New Kestrel snapshot: 4716

By blaabjerg. Tuesday, 18. March 2008, 15:53:41

New snapshot today, and the main Mac-specific highlight is a bunch of keyboard fixes. Function keys, Shift+space and a few other keyboard issues are fixed. There's still one issue left, and we need your help to fix it. More on that after the highlights and known issues. The complete changelog and known issues list is available in the Desktop Team blog.

Highlights

Shift+space for Page Up works again.
You can use Space and Shift+space for Page Down and Page Up, respectively, and the latter now works again.
Function keys work again.
F2, F4, F5 and friends should now work reliably again.
Opera now uses the proper OS X Downloads folder by default.
We used to download stuff to the Desktop by default when you clicked "Save to Download Folder". We have now changed it to use the default Downloads folder on Leopard, so your downloads show up in the Downloads stack in the Dock.
Changed the icon in alert and prompt dialogs to something prettier.
A small Macification, but a Macification nonetheless. The default exclamation mark icons in prompts and alert dialogs has been changed to a more native-looking icon. Enter "javascript:alert()" in your address field to see it.
Fixed outgoing encoding selection in Opera Mail for non-English installations on Intel hardware
There was a bug that made the outgoing encoding on non-English setups default to UTF-8 instead of the appropriate local encoding on Intel machines; this is now fixed.

New known issues

The scroll bar is a bit dodgy
Unicode keyboard input might still be buggy

Help!
Some testers reported that keyboard input was somewhat broken in the previous two snapshots, particularly accented characters. To help us figure out what's causing this, we've made a special debug build that prints some debug info to the terminal. Here's what you do if you're having problems with special characters:

Download and install this build instead of the one below
Instead of launching it normally, right-click it and choose Show Package Contents
Enter the Contents/MacOS folder
Right-click the Opera file and select Open With > Terminal

If everything went according to plan, a Terminal window will appear together with the usual Opera window. You should be able to use Opera as usual, but whenever it encounters some funky character that's not supposed to be there, it will print some debugging info to the Terminal. Please copy this debugging information and send it to us.

Thank you, enjoy, and have a nice easter!

Download build 4716

New Kestrel snapshot: 4669New Kestrel snapshot: 4758

Comments

Inline find is finally fixed! I love you guys! =D

By rbqph, # 18. March 2008, 17:55:13

Excellent fixes, thank you!

This keyboard related error has not been fixed yet, however...should I file a bug report for that?

By Fyrd, # 18. March 2008, 18:13:12

@Fyrd: ah, I missed that one. Yes, please file a bug report

By blaabjerg, # 18. March 2008, 18:19:33

77/100 score on Acid3 test with this Opera for Mac build.

Great work! We're getting there.

By kamalesh, # 18. March 2008, 18:27:15

@blaabjerg

Okay, bug #318901. (hope it's not too confusing) Thanks!

By Fyrd, # 18. March 2008, 18:39:43

Can anyone please test Gizmodo.com or Kotaku.com? It's currently not styled as they changed their CSS a week or so ago.

By Ishimaru, # 19. March 2008, 00:58:30

gmail.com doesn't seem to work on 4716 for mac. Is it just me?

By zorm, # 19. March 2008, 01:37:07

4716 doesn't work for Yahoo mail as the browser detect issue is back again. Is this build some how not using the browser.js file properly? In Windows Vista Opera 9841 build seems to work fine with Yahoo Mail.

This could be why users can't use gmail properly.

By bobwonderful, # 19. March 2008, 04:57:13

gmail seemed to work fine for me. Zorm can you describe what is broken on gmail?

By bobwonderful, # 19. March 2008, 05:00:50

@Ishimaru: Both work fine for me here.

@zorm Gmail works fine here (though I am finding a funny new line/return problem that moves the cursor to the next line, but when starting to type the text, it jumps down one line, as if issuing <return>).

(OSX v10.5.2 Intel)

By kamalesh, # 19. March 2008, 05:53:03

Some great site compatibility fixes for WSJ, New Yorker, Washington Post, USAToday...!

These were broken in the last few Mac builds.

By kamalesh, # 19. March 2008, 05:57:52

Thanks for the continuing Macification!

Please consider adding smooth-scrolling when issuing fn+home/fn+end (to scroll to top or bottom of page). Also, handling of Dashboard Widget installation (as opposed to a simple ZIP file open).

By kamalesh, # 20. March 2008, 01:03:58

Yahoo mail works fine.. You have to perform a clean install. Delete the Opera folder in the preference directory as well.

By bobwonderful, # 20. March 2008, 01:59:31

I was able to get gmail working on mac and windows with the latest build, but not without some monkeying around. I just followed what people were saying on the windows comment section. I was having the same problem on my mac as my windows machine.

If you delete your cache and history and then go to gmail.com it loads correctly. But if you close out of it or logout it doesn't work a second time. It just sits there with a blank screen and says "Loading" in the right top corner.

But if you use the link below which puts gmail into the new UI (2.0?) it seems to work just fine all the time.
http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&nocheckbrowser=1

By zorm, # 20. March 2008, 22:01:40

Bug:
Select the address field, go to the end of the address, then press cmd+left arrow: the cursore should go to the start of the address field, while Opera go to the previous page in history

By GianluigiA, # 20. March 2008, 22:08:42

I've had the tabs lock up to where you can't select it. Is that a bug? Using latest build.

By intelimac20inch, # 20. March 2008, 23:39:14

Using Gmail2. The rich text edit toolbar while composing mail does not display...

(Build 4716, OSX v10.5.2-intel)

By kamalesh, # 21. March 2008, 18:39:37

I was having a friend do some testing using Build 4594. After installing Build 4716, noticed the Status Bar at the bottom did not show his Opera Link to be disabled or "not logged in"...just blank.

Opera Link was logged in with Build 4594, but Build 4716 didn't recognize this, and required manual login again.

This should be more seamless and more easily displayed to the user, I think (especially this GREAT Opera sync feature!).

By kamalesh, # 21. March 2008, 18:44:44

Update on earlier post it hasn't locked up since so who knows. Overall Great build developers! Have a Great Easter!

By intelimac20inch, # 21. March 2008, 20:38:13

Regarding the broken keyboard input, are only debug info written in the terminal? It seems like every time I type a letter, even if it's not a broken character, I have this kind of message in the Terminal:

KLP:0
KT:65

Is this what you expect?

By Romain Vigier, # 22. March 2008, 14:26:41

Macify suggestion: please consider hiding the cursor while scrolling, this is useful for reading text without having to move the cursor out of the way.

I thought I noticed this in a previous build...

By kamalesh, # 24. March 2008, 02:12:45

How do I report bugs "for real"?

Here is an easy-to-repro one: View page source, hilight some text, press command-C, press command-W.

Expected: Some source is on clipboard, source is closed.
Result: "Dude, where's my browser!"

By nikanj, # 27. March 2008, 14:08:51

@nikanj:
Use the Opera Bugs Wizard here.

By kamalesh, # 28. March 2008, 01:20:59

Dear MacTeam, want to talk about smooth scrolling again. I want (and many mac users i talked with) really smooth scrolling in opera. like in safari (and like in 9.5 in win), couse without it opera just unusable. All other bugs is nothing in comparison with that. Its the biggest fckn bug in mac opera.
will we see it somewhen?

By el_rocie, # 29. March 2008, 08:04:00

Hey guys, glad to see you get your own blog

The latest two/three OSX builds finally were much more stable for me since the Opera weeklys liked to crash or produced a 100% cpu bug on my macs. Great work! Thanks alot.

The only odd bug i've found now is that my toolbar stays inactive after i've once minimized Opera to the dockbar.

http://img385.imageshack.us/img385/1682/inaktivetoolbardf4.png

Cheers.

By steno, # 31. March 2008, 12:58:59