Opera Desktop Team

The Christmas Edition

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Hi all,

This is my first release message for about four years I believe. Needless to say it is
the first on the blog. In the good (bad?) old days mail lists and usenet ruled but it
has to be a bit more fancy nowadays.

A new snapshot is available for you to try out. As usual it includes a lot of fixes and
improved features.

WARNING: This is a development snapshot: 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.


PS: For those of you who want to use autoupdate in every single snapshot release just enable the "Download All Snapshots" setting (opera:config#AutoUpdate).


Update 2008-12-23: The builds haves not been added to the autoupdate server yet due to people going on vacation. Sorry for the false start, but we'll get back to you with automatic updates as soon as possible (depending on when people return from vacation).


Changelog
  • Several backend improvements to autoupdate
  • Made content filter rules with a whitespace at the end work
  • All languages are now included but not all are completed. Please do not file bugs on English text in the UI when using another language for your interface.
  • Made spellchecking work on contenteditable elements
  • Switching between html and plain text mail composition works better now
  • Added option to doubleclick a tab to close it opera:config#UserPrefs|DoubleclicktoCloseTab
  • Fixed crash when undeleting and running a widget
  • Improved stability in the search engine which indexes webpages and mail
  • Plus tons of behind the scenes changes, the low level changelog is more than 1000 lines.
  • Mac: Fixed startup crash on Mac OS X 10.3/Panther
  • Mac: Fixed the mail/chat counter background
  • Mac: Fixed low framerate on fullscreen YouTube videos


Happy holidays from everybody in the desktop team smile

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9.63New Year snapshot!

Comments

Alexander Remenalexremen Friday, December 19, 2008 3:22:21 PM

First! Merry Christmas! psmurf

Øyvind ØstlundNoteMe Friday, December 19, 2008 3:24:40 PM

Second! Merry Christmas smile


- ØØ -

Adam Minchintonminch Friday, December 19, 2008 3:25:41 PM

Third, Merry Christmas smile

Kariannekarie Friday, December 19, 2008 3:27:32 PM

Fourth! Merry Christmas! jester

Julien Picalausajulienp Friday, December 19, 2008 3:28:01 PM

Fifth! Merry Christmas, everyone!

Manuela Huttermanooh Friday, December 19, 2008 3:28:15 PM

Sixth! Happy Holidays smile

Alexey Feldgendlerfeldgendler Friday, December 19, 2008 3:29:24 PM

Seventh, and happy New year!

Joachim Blaabjergblaabjerg Friday, December 19, 2008 3:32:14 PM

Eighth, and a very merry unbirthday to you! drunk

Tommy A. Olsentoman Friday, December 19, 2008 3:51:18 PM

Ninth! Merry Christmas!

Arjan van LeeuwenAVL Friday, December 19, 2008 3:55:52 PM

Tenth, Merry Christmas!

Haavardhaavard Friday, December 19, 2008 3:59:58 PM

Eleventh! Merry Christmas!

Johan Borgborg Friday, December 19, 2008 4:08:35 PM

12th! Merrrrrry Christmas!

Tim AltmanJunyor Friday, December 19, 2008 4:45:21 PM

13th! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Sveinsvein Friday, December 19, 2008 4:47:15 PM

Fourteenth! Happy holidays!

Claudio Santambrogiocsant Friday, December 19, 2008 4:51:20 PM

15th Merry Christmas!

Rijk Friday, December 19, 2008 6:39:53 PM

Sixteenth! Merry Christmas!

Petter Nilsenmitchman2 Saturday, December 20, 2008 12:50:36 AM

17th! Merry Christmas!

olli Monday, December 22, 2008 2:05:47 PM

18: God jul

Kjell AdrianoSlemmen Monday, December 22, 2008 2:07:51 PM

19th Merry Christmas!/God Jul

MyOpera team, please fix this!fearphage Monday, December 22, 2008 2:08:15 PM

C-C-C-C-Combo breaker! (reference)

Merry Christmas and thanks for the new build! Enjoy the holiday!

Tamil Monday, December 22, 2008 2:09:07 PM

bigeyes

stranded Monday, December 22, 2008 2:10:27 PM

The auto-updater didn't work for me either.

olli Monday, December 22, 2008 2:11:34 PM

The builds will be added to the server for auto updating later today :-)

aanton Monday, December 22, 2008 2:11:35 PM

Where is gcc4 qt4 .deb build? confused

XenoAntaresxenoantares Monday, December 22, 2008 2:14:53 PM

Been waiting for this one. ;) Merry christmas all together.

Jan StandalThink Monday, December 22, 2008 2:18:28 PM

21st: God Jul! It's been a great year. Looking forward to 2009 party

ПавелGemorroj Monday, December 22, 2008 2:21:18 PM

happy new year!)
счастливого нового года!))

dapxin Monday, December 22, 2008 2:23:03 PM

Haha!

Meeeeeeeery XMas to all OperaManiacs out there.

Grabbing mine now.

KurtChrisDavey Monday, December 22, 2008 2:27:14 PM

stopped counting - but a very merry xmas to everyone!

p.s.
thanks for the snapshot

saito Monday, December 22, 2008 2:27:57 PM

Season's Greetings smile

Galileo Monday, December 22, 2008 2:33:33 PM

party wizard

Shaffe Monday, December 22, 2008 2:34:19 PM

Thanks for this Xmas release. Snif no intel_linux_deb_qt4 sad

Bill PBill_P Monday, December 22, 2008 2:38:32 PM

in mail compose I can not paste using right click or middle button - only ctrl+v. Middle click in the compose window opens a new tab with the clipboard contents in the address bar.

also wasn't there a "switch to html" checkbox in the previous weekly's compose window?

rolphusRolphus Monday, December 22, 2008 2:38:50 PM

@mgillespie: Can't confirm that on WinXP SP3 32-bit. 100/100 for me.

VladTuPLaD Monday, December 22, 2008 2:40:28 PM

Where is gcc4 qt4 .deb build?

I can't install this one, now my Opera is broken >x(

Tri M. NguyenTriMN Monday, December 22, 2008 2:44:33 PM

Merry Christmas! love

EricJH Monday, December 22, 2008 2:45:11 PM

Merry Christmas to y'all at Opera and thanks for the Christmas build.wizard

Ralf Demuthlachralle Monday, December 22, 2008 2:48:33 PM

Merry christmas and thank you for the (Mac) improvements, especially the mail/chat counter and the HTML composition switch (which now leaves extended chars untouched). idea psmurf

OPC Monday, December 22, 2008 2:54:17 PM

22nd Merry Christmas! No gcc4.qt3 shared deb build? cry

Charles SchlossChas4 Monday, December 22, 2008 3:00:51 PM

23rd Happy holidays!


The Desktop Teams send us early holiday presents

otzi Monday, December 22, 2008 3:03:57 PM

waiting for autoupdate build wait drunk party

Veselé Vianoce a Šťastný nový rok party

mroma Monday, December 22, 2008 3:04:28 PM

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Щасливого Нового року! Веселого Різдва і смачної куті!
psmurf

Luchio Monday, December 22, 2008 3:05:51 PM

Joyeux Noël! Merry xmas!

Ben Behnkendorffit4130 Monday, December 22, 2008 3:10:50 PM

I'm so excited to try this release! Thank you. I have been waiting for this for some time now. Thanks!

Cyro Monday, December 22, 2008 3:11:23 PM

psmurf Merry Christmas & a happy new year to all! psmurf

Kamaleshkamalesh Monday, December 22, 2008 3:15:38 PM

Feliz Natal from the South, Merry Xmas, Happy New Year to all! (Thx for the Xmas present, Espen! smile )

Originally posted by olli:

The builds will be added to the server for auto updating later today :-)



Very torturous to make me wait to try out auto-update. How much longer?? wait

Szőts Ákosszotsaki2 Monday, December 22, 2008 3:22:12 PM

22nd! bigsmile
Thank you!

FavDjiXas Monday, December 22, 2008 3:23:16 PM

xx, merry Xmas smile

kingcharles Monday, December 22, 2008 3:29:10 PM

Is anybody else also having problems with twitter on linux X64?

Argoyne Monday, December 22, 2008 3:29:32 PM

Merry Xmas and all that.

Not sure if this is of any significance but the Delayed Script Execution prevents the Browser JS page from working (ie telling you its enabled and the timestamp) I assume this means that this option effectively disables the browserjs? Anyway tell me if a bug should be submitted on this.

As to the Acid test score, I'm not sure which setting it is but something causes me to get "Test 76 failed: expected '0' but got '100' - Incorrect animVal value after svg animation" however remember that its only really important for a clean install to pass so if you fail try with a pristine install.

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