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Opera 9.6 RC 1

Hey Guys:
We now have an RC so please look out for any regressions since 9.52. :-)

Changelog
  • Fixed error pages when entering unknown protocol.
  • Fixed an issue where custom search engines would not get a favicon.
  • Fixed an issue that would prevent links in frames *from* being opened by keyboard
  • Fixed Fast Forward on Google search results pages.
  • Fixed an issue where only a few feed itmes would be fetched.
  • Text strings on the feed preview page are now localizable.
  • Added a fallback feed title for feeds without titles, and added handheld style sheet to the feeds preview.
  • Changed default global history to 1000.
  • Added new default speedial.ini.

    Mail:
  • Fixed an issue where followed contacts would not be properly unfollowed.
  • Fixed an issue where only the first followed contact would be shown in the Followed Contacts access point.
  • Fixed an issue where the Followed Thread icon would be lost after restart.

    Windows:
  • Fixed a bug where network paths that start with \\ would not work, which in particular caused issues with sent mail when storing profiles on network drives
  • Fixed installation problems on Windows NT 4.0

    UNIX:
  • Fixed an issue where text with specified size suddenly disappears on Qt4 builds.
  • Qt4 builds are static - for now.


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9.6 approachingOpera 9.6 RC 2

Comments

SouthernCross 1. October 2008, 19:09

:yes:

xErath 1. October 2008, 19:09

Cool ! p:

DjiXas 1. October 2008, 19:10

Whats up with new speeddial.ini?

What if I have a custom one (12 of speed dials)?

lamarca 1. October 2008, 19:17

thanks for the release candidate.

elitegeek 1. October 2008, 19:20

thanks for the RC -- maybe I'll report bugs this time (the last weekly was so unstable I had to revert to 9.5)

Rijk 1. October 2008, 19:21

@DjiXas: 'default' means it will be used for new installations where no speed dials have been defined yet. Just like we provide some default bookmarks.

titilambert 1. October 2008, 19:21

HI ! Thanks ! a lot ! but... please don't forget debian :wink:
ho I just have to wait .... now packages are here :wink:
THANKS !!

AndyleeSato 1. October 2008, 19:22

yay!

Thanks for mail improvements!

(first post on opera community!)

superici 1. October 2008, 19:26

thanks very much installing in progress:up:

efekan258 1. October 2008, 19:26

Thanks a lot opera team... :D

megaf 1. October 2008, 19:27

Wow, so fast, congrats!
Thank you!

DjiXas 1. October 2008, 19:28

Thanks Rijk.

Can you maybe provide a list of changes in .ini sor what was changed? So people who are using custom ones, could stay up to date as well?

AKAPanamaJack 1. October 2008, 19:28

The Capital One site problem that was introduced on last Friday's release is still there. They didn't fix the javascript problems. :frown:

bug-366022

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=251354

I either have to use the 9.60 version BEFORE last fridays release or a totally different browser to log into Capital One. :frown:

Kind of makes paying a persons bills a pain. Sigh...

Bill_P 1. October 2008, 19:29

will we be seeing 64bit qt4 static soon?

zikzakatak 1. October 2008, 19:30

downloading...


i dont see any fix on high cpu usage and opera hickups...:frown: :frown:

knolle 1. October 2008, 19:30

masterofopera 1. October 2008, 19:30

Thanks for the new build
Downloading -> testing time! :sherlock:

RocknRolf 1. October 2008, 19:35

no .deb yet :frown:

kamalesh 1. October 2008, 19:36

Mac-intel download link not updated for build 5242.

Cyro 1. October 2008, 19:37

@olli: Qt4 builds are static - for now.
:frown:

No Debian this time :no:

afz 1. October 2008, 19:38

still waiting for fix bug-352210(letter-spacing with Persian|Arabic languages)

fearphage 1. October 2008, 19:38

Originally posted by AKA Panama Jack:

The Capital One site problem that was introduced on last Friday's release is still there. They didn't fix the javascript problems.

Confirmed but I have a bug that will turn 2 years old in november. I would not expect a fix in a week or two.

Hey people! Opera knows which bugs still remain open. They have a bug tracking system for that. They don't need you to remind them of what they didn't fix. Read here: http://snapshot.opera.com/faq.html#what-feedback

@staff: bug #366022 should be marked as a regression within the last few builds (few weeks)

wirusek 1. October 2008, 19:42

thanks for the new build :cheers:

Filip007 1. October 2008, 19:46

SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark
http://www2.webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0.9/sunspider.html

V8 Benchmark Suite
http://code.google.com/apis/v8/run.html


Make Opera faster and faster...:up:

fearphage 1. October 2008, 19:47

Originally posted by Filip007:

Make Opera faster and faster

9.6 will not bring speed i assure you. 9.6 is only fixing regressions now and any major security threats.

RocknRolf 1. October 2008, 19:49

Thx for .deb

Junyor 1. October 2008, 19:50

intel-linux Debian builds are up.

SerGap 1. October 2008, 19:58

http://www.ntv.ru still not working.

Cyro 1. October 2008, 20:00

Originally posted by Junyor:

intel-linux Debian builds are up.


Morphinomenal!

Jada0007 1. October 2008, 20:21

Here is a High-Level Bug what let opera linux crashing the browser. I tested it with openSUSE 11 32 KDE3 Desktop & 32 bit KDE4 desktop, Archlinux 32 bit KDE 4 desktop.
http://openprinting.org/printer_list.cgi

Try to select HP and then select any printer Model. Several times Opera crashed on this website.

nahtanoj999 1. October 2008, 20:24

"Fixed an issue where custom search engines would not get a favicon."
This is something that's been bothering me for a while. I hope it is fully fixed. Time to test.

Tamil 1. October 2008, 20:30

Originally posted by DjiXas:

Can you maybe provide a list of changes in .ini sor what was changed? So people who are using custom ones, could stay up to date as well?

See Update Opera custom keyboard setup/menu setup/mouse setup/language/dialog files using WinMerge

Jada0007 1. October 2008, 20:31

Bug Opera Linux printing.

Printer HP Deskjet 6940 ethernet network printer.
using Cups socket://192.168.0.10:9100, Driver HP DeskJet 6940 Foomatic/hpijs only.

Opera Linux doesn't print the websites correctly. It mess up with the websites frames.

fearphage 1. October 2008, 20:33

@kylebaker or anyone seeing corrupted images in opera: All of the main images in this blog post are corrupted for me. Can any confirm? I'm trying to see if it is a format or a particular type of image or anything.

@AKA Panama Jack: Opera fixed capitalone with browser.js and now they updated/changed their code and now its broken again. The responsible code:
//Adding this line below causing the timeout extension to break. so commenting out
// 09/12/08 - Gregg Jenkins: uncommenting this in support of KeepAlive fix for EOS popups to 3rd party sites to keep EOS session alive.
// 09/22/08 - Deepak Konduru: Uncommenting this line was causing issues with the timeout extension popup. So added the below line in SessionExtension.aspx. If the below line is commented here, it needs to be commented in that file also.
if (document.domain.indexOf('.') >= 0)
document.domain = document.domain.substring(document.domain.indexOf('.') + 1);
So browserjs sets it to capitalone.com and then they come along and set it to com. The child frame (iframe) has its domain set to capitalone.com so the two can no longer communicate. I wish they didn't suck at coding and life.

Ernetas 1. October 2008, 20:45

Where has Opera version for Macintosh Intel-only gone?

Junyor 1. October 2008, 20:47

@Ernetas: No where.... Added a link now.

lordmorgul 1. October 2008, 20:51

Qt4 builds are static - for now.


For now - but will the shared builds be back before the final release of 9.6?

Galaad2 1. October 2008, 20:52

aren't the windows .exe builds supposed to be signed digitally ?
the one that i downloaded is not signed.
http://snapshot.opera.com/windows/o960s_10443m.exe
md5sum of the downloaded file: 43d467fa33730bba152e96d81347ba1d
size: 7.311.910 bytes

andresruiz 1. October 2008, 21:04

Hi, thanks a lot for your Work.
I noticed yesterday that Opera seems to have a serious problem with CSS property overflow:auto;
As you can see on:
http://andresruizperez.freehyperspace4.com/index2.html
The central DIV is misplaced but it's the same file than:
http://andresruizperez.freehyperspace4.com/index.html
But index2.html has "overflow:auto;" and a reduced height to get the scroll bar: Opera sends that div id="content" to the right so it is over the other div with the Opera ad.
As you can test, the document is full 100% Web Standard with no errors nor warnings.
And if you test the index2.html in anyother browser it will be ok with things in good place, I tested on Safari3, Firefox 3 and Crome...ONLY Opera missplaces the div id="content". The difference bwtween index.html and index2.html is only the overflow=auto; so I thing there is something wrong with Opera...can you confirm ? is my mistake? why only in Opera ?

Rijk 1. October 2008, 21:20

@Galaad2: the final releases, yes. So there will be at least one change between 10443 and 9.6 final: getting signed.

@DjiXas: see also http://operawiki.info/SkinINIChanges

lilmoder 1. October 2008, 21:22

:smile:
Downloa... downloaded already (moment after I pressed "Save" it was done :eyes: ). Testing time! :smile:

rseiler 1. October 2008, 21:23

Changed default global history to 1000


Say what?! Why?

Before 9.5, there was a startup speed penalty (and maybe more) for having this setting much above the default of 500. Plus, Opera didn't have much of a URL search feature to speak of.

But as of 9.5, the default was raised to 5000 since it had better search and the speed penalty went away.

But now you're lowering it to 1000?

You do realize that FF defaults to 3 *months* of URL history, right? That's the point of an awesome bar, to find where you've been.

I'd be lucky if a setting of 1000 in Opera lasted me 3 days (yes, I realize it's adjustable, but that's beside the point--few normal people would ever know that). Heck, even IE defaults to 3 weeks.

Unless there's a spectacularly good reason, guys, change it back.

EagleMKD 1. October 2008, 21:53

Qt4 builds are static - for now.



:no: :insane: WHY, OH GOD WHY??! WHY HAVE YOU TAKEN DOWN MY PRECIOUS SHARED BUILDS? :yikes: :irked: :cry:

I'm disturbed.

marcorion 1. October 2008, 22:02

@White Eagle:

I suspect the shared builds were pulled due to UI issues and lots of unreadbale text....unless you managed to find a miracle theme.

@Jada0007

Confirmed. As a matter of fact-on my E17 box, that website on Opera took down my entire window manager :yikes:

squillaz 1. October 2008, 22:14

Well bug #366082 is partially fixed. You can now copy the email to clipboard at 10minutemail.com. Cheers!

You still can't access the emails tho. It picks up that an email was received but won't display it.

This isn't working as well on windows build (xp pro sp3): http://www.live365.com/index.live

It was reported working on last OSX build, not sure if it still is.

EricJH 1. October 2008, 22:19

Thanks for the new build and keeping us occupied.

Originally posted by fearphage:

@kylebaker or anyone seeing corrupted images in opera: All of the main images in this blog post are corrupted for me. Can any confirm? I'm trying to see if it is a format or a particular type of image or anything.

I can't confirm with Vista 32 SP1 and a spanking clean opera6.ini.

Originally posted by rseiler:

Changed default global history to 1000
Say what?! Why?

Will I loose the other 4000 because of this?

ra-mon 1. October 2008, 22:24

Hi DT & happy testers,
bug-357315 still here (When "drag&dropping" text selection inside a form field, Opera make a copy/paste instead of a cut/paste of this text selection.)
Perhaps only for Windows builds ?
see http://groups.google.com/group/opera.general/msg/74ec6148d5ccf76b

Thanks for great work !

@+
--
Pierre

Pattty 1. October 2008, 22:29

:yes: I'll try it right now!

marcorion 1. October 2008, 22:35

Opera devs-

Build 2436 made progress with bug 357295....QT4 build 2440 is a step backwards on that account. The "content tearing" is worse, but also won't easily go away. Build 2436 I can just scroll-or defocus the Opera window, to resolve the content---none of those tricks work in 2440.

Maulkin 1. October 2008, 22:36

Soon I'll have my mail back with Opera! :smile:

I was waiting for the final 9.6, great!

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