Towards 9.51

June 20, 2008 · by csant

It's time for maintenance - we have been fixing several of the most reported issues in 9.50 - including a rather nasty crash on Yahoo Mail. Have fun testing - and as always, we'd appreciate feedback.

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.

Changelog:

Fixed crash on Yahoo! Mail.
Fixed a crash when clicking the feeds button.
Fixed a crash when installing Shockwave Player 11.
Fixed some issues with the search engines when upgrading from 9.2x: it is now possible again to edit the Google search.
Fixed a leak when printing or in print preview.
Fixed a GDI handle leak in the transfers window on Windows.
Fixed thread expanding in Mail when receiving new messages
Fixed some issues with subscription to IMAP folders.
Fixed a too zealous reconnection of the IRC client.
Fixed "reuse current tab" feature in speed dial on Mac.
Finetuned some issues in the new skin.

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Macintosh
UNIX

Readers' comments

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

Tamil20. June 2008, 10:55:59

Originally posted by csant:
Finetuned some issues in the new skin.
I can't find any changes in skin files.

Permanent Homepage prevents modifications in Startup & Home page.

bug-325950 (Cursor jumps to left end of first line after clicking a smiley in forums) not fixed.
Buchtic20. June 2008, 11:17:52
Gmail2 is still sometimes not function , eg. bug 337954
Asfaq20. June 2008, 11:25:33
o.0... Just when I was getting warm and comfy with 9.5, you go out and release a bug-fix release.. love you guys

Its good to find the team trying to fix Yahoo Mail but try fixing GMail too (in spite of it not supporting standards), IMHO the Google sites not working properly are your biggest stumbling block to getting market share. Its the early adopters who influence their circle of friends and relatives and trust me on this... most of these early adopters use at least one service from Google.

Truly Yours,
Asfaq Tapia
clean20. June 2008, 11:25:42
Totally agree with Koen! You folks don't mess around!
kn4ck3r20. June 2008, 11:32:51
Am I the only one having repaint issues with the qt4 version?
seaman13gr20. June 2008, 11:34:14
http://www.trance.fm/ I'm glad to see this one fixed.thanks
piroxicam20. June 2008, 11:36:18
In http://www.3dtracking.net I still get the menus being displayed under the flash animation. Reported as bug #330797

Also, I do I have in Vista the new google icon in the search field, but in XP I do have the olg G icon?
Morphdreamer20. June 2008, 11:42:53
In http://www.3dtracking.net I still get the menus being displayed under the flash animation. Reported as bug #330797

Confirmed but it also doesn't in Firefox so it's 3dtracking fault.

Also, I do I have in Vista the new google icon in the search field, but in XP I do have the olg G icon?

Yes, new favicon is displayed only on google site and on Speed Dial.
yehezkelshb20. June 2008, 11:49:52
Facebook is very very slow. It's seems to be when a lot of Javascript is running.
ZuBB20. June 2008, 11:49:57
@kn4ck3r: no

Version
9.50
Build
2042
Platform
Linux
System
i686, 2.6.24-gentoo-r3
Qt library
4.2.2
Java
Java Runtime Environment installed

Opera/9.50 (X11; Linux i686; U; en)
csant20. June 2008, 11:50:57
Bill_P: http://snapshot.opera.com/faq.html#packages
Buchtic20. June 2008, 11:57:59
Still some memleaks: bug 338878 from Opera 9.5 and today Opera 9.51 bug 341314
lampacz20. June 2008, 11:59:32
i must wrote that opera is very stable. And is not crashing.
lampacz 6696 0.2 17.4 549140 358392 ? Sl Jun12 32:49 /usr/lib/opera/9.50/opera -nomail -nolirc -notrayicon -newtab -style Plastik

Very good. Please continue....
Merijn20. June 2008, 12:00:51
My god, you're already putting out new builds? Awesome
HorstFux20. June 2008, 12:19:17
Can't confirm it, Pitris.

For me the Browse-Button works and the double click works too. (XP, SP2)
antoszka20. June 2008, 12:22:48
I'm sorry to report this, but both 9.50 and 9.51_pre_2050 freeze when I startup opera with quite a big session and scripting enabled.

Here's a strace (if this is of any help) and the session file:

http://theka.tk/opera_strace
http://theka.tk/opera_session.win

Best.
Morphdreamer20. June 2008, 12:30:27
For me the Browse-Button works and the double click works too. (XP, SP2)

Browse on deviantart works fine also for me (XP SP3), but double click is broken .
FrakkiaLP20. June 2008, 12:46:00
what have you changed in the skin? It seems exactly the same.
sgunhouse20. June 2008, 12:47:51
Note that it gave me the upgrade page ("Welcome to Opera") after install, I'm commenting since I know you guys normally disable that in snapshots.
ThumbFinger20. June 2008, 12:50:43
The new skin, while looking fresh with the tab bar across the top, looks really bad with the tab bar down the left (where I always keep it) - the black tabs on the silver background of the tab bar look really nasty. I'm loving the fresh look of the icons, just not the inverted contrast of the new tab bar skin
aos10120. June 2008, 12:52:44
Appearance of buttons on some webpages (e.g. google homepage) is fixed with the new skin on Linux. Thanks guys!
postas20. June 2008, 13:08:58
hi,

it`s still freez on http://www03.sms.de/ it takes 2 min. than cool down, after that crashing on winxp sp3.
EricJH20. June 2008, 13:28:38
Sweet. Thanks very much. The Quikc Time plugin issue is also fixed. Still when opening a link from f.e. outlook will still not open in 9.5.

Keep the good work going.
Investor20. June 2008, 13:58:31
Finetuned some issues in the new skin.

@Tamil + @ FrakkiaLP ,

as posted during RC test and 9.50 release, the panel buttons when panel toolbar is set top/bottom were not dynamicly spaced, thus all buttons were shown left on toolbar, which didn't look good. Now that's fixed, they get spaced automaticly when adding buttons. That's the change I have noted...
Teuzz20. June 2008, 14:10:00
- Google Analytics still try to open a new window after login. The window is being blocked everytime >:-(

- SpeedDial still get frozen on Vista without SP1 (for about 20 seconds when used first time after Opera start)
FataL20. June 2008, 14:38:00
After I updated my Opera 9.5 final on Mac to current build, Opera lost all my settings, tabs, bookmarks for version 9.5 and started using 9.27 ones.
Any chance I can bring them back?
ferrisnox20. June 2008, 14:40:48
Thanks very much for all of your hard work and congrats Opera 9.5 and Opera in general has come a long long way over the years.

I did notice on the 9.5(final not rc) Release sometimes upon re-opening opera my speed dial images would get "confused" and be in the wrong places. A simple refresh fixed it. I haven't noticed it yet on the 9.5.1

Thanks!
Gibmeister20. June 2008, 14:43:17
Since 9.50, I've found spurious nav history entries more of a problem - reported as bug-337231 ("arstechnica.com wrongly creates navigation history").

The same occurs with webshots.com. Seems to be Javascript related, as when it is disabled Forwards/Backwards works properly.

Otherwise, I like it!
g4qb20. June 2008, 14:43:59
first the good news
http://celtickane.com/webdesign/jsspeed.php
as fast as safari 3.1.2
250ms

my settings include:
start with blank page
don't use wand
no smooth scrolling
no tooltips
no java
no plug-ins
no close button on each tab

shortcuts
opera 9.2 compatible
enable single-key shortcuts

cached images, 120%
disable special effects

finally worked out how to create this 9.5x bug
bug-341566
11:51 Sat June 21

****************
set zoom to non-100%
eg. 90%, 110%, 120%
****************

inputting password into this blog
http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/

there is an asterisk to the right of the cursor.

windows panel
ctrl-shift-0
1. highlight "Windows - Opera"
2. press DEL
quits opera
closes all open windows in 9.27, but leaves opera running.
OSX version also leaves opera running.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/thesecrethub/GVQl
1. put it into a bookmark
2. highlight it
3. open it ctrl-shift-enter
repeat 2 & 3 3x

by the 3rd try,
need to click NO 3x
in
10063 it was 2x
in
9.27 it is 1x

this bug is intermittent.

http://www.icetv.com.au/cgi-bin/epg/iceguide.cgi?op=topguide&tapver=999999&save_as_file=checked&save_as_filename=icetv_epg.txt

still a bit odd.

window focus different to 9.27
1. ctrl-t
2. opera:about
3. ctrl-shift-0

doesn't work until u press F8 to get the focus right

search bug
1. ctrl-t
2. opera:about
3. quick find space
press /
type <space>

note the odd highlighting
Yndi20. June 2008, 14:45:37
@fastestlan: #1 is no bug and as far as I know, Opera is still leading in Acid3.
With facebook and Gmail you see what problems a browser gets, if it is applying the standards too fast. But Opera was not Opera if they didn´t so it .

Still no fix for the recycle bin .

Why http://portal.opera.com/startup/ opens on upgrades?
csant20. June 2008, 14:52:56
Fatal, are you sure you were using the *final* 9.5, rather than a snapshot?
gebauer20. June 2008, 14:53:16
Hi,

I agree with pincopallino, please fix the signature problem!

I'm using Opera as a _serious_ mail client and need the multi account functionality! (It worked fine in all previous versions!)

Here again the forum link:
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=236008&

Thanks!
Jan
ADuda20. June 2008, 14:53:30
With 9.5 Final I have some problems with my.opera.com : I check the chekbox to remember me, and every time I restart Opera, i have to login again. Cookies are normal, I checked them for MyOpera and other sites work normaly.
Could this be a cache problem? And if anyone has the same problem, let me know if this version fixes it. Will try myself when I have time.

Anyway, good work for releasing new build
andresruiz20. June 2008, 15:18:16
Please, don't forget to fix the issue I reported on the previous post about http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/0806wdt546x/event/index.html
Buttons doesn't work
FataL20. June 2008, 15:23:25
Originally posted by csant:
Fatal, are you sure you were using the *final* 9.5, rather than a snapshot?
Not 100% shure actually, maybe it was the RC But anyway, should it import all my stuff from 9.27 without any questions?
I'm not experienced Mac or Unix user, so I can't really check where is my stuff...
zoquete20. June 2008, 15:27:34
After upgrading to 10071, I have all my mail-messages 3 times.

Somebody has the same problem?

(I upgraded to Kestrel 9500 3/4 year ago.)
pincopallino20. June 2008, 15:34:08
@ADuda,
same problem here with MyOpera site.
Charlie_X20. June 2008, 15:39:37
First of all congratulations on 9.5 with all the new features and the new skin. I've even started using Dragonfly and find it pretty easy to use especially when compared with Firebug. I haven't noticed any showstopper bugs in 9.5 but I appreciate the delicate improvements to the Mac OS skin. Personally I find the icons all a bit plump but they are consistent and on the whole easily recognisable. A couple of sites seem to have problems - such as the drop-down menus on http://economist.com - redraw problems similar to ones that used to happen on sites that used the suckerfish method.

Keep up the good work!
Fer8420. June 2008, 15:40:36
Pleaseee! Check out what is happening with CajaMadrid website!! It seems that they are following w3c with few errors.
https://oi.cajamadrid.es/CajaMadrid/oi/pt_oi/Login/login

And I also would like to know who has the fault of the Google issues, its Opera or Google?
bmd20. June 2008, 15:52:54
Google Analytics still opens in pop-up after login rather than opening in the current window like it does in 9.27 and other browsers.
man on the street20. June 2008, 15:53:04
@ zoquete

no problem with mail here

(xp sp3)
Crinos51220. June 2008, 15:55:55
+1 for an x64 linux build...

preferably qt4.
Lito20. June 2008, 15:59:16
Opera detects my Quicktime plugins again, thank you .

bug-338461 still not fixed though.
Element-temp20. June 2008, 16:10:32
is it just me or does this build seem faster?

scrollbar does not contrast enough, hard to see.

best opera ever!
man on the street20. June 2008, 16:16:17
the pdf xchange viewer plugin does not seem to work with O9.5
¿can anyone else canfirm?
zoquete20. June 2008, 16:25:54
@ Element why don't you disable it at all?
black-ghost20. June 2008, 16:27:00
Hey,

- Great work so long ! But I can't help always having the same question : When can we suspect to see a Silverlight plugin for Opera ? Okay, you don't seem to be in very good terms with Microsoft but come on guys Silverlight IS something ! I hope you're gonna fix this.

Thanks

PS : I love your smilies
Kleeia20. June 2008, 16:28:11
Fixed a GDI handle leak in the transfers window on Windows.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
alicroche20. June 2008, 16:48:21
Netvibes useable again !
But detachable tab not back yet
dilinger20. June 2008, 16:51:59
"Fixed a GDI handle leak in the transfers window on Windows."

Oh yes, It's work...
Thank you very much