I haven't used Opera since version 8.5 was released. I'm wondering, does Opera now support the Adobe Reader plug-in?

Adobe Reader works fine inside Opera.

still no respond

Build 9721/4594/1737 Released | Opera 9.50 [pre-"beta 2" builds]


Known issues
[Bug 304257] Sorting mail by date is still broken on Windows.
opera:historysearch is currently disabled - work in progress
Sparc Solaris builds still crash when you try to use mail
Sometimes, the address bar dropdown stays open after submitting

Bugs fixed
Fixed getClientRects and getBoundingClientRect
[Bug 299224] Fixed broken account settings when adding a new IRC/Chat account
[Bug 303604] Fixed Link icon in the toolbar not showing
[Bug 304214] Fixed crasher on emptying trash
[Bug 303586] Fixed spatial navigation
Sync'ing new bookmarks in folders works again.
Importing *.mbs files now works again. Recursively importing is still work in progress.

Mac-specific
Help window no longer opens behind Preferences dialog

UNIX-specific
We now search also for Acrobat Reader 8.
32-bit plugins (like Flash) and 64-bit plugins now work out-of-the-box in 64-bit Linux builds.

Download links
Windows MSI
Windows Classic
Macintosh
Unix

Source // Desktop Team

Thanks Darken.

thx

Thanks Darken, my opera 9.5 kept crashing everytime i open it...seem like they fixed the problem..works perfect now.

Good news!

what about the 'Application icon' issue?

And another one

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.

Known issues
Close button closes wrong tab when 'click-to-minimize' is enabled
Mac: The Quicktime and possibly other plugins do not work
Mac: HTTP auth freezes Opera
Mac: Copy/paste of images is half broken
UNIX: The latest flash version crashes 64-bit Opera


Changelog
All mail and history searching is now in separate processor thread, speeding up many things
The * shortcut now also works when you need a modifier to type it
Old visited links are now merged into history
OBML files (newsfeed lists) with byte order mark are now imported
When unchecking "Keep local copy of message body", Opera will now remove existing message bodies.
Added a tooltip to the close button on tabs
Fixed the issue where favicons were always fetched when navigating in history
event.preventDefault() now cancels text selection


Windows specific
Sorting mail by date now works


UNIX specific
Fixed the old and grumpy Java crasher


Mac specific
The tab cycle now highlights properly when there is more than one column of tabs.
Fixed keyboard focus issues with Flash
Possibly fixed a long-standing bug with Opera not getting proper focus when clicking it
Java applets no longer prevent you from minimizing Opera


Download
Windows 9735
Macintosh 4603
UNIX 1754

+ Windows: Some regression in keyboard handling of special characters

+ Application Icon bug

What's wrong with the application icon?

New snapshot - Windows skin work
Windows 9745, Mac 4614, UNIX 1766

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.

New known issues
UNIX: Tooltips with the native skins look weird
Last week's snapshot (Windows build 9735, Mac build 4603, and Linux/UNIX build 1754) contained a serious IMAP bug that could cause internal data corruption. This problem is most likely to affect those with TLS enabled. Symptoms include headers displaying, but bodies missing and/or duplicates messages. The underlying cause of this corruption is fixed in this snapshot, but unfortunately, there's no fix for the corruption. The only way to fix this corruption is to delete your Mail directory and start over.


Skin changes
The last week has seen quite a bit of work on improving the native skin on Windows. This includes both the "classic" look and the XP/Vista themed look. Some of the improvements you will see in this regard are:

The background in the panel selector toolbar is less dark
Close buttons in tabs and notifications have native elements
Tooltips and notifications have native elements
Margins on the dropdown button are gone
The element used to show/hide the list in Delete Private Data and other places is native
The sort arrows up/down on listview column headers are native
The tabs in the Windows "classic" skin are now more like real tabs and no longer sunken buttons


There will be more skin changes forthcoming.

Changelog
[266167] Fixed sorting issues in mail
[299821] Fixed several IMAP synchronization issues
[307698] Fixed secure connection on IRC
[306510] Fixed problem with closing wrong tab if click tab to minimize was enabled
[306920] The close button on tabs is now red again
[283037] Fixed syncing of speed dial update intervals
Experimental support for recursive mbox import
Fixed some issues regarding IMAP labelling of messages (eg, spam)
Calmed down the link status field a bit (Don't change it unless something actually happened)
Some improvements to fast forward, works better on ie engadget.com and ebay.com
Added /notrayicon command line argument on Windows as well (yay)
Fixed issue where downloaded message bodies would disappear
Fixed TLS handshaking issues, which could cause problems when sending mail
Fixed over-wrapping issue with right-aligned mail headers


Download
Windows
Macintosh
UNIX

> Added /notrayicon command line argument on Windows as well (yay)

New snapshot
New snapshot with several interesting CSS and mail fixes today. Enjoy!

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.

Known issues
Crash when you clear history while history search is disabled
Format selector when saving pages is broken
Some plugins on Mac don't work at all
Plugins crash Opera on UNIX


Bugs fixed
Images in mail and standalone images are now printed
Significant mail startup speed improvement on systems with NTFS and ReiserFS filesystems, like Windows and openSUSE.
Fixed a rare crash when importing Thunderbird mail
Reduced CPU usage when downloading mail
Fixed the "prioritize excludelist" option in urlfilter.ini
Fixed import of IE favorites with dots in their name
Fixed issue where you would get duplicate trash folders when using Opera Link
Fixed a few spatial navigation issues (Shift+arrows to navigate on the page)
The spam filter should start remembering marked mail on Windows now
Fixed a CSS parser error that caused layout errors on Facebook, Yahoo! Mail, Last.fm etc.
Fixed dynamic updating of CSS3 selectors (:first-child, :last-child, :empty etc. selectors)
Opera now supports getClientRects and getBoundingClientRect
Added support for the CSS color and background-color properties for the ::selection pseudo-element
UNIX: Fixed a crasher when closing tabs when using the MDI controls (present without close button on tabs)
UNIX: Tooltip generation CPU usage is again back to normal
Windows: Torrent applications now show up correctly in the download dialog if you've disabled Bittorrent in Opera

Download
Windows 9770
Windows Classic 9770
Mac 4634
UNIX 1786

Good news the upcoming weekly will have firefox tab closing behaviour as an option.

New snapshot: Introducing advanced tab activation

This build implements a much requested option for all you users switching from other browsers.

You can now get that Safari, Firefox, IE or <insert alternative browser of choice here> tab handling in Opera, too.

To take advantage of that, simply change Preferences > Advanced > Tabs > "When closing a tab"
to your desired behavior:

Activate the last active (default)
Activate the tab to the right
Active the first tab opened from closing tab

Now start closing them tabs like there's no tomorrow!

Known Issues

* Plug-ins crash Opera on UNIX/Linux.
* Some plugins on Mac don't work at all.
* Format selector when saving pages is broken.
* Opera will not fetch more than 50 new IMAP messages in one go - you'll need to reset the account to get more.
* Inline find stops working after entering one letter (using Ctrl/Cmd+F still works as expected).
* Advanced tab activation currently does not work on Mac or UNIX/Linux.

Changelog

* Added a new preference in Preferences > Advanced > Tabs which controls which tab to activate when closing a tab.
* Fixed crash when composing mail with empty signature
* Fixed crash when emptying history and VPS was disabled
* css3 :target now works on targets identified using name attribute
* New spatnav highlighting, similar to the one used in Opera Mini 4 and the Wii browser
* iframes with contenteditable are now in in the tabbing order (Another gmail 2 fix)
* 64-bit: Again possible to open (image) attachments in mail
* Some more improvement to fast forward.
* Opera Link now works better when using Work offline
* Again possible to open links from widgets
* UNIX: Drag and drop now works properly in the ION window manager

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.

Download

Nice. They don't usually release weekly builds on mondays ^^
thanks

9.26
By csant. Wednesday, 20. February 2008, 14:27:40

desktop, security, stability, release ...

We released 9.26 today, which addresses a few security issues and some stability issues. It also addresses an issue when connecting securely to Windows Server 2008 - see this article for details. This release is a recommended upgrade for all those running the latest stable releases.

Changelogs are available:
Windows
Mac
Linux/UNIX

Go download it!

Plugin Milestone Build Part II
By psmaas. Friday, 22. February 2008, 16:00:00

This build demonstrates the plugin work that has been done recently. Most of this work is not visible and is only testable through regression testing: compare with an older build and see if something broke. :wink: A lot of this work is cross-platform, so we would appreciate feedback on plugins on all platforms. Note, however, that a lot of the bugs around plugin detection are still unresolved, so this work is only testable on the plugins that you can actually see.

On *nix these changes are combined with a bunch of bug fixes and redesigns. First of all, libnpp.so is now built into Opera and all known plugin bugs that result in Opera crashing are resolved (including using 64-bit Opera with 32-bit plugins). We added a work-around for the Flash player crashes with r48 and a lot of other fixes. Please retest any issues you have had with plugins and report back on the relevant bug reports what you find. If you find any new bugs: report, report, report! We really do want to make Kestrel the best release for plugins ever on *nix. :smile: Note that although most of the work has been focused on Linux, the work so far is *nix platform independent: more work on FreeBSD and Solaris is planned. Please also note that because of the fix for the 64 vs. 32-bit issue, this release is incompatible with previous pluginwrappers. There are also some fixes that will affect Java, so we are interested in feedback on that as well.

Have fun and enjoy! :smile:

Known issues

* "Save to download folder" is broken
* Format selector when saving pages is broken.
* Inline find stops working after entering one letter (using Ctrl/Cmd+F still works as expected).

Changelog

* Fixed text selection when selecting from bottom left to top right
* Crashing plugins should no longer crash Opera on Mac and Windows. Please test.
* Fixed crash when opening certain files (especially PDF files)
* Fixed crash when changing interface language
* Some changes have been made to the tab mode "Activate first tab opened from current tab" (whose name might change in the future): If you open several tabs in the background from one page, Opera will remember that they are related and will switch focus between them when you close one of them. In the previous weekly you had to close the parent tab before this occured.
* "Activate tab to the right" preference now works on UNIX and Mac. The mode described above still doesn't work.
* Windows: Tray icon is now gone if you don't have mail enabled
* UNIX: Made Flash 7 work again
* UNIX: When closing a tab, flash animations in other tabs will not be killed anymore
* UNIX: And a lot of other plugin fixes

Mail

* Really delete associated messages when deleting accounts
* Fixed crash when downloading IMAP mail sent from Outlook
* Attempt to clean up ghost messages on start-up
* Fetch more than 50 messages at a time from IMAP accounts
* Fixed unread count inconsistencies
* Fixed problem with subscriptions for nested IMAP mailboxes
* Fixed problem getting all new messages for IMAP accounts
* Fixed problem with stuck IMAP connections when fetching headers/messages
* Better synchronization handling after waking computers on Windows and OS X
* Decode body parts before indexing them
* Fixed overzealous IMAP expunging

Mac

* Fixed quadruple mouse click
* Fixed Event.ctrlKey and Event.metaKey with onkeydown
* Fixed plugins
* Emacs-style keyboard shortcuts are back
* Reactivated the asynchronous draw timer
* Fixed an issue with Java disabling minimization and quitting
* Fixed a very common crash related to plugins and links with anchors

More details about the Mac-specific fixes are available in the new Mac Team blog.

Download
Windows 9807
Windows Classic 9807
Mac 4669
UNIX 1823

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?show...amp;p=589097902

Yet another snapshot build

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.

Here's yet another snapshot build. This build fixes a few outstanding download issues. In particular, we now respect filename suggestions in content-disposition: attachment headers. Testing is needed, however, as this build will introduce some download regressions. We've already caught some internally, but there are probably others.

We've also updated search.ini a bit in this build:

* Removed Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! Answers, Google Groups, Opera Support, and Download.com searches
* Added Wikipedia and Google Images searches

Known issues

* "Open With" other browsers doesn't work
* Save As for a web page only lets you save as "HTML file" on Windows
* Unable to print pages with objects or iframes
* Some downloads do not appear in the transfer manager
* Inline find stops working after entering one letter (using Ctrl/Cmd+F still works as expected)
* Keyboard input is problematic for some people on Mac

Changelog

* Fixed IMAP and POP synchronization problems
* RSS items that are already read are not shown in the notification anymore
* It is now possible to set Opera as default mail application from Control Panel
* When right-clicking in Speed Dial search field you you can easily reach the "Search options"
* Fixed cut-n-pasting bookmark folders
* Fixed selecting or creating a new bookmark file with Sync
* "Save to download folder" works again
* Context menu in transfers panel now work again when no other tabs are open
* Content-disposition: attachment filename suggestion now respected when saving files
* Fixed saving multiple files from the links panel
* Some initial implementation for flipping scrollbars on RTL web sites (to permanently flip, enable opera:config#UserPrefs|Left-handedUI)
* Fixed problem finding new POP messages when using the "Leave messages on server" setting
* Better search results when using Quick find in Opera Mail

Windows specific:

* File open/save dialogs are resizable again
* Fixed a crash on startup on Windows 98

Mac specific:

* Opera now works again in Mac OS X 10.3.9.
* Fixed scrollbars to not loose their blue color
* Fixed unread count in Dock icon
* Some stability fixes to plugins

UNIX specific:

* Prevent GTK from changing the global locale settings - this would occasionally make text disappear or shrink on web pages after using the GTK filechooser
* Autoscroll/pan now appears where clicked, not in middle of page
* Fixed plugin detection for .1 and .5 builds
* Several more plugin fixes

Download
Windows 9815
Windows Classic 9815
Macintosh 4681
UNIX 1834

Thanks alot for this! I love Opera!

Happy Easter

By csant. Tuesday, 18. March 2008, 13:51:33

desktop, kestrel, easter
It's been a while since our last snapshot build. Some things fell apart while others were shaping up nicely - so we are very happy to show you some good improvements now!

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.

Known issues:

* There are some funky parsing problems on Youtube.
* "Open With" other browsers doesn't work.
* Save As for a web page only lets you save as "HTML file" on Windows.
* The progress bar does not show if it's set to "Pop-up at the bottom".
* On Mac scrolling to the bottom of a page with the scrollbars does not work.

Changelog:

* Fixed inline find.
* Fixed downloading attachments in the new Yahoo! mail.
* Fixed async XMLHttpRequest to never be blocked by a slow script.
* Fixed internal plugin methods not accessible from javascript engine when data attribute defined.
* Fixed an issue where new mail messages would not be detected.
* Opera Mail now handles mailto links with encoded characters correctly.
* Improved handling of subscription to temporary subscription to news groups.
* Fixed some offline mode issues.
* And lots more of stability fixes!

Acid3 fixes:

* getSVGDocument is now supported in an iframe.
* createDocumentType now throws an exception for malformed qualified name.
* Fixed NodeFilter returning true => 1.
* Fixed HTMLTableRowElement.rowIndex and .sectionRowIndex returning undefined for table rows created via DOM.
* HTMLButtonElement.type now defaults to "submit".
* Fixed form control collection not indexed by name when outside the main document tree.
* Fixed Range.surroundContents().
* Fixed insertNode to not collapse range.
* Fixed removeNamedItem() and removeNamedItemNS() to throw a not-found error.
* Fixed NodeIterator to function well also under dynamic changes.
* Fixed Date.UTC() to do proper 1900 year offsetting.

Windows specific:

* Better performance with plugins.

Mac specific:

* Shift+space for Page Up works again.
* Function keys work again.
* Opera now uses the proper OS X Downloads folder by default.
* Changed the icon in alert and prompt dialogs to something prettier.

UNIX specific:

* Fixed crash when closing tab with Flash.
* Several plugin fixes.

Download
Windows 9841
Windows Classic 9841
Mac 4716
UNIX 1875

New snapshot, pass 77/100 acid3 . Amazing shot

Good advancement, Opera has a real chance to be the second browser to pass Acid 3.

Its nice to see that in the future the four biggest browsers are gonna be actually good.

Yes. I love Opera and it is going to be the second browser to pass the Acid 3 test at this rate...

Painting performance fixes
BY MITCHMAN2. FRIDAY, 28. MARCH 2008, 13:55:30

KESTREL, OPERA, SNAPSHOT, PERFORMANCE

This week we've been working on performance on Windows and Mac painting. You should see performance increase by 2x to 10x on heavy DHTML pages. Performance increase depend on the test page, graphics card, and OS used. To see the improvements for yourself, compare the previous snapshot to today's release on the following test cases:

Performance test 1
Performance test 2

Under XP, with a AMD 4600+ X2 CPU and a NVidia 7600 GT gfx card, I see a 9x performance increase. On other graphics cards and OSes, the performance improvement will differ.

It's worth noting that this optimization is in painting performance and might not yield similar improvements on regular web pages without DHTML or other graphics intensive operations. We have also done some performance optimizations in Javascript garbage collection and memory allocation of ECMAscript objects, which should be visible on all platforms.

Many of the Acid3 fixes we've made are still undergoing testing and further development, so you will not see Kestrel achieve the same pass rate on Acid3 for the time being. If you want to test our GOGI build for ACID 3 compliance, head over to the Opera Labs.

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.

Known issues
Opening Help will cause Opera to crash.
"Open With" other browsers doesn't work.
Save As for a web page only lets you save as "HTML file" on Windows.
The progress bar does not show if it's set to "Pop-up at the bottom".
On OS X, scrolling to the bottom of a page with the scrollbars does not work.

Changelog
Several download fixes
Fixed funky parsing problems on YouTube.
All downloads and saved content (except web pages) are now put in the transfer window for easier access
Viewing source should now work properly with applications that need a file extension to work
UNIX: Fixed a Flash crash
UNIX: Made the mplayer plug-in draw itself in the correct size again
UNIX and Mac: Fixed various command line bugs
Calling substr with negative length now returns an empty string
Array indexOf now treats a non-numeric second parameter as 0

Mail
Fixed problems expunging or moving messages on certain servers
Fixed issue where the "Contacting Folder" status message displayed the wrong count

ACID3 fixes
Zero bytes in encodeURIComponent and encodeURI are now handled correctly
Unicode escapes can no longer be used to put non-identifier characters into identifiers

Download
Windows 9864
Windows Classic 9864
Macintosh 4729
UNIX 1887

Wow, this build is really FAST! too bad the pop-up progress bar is still not here

EV and Certificate Updates
By csant. Tuesday, 8. April 2008, 14:12:24

certificates, ev, Opera, kestrel

We've introduced subtle, but important UI and back-end changes is this build. In just a few words: Kestrel gets EV, the address field will change the way it displays page information, and we now have automatic certificate updates!

This latest snapshot build has support for Extended Validation (EV) certificates. This means that on EV sites you'll see a padlock on a green background. And remember: It ain't EV 'til it's EV, all EV. Opera is a more strict than other browsers, and will display an EV site with a "green padlock" only if all elements on the page are from EV sites. Read Yngve's article for more details.

There are some more changes in the address bar: the fraud protection button will now work differently. For HTTP sites you will not see the button anymore. On HTTPS sites the padlock will be on a yellow background (green for EV). If, however, you come across an HTTPS site which lowers the overall rating of the security level of the page (details on the levels are again to be found in Yngve's article), you will see a grey "?" button, which will provide you with more information on the security level. A fraudulent page will still be flagged with a red warning in the address field.

The back-end change in this snapshot affects the certificate database: we can now add new Roots to the Certificate Authority database without requiring users to update their installation. Find details about this over in Yngve's article.

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.

Known Issues

• Too many searches in the search engine list
• "Open With" other browsers doesn't work
• The progress bar does not show if it's set to "Pop-up at the bottom"

Changelog

• New Features
• Added EV certificate support
• Added Notes synchronization
• Added opera:historysearch to default list of search engines

Core Fixes

• Fixed problems loading Gmail
• Improved XHR (AJAX) performance
• Fixed mouse gesture crash in print preview
• Windowless mode for Silverlight 1.1 now works

Mail Fixes

• Fixes to decoding of mailto: URLs
• Fixed crash when listing channels/rooms on IRC server
• Fixed problem when fetching feeds would freeze Opera for a long time
• Fixed problem where Opera wouldn't start for some users with old mail directories
• Optimized newsfeed download when users have lots of existing feed messages
• Fixed problem seen when changing the status of several messages at the same time
• Fixed several parse errors caused by IMAP server bugs
• Fixed problem adding contacts to messages when the contact has multiple e-mail addresses

UI Fixes

• Fixed crash when opening Help
• Some fixes to Opera Link synchronization
• Fixed problem saving pages in formats other than HTML
• MHTML files can now only be saved as MHTML
• Fixed problem where Personal bar was greyed-out sometimes
• Viewing source doesn't put the file in the system temp folder anymore
• Viewing source and applying changes to local files commits the changes to the local file again
• Fixed the internal "Execute program" command, which caused Open in buttons to stop working

Platform-specific

• [Windows] Fixed opacity inversion on web pages
• [Windows] Fixed GDI leak related to favicons
• [Windows] Fixed crash when closing Opera
• [Windows] Fixed printing issues where some words would run into each other
• [OS X] Fixed problem scrolling to the bottom of the pages using scrollbars

Download
Windows 9903
Windows Classic 9903
Macintosh 4758
UNIX 1904

Any idea when this will be fixed?

Beta 2 is Coming...
BY MINCH. THURSDAY, 17. APRIL 2008, 12:32:30

PERFORMANCE, FRAUD, BETA, KESTREL

Things here in the Desktop Team have been very, very hectic lately as we approach Kestrel Beta 2. The good news it that the wait is almost over.

Introduced in this build is a new fraud protection back-end. It's better, more reliable and allows us to block malicious sites more quickly than ever before. Fraud protection is now enabled by default.

For all of you non-native English speakers out there, most translations are included in this snapshot. Of course, someone will have to tell you what this blog post actually says for you to get the snapshot.

So download it, enjoy, and submit your 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.

Known Issues

• [Bug 324643] "Remove from toolbar" doesn't work
• [Bug 324645] IRC channels stop showing new messages
• [Bug 322553] The "Execute program" action fails in certain circumstances
• [Bug 324678] Mail attachment options don't work on Windows
• [Bug 324696] The "Go to Web Address" action fails on Windows
• [Bug 324699] Crash when choosing "Open Opera" from the tray icon after hiding Opera on Windows when the mail client is disabled
• [Bug 324700] "Save image" context menu item doesn't work

Changelog

• New fraud protection back-end
• Enabled fraud protection by default
• Setting an external source viewer now works properly
• Open with... for other programs now works properly
• Starting without tabs works again
• Several security UI improvements
• Opera Link: Fixed a bug where notes would not be synced when you upgraded to a build that supports syncing them
• Opera Widgets: Fixed form submission
• Opera Widgets: Fixed opening links in iframes
• Paste & go doesn't open the address in the background anymore
• Added a special menu for selected text which is a link
• Spatial navigation now properly uses text selection for links
• Made address field focusable from an empty workspace
• Fixed find in page from the Find in page search field
• Increased number of lines in the address field drop-down
• Removed encoding of slashes when opening local files
• Fixed print preview of mail and pages with iframes
• Large plain text documents are no longer cut off
• Fixed an issue with using bookmark nicknames as your home page
• Fixed progress bar when set to pop-up at bottom

Mail

• Top-level account access points can now be selected via the mouse and show all messages for the selected account
• Better icon for e-mails without bodies
• Saved passwords are now indicated by the text "Click to change password" instead of six asterisks
• Fixed IMAP authentication/connection issues
• Fixed problem downloaded POP mail when using "Leaves messages on server" on certain servers
• Removed confirmation dialog when unchecking "Leave messages on server" for POP accounts; all messages on the server will automatically be removed
• Better labeling of "Delete" button
• Fixed problem where messages on the server are redownloaded after importing mail
• Download message bodies before exporting
• The default account when sending new messages is now chosen more intelligently
• Added confirmation dialog when deleting newsfeeds
• Fixed issue where the spam filter would not learn from its mistakes
• The Mail panel button now correctly indicates new mail
• Re-added message body settings for newsgroups
• Stopped generating plain text version of newsfeeds that contain HTML (and vice versa), which makes photo newsfeeds more usable
• Fixed long-standing issue where deleting drafts from the Drafts view while the compose window was open would render the draft unusable

Platform-specific

• [Windows] Tray icon now indicates when new mail has arrived
• [Windows] When hiding Opera (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+H), a tray icon is created
• [Windows] Fixed DCC transfers on Windows
• [64-bit Linux] Fixed a crash when saving things

Download
Windows 9937
Windows Classic 9937
Macintosh 4784
UNIX 1929

So when is Beta 2 going to be out?

It's nice to know that the pop-up progress bar is working again, but these "new" bugs look pretty bad, hope they can be fixed up soon

so there gonna be a second beta? can we expect a 9.50 final stable this year?

one more bug:

the shift+enter to open in a new tab shortcut is not working

Hmm, I think I'll stay with 9903 until the next weekly comes out then

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2008/...y-for-dragonfly

Wow, the latest 9972 snapshot got to be one of the best snapshot builds lately, quite stable and fast, and finally fixed the Shift+Enter in address bar bug

And the new color-coded address bar drop-down rocks!

it seems this thread is no longer updated?

Stability is this week's word
By csant. Tuesday, 20. May 2008, 08:38:12

Lots of work has gone into stability this last week. Other highlights are new package names (see details here), and fully localized UNIX packages.

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.

Known issues
Some dialogs do not have initial focus
[Bug 327180] Dragonfly does not work when JavaScript is disabled
[Bug 324377] Save Linked Content As fails sporadically

Changelog
Address field buttons are now updated correctly in all circumstances
Fixed international installer on Windows
Fixed several Wand issues

Lots of stability fixes:
crash on digg.com
crash with master password
crash on google maps
crash on a rather common javascript function...
crash when printing
crash when reloading a page...

Mail
Fix for Apple Mail import.
Filters and folders are now distinguishable
Attachments in multipart/related body part are now recognized properly
Reverted special handling of Delete in filter views - 'Del' always moves to Trash bin, 'Shift+Del' now deletes completely without using the Trash bin.

Several fixes to the undo functionality, such as e.g.:
undo after marking all as read should work now.
undo now reverts marking as spam
undo removing from filter

Windows specific:
Fixed painting of some SVG

UNIX specific:
It is now possible again to drag'n'drop URLs
All packages are now fully localized!

Download
Windows 10005
Windows Classic 10005
Mac 4825
UNIX 1971

Source
Stability is this week's word @ Desktop Team

A lighter EV
By csant. Friday, 23. May 2008, 09:12:02

We have been very strict on our EV implementation - the rationale behind our strict "It ain't EV 'til it's EV, all EV" has been extensively documented by Yngve in a few articles.

However, we are now moving towards a less strict implementation - a consistent user experience is important throughout the wide palette of browsers that implemented EV. At the recent face-to-face meeting with the Web Security Context Working Group, we have agreed with other vendors on this behaviour as an industry standard. You will now get the green padlock, signalling the presence of an EV certificate, if the top level document is served with strong TLS and EV, and all included elements are served at least with strong TLS. For details, please head over to Yngve's article.

In other news, Dragonfly guys have started making snapshots a well, with their first one released yesterday. On the desktop side we have started persistently caching the Dragonfly application so that it loads much faster, and can be used offline, after restarting Opera.

Also, our Core team has started a blog - head over to the new Core Team blog to follow the cool news and latest development at Opera's heart.

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.

Known issues
[Bug 327180] Dragonfly does not work when JavaScript is disabled.
[Bug 324377] Save Linked Content As fails sporadically.
[Bug 332406] The drop-downs in the various dialogs open behind the dialog on Mac.
Netvibes.com fails to load in this Windows build.

Changelog
New EV status policy.
Fixed a crash when quitting with master password dialog open.
Fixed a history navigation crash.
Fixed a crash related to Dragonfly.
Fixed handling of local resource files when installing Opera in a location with special characters in the path.
Fixed an issue where Wand shortcuts stopped working after history navigation.
Fixed filtering of messages in the error console - the filter will also apply to future events.
Fixed initial focus in dialogs.

Windows specific:
Fixed default Save and Open location.
Fixed a registry corruption of values used when other applications open Opera, caused by the classic installer.
Fixed listing of files in the Open dialog.
Saving web pages now correctly adds the extension.

Mac-specific:
Fixed plugin focus issues on rtl.de.
Fixed an issue where the window doesn't activate completely when clicked.
Fixed repaint issues when pages are made shorter.
Fixed an issue where text gets cut off in SELECT element.

UNIX specific:
Fixed some font selection issues.
Fixed some mouse panning issues.
Fixed listing of files in the GTK filechooser.

Download
Windows 10014
Windows Classic 10014
Mac 4833
UNIX 1983

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A lighter EV @ Desktop Team

Busy busy busy
By olli. Wednesday, 28. May 2008, 10:17:43

Hei hå

We have a new build for you to play with. We are trying to get it more stable now so look out for crashers and regressions :-)

We also are experimenting a bit with Dragonfly tab handling - Dragonfly now opens inside the Opera window. To detach it again use this button (drag the link to a toolbar): Detach

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.

Known issues
Dragonfly does not work when JavaScript is disabled.
Dragonfly doesn't work on Mac
Save Linked Content As fails sporadically.
Marking messages Unread in the Trash view will actually permanently delete them.
Text selections don't draw correctly in Opera Mail and MHTML documents.

Changelog
Fixed Opera icon in add/remove programs in Windows Vista
Startup is now a lot faster when having many bookmarks
Made http authentication work in Widgets again
UNIX: Fixed wrong dependency on libqt3-mt in static deb packages
Check spelling item is grayed out when mouse cursor is not over textarea
Better handling of local cookies
Progress bar briefly appears below address bar while loading sites with an iframe
Image title isn't displayed in tooltip when the image is a link
Fixed the missing tag list on del.icio.us
Fixed an issue with pages that never finished loading
Fixed a jQuery/Backbase regression
Fixed display of Japanese file names in Mail
Fixed an issue where clicking an input type=image fired click then blur
Fixed "match whole word only"
onmousedown="this.focus()" caused onblur event
Fixed search completion on Facebook
Password not sent for NNTP accounts
Check spelling item is grayed out when mouse cursor is not over textarea

Mac-specific:
Fixed Wand shortcut after going back in history
Fixed the look of input type=number controls
Fixed dropdowns in Appearance dialog (and a few other places)

Download
Windows 10024
Windows Classic 10024
Mac 4839
UNIX 1992

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Busy busy busy @ Desktop Team

Polish, stability and other things
By toman. Friday, 30. May 2008, 10:22:28

Another round of builds, this time with more polish to the Dragonfly integrated window, as well as small, but important improvements all over. Also, the repaint issues should be fixed.

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.

Known issues
Dragonfly does not work when JavaScript is disabled.

Changelog
Downloads should work better now
Fixed bug where you could not open attachments in mail with unknown MIME type
Rendering improvements to CJK text
Reduced memory usage
Fixed a print preview crash
Fetching feeds now times out correctly
Importing mail from mbs files no longer creates tons of filters on Windows
Improved display of unselectable IMAP mailboxes
No longer expunge mail marked as read in trash
Added ability to use favicon for Dragonfly
Polishing the integrated Dragonfly
Fixed crash when having user CSS and using Dragonfly
Added bookmark title and URL to the address bar auto-completion
Improved matching of URLs in the address bar drop-down
Fixed downloading of ISO files from FTP servers
Fixed Wand logins where the submit button was initially disabled
Fixed Paste and Go on UNIX

Download
Windows 10034
Windows Classic 10034
Mac 4844
UNIX 1997

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Polish, stability and other things @ Desktop Team

Wow, that was a fast update!

They are really craming it now to release the final version!

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2008/...5/looking-sharp

So now there's a new looks that somewhat similar to the Opera Mobile 9.5 look.

Turtle Wax
By toman. Friday, 6. June 2008, 12:38:00

300 skin comments in a day We have tried to polish at least some of
the areas you commented on:

• Improved contrast between active and inactive tabs in the tab bar
• Higher contrast for the text on inactive tabs to increase readability, especially on laptops
• Brighter background in the panels
• A tiny bit more color: We added the Home button as default by popular demand
• We tuned the color intensity of the color themes (Tools: Appearance: Color scheme) to be more usable with both this and other skins. Try it out again!
• Improved visibility of the scrollbars
• Buttons no longer grow wider when you press them
• Nicer background for security status on https pages

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.

Known issues
Dragonfly does not work when JavaScript is disabled.

Changelog
Fixed the panel selector dropdown
Fixed all search related bugs in the previous snapshot
Changed default Speed dial search engine from Yahoo to Ask
Made it possible to set a custom title for the Developer Tools (Dragonfly) Window using <title> in the tool top level document
Fixed a plugin crash

Download
Windows 10051
Windows Classic 10051
Mac 4855
UNIX 2025

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Turtle Wax @ Desktop Team

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2008/...pare-for-launch

I still think they should rethink about the new skin...

Thanks alot for the update! Downloading it now!