First 9.60 Snapshot!

August 22, 2008 · by minch

Hot on the heels of Wednesday's 9.52 release comes our first snapshot of 9.60.

Everyone here at on the Desktop Team has been working hard to add new features to your favorite browser, and here's what you can look forward to in 9.60:

Opera Link
Custom search engines and typed history* are now joining bookmarks, speed dials, personal bar, and notes in Opera Link.

Feed Preview
Now you can preview an RSS/Atom feed before subscribing.

Opera Mail: Low Bandwidth Mode
Low Bandwidth Mode is a setting on mail accounts that makes Opera Mail use as little bandwidth as possible. For IMAP, this means that Opera will only synchronise new messages and it will not fetch message attachments unless requested. For POP, Opera will not fetch more than the first 100 lines of a message unless requested.

Opera Mail: Follow/Ignore threads and contacts
Follow and Ignore are new features for users that receive a lot of messages. It makes it easier to dismiss unimportant messages and easier to recognise important messages.

Opera Mail: Go To Thread
You can now also "Go to thread" which means that you can view only the messages from that thread. Useful for those that uses flat view.

Enjoy!

_{* Typed history is only the history you explicitly type or select from the address bar}

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

Follow/ignore thread misses some messages

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Readers' comments

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

Tamil22. August 2008, 15:22:00
I didn't expect build today.Status bar enabled after 9.60 install.
EricJH22. August 2008, 15:22:21
I am first this time?

Darn, Tamil beat me....
aleksanteri22. August 2008, 15:23:17
Gotta say that was... unexpected. Nevertheless, great!
theradex22. August 2008, 15:24:40
Great

... but too few changes...
Galileo22. August 2008, 15:24:48
zyph22. August 2008, 15:27:17
Wow, highly unexpected, but very, very welcome!

Can anyone confirm that this release will use the Opera Beta preferences folder?

Edit: it is indeed using the Beta folder, at least on OS X. And I love the new feed preview feature!
fearphage22. August 2008, 15:29:31
Surprise, surprise. Awesome!

Does typed history include javascript and data uris?
```
javascript:alert(catpants)

data:text/html;base64,PHNjcmlwdD5hbGVydCgnaSBoZWFydCBjYXQgcGFudHMnKTwvc2NyaXB0Pg==
```
Along the same lines, why are javascript and data uris only remembered for the session and not logged permanently like everything else i type into the address bar. Even searches were remembered for a while (g catpants) and could be looked up from the address bar. At no point in time could javascript and data uris be looked up from the address bar. They always had to be accessed again by opening the dropdown. Is this a bug?

EDIT:
Originally posted by theradex:
Great... but too few changes
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. (explanation if you don't understand)
elitegeek22. August 2008, 15:33:12
Glad to see it!
MrVista22. August 2008, 15:33:39
U know, Opera, is just more fun, than my Heart can take, in one week. IE-7, how boring!!
thobi22. August 2008, 15:38:52
wow
kavalec7422. August 2008, 15:40:45
:surprised:

10.0 for Cristmas?
exc22. August 2008, 15:41:31
Install logo - for 9.5
lamarca22. August 2008, 15:43:01
whoa! i was not waiting for such a surprise. is peregrine getting closer?
haruto886122. August 2008, 15:44:54
Thank you for always taking the surprise.
Stifu22. August 2008, 15:54:58
Always nice to see new builds, but I'm not too thrilled with this one (the fact I don't use Opera Mail probably doesn't help).
I'm looking forward to the next CSS fixes and additions.
Uzm22. August 2008, 15:57:11
Wow, great! Thanks.
Uzm22. August 2008, 15:59:31
By the way, synchronization fails all the time.
Tried on 3 accounts.
Anyone confirm?
GeekK22. August 2008, 16:00:39
No language choice in installer? (non-classic one).
fearphage22. August 2008, 16:04:43
I just filed Opera's first bug or at least first crasher:
Bug/crash #357285 - Clicking "subscribe" while the mail client is disabled (crash dump attached)
Bug report wizard bug (bug #357286) - 9.60 is not in the list of versions
fherrerav22. August 2008, 16:06:36
You are fast!!!!! wow!!!!!! 9.52 still warm
oscardt22. August 2008, 16:19:19
I very much like the expansion of Opera Link.

Looking forward to more new features.

Thanks for this snapshot
ConstyXIV22. August 2008, 16:19:50
Are there any plans to tie RSS feeds into Opera Link? I think it'd make Opera (mini) a nice competitor to Google Reader.
nahtanoj99922. August 2008, 16:22:57
9.6? And here I was expecting 9.5 to be the last of Opera 9.
As long as you're changing Opera Link, having it synchronize blocked content, site preferences, and keyboard shortcuts would be nice.
And with custom search engines being changed, the UI for managing searches needs to be improved so that there is a way to reorder searches and change their icons. I've been editing search.ini, but this is annoying because the file exists in two places (one of which is overwritten every new update), searches stay in the file when deleted, removing or adding a search near the beginning requires changing all the numbers, and some searches have icons when none is present in either file, while Opera ignores some icons that are present.
And as long as you're adding features to M2, HTML editing would be nice.
lamarca22. August 2008, 16:26:54
i've found the following string in opera:config|speed dial search type.

FEAF2EF45FCC11DD8287529456D89593

what does that mean?
Morphdreamer22. August 2008, 16:27:19
By the way, synchronization fails all the time.
Tried on 3 accounts.
Anyone confirm?

Yes it doesn't work for me too
Junyor22. August 2008, 16:28:36
No further additions to Presto, Opera Link, or Opera Mail are planned for Opera 9.6.

@fearphage: No bug report is needed if a version number is not listed on the public BTS wizard. Please just leave a comment and we'll take care of it.
GT50022. August 2008, 16:29:39
Will it be possible to delete typed history from the web interface?
efekan25822. August 2008, 16:36:03
No language choice in installer and Opera locale language folder not exist !
Metoz22. August 2008, 16:36:11
Awesome!
Thanks
PLnet22. August 2008, 16:36:45
Feed Preview
Now you can preview an RSS/Atom feed before subscribing.

Would be nice if the feed reader would get a new interface - not this mail-view
Originally posted by Junyor:
No further additions to Presto, Opera Link, or Opera Mail are planned for Opera 9.6.

Nevertheless, I'd like such thing as toolbar placement (up/down/off) to be added to Link
AleksOD22. August 2008, 16:37:30
Wow, this sounds like a dream come true! Thanks for more sync options!!!
solsektor22. August 2008, 16:39:42
Opera Link needs to synchronize the Blocked Content. That would be great.
phoenixp3k22. August 2008, 16:42:14
Wow! This sounds great!
wirusek22. August 2008, 16:48:48
Thanks for the 9.60 build
Devocalypse22. August 2008, 16:49:09
It is really good that you are making progress and thank you for that.
I tested the new build out in a xpsp3 virtual machine.

Tried adding a few RSS feeds and as expected it seems that the xml parsers need a lot of work.\

Example: http://hongfire.com/forum/external.php?type=RSS2
Works fine in 9.52 and 9.27 but in 9.60 >
XML parsing failed: syntax error (Line: 0, Character: 0)

Seems it has something to do with the document encoding. Adding the feed manually through the Manage Feeds menu doesent help either.

Also I noticed the same regression(feature?!?) as in 9.5 compared to 9.2 that when using the Quick Find on the toolbar (on mail and newsfeeds) it ONLY filters message TITLES unlike 9.2 where it filtered the messages based on their TITLES and BODIES as well. I miss this feature quite a lot and it doesent make sense to me why it was removed in 9.5+.

Searched the web for any information on this subject but found nothing. Can someone from the Opera staff please share some light on the situation with that.
HellbillyDeluxe22. August 2008, 17:00:39
Looks really promising so far, but may I make a suggestion?

Please add Vista's default explorer for downloading/saving files. Opera for Vista really needs this!

Thanks a lot in advance, I love 9.60 so far
kyleabaker22. August 2008, 17:09:33
wow, the versioning is a little depressing.

..but the changes look awesome enough to cover that part up! It seems most of the changes are to M2 (which I don't use), but I have actually requested the Feed preview for a while now! Thanks.
theradex22. August 2008, 17:15:59
"Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. (explanation if you don't understand)"

You right I just expect more changes in 9.6. Sorry for my english
Akbalder22. August 2008, 17:19:13
When we click on the rss icon in the adresse bar, the rss feed should open in a new tab.
thobi22. August 2008, 17:20:58
Originally posted by Uzm:
By the way, synchronization fails all the time.
Tried on 3 accounts.
Anyone confirm?

dito

Originally posted by Error Console:
Opera Link
SYNC_ERROR_PARSER
An error has occurred while parsing data from the Opera Link server
arghwashier22. August 2008, 17:32:07
do I see shared qt4?
theonehorst22. August 2008, 17:33:25
any change for support of third-party newsreader? just adding feed to programms is not working...
The404notfound22. August 2008, 17:35:03
Great! Great!
Kildor22. August 2008, 17:43:20
what is opera:config#UserPrefs|EnableScrollMarker ?
And opera:config#System|UseScreenReaderMenus?
AdrianTM22. August 2008, 17:44:42
Best comment: "Are there any plans to tie RSS feeds into Opera Link? I think it'd make Opera (mini) a nice competitor to Google Reader."

Synchronizing RSS feeds would be very useful.
drdoom22. August 2008, 17:45:07
Now when you're doing changes to RSS reader, one thing you should add:

RSS content filter

Meaning that when you have subscribed feed, you can filter some unwanted things away (for example using magicword 'peking' which would filter all feeds containing that word).

I have been testing alot of different RSS news readers and _none_ of them have this filter feature... so Opera should be, once again, on the bleeding edge and add this nice feature...
Kuja IX22. August 2008, 17:47:29
Is there any codename for 9.6x branch ?
kyleabaker22. August 2008, 17:48:52
It's kind of funny installing Opera 9.6 and seeing a welcome screen for Opera 9.5, lol.

Bug:
Am I the only one noticing the odd pixel errors on the feed icon in the address bar?
http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/2162/opera96feediconerrorvy7.png

Hovering the icon makes the odd pixels go away, but they come back after moving the mouse off.

EDIT:
It seems to have completely disappeared now, but has anyone else noticed this?
Sta1kerBo1ts22. August 2008, 17:49:08
Still "Opera 9.5" in installer...
(Windows)
arghwashier22. August 2008, 17:49:39
gone again, I am pretty sure I just saw 4 deb packages and now only 3....must be tired...