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We will rock you: 9.5 beta coming!

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Thursday next week (25 Oct), Opera 9.5 beta will be released. :D The release
will be celebrated at the Rock Opera party in San Francisco. :hat: :jester: :drunk: The
party will feature live performances of the bands The 88 and The
Binges
, and a couple of other exciting things will be announced
there.

Of course, you are all invited. Just answer the questions in the quiz
and get your invitation. If you join the party, don't forget to
bring your mobile phone, you might want to have it there. And don't worry
- no one from the Desktop Team is going to sing :zip:. If you can't make
it to California, just join the online celebrations!

New snapshot build
To warm up for the party, here's a new snapshot build. Happy bug hunting, don't forget to join the party and check out this blog for more news!

Changes and fixes
  • Rewritten backend for bookmark synchronization. Fixes several bugs
  • Cosmetic changes in synchronization user interface, new icon
  • Reloading widgets works
  • Fixed leak in search engine
  • Fixed printing crash
  • Fixed a margin collapsing regression
  • Fixed bug where Redirected e-mails displayed incorrectly in Sent view
  • Fixed crash when importing default browser bookmarks on first run
  • Fixed crashes when image with svg source is a sibling of a float
  • Fixed several layout issues
  • Several stability fixes added

Known issues fixed
  • [BUG 264975] Fixed display of smileys in mail and chat
  • [BUG 290358] Bookmarks cannot be selected from the Bookmarks menu
  • [BUG 290355] Opera crashes when clicking bookmarks in Personal bar
  • [BUG 280536] Opera on OS X will sometimes freeze when exiting Preferences

Known issues
  • [BUG 291258] Framesets don't work. Gives blank page on Gmail and other sites
  • [BUG 291335] Bookmarks in sub-folders are moved to the root folder
  • [BUG 290618] Viewing messages with smilies in Opera Mail may cause Opera to crash
  • [BUG 291267] Filters in M2 don't work
  • [BUG 290416] Widgets don't work after restarting Opera
  • [BUG 267632] Images don't display when printing
  • If you used the Brushed Metal skin in the previous release, Opera for OS X will crash on startup
  • [BUG 290943] This build fails the Acid2 test
  • Won't run correctly on Windows 95 or 98
  • OS X version may cause persistent freezes on start-up
  • POP server cleaning has been disabled: When disabling the "Leave messages on server" option, existing messages on the server are not removed
  • [BUG 287170] On OS X, UI thumbnails have black backgrounds when using native skins
  • [BUG 184894] Native OS X UI elements cannot be used in skins
  • [BUG 286384] Yahoo mail is broken
  • [BUG 280261] Removing messages from filters does not work
  • [BUG 213115] Queued mail is sent at the next check, instead of waiting for manual action

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Warning: These are snapshot builds; they contain the latests features and changes, but they also have known bugs, may crash regularly, destroy your data or don't work at all for you.
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Neat thumbnails, instant searching and more

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Здравствуйте, дорогие пользователи! Hello, dear users!

Here is another Friday build for you, with a lot of bug fixes and cool stuff added. Before reporting issues, please check the Known issues section at the bottom of this post! We get a lot of duplicate bug reports on the known issues every time we release a snapshot. Please save the QA team some time by not reporting them once again.


Layout width detection for thumbnails
Even in 2007, when it's common to have a 1600×1200 screen (or two of them), and when at the same time people browse the web using mobile devices with 320×240 screens, there are still a lot of web designers who assume that a “typical user” has a 800 or 1024 pixel wide screen. On the other hand, many websites stretch dynamically, making good use of all the available horizontal space.

When you hold the mouse over a tab, a page thumbnail appears. We used to generate these thumbnails by taking the 1024 leftmost pixels from what you see in the window, even if the window is wider. This worked acceptably for many popular newspaper sites, but broke Google's main page and other pages that fill up the entire window or have something centered. The wider your screen is, the easier it was to see that the thumbnail image was cut off on the right. It also broke those fixed-layout websites that had their concent centered rather than left-aligned. However, taking the entire window width instead of the 1024 pixels wasn't an option, too, because it would leave a lot of white space on the right of thumbnails for fixed-layout pages, making miniature pictures look even smaller and uglier.

In this build, we're including an experimental feature that tries to deal with fixed-width layouts without breaking flexible layouts. The new layout width detection code runs some heuristic checks on the page layout and tries to detect whether it has been made for fixed with. The algorithm measures the width occupied by all meaningful content (text, images, plugins, input fields, but not empty space with backgrounds) and compares it to typical screen width values such as 800 and 1024 with some degree of tolerance. It can detect both left-aligned or centered layouts.

When generating a thumbnail, we now first try to detect a fixed layout. If we have one, then only the part of the horizontal space actually occupied by meaningful content is used to make the thumbnail; otherwise, a miniature of the entire window is generated. This means that you should not see any more wasted space on the sides of thumbnails when you hover a tab, but the pages that fill the entire window should never be cut off. Because this is, in fact, guesswork, it's expected to fail and give incorrect results now and then, but not too often. Please experiment with all kinds of pages and all kinds of settings and report any cases when it breaks.

For now, we're only using the layout width detection for thumbnails, but we might as well start using it for something else in the future.


Other new stuff
  • New “logical searching” code — this means that inline find is now practically instant even on very long pages
  • The Feeds toolbar got a new button to check for updates
  • Added “Make Readable” action. Currently, it's not available through any menu, toolbar, or keyboard shortcut, but it's possible to bind it manually. How it works: select some text on the page that is hard to read because the font size is too small, then activate the action. The page will automatically zoom up so that the text becomes readable
  • Added support for pointer-events="boundingBox" in SVG
  • It is now possible to use an SVG image in an IMG element as well as specify one as a background image in CSS
  • Improved performance of JS Date.getX methods


Bugs fixed
  • Fixed an issue where pages could cause scripts to run in opera:historysearch. Thanks to David Bloom for reporting the issue
  • Fixed display of inline elements within justified text
  • Element borders are no longer offset from the area filled with background color
  • No more crashing on contenteditable in XML
  • Text-shadow with 1px blur radius now actually shows some blurring
  • Widgets whose files are in a subdirectory of the zip archive are supported again
  • The list of chat rooms now shows the correct number of users in each room
  • No more repaint artefacts with the dropdown menu on www.subsys.no
  • getAttribute will return the updated value after modifying the element's style properties
  • Two attributes with the same local name and namespace on the same XML element are now a fatal parsing error, as per XML spec
  • Opera no longer spends a lot of time on startup trying to read every file in the cache
  • Pending IMAP and POP commands are now preserved and optionally executed on the next startup
  • Getters and setters are now exposed for properties of native JS objects
  • Fixed fetching of POP mail after purging the trash
  • The outline doesn't follow the “silhouette” of children elements clipped using overflow:hidden anymore
  • Legend is not anymore pushed into the fieldset by a comment before it
  • Entities sent to plugins are now properly decoded, fixes slideshow on www.vg.no
  • setTimeout() is no longer confused when an object is passed instead of a numeric delay value
  • Mail passwords are no longer lost when clearing wand passwords
  • No more crashing when installing widgets
  • The client certificate selection dialog now shows the originating server name
  • Messages wouldn't have attachment icons and wouldn't show in the Attachment views; fixed now
  • Styling of opera:historysearch is now consistent with other internal Opera pages such as opera:about
  • Bodies of auto-saved drafts wouldn't display; fixed now
  • Downloads won't overwrite existing files without warning anymore
  • Fixed an issue with propagation of bottom margins that affected maps.google.com
  • Multiple optimizations in the internal search engine used for searching in visited pages and mail
  • Dozens of other fixes in the rendering engine
  • Fixed some more crashers and memory leaks…


Windows-specific
  • Fixed crasher when dragging a toolbar button from a webpage to the Start bar
  • Speed Dial sometimes showed thumbnails for wrong pages
  • Ellipses in menus were displaed incorrectly on Windows 98
  • Fixed a DDE communication issue
  • Interlaced PNG images with alpha transparency are now displayed correctly in Windows Vista
  • Nonsensical filter is no more shown in the file chooser for a form upload
  • Opera window is no more resizable in full screen mode
  • Left Alt+Shift doesn't switch the text direction anymore


UNIX-specific
  • Icons in the File menu are now properly sized in QT4 builds
  • Ensured that all Flash 9.0 r6* versions get the GTK main loop they need
  • When avoiding to overwrite an existing file, downloads are now renamed to a more scripting-friendly “filename_N.ext” instead of “filename (N).ext”
  • The GTK file chooser is used under XFCE


Mac-specific
  • Command-Option-Left/Right added as shortcuts to switch tabs
  • Fixed repaint issues on OS X 10.3
  • KeyCodes for the arrow keys are now compatible with those on Windows
  • The last character or word in an element with text-shadow and opacity is no more lost
  • The click that activates an inactive Opera window is now also handled (e.g. it activates buttons)
  • U+21A9 LEFTWARDS ARROW WITH HOOK character is now rendered properly
  • It's now possible to play the Dolphin Olympics game again :-)
  • Removed the Brushed Metal skin


Previously known issues fixed in this build
  • [BUG 285741] Opera doesn't freeze anymore when opening the feeds menu
  • [BUG 271585] The last directory used is now remembered in the Save As and Open dialogs


Known issues
  • [BUG 264975] Fixed display of smileys in mail and chat (almost fixed)
  • [BUG 290358] Bookmarks cannot be selected from the Bookmarks menu
  • [BUG 290355] Opera crashes when clicking bookmarks in Personal bar
  • If you used the Brushed Metal skin in the previous release, Opera for OS X will crash on startup
  • This build fails the Acid2 test
  • [BUG 284849] Yahoo! Mail beta, Flickr maps, Google reader may crash Opera
  • Won't run correctly on Windows 95 or 98
  • OS X version may cause persistent freezes on start-up
  • POP server cleaning has been disabled: When disabling the "Leave messages on server" option, existing messages on the server are not removed
  • [BUG 287170] On OS X, UI thumbnails have black backgrounds when using native skins
  • [BUG 184894] Native OS X UI elements cannot be used in skins
  • [BUG 280536] Opera on OS X will sometimes freeze when exiting Preferences
  • [BUG 286384] Yahoo mail is broken
  • [BUG 280261] Removing messages from filters does not work
  • [BUG 213115] Queued mail is sent at the next check, instead of waiting for manual action


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One More Snapshot

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It's Friday again - and we have managed to get some builds ready for you! Lots of fixes this time around as well (yes, our weeks are busy).

Known Issues Fixed in this Release
  • [BUG 284852] Wand doesn't save new passwords; old passwords should work properly.
  • [BUG 278770] Gmail does not work on 64-bit.
  • [BUG 281679] Bookmarks are not sorted correctly.


Other Changes
  • Scrolling when GMail chat window open causes no more repaint corruption.
  • Messages will no longer erroneously be marked as drafts or unread when upgrading mail.
  • String.localeCompare now works correctly.
  • Getters and setters now work on DOM interface prototypes.
  • opera:config settings are correctly stored now.
  • Files are now correctly saved with file extensions.
  • Lots of SVG fixes.
  • Lots of stability fixes.


UNIX-specific
  • Several fixes to plugins.
  • The operapluginwrapper should not take 100% CPU anymore.
  • Scrolling with keyboard is now much smoother.


Mac-specific
  • Removed proxy icon (icon in title bar).


And as always, do not forget to read the Known Issues:
  • Won't run correctly on Windows 95 or 98.
  • Won't work correctly on Mac OS X 10.3.
  • OS X version may cause persistent freezes on start-up.
  • POP server cleaning has been disabled: When disabling the "Leave messages on server" option, existing messages on the server are not removed.
  • [BUG 286384] Yahoo mail is broken.
  • [BUG 284849] Yahoo! Mail beta may crash Opera
  • [BUG 286186] There are no buttons in the customization dialog.
  • [BUG 286345] Search in widgets is broken.
  • [BUG 285741] Opera might freeze for a while when opening the feeds menu.
  • [BUG 271585] The last directory used is not remembered in the Save As and Open dialogs.
  • [BUG 264975] Graphical smilies do not work.
  • [BUG 280261] Removing messages from filters does not work.
  • [BUG 184894] Native OS X UI elements cannot be used in skins.
  • [BUG 213115] Queued mail is sent at the next check, instead of waiting for manual action.
  • [BUG 280536] Opera on OS X will sometimes freeze when exiting Preferences.
  • [BUG 274352] Upgrading with no mail/RSS accounts causes a mail upgrade that never finishes.


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Post-Alpha Opera 9.5 Release

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Just when you thought the Alpha was exciting, here's the first post-alpha release!

Previously the term weekly has been used to describe our "weekly" releases. As most of you know they don't always appear at the end of every week, therfore we will be endeavouring to deliver a steady stream of builds as they are ready. So be prepared, the next release may come on a Tuesday or any other day of the week.

So what have we been doing?

We have been working hard on performance and fixing bugs, so go and grab the build and help us make Opera 9.5 even better! :smile:

Known Issues
  • Some Linux/UNIX packages are not available this time
  • Won't run correctly on Windows 95 or 98
  • OS X version may cause persistent freezes on start-up
  • POP server cleaning has been disabled: When disabling the "Leave messages on server" option, existing messages on the server are not removed
  • Files are often saved with the incorrect file extension
  • [BUG 271585] The last directory used is not remembered in the Save As and Open dialogs
  • [BUG 284852] Wand doesn't save new passwords; old passwords should work properly
  • [BUG 284849] Yahoo! Mail beta may crash Opera
  • [BUG 278770] Gmail does not work on 64-bit
  • [BUG 264975] Graphical smilies do not work
  • [BUG 280261] Removing messages from filters does not work
  • [BUG 184894] Native OS X UI elements cannot be used in skins
  • [BUG 213115] Queued mail is sent at the next check, instead of waiting for manual action
  • [BUG 280536] Opera on OS X will sometimes freeze when exiting Preferences
  • [BUG 281679] Bookmarks are not sorted correctly
  • [BUG 274352] Upgrading with no mail/RSS accounts causes a mail upgrade that never finishes


Known Issues Fixed in this Release
  • [BUG 277681] Some order lists are displayed as unordered lists
  • [BUG 279302] Line wrapping does not work correctly in some cases, causing overly long lines of text and horizontal scrollbars; often seen at Wikipedia
  • [BUG 280763] On OS X, menus on some web sites won't work if they open over Flash content
  • [BUG 281550] Setting an external source viewer does not work


Other Changes
  • The View bar is available in the Appearance dialog again
  • Added APNG 1.0 support for use on web pages and in skins
  • Made Opera Mail multi-threaded for improved performanced
  • Further notification improvements, including a close button on notifications
  • Added ability to select an application from the Download dialog to open the file if no application is associated with the file type
  • Numerous stability fixes
  • Several rendering engine fixes
  • Fixed a problem where the cursor in the source viewer was positioned at the end
  • Fixed a problem where the text color (inside tables) would change when closing the Content Block dialog
  • Fixed a problem where numbers (and borders) were not shown in configured Speed Dial entries
  • Fixed a problem where text was squished/mashed together after removing a Speed Dial thumbnail
  • Fixed a problem where links focused by inline find could not be activated by pressing Enter
  • Fixed IE bookmark folder import


Windows-specific
  • Greatly improved performance with alpha transparency (animations, scrolling)


Mac-specific
  • Further tweaking of tabs in native skin
  • Removed page loading spinner from Address bar
  • Rounded edges on many dialog Title bars
  • Fixed application window focus/activation problems
  • Fixed problems with Flash problems with wmode=opaque and CSS hover
  • Prevent some start-up freezes
  • Pulsing progress bar


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Go and get Opera 9.5 alpha!

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Fasten your seatbelts, and get ready to test drive Kestrel yourself. After more than a year of development, we invite you to test Opera 9.5 alpha and tell us what you think about it.
In short, Opera 9.5 alpha is:
  • Performance
  • Full history search
  • Improved site compatibility
  • Access for everyone
  • Improved platform integration
  • Preview of bookmark and Speed Dial synchronization
  • Magic Windows build number :jester:
And much more! Take a look at the huge changelogs :faint: to see what is new:
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Don't forget to report bugs, but check the Known Issues list in the changelogs and discuss them in the Beta Testing forum, in the opera.beta newsgroup, or in #weekly first.

And now: go and get it! :cheers: We recommend that you make a clean install and copy over your profile data (but not your preferences file) if you'd like to test the upgrade procedure. You may not be able to downgrade if you upgrade an existing install!

Stay tuned for more updates and builds on the Desktop Team blog.

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