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.

'''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). Please avoid posting wishes; let's stick to bugs and regressions.

'''This list will initially pertain only to Windows builds, but anyone is free to start separate sections for Mac, Linux, etc.

9.50.9656
'''WINDOWS ISSUES:
 * Performance issues with URL History - slow randomly for people; seems unrelated to machine speed or VPS size.
 * URL History is 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.
 * MaxVisitedPagesIndexSize ignores set non-zero value, so there's no way to limit VPS expansion.
 * Memory leaks - can reach 350MB or more with fewer than 20 tabs and be reluctant or unwilling to release memory until closed.
 * GDI leaks - can reach 8K or 9K in a single day.
 * Random crashes - very difficult to be more specific.
 * History Navigation Mode=3
 * Downloads favicon (#293723).
 * 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).
 * XPath will not always find attributes on HTML elements (#297412).
 * 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.
 * "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.
 * "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.
 * Random element misplacements, such as the "Go" button near the Search box on nytimes.com/pages/health/index.html.
 * Corrupted GIF animations for some.