Skip navigation.

Opera Desktop Team

Yet another merlin build

By olli. Friday, 6. July 2007, 15:26:09

I know ya'll are awaiting Kestrel builds, but we are not yet there. We do though have a few stability fixes in the pipeline for 9.22

Changelog
  • A lot of improvements to Bittorrent. Downloading large files should now work a lot better.
  • Bolding of fonts in toolbars and dialogs should now work
  • The Silverlight plugin should now work :wizard:


    UNIX

  • Turned off shared memory by default. Manually enable it by setting the variable OPERA_NUM_XSHM to a suitable value.


Download:
Windows MSI
Macintosh
Unix

Reality Show Results...More stability and speed

Comments

Tamil 6. July 2007, 16:36

Thanks.

philry4n 6. July 2007, 16:37

Thanks.. Downloading

hurug 6. July 2007, 16:46

Thanks. Welcome.

Doliprane 6. July 2007, 16:47

I still want to wait for Kestrel :D

Matic 6. July 2007, 16:51

Silverlight! Good to hear that...

Regards.

SoulOfDoinel 6. July 2007, 16:53

thanks

gabill 6. July 2007, 16:57

wktk

whatever2 6. July 2007, 17:06

silverlight doesn't work for me here - installed it in newest opera, it is visible on plugins list like wpf/e or something, but page i try to visit welcomes me with 'install plugin sign'

WPFe Plug-In
application/ag-pluginscr
XX\Microsoft Silverlight\npctrl.dll

DjiXas 6. July 2007, 17:07

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now I can wait ~2-3 weeks more for 9.5 :-)

Lali19871014 6. July 2007, 17:09

thx
These opera's first run when i open tottent file it crashd
(I update my opera, with msi)
(I make just these : Ctrl+F12/Advanced/downloads/
and in torrent:edit/"show download dialog"--->to "open with opera" and i open one torrent file and opera crashd)
Here is the crash file:(with inspector)
http://bartosslajos.atw.hu/letoltes/opera/crash/crash20070706190000.zip

Junyor 6. July 2007, 17:11

@Lali19871014: What torrent file?

kyleabaker 6. July 2007, 17:18

Fantastic! Great news guys!

MisterE 6. July 2007, 17:25

I think you guys forgot to remove some chinese widgets before building the setup. I have three of them :D

Junyor 6. July 2007, 17:45

@DjiXas: 9.22 hasn't been released.

@MisterE: Known issue.

arghwashier 6. July 2007, 17:48

Why was shared memory turned off? It makes the GUI very sluggish....

Junyor 6. July 2007, 18:01

We've taken down the Classic installer due to the extra files it was installing.

ResearchWizard 6. July 2007, 18:02

I expected this 9.22 build two weeks ago - WIR is hardly predictable.

testing ...

Khaled-Khalil 6. July 2007, 18:04

great, but...
is kestrel still that far ? that's what i can understand if merline still under developement !

FataL 6. July 2007, 18:05

Nice! But I miss classic installer...

AyushJ 6. July 2007, 18:07

Thanks opera devs for the great work :up:

serious 6. July 2007, 18:09

windows classic download doesn't work (404) :(
Edit: and now even the link is gone :(
Edit2: silverlight also not working here.

suribe 6. July 2007, 18:13

:smile:

Knippers 6. July 2007, 18:15

@serious:

We've taken down the Classic installer due to the extra files it was installing.



Anyway, be a bit more specific about the extra files please. I did install this new weekly with the Classic Installer so what exactly are those files? I don't see any Chinese widgets as mentioned by MisterE, so is there anything else I should throw away?

gun 6. July 2007, 18:26

Where is the classic installer???? I hate this MSI thingy!

EDIT: You forgot to update this page:
http://snapshot.opera.com/windows/

Junyor 6. July 2007, 18:28

@gun: That page is not updated for weeklies.

intelimac20inch 6. July 2007, 18:52

Thanks for the update. Keep up the great work Opera Developers :-)

Yahia 6. July 2007, 19:05

A lot of improvements to Bittorrent. Downloading large files should now work a lot better.


Well, I was downloading a 6.3 GB torrent in this new weekly. After file checking was finished, it started downloading (very slow due to lack of sources), so I cancelled it. It prompted if I wanted to remove the torrent plus the files already downloaded. When I agreed, Opera crashed. I run Opera again: the download is gone from the Transfers tab, but is still in its download directory.

GT500 6. July 2007, 19:06

Another build to play around with... :wink:

Keep up the good work guys. In the mean-time, I will try to wait patently for Kestrel...

gun 6. July 2007, 19:06

@Junyor
You are so right. I'm sorry for this stupid comment. P:

Pinnassog 6. July 2007, 19:12

Thx... downloaded and installed. The one thing that is still not working correctly is upgrade install though. It is not "upgrading" the Opera entry in the installed programs list of windows (Control Panel -> Add Remove Programs or Programs and Features [for Vista]) but always creating a new one.... this should not happen.

Galileo 6. July 2007, 19:25

Bookmarks bug:
If you have more than 40 bookmark entries outside any folder then when choosing Bookmarks menu the list would overlap all the menus including the Bookmark and after, see image... Bookmark overlap

danigoldman 6. July 2007, 19:31

Silverlight doesn't work here either, but neither does it work in Firefox.

Galileo 6. July 2007, 19:34

Can you post a site that uses silverlight? so i can test that.. :smile:

igorditerni 6. July 2007, 19:35

Please, put here the classic installer too. :wink:

Ciao, Igor

hartley231 6. July 2007, 19:35

Silverlight not working here either. Windows XP machine with latest weekly and Silverlight 1.1 Alpha. Tried http://www.aisto.com/Roeder/Silverlight/ and others but no dice.

Galileo 6. July 2007, 19:46

Same here for silverlight, tried the site above and also samples from the silverlight website. Vista 32bit, Opera Clean install.

WPFe Plug-Inapplication/ag-pluginscr
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Silverlight\npctrl.dll


OPC 6. July 2007, 19:58

No silverlight for linux? Good riddance. Thanks for the build guys (& gals?). Looking forward to Kestrel.

EDIT: Looks like Mono is also used to do .NET on linux, mac osx, solaris & windows

DjiXas 6. July 2007, 20:02

Junyor,

When I click "About" it says 9.22, so it's 9.22, but not final.

Pendarric 6. July 2007, 20:17

I use the classic installer exclusively.

Using the MSI installer is not an option, it sucks that bad.

This isn't a critical update, so no big deal, but for future builds please keep it in mind.

Zybex 6. July 2007, 20:27

I think the reason of releasing 9.22 is fixing of some not-yet announced vulnerability.

GaaraZanta 6. July 2007, 20:32

@Pendarric, I agree, with the MSI installer something usually seems to go wrong, or later on it won't let me uninstall Opera to do a clean install for the next build.

FataL 6. July 2007, 20:51

later on it (MSI installer) won't let me uninstall Opera to do a clean install for the next build

That's the reason I use "stupid", but straightforward Classic installer. I have ~5 builds of Opera 9.x installed, not counting releases and one "working version"... :wait:

netwolf 6. July 2007, 20:59

Always good to see something going on :-)
One question I have though: are the things mentioned in the changelog the only things that are changed/fixed or is there also something else (general stability improvements, memory usage optimiziations...)?
I ask because none of these issues are of any importance for me, so I wonder if I should still update...
thx.

Junyor 6. July 2007, 21:08

@DjiXas: Yes, the blog posts says we'll be releasing 9.22, but this isn't it. Final releases are always announced and available via the download system on www.opera.com. Please do not try to spread the news about a release until it is available on www.opera.com.

Abaddon 6. July 2007, 21:08

What is the reason of turning shared memory off by default?

FataL 6. July 2007, 21:13

I'm pretty shure that Silverlight will not fly in the wild web until M$ includes this plugin with Internet Explorer or/and Windows. Most likely it will end up in intranet sites and applications.
BTW, Silverlight same as Flash is evil in most cases. Don't include that crap in your pages if you can -- try not to ruin the openness of World Wide Web. Open standards such as HTML, XML, XSLT, CSS, ECMAScript (JavaScript), SVG are the way to go!

friguron 6. July 2007, 21:15

This site shows a silly silverlight demo:


http://www.robzelt.com/Silverlight/TrinugLogo

I installed silverlight plugin, so the plugin is installed now in IE and FF. In both the page above works.

Under opera, I do opera:plugins and I can see the silverlight dll also, but the page above just shows a javascript crap that redirects you to microsoft/silverlight. The "applet" doesn't load.

Maybe some browser.js fixing is needed? some user.js ?

Eddie_Lopez 6. July 2007, 21:19

Hey gabill- the exit is this way!
:smile:

outofspace 6. July 2007, 21:47

Something wrong in this build, sometimes Opera is showing "No connection".
Like it was without internet. But there is a connection.

Did you get something like that? Back to previous build for now...

1 2 3 4 Next »

Showing comments 1 - 50 of 194.

Write a comment

You must be logged in to write a comment. If you're not a registered member, please sign up.