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A New Snapshot and My First Post Here

By Øyvind ØstlundNoteMe. Friday, September 12, 2008 3:41:00 PM

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Hello, my name is Øyvind and this is my first post here since I joined the Opera's Desktop Team less than two months ago. It has been a busy time for me, but at the same time, I think it was the perfect time for me to join. I have already witnessed the release of 9.52, and we are getting close to releasing 9.6.

Before I started, I was just a MyOpera member roaming the #weekly IRC channel. Fridays were always a highlight. That's when I got the answer to all my questions. Did someone fix my bugs? Were there any new features enabled? When is the next version due? Now when I am on the inside I get to know all this information every day I go to work. And the best of all, I can now fix bugs myself, as well as play and contribute new functionality for the next release. So now I get to have fun every day. What more can I ask for?

Today we have formally EV-enabled Verisign and Comodo in Opera v9.5 and later, which you can read more about in Yngve's blog post. So go and try out our new snapshot, and have a lovely weekend.

- ØØ -

WARNING: This is a development snapshots: it contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all.

Known Issue
  • Dragonfly is a bit unstable

Changelog
  • Special characters are now displayed properly in the Address bar drop-down
  • Sorting by progress in Transfers now works
  • Cache files from feeds no longer show up in Transfers
  • Speed Dial thumbnails no longer disappear when deleting private data
  • Page encoding in site preferences can now be reset to automatic
  • Dragonfly element highlighting no longer stays on the page after closing the developer tools window
  • Browsing Intranet sites now works after changing proxies in a running session

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Comments

Tamil Friday, September 12, 2008 3:43:53 PM

Originally posted by NoteMe:

I joined the Opera desktopteam less than two months ago.

Congratulations!

Originally posted by NoteMe:

Newsfeed cache files from certain feeds no longer show up in transfers
Speeddial thumbnails no longer disappear when deleting private data

up

healer Friday, September 12, 2008 3:50:40 PM

thanks, downloading bigsmile

sebt Friday, September 12, 2008 3:52:09 PM

Luvverly bigsmile

LudvigKanel Friday, September 12, 2008 3:52:31 PM

Thanks up

svein skjøtskiftsveins Friday, September 12, 2008 3:53:48 PM

Friday afternoon, and a new Opera version appears just in time for coffee! Congratulations to the newcomer.
S

goh choon yoongcygoh Friday, September 12, 2008 3:54:24 PM

Thanks up downloading bigsmile

Ar1Pear1pe Friday, September 12, 2008 4:03:43 PM

Thanks bigsmile

Exolon Friday, September 12, 2008 4:09:03 PM

Crashed in GMail within 2 minutes, when I tried to refresh in my inbox when it got stuck with "Loading..." displayed at the top.
Reported many builds ago, no responses, no fix down

wirusek Friday, September 12, 2008 4:09:34 PM

Thanks for the new build cheers

sebt Friday, September 12, 2008 4:12:37 PM

New mail behaviour allowing to download full mail body ("This message is incomplete but can be fetched the next time you check and receive mail") seems to be broken when "Leave messags on server" is checked.

Even if I click Fetch Complete Message, the above banner remains with "This message will be fetched the next time you check and receive mail" displayed in the mail body, with the "Fetch" button greyed. Then, clicking Check/Send, the original "This message is incomplete but can be fetched the next time you check and receive mail" reappears, with the button pressable again (ie. not greyed out).

This cycle seems to be unbreakable while "Leave messages on server" is checked.

Should I file a bug report or is this known?

Seb smile

Miladin MiladinoskiEagleMKD Friday, September 12, 2008 4:14:23 PM

Where the hell are the QT4 .deb builds??

BTW, thanks for the latest weekly, and I hope you'll have great time with Opera software dude. bigsmile

Fabio Palliniflitz Friday, September 12, 2008 4:15:01 PM

Linux GCC4 QT4 .deb not ready yet. ;-(

Tim AltmanJunyor Friday, September 12, 2008 4:21:21 PM

@Exolon: Bug number?

@sebt: Yes, please.

Exolon Friday, September 12, 2008 4:23:34 PM

@Junyor: 360259

Someone else asked whether this is on a clean install - it's not... so I might delete my profile and try again if it's the case that old profiles can cause problems.

celiochido Friday, September 12, 2008 4:28:47 PM

gracias

sebt Friday, September 12, 2008 4:29:58 PM

@Junyor: bug-362175

smile

Soleen Friday, September 12, 2008 4:36:56 PM

thank you for update, thank you for solaris builds :-)

sacharja Friday, September 12, 2008 4:37:10 PM

Please fix the 100% CPU freeze while opening a new window #343143. I can't search the history because of this and if I do I have to restart the browser. That's really annoying.

João Davidpiroxicam Friday, September 12, 2008 4:50:33 PM

No multilanguage setup? I've installed and my Opera browser was in English after the installation.

Arnt Friday, September 12, 2008 4:55:50 PM

Gratulerer med en drømmejobb Øyvind! party

Speed Dial thumbnails no longer disappear when deleting private data


yes

Saulo Benignosaulob Friday, September 12, 2008 5:09:14 PM

Congrats Øyvind ! smile

What a strange name... ehehhe

MyOpera team, please fix this!fearphage Friday, September 12, 2008 5:19:05 PM

@noteme: Welcome. I was not aware you were staff. I guess it takes a while to get added to the list or you just haven't joined that group yet. Congrats! cheers

EDIT: You tagged the post 9.5 instead of 9.6.

kavalec74 Friday, September 12, 2008 5:20:15 PM

was just changed this weekly to snapshot bigsmile

thobi Friday, September 12, 2008 5:21:39 PM

hello and congratulations Øyvind!

Originally posted by Øyvind:

Cache files from feeds no longer show up in Transfers

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mulB Friday, September 12, 2008 5:30:36 PM

The possibility to set the zoom factor in site preferences would be great.

Thanx so far!

mhakali Friday, September 12, 2008 5:41:38 PM

Opening nvidia.com and 5 tabs of youtube and flash crashed.

operapluginwrap[29362]: segfault at 04010300 eip b76b9a9b esp b4aceda0 error 4

:-(

Tim AltmanJunyor Friday, September 12, 2008 5:57:35 PM

@Exolon: Are you using a proxy?

@sebt: Thank you!

Pattty Friday, September 12, 2008 6:07:43 PM

Hello, my name is Øyvind and this is my first post here since I joined the Opera's Desktop Team less than two months ago.



Nice to meet you! up

FataL Friday, September 12, 2008 6:12:33 PM

Originally posted by NoteMe:

And the best of all, I can now fix bugs myself

You are our last hope! bigsmile
Congrats!

Timothy ConnerVJgamer Friday, September 12, 2008 6:19:40 PM

Is this just my install, can someone please confirm or disprove.

On the last two builds, on google maps (maps.google.com) after I have searched for a place, clicking on any of the links that pop-up on the map ( To here - From here - Search nearby) brings me to a blank (white) page with javascript:void(0) in the address bar.

I'm thinking I just need to do a fresh install.

EdwardMrBlueSky Friday, September 12, 2008 6:27:39 PM

A great first post Noteme! Keep up the good work. up

Thanks.

::MBS::

Ali Fazelzadehafz Friday, September 12, 2008 6:46:15 PM

plz. fix bug-352210(letter-spacing with Persian|Arabic languages)

FavDjiXas Friday, September 12, 2008 6:46:58 PM

Sweet. Thanks a lot for that transfers bug fix. Still won't install this one though, will wait for dragonfly fix smile

Daviddavidviolin Friday, September 12, 2008 6:48:42 PM

Ï have to say that with the previous 9.6 beta 1, I was very happy to see that the filesize had actually SHRUNK, however with this release its back to normal again. Too bad, as most applications just add features, the filesize increases and not enough is done to clean up old code. One of the reasons utorrent is so popular is that its about 250 KB and yet it has a LOT of features. Maybe Opera could learn something from that?
Otherwise, the CNN videos still wont display fullscreen, hugoboss,com still doesnt work, and there are many pages that have formatting problems.
Also, I would love to see Opera reach 100% on acid tests, and then using this as a sales argument in advertising campaigns. Yes, Opera, like firefox needs advertising. This will boost the useage, and then again, more web developers are going to write their pages optimized for Opera.

olli Friday, September 12, 2008 7:07:37 PM

FataL: What do you mean? You given up on the rest of us?

olli Friday, September 12, 2008 7:12:38 PM

cranil7: We are working on it :-)

Stifu Friday, September 12, 2008 7:15:36 PM

davidviolin: yeah, disk space is a real issue nowadays... Not.

It's wrong to draw conclusions just from the size of a file. To exaggerate things, you could imagine Opera itself is extremely small, but calls one or two external libraries that boost the file size by a few MB. Would that make Opera any less optimized, or its code less clean? Not really.
As long as your browser doesn't become Photoshop like, there are other things you should worry about.

lamarca lamarca Friday, September 12, 2008 7:28:18 PM

thanks for the new snapshot.

Delerue Friday, September 12, 2008 7:55:50 PM

Originally posted by "olli":

What do you mean? You given up on the rest of us?



Maybe he did, hehehe. At least there's a new hope, because some old Opera interface bugs seem to be forgotten a long time ago. I'm reporting some of these bugs here since 9.5 first snapshot, and nothing until now... :|

Emperor Dariusemperordarius Friday, September 12, 2008 7:58:20 PM

Kaspersky detected as trojan when opening. Reported as false alarm

stranded Friday, September 12, 2008 8:03:44 PM

There are artifacts while scrolling (just when you press the middle mouse button and then drag the mouse across the screen):
http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/7495/xpuu8.jpg

winxp sp3
clean install of opera

lamarca lamarca Friday, September 12, 2008 8:07:13 PM

i got blank page whenever a click on a link sent by mail (e.g. forum notification). the same me happens if i use the typed-in address.
solution: reload the page.

winxp (sp2) - clean install


/edit: it happens after submiting/editing post. i have to use the old and good f5 to see my reply.

Øzikzakatak Friday, September 12, 2008 8:14:02 PM

testing...surfing...eating...




Originally posted by NoteMe:
And the best of all, I can now fix bugs myself


yes lets infiltrate opera ninja bandit

excastis Friday, September 12, 2008 8:21:58 PM

Get javascript:void(0) when using http://maps.yahoo.com/

After trying typing in the addresses to get directions click on the round trip button and you get javascript:void(0)

Timothy ConnerVJgamer Friday, September 12, 2008 8:28:23 PM

@excastis

That is exactly what it is doing on Google Maps. I wonder if they are related. I can confirm your issue on Yahoo! Maps.

SteelRealm Friday, September 12, 2008 8:48:25 PM

I don't have issue with Google Maps =\

Domdom0410 Friday, September 12, 2008 8:52:07 PM

I've got another javascript:void(0) problem -

On http://www.microsoft.com/en/gb/ clicking on any of the links underneath "Microsoft UK Site Guide" brings up javascript:void(0) instead of a box with various content. Can anyone confirm this is happening?

Also, where are all the languages?! I want British English not American English!! cry

Build 10427 Windows XP SP3

Øzikzakatak Friday, September 12, 2008 9:03:39 PM

@ excastis yahoo maps and get dierections option working normal here.

@ dom0410 link under microsoft guide working good in here.

@ VJgamer google maps working fine and get directions option too.

winxp sp3

AECX Friday, September 12, 2008 9:08:29 PM

Since this release came pretty fast im repost this problem since it is important for me anyways.

Im trying to access http://www.wileyplus.com a textbook/hw site and I get this message.

Redirection Status

The URL was redirected to . Please click the link to go there.
Generated by Opera.


There is no link that it mentions. Have to reload everytime to make it work, but this error only happens the first time you type in the website. The rest of the time it works fine unless you close browser and try again.

And as for javascript:void(0)can confirm in google yahoo and microsoft.
winxp sp3 aswell.

lamarca lamarca Friday, September 12, 2008 9:10:55 PM

Originally posted by AECX:

Im trying to access http://www.wileyplus.com a textbook/hw site and I get this message.

Redirection Status



disable the block content

f12 >> edit site preferences >> content uncheck enable content blocking

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