By Blazej Kazmierczakbkazmierczak. Wednesday, May 16, 2012 2:21:47 PM
Here's yet another Opera 12 snapshot with a number of fixes, including several common crashes. It contains Out Of Process Plugin fixes, Hardware Acceleration fixes and Skin fixes.
For Hardware Acceleration fans we have font bugs fixed and new
Renderer preference which the user can set to 1 to prefer the DirectX back-end, or 0 to chose OpenGL. Make sure to turn on
Hardware Acceleration in opera:config, to check this out (
Hardware Acceleration is turned off by default in Opera 12, and the new preference has no effect).
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.Download
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By Haavardhaavard. Tuesday, May 15, 2012 12:10:23 PM
Here's another Opera 12 snapshot with a number of fixes, including several common crashes.
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.Download
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By Adam Minchintonminch. Thursday, May 10, 2012 12:48:00 PM
beta, wahoo, stability, D&D
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In the run up to the Opera 12 final, we have been busy working hard on improving stability, and fixing bugs! Our HTML5 Drag and drop support has major improvements in this snapshot, along with all the other fixes.
On Mac we are endeavoring to become better by making Opera faster, easier and smarter. To achieve this we are with this snapshot adding more native OS X features as well as discontinuing some less relevant features.
Opera was the first major web browser in the Mac App Store, and we are making sure we stay there by introducing support for OS X Sandboxing in Opera 12. Sandboxing is a operating system level security measure that limits an applications access to the system to prevent malicious code from taking over an app and causing damage to the system. OS X Mountain Lion also introduces Gatekeeper, protecting users by only allowing Apple developer signed or sandboxed applications run on the system. Opera will be one of these applications. Look forward to even more of OS X Mountain Lion's new features in the future.
This snapshot also includes a more focused user interface for Mac. Legacy toolbars such as the start bar, navigation bar and the bar that once upon a time was the “main” browser toolbar, are all gone. Furthermore, the introduction of Themes in Opera 12 have made us remove the advanced preferences overriding things like the default icon size and the color tone of the skin. Finally, we have removed some little used features on Mac; IRC chat and BitTorrent. For these we believe there are better alternatives than the current features, and this move allow us to focus our resources on the stuff that really makes the browser better.
All these changes are only applicable for Mac for now.
Known issues
- DSK-363145 (Tab close button is not ignored over inactive background tab when tab width is narrow)
- DSK-362951 ([Mac] Only English dictionary and dict. installer is non-functional)
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Sandboxed Mac versionWe have included with this snapshot a sandboxed version of Opera so you can try out what we will be distributing though the Mac App Store in the future. Please give it a try and let us know if you have any problems, and remember to read the extra information and warnings below. If in doubt stick to the standard snapshot
Important notes for Mac users: Auto-update is disabled for the sandboxed build. It will not receive newer snapshots or final releases automatically. Your Opera Next profile will be migrated into a sandboxed profile when running a sandboxed build for the first time. Please backup your profile before running the build in case you want to go back to a non-sandbosed build.
MAC WARNING: Mac users who opt for the sandbox build must backup their Opera Next profiles. The profile will be migrated to the sandbox when running a sandboxed build for the first time.
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By olli. Thursday, May 10, 2012 8:31:37 AM
Hey
We have today released a new security and stability update of Opera 11.6x
If you wonder why your Opera suddenly upgrade from 11.62 to 11.64 skipping 11.63 it´s because you are not on mac where we had to throw out a 11.63
release a short while back.
11.64 does not contain many bug fixes, but it is a recommended security update and it does fix some crashers and a bad nsl bug some people get on e.g Ebay.
Changelog:Opera 11.64 for Windows changelogOpera 11.64 for Mac changelogOpera 11.64 for UNIX changelog
By Huib Kleinhouthuibk. Thursday, April 26, 2012 6:00:25 AM
Opera 12 beta has been released today.
Check out the new features in Opera 12 betaThanks everyone for testing and reporting issues. The upcoming weeks Opera 12 development will focus on stabilization and fixing of regressions. Stay tuned for new snapshots with loads of bugfixes.
If you have hardware acceleration turned on and are experiencing rendering or stability issues, consider turning it off (the default).
Happy testing!
By Haavardhaavard. Wednesday, April 25, 2012 9:11:27 AM
This is a release candidate for the Opera 12 Beta.
Since this will be a launch of a beta version, you can of course expect more problems than a final version. Still, if you find any new issues that seem to be too serious even for a beta, let us know.
Known issues
- No FreeBSD builds (yet)
- Problems with dragging on Google Maps
- 64-bit Windows build crashes when connecting to a POP account
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By Huib Kleinhouthuibk. Tuesday, April 24, 2012 1:15:04 PM
Today we are announcing the beginning of the end for two of our current Add-on platforms. Starting with the upcoming Opera 12 release, Opera Unite and Opera Widgets will be turned off by default for new users. The two Add-on platforms will be completely removed in a later release expected before the end of this year.
Read more on the Add-ons blog about this change of focus.Read more...
By Wojciech Dzierżanowskiwdzierzan. Monday, April 23, 2012 12:19:53 PM
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long, long time ago, Opera started supporting right-to-left (RTL) and bi-directional (BiDi) content in web pages. You know what they say, Content is King. But a king cannot rule alone, which is why for several months it has been mine and a few of my colleagues' task to bring RTL support in the UI up to speed with web pages. To be honest, there have been times when our work has felt a lot like staring into a mirror, as you can see in the screenshot below.
RTL support in the UI will be receiving some amount of polish before the final release of Wahoo, but we are happy to give you a preview already. If your Windows or *NIX OS language is one of Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew or Urdu, your Opera experience will be RTL automatically. That's because the direction of the UI is now determined by the direction of the UI language set in Opera. Note that you can override the default language selection by going to
Preferences ->
General and picking a language from the
Language drop-down, or making even more fine-grained customizations by clicking the
Details… button right next to it.
Happy RTL testing and keep the feedback coming!
Known Issues- Incorrect skinning in mail compose window.
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By Haavardhaavard. Monday, April 23, 2012 10:49:22 AM
Here's a quick Opera 12 update.
This snapshot mainly contains crash fixes, but we've also tweaked the Opera icon a bit:
Icon update: Old to the left, new to the right
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Changelog
- Updated Opera icon
- CORE-45892 Opera crashes when closing page while it is scrolling
- CORE-45842 SSL crash
- CORE-45872 Proper DOM event type lost in some cases
- DSK-361054 Crash when trying to install autoupdate
- DSK-348837 Crash on exit while loading huge session file
By Huib Kleinhouthuibk. Friday, April 20, 2012 12:00:00 PM
wahoo, stability, performance, 12.00
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Here at Opera HQ, we're buckling down for the final push before the beta launch of Opera 12. Right now, Wahoo is getting more complete, with even more fun things to come as we get closer to launch. We have one of those fun things today, in fact. This new snapshot includes the first look at the DirectX backend. Most users on Vista and Windows 7 will by default use this backend instead of the OpenGL backend for performance and stability reasons, but be aware that currently WebGL support using the OpenGL backend is more complete than when using DirectX.
There's also another change in this snapshot. After careful consideration and extensive testing, we've decided to let users of Opera 12 opt-in to WebGL and hardware acceleration.
We're doing this for an important reason. We want to bring the first true hardware accelerated browser to market. This means using the graphics processor to boost rendering speeds not only for the pages themselves, but also the UI of the browser. It means making it an awesome experience for as many Opera desktop users as possible, whether they're on Windows XP, Linux or Lion.
But in some cases, our hardware accelerated speeds do not yet beat our incredibly optimized software backend, Vega. Shipping a feature that could actually be less effective at boosting speed is a big no-no, especially if its a final release that many people will use for day-to-day browsing.
Now, if you're reading this blog post, you're probably in the group of people who will want to turn on WebGL and hardware acceleration. You enable these features by setting both
opera:config#UserPrefs|EnableHardwareAcceleration and
opera:config#UserPrefs|EnableWebGL to
1, then saving and restarting Opera.
Try it in this release and see how you like it. We think it ensures that Opera 12 will be a great release for everyone, whether you are a browser expert or just discovering Opera for the first time.
As Wahoo is approaching a beta release, we're focusing on stability and fixing regressions. This build includes an important performance and stability fix for plugins on Windows, and should speed up scrolling with plugins significantly.
Known Issues
- HTML5 Drag and Drop is work in progress. Things like dragging to and from external applications may not work. Some existing demo sites may not work fully
- HTML5test.com could freeze or show other problems on Mac
- OTW-8246 Opera 64-bit on Windows not supported on Google+
- DSK-361109 Address dropdown not populated when searching page content with multiple words
- CORE-45774 [Windows] [HWA] Border-color messes up background colour for element with border-radius with DirectX
- DSK-357831 [Windows] [HWA] Negative letter spacing with DirectX on 64-bit builds
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