9.6 approaching

September 26, 2008 · by blaabjerg

The first release candidate for 9.6 is just around the corner now, but there are still a couple of issues left to resolve. Now is the time to let us know about any regressions so we can fix them before the RCs

WARNING: This is a development snapshot: it contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all.

Changelog

Fixed the Dragonfly crash
Improved performance with large wand.dat files
Don't highlight script focused elements
Stability fixes
Feed preview pages now load properly when reopened from trash
Fixed syncing of removed labels in Mail
Fixed an issue where the mail signatures wouldn't change if the default account signature ended with a space
Fixed an issue where sent message bodies could disappear under certain circumstances
Made Mail cope better with broken POP servers that send empty message UIDLs
Made sure Mail respects the "Large font" setting for mail subjects
Fixed an issue where feed titles were truncated before ":" characters
Fixed a problem where mails would be reported as incomplete when the server reports the wrong message size
Fixed importing of mail files with LF line endings only
Disabled indexing of HTML and CSS in feeds
Fixed an issue where feed status could get stuck on fetching
Made sure filters created by IMAP keywords are saved on exit
Made form buttons with zero padding prettier on Mac
Fixed an issue where opening the Java Console would freeze Opera on Mac
Fixed a bug that could cause notes to be lost when using certain characters
Various Opera Link fixes
Feeds are now detected even when served as text/html
Fixed dataloss situation when note folders had more than one line in their name
Fixed saving of svg when right clicking
Fixed spurious highlighting when using the space character in inline find
Upgrading Opera on Debian no longer resets default x-www-browser

For those of you on Intel Macs, we're trying out a new download option to save you some bandwidth. Check out the Intel only download below

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Readers' comments

Comments left by My Opera members under the original post: the first 50, as archived.

FataL26. September 2008, 16:17:19
Fixed the Dragonfly crash
Great! Thanks!
Fixed an issue where sent message bodies could disappear under certain circumstances
Thanks for quick fix. I even not reported this bug, only posted on forum.
remcolanting26. September 2008, 16:17:21
Yay! *tests*
ar1pe26. September 2008, 16:17:43
Finally
Galileo26. September 2008, 16:20:28
Tamil26. September 2008, 16:22:33
Long changelog.
EricJH26. September 2008, 16:23:32
Nice big list of improvements. Made it worth the waiting....

"Improved performance with large wand.dat files" rseiler must be jumping for joy here...
impotent26. September 2008, 16:23:57
thanQ
wirusek26. September 2008, 16:26:19
thanks for the new build
rafaelluik26. September 2008, 16:29:21
Opera Rules!
thobi26. September 2008, 16:29:34

edit: waiting for the moment, opera doesn't open a new tab if it's just a download-link
Kai_Lapis26. September 2008, 16:32:59
thanks
nataniel26. September 2008, 16:44:31
The changelog size is impressive
Thanks for this build.

Feeds are now detected even when served as text/html

Yes ! I confirm it works on my previous broken RSS feed

Thanks for the Intel only DMG
mionn99926. September 2008, 16:45:21
awesome
szotsaki226. September 2008, 16:47:36
Opera respects KDE 4 (Qt4) appearance now!
You have fixed the drawing issues (bug-362413), too. So I can use smooth scrolling with Qt4 on Linux and normal (keyboard) scrolling without glitches.
Edit: No, sadly the glicthes are still there on scrolling... (but the situation is much butter now!)

Thank you very much! These were the worst bugs I noticed.
Zajec26. September 2008, 16:56:56
szotsaki2: you mean qt4 build uses shared libs now?!
Hades3226. September 2008, 17:01:52
Thanks!!!
pfuschi26. September 2008, 17:05:49
- Opening the configuration page of my AVM Fritz!Box crashes Opera immediately
- The ZDF.de "Mediathek" does not work correctly, can some German user confirm that?
sebt26. September 2008, 17:07:00
Yay!
sa66666626. September 2008, 17:10:33
Opening the shortcut search option in UNIX with 'Alt-Space' doesn't autoselect Google like it did in 9.52. You have to manually select Google from the list of search options first. If you don't select Google (or any other search engine), typing in something and pressing enter doesn't seem to do anything.
nataniel26. September 2008, 17:11:31
Always problems with Deezer.com, impossible to search a song or an artist name with accentuated letters. Try to tape "hélène" and Opera crashes immediatly on Mac. The research box is sometime unselectable.
miki6926. September 2008, 17:15:40
bug-362869
(save as doesn't work on this page): http://www.siliconpopculture.com/articles/review/sony_vaio_z/

FIXED!

bug-364704:
New problem with Sonystyle.com (thumbs don't open on the right):
http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&productId=8198552921665511248

NOT FIXED

bug-364705:
(big black line, instead of comparison chart)
http://www.advizia.com/v41/ComparisonA.asp?User=SonyComputers-SS&Models=VGN-Z590UAB%7CVGN-Z540EBB%7CVGN-Z570N%2FB%7C

NOT FIXED

I guess maybe in next RC? Anyhow thanks for new build.

BR
Miki
kyleabaker26. September 2008, 17:18:00
Thanks for the update. Testing now.
masterofopera26. September 2008, 17:18:59
Thanks for the new build. Testing.
szotsaki226. September 2008, 17:19:29
I see no Qt* files either in 2436 or 2426 .rpm packages.
But there is only one type of Qt4 packages, and the files in the two aforementioned are the same.
I think in the Opera executable did they modify something and thus I can use KDE 4's Oxygen style and the native Qt open/save window.
Salsero_Nash26. September 2008, 17:20:39
Opera en my Notebook Haier 53, Intel i386, graphic card Ati Radeon Xpress 200M 128 MB, when I active my visual effects the interface run bad, and see it wrong, Opera Team please fix that. My Operating System is Ubuntu, Hardy Heron.
mionn99926. September 2008, 17:26:55
@Salsero_Nash it seems a problem with your OS, not Opera.
piroxicam26. September 2008, 17:27:50
Horray! Multilanguage again!
Thanks for the snapshot!
pejakm26. September 2008, 17:35:13
@szotsaki2:

in Your '/usr/bin/opera', replace:

test "${_QTSTYLE_FROM_CMDLINE_}" = 'NO' && test -f "$HOME/.qt/qtrc" && _OPERA_QTSTYLE=`sed -n 's/^style=//p' $HOME/.qt/qtrc` && test "$_OPERA_QTSTYLE" && set -- "$@" -style "$_OPERA_QTSTYLE"

with

test "${_QTSTYLE_FROM_CMDLINE_}" = 'NO' && test -f "$HOME/.config/Trolltech.conf" && _OPERA_QTSTYLE=`sed -n 's/^style=//p' $HOME/.config/Trolltech.conf` && test "$_OPERA_QTSTYLE" && set -- "$@" -style "$_OPERA_QTSTYLE"

This will make Opera respect Your QT4 style (configured with qtconfig).
MrGalaxy26. September 2008, 17:39:52
Loading http://www.ntv.ru stops at 26% again, not fixed.
Alkarex26. September 2008, 17:41:01
Great :-)

However, while you are at correcting "focus" bugs, there is still this annoying selection bug, when selecting texts that have a CSS ":after" content and a ":hover" rule at the same time.
The selection often does not work (not possible to do a copy/paste), and even when it works, there is afterwards a graphic bug with the selection that stays even after clicking elsewhere.

Here is a little test-case illustrating the Opera bug:

http://alexandre.alapetite.net/divers/vrac/20080926-opera-bug-selection-css-after-hover.html

Good luck ;-)
phylax26. September 2008, 17:42:20
I eagerly installed opera_9.60.2436.gcc4.qt4_i386.deb and man is this thing broken.
Almost every page looks weird.
I tried rm -rf ~/.opera but it does'nt help.
Now i am back to build 2430 - Phew! everything OK again.
How can this happen?
deadHarlequin26. September 2008, 17:43:05
address bar arrow drop down menu, broken?

edit:
weird, sometimes works, sometimes not.
dapxin26. September 2008, 17:48:43
thx
FataL26. September 2008, 17:55:45
Please finally fix this (301620) WebForms 2 checkbox group validation bug.
This bug makes troubles (inability to submit form!) to our intranet system form submission for Opera users.
Don't let experimental features like WebForms 2 to ruin user experience! Fix this bug!
afz26. September 2008, 17:56:17
still waiting for fix bug-352210(letter-spacing with Persian|Arabic languages)
cssari26. September 2008, 18:01:37
Thanks
metriod126. September 2008, 18:02:18
thanks for the new build!!
kamalesh26. September 2008, 18:06:11
Very cool Mac Install graphics in Finder. Nice touch.

It didn't occur to me you were packing both PPC and Intel DMGs...wow, Opera mac-intel dmg is only 7.9 meg (was always wondering why the Mac install was so huge).

Great build so far!
zikzakatak26. September 2008, 18:20:47
downloading...

i dont see any fix to high cpu usage and memory.

testing testing...123

thanx.

again i cant reply using quotes is that normal?.

just quick reply.
ywtbhb26. September 2008, 18:20:56
just FIX no IMPROVE in 9.6 !?
MrGalaxy26. September 2008, 18:21:30
FataL,
Did u tested new Opera release for limited amount of downloads? I didnt yet. Is it limited by 20 like earlier?
If it is so, it's a pity.
vivabrevis26. September 2008, 18:32:56
love it
zikzakatak26. September 2008, 18:39:58
here is what is a regression for me.

gmail wont work on new and old version.

in all 9.6 builds gmail freeze or keep endlessly in "still working" mode (in new version) and loading in old version.

winxp sp3.
sites.web.pt26. September 2008, 18:47:00
@ miki69

"bug-364704:
New problem with Sonystyle.com (thumbs don't open on the right):
http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay? catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&productId=8198552921665511248"

Works fine here, except for a withe space at the bottom of the page.

bug-364705:
(big black line, instead of comparison chart)
http://www.advizia.com/v41/ComparisonA.asp?User=SonyComputers- SS&Models=VGN-Z590UAB%7CVGN-Z540EBB%7CVGN-Z570N%2FB%7C

Mask as Firefox.

When something doesn't work the usual suspects are:
Browser identification: try to mask as Firefox or IE.
Content blocking: disable the Content Blocking and test again the "broken" site.
User Javascsript: disable that option if the above solutions fails.

BTW cars.com problem persist.

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@ zikzakatak

Gmail is ok here. Windows 10433 and 10439 builds.
Mistrio_xp26. September 2008, 19:04:24
The new facebook layout is broken, when you try to change "tabs" in the home/news feed page (clicking on "status updates" "live feed".. etc) and sometimes when click on a picture to get the next.. can anyone confirm?
zadar26. September 2008, 19:29:16
site is badly messed up
http://www.enbw.com/content/de/netznutzer/index.jsp
General_G26. September 2008, 19:31:51
Syncing doubles (in some cases even multiplies by 35) my bookmarks... have disabled it for now, no clean installation (only betas in that folder), login for syncing saved from begin of 9.5beta. Windows XP SP3
lamarca26. September 2008, 19:32:19
thanks for the new snapshot.
scaRFhogg26. September 2008, 19:45:12
@pfuschi, I cannot confirm a FRITZ!Box web interface crash. I have a FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN 7050, running on firmware version 14.04.33.

ZDFmediathek crashes for me as well, as soon as I click on the play button of a video.
elyon26. September 2008, 19:56:14
Thanks for the new snapshot!

There are a couple things I have seen with the default skin using Windows XP that are small, but I wanted to bring them to your attention (if they aren't already)

1. There is about a pixel of white that stands out in the lower-left and lower-right corners of both the address field and the search field that are kind of a nuisance. Just a little visual "tick"

2. Would it be possible to make the panels button slightly larger, to match the width of the panel itself? 5 pixels worth of difference might really help.

Thanks!