Opera 9.51 RC 3

July 1, 2008 · by csant

And one more RC for the upcoming 9.51! Lots of nice fixes in this one - and we need your feedback, specially on:

upgrading (we did some more tweaks to the installer)
saving (of images, of web pages, of "stuff")

Changelog:

Fixed proper clearing of textarea when no-cache is set.
Fixed a crash on print preview.
Saving of images is not recorded in transfers anymore.
Fixed window.close() not functioning after invoking context menu… (this also fixes closing Dragonfly…)

Unix specific:

Fixed printing on Linux

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Readers' comments

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

petersayce1. July 2008, 11:59:00
Glad to see the team are getting there.
GregLand1. July 2008, 11:59:27
Thanks for "Fixed a crash on print preview."
Tamil1. July 2008, 11:59:34
Originally posted by csant:
Saving of images is not recorded in transfers anymore.
Thanks.
lamarca1. July 2008, 12:04:05
thanks for the new rc3.
efekan2581. July 2008, 12:04:45
Saving of images is not recorded in transfers anymore.

Yeah Thanks a lot
wirusek1. July 2008, 12:05:45
thaks for the new build
stranded1. July 2008, 12:07:28
thank you

edit:
A new icon (like in Opera Mini 4.1) would be REALLY NICE!

It's smooth and nice in the latest Opera Mini.
Guyver1. July 2008, 12:16:04
Great Work as always!
miki691. July 2008, 12:20:56
Couldn't wait anymore for 9.51 final, so I installed RC3

Is it possible to alow inside transfers to drag&drop songs to winamp? I cannot do it now. I know there is option "open with" but I want simply to drag some songs to winamp. This was possible with 9.27

And please, correct this annoying green circle/light being lit after download is completed.

And why the hell I cannot put additional smilies when I want to EDIT this post/comment (it works OK with new post/comment though) - and I didn't disable them.

Cheers,
Miki
Indyan1. July 2008, 12:21:52
Saving of images is not recorded in transfers anymore.

Great.
Galileo1. July 2008, 12:23:04
tomurbanowicz1. July 2008, 12:23:08
"My" bugs are not fixed:
bug-343297
bug-343677
bug-344347
bug-343301
bug-343302
Big Muscle1. July 2008, 12:28:51
My bugs are not fixed either and they appears since one of the first build of 9.50. It seems that developers totally ignore bug reports and fix only what they want.

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=236442
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=237995
Guilo1. July 2008, 12:32:45
Thanks, it gets out the same day I first wanted to print with RC2 and wondered why it didn't work !!

Great jobn thanks !
cousin3331. July 2008, 12:32:57
Upgrading from a previous install, and leaving the 'Create desktop shotcut' field checked (that's the default behaviour) Opera creates an other desktop shortcut named Opera, even though there was one there. So I get two links with the same name ('Opera') and target. This issue is there for some builds using Classic Installer on WinXP SP3 and Vista SP1.
Real_quark1. July 2008, 12:34:13
Why don't you just add the "Show images in transfer window" setting?
garyy8111. July 2008, 12:36:12
Saving of images is not recorded in transfers anymore.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Please make that an option... I work a lot with images and it makes a lot of things easier for me...every time a realease with this functions is released I beg for keeping it but everytime its removed (
tomurbanowicz1. July 2008, 12:37:50
+1
brunito_c1. July 2008, 12:41:07
GREAT JOB !!!!!!!!! Can't wait to see next release !
Sterkrig1. July 2008, 12:41:14
That's how releasing should go!
doodooray1. July 2008, 12:42:24
Whether images are displayed in Transfers should be an option. Some people may not like them being displayed, but others (myself included) prefer it that way. It's the only way to satisfy everyone.
garyy8111. July 2008, 12:44:15
also, will the system right-click menu be back in the transfers tab?

It's very annoying to everytime open the download folder and search the file just to right-click there...
Fujiy1. July 2008, 12:44:43
When i click some rss and choose to NOT sign, opera show Feeds on Menu and nevermore hide it.
Novindu1. July 2008, 12:45:18
thx heepz for the RC3 but please can you make OP stable on facebook?? coz it gets stuck alot and reeely slow on it...and uts a headacke for me
and it eats my ram u kno....for 9 tabs opened it has cost me 326,868K i think dats tooo much!!!
ElectriX21. July 2008, 12:46:17
Saving of images is not recorded in transfers anymore.
...
Please make that an option... I work a lot with images and it makes a lot of things easier for me...every time a realease with this functions is released I beg for keeping it but everytime its removed

I think it's good idea to make it an option, but it should be disabled by default...;-)

When i click some rss and choose to NOT sign, opera show Feeds on Menu and nevermore hide it.

Not confirmed, working ok on last two builds...;-)

Upgrading from a previous install, and leaving the 'Create desktop shotcut' field checked (that's the default behaviour) Opera creates an other desktop shortcut named Opera, even though there was one there. So I get two links with the same name ('Opera') and target...

Confirmed. This problems persists from 9.2x and maybe older

Thanx for RC3!
hpacheco1. July 2008, 12:46:49
thanks for the new RC
sabio1. July 2008, 12:50:25
I've noticed that 'download completed' popup in recent builds ... well, just pops up While it used to scroll up and down earlier.

I think I would prefer previous behavior. Or probably some other animation like fade in/fade out.
miki691. July 2008, 12:50:28
Will someone be kind enough to tell me if this is related to Opera issue or specific site issue (site admin mistake). I'm asking this question since RC1.

There is a problem with Gallery on this www.mobilnisvet.com website, both IE and FF display Gallery as it should be, but not Opera. Here are the pics:

http://img359.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ff2ig0.jpg

http://img359.imageshack.us/my.php?image=opera2ar9.jpg

BR
Miki
HellbillyDeluxe1. July 2008, 12:52:07
Thank you a lot for this new Build

You want Feedback, you'll get Feedback :

- Upgrading:

I've upgraded from Build 10080 to 10081 and have no problems so far

- Saving:

Finally! Saved images don't appear in transfer window anymore, thank you! Saving other stuff (webpages, files...) works like a charm here, BUT I would love to see Vista's default explorer for saving stuff like images, files... Would it be possible to add this feature in 9.51 Final or 9.52? It was in the very early Alphas of 9.5 so I would love to see it again.

- Print Preview:

No crash here, but when I scroll down, I get black lines on the right side. They disappear again by scrolling up.

Thanks again for the new Build and keep it up!
c0rvus1. July 2008, 12:57:44
Talking about images:

Any updates concerning bug-344279?
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=237859&t=1214921466&page=1#comment2610468
afz1. July 2008, 12:57:53
letter-spacing + Persian and Arabic language still not fixed. :-I
ar1pe1. July 2008, 13:02:14
New again
ElectriX21. July 2008, 13:03:30
've noticed that 'download completed' popup in recent builds ... well, just pops up While it used to scroll up and down earlier.

NOT confirmed, working great on last build, also on previous (maybe you have problem with upgrade) ;-)
WildEnte1. July 2008, 13:06:14
re feedback concerning upgrading (from 9.27 on XP here):

- Installer: painless until the last point: "Start Opera when I press finish" was checked and I hit finish, but nothing happened for 20 seconds. Then I opened Opera manually. I didn't get a "another user is running opera", so I believe the automatic start at the end of the installation is broken.

- I knew about the skin change, but I can only imagine that some people will go "What the heck? It said it'd keep my settings on upgrading Opera" when they see that their skin changed from (in my case) the old Opera Native to the new Opera native, which really doesn't look good.

- Why does the Get started using Opera page tell you how to disable a feature as one of 4 main points? Sell it as "Superb fraud protection" and in the "more info" make sure the disabling is described.

Other than that: painless.
grogge1. July 2008, 13:07:43
Originally posted by csant:
saving (of images, of web pages, of "stuff")
bug 326791 is still present

Opera saves images that were opened in a tab of their own without an extension under Windows XP Professional Corporate Edition.

NOTE: "File->Save As..."|Ctrl-S saving, NOT "Save Image..." saving is meant here. Image opened as the sole document in a tab and then saved as a being the openend document fails, right-clicking the that document and saving it using "Save Image..." works and of course is not the problem that needs to be fixed.
King Crimson1. July 2008, 13:11:19
Thanks for "Saving of images is not recorded in transfers anymore"!!!

But I still have this problem:

I set to open next tab on closing one tab, but when tabs are all opened by "ctrl+shift+left click", it opens last active tab and not next tab!
postas1. July 2008, 13:13:35
Oh no,

my Bug ist still there: http://www.fujifilm.ch/

move the mouse over the menu!!!
RyLeeRyno1. July 2008, 13:13:38
Removing all RSS Feeds from Opera 9.50+ will still leave Feeds in the toolbar and the Opera icon in system tray remains despite there being no Feeds.
grogge1. July 2008, 13:15:37
[--] When downloading many pictures using the links window, the Opera suddenly stops to start any new transfers after a while (47 image downloads successful then it stops downloading the rest).

[++] It seems that the very old sporadic bug from Opera 8 or earlier is gone (or under control again), where Opera downloads the image to the cache but then fails to copy the data from the cache to the destination file. It was quite rare in Opera 8, quite common in Opera 9.0x-9.2x and very massive (50% of all image downloads) in earlier Opera 9.5x builds.
SoulOfDoinel1. July 2008, 13:15:45
[...] and we need your feedback, specially on saving of images [...]

Saving of images is not recorded in transfers is a good thing!
:-D
OPC1. July 2008, 13:16:27
Are the Debian packages gcc3.qt3 and gcc4.qt3 shared?
daimonion1. July 2008, 13:21:05
On my workstation the java window on maps.google.de doesn't work since RC2. Can you confirm this behaviour?
grogge1. July 2008, 13:21:51
Originally posted by csant:
saving (of images, of web pages, of "stuff")
Another regression. When saving a website, changing the file type in Windows XP's save dialog will not alter the extension of the "filename", it will be ".mht" no matter what. At least the file filter in the directory view of the save dialog is changed, when I change the file type in the drop down list.

Conclusion: all the bugs of Opera 9.50 I have found under Windows XP Pro that are about downloading and the file extension of images and websites are still there, only slightly changed but not working properly nontheless.
xpatze85x1. July 2008, 13:25:37
myspace dropdown menu still not fixed
ElectriX21. July 2008, 13:26:19
Will someone be kind enough to tell me if this is related to Opera issue or specific site issue (site admin mistake). I'm asking this question since RC1.

There is a problem with Gallery on this www.mobilnisvet.com website, both IE and FF display Gallery as it should be, but not Opera.

The problem is, that is definded to 700px width, but the content has no brakes and is wider than 700px. It could be taken as Opera's problem...(but there is no max-width defined, so...). I dunno...
ElectriX21. July 2008, 13:27:30
When saving a website, changing the file type in Windows XP's save dialog will not alter the extension of the "filename", it will be ".mht" no matter what. At least the file filter in the directory view of the save dialog is changed, when I change the file type in the drop down list.
Confirmed. A bug.
lckobaya1. July 2008, 13:28:33
There is a bug with transfer tab.

You open Opera and makes a download. Opera opens a transfer tab.
Than you open a new window. In this new window at each download made Opera opens a new transfer tab (you end up with multiple transfer tabs).
If on the old window you close the transfer tab, than on the new tab Opera reuses the transfer tab properly (you have one transfer tab with multiples files).

This happen since 9.50 but i am too lazy to comment or to file a bug report.
HaJotKE1. July 2008, 13:30:07
"Saving of images is not recorded in transfers anymore."

And no option for those who were finding this very useful?
Is that really, how you treat your users?

Or did I overlook something?
EricJH1. July 2008, 13:33:50
Thanx for the new release....
Kildor1. July 2008, 13:40:29
> Saving of images is not recorded in transfers anymore.
I don`t beleave!!!