Opera 9.5 Beta Other Known Issues

'''The purpose of this temporary wiki is to supplement the rather modest list of Known Issues included in the original posts on the Opera Desktop Team Blog and create a one-stop place to look to see if "your" problem has been confirmed by anyone.


 * ''If you're looking for a place to post what you'd like to see improved in Opera, then please use the Opera Browser Feature Wishes Wiki.

'''This list will by no means be complete or official, but should consist of issues that are "known" in the sense that others have confirmed them for you. Opera will likely have confirmed few of these publicly in any obvious place, but that's to be expected with the current bug reporting system. Include any bug numbers you know of for reference.

'''Please avoid posting issues that only you have seen; instead, post those to the blog and try to gain consensus. Please avoid posting issues that have already been noted by Opera in the latest original post on the blog (some very well may have been confirmed in comments, but few read all several hundred of them with each release).

9.50 Windows 9681 / Mac 4570 / UNIX 1709
'''WINDOWS ISSUES:
 * 1) URL Index/History feature
 * 2) Sometimes missing sites that can be found in the History panel. Example: https://secure.logmein.com cannot be found by typing "logmein," you must type "secure," but note that the problem is not limited to secure sites -- some recently-visited sites can be entirely missing no matter what you type.
 * 3) When you've exceeded your set index size limit and Opera decides to trim the index down to size (typically when launching), it'll reduce it far more than is necessary to stay under the limit, sometimes deleting almost all of it.
 * 4) MaxVisitedPagesIndexSize ignores set non-zero value, so there's no way to limit VPS expansion. ''[UPDATE: Seemingly fixed in 9665 but still testing to see if it stays within the limit.]
 * 5) Disk Cache
 * 6) Set maximum size not consistently being obeyed.
 * 7) Much like the issue with URL Index, when you've exceeded your set disk cache size limit and Opera decides to trim the cache down to size (typically when launching), it'll reduce it far more than is necessary to stay under the limit, sometimes deleting almost all of it.
 * 8) Memory leaks - In one day, Opera can reach 450MB to at least 600MB with fewer than 20 tabs and be reluctant or unwilling to release memory until closed.
 * 9) GDI leaks - can reach 8K or 9K in a single day.
 * 10) XPath will not always find attributes on HTML elements (#297412). [UPDATE: Fixed in 9665?]
 * 11) Remember choice and do not show dialog again -- a check box on download dialogs -- either forgets or doesn't always work in the first place.
 * 12) Save to disk-Do not ask for folder, but save directly to... -- a choice in Preferences/Advanced/Downloads -- seems not to work consistently or at all. Tested with .torrent files on www.eztv.nl.
 * 13) Random element misplacements, such as the "Go" button near the Search box here.
 * 14) Corrupted GIF animations for some.
 * 15) When Speed Dial is hidden, the Done/Cancel/Details buttons within "Block Content" are invisible and the content blocker non-functional.
 * 16) Non-latin characters in RSS and Mail subjects and also contact names are corrupted.  [UPDATE: Fixed in 9681.]
 * 17) Problem with attachments at some webmails. They save the attachment as default without suffix instead of the proper name.
 * 18) Opera tray icon does not change to envelope when new mail arrives.
 * 19) The number and headlines of RSS feeds that appear in the bottom-right Opera popup are not from actual incoming RSS but the previous round of them.
 * 20) When window is maximized, incorrect number of tabs displayed in tab bar when there are exactly 5(!) tabs (I've noted this bug for several builds but apparently it hasn't been fixed :|)
 * 21) Blinking text on random sites, mostly forums apparently. It will not happen consistently, so providing a link would be meaningless. A video of the effect.

'''M2 in Windows Issues:
 * 1) Plaintext login must sometimes be set to "Auto" in order to perform as plaintext.
 * 2) "Stop" button on the check/send status popup in the mail panel is inoperative.
 * 3) With the advent of build 9665, multi-select in the mail import dialog no longer works, with the result and only a single email at a time can be imported from modern Opera mail stores.
 * 4) Attachments shown with default "unknown item type" icon rather than associated application icon.
 * 5) Opening a file from link or from attachments linklist at bottom of email with its default application crashes Opera instantly 100% of the time. Must save rather than opening, and then open from disk.

'''UNIX ISSUES:
 * 1) DPI settings under Linux are ignored. (#285046)

'''MULTI-PLATFORM ISSUES:
 * 1) Performance issues with URL Index/History - slow randomly for people; seems unrelated to machine speed or VPS size.
 * 2) Searching using the search panel will crash Opera (#298606).
 * 3) Fixed spacers do not work. [UPDATE: Fixed in 9681.]
 * 4) Some downloads acquire the wrong file name. For example, see this site. The filename you get is download.dll when it should be 106b1edbadd.exe.
 * 5) Possibly related to the previous item, any attempt to do a Save Link As on URLs like this will result in the file being given an .HTM extension rather than its proper one. This is apparently because of the extra characters after the extension in the link, since it doesn't happen with this shorter version. It should be noted that the first link will work if the URL is copied and pasted into the Transfers pane.
 * 6) Random crashes - very difficult to be more specific.
 * 7) Some UI images fail to load when switching skins.
 * 8) Wall Street Journal pages are randomly or consistently, depending on the person, crashing Opera. Reasons unknown at this time. Pages that have been known to do it (again, for some) are here and here and here. '' [UPDATE: Seemingly fixed in 9665.]
 * 9) History Navigation Mode=3 and back-forward cache
 * 10) Downloads favicon (#293723).
 * 11) When a page has an #anchor in its URL, Opera jumps to the anchor position when pressing back/forward instead of remembering the last scroll position (#295434).
 * 12) Sometimes when returning to a page, it will be re-downloaded partially or entirely. This may be dependent upon your existing cache exceeding your cache limit size. A good page to see the effect (when you're prone for the problem) is this one, when you click on a photo and then return to the previous page.
 * 13) Certain areas in Preferences still excruciatingly slow to get into, out of, or both (on well-used Opera configurations), such as "Manage Site Preferences" and "Manage Cookies." CPU use spikes during these waits.

'''M2 Multi Platform Issues:
 * 1) Deleting or moving emails from filters sometimes causes blank "emails" which can only be deleted from the original filter view if at all. In a pinch, deleting the offending filter or feed gets rid of these.