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EV and Certificate Updates

By Claudio Santambrogio. Tuesday, 8. April 2008, 14:12:24

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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

rwf 8. April 2008, 19:22

@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.

Kyle Baker 8. April 2008, 19:22

Added Notes synchronization


Fantastic! Always good to see features progressing. Felt like the sync feature was frozen for a while. Keep up the excellent work!

wahrscheinlichkeitsbewertung 8. April 2008, 19:24

When I "Continue from last time" a session which contains https://www.spiegel.de/ the site frequently keeps loading forever.
When I try to stop loading by pushing the Reload/Stop button Opera instantly crashes.

This bug not only occurs in this snapshot but also for, at least, the last 3 or 4 builds.

In my logs I can afterwards always find something like this:

opera[4610]: segfault at 0000000000000041 rip 0000000000ba67b6 rsp 00007fffd135fc20 error 4

OS: Debian Etch amd64 with the x86_64-linux version of Opera

Beside that.. Nice work guys. :smile:

Alexei 8. April 2008, 19:27

NOTES SYNC!!! WIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!! :hat: :jester: :yes: :up: :beer: :drunk:

alf5000 8. April 2008, 19:28

the internal "Execute program" command should work now - but still broken on my machine (WinXP sp2) :frown:

dimitris 8. April 2008, 19:29

YAY!! We finally got rid of the stupid questionmark in the address bar.

I shall not applaud you for your reflects though... :devil:

rseiler 8. April 2008, 19:34

Odd: Some of the favicons on my toolbar and menus are starting to disappear when using this build. So far, they're all sites I've visited with this build, though it's not happening in most cases. Is this related to the GDI favicon fix? I've never seen this happen before.

Todd 8. April 2008, 19:43

+ 1 for the notes syncing.
Hey would it be crazy to have a panel button that controls syncing in the pop-out sidebar? Then you could just have check boxes for bookmarks,notes,speeddial, etc...? Just throwing that out there.

toadbee 8. April 2008, 19:44

I don't see where the notes sync is? Does anyone have it working??

Kamalesh 8. April 2008, 19:46

@Bill_P
@ar1pe

BG loads fine here 1st time without a reload (build 4758).

thobi 8. April 2008, 19:49

wow, am i late. the rss needs to get updated more often i think :D

thx and let's try :smile:

edit: *ouch* first time i started the updated opera it didn't take my masterpw :frown:
started without typing it in and after opera started i activated opera-link again, typed the mpw in and it worked *hm*

Cyro 8. April 2008, 19:50

@Added Notes synchronization
Awesome. That's the best feature ever!
But wait... where can I enable it?
hmm.. that's it.. opera:config#OperaSync|SyncNotes

Kamalesh 8. April 2008, 19:55

Just noticed that nicknames listed in the addr bar drop-down mostly don't appear...single character nicknames are gone, but >1-char nicknames seem to display but not at the top. (Build 4758)

wile-e-wonka 8. April 2008, 19:58

I can no longer sign on to Wachovia.com (Wachovia is a large bank in the US).

This page just gives me an error: http://www.wachovia.com/myaccounts

You tried to access the address http://www.wachovia.com/myaccounts, which is currently unavailable. Please make sure that the Web address (URL) is correctly spelled and punctuated, then try reloading the page.

Secure connection: fatal error (50)

https://onlineservices.wachovia.com/myaccounts

Transmission failure.
Make sure your Internet connection is active and check whether other applications that rely on the same connection are working.


Also, if I try to sign in from the home page I get the same error. The page works fine from FF and worked fine for me a few minutes ago in the prior build.
[edit works again!]

Kyle Baker 8. April 2008, 20:00

I'm not seeing an option to enable/disable notes sync in the Windows build, but the toggle option is present in the Linux build. It seems to be turned on by default in the Windows build, just no way to disable it..atleast not on my install.

EDIT:
Also, it appears that line breaks are not handled properly between windows and linux. My windows notes were synced to my linux pc and all of the line breaks were missing, so lists that i had made went from this:

-item1
-item2
-item3

..to this..

-item1 -item2 -item3

Line breaks != spaces, haha.

chuuey 8. April 2008, 20:02

thanks guys, can't wait for the final release :D

csandra 8. April 2008, 20:04

Dear Guys,

I think, not a few people use Yahoo Mail. The newer, with nice graphics, etc…
And its worst by build by build.
Now simple things, like Reply not work…
So, i understand its impossible to test every web page, but the very basic one test for a few big names maybe worth it a half a minute.

Kamalesh 8. April 2008, 20:08

Contacts page in Gmail2 seems to be fixed in Build 4758. :smile: Great work! Thanks.

Hope we can get rich-text in compose mail, fixed soon, also. :yes:

Kyle Baker 8. April 2008, 20:10

Note creation dates should not change. I have notes that I made a long time ago that now say were made today. I think they should hold the same creation date as the original..no?

Also, folder names are not being saved to "link" properly on my linux pc. When they sync to my windows pc, the names are completely missing, but the content inside the folder is correct.

Andrey Petrov 8. April 2008, 20:15

One more hundred builds and you probably should rename 9.5 to 10 :D
Great pretty detailed changelog! Thanks! :up:

Andrew 8. April 2008, 20:20

Wow! Respect!!!

But....
GTD-service nozbe.com unusable.
Login form don't work.

http://www.nozbe.com/gtd/login

Andrey Petrov 8. April 2008, 20:22

Originally posted by Rijk:

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.

Great, it works now! And has a nice icon...
But please, please make detach command works again. I usually detach Dev Console out of a window.

Andrey Petrov 8. April 2008, 20:30

Originally posted by wiley_e_wonka:

I can no longer sign on to Wachovia.com (Wachovia is a large bank in the US).

Can confirm this.

Charlie Clark 8. April 2008, 20:32

[OS X] Fixed problem scrolling to the bottom of the pages using scrollbars


It's always the little things! Took me a couple of days to realise this wasn't me! Painting has been a little weird on 4729 (patchy with a small part of the screen not being redrawn along with the rest) and I had five crashes one after the other last night which looked like they were caused by going back on amazon.com. Still a memory hog on large bittorrents which almost inevitably lead to crashes. Will be interesting to see how this build fares but I don't really mind because Opera is still so much better than the others!

Ameer 8. April 2008, 20:33

Added Notes synchronization
:yes: :yes: :yes: :yes:

PrEzi 8. April 2008, 20:38

Since build 9864 for windows there is a regression in handling javascript.
It can be seen on http://pspupdates.qj.net - when javascript enabled it doesn't load page completely, after turning it off and reloading - it's displayed ok.

Bug 322542.

Justin 8. April 2008, 20:40

@thobi
Same with me. My master password didn't work right away either in windows. It worked fine in linux

Also, notes synchronization isn't working for me. Is there any way to see if it is?

EDIT: I take it back. Notes synchronization is working for me, but only for notes created with this build. Not previous notes. Again, is there any kind of web-based note viewer?

EDIT: I guess I'm just a big liar. All of my notes have synchronized now.

Thank you so much for this fantastic feature. I even went to Google Notebook when this feature wasn't around.

rseiler 8. April 2008, 20:47

Originally posted by PrEzi:

Since build 9864 for windows there is a regression in handling javascript.
It can be seen on http://pspupdates.qj.net - when javascript enabled it doesn't load page completely, after turning it off and reloading - it's displayed ok.


Not only that site, and it's been around a lot longer than that:
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=217224

lamarca 8. April 2008, 20:54

thanks for the new snapshot.

Dmitry 8. April 2008, 20:57

Very long-awaited fixes

Rijk 8. April 2008, 21:00

Originally posted by kyleabaker:

Also, folder names are not being saved to "link" properly on my linux pc. When they sync to my windows pc, the names are completely missing, but the content inside the folder is correct.


Originally posted by kyleabaker:

Also, it appears that line breaks are not handled properly between windows and linux. My windows notes were synced to my linux pc and all of the line breaks were missing, so lists that i had made went from this:


These are known issues, we've got reports on them already. And it is not just between Windows and Linux, also between Windows and Windows afaik.

D'n Russler 8. April 2008, 21:03

Originally posted by csant:

Added Notes synchronization


OOOO!:love:

And in-line search works!!! :rolleyes:

AND is that a Widget-List glyph I spy in the address bar??? WHOOT!

magicmaxi 8. April 2008, 21:06

the mac keyboard input is fixed, awesome! öäü!!!
thumbs up!

Tim Altman 8. April 2008, 21:12

@wiley_e_wonka: We have a bug report about Wachovia's site not working, thank you.

Hypnos 8. April 2008, 21:18

Did anyone else get a duplicate entry in some of the RSS feeds? It happened to two of my feeds, after updating to this build and running it for a while.

Bill P 8. April 2008, 21:23

Like Hypnos - I've been getting feeds from days ago, as it they were never read (about 1400 so far)

update make that > 2800 feeds reread

is this being seen by others?

Andrey Petrov 8. April 2008, 21:25

bug Bug:
  1. Go to: http://rusrestaurant.com/tests/opera_print_body_bg/
    Note gray background on all page
  2. Do print preview (File > Print preview)
    Background should be white now
  3. Exit from print preview mode (File > Print preview)
    Background should be all gray again, but it is not!
    Note white border.

Is it known?
Seems like that was a bug (oldest builds (9656) did not repaint background at all on exit from print preview), but not fixed completly.

Tim Altman 8. April 2008, 21:28

@FataL: Yes, that bug is known.

purgossu 8. April 2008, 21:37

Downloading, thanks. :smile:

ultimatebuster 8. April 2008, 21:48

what about acid? Acid 3 updates? any?

Yngve Nysæter Pettersen 8. April 2008, 21:55

About the revocation folder: This contains cached certificate revocation information and was activated in build 9841 (The easter build).

About Wachovia: This is due to the revocation information being sent by the CA as a PEM file, not a binary file as currently expected by Opera. That triggers a SSL/TLS decoding error. I'll have to add a decoding step there.

Tim Altman 8. April 2008, 21:58

No Acid3 updates in this snapshot.

zebul666 8. April 2008, 22:07

i am using bfilter (http://bfilter.sourceforge.net/) which an filtering proxy on 127.0.0.1:8080
but not for https

but for google site like gmail and google reader i had to disable the use of my proxy because the google site do not load at all or are delayed i got an error like network not reachable.

i thought it was an https related problem. but my bank site works nice

may be it has something to do with the 301 error and 302 error that google use for those site and may be something related to https too ?

i have got that error about "network not reachable" even for a simple google search from opera top bar !!! and my connexion is fine

i have to reload the search page at google to see it

i really doubt it is a problem with bfilter.

for sure it is opera.



Adam Kuśmierz 8. April 2008, 22:14

Originally posted by Rijk:

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


So I too. This is Opera problem. Could you correct it?

Rijk 8. April 2008, 22:18

Originally posted by Raistlin:

So I too. This is Opera problem. Could you correct it?

No, I'm not a developer :smile: Please file a bug report!

D'n Russler 8. April 2008, 22:20

Originally posted by GrantTLC:

Devs, is it possible to supply some safe example sites...

+1. Please, some links?

lamarca 8. April 2008, 22:23

Originally posted by D_n:

1. Please, some links?


+1

Andrey Petrov 8. April 2008, 22:31

Originally posted by lamarca:

Please, some links?


http://www.woodgrovebank.com

Rijk 8. April 2008, 22:38

EV: https://www.dnbnor.no
Secure without EV: https://bugs.opera.com/wizard
Normal: http://www.opera.com
Phish: http://www4.natwest.com.ssl85.net/default.aspx/

I don't have examples of websites that cause the gray ? to appear.

lamarca 8. April 2008, 22:41

thanks fatal and rijk for providing good examples.

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