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Opera 9.6 released: Discover Opera!

By Huib Kleinhout. Wednesday, 8. October 2008, 07:56:00

Opera 9.6 final has been released today!

Thanks for bug hunting and giving feedback.

Opera 9.6 adds synchronization of custom searches and typed history with Opera Link, several new features in Opera Mail, a nice preview page for feeds and last but not least: improved stability and performance. Read the full changelog for all changes since 9.52.

Discover Opera
We also launched a new site today: Discover Opera. It shows in simple steps how to use many of the powerful Opera features. Do you know them all?
What is your favorite feature in Opera? Tell us which feature you like most and what others should discover in Opera

Now check out the brushed-up Choose Opera Blog and download Opera!

Enjoy!
The Deskop Team

Opera 9.6 RC 2Focus on Desktop

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Philee # 8. October 2008, 12:21

Crash http://blog.goo.ne.jp/staffblog/index.rdf

By hogehogehoge, # 8. October 2008, 08:05:25

Crashes here, too.

ionbulgar # 8. October 2008, 12:26

Very fast, thank you!

grogge # 8. October 2008, 12:46

Scrollmarker makes scrolling very choppy, so I turned it off again immediately. Please, try to optimise it.

http://www.comprafacil.com.br

Opera is stuck in an infinite relaoding loop, renders nothin.

http://blog.goo.ne.jp/staffblog/index.rdf

Crash on Windows XP.

Chris P. # 8. October 2008, 12:50

http://blog.goo.ne.jp/staffblog/index.rdf

Crash confirmed.

Michael # 8. October 2008, 12:55

Thanks for the new version... go on to 10.0

lamarca # 8. October 2008, 13:11

Originally posted by Philee:

Crash http://blog.goo.ne.jp/staffblog/index.rdf

confirmed.

Sahtor # 8. October 2008, 13:28

Any reason official Opera defaults to QT3 in Hardy when QT4 is available as RC2 ?

EricJH # 8. October 2008, 13:32

Congrats with the new release as always.

I like the Discover Opera site. Very well done. Also love the new house style on that page.

Originally posted by hogehogehoge:

Crash http://blog.goo.ne.jp/staffblog/index.rdf

Confirmes on Vista 32 SP1.

Originally posted by rmadeira:

Don't open this website: http://www.comprafacil.com.br

It loads but won't display.

Originally posted by piroxicam:

When will the Peregrine snapshots be appearing here?

Copy that

Cyro # 8. October 2008, 13:33

Morphinomenal. I'll perform a clean install to check if all my bugs were fixed.

Luchio # 8. October 2008, 13:39

I don't see the scroll marker under Linux, how does that work?

I probably just don't understand how it's supposed to work...

sebt # 8. October 2008, 13:47

Thanks for the release!

Just to confirm, 9.6 release is the same build number for Linux/Windows as RC2? +1 for the suggestion to include build numbers for released versions/betas here at the desktopteam blog, it would save confusion for those of us who are routinely downloading and testing snapshots.

The following regression remains in 9.6 final from 9.52 (the problem was introduced at the last pre-RC 9.6 build):

If the panel is left open on the left (I usually leave it open on Mail), quitting and restarting Opera the panel defaults to a new (wider) size, sufficient for the Check/Send, Compose and Start Search buttons/box to all appear on one line. Sizing the panel down moves Start Search underneath the buttons (where it always has been for me).

I did comment on this in the previous two RC release blogs; can this annoyance be fixed? Every time I run O, I have to resize my panels!

Linux, Qt3/Shared-GCC4.

Keep up the good work O-team!!

Seb

sebt # 8. October 2008, 13:52

@Sahtor: Qt4 builds are slightly more buggy than Qt3 builds at present, in the area of certain (minor) UI issues. I assume that's the reason for downloads defaulting to Qt3 builds at present. It's likely that Qt4 builds will become the default as Opera's dev-team starts to leverage the features of Qt4 in upcoming releases.

Seb

MerolaC # 8. October 2008, 13:55

Mem leak, confirmed.
Win XP SP2

Anyway, other than that, is working wonderfull!!
Thanks!!!
Bye, MerolaC

homtiri # 8. October 2008, 14:08

Wow great news.. But please make a shared qt4 build (like the build 4436)

nataniel # 8. October 2008, 14:14

I have already posted that message on the Mac Team blog, but I wanted to copy it on the official announce too :

Thanks for your work

Unfortunately, I have always the same problems (on mac version) :

- Lots of artefacts since Opera 9.2x, non-loaded or corrupted images, this bug has been confirmed by many mac users for months and has never been fixed,
- Opera is still not compatible with lots of scripts (menus brokens, infinite loop, and so on) that TraceMonkey or V8 execute perfectly. Websites are not optimized for them, they are too young, in test, not used by average users, and already better so... Why is Opera engine so incompatible ?

- Opera crashes on Deezer.com when I search an artist or a song with accentuated letters like "hélène" (bug confirmed and reported)
- search area unselectable most of time on the same website,
- excessive slowness compared to windows version

Tamil # 8. October 2008, 14:15

Originally posted by Luchio:

I don't see the scroll marker under Linux, how does that work?

Make sure you use Opera Standard skin.

Originally posted by Luchio:

I probably just don't understand how it's supposed to work...

See this.

Matt # 8. October 2008, 14:41

Hooray, it's already here!

Thanks, Opera!

piotersu # 8. October 2008, 15:08

Just wanted to inform that the default download server for Poland - "PL - CI-Task FTP" doesn't work and seemingly hasn't worked for long.

Milton Arístides Jovel Meléndez # 8. October 2008, 15:14

On Windows XP http://prodigy.msn.com/ and when try to Login in this blog don't see correctly

illiad # 8. October 2008, 15:19

Originally posted by dantesoft as a quote:

how to use many of the powerfull Opera features.

who said that?? - use 'quote=name' to show..

to learn about opera, search the proper forum..
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/search.dml

look for answers!!!
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/todays.dml?username=&datemodifier=newer&limitdate=yst&sortby=lastum&section=todaysposts

add a question to it as well!! - thats how I learned..

bobwonderful # 8. October 2008, 15:27

Synchronization on bookmarks is going crazy.. it added tons of duplicate bookmarks!!

Other than that.. 9.52 was working great for me.

Charles Schloss # 8. October 2008, 15:33

Playing with Opera 9.6 right now

EricJH # 8. October 2008, 15:40

Originally posted by dantesoft:

how to use many of the powerfull Opera features. Do you know them all?

Try Discover Opera for starters.

AKAPanamaJack # 8. October 2008, 16:05

flamebait removed

angler # 8. October 2008, 16:13

One of the most used features I use is what is known now as Mouse Flips. I find that many people don't know about this and would be a great thing to list on the new Discover Opera page.

angler # 8. October 2008, 16:22

Crashes on Debian Linux gcc4 qt4 build also.
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/staffblog/index.rdf

Tim Altman # 8. October 2008, 16:31

Build numbers are listed on the http://snapshot.opera.com/ pages.

@Alkarex: No crash here on Windows or OS X.

Francisco Herrera # 8. October 2008, 16:32

Sometimes opera goes crazy using 50%CPU and eating all memory available (500Mb+ in my case).

I have to kill it

..... dont know what triggers this behavior yet...

Version 9.60
Build 10447
Platform Win32
System Windows XP
Java Sun Java Runtime Environment version 1.6
XHTML+Voice Plug-in not loaded

vpx # 8. October 2008, 16:50

Why does a site as popular as hotmail.com don't work with Opera? It's unacceptable.

Boruteczko # 8. October 2008, 16:56

Don't open this website: http://www.comprafacil.com.br

Hmm...When "identify as Internet Explorer" is on, and "enable JavaScript" is off it works.

Crash http://blog.goo.ne.jp/staffblog/index.rdf
Can't confirm on Windows XP SP3, "dirty" installation.

Kamalesh # 8. October 2008, 16:57

Great work on v9.6 and the new Opera sites! Looks great. (I've got my binoculars out looking for Peregrine!)

FYI, just noticed that the Mac download from "US - Tradebit" is corrupted (it's randomly chosen). Please take it off the list, if possible.

NovemberDobby # 8. October 2008, 17:23

@MetalRaise

Submissions to DA have been working fine for me in this build and previous weeklys. What platform are you on?

Mark Gillespie # 8. October 2008, 17:26

Looking forwards to all the goodies that Peregrine brings... Inline Spell Checker mmmmm nice... One of the few things that Firefox/Thunderbird does better is finally resolved. I hope Request Read Receipt comes to....

David # 8. October 2008, 17:38

@hogehogehoge: Crash confirmed Vista SP1 64bit.

Vítor # 8. October 2008, 17:51

Discover Opera it's a great idea, now let's spread the word all over the Earth, We need a French, a Chinese, a Portuguese, a Spanish version (etc. etc.) now! US is not ALL net.

arbuzas # 8. October 2008, 17:52

Good news...but where I can find QT4 version for Linux (RPM) ? Because from download page there is only for QT3 which looks ugly

Charbel Hindi # 8. October 2008, 17:52

Mnay thanks Opera Team

Marcin Grotomirski # 8. October 2008, 17:59

Look at this screenshot:
http://files.myopera.com/grotos/files/cut.png

ohxten # 8. October 2008, 18:00

Congrats. However, my FluxBB forum still doesn't work (http://www.16software.com/forums), even though it's valid HTML/XHTML/CSS.

ohxten # 8. October 2008, 18:02

Also, if you go to Gmail and immediately open a new tab after you submit your login details, and then go back to the Gmail tab after it has loaded, some of the page will be off of the screen without a horizontal scrollbar. I submitted this bug a while ago. If you login to Gmail without switching tabs while it's logging in, this doesn't happen.

flaxthejute # 8. October 2008, 18:29

@devs: Can we have an estimate of when websense-hobbled folk will be able to use Opera? See http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=230135 for details.

PS this works fine at home, it's just via websense that I can't use it. Note: that's can't use it not that it's not pretty or has a cosmetic problem or some such...

DoubleT # 8. October 2008, 19:12

Originally posted by Alkarex:

http://alexandre.alapetite.net/cv/foaf.rdf.xml

Crash confirmed. Win2k.

emagius # 8. October 2008, 19:27

Regression:

Same proxy auth/NTLM error as previous 9.60 builds. The first visit to each website domain displays an error page. Reloading the page (or visiting another page on the same website domain) corrects the error for that domain.

9.52 worked fine.

shellscape # 8. October 2008, 19:28

Spam removed.

Spam removed?! I was linking to actual problems which still exists in Opera 9.60

THIS IS NOT SPAM. THESE ARE LINKS TO THREADS IN THE **OPERA COMMUNITY** WHICH DESCRIBE AN ISSUE WITH OPERA.

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Great! Now if you would only listen to your community and remove (or provide an option to ignore) the ridiculous 127.0.0.1 hosts file blocking/ignoring, then I could actually use the latest version for debugging my websites!

Listen to your users and developers, or your browser wont be taken seriously by them!

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=246931
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=236014
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=226872&t=1214490581&page=1#comment2628000
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=238645

Rijk # 8. October 2008, 19:40

@grotos: we know. The header is now clickable and that caused it be stop wrapping, but some better solution needs to be found.

@vpx: please file bug reports about issues, especially new issues. As we're not seeing a big flood of complaints about Hotmail now, you might want to be more specific and/or check whether some setting gets in the way on your end.

@MetalRaise: there's supposed to be a browser.js patch in place for the deviantart upload button, they have some strange script targeting Opera. Maybe there was a change that broke this fix, we got a few new bug reports about this in september. I'll ask.

thobi # 8. October 2008, 19:47

cvetancaikov # 8. October 2008, 19:49

Opera Link really goes crazy between two computers. I delete all duplicates with the option from My Opera site and clean up old bookmarks. The next day after i have used the other computer i end up with tons of duplicates even of the bookmarks i have deleted.

Different number for different links and folders. Some links have hundreds of duplicates !

((((((

Argoyne # 8. October 2008, 19:50

The top property still causes CSS tooltips to fail

Shane Bundy # 8. October 2008, 20:12

madcatz.com software button floating?

Still not fixed.

galanga # 8. October 2008, 20:34

ARRRRGHHHH !!!

the "load" and "DOMContentLoaded" events are completely messed up with iframes !!!

I didn't look before (I have a life...) but there were a similar problem already reported here

PLEEEAAASE fix that !!!

My User JS iframes need those events !

EDIT 09/10/08 :
I found fixes for my script, but don't know it the changes in 9.60 are bugs or "features" :

1/ It seems that DOMContentLoaded doesn't work anymore on "document" :
document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(e) ... : DON'T WORK with 9.60 but it works with 9.52
=> window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(e) ... : OK with 9.60 and 9.52

2/ If an iframe A has sub-iframes, and if a script "empties" those sub-iframes with that instruction :

theSubIframes[iElem].src = '';

Then the iframe A never ends loading, and then the 'load' event is never throwed on it.
It works by replacing the previous instruction by :

elem.parentNode.removeChild(elem);

Maybe those changes are consequences of those items in ChangeLog :
* Opera now stops loading pages with iframes when closing the page or pressing stop
* Improved Acid3 support: The document property has been removed from iframe objects for compatibility with Gecko, WebKit, and the Acid3 test

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