Opera Desktop Team

Opera 9.61 released

By Tommy A. Olsen. Tuesday, 21. October 2008, 08:49:31

Hot on the heels of 9.60, we had to release Opera 9.61 to address problems in Opera Link. Alone, each issue we discovered was miniscule and shouldn't have caused any problems, but together, and coupled with some server issues, it turned out to be more serious than we thought.

If you've been using Opera Link and has had problems with Opera freezing, getting duplicate bookmarks from nowhere, eternal syncing or other problems, you should upgrade to 9.61, especially since it also has some security fixes.

Come to MAMA!9.62

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hurug # 21. October 2008, 08:57

Thanks but just crashed

Tamil # 21. October 2008, 09:01

Classic installer

Status bar is enabled after update.

hurug # 21. October 2008, 09:05

May be I missed something, but I downloaded it last night after a difficult and complicated search for "Classic Setup".

It worked fine last night and this morning for a couple of hours. However, it just crashed a ten minutes ago. I am trying to reproduce that... and I'll let you know.

Best browser on Earth anyway... by far.

hurug # 21. October 2008, 09:13

Could someboby confirm what is the latest buid number, please ? Is it still 10463 ?

SerGap # 21. October 2008, 09:17

Thanks. One question - when http://www.ntv.ru will work under Vista Ultimate SP1 x86 ?

rbej # 21. October 2008, 09:18

Adobe Flash Player version 10.0.12.36 freeze sometimes Opera 9.61.
Version 9.0.124 works perfectly.

zarg404 # 21. October 2008, 09:31

Another problem:
When I go to
http://fr.news.yahoo.com/
and I click one of the news link, I get a blank page like that one

http://fr.news.yahoo.com/2/20081021/twl-les-obseques-de-soeur-emmanuelle-cel-4bdc673.html

ot this one

http://fr.news.yahoo.com/2/20081021/tts-crise-les-marches-poursuivent-leur-r-c1b2fc3.html

Opera 9.61 does not solve the problem.
I am running windows XP SP3

I don't have the problem with my Mac and Opera 9.6.

Thank you

toru_1969 # 21. October 2008, 09:45

OH!

Very Very Nice Fast Support.
I inspect it from now on.

Thank you.

efekan258 # 21. October 2008, 09:48

Waoow Thanks

oscardt # 21. October 2008, 10:10

@zarg404

All three sites work just fine here in opera 9.61 on windows XP sp3

illiad # 21. October 2008, 10:14

note this is mainly a security update, and a few fixes...

http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/

lamarca # 21. October 2008, 10:14

thanks for the 9.61

Rijk # 21. October 2008, 10:20

@zarg404: check your content blocker rules maybe?

@hurug and others: blog comments will explode and this blog will cease to be useful to read for developers, qa people, and interested Opera users, if each and every crash or malfunction everyon experiences is posted here, complete with new comments telling about your investigations etc. Please read the FAQ to learn what feedback is most useful here.

@tamil: yes, which is useful for upgraders from pre-9.5 versions, but not for later upgrades. we've got a bug report about that...

exterminans # 21. October 2008, 10:33

any chance of this getting added to deb.opera.com?

Alkarex # 21. October 2008, 10:46

Good to see some bugs corrected :-)

I have not had some feedback on these two ones, so I post the bugs again:

1) There is still an annoying CSS bug when selecting with the mouse elements that have both a CSS :after and a :hover
http://alexandre.alapetite.net/divers/vrac/20080926-opera-bug-selection-css-after-hover.html
(XP, Vista, Linux)

2) There seems to be a regression since 9.2x with regard to the XML event "load" (e.g. <body ev:event="load" ev:handler="#test">...) which is not fired as it should (it used to work fine in Opera <= 9.2x). For instance, none of the XHTML+Voice examples are working as they should:
http://dev.opera.com/articles/voice/
such as:
http://devfiles.myopera.com/articles/36/helloworld.xml

The XML event "load" is only fired upon refresh (F5) (tested on XP and Vista).

Micky # 21. October 2008, 11:31

@rbej: I can confirm Flash10 crashes in WinXP_sp3.

crayrus # 21. October 2008, 11:46

just upgraded opera from 9.27 on diskless PC (mounted via NFS), it started to freeze. there were not such problems on 9.27.

debian etch 4.0r3, ltsp.

develop7 # 21. October 2008, 11:49

How about debs at deb.opera.com?

Chas4 # 21. October 2008, 12:08

Typing this using 9.61

ekhaatvensters # 21. October 2008, 12:44

Thanks Chas4, the Opera team will get right on that issue.

spenstar # 21. October 2008, 13:22

this is not Adobe Flash 10.x problem. The latest Silverlight 2.0 crash opera.exe!

umonkey # 21. October 2008, 13:33

Pop-up menu of flash videos is inaccessible: it's overwritten by opera's pop-up menu on top of it. E.g., can't copy video url from an embedded YouTube clip. It was fine in 9.60.

Ubuntu 8.10

huxr # 21. October 2008, 13:40

Currently my Opera 9.61 still does not synchronize with my Opera Mini bookmarks. (Opera Link servers do synchronize with my Opera Mini.)

Details:
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/findpost.pl?id=2768899

EricJH # 21. October 2008, 13:46

Thanks for the new build and congrats on the release as always. Been using it since last night (it was spotted at the download servers) and it seems stable.

Is this the only build that never was a snapshot before its release?

EagleMKD # 21. October 2008, 14:18

Thanks for the new build everyone! It was a really pleasant surprise.

Downloading now!

MINUS8 # 21. October 2008, 14:19

It's quite unstabile release... had crashed several times. :/

miszmasz # 21. October 2008, 14:43

Scroll click (open in new tab) doesn't work for me now :S.

cranil7 # 21. October 2008, 14:52

I updated it yesterday itself!!! Many warez sites found it yesterday on your ftp sites!!

Working great here so far!!

mihmanz # 21. October 2008, 14:57

Thank you very much, Dear Developers. Opera is great. But, please, fix loading issue with a web-site of one of the most popular TV News Channel in a country where Opera is one of the most popular browser (i mean www.ntv.ru, of course, it stucks at 26%).

HEY! I'VE GOT PROBLEM WITH www.s7.ru in menues(Opera 9.60 works fine, so it's regression)! Please, fix this annoying thing.

zoligrg89 # 21. October 2008, 15:34

At last..

Svoboda # 21. October 2008, 15:35

I only can say that I got plenty of dupliacate bookmarks (therefore b. nicknames cease to work) and notes again. Maybe it is caused by the fact, that I really have duplicate bookmark on my two computers (one same bookmarks on two computers), but I hoped that synchronization should cope with this somehow, maybe by url comparison. And I got 3 or more duplicates anyway. Hope I am not off the topic.

UPDATE: I decided to help opera(the actual application meant) a little bit and installed clean opera, synchronized, deleted everything, closed, opened old opera, imported no-duplicates-bookmarks and ever since everything seems fine on both PSs. Maybe 'Delete all' button on web interface for opera link would find its use after all.

gwarser # 21. October 2008, 15:51

I changed in 9.60 to show only cached images, and when I go to gmail or my bank https://www.mybank.com/ opera says that connection is not secure - is this a bug or feature?
//
"feature" - I mean, extended validation, or so...
//
and the same in 9.61

huxr # 21. October 2008, 16:13

Opera <-> Opera Mini synchronization problem completely solved, thanks to a final little help from toman!

huxr # 21. October 2008, 16:18

@gwarser: Strange behavior... I also get "not secure" connection on that bank's page if I first choose "only cached" images... Gmail does the same... Turning on images, then refreshing the page restores it to secure.

MetalRaise # 21. October 2008, 16:53

Did you guys make a change to the Bug Report Wizard? I just filed a bug report but got a strange bug number (DSK-237633), which is actually much lower than the previous ones.

Edit:
I guess you added the "DSK" in front of it because you received too much spam, but I still don't understand why the number itself is so low now.

arbuzas # 21. October 2008, 16:59

Thats cool, but where I can get (RPM) Opera for QT4 not for QT3?

Edit:

Haha I found it, u cant hide from me

http://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/linux/961/final/en/i386/opera-9.61.gcc4-qt4.i386.rpm

rafaelluik # 21. October 2008, 17:05

myspace isn't loading in opera 9.6, let's have a look on 9.61....

EricJH # 21. October 2008, 17:09

Originally posted by MetalRaise:

Did you guys make a change to the Bug Report Wizard? I just filed a bug report but got a strange bug number (DSK-237633), which is actually much lower than the previous ones.

They did indeed. Rijk commented in another Desktop topic:

@lamarca, @EricJH: yes, we got a new BTS this weekend. But don't worry, all the old issues have been imported into it, and we can still search on the old numbers

MetalRaise # 21. October 2008, 17:10

@ rafaelluik:

No problem here. Do you have a specific MySpace URL that doesn't work?

@ EricJH:

Ow, okay, thanks...
Now, with the different numbering, it will become quite messy in Remco's BTS... Not nice.

michael.opera # 21. October 2008, 17:12

This build together with Flash 10 rocks!

- Link-issues: gone

- Flash turning white: gone

kyleabaker # 21. October 2008, 17:53

Thanks, been using it since yesterday and it's been stable!

tharos81 # 21. October 2008, 18:01

my opera link is still broken.. deleting all local bookmarks and start synchronising is still creating LOTS of duplicated bookmarks...

edit: and now synchronization failes

does not really look like a bugfix

the_Arioch # 21. October 2008, 18:18

instaler (intern. msi win32) again buggy, again statuspanel jumped into bottom position instead of top one! Yet again hda to readjust it!

tareqf1 # 21. October 2008, 18:22

the website item can't be dragged or moved to anywhere from the new release of 9/52
this is important when you drag a link to the personal bar,
the most serious issue is YOU CAN'T DRAG THE DEL.ICIO.US BOOKMARKING TOOL TO THE PERSONAL TOOLBAR.

WHEN IT WILL BE FIXED.

gwarser # 21. October 2008, 18:28

One more question: why security indicator (in adress bar) is shown _after_ page is loaded, and not in time of loading? (after page is loaded I not need any indicator, I cut off my conection to be secure : )

In case when i open login page, and security is ok, and then i type my password, click ok - new page is loaded and in this page security is broken:
1. my password is send in secure mode?
2. confidential information in second page are send to my in secure mode?
3. all connections are not secure?

Any option exists to break connection when it is not secure? (on https)
//
thanks Rijk

Rijk # 21. October 2008, 20:08

@gwarser: you can't know if the complete page is secure until all content on that page has loaded. If the page for example has a third-party script from a non-secure server on the bottom of the page, the site can't be considered secure. In your scenario, a password send from secured page will be send securely. If that in turn gives back insecure content, only that content is insecure and so not suitable for entering serious passwords. This is all rather offtopic though, better ask about such things in the Security Forum.

Rijk # 21. October 2008, 20:14

@the_Arioch: that has nothing to do with the installer, afaik this happens on the first run of the browser after upgrading. tamil also mentioned it in this thread.

@tareqf1: there's no need to yell in here. I'm not sure what you are trying to drag from where to where, but note that since Opera 9.5 you have to press Shift before being able to drop things on toolbars. Or first open the Appearance dialog.

@Metalnoise: we really needed a new bug system, and compatability with Remco's system was not top priority

But as I said, the old numbers will still work for us.

Rijk # 21. October 2008, 20:17

@Metalnoise: the number is lower because bugs were sorted in projects on importing into the new system. Not every report we had in the past was for the Desktop project

eestlane # 21. October 2008, 20:27

I know that WebCT sucks, but as long it's used would like to see it working properly

Already filled a bugreport, though.

Fresh # 21. October 2008, 20:42

9.61 and prior versions on Debian Etch still goes to max cpu and stays there even though no pages are loading. Haven't figured out what causes it, might be a tab with flash that was deleted.

Have been experiencing this for about 1.5 years now - on and off.

Bugreport is on its way.

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