Category: Opera

Opera 9.5, Is This A Bug Or A Feature?

I was playing with Opera 9.5 Alpha a bit and noticed one annoyance. Let’s say that you are using Opera 9.23 and Opera 9.5 Alpha (Opera 9.5 Alpha is NOT set as a default browser) at the same time, got a message in any instant messenger with a link, basically if you click link, it should open with Opera 9.23 (as Opera 9.5 is NOT set as a default browser). However, somehow it opens links with Opera 9.5. So is this a bug or a feature (so we would “use” Opera 9.5″ more)?

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Opera 9.5 Alpha, One More Build Released

Opera Desktop Team released one more Opera 9.5 Alpha version. While this build fixes many bugs it still contains lots of “known issues”. However, they are working on those bugs, as for now, I will stay with Opera 9.23. So let’s check the changelog.

New Features!

Added menu item to never reload a page (Right click > Reload every – Never)

(UNIX) When running Gnome, Opera will now use the native GTK file chooser when opening and saving files

Bugs Fixed

[BUG 255515] Chat should now work in Yahoo! Beta

[BUG 281879] Show only cached images should now work properly

[BUG 255304] Closing Speed Dial window fast after “delete private data” shouldn’t crash Opera anymore

[BUG 282598] Passwords set to “never for this server” can now be deleted again

[BUG 286084] Content blocker works again

[BUG 276354] Fixed bug where it was not possible to reconnect to mail server after disconnecting

[BUG 262786] Onload handler in script no longer fired before onload attribute of body element

[BUG 267384] JavaScript errors no longer reported as being in “Unknown thread”

[BUG 233022] data: URIs are no longer considered off-site images

Use ‘Today’ when a mail was sent today, even if it’s in the future

Windows Only

Set default network from 128 back to 32. This might help with some stalling while loading pages on some systems

Fixed appearance of fonts in Speed Dial configuration dialog and Widgets when using Cleartype

Mac Only

Fixed clipping of dialogs in Leopard

Fixed font display in Leopard

Smaller UI fonts

Fixed issue selecting Opera.app icon

Unix Only

Made flash animations work again

[BUG 276704] [qt4] Focusing documents in other tabs now switches to that tab as expected

[BUG 276959] [qt4] Tiling windows now works properly

Other Fixed Issues

[BUG 286186] There are no buttons in the customization dialog.

[BUG 274352] Upgrading with no mail/RSS accounts causes a mail upgrade that never finishes.

Known Issues

[BUG 284849] Yahoo! Mail beta may crash Opera.

[BUG 286911] Flickr maps may crash Opera.

Google reader crashes Opera (same as ymail crash)

Won’t run correctly on Windows 95 or 98.

Won’t work correctly on Mac OS X 10.3.

OS X version may cause persistent freezes on start-up.

POP server cleaning has been disabled: When disabling the “Leave messages on server” option, existing messages on the server are not removed.

[BUG 287170] On OS X, UI thumbnails have black backgrounds when using native skins.

[BUG 184894] Native OS X UI elements cannot be used in skins.

[BUG 280536] Opera on OS X will sometimes freeze when exiting Preferences.

[BUG 286384] Yahoo mail is broken.

[BUG 285741] Opera might freeze for a while when opening the feeds menu.

[BUG 271585] The last directory used is not remembered in the Save As and Open dialogs.

[BUG 264975] Graphical smiles do not work.

[BUG 280261] Removing messages from filters does not work.

[BUG 213115] Queued mail is sent at the next check, instead of waiting for manual action.

Download

Windows (Build 9562)
Windows Classic (Build 9562)
Macintosh (Build 4460)
Unix (Build 1600)

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Opera 9.50 Alpha, Build 9542 Released

It’s Friday again and we’ve received yet another Opera 9.5 Alpha build from Opera team. So let’s check the changelog and see what they have added and/or fixed.

Fixed

[BUG 284852] Wand doesn’t save new passwords; old passwords should work properly.
[BUG 278770] Gmail does not work on 64-bit.
[BUG 281679] Bookmarks are not sorted correctly.

Other Changes

Scrolling when GMail chat window open causes no more repaint corruption.
Messages will no longer erroneously be marked as drafts or unread when upgrading mail.
String.localeCompare now works correctly.
Getters and setters now work on DOM interface prototypes.
opera:config settings are correctly stored now.
Files are now correctly saved with file extensions.
Lots of SVG fixes.
Lots of stability fixes.

UNIX Only

Several fixes to plugins.
The operapluginwrapper should not take 100% CPU anymore.
Scrolling with keyboard is now much smoother.

Mac Only

Removed proxy icon (icon in title bar)

Known Issues

Won’t run correctly on Windows 95 or 98.
Won’t work correctly on Mac OS X 10.3.
OS X version may cause persistent freezes on start-up.
POP server cleaning has been disabled: When disabling the “Leave messages on server” option, existing messages on the server are not removed.
[BUG 286384] Yahoo mail is broken.
[BUG 284849] Yahoo! Mail beta may crash Opera
[BUG 286186] There are no buttons in the customization dialog.
[BUG 286345] Search in widgets is broken.
[BUG 285741] Opera might freeze for a while when opening the feeds menu.
[BUG 271585] The last directory used is not remembered in the Save As and Open dialogs.
[BUG 264975] Graphical smilies do not work.
[BUG 280261] Removing messages from filters does not work.
[BUG 184894] Native OS X UI elements cannot be used in skins.
[BUG 213115] Queued mail is sent at the next check, instead of waiting for manual action.
[BUG 280536] Opera on OS X will sometimes freeze when exiting Preferences.
[BUG 274352] Upgrading with no mail/RSS accounts causes a mail upgrade that never finishes.

Time to download now (use it no your own risk).

Windows
Windows Classic
Macintosh
Unix

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Opera 9.5 Post-Alpha Released

It’s been 10 days since the very first Opera 9.5 Alpha release. Today Opera team released Opera 9.5 Post-Alpha version. This build includes lots of bug fixes as well as some minor new things, for example: X button on notifiers. Regardless bug fixes there are still some known issues:

Wand doesn’t save anymore

Yahoo mail beta might crash Opera

Some UNIX packages are missing

Opera 9.5 won’t work on Windows 98/95

Changelog

[272376] Cursor in source viewer positioned at the end

[277681] Some order lists are displayed as unordered lists

[279302] Line wrapping does not work correctly in some cases, causing overly long lines of text and horizontal scrollbars; often seen at Wikipedia

[280678] Files are often saved with the incorrect file extension

[281550] Setting an external source viewer does not work

[267842] View bar is available in the customization dialog again

[274676] Original text color (inside tables) not reverted when closing content blocker dialog

[267859] Numbers (and borders) not shown in configured speed dial entries

[273030] Text squished/mashed together after removing thumbnail

[273822] Link focused by inline find cannot be activated (Enter doesn’t work after spatnav)

[281879] Show cached images randomly breaks

[282003] Lots of unread messages and drafts after upgrade

APNG 1.0 support added. Will work as animated gifs on webpages and skins

Select custom application when downloading files

Add multithreading to mail for improved performanced

Added x button on notifiers

Fixed IE bookmark folder import

General stability fixes

Tons of layout/js fixes

Windows specific changes

Greatly improved performance with alpha transparency (animations, scrolling)

Mac specific changes

Further tweaking of tabs in native skin

Removed page loading spinner from Address bar

Rounded edges on many dialog Title bars

Fixed application window focus/activation problems

Fixed problems with Flash problems with wmode=opaque and CSS hover

Prevent some start-up freezes

Pulsing progress bar

As you know it’s not a final Opera 9.5 release, use it on your own risk.

Windows
Windows Classic
Macintosh
Unix

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