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9.5 is available

By Huib Kleinhouthuibk. Thursday, June 12, 2008 10:50:06 AM

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After lots of late night testing and bug fixing, 9.5 was released today. party
We would like to share some fun facts with you:
  • Opera is now available in 29 languages, 6 more than in 9.27 and more are coming
  • The number of Opera users has more than doubled since the release of 9.0
  • We fixed a new record of bugs, including 2350 showstoppers
  • The desktop team ate 12 pizzas while fixing bugs in 9.5 RC chef
  • IMAP is up to 4 times as fast in 9.5 than in 9.2
  • Almost 500.000 of you were already using betas of 9.5

Opera 9.5 is now available on www.opera.com/download
Enjoy!

The desktop team

Opera 9.5 RC - Prepare for launchTowards 9.51

Comments

masterofopera Wednesday, June 18, 2008 1:42:46 AM

@ andresruiz


I've a site problem on Apple.com
I tried to watch the WWDC Keynote on http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/0806wdt546x/event/index.html
But, the buttons doesn't work, in fact, as I right-click on them...they're just images but doesn't work as buttons and doesn't start QuickTime Player.
I tested on IE7, Firefox 3.0 (final) and Safari...It worked great on all of them, why Opera can´t?

By andresruiz, # 17. June 2008, 22:07:48



Confirmed, the gray buttons belog to the Quicktime-Plugin (tested
with Firefox, but ican not run videos, i only get a sand-clock for
a half second -> possibly reason: my security software)
-> Right-click at the gray buttons (in Firefox) and you see following:
"about Quicktime plugin " and "[pro] save as Quicktime film"
-> translated from German version.

I think it is an opera bug, it could be a javascript-problem.

A part from webpage Source code:
alt="Please turn on javascript. Movies require javascript to play." width="700" height="70" border="0">

opera 9.50 does NOTHING, Opera 9.27 Shows a hand ( -> link) only.

This links are taken from Source-code:

To watch the HD-Video, enter this:
http://stream.qtv.apple.com/events/jun/0806wdt546x/m_080690210abcn_1200_ref.mov

To watch the normal Video, enter this:
http://stream.qtv.apple.com/events/jun/0806wdt546x/m_080690210abcn_650_ref.mov

A part from webpage Source code:
alt="Please turn on javascript. Movies require javascript to play." width="700" height="70" border="0">

Obike Wednesday, June 18, 2008 4:53:20 AM

Is your flash not working and looking something like this?

http://i27.tinypic.com/2gudw2g.jpg

Here's the fix!!! First of all, make sure you have Adobe Flash Player installed.

1) Open the Preferences dialog. To do this click Tools and then Preferences (or hit Ctrl+F12).

2) Go to the Advanced tab.

3) Select Downloads on the left-hand side.

4) Un-check the checkbox that says "Hide file types opened with Opera"

5) Search for application/x-shockwave-flash under MIME Types.

6) Select application/x-shockwave-flash (extension should be SWF) and click the Edit button.

7) Make sure that the "Use plug-in" radio box is selected, if not select it and make sure the drop-down box says "Adobe Flash Player".

8) Click on OK in the MIME Type dialog box, and click on OK to save changes to preferences.

Enjoy your favorite flash site!

Tomasz Urbanowicztomurbanowicz Wednesday, June 18, 2008 6:09:43 AM

1. Why the RSS is notified like the email?
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/1008/kopertaxj2.jpg

2. The contrast active tab is not good:
http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/3875/kartyyn3.jpg

3. There is no confirmation of sent mail by IMAP.

Pinha24pinhaomega24 Wednesday, June 18, 2008 7:24:49 AM

:up:good that you mentioned that, HerwigF
EXACTLY GUYS!!!!!!!!!
all the godammit softwares have problems, bugs, etc smile
so, don't be so mad and things like that..
please, BE GRATEFUL with OPERA...
i just tried firefox 3,... does'nt like-it..
so much memory consumed for it p god!

THANK YOU OPERA TEAM & EVERYONE ELSE!
great release, looking forward 4 bug-fixing
i wiil keep supporting you, at least sendind bugs
and greetings ^^

see ya'z..!

bigsmile up

johnnysaucepn Wednesday, June 18, 2008 8:32:18 AM

The Apple WWDC Keynote bug is related to the browser sniffing - for some reason the browser detection object isn't being initialised correctly, or possibly is being initialised after it's attempted to be used, not sure which. It's throwing a null object error, which halts the movie-loading script.

As for the complaints that Opera released 9.5 too fast, I think it would be interesting to go back through the other major releases and see what people commented then - if I recall correctly, the 'there are still bugs' calls are present every time!

Kyle Bakerkyleabaker Wednesday, June 18, 2008 9:28:07 AM

Of course Opera, FF3 and other software gets released with bugs. I don't think that anyone questions that at all. One of the leading causes for people, including myself, feeling that Opera 9.5 was released too fast is the fact that RC1 was release and used for 2 days before a surprise final release. Whether or not an RC gets more fixes before it becomes final is not the point either. My point is that the RC was almost pointless and a lot of people don't see what the rush was for the final..other than to beat the FF3 final release.

petersayce Wednesday, June 18, 2008 10:05:52 AM

I am new to Opera. Sorry to sound ignorant, but what does RC actualy stand for/mean?

I agree that all software has bugs. But Opera as it stands is unhelpfull for the average mass user like me, ie, very slow and sometimes crashes when using Yahoo email, not able to use Hotmail and googlemail works ok but certain functions, like label colours and 'earlier' verrsion of googlemail are missing. This is why I dowm loaded FF3 last night. No probs in these areas. And yes, I have made numerouse bug reports to Opera. The danger for Opera, is that if it cannot satisfy the mass user, who simply surfes and uses webmail, they are in danger of losing a lot of friends. I for one will persist with Opera as it has many advantages. FF3 will become my Opera's understudy, I want to get away from BG.

Talking of advantages, Opera press releases go on about 'Opera Link', syncing your desk top and mobile. Great. However, I do not always have my devices to hand, so I pop into a cyber cafe and log on to 'myOpera' and can use my synchronised book marks. It was this facility which made me look at Opera for the first time and Opera should sing its virtues - not everyone will make the connection...!

ei4ia Wednesday, June 18, 2008 11:03:21 AM

Growing trash. Yeah - mail 'trash' folder. Option 'Empty Trash' works partially, so bad. Do something please. And give us back 'detach tab' option.

Mikhail Zaytsevmihmanz Wednesday, June 18, 2008 11:28:34 AM

One good thing about new skin is that it impulsed people to create new various skins while the others first time in their lives browsed thoroughly through alternative skins to replace unsatisfactory default one.

stivo85 Wednesday, June 18, 2008 11:31:30 AM

When I log in to my netvibes.com page Opera crashes, and send me an error:
http://i31.tinypic.com/2zodmdx.jpg
:/

MakoCSH Wednesday, June 18, 2008 12:10:16 PM

I used to be an Opera fanboy, but this version doesn't work. Literally, I type a website address and it either just sits there or gives me the "enter proxy password" dialog over and over again. Been doing this since RC1 (the betas worked fine). Firefox and IE work great. Now I'm a Firefox 3 fanboy.

Opera, I so wanted to love you...

kirk fontaine Wednesday, June 18, 2008 1:15:53 PM

I am satisfied with the final version for many reasons on many levels I did test the new firefox 3 and was not at all satisfied. The memory usage between the two browsers was significant -Opera winning hands down (FF Memory footprint up to 80 mb with 4 add-ons , Opera with one widget present that I don't use all the time- Memory footprint -up to 40mbs presently as I write -I have three tabs open also hmm.... seems the proof is in the pudding . And I have fast connection(wireless connection) on a slow computer ( 240 mb Ram , Windows XP sp 3 RC ) Most of the addons that FF has or can be added are already added in the final opera browser. Yes I am happy but I know each version has bugs but the aggravation factor is less here with Opera vs. dealing with FF and its memory issues at this time. I know that there are always going to be browser wars-that is the nature of the game happy

surfer dude Wednesday, June 18, 2008 2:02:18 PM

Opera 9.5 crashes on Solaris Sparc when using the latest Solaris Sparc Flash plugin. It works fine with the Flash 7 plugin, but many websites do not work with Flash 7.

Joey WaghWajo357 Wednesday, June 18, 2008 2:08:17 PM

the fullscreen mode on CBS online shows does not work:
http://www.cbs.com/classics/star_trek/video/video.php?cid=649539296&pid=azYwOSn2cLeWwNAHTupsW_cmTKhWFF_T&play=true&cc=1

MyOpera team, please fix this!fearphage Wednesday, June 18, 2008 2:10:33 PM

Originally posted by petersayce:

I am new to Opera. Sorry to sound ignorant, but what does RC actualy stand for/mean?

RC stands for release candidate. It is saying the beta is over and we a re recommending this release be the final basically.

Originally posted by stivo85:

When I log in to my netvibes.com page Opera crashes, and send me an error:

I can't confirm. I'm using netvibes right now and they even fixed an Opera bug. (before)

surfer dude Wednesday, June 18, 2008 2:14:15 PM

Actually, it crashes in general for Solaris Sparc. For example, this page causes a crash: http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/06/17/25TC-firefox_1.html
It has a Flash advertisement, but the page loads fine on Opera 9.27.

stivo85 Wednesday, June 18, 2008 3:20:01 PM

fearphage, so maybe you have more luck than me.. This error starts annoying me a few (maybe 2 or 3) days ago, before it was all OK.. And now it isn't..

sacud Wednesday, June 18, 2008 4:01:25 PM

@theoddbod:
of course, please:
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/9021/opera95notworkingrightcya1.th.jpg -

I can't use right click menu in input box's in form on websites, it don't want to show. This screnshot showing this bug/error(click for full size image).

It not working on all pages. I also using WinXP SP3.

Regards,
Peter

herrblaschke Wednesday, June 18, 2008 4:10:35 PM

Its time for my first comment:

current opera 9.5 release hangs quite regularly. When clicking on links, on average 1 of 5 clicks, it lasts for ages (>>15secs) until opera responds again. Nothing noticeable in cpu usage, stays low.

system:
fedora 9, opera 9.5 build 2042

please fix soon!

sacud Wednesday, June 18, 2008 4:27:24 PM

I found second bug/error in Opera 9.5:

http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/7069/opera95crashemailclientxs7.th.jpg -

When i click button in Opera e-mail client, this browser crash.
The same effect all the time when i want to click this button.

All details you have on screenshot.

Regards,
Peter

stivo85 Wednesday, June 18, 2008 4:44:56 PM

Similar error shows in RSS channels reading.

Hermenhermen2048 Wednesday, June 18, 2008 4:47:19 PM

sacud: I don't see any such crashes here. Please log the crash and file a bug report.

Andresandresruiz Wednesday, June 18, 2008 4:53:47 PM

@masterofopera and
@johnnysaucepn
Thanks for your reply

I forgot to mention that I had that problem since 9.2x. Now I've found other issue, I visited the Nokia Site for Colombia and the sited asked me to take a short survey, so I clicked "ok"...then Opera oppened a download dialog asking me what to do with a file called: "scywebMT.dll" ... so I oppened the same window with Safari and it loaded the Survey, so my question is: Why an standars compilant browser as Safari can handle those kind of things and Opera's latest flagship can't ?

otzi Wednesday, June 18, 2008 5:23:51 PM

Why opera doesnt support javascript 1.8 like FF. Do something with it please

MyOpera team, please fix this!fearphage Wednesday, June 18, 2008 5:54:36 PM

Originally posted by otzi:

Why opera doesnt support javascript 1.8 like FF.

We are all waiting for the upgrade from 1.5.

@stivo85: I can't read that error but is opera crashing?

Delerue Wednesday, June 18, 2008 6:03:24 PM

A little useful request: double click (or single click with CTRL) select one word in the adress bar. It's useful to edit the adress; Firefox, for example, can do it. wink

SilasTheRockSays Wednesday, June 18, 2008 6:13:06 PM

Dell.com drivers page doesn't work properly. Has never worked with Opera. Here is the link -

http://supportapj.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=in&l=en&s=gen&ServiceTag=&SystemID=INS_PNT_PM_1720&os=WLH&osl=en&catid=&impid=

Try opening any, errrr, plus sign, like for example, Applications. Nothing happens.

Jonspencerbxjonspencerbx Wednesday, June 18, 2008 7:11:35 PM

@the rock says: Identifying as firefox fixes the problem. Classic example of browser sniffing from Dells side.

M.

Eddarksurfer Wednesday, June 18, 2008 7:46:41 PM

Why doesn't the panel close "x" button not work. I've inquired at the forms and this problem with with earlier 9.50 betas and alphas.

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=236204

I know this may seem like a minor irritant but it just doesn't make sense.

I like Opera but this bothers me.

FFall Wednesday, June 18, 2008 8:47:29 PM

Hmm, as I said before; i think Opera 9.5 was released a bit too fast...

Anyway, I installed FF 3 and even after several restrats of my PC it just won't launch ;-)

Kyle Bakerkyleabaker Wednesday, June 18, 2008 9:37:14 PM

@darksurfer
I think Mitchman explained it in IRC as having to do with the wrong button being used. There should aparently be a different close button there. You might try removing it and inserting the "x" button in the customize->buttons->panel window. However, the panel close "x" button works perfectly fine for me with the Unix build.

MyOpera team, please fix this!fearphage Wednesday, June 18, 2008 9:49:41 PM

Originally posted by kyleabaker:

You might try removing it and inserting the "x" button in the customize->buttons->panel window.

This is what I did and it worked like a charm.

abanabanana Wednesday, June 18, 2008 9:57:28 PM

Hello! I installed OPERA 9.5 this morning. Its impossible to work with it. Opera is using 50% of my COU resources and 300Mb of my Memory without one single page opened. If I use Opera to surf, it will use almost 100% of the CPU and fill up my memory up to 600Mb.

I really like Opera, but with this problematic I'll have to change to firefox for a while!!!

Cheers

Pinha24pinhaomega24 Wednesday, June 18, 2008 11:37:15 PM

photobucket.com - can't upload a image from my PC
(doesn't appear a dialog box to choose the image)

can anyone please tell me if this a opera bug?

WINXP SP3 - opera 9.5

Delerue Thursday, June 19, 2008 1:01:44 AM

@pinhaomega24: Photobucked was hacked last night. Let's wait until everything back to the normal. wink

papasmurfrock Thursday, June 19, 2008 2:39:24 AM

facebook still does not work for me and it works fine in build 4865. strange.

papasmurfrock Thursday, June 19, 2008 2:53:09 AM

ok, i just took a file called urlfilter.ini out of my preferences folder for opera and it's working. however, i'm a litte afraid that i may need that file for something.

can someone tell me if i will need it?

Anilcranil7 Thursday, June 19, 2008 3:17:15 AM

I have been using Opera since 4.x versions and Iam NOT HAPPY with this release. I dont understand why you guys rushed into releasing it so fast?? (Before FF??)

I have two major bugs!!!

1. If you are using proxy and trying to load https page, try stopping it. The browser CRAShes!! It can be reproduced easily!! Out of 20 times I tried, it crahed on 16 occasions!!!

2. There seems to GIF corruption bug and makes display go wild. For some reason, it stats giving blurred pictures and thens just STOPS

Guys, can somebody try and confirm??

Jaime Martínez-Figueroapeewack Thursday, June 19, 2008 4:00:47 AM

Thanks for the update, it's really fast and the new default skin (while bigger) is prettier, I have an only complain thou: almost all of the rich text editors aren't working with this release, please please please fix this issue, I have just reinstalled Opera 3 or 4 times thinking that was my mistake for playing arround with my prefs.

ayespy Thursday, June 19, 2008 4:23:16 AM

@ papasmurfrock:

Pretty sure that's where Opera stores your content blocking. Any content you block can mess up a site at some point.

If you remove the file, you no longer block any content, and sites work again.

FataL Thursday, June 19, 2008 4:46:42 AM

Originally posted by soulcheck:

Well, apart from bugs which all ppl are commenting on here (and i don't care about that much) there are some changes in UI which are total nonsence.

For example, who had idea of removing "new tab button"? Obviously now we have new tab button right to the last tab, which is less comfortable, as it moves with new open tabs. It was a shitty idea in IE and now it's a shitty idea in Opera.

What happened to the mail panel opened with a click on the left border of the browser? That was best opera ui feature it had and now it's gone, replaced with a button (which should be "new tab" obviously).

You shouldn't change things that worked great for years, and I bet this change will push users to use firefox (wich starts looking like previous operas). It's the same mistake microsoft made when changing ui in vista. It made easier to people to move to linux, which resembled xp more.

Sorry for citing too much, but very well said. Fully agree with you!
I know that panel toggler can be turned on again in options, but this will not work for most unexperienced users that previously have used Opera.
I also would add here detach tab, transfers context menu, and unability to normally use external editors.
Usability regressions are much worse than CSS bugs from user's perspective.

Yamaneko Thursday, June 19, 2008 5:34:59 AM

Any news about new weeklie/alpha/beta/whatever?

stivo85 Thursday, June 19, 2008 5:43:13 AM

fearphage, it's allways the same:
The instruction at "0x67ac93f0" refers to memory at "0x00000000". The memory can not be "written"
And after clicking OK Opera just close..

Pinha24pinhaomega24 Thursday, June 19, 2008 5:46:54 AM

@ papasmurfrock:

if you don't want to lost your blocked content
maybe you want to delete certain blocked content
on a web , is pretty easy:

right click on the web->block content...-> in the menu prees the "details..." button.

a windows pop-up & show the blocked things in the page, just delete those
and ready...

but if you already delete the *.ini file, download other..

i use this: http://fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/urlfilter.ini

is a good one.

pd: bad spelling?.. don't blame.. "Chilean guy trying english!"bigsmile


ONE THING! : You have to "mask" Opera (with FF or IE) to use the complete Windows Live Hotmail version?¿?


see ya'z!

rseiler Thursday, June 19, 2008 6:47:44 AM

Interesting:
opera:config#Extensions|DelayedScriptExecution

It defaults to off now. This is the command often cited when people had the problem were pages weren't quite finishing loading.

Did this actually change with the May 28th build?
"Fixed an issue with pages that never finished loading"

If so, isn't that more a workaround than a fix?

Definition: "Primarily for low bandwidth devices, not well-tested on desktop. Ignore script tags until entire document is parsed and rendered, then execute all scripts in order and re-render."

animeshaga Thursday, June 19, 2008 7:16:48 AM

did you guys get any cake from microsoft???

rasenbaer Thursday, June 19, 2008 7:44:34 AM

Having mixed feelings about this release.

Automatic proxy configuration using a proxy.pac no longer works (tested under Solaris and OSX) which did fine under opera 9.27 and still does with firefox.

In OSX (and Solaris) gain of speed is visible, but ff3 is running even smoother.

Still having crashes when choosing the opera dialog in the print menu in 10.4.11 (since forever it seems, only on user tested; no idea where to look; was working when trying as root...) but overall stability is no problem so far.

Import of client certificate no longer working. Not sure if this is a problem of the used encryption as described in some forum comments. I have to use the old 9.27 file to get it running. Or firefox...

Links seem to expire faster then before? tried to change it in opera:config
but after one or two days all new and shiny. Will monitor this, maybe I messed up with something.

Still can't get used to the new paste-and-go shortcut. I liked the old Ctrl(CMD)+B.
Can this be customised?

I like the skin. It's a bit dark though. But skins can be changed...

Hope we seen some updates soon, still like it.

Mikhail Zaytsevmihmanz Thursday, June 19, 2008 8:10:51 AM

I just want to apologize, Opera developers! I downloaded FF3 today (Portable version, not from official site and of course NOT during FF3 Record Download Day). Oh my God, what a shit it is, it was and it will (probably). Mozilla lives in prehistoric times of internet browsers. Yes, FF3 is the best available FF, yes, it is quite less buggy (but not without them), yes, it is much more stable, it's better than ever, but it is shit, typical american shit like IE. Opera with its worst final release ever is simply the best internet browser and it brings simply the best internet experience. Today FF is simply not enough to browse the net. And even with its add-ons (which is pretty shitty, and worse in quality than FF itself) FF is bad and unsufficient. How can Americans blind the minds of the millions with traditionally shitty american products, I just can't get it.

MadGhigno Thursday, June 19, 2008 8:32:04 AM

I don't think FF is the evil, I still prefer Opera to FF but without doubt I can tell that Opera was wrong to release the 9.50 near the FF's download day. It seems to me that Opera don't want to increase in browser users. No advertising no banners around the net . . . sincerely I don't understand why . .

Advertising a part I don't see anything in this release that I was missing in 9.27 . .

Reagrds

PGPG Thursday, June 19, 2008 10:34:52 AM

Hello! Final release!? Unbelievable since Opera 9.50 and builds still have problems with Java. I'm back to Opera 9.27...



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