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My name is Kristine and I'm an all year round intern in Desktop QA. It’s been 938 days since my last blog post and it's good to be back

We are preparing another maintenance release for 11.6x ‘Tunny’ with some stability fixes. This is a normal Opera release, not Opera Next. All of the below fixes are already in the current Opera Next release.

Known issues

• [Mac] Address field blinks while typing
• [Linux] The 64-Bit build has a different build number but is in fact identical

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We have already introduced address field search suggestions powered by our partners Google (default), Bing, Яндекс (Yandex), and Wikipedia (English only). Now we want our own address field suggestions to meet the same high quality standards as the ones provided by our partners for your bookmarks and history entries.

In our old system; everything including bookmarks was matched against page URL, title, or page content and then ordered in one giant list sorted by last visited time.

The new system assigns a score to each suggestion based on more factors than just the last visited time. For example, we prioritize your bookmarks, the position in the URL where we find a match, and the number of times we get a match on the page.

We are not done yet, and will work on integrating Speed Dials and further improve the scoring system.

What do you think about the new results in the address field? Are we getting you to where you wanted to go?

If you already know exactly where you want to go and don’t care too much about the above improvements; then you will certainly appreciate that we’ve also worked on getting you on your way faster. (Nice segue, huh?) Start-up times and session handling should be snappier in this build. We’ve ironed out a bunch of smaller issues that we think will make a big difference.

PS: There are some other treasures in the change log as well.

Known issues

• Mail header layout is broken
• Mac: File uploading, and large network requests never finishes
• Mac: Some font rendering issues and crashes with Web fonts

WARNING: This is a development snapshot: It contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes, and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all.

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This is a Release Candidate for Opera 11.61. Take a look at the changelog for more information about the changes since the previous build.

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Changelog

• CORE-43788 Can't scroll with mouse wheel over iframe with scrolling=no if smooth scrolling is enabled
• CORE-42642 JavaScript crash
• CORE-43273 Opera freezes when loading a big session with the Tab Vault extension
• CORE-42012 Crash in Carakan on WebGL benchmark
• Reverted CORE-43506 POST request for application/x-www-form-urlencoded always sent as two packets
• CORE-41923 [*nix] Vega crash
• DSK-350900 Block the VLC plug-in due to excessive crashing
• DSK-353378 Opera loses advanced download settings after restart
• DSK-353217 [*nix] Red and blue channels swapped when run with a 16-bit color depth
• DSK-350402 Crashes if you unpin the last message in the "Pinned" view
• DSK-355394 Crash when closing mail window
• DSK-350332 Mail unread count is wrong
• DSK-355604 Update opera:about to show 2012

Here's another Opera 11.61 snapshot. The changelog is fairly short, but it has some useful fixes that are ready for testing.

Changelog

• CORE-42565 Crash on applying 3025 background images
• CORE-43307 Do not cache invalid UserJS source files
• CORE-42991 Stylesheet not applied due to malformed gzip content
• CORE-42472 Secure iframe with URL to image lowers security level to "Unsecure" (breaks Paypal checkout)
• CORE-43506 POST request for application/x-www-form-urlencoded is always sent as two packets
• CORE-43173 Incorrect value of elements in ArrayBufferView created with byteOffset to an ArrayBuffer
• DSK-353403 Unite related crash
• DSK-346438 Opera Turbo tooltip repeated multiple times
• DSK-354552 Crash on shut down (regression in the previous 11.61 snapshot)

WARNING: This is a development snapshot: It contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes, and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all.

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If you feel that the wait for Christmas is too long, perhaps this can keep you busy for a while.

This is a snapshot of Opera 11.61, which is planned for release some time in January. There are a few crash fixes, and other things that have popped up since the release of 11.60.

Since this will most likely be the last Opera snapshot of the year, I'd like to take this opportunity to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the desktop team here at Opera!

WARNING: This is a development snapshot: It contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes, and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all.

Note that this is not an Opera Next build. It will install over the latest stable version by default!Download

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• Linux/FreeBSD (WARNING: Will install over the current stable version by default!)

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