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9.52 August Snapshot

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Coming back from a two week vacation just to find the office half empty because the others have gone on vacation is a bit boring, but at the same time it is very relaxing, giving me a slow start.... The boring part is that so little happens at work when people are on vacation. While I was expecting to make a small changelog this time, I didn't expect it to be this small. Anyway, give the build a spin, we're closing in on 9.52 final now.

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.

Changelog
  • Readded the Windows shell menu to the Transfer context menu
  • Fixed an issue with lists not displaying correctly when text rendering is RTL
  • Fixed opening of files in external applications when disk cache is off
  • Fixed issue with low quality on YouTube video previews
  • Fixed mail appearance when Opera is installed in a folder with a "#" character in its name
  • Fixed RealPlayer on BBC
  • Added work-arounds for problems with various POP servers
  • Fixed problem updating signature when switching accounts
  • Quite a few stability fixes



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Comments

Ferris 1. August 2008, 20:38

Congratulations this build is rocking. In my mind this is what the 9.5 release should have been.

Thanks Team Opera!!

Pierre 1. August 2008, 20:51

'Execute program' with keyboard shortcut doesn't work.


Can only confirm that button with Execute program action for single executable (without argument like %u) don't launch anything.
Example:
Execute program, "fscapture.exe" don't launch FastStone Capture program
but
Execute program, "fscapture.exe", "%u" is OK (yes... "%u" is usualy useless for this screen capture utility :D )

Colateral behaviour from "Fixed opening of files in external applications when disk cache is off" ?

Reported as bug-352257

Thanks/Merci for this new build (Cool to retreive "Windows shell menu for transfert items" :yes: ) !

Timothy Conner 1. August 2008, 20:53

I agree kylebaker, that is the best way. The shell menu is too cluttered for some items, but I do need it sometimes. I like how it can now be customized. It can be right in the main menu, or stuck in a sub-menu just like the default.

kyoya 1. August 2008, 21:07

ra_mon,
Thank you for the further infomation and reporting bugs :smile:

YeahRight 1. August 2008, 21:35

There's still a problem with the handling of Yahoo/Flickr cookies. See http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/73567/ for details.

lckobaya 1. August 2008, 22:37

My bug with multiple transfer tabs still not fixed!

bug-344807

The bug is:
You open Opera and makes a download. Opera opens a transfer tab.
Than you open a new window. In this new window at each download made Opera opens a new transfer tab (you end up with multiple transfer tabs).
If on the old window you close the transfer tab, than on the new tab Opera reuses the transfer tab properly (you have one transfer tab with multiples files).

Jens Christian Blix 2. August 2008, 00:14

This build breakes http://vg.no
Can someone confirm?
(Win Vista Ultimate 32-bit)

lucideer 2. August 2008, 01:17

@hermen2048, @secutor
Confirmed in Opera 9.51.10081 stable too. (x64 Win. Server '08)

However... t is 84
116 is F5

...so it must be an Opera bug outright.

Hugo Alvarado 2. August 2008, 02:29

Great!!! :yes:

Andrew Nguyen 2. August 2008, 03:40

@ No support for horizontal mouse scrolling.

Confirmed. Vista SP1, Synaptics Touchpad/ Logitech VX Rev. Wireless Mouse.

Marek 2. August 2008, 04:25

Ahem. It's now build 2084 on unix. Any good reason, why for the second weekly in a row there is no linux/ppc architecture? Did the programmer in charge of building on the PowerPc box go off to Crete? :smile: Or? Any hope for you making a nice debian package for gcc4/qt4 on the spot?... I'm stuck with 2065 here.

Kamalesh 2. August 2008, 05:22

Originally posted by Jensemann:

This build breakes http://www.vg.no


Seems fine here...anything specific breaking?
(Build 4906, OSX v10.5.4)

berend ytsma 2. August 2008, 07:20

@ No support for horizontal mouse scrolling.
Seems to work fine, after I enabled it!

Working in opensuse with opera-9.52-2084.gcc4-qt4

Le()niD 2. August 2008, 07:48

Yay!

Thanx for the windows shell menu!!!
You are the best guyz!

Le()niD 2. August 2008, 08:59

Had just one more wish
maybe it would be better if you move that explorer menu under the Open menu

So the menu should look like

======================================
Open
Open with..
Open folder
Additional (with explorer menu in it)
======================================

instead of it now come in first place above "open" :smile:

Thank you

Edward 2. August 2008, 09:48

You guys are the dogs ********! :cheers:

Martin Tang 2. August 2008, 10:12

The new transfer menu is great. It is only loaded on request.

Is there any chance that more options will be added to the default menu for highlighted linked text?
Say,

copy
copy to note
speak
------------
search
search with
dictionary
encyclopedia
------------
open in new window
------------
bookmark link
copy link address
save linked content as
save to download folder
------------
go to web address
send by mail

cool32 2. August 2008, 11:21

Big thanks for new build.
Very much assembly Opera like, but very much interests, when pictures on web pages will be normally displayed (qualitatively, instead of is washed away:eyes: )?

Charlie Clark 2. August 2008, 11:41

@Toman

Fixed problem updating signature when switching accounts


Nope, still a problem. Junyor's got my sample signatures.

element119 2. August 2008, 14:07

opera tray icon is a mail icon.
vista x64

spymac 2. August 2008, 14:09

Opera not work on this page: http://amapy.atlas.cz (maps, like as google maps). Please fix it, thank You.

hobe 2. August 2008, 15:25

@element119: this happens when you get new mail or a new newsfeed entry.

FataL 2. August 2008, 15:29

I would recommend to move Advanced context menu item lower -- just after Open, Open With and Open Folder.

juksu 2. August 2008, 16:05

Had just one more wish
maybe it would be better if you move that explorer menu under the Open menu

So the menu should look like

======================================
Open
Open with..
Open foloder
Additional (with explorer menu in it)
======================================

instead of it now come in first place above "open"

Thank you


You can edit standard_menu.ini and change "Platform Windows, Submenu, D_NEW_PREFERENCES_ADVANCED, Internal Shell" place to lower like this.

[Transfers Item Popup Menu]
(This is normal place)
Platform Windows, --------------------1
Item, M_TRANSFERS_NOTIFY_POPUP_MENU_OPEN= Open transfer
Submenu, M_OPEN_WITH, Open in menu
Item, M_TRANSFERS_NOTIFY_POPUP_MENU_OPEN_FOLDER= Open transfer folder
--------------------2
Item, SI_IDM_TRANSFER_RESUME= Resume transfer | Restart transfer, , , M_TRANSFER_ITEM_POPUP_MENU_RESTART_TRANSF
Item, SI_IDM_TRANSFER_STOP= Stop transfer
--------------------3
Item, M_TRANSFER_ITEM_POPUP_MENU_REMOVE_TRANSF= Delete
Item, M_REMOVE_ALL_FINISHED_TRANSFERS= Remove all finished transfers
--------------------4
Item, SI_IDSTR_TRANSWIN_MENU_COPYTEXTINFO= Copy transfer info
--------------------5
Platform Windows, Submenu, D_NEW_PREFERENCES_ADVANCED, Internal Shell

Jens Christian Blix 2. August 2008, 17:14

@kamalesh ... It seems to be fine again.. It was some CSS positioning matters. Left menu expanded in size. Main content under the menu. Images was overwritten with text.. but as I said.. it is fine now.

xzytozidx 2. August 2008, 20:48

what exactly does "Added work-arounds for problems with various POP servers" mean?
cause build 9903 was the last that worked for me with checking for new mails.
every later build (incl this new one) keeps "synchronizing" when opera should download new mails.

my mail provider is t-online.de

anyone with the same experience?


I noticed that log-files created with 9903 and later builds are quite different.

maybe someone can help me..

satshow 2. August 2008, 21:33

I have the same here with chello here. It's during a few minutes when I see the mails from chello.
I see also synchronizing here.
Al the other 9 accounts works fine.

galanga 2. August 2008, 21:36

File => Session => Save Session... => "Only save active window" checkbox label is not localized in French.

RainyShadow 3. August 2008, 00:36

Readded the Windows shell menu to the Transfer context menu


Big thanks !:yes:

One issue to report though: Opera causes 100% CPU usage when toggling fullscreen on a window with several open (maximized) tabs. A new window with a single tab open works fine (even with a multi-tabbed window in the background).
Same issue on the last few builds, but noticed it just recently.

sebt 3. August 2008, 00:47

Thanks for the build.

http://www.crucial.com/uk

(Under Linux) Pull down "select Mfgr" combo freezes Opera (and KDE) under linux when Mask as Internet Explorer is NOT selected as a site pref (ie. Identify as Opera or Mask as Firefox).

Can only kill opera from a tty which restores KDE UI.

Confirm?

Seb :smile:

Kamalesh 3. August 2008, 01:26

Originally posted by sebt:

http://www.crucial.com/uk
(Under Linux) Pull down "select Mfgr" combo freezes Opera


No problems here.
(Build 4906, OSX v10.5.4)

Kamalesh 3. August 2008, 01:51

When using Gmail2 over HTTPS, I've noticed in this build and last that the yellow badge in the address bar goes away after a while (when I leave the tab open).

It still shows as HTTPS, so what's happening when Gmail2 refreshes itself...? Not sure if this is related to their new feature to force HTTPS sessions, which I have turned ON? :confused:

Any ideas? (Build 4906, OSX v10.5.4)

tisme 3. August 2008, 05:29

the "site preferences cookies setting" problem :
- If "Global cookies setting is set to "block all cookies"
- go to a site for which you never enabled cookies before,
- open the site preferences dialog (right-click), go to "Cookies" Tab, it is on "block cookies" set to accept cookies
- close the dialog.

The cookies are not enabled. If you re-open the same site preferences dialog (right-click), on the "Cookies Tab" is still on "block cookies".
This means that the dialog code is broken (don't take in account the changes) or that the writing of the new site preferences setting fails.

This is very annoying, because if I use Opera it is because of its privacy and security features, and this bug force me to enable cookies for all sites.


confirming. extremely annoying.

Michael A. Puls II 3. August 2008, 06:18

@tisme

Please give me an actual site example of the Site preference cookie problem.

Thanks

Yamaneko 3. August 2008, 06:37

Any ideas why browsing at Deviantart not work? It just keep "loading"...
http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/2253/clipboard01ll7.png

berend ytsma 3. August 2008, 06:49

Deviantart seems to work fine, but Iam not logged in, that could be the diverence

Yamaneko 3. August 2008, 07:04

Not here. I have updated browser.js like recommended elsewhere, no luck.
Here is video where I hit F5 to reload, thumbnails just flashed and then it stuck with that loading thing.

http://neko.1g.fi/temp/deviantart_with_opera/

Edit: If I disable javascript, browsing works.

berend ytsma 3. August 2008, 07:26

Try to disable the content blocker and see if that helps

Yamaneko 3. August 2008, 08:58

Try to disable the content blocker and see if that helps


It did, but I do not have any deviantart addresses in my urlfilter.ini. Any idea how to edit urlfilter.ini so deviantart will work?

berend ytsma 3. August 2008, 09:17

It's probably something from google ads that is causing the problem or it's the same issue that has been causing gmail not to work with some people. basically I just don't know

Maybe the following forum post can help you out there
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=242551

Yamaneko 3. August 2008, 09:30

Thank you. That 'Find useless filters' was quite nice, while it not helped my deviantart -problem, it removed useless filters :smile:

Well, I edited site preferences for deviantart and I disabled javascript.

James 3. August 2008, 11:15

I don't want this to be out of place, but I'd love to see some updated systemtray icons. The current are a little ugly next to update-notifier and skype :/

iliiad NTRVN 3. August 2008, 11:15

Readded the Windows shell menu to the Transfer context menu



:hat: :cheers: :yes:

tisme 3. August 2008, 13:49

2burnout:
please see the original comment by galanga earlier in this thread. it contains multiple links to the user fora with examples provided.

also, when I click on a download link in this post it opens up a blank tab. isn't it, I don't know, a little bit quaint in 2008?

Francisco Herrera 3. August 2008, 16:21

Real player in bbc working fine...:D

BUT

in Amazon.com "listen to samples" in any cd page i get awww

You do not seem to have the RealPlayer plug-in installed, which is required to listen to these album samples. See our Help Department for more information


You can check here

http://www.amazon.com/Encanto-Sergio-Mendes/dp/B0012RLWSY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1217780753&sr=1-1

EricJH 3. August 2008, 17:40

Is working here. Try cleaning cache and cookies and restart Opera. Also temporarily disable userjs scripts when using them.

abramrosa 3. August 2008, 19:09

Windows Media Player plugin works again. Thanks.

Yagotta B. Kidding 3. August 2008, 19:31

MOOSE ?

.

A behaviour which is maybe not a straightforward bug, but annoying as hell:

- DL a webpage, render it
- Highlight a string (word, aso.)
- Get the context menu (right mouse)
- Travel to "Search", klick it (left mouse)
...N O T H I N G, just bloody nothing, no action, nil.

But if you go one back and do this...
- Travel to "Search With" and highlight it
- Then travel the mouse pointer to your engine
- Highlight your search engine of choice and then click it (left mouse)
...H E Y , P R E S T O !
Your search works!

I am using menus by LiteraryMoose '2559.ini' moderately altered to reflect my own preferences, yet not changed far. The framework of functions set up by the Marvellous Moose of Opera Fame and Lofoten Pedigree (greetz!) is still there.

Here is where the bug kicks in.

In the _former_ versions of Opera you could log in your favourite search engine, and then conveniently use the shortcut to it (click "Search", and you are done). Only for fancy searching was it necessary to dig deeper into the menu structure.

Yet _nowadays_ you have to select all the way up to the (same, and same, and same) search engine, every time again and again. This is a freaking nuissance.

Maybe someone can help me to get the the function of logging in the default search webpage back.

Opera Developers: what's happened to Moose the Great? For quite a time haven't heard from him -- maybe one of you wizards can look at his work and update it to 9.52? Make it ready for 10.0? I deem the work worth it.

Thanx in advance!

Yours truly,
YBK

.

Cryptobionika 3. August 2008, 20:32

Jeez, devs, what are you doing with Opera? Internet Download Accelerator (downloader) no longer integrates in Opera, CCleaner no longer cleans it...
From version 9.27 up to version 9.52 you seem to have successfully ruined much of the plugin support, which makes using Opera 9.52 really questionable.
I've no idea when developers of the programs I've mentioned are gonna add support for the new version of Opera, so I'd say you should to optimize the compatibility. I've no idea why did you have to change it so much though...

Anyway, for now the only fair option is to get back to Opera 9.27. Sad.

P.S. On the new Opera skin, bigger tab closing buttons (X) would be really great, so I wouldn't have to aim so precisely.

P.P.S. Dropdown menu on www.ironmaiden.com still doesn't work as it should.

otzi 3. August 2008, 20:40

there are still problems with zooming maps in java for example http://mapy.atlas.sk it will crash on very high details

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