A New Snapshot and My First Post Here

September 12, 2008 · by NoteMe

Hello, my name is Øyvind and this is my first post here since I joined the Opera's Desktop Team less than two months ago. It has been a busy time for me, but at the same time, I think it was the perfect time for me to join. I have already witnessed the release of 9.52, and we are getting close to releasing 9.6.

Before I started, I was just a MyOpera member roaming the #weekly IRC channel. Fridays were always a highlight. That's when I got the answer to all my questions. Did someone fix my bugs? Were there any new features enabled? When is the next version due? Now when I am on the inside I get to know all this information every day I go to work. And the best of all, I can now fix bugs myself, as well as play and contribute new functionality for the next release. So now I get to have fun every day. What more can I ask for?

Today we have formally EV-enabled Verisign and Comodo in Opera v9.5 and later, which you can read more about in Yngve's blog post. So go and try out our new snapshot, and have a lovely weekend.

- ØØ -

WARNING: This is a development snapshots: 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.

Known Issue

Dragonfly is a bit unstable

Changelog

Special characters are now displayed properly in the Address bar drop-down
Sorting by progress in Transfers now works
Cache files from feeds no longer show up in Transfers
Speed Dial thumbnails no longer disappear when deleting private data
Page encoding in site preferences can now be reset to automatic
Dragonfly element highlighting no longer stays on the page after closing the developer tools window
Browsing Intranet sites now works after changing proxies in a running session

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Macintosh
UNIX

Readers' comments

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

Tamil12. September 2008, 15:43:53
Originally posted by NoteMe:
I joined the Opera desktopteam less than two months ago.
Congratulations!

Originally posted by NoteMe:
Newsfeed cache files from certain feeds no longer show up in transfers
Speeddial thumbnails no longer disappear when deleting private data
healer12. September 2008, 15:50:40
thanks, downloading
sebt12. September 2008, 15:52:09
Luvverly
Kanel12. September 2008, 15:52:31
Thanks
sveins12. September 2008, 15:53:48
Friday afternoon, and a new Opera version appears just in time for coffee! Congratulations to the newcomer.
S
cygoh12. September 2008, 15:54:24
Thanks downloading
ar1pe12. September 2008, 16:03:43
Thanks
Exolon12. September 2008, 16:09:03
Crashed in GMail within 2 minutes, when I tried to refresh in my inbox when it got stuck with "Loading..." displayed at the top.
Reported many builds ago, no responses, no fix
wirusek12. September 2008, 16:09:34
Thanks for the new build
sebt12. September 2008, 16:12:37
New mail behaviour allowing to download full mail body ("This message is incomplete but can be fetched the next time you check and receive mail") seems to be broken when "Leave messags on server" is checked.

Even if I click Fetch Complete Message, the above banner remains with "This message will be fetched the next time you check and receive mail" displayed in the mail body, with the "Fetch" button greyed. Then, clicking Check/Send, the original "This message is incomplete but can be fetched the next time you check and receive mail" reappears, with the button pressable again (ie. not greyed out).

This cycle seems to be unbreakable while "Leave messages on server" is checked.

Should I file a bug report or is this known?

Seb
White_Eagle12. September 2008, 16:14:23
Where the hell are the QT4 .deb builds??

BTW, thanks for the latest weekly, and I hope you'll have great time with Opera software dude.
flitz12. September 2008, 16:15:01
Linux GCC4 QT4 .deb not ready yet. ;-(
tsarhan12. September 2008, 16:15:56
I see in this build you've enlarged a search field (the right of the address bar), it's really cool, but I want to have ability to set it's size manually. Ico-pics (favicons) of sites doesn't loads in this search field.
Junyor12. September 2008, 16:21:21
@Exolon: Bug number?

@sebt: Yes, please.
Exolon12. September 2008, 16:23:34
@Junyor: 360259

Someone else asked whether this is on a clean install - it's not... so I might delete my profile and try again if it's the case that old profiles can cause problems.
celiochido12. September 2008, 16:28:47
gracias
sebt12. September 2008, 16:29:58
@Junyor: bug-362175
Soleen12. September 2008, 16:36:56
thank you for update, thank you for solaris builds :-)
sacharja12. September 2008, 16:37:10
Please fix the 100% CPU freeze while opening a new window #343143. I can't search the history because of this and if I do I have to restart the browser. That's really annoying.
HeeZy12. September 2008, 16:43:15
sync is still broken for me.
piroxicam12. September 2008, 16:50:33
No multilanguage setup? I've installed and my Opera browser was in English after the installation.
Arnt12. September 2008, 16:55:50
Gratulerer med en drømmejobb Øyvind!

Speed Dial thumbnails no longer disappear when deleting private data
saulob12. September 2008, 17:09:14
Congrats Øyvind !

What a strange name... ehehhe
fearphage12. September 2008, 17:19:05
@noteme: Welcome. I was not aware you were staff. I guess it takes a while to get added to the list or you just haven't joined that group yet. Congrats!

EDIT: You tagged the post 9.5 instead of 9.6.
kavalec7412. September 2008, 17:20:15
was just changed this weekly to snapshot
thobi12. September 2008, 17:21:39
hello and congratulations Øyvind!

Originally posted by Øyvind:
Cache files from feeds no longer show up in Transfers
mulB12. September 2008, 17:30:36
The possibility to set the zoom factor in site preferences would be great.

Thanx so far!
mhakali12. September 2008, 17:41:38
Opening nvidia.com and 5 tabs of youtube and flash crashed.

operapluginwrap[29362]: segfault at 04010300 eip b76b9a9b esp b4aceda0 error 4

:-(
Junyor12. September 2008, 17:57:35
@Exolon: Are you using a proxy?

@sebt: Thank you!
Pattty12. September 2008, 18:07:43
Hello, my name is Øyvind and this is my first post here since I joined the Opera's Desktop Team less than two months ago.

Nice to meet you!
FataL12. September 2008, 18:12:33
Originally posted by NoteMe:
And the best of all, I can now fix bugs myself
You are our last hope!
Congrats!
VJgamer12. September 2008, 18:19:40
Is this just my install, can someone please confirm or disprove.

On the last two builds, on google maps (maps.google.com) after I have searched for a place, clicking on any of the links that pop-up on the map ( To here - From here - Search nearby) brings me to a blank (white) page with javascript:void(0) in the address bar.

I'm thinking I just need to do a fresh install.
MrBlueSky12. September 2008, 18:27:39
A great first post Noteme! Keep up the good work.

Thanks.

::MBS::
afz12. September 2008, 18:46:15
plz. fix bug-352210(letter-spacing with Persian|Arabic languages)
DjiXas12. September 2008, 18:46:58
Sweet. Thanks a lot for that transfers bug fix. Still won't install this one though, will wait for dragonfly fix
davidviolin12. September 2008, 18:48:42
Ï have to say that with the previous 9.6 beta 1, I was very happy to see that the filesize had actually SHRUNK, however with this release its back to normal again. Too bad, as most applications just add features, the filesize increases and not enough is done to clean up old code. One of the reasons utorrent is so popular is that its about 250 KB and yet it has a LOT of features. Maybe Opera could learn something from that?
Otherwise, the CNN videos still wont display fullscreen, hugoboss,com still doesnt work, and there are many pages that have formatting problems.
Also, I would love to see Opera reach 100% on acid tests, and then using this as a sales argument in advertising campaigns. Yes, Opera, like firefox needs advertising. This will boost the useage, and then again, more web developers are going to write their pages optimized for Opera.
olli12. September 2008, 19:07:37
FataL: What do you mean? You given up on the rest of us?
olli12. September 2008, 19:12:38
cranil7: We are working on it :-)
Stifu12. September 2008, 19:15:36
davidviolin: yeah, disk space is a real issue nowadays... Not.

It's wrong to draw conclusions just from the size of a file. To exaggerate things, you could imagine Opera itself is extremely small, but calls one or two external libraries that boost the file size by a few MB. Would that make Opera any less optimized, or its code less clean? Not really.
As long as your browser doesn't become Photoshop like, there are other things you should worry about.
lamarca12. September 2008, 19:28:18
thanks for the new snapshot.
Delerue12. September 2008, 19:55:50
Originally posted by "olli":
What do you mean? You given up on the rest of us?

Maybe he did, hehehe. At least there's a new hope, because some old Opera interface bugs seem to be forgotten a long time ago. I'm reporting some of these bugs here since 9.5 first snapshot, and nothing until now... :|
emperordarius12. September 2008, 19:58:20
Kaspersky detected as trojan when opening. Reported as false alarm
stranded12. September 2008, 20:03:44
There are artifacts while scrolling (just when you press the middle mouse button and then drag the mouse across the screen):
http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/7495/xpuu8.jpg

winxp sp3
clean install of opera
lamarca12. September 2008, 20:07:13
i got blank page whenever a click on a link sent by mail (e.g. forum notification). the same me happens if i use the typed-in address.
solution: reload the page.

winxp (sp2) - clean install

/edit: it happens after submiting/editing post. i have to use the old and good f5 to see my reply.
zikzakatak12. September 2008, 20:14:02
testing...surfing...eating...

Originally posted by NoteMe:
And the best of all, I can now fix bugs myself

yes lets infiltrate opera
excastis12. September 2008, 20:21:58
Get javascript:void(0) when using http://maps.yahoo.com/

After trying typing in the addresses to get directions click on the round trip button and you get javascript:void(0)
VJgamer12. September 2008, 20:28:23
@excastis

That is exactly what it is doing on Google Maps. I wonder if they are related. I can confirm your issue on Yahoo! Maps.
SteelRealm12. September 2008, 20:48:25
I don't have issue with Google Maps =\
dom041012. September 2008, 20:52:07
I've got another javascript:void(0) problem -

On http://www.microsoft.com/en/gb/ clicking on any of the links underneath "Microsoft UK Site Guide" brings up javascript:void(0) instead of a box with various content. Can anyone confirm this is happening?

Also, where are all the languages?! I want British English not American English!!

Build 10427 Windows XP SP3
zikzakatak12. September 2008, 21:03:39
@ excastis yahoo maps and get dierections option working normal here.

@ dom0410 link under microsoft guide working good in here.

@ VJgamer google maps working fine and get directions option too.

winxp sp3