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EV and Certificate Updates

By Claudio Santambrogiocsant. Tuesday, April 8, 2008 2:12:24 PM

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We've introduced subtle, but important UI and back-end changes is this build. In just a few words: Kestrel gets EV, the address field will change the way it displays page information, and we now have automatic certificate updates!

This latest snapshot build has support for Extended Validation (EV) certificates. This means that on EV sites you'll see a padlock on a green background. And remember: It ain't EV 'til it's EV, all EV. Opera is a more strict than other browsers, and will display an EV site with a "green padlock" only if all elements on the page are from EV sites. Read Yngve's article for more details.

There are some more changes in the address bar: the fraud protection button will now work differently. For HTTP sites you will not see the button anymore. On HTTPS sites the padlock will be on a yellow background (green for EV). If, however, you come across an HTTPS site which lowers the overall rating of the security level of the page (details on the levels are again to be found in Yngve's article), you will see a grey "?" button, which will provide you with more information on the security level. A fraudulent page will still be flagged with a red warning in the address field.

The back-end change in this snapshot affects the certificate database: we can now add new Roots to the Certificate Authority database without requiring users to update their installation. Find details about this over in Yngve's article.

WARNING: These are development snapshots: they contain the latest changes, but they also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, they may not work at all.

Known Issues
  • Too many searches in the search engine list
  • "Open With" other browsers doesn't work
  • The progress bar does not show if it's set to "Pop-up at the bottom"

Changelog

New Features
  • Added EV certificate support
  • Added root certificate update
  • Added Notes synchronization
  • Added opera:historysearch to default list of search engines

Core Fixes
  • Fixed problems loading Gmail
  • Improved XHR (AJAX) performance
  • Fixed mouse gesture crash in print preview
  • Windowless mode for Silverlight 1.1 now works

Mail Fixes
  • Fixes to decoding of mailto: URLs
  • Fixed crash when listing channels/rooms on IRC server
  • Fixed problem when fetching feeds would freeze Opera for a long time
  • Fixed problem where Opera wouldn't start for some users with old mail directories
  • Optimized newsfeed download when users have lots of existing feed messages
  • Fixed problem seen when changing the status of several messages at the same time
  • Fixed several parse errors caused by IMAP server bugs
  • Fixed problem adding contacts to messages when the contact has multiple e-mail addresses

UI Fixes
  • Fixed crash when opening Help
  • Some fixes to Opera Link synchronization
  • Fixed problem saving pages in formats other than HTML
  • MHTML files can now only be saved as MHTML
  • Fixed problem where Personal bar was greyed-out sometimes
  • Viewing source doesn't put the file in the system temp folder anymore
  • Viewing source and applying changes to local files commits the changes to the local file again
  • Fixed the internal "Execute program" command, which caused Open in buttons to stop working

Platform-specific
  • [Windows] Fixed opacity inversion on web pages
  • [Windows] Fixed GDI leak related to favicons
  • [Windows] Fixed crash when closing Opera
  • [Windows] Fixed printing issues where some words would run into each other
  • [OS X] Fixed problem scrolling to the bottom of the pages using scrollbars


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Comments

Mihai Sucanrobodesign Tuesday, April 8, 2008 5:11:09 PM

OMG, no comments? smile

good work guys!

GregLand Tuesday, April 8, 2008 5:13:38 PM

Ouhaou !!!!! party

stranded Tuesday, April 8, 2008 5:15:31 PM

Ohhh yeah

Subtle, but important UI and backend changes are coming up.



can't wait!

zoquete Tuesday, April 8, 2008 5:16:26 PM

'< auuuuuuuuu smile

Benjaminvivabrevis Tuesday, April 8, 2008 5:17:18 PM

Juppdiduh

Efekanefekan258 Tuesday, April 8, 2008 5:18:07 PM

Waoww lots of fix Thanks bigsmile

Steve DarkenDarken Tuesday, April 8, 2008 5:24:05 PM

Excellent! Nice changelog. cheers

zoquete Tuesday, April 8, 2008 5:27:26 PM

'< I love this build!!!

Kirilljarinkirill Tuesday, April 8, 2008 5:38:00 PM

Thanks!

sebt Tuesday, April 8, 2008 5:45:15 PM

Yay bigsmile

tenplus1 Tuesday, April 8, 2008 5:49:36 PM

Thanks for the new built... When opening the view bar and doing a search, is it supposed to pop up the search requester now ??? Before it just searched without a problem.

rseiler Tuesday, April 8, 2008 5:54:59 PM

The king of all F5 keys, Lamarca, is SO going to be pissed.

Ar1Pear1pe Tuesday, April 8, 2008 6:00:04 PM

Thank you!

zoquete Tuesday, April 8, 2008 6:09:48 PM

Did I see Opera 9999 - final comming? p bigsmile

Шуйский Николай [krigstask, Ŝtérkrìg]Sterkrig Tuesday, April 8, 2008 6:17:16 PM

*gone to edit PKGBUILD for new build*

yksyks Tuesday, April 8, 2008 6:17:29 PM

Since version 9864 there's a serious regression in displaying pages like e.g. http://www.medard-online.cz/index.php. The redrawing of the pictures now flickers. This never happened before since version 3, and never in IE 6, IE 7 and even FF.

Moreover, in the latest build 9903 the slider button is misplaced on top of the page.

(Win XP SP2)

nataniel Tuesday, April 8, 2008 6:18:58 PM

Thanks for this new build but some websites dont load. For example : http://www.numerama.com/

Cyro Tuesday, April 8, 2008 6:19:40 PM

It ain't EV 'til it's EV, all EV

Maciekkal8 Tuesday, April 8, 2008 6:20:56 PM

I don't know if it was reported earlier -> the menu at deviantart.com doesnt work at all :/

Ar1Pear1pe Tuesday, April 8, 2008 6:21:11 PM

@nataniel: loads here, slowly though

Raistlin Tuesday, April 8, 2008 6:21:16 PM

I know it isn't place to put "feature request", but it nice, if you would add Search Engine synchronization (Notes synchronization has added. yupi!) vide http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=224320
Ow, and when do you correct cookies in preferences?

rseiler Tuesday, April 8, 2008 6:22:34 PM

Originally posted by yksyks:

Since version 9864 there's a serious regression in displaying pages like e.g. http://www.medard-online.cz/index.php. The redrawing of the pictures now flickers.


Is this perhaps something particular? I can't seem to see any flickering, and I clicked through on several of the weather images.

Raistlin Tuesday, April 8, 2008 6:26:40 PM

Originally posted by rseiler:


Since version 9864 there's a serious regression in displaying pages like e.g. http://www.medard-online.cz/index.php. The redrawing of the pictures now flickers.


I can't seem to see any flickering too (today build).

http://mapa.targeo.pl/ doesn't work at all (it's loading infinity time). Any confirm?

rwf Tuesday, April 8, 2008 6:30:19 PM

I wish Opera would make up its' mind on the highlight for spatial navigation! Slow scrolling (w/ down arrow) is back again when a link is highlighted. I don't care what they go with (Esc key solves the problem) but this is the third change in the last three (3) releases.

Just a useless eye-candy change. Sigh!

Tamil Tuesday, April 8, 2008 6:33:33 PM

Originally posted by csant:

Added Notes synchronization

pejakm Tuesday, April 8, 2008 6:34:09 PM

Originally posted by "Sterkrig":

*gone to edit PKGBUILD for new build*[\quote]

Can I have a direct link, please? Thanks

wieselding Tuesday, April 8, 2008 6:34:48 PM

"Improved XHR (AJAX) performance"

can't use "lightbox" or some "IPB" features (I think some other JS-scripts too) with this build.

greets

GrantTLC Tuesday, April 8, 2008 6:35:30 PM

Devs, is it possible to supply some safe example sites that will trigger all of the different security warning colours? You've linked to an article that gives examples of the new green bar but how about some for yellow, grey and the one we never want to see - red?

Telling us what will happen is one thing; it's quite another to see it in operation for ourselves.

MyOpera team, please fix this!fearphage Tuesday, April 8, 2008 6:40:37 PM

Fixed the internal "Execute program" command, which caused Open in buttons to stop working

Nice.

James Cassellelitegeek Tuesday, April 8, 2008 6:42:33 PM

I'm glad to see this EV stuff. I remember reading the "It ain't EV 'til it's EV, all EV" article a while back.

Thanks for the new build.

Andresandresruiz Tuesday, April 8, 2008 6:42:47 PM

Thanks a lot, it's always good to have a safer browser, maybe you could release a 2nd beta? Public Beta 1 is far away from latests snapshots. Great to have notes synchronization yes

VSB Tuesday, April 8, 2008 6:43:34 PM

>>>The progress bar does not show if it's set to "Pop-up at the bottom".

When it will begin work???

mht220 Tuesday, April 8, 2008 6:43:51 PM

"The progress bar does not show if it's set to 'Pop-up at the bottom'"

for heaven's sake! Please solve this problem. Please!

yksyks Tuesday, April 8, 2008 6:45:00 PM

To rseiler & Raistlin:

Just press the animation button (the green arrow). Unless the forecast pictures are already cached, the redrawing is visible. It was never like this before, and it's not in other browsers. Compare it with IE 7, for example, to see how smooth this should be (and used to be).
Note also the misplaced slider button.

andrewshikaka Tuesday, April 8, 2008 6:47:04 PM

the new security toolbar section isn't green as Yngve's article and the screenshot states. bug or not?

JoeGoJoeGo Tuesday, April 8, 2008 6:47:18 PM

@rwf: improved visibility is "useless eye candy"? Wow! lol

Buchtic Tuesday, April 8, 2008 6:50:00 PM

Thanks for fixes, mainly Gmail, but open web from localhost is still not function.

SPHINXsupersphinx64 Tuesday, April 8, 2008 6:51:13 PM

Thank you very much p I can write letter with accent again smile

Giuseppe Bilottagbilotta Tuesday, April 8, 2008 6:51:36 PM

Ah, nice, Gmail now loads.

However, the developer console still fails to load. Looks like an excessive cross-site scripting prevention: even a UserJS of mines that loads some data from my server to extend functionality on a forum fails to work (both in this and in the previous build).

Andresandresruiz Tuesday, April 8, 2008 6:53:47 PM

@mgillespie and Devs
Yes, the Opera Sync dialog doesn't list Notes as type that can be Sync'd
@Devs

GeorgoSK Tuesday, April 8, 2008 6:56:46 PM

Wow, that's quite a production for a snapshot build! Thanks a lot!

Ruzzz Tuesday, April 8, 2008 7:03:10 PM

bug with search in current page. searching only text, that input first. (not in menu, but in input field in toolbar)

sorry. my english is bad

Bill PBill_P Tuesday, April 8, 2008 7:06:49 PM

Boston Globe site http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ still will not load

update - per ar1pe it does load after a reload but not initially

János, Vinczevinczej Tuesday, April 8, 2008 7:06:59 PM

By me the buttons on Google Docs don't work. (All are inactive) sad

Kristofferstoffix Tuesday, April 8, 2008 7:07:44 PM

My progress-bar does show up, when set to pop-up at bottom.
(win XP 32bit w. SP2)

Ar1Pear1pe Tuesday, April 8, 2008 7:09:30 PM

@Bill P: try to reload..after that works here.

rwf Tuesday, April 8, 2008 7:14:04 PM

Re: ~/.opera/cache4/ directory.

Does anyone else have a sub-directory calles 'revocation' in the cache4/
directory? Mime contains some oprnnnn files; a dcache4.url file and a vlink4.dat file. rm -rf ~/.opera/dcache4/revocation

KurtChrisDavey Tuesday, April 8, 2008 7:17:24 PM

@rwf

Same here..

Rijk Tuesday, April 8, 2008 7:20:23 PM

Originally posted by shikaka:

the new security toolbar section isn't green as Yngve's article and the screenshot states. bug or not?

Please tell which EV using https website you are looking at?

Regarding 'Notes' not being listed under Opera Link options: well indeed, I swear I saw it yesterday but it is not visible in this snapshot!

Regarding the Developer Console: try to renew the button, remove the current one and go to http://dev.opera.com/tools/ for a fresh one.

Originally posted by wieselding:

can't use "lightbox" or some "IPB" features (I think some other JS-scripts too) with this build.

Details please... preferably in a Beta Forum thread and a bug report.

There are no bugs listed for http://www.medard-online.cz/index.php if you can replicate the problems with a clean installation, file a bug report. Else, try to find out what is causing it...

For http://mapa.targeo.pl/ - I wasn't patient enough to see if it would eventually finish loading...

Originally posted by tenplus1:

When opening the view bar and doing a search, is it supposed to pop up the search requester now ??? Before it just searched without a problem.

Please elaborate, what is a search requester?

@rwf: I think that has to do with the EV certificates, the browser is supposed to check regularly with the certificate authorities whether there have been revocations. Better ask Yngve about that smile

rwf Tuesday, April 8, 2008 7:22:08 PM

@man on the street: So the unstated question is: "What the heck is it their for" i.e. purpose??

Edit: Based on Rijk reponse it might be related to the EV stuff. Seems strange since some of the opr???? files where created on 24-Mar and 27-Mar.

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