Opera Desktop Team

Opera 9.6 Snapshot: Birthday Edition

We're making steady progress on Opera 9.6, fixing several of the issues reported within the last week. Please continue to test and report problems help us improve Opera. Thank you!

PS: Don't forget to wish Jon a Happy Birthday (that's "Gratulerer med dagen" in Norwegian). Five other employees had their birthdays today, too!

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
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  • Some feed previews load continuously and Opera crashes when closing a tab in this state
  • Some feed previews show as unstyled XML on initial load (reloading the tab fixes the problem)

Changelog
  • Fixed problem synchronizing with Opera Link on Windows and Mac. If you still get this problem, exit Opera and delete the file called link_queue_myopera.dat in the "Opera directory" listed in opera:about, then try again.
  • Fixed problem where follow/ignore missed some messages
  • Remember bookmark panel position after restart
  • When setting opera:config#TransferWindow|KeepEntriesDays to 0, actually remove transfer history when restarting
  • Load feed previews even when JavaScript is disabled
  • Don't show both GUID and LINK elements when viewing feed items in Opera Mail
  • Fixed crash when subscribing to feeds while Opera Mail is disabled

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First 9.60 Snapshot!9.60 beta 1 RC

Comments

Fleawin Friday, August 29, 2008 1:54:06 PM

Gratulerer med dagen (og med overstått til dere andre)!

Didn't expect a build today (despice the fact it is a Friday). Great

hhallian Friday, August 29, 2008 1:54:22 PM

thanks for the new build and from Mexico FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS

秦歌 Friday, August 29, 2008 1:54:25 PM

Happy Birthday, Jon

WOFall Friday, August 29, 2008 1:54:54 PM

Opera BE, i like it wink

zabcia1 Friday, August 29, 2008 1:56:33 PM

Wszystkiego najlepszego ;-)

Petko VasilevAlpha-Toxic Friday, August 29, 2008 1:56:47 PM

OK... let's see what you broke this time p
Oh, and happy birthday Jon smile

Dan Alexandrudantesoft Friday, August 29, 2008 1:59:47 PM

Five other employees had their birthdays today, too!

And countless Opera fans wink

Justasdrumblius Friday, August 29, 2008 2:01:25 PM

Hi5!

Andrew FrazierAndrewDFrazier Friday, August 29, 2008 2:07:41 PM

Display of mail subjects is still incorrect in a "list on the left, mail on the right" layout: the end of the title is cut instead of wrapping and I notice that the right-hand side of the mail is cut also. This is with the Opera window maximised on a 1440 x 900 monitor and the panel switched off.

It still annoys me that the Windows Media Player plugin is deleted during an upgrade. I have to keep a spare copy elsewhere on my machine to replace it.

mqt Friday, August 29, 2008 2:10:34 PM

Setting "opera:config#Speed Dial Search Type" to 0 does not remove the search box in this snapshot.

Jere Friday, August 29, 2008 2:11:56 PM

The Adobe Reader plugin still crashes Opera. I reported this a while before 9.50 was released, but I've lost the bug number. Are you going to fix the bug?

Also, connecting to some SSL-enabled sites (for example, those using CAcert) still takes ages.

These two bugs are a major impairment in usability. I find it frustrating that you let them through to the production releases of Opera 9.5...

FataL Friday, August 29, 2008 2:12:10 PM

Will Opera 9.6 provide some core fixes?

MisterE Friday, August 29, 2008 2:15:38 PM

Opera Link still doesn't work for me:
"Opera Link
SYNC_ERROR_PARSER
An error has occurred while parsing data from the Opera Link server"

WinXP Pro, Opera 9.60 b10414

Olihen Friday, August 29, 2008 2:17:05 PM

mqt: Confirmed

olli Friday, August 29, 2008 2:19:22 PM

FataL This one includes some core stability fixes (js crashers etc)

thobi Friday, August 29, 2008 2:20:44 PM

thx :-)

EricJH Friday, August 29, 2008 2:22:42 PM

Gratulerer med dagen to all Opera people who's birthday it is today.party

James Cassellelitegeek Friday, August 29, 2008 2:23:35 PM

I'm always happy to see a new build!

Also, Happy Birthday to those who have one today!

John BarnettJohn164 Friday, August 29, 2008 2:33:34 PM

Where dose the Followed Thread takes it information from ? I have marked a thread I wish to follow and some are marked and some are not.

ZelgadisArcanis1987 Friday, August 29, 2008 2:35:18 PM

Happy Birthday & Thanks for the new build! smile
However, I keep receiving Opera Link - Synchronization failed errors sad

nfredrik Friday, August 29, 2008 2:38:54 PM

When is this going to be fixed??
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=235960

When I select an adress thats a bit down in the adressbar-dropdown it is not moved to the top like it used to do in Opera 9.27.
This has been broken since some of the 9.50 betas.... and i really miss it!!!!

Lpapp Friday, August 29, 2008 2:47:51 PM

Yahhoo!
www.ntv.ru is fixed now!
thx!

lamarca lamarca Friday, August 29, 2008 2:58:55 PM

thanks for the new snashot

illiad Friday, August 29, 2008 3:05:02 PM

happy bith day, guys!! party

mqt: its not 0, its 'blank'... d/l ing......

PeterCub Friday, August 29, 2008 3:06:36 PM

In Polish: Wszystkiego Najlepszego, Jon.

Andresandresruiz Friday, August 29, 2008 3:12:36 PM

Happy Birthday Jon and those other Opera's employees, I really wish you a good day and a happy new year of your life.
Thanks a lot for your work making the best browser on earth.
"Gratulerer med dagen" in Norwegian
"Feliz Cumpleaños" in Spanish

LudvigKanel Friday, August 29, 2008 3:20:21 PM

Thanks up

SardorbekpROCKrammer Friday, August 29, 2008 3:28:10 PM

Happy Birthday, Jon

j0tt Friday, August 29, 2008 3:29:56 PM

Happy Birthday to Jon and the others!

But I still have one burning question:

When will we finally see a shared Qt 4 build?

The statically build ones just don't integrate too well and Qt 4 is installed on more and more systems anyway.

Thanks!

RicardoThe404notfound Friday, August 29, 2008 3:42:45 PM

Thanks !!!! and party Happy Birthday, Jon !!!!!!party

aspiroots Friday, August 29, 2008 3:42:54 PM

Cheers cheers

I've got a nice proposition idea

Opera is the "fastest browser on Earth" ?
So why not jump to the v9.69 in dedication to lightning Bolt ?
up

Martin RauscherHades32 Friday, August 29, 2008 3:43:57 PM

Gratulerer med dagen, Alles Gute zum Geburtstag, Happy Birthday, Jon!

Jere Friday, August 29, 2008 3:46:38 PM

Oops, I almost forgot about the most essential part of this post. Happy birthday. Now get your browser back in shape.

andrewzandrewz1986 Friday, August 29, 2008 3:58:09 PM

When I load a page with more flash videos, it finally works everytime. Great job, guys! And happy birthday from Czech Republic! cool

Ar1Pear1pe Friday, August 29, 2008 3:58:29 PM

cheers

andrewzandrewz1986 Friday, August 29, 2008 4:15:14 PM

mqt: "Setting "opera:config#Speed Dial Search Type" to 0 does not remove the search box in this snapshot."

Try to set this value to 5. It works on my configuration.

Benjaminlesinfox Friday, August 29, 2008 4:30:18 PM

Added custom search on CPU1, saw it on CPU2.
Deleted custom search on CPU1, still on CPU2.
Added custom search on CPU2, nothing on CPU1 :/

Martin RauscherHades32 Friday, August 29, 2008 4:32:12 PM

The scroll marker is a really cool feature, but in this build the time until the markes is set to the new position is far to short. The time in last build fast quite good.

Galileo Friday, August 29, 2008 4:34:12 PM

Well the "Speed Dial Search Type" had a problem in the previews snapshot http://opera.remcol.ath.cx/bugs/index.php?action=bug&id=606, but now "opera:config#Speed Dial Search Type" is unusable too.

Pittiplatschpittiplatsch Friday, August 29, 2008 4:46:59 PM

Gratulerer med dagen,Jon.party

Alles Gute zum Geburtstag,Jon.beer sing

thanks for the new snapshot up

darkrats Friday, August 29, 2008 4:51:13 PM

Maybe you could update the installation splashscreen? Still says 9.5.

Kyle Bakerkyleabaker Friday, August 29, 2008 5:00:15 PM

Nice work on the fixes! That was pretty quick!

AKAPanamaJack Friday, August 29, 2008 5:23:39 PM

There has been a problem with the WAND for a long time now and never seems to get addressed. Sigh...

If the page doesn't have text input tag along with the password tag it will ALWAYS ask if you want to save to Wand.

The next time you are on the page you can click on the wand button and it will enter the password as it should and submit the page BUT it will also ask if you want to save the password AGAIN. If there is a text input tag it will never do this.

<form action="admin.php" method="post">
<input type="password" name="admin_password" size="20" maxlength="20">
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

This form will ALWAYS cause Opera to ask if you want to save to Wand when you click on the Wand button even though it is already saved.

<form action="admin.php" method="post">
<input type="text" name="admin_name" size="20" maxlength="20">
<input type="password" name="admin_password" size="20" maxlength="20">
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

If you add the text input above this problem goes away. Once saved to wand it will never ask you to save it again.

It's like Opera gets confused if there isn't a text input tag and that causes it to ALWAYS ASK if you want to save to wand even though the data is already in wand and you have just used it.

You could have...

<form action="admin.php" method="post">
<select name="game_number">

</select>
<input type="password" name="admin_password" size="20" maxlength="20">
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

... a select tag and it will ALWAYS ask if you want to save to wand even through the data is saved and you just clicked on the wand.

As soon as you add a text input tag the problem goes away.

<form action="admin.php" method="post">
<select name="game_number">

</select>
<input type="text" name="admin_name" size="20" maxlength="20">
<input type="password" name="admin_password" size="20" maxlength="20">
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

Use the above and you are never asked to save after the data is saved to the Wand the first time but remove the text input tag and every time you use the Wand on that page it will ask if you want to save to wand.

John BarnettJohn164 Friday, August 29, 2008 5:25:17 PM

Can anyone left click and drag over text in email news groups or web pages to highlight the text to be able to copy that text ?

Because I can't all I get is my cursor changing from the normal arrow head to the move pointer as though I wanted to move the window.

Hope you can understand it's not the easiest thing to explain.

Windows Vista Home Premium + SP1

elyon Friday, August 29, 2008 5:34:31 PM

I noticed a minor little glitch in Windows XP x64. This seems to be a regression since 9.5.

If you switch to an application other than Opera, and drag its window over the top of Opera, the silver bar in the default opera skin does not redraw correctly.

Minimizing and restoring Opera fixes the problem.

MichaelYankY Friday, August 29, 2008 5:52:13 PM

Happy Birthday!

a feature which auto-sync's history-entries with more than X calls on the local computer would be nice

michael.opera Friday, August 29, 2008 6:12:40 PM

gelukkige verjaardag (Dutch for happy birthday).

This build, together with the first 9.60 build, is terrible on Ubuntu sad My Opera freezes like hell. Most of the time, it happens when loading a page and at the same time scolling down. Also several flash movieplayers are broken (even Youtube).

But, these are of course testbuild smile Let's hope the final build will have these problemes solved.

emagius Friday, August 29, 2008 6:48:15 PM

I'm having proxy authorization (NTLM?) problems with this build Opera 9.6 (Win32) that I didn't have with Opera 9.5.x. Every time I start Opera, the first time I attempt to visit any particular domain, I get an "Error! Network not available. Contact your system administrator" message. Reloading the page TWICE (the first reload hangs) fixes this for that domain for the rest of the browsing session.

I've tried this both with a 9.5.x profile and a clean installation.

Paulo G.P.paulogp Friday, August 29, 2008 7:08:47 PM

Can't open the following sites correctly:

http://www.filemaker.com/ (two lines menu)
http://coletaneadefilmes.blogspot.com/ (only header is loaded)

Some javascript animation bugs (when uploading files using a website built with Drupal the uploading progress bar is not showed and an javascript error appear)

http://www.rtp.pt/ (Flash animations keep coming to front when accessing to the menus)

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