead, it opens a new tab. Can't reproduced it with 9.2x and other browsers: http://rdelerue.sites.uol.com.br/sia/
Thanks and keep going
thotypous # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:25:08 PM
I'd like to ask if a Qt4 shared version for Linux will be available until 9.5 final. It would be great!
KryptoKnightAleksOD # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:29:08 PM
jmechy # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:30:20 PM
Vicsites.web.pt # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:30:47 PM
BTW why not making local google the default search engine, like google.pt in the Portuguese version or google.fr in the French version? If I change the default to google.pt searching in address field stops to work.
Raistlin # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:30:53 PM
http://mail.google.com/mail/?nocheckbrowser
Alexsalexs # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:31:17 PM
Cyro # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:31:19 PM
That's simply Morphinomental!!!
Stifu # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:31:39 PM
See this testcase: http://stifu.free.fr/dl/temp/opera-opacity-bug.html
I already reported this bug last year.
subtitles # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:33:02 PM
Edit:
Movable type issues: Rich Text editor still isn't fully working. When you click on the text entry box, though the cursor is blinking, the arrow keys don't move the cursor, and you can't type.
Also the image uploader doesn't work.
Economist.com - the "most commented" box at the top and a bit to the right doesn't work. Works fine in both IE and FF.
Charles SchlossChas4 # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:34:10 PM
can't get the log in to work
a widget should pop up
FataL # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:34:52 PM
Originally posted by guga50:
Still doesn't work. It didn't work in Opera 8, 9, and now in 9.5Originally posted by guga50:
Ugly regression. Can confirm.Unfortunately I can bet that they will not fix such regressions until Opera 10.
John BarnettJohn164 # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:36:21 PM
Try finding 5.220 in the web page http://www.shortwavemonitor.com/05-10.htm
The page dose not scroll down to the found item and pressing enter dose not take you to the first item found! then you have to click in the displayed web page to gain focus and the found items are then lost:awww:
It might be the web page that has a design fault.
EricJH # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:36:21 PM
Originally posted by jmechy:
I saw a reaction from a person from Facebook here at the forums, it may have been in the thread of the previous weekly, stating they are working on this problem.Luis Carlos Carvalhozipatei # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:36:36 PM
- Please put the togler active by default and withdraw the "panel".
- Please put the button to close each tab, and more meior the tab. The button is so small that it is difficult clicking it.
The favicons of search engines in this release already show the favicon of their sites, but not update the favicons with their sites. For example, the "Google" remains the favicon old.
Finally, see this link http://home.utad.pt/~usc/objectivos.htm in the bottom of the page is appearing too much space, which is not supposed to be. In all other browsers and even in Opera 9.27 this happens.
Tim AltmanJunyor # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:37:11 PM
Ravindran NavaneethanRavindran # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:39:04 PM
PiotrDerbeth # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:39:30 PM
I would also like to have a choice of picking up the old default skin. The new one seems a bit too revolutionary for me so far.
FataL # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:40:40 PM
Gyrobo # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:41:54 PM
The new trashcan icon is appalling, as are the low contrast scrollbars. The panel toggle now has a very nice, instantly identifiable black triangle, why not make the scrollbars that color?
And the black tab bar is still pretty obtrusive and doesn't stand out all that much from the actual tabs. The panels icons DO seem a little more bearable, thank you for that.
I'm guessing this is only a RC because you want to get more peoples' opinions on the new skin and Kestrel is too complete to be called beta 3.
Johnnyrhonnysparks # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:43:16 PM
is there a reason why flash has been really laggy and unresponsive in the last few linux builds? i.e youtube and the like aren't viewable (everything is fine in the window builds though)
KryptoKnightAleksOD # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:47:12 PM
FataL # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:47:59 PM
MetalRaise # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:48:32 PM
I'm at a loss for words, and that's not meant in a positive way...
I didn't try out the new build yet, but I bet there's still dozens of issues around that I've reported ages ago.
For example, there's still an issue with cookies deleting from the Cookie Manager, because they re-appear and sometimes you need to re-open the Cookie Manager 4 or 5 times until all those cookies permanently have been removed you wanted to.
Another cookie issue is that I can't login to certain websites, for example to my Flickr account when "Accept only cookies from the site I visit" is set. Editing the Site Preferences doesn't change a thing. And it has been that way all throughout the Kestrel snapshots.
There's dozens of other things, like features you changed and where you didn't care about your loyal users to provide a fallback option to the previous behaviour, e.g. auto-centering of mouse cursor when using auto-scroll.
I'm deeply disappointed, seriously.
Don't get me wrong. You've done a lot of work over the past months, but Kestrel isn't ready for a release, simple as that. But obviously Opera Software ASA doesn't care about quality releases as much as I do.
webtax # Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:51:34 PM
hope you nail all the