The saga continues... 9.01

July 14, 2006 · by borg

It's been a short month since we released 9.0 and we think it's soon time to let the rest of our users take part in the polishing we've worked on since then.

This isn't a release candidate, but it's not too far away either, so make sure your voice is heard

, especially if you find a regression since 9.0.

Happy bug hunting!

Changelog

Empty spam puts messages in trash again
Fixes to contenteditable
Several stability fixes
Several IMAP fixes
Open image in mail does now opens in new tab
Fixed bug where inline error messages opened blank
Fixed bug where Java Applet did not load when width and height set to 0
Chat colors (re)fixed
Search field now shows dropdown when using the down arrow key.
Fixed bug where Error console constantly appeared by renaming preference from "Console Filter" to "Error Console Filter"
Filters with huge numbers of mail will now act significantly faster.

UNIX notes

Fixed dependencies in rpm packages
Running install.sh while Opera is running doesn't crash Opera anymore
Improved options tab in Print dialog
Background (shape) color for widgets is now grey (#505150) instead of dark blue. (#375175).

Download links

Windows MSI
Windows Classic
Macintosh
Unix

Readers' comments

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

r3v14. July 2006, 15:22:34
taussick14. July 2006, 15:22:45
second but lovin' Opera!!
remcolanting14. July 2006, 15:22:57
Yay! More testing!
Tamil14. July 2006, 15:24:03

/settings bug not fixed for about 9 months. See bug-184632

History is useless without page title. See bug-202419

Please fix these bugs.
johnnysaucepn14. July 2006, 15:25:10
More IMAP fixes - excellent! Downloading now...
krusha14. July 2006, 15:29:58
Hay, gyzzzz, yah roool!!!
humerus14. July 2006, 15:32:25
Great news!
max1714. July 2006, 15:36:28
Is ok!
Shadyy14. July 2006, 15:37:29
Great!
but do something NEW with RSS !!!
MrFrodo14. July 2006, 15:39:47
Mac link at top of page is downloading previous build.
MrFrodo14. July 2006, 15:41:01
After posting the above, and the page refreshed, I didn't see my post. I had to refresh again to see it.
Fyrd14. July 2006, 15:44:07
@MrFrodo:

Thanks for that notice, I was just about to leave a comment about not noticing the arrow key fix after having re-installed the same build. Guess I'll try it with the real update now!
Fyrd14. July 2006, 15:45:18
@MrFrodo:

Hm, and same here regarding the refresh thing. Weird.
SpyMan14. July 2006, 15:47:12
The light gray buffer bar in YouTube videos still won't appear... See how it looks in IE:

http://img305.imageshack.us/img305/919/buffer3bv.png

Please try to fix it!

Sorry for my bad english...
User:Aka14. July 2006, 15:49:06
Starting with today morning, there are some strange problems with browsing the Wikipedia projects. I hoped this release will fix them, but it does not. Yesterday all still went fine and with Firefox and other browsers all still *is* fine today. So, it seems to be an Opera problem

I'm not the only one having it - please see

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=149140

for more details.
Wajo35714. July 2006, 15:50:17
tformers.com still does not render appropriately
worked in 8.54 and beta releases of 9
mkstevo14. July 2006, 15:51:48
Could I ask that you make the font smoothing optional in the Mac build ? All text in Opera ( including email ) is very hard to read ( Mac Mini Intel Core Duo ) FireFox and Safari are not affected , but I'd love to use Opera ...
IceArdor14. July 2006, 15:59:42
Maybe you could choose a sans-serif. That makes screen viewing a little better, generally.
Fyrd14. July 2006, 16:01:39
Well, definitely running 3471 now, and alas, arrow keys still have no effect on search field. Even with fresh install on OSX 10.3.9.

Can this be confirmed, or am I just doing something wrong?
AndrewNi14. July 2006, 16:02:21
I also have the refresh problem that MrFrodo and Fyrd have. I have had it for quite a few of the last builds including v9 final :/

And the same problem as the poster below me...
wosa14. July 2006, 16:04:32
Hi,
when I edit my post in phpBB forum, i press submit button. Next page is posting.php, where i can click to the link, which is pointing to edited post. But if i go to this link (i clicked on), the EDITED page was not edit. But page posting.php wainting 3 seconds to redirect me to edited post. If i wait for redirecting, the page was edit. Bug from Opera 9 a think. History > Check documents: Always doesn't work. Any ideas? Link to the forum? I searched for it. (sorry for my EN:-)
mrd14. July 2006, 16:07:50
The wikipedia thing is something they've done.

If you identify as Mozilla it strangely works. A peculiar "quirk" or "accident" to have introduced. Someone needs a slap at wikipedia.
Edgar002414. July 2006, 16:09:39
all ok but http://www.tennisone.com/ always display not good layout
edgar
Kanel14. July 2006, 16:12:14
@ wosa
Can't confirm.

@ Opera Desktop Team
Thanks for the new build!
The Seeker14. July 2006, 16:12:19
Feeds are still a little buggy I've noticed; that is to say I'm getting Newsforge feeds appearing in my Maxthon group.

(Using Windows build 8518.)
Kamikaze32114. July 2006, 16:14:39
Hello,

bug 218069 is still there, grrrrr

not gonna report any other till its fixed

cya
mkstevo14. July 2006, 16:16:03
Thanks IceArdor , I have tried every font on the system ! Some are better , none are clear enough for me to be able to use Opera . I should add that I am using OS X 10.4.7 . I am used to a Windows PC and have used every version of Opera on this since version 3 ( a paid user no less ) I LOVE Opera and I wish I could use it on my Mac .

Please Mr Opera , consider my eyesight !
desudesu14. July 2006, 16:22:48
Hello, when will be "history of search" on the panel?
Sorry my english
Soleen14. July 2006, 16:26:27
It is still not working, as it stopped
working in the last several weeklies!!!
http://www.gazeta.ru/lenta.shtml

This website works even in Dillo! :-(
cafesote14. July 2006, 16:28:21
The colors of the "find words" (ctrl+f) would have to be fixed too, they are little visibles in extensive docs because the black tones. Not is a bug, but is about usability.

Great work in innovating the browser always...
22sas14. July 2006, 16:29:49
IMAP fixes? Can you be more specific? For me there is still no new mail sound in INBOX. Sent messages remain viewed in a compose window. Thanks.
Kanel14. July 2006, 16:30:50
Opera is still eating all media keys commands.

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=133233
Bill_P14. July 2006, 16:31:15
Don't know if this is the site or this new version but I'm now unable to create a new post on Suse Forums as I get:

'502 Proxy Error The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.The proxy server could not handle the request POST /community/forums/reply.dml.
Reason: Error reading from remote server"

I can preview the post but not actually submit it - can someone confirm this?

--
Opera 9.x weekly, Suse 10.1 x64, KDE 3.53
kyleabaker14. July 2006, 16:36:50
yahoo!!!!! been patiently waiting for this moment, haha. now to the testing...
tommyhode14. July 2006, 16:37:50
thanks for fixing the notes dropdown bug =)
EDIT: on second thought, bug is still present.
wosa14. July 2006, 16:38:35
Search field now shows dropdown when using the down arrow key.

Is it really work? Or what is it doing? (Win)
Fyrd14. July 2006, 16:41:31
Gasp! You guys fixed Bug #219267! You rock my face off! Multiple background widgets, here I come!
krusha14. July 2006, 16:51:04
http://cerkva.livejournal.com freezes Opera
Digidani14. July 2006, 16:52:25
There are some problems with pictures in Opera9 (final and weeklys). For instance with EXIF-Dates (Opera 8.54 shows some EXIF-Dates): http://www.fredmiranda.com/hosting/showphoto.php?photo=40911&sort=1&cat=500&page=1

Or Opera don´t show pictures: http://www.ungezogene.de/
Investor14. July 2006, 16:53:05
Congrats... back in business again with this build... Opera's best ever (on my old PC)...
Digidani14. July 2006, 16:53:54
@krusha: Here are no freezes at livejournal.com (WinXP, 8533)
Digidani14. July 2006, 16:57:33
Program at Eurosport ist still blank...

http://www.eurosport.de/tvschedule_clng1.shtml
anton_class14. July 2006, 17:03:52
WoW !!! Super! Please, make dialog "Blocked content" more perfect: add search bar, and add "?" as any symbol.
Thank You!
koalie14. July 2006, 17:11:25
Hi, desktopteam

I'm using Opera 9.01, now build 3471 on mac OS 10.4.7 (I had also downloaded the previous build)

There is this one thing that I is very useful (to me) and that I was able to do in Compose Mail with opera 8.54: double click between two words and have the space in between selected. It doesn't work anymore. It now selects the word closest to the mouse.
Any chance this might be fixed?

Thanks for the wonderful work you are doing. (regardless of the answer to the question above!)
kyleabaker14. July 2006, 17:14:06
After editing a post in phpBB forums, the post is not updated with the new one until a manual refresh is done.
krusha14. July 2006, 17:29:52
Forum update sometimes doesn't work here 4 me either

Only after the manual page update.
parsien14. July 2006, 17:30:34
Thanks and keep up the good work
michBergen14. July 2006, 17:32:20
In Suse Linux, opera-9.01-20060713.6-shared-qt.i386-en.rpm will not install, with Yast complaining that "operaopera" is not present in the package.
omeow14. July 2006, 17:36:34
Nice changes. Shame that the background colour on (context) menu items is still non-transparent in the UNIX client. Many users suffer from the same problem. Although it does seem that the file menu is fixed now!
saulob14. July 2006, 17:39:35
the transfer 'stopped' bug still alive...

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