Opera Desktop Team

Welcome to Opera 10 Beta 1

By Petter Nilsenmitchman2. Wednesday, June 3, 2009 7:00:00 AM

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As always we have some new goodies for you, things you have not seen in previous snapshots.
Because I've had a finger or two into making these features I will present them for you and explain a little bit how they work.

Visual Tabs - oh shiny!



Yes, we have added thumbnails on the tabs themselves to make it even easier to find that Web site you were looking for. These visual tabs are currently folded away by default, but can easily be enabled by dragging the drag handle available just beneath the tab bar.

Double-clicking or middle-clicking the same drag handle will show/hide the tab thumbnails.

Speed Dial - more shiny!

Two popular requests for Speed Dial has been to be able to use more than 9 configured sites. We've also seen frequent requests to be able to have a customized Speed Dial background. Well, guess what? yes

In the bottom right of the Speed Dial you now have a new Configure Speed Dial button that opens a brand new configuration dialog.

With this new configuration dialog, you will be able to set a background picture that can be stretched, centered or tiled. It is also possible to set the number of sites that should be shown, ranging from 4 to 25.

More new features

If the last version of Opera you tested was 9.6 or the alpha from last year, here are some of the additional features in Opera 10 beta 1:

  • Opera Turbo
  • Automatic updates
  • Crash logging
  • Inline spelling checker
  • 100/100 and pixel-perfect on the Acid3 test
  • Significantly improved performance, particularly on CSS/HTML rendering
  • Opera Mail HTML Compose support
  • ... and much more!


This is just some of the new features we have included in the beta and I urge you to read the complete change logs available from http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/ for all the details.

Changes since the last snapshot

Unix support
On the Linux/Unix front, we are discontinuing support for builds made with gcc 2.95. Also, Sparc Solaris builds are now made on Solaris 10 (with gcc 3) - they should run on Solaris 9 as well. If these changes affect you, we'd love to hear your feedback.

Skinning improvements
  • [DSK-253666] "new tab" button is too tall in multi-line setup
  • Partial [DSK-253753] Closed tabs icon on the right: When set to "text only", the text is nearly unreadable (partially black on black), and touches the right part of the screen)
  • [DSK-253759] Cancel button in mail panel way to unobtrusive
  • [DSK-253818] Locked tabs change size when being hovered
  • Fix for highlight of head and tail bar images
  • Fixes for the head and tail gaps in Windows Native skin
  • Fixes for pagebar head and tail icons in Windows Native skin
  • Opacity changes to Speed Dial on standard skin
  • New skin sections: "Pagebar Thumbnail Head Skin", "Pagebar Thumbnail Tail Skin", "Pagebar Thumbnail Floating Skin", "Pagebar Thumbnail Head Button Skin", "Pagebar Thumbnail Tail Button Skin", "Pagebar Thumbnail Floating Button Skin"
  • Fix for attention states on tabs
  • Updated smilies. They are now more smiley.
  • Tweaks to borders on addressbar and splitter to be consistent color
  • Tweaks to dialogs
  • Revised panel icons and buttons
  • Revised icons for mail toolbar

User Interface
  • [DSK-194184] Can't find 'show Speed Dial at startup' option)
  • [DSK-253774] Crash in action handling
  • [DSK-226623] Ctrl+Ins doesn't copy outside of edit fields
  • [DSK-253386] Crash when clicking help in startup dialog
  • [DSK-253202] Replace 'Language' with 'Dictionary' in dictionary download wizard
  • [DSK-253550] Turbo notification is cropped if the turbo icon is placed on the right of the window
  • Removing obsolete ini-entry "view hotlist"

Mail
  • [DSK-253731] Opens broken Compose Message view when creating new account

Core
  • [CORE-21309] Full language names in spell check context menu
  • [CORE-21052] XSLT: Using keys in match expressions causes crash
  • [DSK-253743] Operator cache deleted when Opera starts
  • [DSK-251805] Hang when doubleclicking text while flash is running
  • [DSK-253773] Plug-in crash

Windows
  • [DSK-253102] Classic installer can't be used to install Opera on a limited account or Windows Vista with admin account
  • [DSK-253374] Crashes on download of file when 'Save File' dialog pops up.
  • [DSK-253884] "Debug: Elevated updater" dialog when autoupdating
  • [DSK-253888] Can't autoupdate Opera on Windows Vista

Mac
  • [DSK-252555] Opera Crashes on Startup on PowerPC
  • Correcting issue on Mac Pagebar

Unix
  • [DSK-253567] Crashes on Solaris
  • [DSK-253761] Crash in Plug-in manager


Download
Last but not least - go download the Beta!

Snapshot build with preview of the *new* SkinFreedom

Comments

Galileo Wednesday, June 3, 2009 7:43:24 AM

yikes yes party
Than you very much for the speed dial background..i have many images to customize it bigsmile

Tuttle Wednesday, June 3, 2009 7:44:22 AM

All the best for opera 10. cheers

TreeGo Wednesday, June 3, 2009 7:44:46 AM

Build 1551 on Windows, correct? Thank you for the fine updates as usual. smile

Saya kawasaya Wednesday, June 3, 2009 7:45:24 AM

yes

FataL Wednesday, June 3, 2009 7:46:20 AM

[DSK-253102] Classic installer can't be used to install Opera on a limited account or Windows Vista with admin account

up

lucideer Wednesday, June 3, 2009 7:49:25 AM

Is this 1551?

Tamil Wednesday, June 3, 2009 7:50:11 AM

party

K Y Nghoneydew Wednesday, June 3, 2009 7:50:28 AM

Found a typo in the change log:
"Updated smilies. They are now more smiley."
idea

I really like the visual tabs feature...!!!

keep up the good works and thank you.up

Madiseestlane Wednesday, June 3, 2009 7:57:52 AM

There's a bug when typing something in the search (or address) field and then resizing it. It gets blank again.

EDIT: Other bug.
Can't toggle the tick for "Enable thumbnail previews" in Tab Bar->Customize->Appearance

stenosissteno Wednesday, June 3, 2009 7:59:54 AM

Hey this looks pretty awesome! wow. Thanks Guys!
Btw, how far is the Html5 support for Opera10? Just found the Html5 test page from youtube: http://www.youtube.com/html5

Yogurth Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:04:02 AM

Congrats to Opera team!

UI bug that has been in Opera for ages now still hasn't been fixed

This is Toobar buttons position in page loading progress(notice how buttons are glued to the bottom of the toolbar):

[img]http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a346/Yogurth/1.jpg




This is after the page has fully loaded(button are in center as they should be):

[img]http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a346/Yogurth/2.jpg

icq70610 Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:06:51 AM

Hi Folks, I just downloaded the Beta and Im very impressed by the first glance. The preview of the Tabs works pretty well. And here I have a Question... I tried to attach the tab bar to the left of the main window and kind of expected that the tab scrolling will work top -- down ... instead no preview here. Especially wide screen laptops it is an important feature as many people will use the maximum height on the screen.

So first question. Is this feature working and Im just to stupid to enable it smile Second question of not is this one considered to be ready in the final version?

Take Care Joe

Miladin MiladinoskiEagleMKD Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:06:52 AM

Brilliant! yes bigsmile

FavDjiXas Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:11:06 AM

Congrats on beta

arghwashier Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:12:07 AM

well even with the shiny new skin opera continues to look like crap on linux 64bits computers because their still is no qt4 build available bomb

Unix support
On the Linux/Unix front, we are discontinuing support for builds made with gcc 2.95. Also, Sparc Solaris builds are now made on Solaris 10 (with gcc 3) - they should run on Solaris 9 as well. If these changes affect you, we'd love to hear your feedback.



Why not discontinue gcc3 and qt3 as well, they are ancient too

Vlad Jaroslavleffvladon Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:13:23 AM

And where is the download link?

And why Opera does not update automatically to 1551?

kyu3 Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:13:32 AM

yes

SpyBotspybot2d Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:13:49 AM

Hooray!yes cheers

StefanKhurrad Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:18:23 AM

Thanks for the Beta. up

Regarding the Speed-Dial-Config:
My monitors stays on edge, so I would prefer layout of 3x4 and 4x5.

icq70610 Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:18:55 AM

Hi Folks, still playing with the Tab Preview. I seems that some sites especially ones with centered layouts are becoming miss rendered in the preview section of the tabs.

http://tinypic.com/r/zmo8x/5

Take Care
Joe

edvakf Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:21:28 AM

It doesn't have the PrefsSuffix file on Mac.

I DON'T WANT THE BETA TO TOUCH MY NORMAL PROFILE DIRECTORY.

Николай Иванов ТурлаковOldBulgarianThinker Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:22:12 AM

Great work, Desktop team!
KUDOS to you!
Bulgaria love Opera browser smile
Thanks!

Paul SkinnerPaulSkinner Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:24:58 AM

Erm... can we have a link to the installers please?

Miladin MiladinoskiEagleMKD Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:26:03 AM

Originally posted by arghwashier:

Why not discontinue gcc3 and qt3 as well, they are ancient too

+1

Originally posted by vladon:

And why Opera does not update automatically to 1551?

I was wondering the same, but because as I could see in the comments of the previous build I was maybe the only one whose Opera installation didn't upgrade automatically..

Ubuntu 8.10 QT4 builds... pssst

ŁukaszPientaL Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:27:23 AM

here it is:
http://www.opera.com/browser/download/?ver=10.00b1

bigsmile

Zolizoligrg89 Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:27:35 AM

Fantastic! Those visual tabs are awesome bigsmile Thanks!
just a little disappointment..when will you add the ordering of search engines (by preference)..? smile

berend ytsmaytsmabeer Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:27:38 AM

Download link is on http://www.opera.com/browser/next/

Juan Sebastián Marulanda Pulidojuanchito2006 Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:29:56 AM

I had to browse the FTP server in order to get the beta for Qt 4, why isn't it downloadable by default?

vladleo89 Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:33:21 AM

Why Download link does not appear at main post? Somebody can fix this Opera good but mitchman2 not

Aleksandrascallia Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:33:46 AM

I updated to this beta (I had the latest alpha snapshot previously) and I do not see any "drag handle available just beneath the tab bar". :V So I can not try the new feature - "Visual Tabs".

http://img199.imageshack.us/my.php?image=opera10beta1e.jpg

Rijk Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:34:22 AM

Originally posted by Yogurth:

UI bug that has been in Opera for ages now still hasn't been fixed

That is in a non-default setting, which explains it a bit. Do you know if a bug report have been filed?

Originally posted by Paul Skinner:

Erm... can we have a link to the installers please?

http://www.opera.com/browser/download/?ver=10.00b1

Originally posted by icq70610:

I tried to attach the tab bar to the left of the main window and kind of expected that the tab scrolling will work top -- down ... instead no preview here.

That's not possible yet.

Originally posted by steno:

Btw, how far is the Html5 support for Opera10?

Quite far in some places, less in other aspects of the emerging HTML5 spec. If you mean support for the Video element, that is not yet included in Opera 10.

berend ytsmaytsmabeer Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:36:55 AM

@callia:Right-click on the tab bar. Custumize->enable thumbnail previews or else just check Tools-appearence.
(do not cry before searching)

Rijk Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:36:59 AM

Originally posted by vlad.leo:

Why Download link does not appear at main post? Somebody can fix this Opera good but mitchman2 not

I disagree, mitchman2 is quite good smile But I've asked him to add the link here.

Tenno Seremeltenno-seremel Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:39:44 AM

There is some bug in visual tab preview. Title bar in a thumbnail is right aligned even though it is really centered.

http://files.myopera.com/Haruka%20aka%20Seremel/bugs/vtab-title-bug-1.png

stenosissteno Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:40:18 AM

Originally posted by Rijk:

Quite far in some places, less in other aspects of the emerging HTML5 spec. If you mean support for the Video element, that is not yet included in Opera 10.



thanks for the info, so it seems like there's a big chance to see Html5 video support within the final version.

Rijk Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:40:41 AM

Originally posted by HerwigF:

It is a pity that postbank.de is still unusable with the beta-1 version (see bug report DSK-252990).

That bug was only filed two weeks ago, don't expect miracles please smile

Rijk Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:41:43 AM

Originally posted by steno:

so it seems like there's a big chance to see Html5 video support within the final version.

I don't think I said that.

Yogurth Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:42:59 AM

@Rijk, unfortunately I don't know if the bug has been filled, but as far as i can remember I haven't seen anyone complaining about it smile

I always used progress bar inside address bar and the bug creeped up somwehere during Opera 9 release (if I remember it correctly).

Rijk Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:44:11 AM

Originally posted by White_Eagle:

Originally posted by vladon:

And why Opera does not update automatically to 1551?

I was wondering the same, but because as I could see in the comments of the previous build I was maybe the only one whose Opera installation didn't upgrade automatically..

Hopefully the auto-update will be available later today. This beta release is also a nice test of our new release system, which has become more complex now...

Vetle Roeimvetler Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:44:26 AM

norris

mikemm3 Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:45:37 AM

Nice to see, that the mail client is still maintained. Does that mean, that email encryption will happen someday, too?

Matthiaseisteh Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:47:01 AM

The Beta is very, very nice! Great new additions, running pretty smooth (except some minor bugs that have been reported already). You managed to improve the best browser even more smile

rriiicchh Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:49:14 AM

Is it possible to add a shortcut for visual tabs? I have had a look but couldn't see anything

Txl Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:50:16 AM

Download links are gone !!!

Already broken ?

Wladimiruntitled1 Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:50:55 AM

and of course no qt4 for 64bit again... sad

MyOpera team, please fix this!fearphage Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:51:23 AM

Congrats on the beta.

Marcelo Javierpunkesito Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:52:55 AM

yes!!!! i love new version, tabs, speed dial, NEW SKIN!!!up yes

arekm Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:54:32 AM

Uhm, so why my linux opera build 4394 doesn't notice that there is new version when I use checking for new version menu option?

"Download All Snapshots" is marked on

Grnch Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:55:48 AM

Originally posted by icq70610:

I tried to attach the tab bar to the left of the main window and kind of expected that the tab scrolling will work top -- down ... instead no preview here. Especially wide screen laptops it is an important feature as many people will use the maximum height on the screen.


I agree with this 100%. You guys must make this work before the final version, wasting so much vertical screen space on today's wide-screen monitors is just ridiculous when there is ample unused horizontal space.

Prasoon Agarwalprasoon271 Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:56:28 AM

congrats!!!!!

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