New snapshot

December 14, 2007 · by Cato

Hello all. Here's your snapshot for this week.

You haven't seen me before, but I've been on the desktop team for a few months already. I only now got pressured into writing a blog post though. My name's Cato, and I do mainly Windows testing.

As you may see, we now finally have sparc solaris builds! There are some issues with it (crashes when you try to use mail), but we thought you shouldn't have to wait longer.

In other news, we've written a handy FAQ for this blog, which you can locate in the equally handy sidebar we added over there on the right. We plan to link to useful articles there as soon as we write them so you don't have to search through the archives to find them.

WARNING: These are pre-alpha builds: 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 295195] Download preferences are broken after saving changes. This leads to many seemingly separate bugs, such as wrong MIME-type when uploading JPG images or headers displayed in MHTML documents
[BUG 299224] Account settings broken when adding a new IRC/Chat account
[BUG 292685] Occasional crashes when opening download links from mail/newsfeeds
[BUG 299767] Opera on UNIX might crash if you close a tab while flash is being initialized
[BUG 292802] Opera on UNIX crashes when Java is initialized

Changelog:

Unread count inconsistencies should be fixed
Animated GIFs should be fixed, for real this time
Fixed crash when clicking on the widget panel
Single clicking no longer behaves like drag and drop in bookmarks panel
Content Blocker now works again if you have disabled Speed Dial
Fixed various SVG crashers
Fixed various XSLT crashes

UNIX-specific:

Sparc Solaris builds now start... but crashes when you try to use mail

Download

Readers' comments

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

AyushJ14. December 2007, 15:15:57
getBoundingClientRect is broken in this build
kyleabaker14. December 2007, 15:15:57
Running great!

What does this mean exactly:
"Content Blocker now works again if you have disabled Speed Disabled"..?
lamarca14. December 2007, 15:16:21
thanks for the new snapshot
ar1pe14. December 2007, 15:17:12
Great!

edit: now I have more than 50 mails in unread, before the upgrade only 6 Well, no harm done.
Cato14. December 2007, 15:17:45
AyushJ: New issue? Can you report a bug?
kyleabaker: The content blocker buttons were disabled in previous build if you had disabled speed dial using the "Hide Speed Dial" button.
AyushJ14. December 2007, 15:19:00
Originally posted by Cato:
AyushJ: New issue? Can you report a bug?

Yes, new issue. Junyor(on IRC) said it's known.
el_esponjoso14. December 2007, 15:19:42
Great build

#&
strat8914. December 2007, 15:19:55
thnx team
drumblius14. December 2007, 15:21:15
I've been checking your blog all day. Thanks
kyleabaker14. December 2007, 15:21:47
@Cato
Nice to see a new face! Thanks for the quick response.
NoobSaibot14. December 2007, 15:22:34
Speed Disabled = Speed Dial
fearphage14. December 2007, 15:23:11
welcome home bug numbers in the posts
Cato14. December 2007, 15:23:40
NoobSaibot: Ah, woops. That would explain the confusion. Fixed now.
bfg10k14. December 2007, 15:25:23
Java doesn't work yet...however now Feeds work again properly! Many thanks for the new build, you are awesome!
Hypezor14. December 2007, 15:25:50
[BUG 292802] Opera on UNIX crashes when Java is initialized]

Seems like Java is broken for quite a long time now.
Just wondering, is it because of modifications actually going on Opera concerning Java?
Is a Unix Java "milestone" coming soon or something? :>
TSchmidt14. December 2007, 15:26:14
Links (Latest Snapshots) are not current
Uzm14. December 2007, 15:28:26
Erm, loading-size-borders on progress bar are STILL broken.
BUT, thanks for the fix for GIF animations.
Junyor14. December 2007, 15:31:39
@TSchmidt: They work fine here.
Kanel14. December 2007, 15:34:30

Single clicking no longer behaves like drag and drop in bookmarks panel

Finally!
untitled114. December 2007, 15:36:28
still no videos on spiegel.de with flash 9.0.r115 and amd64 (kubuntu 7.10)
alexs14. December 2007, 15:38:07
- crash when open irc channel list
- build can't rendering css when local .html saved without BOM. testcase
- link target in widgets dosn't work
- can't scrolling in (Widgetize) widgets with scrollbar
tafugate14. December 2007, 15:41:31
javascript (ext js 1.1) behavior has changed. instead of the contents of the javascript popup (leaderboard) here:

http://www.lspn.net/

all appearing in the lefthand column, the popup now never appears at all. at least it's not appearing incorrectly. (8
GeekK14. December 2007, 15:46:30
Animated gifs not working here.

Example: http://tweakers.net/g/s/bonk.gif - does not animate, only shows first frame.

Tschmidt/Junyor: yeah they were not updated for a very short period of time.
Fyrd14. December 2007, 15:52:51
Ooh, I love the FAQ and other article links! Thanks!

Suggestion: Supply some ids to the FAQ headers so one could directly link to a question.
Junyor14. December 2007, 15:53:07
@GeekK: Please provide an example of a GIF that's not working and a description of the problem.
zarkoh14. December 2007, 15:56:32
Go Cato gO! B)
alexs14. December 2007, 15:57:02
Originally posted by GeekK:
Animated gifs not working here.

yes and no example #1 – example #2
zadar14. December 2007, 16:06:33
This Site is some kind messed up by showing It in Opera http://www.enbw.com/content/de/privatkunden/index.jsp;jsessionid=5146A535815C7DE1D4C3A5C0F9E53B13.nbw05
and they are still no check boxes showing on Ebay by choosing selling with all options (after masking opera as firefox) !,Opera has really problem also with some other pages by showing check boxes.I cant give a links cause u have to be registered there.
greetz!
ferrisnox14. December 2007, 16:06:57
Thanks for the new build. http://digg.com will still not load an image in speed dial.
mrmass14. December 2007, 16:07:00
Yay! A new snapshot! WOOHOO!!!

Also, you might want to check out the left menu in Google Reader. It changes its height erratically...
lamarca14. December 2007, 16:09:33
fast history navigation still not working
pgweiss14. December 2007, 16:14:57
I've noticed for a while now that if I right-click a link and choose "Save link to download folder" it tries to download "default" and fails with an error. If I do it from the links pane it works.

I've just bug reported this (#303150). Can anyone confirm this behavior?
ytsmabeer14. December 2007, 16:15:40
One big improvment I notice, is that Imap mail isn't reindexed anymore every time you start Opera.
This will speed up Opera.
MetalRaise14. December 2007, 16:20:44
9694 crashed when I tried to customize my Panel buttons ([F4] -> right click on the Panel and selecting Customize... -> Panels) for the first time. The crash occured in the very moment I clicked the Panels tab in the Appearance dialog window. I couldn't reproduce that crash, though.

First line of Inspector IIXII crash log:
Opera.exe 9694 (beta) caused exception 80000003 at address 67E20A82 (Base: 400000)
dentonjacobs14. December 2007, 16:21:34
@pgweiss: I've experienced the same issue for a couple of snapshots now.
agarner14. December 2007, 16:25:42
"Unread mail counts should be fixed"

but.......they've increased. Other than that -- GOOD JOB!!!!!!!!!!
Junyor14. December 2007, 16:33:42
@alexs: Those all work here. Since you didn't describe the problem, it's hard to tell what you're seeing.
Orff14. December 2007, 16:45:06
Here's hoping the bug keeping it on and on the tray when closed as well as the bug preventing
cache being emptied is fixed.
ar1pe14. December 2007, 16:47:54
@Junyor and @alexs:
They work here too
v1nx14. December 2007, 17:04:17
gif animation is still broken(

like here http://www.animezone.ru/smf/Smileys/animated/grin.gif
or here http://homenet.corbina.net/style_emoticons/default/fool.gif
FataL14. December 2007, 17:16:18
alexs, v1nx: can confirm buggy rendering of GIFs here (bunch of junk pixels appears after some time).
MartinezZ14. December 2007, 17:16:37
M2 - one minute after instalation of this build, I was trying create new mail. Opera crashed without any "crash window". Ok, I opened it again, press Ctrl+E (old keyboard setup), write mail, klick on Send button and Opera try connect to my mail (POP3) account and... crash. Without any message. 3rd and following "tests" was OK. (Fresh instalation on WindowsXP CZE)
Serpher14. December 2007, 17:17:22
For now we should use version 9.24 and wait for final version of Kestrel. Those 9.50 builds are too buggy...
FataL14. December 2007, 17:22:21
Serpher, if this blog would be like Digg, I would definitely bury your comment.
Use 9.24 and wait for 9.50 release or help developers to make 9.50 less buggy.
MartinezZ14. December 2007, 17:24:31
@Serpher: Really? When everybody waiting for final version, who will debugging/recognizing bugs? Raid or Pif-Paf? (OT, I'm sorry)
UnknownFactor14. December 2007, 17:38:27
Opera weeklies and beta's used to be great, I've ran every single beta/weekly/non-final as my main browser, thats upto 9.50. So to some extend I find that he has a valid point.

Right now I use the latest final as main, and just have 9.50 on the side. I support Opera fully, but that doesn't mean I'll use a buggy beta/alpha builds as my main browser for the sake of being helpful >_<!
piotersu14. December 2007, 17:50:08
I don't understand your complaints about animated gif's. All of the given examples on my 1719 Linux build.
MartinezZ14. December 2007, 17:53:05
@piotersu - but not on Windows build
OperaIsGreat14. December 2007, 17:53:21
Problem with option window in vBulletin forum.
GregLand14. December 2007, 17:54:42
Thanks for Stability fix & Animated GIFs!