Opera Desktop Team

Welcome to Opera 10 Beta 1

By Petter Nilsen. Wednesday, 3. June 2009, 07:00:00

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?

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

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Galileo # 3. June 2009, 07:43

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

Tuttle # 3. June 2009, 07:44

All the best for opera 10.

TreeGo # 3. June 2009, 07:44

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

kawasaya # 3. June 2009, 07:45

FataL # 3. June 2009, 07:46

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

lucideer # 3. June 2009, 07:49

Is this 1551?

Tamil # 3. June 2009, 07:50

honeydew # 3. June 2009, 07:50

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

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

keep up the good works and thank you.

eestlane # 3. June 2009, 07:57

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

steno # 3. June 2009, 07:59

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 # 3. June 2009, 08:04

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 # 3. June 2009, 08:06

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

Second question of not is this one considered to be ready in the final version?

Take Care Joe

EagleMKD # 3. June 2009, 08:06

Brilliant!

Filip007 # 3. June 2009, 08:06

Ohhhh....it will buff out.

Opera is like a car crash...i was trying to replace Personal bar with Speed Dial 5x5 can't see shit and no favicons is there maybe some bold text then for title and put it on the top of square.

Opera Turbo Details is not working with main selection.

Any way good work Opera People...

DjiXas # 3. June 2009, 08:11

Congrats on beta

arghwashier # 3. June 2009, 08:12

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

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

BergRace # 3. June 2009, 08:12

Where are the download links?

OsX 10.5.7 Ppc

vladon # 3. June 2009, 08:13

And where is the download link?

And why Opera does not update automatically to 1551?

kyu3 # 3. June 2009, 08:13

spybot2d # 3. June 2009, 08:13

Hooray!

Khurrad # 3. June 2009, 08:18

Thanks for the Beta.

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

icq70610 # 3. June 2009, 08:18

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 # 3. June 2009, 08:21

It doesn't have the PrefsSuffix file on Mac.

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

Old_Bulgarian_Thinker # 3. June 2009, 08:22

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

Thanks!

Paul Skinner # 3. June 2009, 08:24

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

EagleMKD # 3. June 2009, 08:26

Originally posted by arghwashier:

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

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...

PientaL # 3. June 2009, 08:27

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

zoligrg89 # 3. June 2009, 08:27

Fantastic! Those visual tabs are awesome

Thanks!
just a little disappointment..when will you add the ordering of search engines (by preference)..?

ytsmabeer # 3. June 2009, 08:27

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

juanchito2006 # 3. June 2009, 08:29

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

BergRace # 3. June 2009, 08:32

Can someone tell me where I can find the previous Native Mac skin??
Would be very grateful for any pointers.

Also the red underlining of the spellchecker is not removed when a word has been corrected.

Jørn Berg

vlad.leo # 3. June 2009, 08:33

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

HerwigF # 3. June 2009, 08:33

It is a pity that postbank.de is still unusable with the beta-1 version (see bug report DSK-252990). Transactions fail with an error message that I was using a browser function which is not supported.

Since Postbank is "the" German on-line bank, this problem makes current Opera builds unusable for a lot of people.

callia # 3. June 2009, 08:33

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 # 3. June 2009, 08:34

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.

ytsmabeer # 3. June 2009, 08:36

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

Rijk # 3. June 2009, 08:36

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

But I've asked him to add the link here.

Haruka aka Seremel # 3. June 2009, 08:39

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

steno # 3. June 2009, 08:40

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 # 3. June 2009, 08:40

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

Rijk # 3. June 2009, 08:41

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 # 3. June 2009, 08:42

@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

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

Rijk # 3. June 2009, 08:44

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...

vetler # 3. June 2009, 08:44

mm3 # 3. June 2009, 08:45

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

eisteh # 3. June 2009, 08:47

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