Happy Easter

March 18, 2008 · by csant

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:

Opening Help causes Opera to crash.
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 OS X, scrolling to the bottom of a page with the scrollbars does not work.

General changes:

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
Windows Classic
Macintosh
UNIX

Enjoy the new build, and Happy Easter!

Readers' comments

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

Tamil18. March 2008, 15:34:16
GrantTLC18. March 2008, 15:34:43
Fixed inline find

Woo-hoo!

Thanks for the new build, I was starting to worry about you guys!
lamarca18. March 2008, 15:35:13
thanks for the new snapshot
Irontiger18. March 2008, 15:37:53
thanks
Happy Easter
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arzafen18. March 2008, 15:38:31
Thanks a lot!
Is debian package for the shared available?
rallye18. March 2008, 15:38:59
No shared .deb?
illiad18. March 2008, 15:39:24
"Save As for a web page only lets you save as "HTML file" on Windows."

eh????

wasn't that FIXED in 9815 ????

and have you fixed 'edit' in this blog??
illiad18. March 2008, 15:40:39
nope. still getting 401.... PLEASE remove or fix....
humerus18. March 2008, 15:41:30
Inline search fixed! Great!
But panel history is still a loop, no search happens here!
stoffix18. March 2008, 15:41:35
Thanks
Have a happy Easter now
Junyor18. March 2008, 15:43:02
@illiad: Fixing editing of blog comments is a problem for the MyOpera team.
silencer2218. March 2008, 15:48:39
Ohhhh nooooo! Old bug with moving bookmarks and folders... I'm so disappointed on this build...
maake9318. March 2008, 15:50:53
Thanx a lot...

Good to see improvments on acid3
silencer2218. March 2008, 15:51:08
And still some bugs with mouse gestures.
GrantTLC18. March 2008, 15:55:09
What score does this build get in ACID 3?
bohwaz18. March 2008, 15:55:31
No .deb shared package, only static ones
bohwaz18. March 2008, 15:56:50
(for intel-linux)
MartinezZ18. March 2008, 15:57:04
""Open With" other browsers doesn't work."
ytsmabeer18. March 2008, 15:57:36
acid3:77/100
orinoco18. March 2008, 15:57:55
77/100 on Acid3, good work!

AFAIK there has been no official comment from Opera about the latest test. What is the company approach to Acid3? Any specific policy? Are there any Opera specific horrors in this test? Is the test just a bragging rights thing to you guys or do you feel it is more important?
sentio18. March 2008, 15:58:18
@GrantTLC: 77/100
silencer2218. March 2008, 15:58:28
77/100 new score (New Safari gets 75/100)
Hypnotoad18. March 2008, 16:00:25
bug-315728 definitely fixed, bug-315545 appears to be as well.

Google reader still blue for everyone?
illiad18. March 2008, 16:00:34
Junyor: yeah.... but ...

But add *good* news, remove the non-existant 'bug report' !

- on windows 2000 at least, you CAN save in any format!
YeOK18. March 2008, 16:00:39
Thanks for the build, noticed the desktop team taking some stick on the last few releases. Just like to say, I love 9.5, its shaping up to be a fine browser, its fast, solid and has all I need to enjoy browsing.

Thanks to all the Opera Desktop Team. Happy Easter to you all.
GeekK18. March 2008, 16:02:05
@Hypnotoad: yes it is. The entire page is marked as visited link (spatial navigation).
profiT18. March 2008, 16:02:23
Better performance with plugins.

Thanks a lot.

Yay, now sites that was built on Adobe AIR (like nick.com) works a lot faster!.. CPU usage is still a problem, though (compared to IE and Mozilla). But as of now -- i am already content with it.

Thanks again.
GT50018. March 2008, 16:03:37
Is it just me, or does this build seem faster?

Anyway, thanks for the new build.
felsberg18. March 2008, 16:03:51
Thanks for the new build, but .....
since upgrade, Opera doesn´t start anymore.
What´s wrong ?
GrantTLC18. March 2008, 16:05:33
Thanks Sentio, ytsmabeer. I'm at work or I'd have tested it myself.

I did an wee blog article on ACID 3 compatibility last week (not on my Opera blog), where FF preb5 got a higher score than Kestrel 9815 - this latest build leap-frogs it into first place again.

Congrats Opera. Here's hoping you're the first to get to 100, especially considering all the talk you've been laying down about standards recently! And I second the question posed by Orinoco - what is the company stance on ACID 3?
Zajec18. March 2008, 16:07:15
Several plugin fixes.
Pitty that it's not enought to make SWFDEC working.
Hypnotoad18. March 2008, 16:09:48
@Orinoco and GrantTLC regarding ACID3:

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/findpost.pl?id=2476054
dantesoft18. March 2008, 16:13:32
Yeey!
chris3418. March 2008, 16:13:35
thanks
lamarca18. March 2008, 16:18:35
Originally posted by Hypnotoad:
Google reader still blue for everyone?

yes! and the search dropdown menu is messed up
jarinkirill18. March 2008, 16:19:03
>What score does this build get in ACID 3?

77
kal818. March 2008, 16:19:28
77/100 good job Safari 3.1 gets 75/100
Fyrd18. March 2008, 16:19:59
Yay! Great news on the Acid3 fixes.

I think you guys have a pretty good chance of being the first browser to pass, mostly because you're the only ones supporting animation in SVG.
FataL18. March 2008, 16:22:43
Thanks for explicit changelog for the Acid 3 test!
And congrats for 77 points in the test!
rseiler18. March 2008, 16:24:42
Can anyone confirm that the button next to the address field (which normally opens to reveal URLs or lines that are not that helpful, but still) does not work at all in this release?
GDragoN18. March 2008, 16:27:19
This new build doesn't event start. I have WinXP SP2 and when I run Opera opera.exe process takes 99% of CPU time, and it doesn't even starts. I have to kill process in Task manager.
tynopex18. March 2008, 16:30:10
Hrm.. is Acid2 supposed to work in this build? It doesn't render properly for me and I thought it worked properly in previous snapshots but maybe I'm confused.

Thanks for fixing inline search!
piroxicam18. March 2008, 16:31:14
Oh my god, it looks like you gave vitamins to this latest snapshot. It's working and opening pages at an amazing speed. I've never seen any build like this one. Super super fast.

Great build. Thank you Opera Team and Happy Easter
rseiler18. March 2008, 16:32:56
Disregard that previous post about the URL pulldown. Must have been an issue here (I'd edit the post, but...).
AndrewNi18. March 2008, 16:36:08
This build is really quick compared to previous builds when installed fresh (not upgraded).

Happy Easter Opera dev team!
lamarca18. March 2008, 16:36:14
the tray icon is back and "go to last post" works now. just missing the progress bar at bottom.
Junyor18. March 2008, 16:40:53
@tynopex: Acid2 works fine here.
rseiler18. March 2008, 16:41:08
Originally posted by GrantTLC:
I did an wee blog article on ACID 3 compatibility last week (not on my Opera blog), where FF preb5 got a higher score than Kestrel 9815 - this latest build leap-frogs it into first place again.

Don't forget WebKit Nightly, at 93%:
http://www.anomalousanomaly.com/2008/03/06/acid-3/
Darken18. March 2008, 16:43:50
Woohoo! Excellent new build!
GeekK18. March 2008, 16:44:09
About Opera not starting: it seemed also not to start here, but it just took a long time... not nice.