Opera Desktop Team

Opera 9.6 RC 2

By csant. Saturday, 4. October 2008, 14:52:35

Were you already giving up on the hope of a new toy for the weekend? Don't despair: we have a new RC for the upcoming 9.6 release. Happy testing!

Changelog:

SSL error pages now display again
Fixed an issue where RSS 1.0 feeds sent as text/html would not be recognized
Fixed an issue where opening links with the keyboard after an inline find would open the link twice
Some stability fixes (proxy crasher should be fixed, please test those that reproduced it before)

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Comments

josiasnenho # 4. October 2008, 14:59

The firs to coment!!!

Finaly

Tamil # 4. October 2008, 15:01

Originally posted by csant:

Were you already giving up on the hope of a new toy for the weekend?

megaf # 4. October 2008, 15:03

Thank you!!

vivabrevis # 4. October 2008, 15:05

Unbelievable

lamarca # 4. October 2008, 15:09

thanks for the second rc.

wirusek # 4. October 2008, 15:13

thanks for the new build

Digital_Outcast # 4. October 2008, 15:22

Yay! Thanks!

mjunx # 4. October 2008, 15:24

Wow, that was fast. Is there a shared Qt4 build for Linux again?

EricJH # 4. October 2008, 15:24

Thanks for the new build. You are always thinking about us. You are too good for this world...

Posted at Saturday, 4. October 2008, 16:52:35. You guys are making overtime. Go home and get a well deserved beer or other beverage of your liking....

beydeba # 4. October 2008, 15:25

Thank you.

julianreschke # 4. October 2008, 15:29

Bug 337388, reported over three months ago, is still present.

alf245 # 4. October 2008, 15:30

Radio buttons suck when being printed.

When printing to paper, radio buttons look like if all of them were selected at the same time. It can be tested right on this page here. Switching to "Print Preview" is not sufficient to show this bug. Printing to file or paper is required to reveal it. System: i386-Linux. Can anyone confirm, please?

lamarca # 4. October 2008, 15:34

i noticed a delay when using fast history navigation.

vas3k # 4. October 2008, 15:36

Thanx, Opera! It's cool

alf245 # 4. October 2008, 15:42

When switching to "Print Preview", there are sometimes empty squares with a dotted border in the header. This can be seen on this page, right after "Opera 9.6 RC 2 -". System: i386-Linux. Can anyone confirm, please?

kavalec74 # 4. October 2008, 15:47

On Saturday?!!! :O

Great

elitegeek # 4. October 2008, 15:49

Thanks! (and I'm happy to report that RC1 was much better than previous builds)

szotsaki2 # 4. October 2008, 15:53

The Qt4 build is not shared now, but the content tearing problem seems to be being eliminated.
If so, I would like to say a great Thank You!

There are some problems, though.

Hades32 # 4. October 2008, 15:55

Thanks for fixing Nitrome...

NTMan # 4. October 2008, 16:00

Super!!! Now, I wrote this message from machine with Windows NT 4.0.
1) Sting That MSI version can't install.

2) Problem with loading http://www.be2.com still not solved.

3) Problem with selecting by mouse in large text E-mail's still not solved.

f1avalanche # 4. October 2008, 16:00

Oh-oh! Can't wait! Want the release ASAP! :-)

P.S. Opera 10 release would be awesome ;-)

HeinzDo # 4. October 2008, 16:04

What's about QT4-builds for amd64???

perfeito # 4. October 2008, 16:09

Thanks for the new build

Jada0007 # 4. October 2008, 16:11

When switching to "Print Preview", there are sometimes empty squares with a dotted border in the header. This can be seen on this page, right after "Opera 9.6 RC 2 -". System: i386-Linux. Can anyone confirm, please?

By alf245, # 4. October 2008, 15:42:19

still print problems with Opera-Linux 32bit,

crash on this Website. http://openprinting.org/printer_list.cgi

squillaz # 4. October 2008, 16:15

Cheers for new release!

These bugs are still present:
366872 (wbcn)
367058 (badongo)
366082 (10minutemail)
367074 (www.live365.com/index.live)

Pondus # 4. October 2008, 16:17

NT Man: I can confirm issue 2, but couldn't find a report. It's reported now as bug 367174.

PLnet # 4. October 2008, 16:26

Really didn't expect the new build so fast, especially a new RC

Thanks!

Fixed an issue where opening links with the keyboard after an inline find would open the link twice

Since you've touched this, I've just filled a bug report about another double-opening problem: bug-367175

NTMan # 4. October 2008, 16:27

Pondus: Thread is here http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=246527

Netegrof # 4. October 2008, 16:29

Ok, I will download and test it.

MetalRaise # 4. October 2008, 16:30

Just submitted two bug reports related to Print Preview (and possibly websites using frames):

[BUG 367173] Opera crashing on certain websites when exiting Print Preview
[BUG 367176] Blank page when returning from Print Preview

Necroman # 4. October 2008, 16:35

Just a question, would the problem with not working AJAX widgets in 9.52 be fixed in 9.6?

haavard # 4. October 2008, 16:52

Necroman: "The problem" is a bit vague. Please try to explain the problem in detail when posting. You can't really assume that people know what "the problem" is

julianreschke: That bug has actually been fixed in Peregrine (post-Kestrel branch), but the fix hasn't been backported.

The same goes for badongo.com, squillaz.

afz # 4. October 2008, 16:59

agian, bug-352210(letter-spacing with Persian|Arabic languages) still exist

masterofopera # 4. October 2008, 17:00

Assimilating build for testing

ferrisnox # 4. October 2008, 17:17

Thank you very much. These builds are just getting better and better.
Its nice to see smashing of the annoying little bugs. I don't really feel like I'm missing important features, I just want the little stupid bugs gone, and my pages that I frequent to work with Opera.

With that in mind here are some pages that still have trouble:
1. Microsoft Workspace Office Live http://workspace.officelive.com
2. Google Spreadsheets - dying for this to work.
3. Netflix, video on demand - (http://netflix.com must be a member)
4. Commonspot Content Management system - http://www.paperthin.com/
5. You get the idea...

Thanks!
Keep up the good work. Opera FTW!

Nebli # 4. October 2008, 17:28

Many thanks.

I use Opera on winXp an win98. This page http://www.theinquirer.es/ has a table with label "Lo último", displaying headlines, only in win98 this table justify the headlines and increasing/decreasing the height of table continuously, that is very annoying.

This problem presents in win98 standalone and over virtualPC

andresruiz # 4. October 2008, 17:37

Wow, Desktop Team Working on Saturday ! You must have a lot of pressure.
Anyway thanks a lot, nice to know that not only here in Colombia people work on saturday

Please do not forget about bug#366365 (I think is a bug because Opera is the only browser whith that bug with overflow:auto; on:
http://andresruizperez.freehyperspace4.com/index2.html
UPDATE !
I've just installed Opera 9.27 to see if the problem persists, and I found that the problem is not on Opera 9.27 as you can see:

On the other hand, take a look at how Opera 9.5 and 9.6 show the same webpage:

Please solve it Desktop Team

kyleabaker # 4. October 2008, 17:44

Surprise build! Awesome. Downloading...installing...testing..

porneL # 4. October 2008, 17:46

Background of Mac .dmg looks like a blood bath!

intelimac20inch # 4. October 2008, 17:47

Thanks for the weekend build developers!

sa666666 # 4. October 2008, 18:00

The shortcut search dialog for the UNIX builds (accessed with Alt-Space) still isn't working correctly. Pressing Alt-Space brings up the dialog, and if Google is the default search engine, the word 'Google' appears as the title of the dialog box. However, the icon in the textfield is for 'Search in Page', and Google must be manually selected from the list every time. Also, if you go to select another engine and don't actually select anything (perhaps by pressing elsewhere in the dialog), the title goes away and no search engine is selected. I think the default (or even the previously selected one) should be selected in such a case.

piroxicam # 4. October 2008, 18:11

I'm having a strange bug. Sometimes when I click on a link to open a new tab, that new tab is rendered as an all black screen. I have to scroll up and down for the images and text appear right. This just happens sporadicaly which is odd.

EricJH # 4. October 2008, 18:19

Originally posted by haavard:

julianreschke: That bug has actually been fixed in Peregrine (post-Kestrel branch), but the fix hasn't been backported.

Haavard mentioned the magic word here..... Wanna share something with us?

SerGap # 4. October 2008, 18:44

http://www.ntv.ru still don't work (Vista SP1, x86)

Micky # 4. October 2008, 18:48

Nice build, but little unstable when many tabs opened. I got two (not reproducible) freezes just in a quick try.

I can confirm this problematic sites:
washingtontimes.com, cars.com, wbcn.com, be2.com

Opera Chat:
- Zoom button still not working
- (Online) status signs shown correctly only if you click on it
- Main title of Chat window changes to the front tab that is opened infront

[Intel, WinXP_SP3, O_RC2]

cranil7 # 4. October 2008, 19:17

Another weekly dope!!! I am HAPPY!!! I always wonder how speard this weekly dope hyteria to as many people as I want!!

And I am going to test that proxy crasher in details!!
That bug was making opera unusable on https sites!!

Thank you for the build.

ar1pe # 4. October 2008, 19:19

New build again

I just had the time to install RC1.... Well, installed

squillaz # 4. October 2008, 19:31

@haavard: thanks for info about badongo!

EricJH # 4. October 2008, 19:33

Will this result in the return of A snapshot a day keeps the bugs away period?

MrBlueSky # 4. October 2008, 19:35

DOH! I've been refreshing the Opera Desktop page for the usual Friday fix, all yesterday, just to try and be the first poster, and you upload it today, SATURDAY!

Thanks.