Better late than never, right?

By MariusB. Monday, 20. March 2006, 11:36:42

We have a new weekly build for you to play with. We've fixed plenty of bugs on all platforms, and one of the biggest changes this week is a completely new Windows installer.

Our old installer is starting to show it's age, and for some time now we've been working on a new one using the Windows Installer engine. This change has several advantages. Windows Installer is the native install system on the platform, it provides more powerful network installation options, and it allow us to translate the installer to more languages. But it has drawbacks as well. Windows Installer is not pre-installed on older Windows systems, and the package will be a bit larger. The transition has to be made sooner or later, and we think that the advantages now outweigh the disadvantages.

Happy bug hunting!

Changelog:

Tabbed browsing preferences have been moved to Preferences - Advanced - Tabs.
Fix for Shift+Click text selection.
Removed support for SGML comments in HTML. Comment parsing is now based on the Web Applications 1.0 draft.
Fix to allow object tags with an empty data attribute to load plug-ins.
Fix for loading PDF documents in a plug-in via the POST method.
Implemented stepUp and stepDown for Web Forms 2.0 date inputs.
Added support for Audio, as described in the Web Applications 1.0 draft.
Images held only in memory using the Image() constructor now report the correct dimensions.
Added support for controlling plug-ins with site specific preferences.
Clicking a label for a checkbox now fires events for the associated input.
Formchange event is now fired when contents of the form are changed.
Several designMode improvements, including handling of queryCommandEnabled and queryCommandState, and converting multiple paragraphs into list items.
Added support for dynamically generated script tags in SVG.
Allowed animating of flood-color in SVG using animateColor.
Fix for mouse events in widgets.
Dragging a scrollbar in a widget no longer drags the widget.
Fixed handling of :hover over block elements.
Improved handling of whitespace around inline elements.
Fixed aligning of fonts on buttons.
Self closing tags no longer break layout.

Mac specific:

Quote from mac developer minch:
This build is fantastic!
Adobe has released a preview version of Macromedia Flash-plugin update for Intel-based Macs. This update is now compatible with Opera. Download is available at: <http://www.macromedia.com/go/2dda3d81>.

Windows specific:

For Windows users, this weekly build is only available in Windows Installer format. If your computer does not yet have the Windows Installer, it can be downloaded from the Microsoft download page.

Windows Installer specific:

Installers are notoriously difficult to set up correctly for all systems, there are just too many different computer setups in the world for us to think of all of them. Anticipating that some of you might find bugs in the installer, we've set the installer to write a local log as it progresses. This log is stored in the file

install_log.txt

which is placed in the folder where the installer is run from. If you encounter problems while running the installer, we would very much appreciate it if you would file a bug report and provide the log as an attachment. The log will be overwritten if you run the installer twice, so please file the bug report first, and retry afterwords.

If your install goes smoothly, just ignore or delete the log.

Known issues:

(mac) Keyboard shortcuts with "ctrl" as modifier can cause Opera to crash.
(Windows installer) A few files are not removed on uninstall and have to be deleted manually.

Download links:

Windows Build 8303

Macintosh Build 3278

UNIX Build 161

...but not yet ;)about:installer

Comments

Great!

Am I first? :]

By aristoi, # 20. March 2006, 13:13:49

The hunt is on!

Looks like the UNIX build is still leaking. I'd guess the others do too.

By velmu, # 20. March 2006, 13:14:16

small thing: the descriptions of the download-links in the post are wrong (still the old numbers).

/me of to check the new installer out

By atog, # 20. March 2006, 13:18:32

Change link text in windows build from "Windows Build 8265" to 8303

By incident404, # 20. March 2006, 13:18:50

Thanks guys. Corrected :-)

By olli, # 20. March 2006, 13:20:04

Great, Thanks!

By vladann, # 20. March 2006, 13:21:20

Hey, my reported bug is fixed

Nice work and the installer seemes to be much better!

By Pondus, # 20. March 2006, 13:22:53

Yay! Go Go improve the macintosh version

By superjoppe, # 20. March 2006, 13:26:24

el mejor navegador del mundo.

By punkesito, # 20. March 2006, 13:28:23

Installed.

Fixed handling of :hover over block elements.

By hasina, # 20. March 2006, 13:30:26

I'm not really an installshield fan, but hey, like you say, it's probably inevitable anyway in the long run. (one of my annoyances is it has trouble with installing from subst'ed drive letters)
Maybe now it will be easier to roll out in big companies? (silent install possible?)

keep up the weekly builds

By mattie, # 20. March 2006, 13:34:25

... and still no NTLM working ...

By Scorpio75, # 20. March 2006, 13:35:09

Are you guys sure this is the correct build?
The tabs options is exactly like before.

Also, this build has the close tab X on my tabs even though it is disabled and it doesn't apply my Web page's settings from the preferences...

By YtseJam, # 20. March 2006, 13:38:16

downloading now! hope my wand passwords are working again!

By kyleabaker, # 20. March 2006, 13:41:45

Do'h! Still no NTLM, your right.
Well maybe I can use Opera next week

By MadElk, # 20. March 2006, 13:44:51

Audio object, yay! This opens some nice possibilities for widget creators

By Jakub81, # 20. March 2006, 13:45:15

First impressions:

• Fixed bug with incorrectly displayed links (example: nnm.ru)
• Not fixed bug with "Choose..." button for uploading files. (still need to doubleclick on it)

And minor installation cosmetic bug. Text not fit install window. (Screenshot)

By incident404, # 20. March 2006, 13:53:16

Am I the only one that has problem with Flash??
Cant get any flashpages to work not even able to go to Macromedia for downloading flash again......???
Tried installation on 2 different machines and the same on both??

By julio66, # 20. March 2006, 13:54:29

What about mail? Is earlier unwanted mail behaviour corrected? I mean the case when mail did not show up.

By Jazmo, # 20. March 2006, 13:56:30

Opera 9.00 Build 8265 and 8303 BUG!

WebMail www.inbox.com

Normal:

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d107/Montanav/o.png

When deleted messages:

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d107/Montanav/o1.png

By vladann, # 20. March 2006, 13:57:04

On Windows there is a bug with history - I go from http://my.opera.com/desktopteam to http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/show.dml/186525#comments , but I see wrong number of comments. After manual refresh I see all comments.

By DenisCool, # 20. March 2006, 13:58:15

julio66:

Confirmed, i don't see flash banners

By incident404, # 20. March 2006, 13:59:02

YtseJam:
opera:config#UserPrefs|ShowCloseButtons
Checker in the Tools-Preferences-General don't work. If you change there - opera will crash on exit

By incident404, # 20. March 2006, 14:03:46

About flash issue:
You all have to download and install flash plug-in!

By unal, # 20. March 2006, 14:05:17

Downloaded and installed.

By Tamil, # 20. March 2006, 14:05:20

[img]http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/7712/build8303m2ba.jpg
#1.Still not displaying php properly.
#2.gif speed is still fast.
#3.Upload sites like http://www.imageshack.us/ is still having cookie issues.

Love those betas

By thexfile, # 20. March 2006, 14:07:57

google reader works with this build.. great work..

By weeguy, # 20. March 2006, 14:08:52

unal: Are you sure? I need to download and install FlashPlayer again?

By incident404, # 20. March 2006, 14:10:27

Finally it is here, Thx

By waelnasreddine, # 20. March 2006, 14:12:50

* clicking on the active tab doesn't send it to back anymore.
* selecting "close" from the right-click menu (on the active tab) doesn't close the tab.

By padule, # 20. March 2006, 14:13:19

Awesome: Clicking a label for a checkbox now fires events for the associated input.

By TheMajor, # 20. March 2006, 14:14:43

Guys help please!!!

Trying to install the new build... run the installer, get the window saying preparing to install, and then get a pop up message saying INCORRECT COMMAND LINE PARAMETERS Windows installer V2.00.2600.1106 Copyright Micro$oft Corporation bla bla bla bla

Are there any alternative ways of installing Opera???

By rodel, # 20. March 2006, 14:19:18

Flash has been removed from the installer. There will probably be a way to easily download and install it from Macromedia, similar to the way it works with Java today.

Originally posted by padule:

clicking on the active tab doesn't send it to back anymore.

Not by default, which is the same as in Opera 8. Try the "Click on tab to minimize" setting.

Originally posted by rodel:

Are there any alternative ways of installing Opera???

Please check the install_log.txt file, as explained in the announcement.

By haavard, # 20. March 2006, 14:21:32

Some notes:

- :hover is not working for some of my links anymore: http://design-noir.de/webdev/
Used to work with the previous build.

- When viewing the source of the site above, is not fully marked as a comment.
Maybe related to the new comment parsing.

- CSS1 bug: http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Test/CSS2.1/current/t09-c5526c-display-00-e.htm

- rgba() still missing. Shouldn't be too hard to implement since you support opacity, right?

By dazio, # 20. March 2006, 14:22:37

@incident404: I did a clean install and saw that there was no flash plug-in anymore in Opera's root directory. Then install plug-in again and now i can see all the flash pages as well...

@Developers:
Why did you change all the language strings in english.lng?

All the translations by my.opera community will go to trash?

By unal, # 20. March 2006, 14:24:36

Are you guys _ever_ going to release a static rpm version?

By pgweiss, # 20. March 2006, 14:24:54

I have a problem. I use Windows XP with SP 1
And after the download I try to install, the Windows installer begins, plop to the second installpop and then this error here:

http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/8629/desktop28nc.jpg

By Galrikh, # 20. March 2006, 14:25:08

I'm having the same problem as @rodel - I'm using Windows 98 SE with some unofficial patches. Is the new Opera incompatible with Win98? I guess not - build 8265 works fine. And that's only the matter of the installer I guess. But I can't update this MSI any higher than 2.0. Version 3.1 - which you recommend to download - is available for Windows 2000/XP ONLY. Sorry. I'm not going to switch my OS. I hope we'll get another installer someday

By [r4], # 20. March 2006, 14:26:09

Opera9 is excellent!!! But is it possible to make:

- unlimited storage for closed tabs, not purged on exit (wow!)
- special option for caching all history (for cool offline work!)
- picture search in searchbox (yes, a'm so lazy to do it myself

- "Select all" command in main context menu

and let's my IE gently weeps!

By yuri7, # 20. March 2006, 14:28:25

unal: thanks, you was right

By incident404, # 20. March 2006, 14:28:31

r4 thats not only on Win98, on WinXP same problem here

Could it be that the problem has something to do with the System language? I run on german

By Galrikh, # 20. March 2006, 14:30:05

So many new choices!!! (You have been listening)

By aimzz, # 20. March 2006, 14:32:35

YtseJam:
Sorry no bug with tabs. I used a modified dialog.ini

By incident404, # 20. March 2006, 14:33:52

By the way, the installer looks ugly:
http://img467.imageshack.us/img467/2713/o9install3kx.png
But that's actually the fault of my InstallShield version (newer? beta? I don't know) ...

By dazio, # 20. March 2006, 14:35:16

TheMajor: Yepp

Finally sites like twofifty.org works again

By Pondus, # 20. March 2006, 14:35:47

rodel, Galrikh, [r4]:

You have to update your Windows installer. Go to that Microsoft download page.

By ermi, # 20. March 2006, 14:35:48

Galrikh - no I dont think that the problem with the system language..

By rodel, # 20. March 2006, 14:37:27

Any e-mail changes? For example, the previous weekly had a bug with displaying attachments within the browser. Has this been fixed?

Are there improvements for IMAP in this build?

By RachidNL, # 20. March 2006, 14:38:57

buttons style:show text display -84730260...?

By mark_poleon, # 20. March 2006, 14:38:57

I have the same problem with the new installer that others have, 'Incorrect Command Line parameters'. I'm running Windows 2000.

Install_log.txt is not created in the folder I am running the installer from so I cannot check it.

Help!

(Although actually there's no urgency for me because others have already confirmed that NTLM is still not working, so there's no point me installing this version because I won't be able to use it anyway!)

By bitoclass, # 20. March 2006, 14:40:33

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