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Weekly build, return of the Macintosh!

By Adam Minchintonminch. Friday, February 24, 2006 1:48:47 PM

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WARNING: Please be sure to read the known issues list below.

In the past week there has been a steady improvement on all platforms as we drive towards a Beta. Unfortunately there has been some regressions, notably display of mail, but please be sure to check the Known Issues below for more information. Overall these new builds contain lots of improvements.

This week Macintosh makes its return to the weekly build round. After receiving our shiny new iMac from Apple, the last two weeks have been very busy improving Opera for Macintosh, especially the Intel part. Those of you who have a new iMac or MacBook Pro know, that you have been unable to connect to the Internet. That's all now changed! We are also now pleased to announce that our Opera Merlin Universal Binary contains the same features for PowerPC and Intel! Java, the final missing feature, has now been added for Intel.

All platforms changes:
  • Default mode for cycling tabs with Ctrl+Tab without popup window is now visible tab order.
  • Added quotes to paths in opera:config to prevent path corruption - opera:config can now be used again.
  • In content blocking mode, clicking an image or plug-in shows all other content that matches the filter.
  • Content blocker shows previously blocked content when entering content blocking mode.
  • Content blocker filters are no longer case sensitive.
  • Leaving content blocking mode removes all content that matches the new filters, including pages in inline frames.
  • Improved blocking of plug-in content when an object tag is used without an embed tag.
  • Improved display of content blocker toolbar.
  • Reduced delay for thumbnail tooltips.
  • Added disk caching for BitTorrent to improve speed.
  • Moved site preferences to Preferences - Advanced - Content.
  • DCC chat now respects the nosave and nodownload switches in kiosk mode.
  • Improved handling of removed elements in Web Forms 2.0 repetition.
  • Added support for stepping in time inputs.
  • Fixed a crash when hiding plugins with display:none;
  • General stability fixes

Mac specific changes:
  • Intel Macs now work
  • Java updated to 1.4x/1.5x for PPC
  • Java introduced for Intel (1.4x/1.5x)

Unix specific changes:
  • Fix on Ctrl+Tab "Cycle without showing list"
  • File input/upload location now remembered
  • Improved window manager session management

Known issues:
  • Mail doesn't show until window is resized
  • Sometimes dialogs show up empty on Mac

Download links:
Windows Build 8238
Macintosh Build 3240
UNIX Build 1670

BitTorrent and Content Blocking in this weekly buildWeekly build

Comments

superjoppe Friday, February 24, 2006 4:42:43 PM

Macintosh improvements <3
Maybe you can make that strange panel to a drawer when you're still on the iMac? ^^

SergeiVinny-perm Friday, February 24, 2006 4:45:40 PM

it works :-D thanks for this weekly build :-)

Tyskistyskis Friday, February 24, 2006 4:46:39 PM

I get 100% CPU-use on this, as last weeks. Wonder why...
But it's much quicker than preview 2 for me.

Petter Nilsenmitchman2 Friday, February 24, 2006 4:49:28 PM

tyskis: is this on any particular webpage? If you disable plugins, do you get the same?

Brian RubinVeloxi Friday, February 24, 2006 4:49:30 PM

Dude, why are all my emails empty now? ARG.

Petter Nilsenmitchman2 Friday, February 24, 2006 4:50:45 PM

Let me quote the top of the posting:

WARNING: Please be sure to read the known issues list below.

Brian RubinVeloxi Friday, February 24, 2006 4:57:09 PM

Whoop, that's what I get for gettin' all excited and not readin' before I download. Sorry 'bout that. wink

pdmsjohn Friday, February 24, 2006 4:57:50 PM

When I installed this build, all my preferences disappeared. I also now have no bookmarks, no newsfeeds etc.

:-(

Kirillincident404 Friday, February 24, 2006 4:59:49 PM

Arghh, downloading it from home, via dialup. Start to download before this post, and only now it 97%. Can't wait to test it

Petter Nilsenmitchman2 Friday, February 24, 2006 5:00:36 PM

Are you sure it wasn't installed in a different location? (and you really should install these separately, if possible)

Idan AdarYtseJam Friday, February 24, 2006 5:03:03 PM

One question, though: How do you resize the mail window so the emails will be viewable again? smile

I've had my Opera setup now for so many years, I don't even remember how to change certain things. lol. bigsmile

Petter Nilsenmitchman2 Friday, February 24, 2006 5:04:04 PM

Pressing F4 twice on each email works for me :-)

pdmsjohn Friday, February 24, 2006 5:04:18 PM

No it was installed in the same location. But the preferences path is now
C:\Program Files\Opera\profile\opera6.ini. I think it may heva been in "C:\Documents and Settings\john.carpenter\Application Data\Opera\Opera" before.

Can I change where Opera looks for this? Not sure why it reverted.

(And I use the same install location otherwise I'll never end up using the weekly builds. But obviously I have to live with the risk of losing stuff)

Tyskistyskis Friday, February 24, 2006 5:07:49 PM

mitchman2: did some testing, and found out the cause. Plugins are fine, the problem only occurs at http://www.demonoid.com/ , and only with javascript on, so I guess it's some flawed script om that site. Now I simply can block it with site-preferences. Thanks for the help, and these great builds!

АлександрOrlando Friday, February 24, 2006 5:09:35 PM

mitchman2, I returned to 8.52 from last weekly (because of tab crash bug) and get 100% CPU bug there*. sad But this build works without problems in the meantime. Thanks!

*all my opera installs in different directories. 100% CPU bug reveals independently from sites I visit.

pdmsjohn Friday, February 24, 2006 5:09:41 PM

One thing that bugs me about Opera's newsfeeds is that if I add a newsfeed but don't create a mail account, I can't get the "Mail" panel on the left. I can use the Feeds menu but in all honesty it's nothing like as useful. Before my prefs were lost I had to create a dummy mail or newsgroup account which I will never use. Seems a bit daft to me. I think the "Mail" panel should appear whether I have newsgroups, mail or newsfeeds.

(And while I'm at it, a "Do you want to post the form data again?" option when hitting refresh after posting like Firefox and IE would be very useful too!)

Sorry to whinge as I'm loving Opera 9 so far...!

Petter Nilsenmitchman2 Friday, February 24, 2006 5:17:02 PM

@pdmsjohn: sounds to me like you installed the new build with local profiles whiles the previous one was using multiuser profiles. That would explain the path change.

Tracio Friday, February 24, 2006 5:17:16 PM

Content blocker shows previously blocked content when entering content blocking mode.

When blocking a specific URL or using a wildcard to block some specific directory, once I close the page, clean the cache, load the same page and enter content blocking mode, it shows many images as blocked that are not actually being blocked. Also, the details dialog does not show the specific URLs I previously entered for that site (they show up in the general dialog though).

Is this a known problem?.

pdmsjohn Friday, February 24, 2006 5:17:56 PM

Quite likely mitchman - but the installer didn't give me the option. sad

Is there any way to change this now?

Gábor LehelIllissius Friday, February 24, 2006 5:18:30 PM

yay! focusing of tabs after closing the active one is back to the normal ordering again, in the linux version. please forward my undying gratitude to the developer responsible... smile

aimzz Friday, February 24, 2006 5:19:21 PM

Beta Forum thread for this build:
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=126669&page=1#comment1453463

Idan AdarYtseJam Friday, February 24, 2006 5:22:46 PM

mitchman2, clicking twice on the panel thingy works as well. smile

It seems that HTML display of newsfeed is still not fixed... :\
(http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=124636)
I wish M2 will get some attention... sigh...

porneL Friday, February 24, 2006 5:31:56 PM

Good to hear that Opera focuses on Mac again - maybe UI could get some improvements?

rseiler Friday, February 24, 2006 5:44:04 PM

Just curious: When you guys in Opera upgrade your weekly builds on your own PC's, do you always start clean? That is, deleting both the Opera Program Files directory as well as the profile directory?

I suppose that's the only sure way to do it, but you must be tempted to just install on top.

Yallis Friday, February 24, 2006 5:46:18 PM

100% CPU usage here as well. Intel-linux, shared QT, plug-ins disabled.

RachidRachidNL Friday, February 24, 2006 5:56:37 PM

Good news for the Mac users smile. I'm waiting though for improvements on the IMAP backend. Let's hope the bug with messages not appearing until the user resizes a window is a sign that something's going on when it comes to Opera Mail. wink

Espen B. AnderssonEspenA Friday, February 24, 2006 6:01:02 PM

No progress on various favicon issues? In this build the favicon at norskwebforum.no only shows up as a dark box. *reporting*

xpahos Friday, February 24, 2006 6:03:57 PM

tnx, good work )))

Non-Tropponon-troppo Friday, February 24, 2006 6:04:11 PM

The infuriatingly annonying bug for beta testers is still here!!!

I use opera profiles (using /settings commandline) to allow me to use different configuration; clean, custom, and various settings for testing.

Since 9 the Opera directory is broken, and custom prifiles clash. This makes beta testing far more difficult! — I'd really appreciate this was fixed. It has been bugged AFAIK.

Hugo Del Castillohcastill Friday, February 24, 2006 6:16:48 PM

http://www.rollingstone.com/ works again!! Thanks.

Sin2x Friday, February 24, 2006 6:18:52 PM

100% CPU use too. No plug-ins, widgets etc. Just a clean install on WinXP SP2. Previous build had this problem too.

Hermenhermen2048 Friday, February 24, 2006 6:19:06 PM

non-troppo: confirmed broken since 9tp1 :'(

PatentEater Friday, February 24, 2006 6:28:40 PM

Hi!

Are the Opera developers thinking about implementing a "full page capture" feature? What I mean is something equivalent to this: http://andy.5263.org/screengrab/

Some time ago I saw a TV coverage regarding e-commerce and fraud. They recommended that you should always read and make a screenshot of the general terms and conditions of trade (GTCT) of the shop you're dealing with (as evidence). The thing is, they demonstrated how to do that in Internet Explorer, instructing you to press the print key, insert it into paint, go back and scroll the page (because it didn't fit into the height of the window), press print again, insert it into paint etc.
What a pain!

Now the point I'm trying to make is, that a full page capture feature can be an important reason for a person to switch to Opera. The common user actually doesn't care much about features like mouse gestures, tabbed browsing etc. Some people really are unwilling to learn and understand such things. However, capturing a full page is something they can immediately make sense of, and you can use it as an additional "killer" argument to convince other users of the usefulness of Opera.

Dear dev team, can we have this, please? smile

FataL Friday, February 24, 2006 6:30:01 PM

Guys that weekly builds getting cool! smile
Any news on fixing this annoing Black Square bug? Don't even think to release third major version (since 7) of Opera without fixing this. wink

Lito Friday, February 24, 2006 6:44:55 PM

Last.fm looks right again, thank you! And also I don't have to re-type my password to login into my Yahoo account.

Words Friday, February 24, 2006 6:54:58 PM

Weird... it completely borks on an embedded video file on my blog. Same file and code works fine on my other site. Tried with a clean install and get the same problem... either blank or the plug-in picks up some other image.

Jeff Schillerjeffschiller Friday, February 24, 2006 6:56:47 PM

Could you give any estimate on how soon we can expect the NTLM problems fixed? Thanks!

Ralf Demuthlachralle Friday, February 24, 2006 6:57:41 PM

Nice improvements, especially on Mac! smile

I second supperjoppes request for drawers. bigsmile

chaimav Friday, February 24, 2006 6:58:24 PM

Love the improved block interface (ability to see which images were previously blocked) but I miss the abilty to see and edit the entire url list.

Smy Friday, February 24, 2006 7:07:11 PM

Please do something with Opera 9 look with Style XP soft [especial Panther theme from mac] - beacouse 8.x versions was good, but the newest one looks terrible ;/

Steggy Friday, February 24, 2006 7:15:01 PM

Working great so far. The additions to content blocking were a nice touch! smile

Animatrix Friday, February 24, 2006 7:15:01 PM

Hi !!

I have submitted a bug, but it is always here !
The bug is on Unix/Linux only (not for Windows and for Mac, I don't know).

When I want to type a letter with ^ pr ¨, I can't.
Indeed, only the ^ or ¨, before I type e, a ,o .....

I hope, you have understand this bug (hard to explain)

PabloDiablo Friday, February 24, 2006 7:15:30 PM

Great Work. But as wit the 2nd build I can't use the "choose" button in Gmail. In the first build (Windows build 8219) there is no problem with that. But as I said great work, anyway.

Mike Dallosmikedallos Friday, February 24, 2006 7:26:34 PM

Awesome.........I'm lovin' it!

XP SP-2!!

Mike

Petter Nilsenmitchman2 Friday, February 24, 2006 7:35:44 PM

Please submit all bugs at http://bugs.opera.com/wizard/ for issues you haven't reported before. Bugs are fixed sorted by priority usually, so if your bug has not been fixed in a new release, it doesn't mean it will be ignored!

@HeeZy: Please check and make sure you do not have a site specific setting for that site set to delete cookies on exit.

@Smy: Please bugreport it.

As aimzz said, use http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=126669 for comments please smile

MeKsevio Friday, February 24, 2006 7:39:19 PM

For some reason when I click on the mac link at the top of the page, it's trying to display the .dmg file as text.

Petter Nilsenmitchman2 Friday, February 24, 2006 7:46:38 PM

Right-click and save as should work. I guess you have the mime association set to open with opera on .dmg filetypes, you can change that in Preferences->Advanced->Downloads.

Wolfram KresseCruncher Friday, February 24, 2006 8:21:14 PM

Is there a chance the thumbnails will get fixed for Win98? cry
(I know, I know...WIR... :sigh: )

Hank_Chinaski Friday, February 24, 2006 8:21:48 PM

What's up with preferences-advanced-content-style options-my style sheet?The path to my user.css is there,but it's not loaded!
Major bummer,now all these annoying flash-ads suddenly show up,links that open in a new window aren't indicated anymore with a cross-hair cursor and so forth,hmm...

Guanyao Chenggyc Friday, February 24, 2006 8:31:59 PM

The Mac version beachballs a lot and I've had to force quit it a lot. However, I understand that this is a price to pay for living on the bleeding edge so I still thank the Opera team for these weekyl builds.

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