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Steve Gosselin

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Build 9721/4594/1737 Released | Opera 9.50 [pre-"beta 2" builds]

New year, new build

By blaabjerg. Friday, 4. January 2008, 09:09:36

Welcome to 2008! I hope you all had an excellent celebration, and that you're rested and ready for some more testing. Here's a new Kestrel build for you. Happy new year!

Also, check out this little gem: Ctrl(Cmd)+Alt+Click and drag a page. woot!

WARNING: These are development snapshots: they contain the latest changes, but they also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, they may not work at all.

Known issues

[bug 304257] Sorting mail by date is still broken on Windows.

opera:historysearch is currently disabled - work in progress

Sparc Solaris builds still crash when you try to use mail

Sometimes, the address bar dropdown stays open after submitting

Bugs fixed

Fixed getClientRects and getBoundingClientRect

[bug 299224] Fixed broken account settings when adding a new IRC/Chat account

[bug 303604] Fixed Link icon in the toolbar not showing

[bug 304214] Fixed crasher on emptying trash

[bug 303586] Fixed spatial navigation

Sync'ing new bookmarks in folders works again.

Importing *.mbs files now works again. Recursively importing is still work in progress.

Mac-specific

Help window no longer opens behind Preferences dialog

UNIX-specific

We now search also for Acrobat Reader 8.

32-bit plugins (like Flash) and 64-bit plugins now work out-of-the-box in 64-bit Linux builds.

Download links

Windows MSI

Windows Classic

Macintosh

Unix

Source // Desktop Team

Grand Master

Dogan

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And another one

WARNING: These are development snapshots: they contain the latest changes, but they also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, they may not work at all.

Known issues

Close button closes wrong tab when 'click-to-minimize' is enabled

Mac: The Quicktime and possibly other plugins do not work

Mac: HTTP auth freezes Opera

Mac: Copy/paste of images is half broken

UNIX: The latest flash version crashes 64-bit Opera

Changelog

All mail and history searching is now in separate processor thread, speeding up many things

The * shortcut now also works when you need a modifier to type it

Old visited links are now merged into history

OBML files (newsfeed lists) with byte order mark are now imported

When unchecking "Keep local copy of message body", Opera will now remove existing message bodies.

Added a tooltip to the close button on tabs

Fixed the issue where favicons were always fetched when navigating in history

event.preventDefault() now cancels text selection

Windows specific

Sorting mail by date now works

UNIX specific

Fixed the old and grumpy Java crasher

Mac specific

The tab cycle now highlights properly when there is more than one column of tabs.

Fixed keyboard focus issues with Flash

Possibly fixed a long-standing bug with Opera not getting proper focus when clicking it

Java applets no longer prevent you from minimizing Opera

Download

Windows 9735

Macintosh 4603

UNIX 1754

Experienced

Steve Gosselin

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Known issues

Close button closes wrong tab when 'click-to-minimize' is enabled

Mac: The Quicktime and possibly other plugins do not work

Mac: HTTP auth freezes Opera

Mac: Copy/paste of images is half broken

UNIX: The latest flash version crashes 64-bit Opera

+ Windows: Some regression in keyboard handling of special characters

Grand Master

Dogan

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New snapshot - Windows skin work

Windows 9745, Mac 4614, UNIX 1766

WARNING: These are development snapshots: they contain the latest changes, but they also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, they may not work at all.

New known issues

UNIX: Tooltips with the native skins look weird

Last week's snapshot (Windows build 9735, Mac build 4603, and Linux/UNIX build 1754) contained a serious IMAP bug that could cause internal data corruption. This problem is most likely to affect those with TLS enabled. Symptoms include headers displaying, but bodies missing and/or duplicates messages. The underlying cause of this corruption is fixed in this snapshot, but unfortunately, there's no fix for the corruption. The only way to fix this corruption is to delete your Mail directory and start over.

Skin changes

The last week has seen quite a bit of work on improving the native skin on Windows. This includes both the "classic" look and the XP/Vista themed look. Some of the improvements you will see in this regard are:

The background in the panel selector toolbar is less dark

Close buttons in tabs and notifications have native elements

Tooltips and notifications have native elements

Margins on the dropdown button are gone

The element used to show/hide the list in Delete Private Data and other places is native

The sort arrows up/down on listview column headers are native

The tabs in the Windows "classic" skin are now more like real tabs and no longer sunken buttons

There will be more skin changes forthcoming.

Changelog

[266167] Fixed sorting issues in mail

[299821] Fixed several IMAP synchronization issues

[307698] Fixed secure connection on IRC

[306510] Fixed problem with closing wrong tab if click tab to minimize was enabled

[306920] The close button on tabs is now red again

[283037] Fixed syncing of speed dial update intervals

Experimental support for recursive mbox import

Fixed some issues regarding IMAP labelling of messages (eg, spam)

Calmed down the link status field a bit (Don't change it unless something actually happened)

Some improvements to fast forward, works better on ie engadget.com and ebay.com

Added /notrayicon command line argument on Windows as well (yay)

Fixed issue where downloaded message bodies would disappear

Fixed TLS handshaking issues, which could cause problems when sending mail

Fixed over-wrapping issue with right-aligned mail headers

Download

Windows

Macintosh

UNIX

  • 2 weeks later...
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coolzee

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New snapshot

New snapshot with several interesting CSS and mail fixes today. Enjoy!

WARNING: These are development snapshots: they contain the latest changes, but they also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, they may not work at all.

Known issues

Crash when you clear history while history search is disabled

Format selector when saving pages is broken

Some plugins on Mac don't work at all

Plugins crash Opera on UNIX

Bugs fixed

Images in mail and standalone images are now printed

Significant mail startup speed improvement on systems with NTFS and ReiserFS filesystems, like Windows and openSUSE.

Fixed a rare crash when importing Thunderbird mail

Reduced CPU usage when downloading mail

Fixed the "prioritize excludelist" option in urlfilter.ini

Fixed import of IE favorites with dots in their name

Fixed issue where you would get duplicate trash folders when using Opera Link

Fixed a few spatial navigation issues (Shift+arrows to navigate on the page)

The spam filter should start remembering marked mail on Windows now

Fixed a CSS parser error that caused layout errors on Facebook, Yahoo! Mail, Last.fm etc.

Fixed dynamic updating of CSS3 selectors (:first-child, :last-child, :empty etc. selectors)

Opera now supports getClientRects and getBoundingClientRect

Added support for the CSS color and background-color properties for the ::selection pseudo-element

UNIX: Fixed a crasher when closing tabs when using the MDI controls (present without close button on tabs)

UNIX: Tooltip generation CPU usage is again back to normal

Windows: Torrent applications now show up correctly in the download dialog if you've disabled Bittorrent in Opera

Download

Windows 9770

Windows Classic 9770

Mac 4634

UNIX 1786

Edited by coolzee
Collaborator

coolzee

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New snapshot: Introducing advanced tab activation

This build implements a much requested option for all you users switching from other browsers.

You can now get that Safari, Firefox, IE or <insert alternative browser of choice here> tab handling in Opera, too.

To take advantage of that, simply change Preferences > Advanced > Tabs > "When closing a tab"

to your desired behavior:

Activate the last active (default)

Activate the tab to the right

Active the first tab opened from closing tab

Now start closing them tabs like there's no tomorrow!

Known Issues

* Plug-ins crash Opera on UNIX/Linux.

* Some plugins on Mac don't work at all.

* Format selector when saving pages is broken.

* Opera will not fetch more than 50 new IMAP messages in one go - you'll need to reset the account to get more.

* Inline find stops working after entering one letter (using Ctrl/Cmd+F still works as expected).

* Advanced tab activation currently does not work on Mac or UNIX/Linux.

Changelog

* Added a new preference in Preferences > Advanced > Tabs which controls which tab to activate when closing a tab.

* Fixed crash when composing mail with empty signature

* Fixed crash when emptying history and VPS was disabled

* css3 :target now works on targets identified using name attribute

* New spatnav highlighting, similar to the one used in Opera Mini 4 and the Wii browser

* iframes with contenteditable are now in in the tabbing order (Another gmail 2 fix)

* 64-bit: Again possible to open (image) attachments in mail

* Some more improvement to fast forward.

* Opera Link now works better when using Work offline

* Again possible to open links from widgets

* UNIX: Drag and drop now works properly in the ION window manager

WARNING: These are development snapshots: they contain the latest changes, but they also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, they may not work at all.

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  • 2 weeks later...
Veteran

halcyoncmdr

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9.26

By csant. Wednesday, 20. February 2008, 14:27:40

desktop, security, stability, release ...

We released 9.26 today, which addresses a few security issues and some stability issues. It also addresses an issue when connecting securely to Windows Server 2008 - see this article for details. This release is a recommended upgrade for all those running the latest stable releases.

Changelogs are available:

Windows

Mac

Linux/UNIX

Go download it!

Collaborator

coolzee

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Plugin Milestone Build Part II

By psmaas. Friday, 22. February 2008, 16:00:00

This build demonstrates the plugin work that has been done recently. Most of this work is not visible and is only testable through regression testing: compare with an older build and see if something broke. :wink: A lot of this work is cross-platform, so we would appreciate feedback on plugins on all platforms. Note, however, that a lot of the bugs around plugin detection are still unresolved, so this work is only testable on the plugins that you can actually see. :D

On *nix these changes are combined with a bunch of bug fixes and redesigns. First of all, libnpp.so is now built into Opera and all known plugin bugs that result in Opera crashing are resolved (including using 64-bit Opera with 32-bit plugins). We added a work-around for the Flash player crashes with r48 and a lot of other fixes. Please retest any issues you have had with plugins and report back on the relevant bug reports what you find. If you find any new bugs: report, report, report! We really do want to make Kestrel the best release for plugins ever on *nix. :smile: Note that although most of the work has been focused on Linux, the work so far is *nix platform independent: more work on FreeBSD and Solaris is planned. Please also note that because of the fix for the 64 vs. 32-bit issue, this release is incompatible with previous pluginwrappers. There are also some fixes that will affect Java, so we are interested in feedback on that as well.

Have fun and enjoy! :smile:

Known issues

* "Save to download folder" is broken

* Format selector when saving pages is broken.

* Inline find stops working after entering one letter (using Ctrl/Cmd+F still works as expected).

Changelog

* Fixed text selection when selecting from bottom left to top right

* Crashing plugins should no longer crash Opera on Mac and Windows. Please test.

* Fixed crash when opening certain files (especially PDF files)

* Fixed crash when changing interface language

* Some changes have been made to the tab mode "Activate first tab opened from current tab" (whose name might change in the future): If you open several tabs in the background from one page, Opera will remember that they are related and will switch focus between them when you close one of them. In the previous weekly you had to close the parent tab before this occured.

* "Activate tab to the right" preference now works on UNIX and Mac. The mode described above still doesn't work.

* Windows: Tray icon is now gone if you don't have mail enabled

* UNIX: Made Flash 7 work again

* UNIX: When closing a tab, flash animations in other tabs will not be killed anymore

* UNIX: And a lot of other plugin fixes

Mail

* Really delete associated messages when deleting accounts

* Fixed crash when downloading IMAP mail sent from Outlook

* Attempt to clean up ghost messages on start-up

* Fetch more than 50 messages at a time from IMAP accounts

* Fixed unread count inconsistencies

* Fixed problem with subscriptions for nested IMAP mailboxes

* Fixed problem getting all new messages for IMAP accounts

* Fixed problem with stuck IMAP connections when fetching headers/messages

* Better synchronization handling after waking computers on Windows and OS X

* Decode body parts before indexing them

* Fixed overzealous IMAP expunging

Mac

* Fixed quadruple mouse click

* Fixed Event.ctrlKey and Event.metaKey with onkeydown

* Fixed plugins

* Emacs-style keyboard shortcuts are back

* Reactivated the asynchronous draw timer

* Fixed an issue with Java disabling minimization and quitting

* Fixed a very common crash related to plugins and links with anchors

More details about the Mac-specific fixes are available in the new Mac Team blog.

Download

Windows 9807

Windows Classic 9807

Mac 4669

UNIX 1823

Collaborator

coolzee

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Yet another snapshot build

WARNING: These are development snapshots: they contain the latest changes, but they also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, they may not work at all.

Here's yet another snapshot build. This build fixes a few outstanding download issues. In particular, we now respect filename suggestions in content-disposition: attachment headers. Testing is needed, however, as this build will introduce some download regressions. We've already caught some internally, but there are probably others.

We've also updated search.ini a bit in this build:

* Removed Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! Answers, Google Groups, Opera Support, and Download.com searches

* Added Wikipedia and Google Images searches

Known issues

* "Open With" other browsers doesn't work

* Save As for a web page only lets you save as "HTML file" on Windows

* Unable to print pages with objects or iframes

* Some downloads do not appear in the transfer manager

* Inline find stops working after entering one letter (using Ctrl/Cmd+F still works as expected)

* Keyboard input is problematic for some people on Mac

Changelog

* Fixed IMAP and POP synchronization problems

* RSS items that are already read are not shown in the notification anymore

* It is now possible to set Opera as default mail application from Control Panel

* When right-clicking in Speed Dial search field you you can easily reach the "Search options"

* Fixed cut-n-pasting bookmark folders

* Fixed selecting or creating a new bookmark file with Sync

* "Save to download folder" works again

* Context menu in transfers panel now work again when no other tabs are open

* Content-disposition: attachment filename suggestion now respected when saving files

* Fixed saving multiple files from the links panel

* Some initial implementation for flipping scrollbars on RTL web sites (to permanently flip, enable opera:config#UserPrefs|Left-handedUI)

* Fixed problem finding new POP messages when using the "Leave messages on server" setting

* Better search results when using Quick find in Opera Mail

Windows specific:

* File open/save dialogs are resizable again

* Fixed a crash on startup on Windows 98

Mac specific:

* Opera now works again in Mac OS X 10.3.9.

* Fixed scrollbars to not loose their blue color

* Fixed unread count in Dock icon

* Some stability fixes to plugins

UNIX specific:

* Prevent GTK from changing the global locale settings - this would occasionally make text disappear or shrink on web pages after using the GTK filechooser

* Autoscroll/pan now appears where clicked, not in middle of page

* Fixed plugin detection for .1 and .5 builds

* Several more plugin fixes

Download

Windows 9815

Windows Classic 9815

Macintosh 4681

UNIX 1834

  • 2 weeks later...
Collaborator

coolzee

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Happy Easter

By csant. Tuesday, 18. March 2008, 13:51:33

desktop, kestrel, easter

It's been a while since our last snapshot build. Some things fell apart while others were shaping up nicely - so we are very happy to show you some good improvements now!

WARNING: These are development snapshots: they contain the latest changes, but they also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, they may not work at all.

Known issues:

* There are some funky parsing problems on Youtube.

* "Open With" other browsers doesn't work.

* Save As for a web page only lets you save as "HTML file" on Windows.

* The progress bar does not show if it's set to "Pop-up at the bottom".

* On Mac scrolling to the bottom of a page with the scrollbars does not work.

Changelog:

* Fixed inline find.

* Fixed downloading attachments in the new Yahoo! mail.

* Fixed async XMLHttpRequest to never be blocked by a slow script.

* Fixed internal plugin methods not accessible from javascript engine when data attribute defined.

* Fixed an issue where new mail messages would not be detected.

* Opera Mail now handles mailto links with encoded characters correctly.

* Improved handling of subscription to temporary subscription to news groups.

* Fixed some offline mode issues.

* And lots more of stability fixes!

Acid3 fixes:

* getSVGDocument is now supported in an iframe.

* createDocumentType now throws an exception for malformed qualified name.

* Fixed NodeFilter returning true => 1.

* Fixed HTMLTableRowElement.rowIndex and .sectionRowIndex returning undefined for table rows created via DOM.

* HTMLButtonElement.type now defaults to "submit".

* Fixed form control collection not indexed by name when outside the main document tree.

* Fixed Range.surroundContents().

* Fixed insertNode to not collapse range.

* Fixed removeNamedItem() and removeNamedItemNS() to throw a not-found error.

* Fixed NodeIterator to function well also under dynamic changes.

* Fixed Date.UTC() to do proper 1900 year offsetting.

Windows specific:

* Better performance with plugins.

Mac specific:

* Shift+space for Page Up works again.

* Function keys work again.

* Opera now uses the proper OS X Downloads folder by default.

* Changed the icon in alert and prompt dialogs to something prettier.

UNIX specific:

* Fixed crash when closing tab with Flash.

* Several plugin fixes.

Download

Windows 9841

Windows Classic 9841

Mac 4716

UNIX 1875

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