Opera Desktop Team

MacBuild 3295 Crash on startup solution

By Adam Minchinton. Monday, 27. March 2006, 12:29:38

As a few of you have noticed build 3295 of Opera for Macintosh sometimes crashes on startup. This has been tracked down to two problems and you can use the following workarounds to use this build:

1. Create a folder called "Temporary Downloads" under "~/Library/Caches/Opera Cache"
2. Delete "download.dat" from your weekly preferences under "~/Library/Preferences/Opera Preferences Weekly"

Of course these will be fixed in the next weekly build

Widgets UI improvements!Mid weekly release

Comments

david.marchlewski # 27. March 2006, 13:13

Opera 8321 display poor sites like:

www.ogame.pl
https://www.mbank.com.pl/ (after login to account)

The last good vorked version is 8225.

THX.

Fyrd # 27. March 2006, 13:28

Tried those workarounds, rebooted, still no luck. I'll run it, a window appears for about 3 seconds, then crashes. Any other suggestions?

mgrayson # 27. March 2006, 13:39

Workarounds did nothing for me either. I experience the exact same results as Fyrd.

zyph # 27. March 2006, 13:47

It worked perfectly for me. Thanks!

Ks Jan Jenkins # 27. March 2006, 13:53

Same here. No luck. Seems to be related to bittorrent ???

Will wait for the next build ! Just a minor blemish to the otherwise excellent betas.

I have just recently moved everything to Opera now - I like the browser very much, and now that I know what direction the development team is going, I am willing to 'hedge my bets' with Opera. Many thanks to Opera desktop team to share their ideas and progress with us. Not quite Open Source, but the next best thing: having developers who care about their products to ask their users what can be improved. Maybe even better than Open Source, as I don't have to do the compiling...

Waiting for the new beta. Thanks again !

(MacBook Pro 2Ghz Intel 1GB ram)

superjoppe # 27. March 2006, 15:29

To the next weekly, would it be possible to make Opera look macontoshish instead of a ugly port, and make the panel to a drawer?

velmu # 27. March 2006, 16:46

Doh, no help yet... Thanks for the suggestions, though. Still behaves this way:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_mqKJQ0rDU

But like mama said: A weekly build is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get. It's still a great to way track the development

superjoppe: hehe... I'm not much of the fan of the default theme either, but lately I've been using the... dare I say... unholy theme and I'm loving it.

mgrayson # 27. March 2006, 17:24

Should've tried this before, but after I completely deleted ~/Library/Preferences/Opera Preferences Weekly and ~/Library/Caches/Opera Cache, this build runs fine without the above workarounds.

mgrayson # 27. March 2006, 21:10

Argh. Spoke too soon I suppose. The build ran fine for a couple of hours then crashed while idle in the background. Now is crashing like before; workarounds have no effect ...

minch # 28. March 2006, 10:19

velmu, I looked at your video and I see a couple of problems.
1. You're running from a mounted disk image which is not recommened.
2. You have 2 Opera disk images mounted at once, which will make running from a disk image behave even more erratically.

My suggestion is to copy both your versions of Opera to you HDD and then see if you still get the same problems.

velmu # 28. March 2006, 16:22

Minch:

I only ran the capture after I noticed I could not run the new build, thus the two disk images. I did a new capture: http://youtube.com/watch?v=0AzUko_lkD0 . I hope you're ok with me publishing them there, I just think it's a good, effortless way to publish video.

The bug data gathered in the capture can be downloaded here. Hopefully it helps you guys. Obviously I did not submit the report to Apple at this point.

I also cleared /Library/Preferences/Opera Preferences and tried searching for a startup pattern (blank page, home page, etc.), but could not find anything get it running.

It's a mystery to me

EDIT: Progress, sort of .. there's something fishy about my account. If I use a fresh user it's all good: http://youtube.com/watch?v=DGWkwpDWoKY So it's not an OS wide problem, that should make your job easier.

My work here is done, go get 'em tigers!

Kicweed # 28. March 2006, 23:50

My favorite browser by far. I got addicted to it both on Windows (@work) and on OS X (@home) in just a couple of days. Keep it up!

Does anyone know how I can remove the "Opera Widgets" floating button at the top of the screen? It's currently the only complaint I have.

Thanks again for the exceptional browser.

Anthony