It's Thursday and time for another 11.62 snapshot. The most interesting change here is DSK-357882 which we believe will improve performance, particularly for high latency sites.

Tips to make it easier to test and give feedback:

• Compare against 11.61, not 12.00
  (use the install instructions in the links below to install alongside stable Opera)
• Delete cache before comparing
  (otherwise you might be comparing cached and non-cached content)
• Test multiple times and ignore minor differences
  (the nature of the internet means there will always be some fluctuation)
• We are only interested in faster or slower
  (loading at roughly the same speed is not a problem)
• Mention your location and the page you tested against when giving feedback
  (websites hosted in the same country as you will tend to have lower latency)

As always, thanks for your help!

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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It's Thursday, and time for another 11.62 snapshot.

As you can see from the changelog it's mainly about stability, but we've also fixed an issue where window controls (resize, minimize, close) would not be available when the menu bar was enabled, and the close button on each tab was disabled.

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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Changelog

• CORE-39969 Regex crash
• CORE-41927 documentEditable crash
• CORE-43122 SVG crash
• DSK-355931 No window control buttons on the menu bar when disabling the close button on tabs
• Reverted DSK-346719 [Mac] Crash when zooming with datalist suggestion box open (caused blinking in address field)
• Reverted DSK-356977 Crash when clicking extension button with open popup (caused tabs not to close while popup open)
• Reverted DSK-351582 Crash when writing in address field after bookmark has been deleted (possibly caused a crash on exit)

This is an Opera 12 (Wahoo) snapshot.

As you can see from the changelog, this build introduces quite a few fixes, changes and improvements. Since there's a lot of it, I'll highlight a few important things below.

Privacy

This Wahoo build adds support for Do Not Track, which allows browser users to opt out of being tracked on the web. It is currently disabled by default, but can be enabled by enabling the following option in Opera's Preferences dialog: "Preferences > Advanced > Security > Ask websites not to track me"

Note that this will only work if the site actually honors the request. Few sites currently do, and the effect of DNT will have to be evaluated to see if it is a viable solution in the long run.

SSL performance

This build also introduces a first round of optimizations for faster SSL handling (CORE-41667):

• TCP optimization to eliminate roundtrips
• Improved session negotiation to save on waiting times
• Improved connection handling which improves both HTTP and HTTPS connections
• Quicker closing of connections allows for new connections at an earlier stage
• Parallelizing OCSP/CRL uses half as much time to do revocation checking
• Strict transport security improves security and will also improve speed when servers start using this feature

As an example, the first load at skandiabanken.no was reduced by one second or more. With 10 subsequent page loads, the time to open the page was almost cut in half in total.

XHR

With CORE-41784 (XMLHttpRequest Level 2 upload and progress events), we completed our support for progress events in XMLHttpRequest, for upload, download, and timeout update. This will improve the upload experience on Google services (no more Flash uploaders on YouTube and Gmail), and more sites are to follow.

More

There are numerous other improvements, including Core, mail and theme fixes. Take a look at the changelog for more information.

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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Here's another 11.62 snapshot. We will probably try to do weekly snapshots of Opera 11.6x every Thursday or so.

While testing, please pay particular attention to the following Core (Presto) fixes:

• CORE-10115 (Hide window.event, attachEvent and detachEvent from visibility (like document.all))
• CORE-24242 (Remove readystatechange events for SCRIPT element (live.com search fields on third-party sites))

If you notice any sites breaking when compared to Opera 11.61, let us know!

Known issues:

• Opera crashes when saving files
  
  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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Changelog

Core

• CORE-10115 Hide window.event, attachEvent and detachEvent from visibility (like document.all)
• CORE-41951 Crash in svg filter on path without 'd'
• CORE-42489 Cached text-info not recomputed in indirect traversals on font invalidation
• CORE-40953 NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR thrown on modifying SVGElement.className (SVGAnimatedString)
• CORE-42761 Hidden SVG element prevents hover of underlying element in Raphael.js
• CORE-42776 animateTransform + SVG filter not placed correctly
• CORE-43829 Error message when sending mail at centrum.cz
• CORE-43506 POST request for application/x-www-form-urlencoded is always sent as two packets (retry)
• CORE-43285 Clicking to set cursor position after searching a textarea fails, and scrolls to the top instead
• CORE-38412 Some progressive JPEGs aren't decoded properly
• CORE-43893 Crash on setting border-style to hidden on one border of a table row with collapsed borders
• CORE-44335 Qt plugin AVPlayer is crashing Opera
• CORE-44263 Crash when (1<<31).toString(2)
• CORE-43716 Dropdown menu at blocket.se
• CORE-42571 Setting selectedIndex = -1 prevents choosing just one categorie at mercadolibre.cl
• CORE-43684 Overflowing integral addition not computed
• CORE-44291 @include / @exclude filters in UserJS are not respected on change
• CORE-43149 Facebook chat list scrolls back up - setting style on overflow element with generated content
• CORE-24242 Remove readystatechange events for SCRIPT element (live.com search fields on third-party sites)
• CORE-43180 Increased memory usage with iframes in HTML5 parser
• Reverted CORE-44002 Parallel download of script and images

Desktop

• DSK-356060 [Mail] Scrolling and switching views is slow when there are messages with lots of addresses
• DSK-356929 Updated tr/hu/cs language strings
• DSK-337608 Crash on exit after installing Speed Dial extensions
• DSK-355591 Clicking a button on hidden panel crashes Opera
• DSK-298032 Find in page (Ctrl+F) uses last used Find inline type
• DSK-335820 Opera replaces existing file when the the Save As dialog does not show the file extension
• DSK-340816 Address field focus lost on restart when installing extensions with a toolbar button
• DSK-351582 Crash when writing in address field after bookmark has been deleted

Hello everyone!

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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