Skip navigation.

Opera Desktop Team

More Than Beta 2

By Manuela Hutter. Thursday, 16. July 2009, 09:00:00

, , , ,

Hi, I'm Manuela and I'm yet another first-time poster. And I'm a Desktop UI developer by the bye :smile:

I was mostly working on Opera Unite the last couple of months, so it's nice to see it being public now, getting real-life feedback on it. Currently, we are making an effort to polish the feature. We are ironing out some smaller UI glitches, and are making Opera Unite even more usable.

In this build, you'll find everything that Opera 10.00 beta 2 has, plus Opera Unite. Due to remaining issues with the Opera Unite infrastructure, it has been decided that Unite isn't quite ready for beta yet. But don't worry, we're working hard to fix it :smile:

The crash logger has been improved and now works on Mac.
Important: Mac users, if you have submitted crash logs using the crash logger in previous builds, please re-submit them. We changed the format of the log, and old logs cannot be parsed.

Enjoy the snapshot!

Highlights:
  • Jon Hicks has been working hard polishing the new skin
  • The error pages are now less red :wink:
  • Plus many many more fixes...

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


PS: If you actually want the official Opera 10 Beta 2 without Unite click here

Changelog:

User Interface
  • Restyled Home Button
  • Further tweaking of opera:x, error and fraud pages look
  • New icons for setting status in a chat window
  • Fixed Bug DSK-256805 (Opera crashes when dragging separator to trash can)
  • Fixed Bug DSK-258230 (Padlock icon stretched on Security Information dialog): Full set of padlock icons for security dialog

Core
  • Fixed Bug CORE-16936 (Flickering and freezing - always scrolling to top (rtl.de))
  • Fixed Bug CORE-18854 (Going to a fraud URL with a username crashes Opera)
  • Fixed Bug CORE-22634 (Local cookies aren't listed in site pref cookie tab (caused problems for Unite))
  • Fixed Bug DSK-200545 (Cookie crash on exit)
  • Fixed Bug DSK-256433 (Gmail locks up when zoomed)
  • Fixed Bug DSK-258426 (Infinite iframe recursion when src=="javascript:void(0)", until memory runs out)

Mail
  • Fixed Bug CORE-22048 (Links opened from mail and newsfeeds stop loading when you focus another mail/feed entry)
  • Fixed Bug DSK-257739 (Importing mail fails when files are open)

Opera Unite
  • Changed "Home" To "My Opera Unite page"
  • Disabled advanced settings button if "disabled" is selected
  • Fixed Bug DSK-254303 (Installing Unite services from file (on disk), breaks service when deleting file)
  • Fixed Bug DSK-254960 (Changing service name in replacement dialog is not reflected in admin view): Setting service name during installation only applied in the gadget after re-start
  • Partial Fix of Bug DSK-257931 (Add visibility of Unite users on the local network): The local service discovery, UI part
  • Fixed Bug DSK-258328 (Logging out and logging in with a different username doesnt work): Storing username even though password isn't stored
  • Fixed Bug DSK-258449 ('Restart Opera Unite' option checked by default on start-up dialog even when Unite is not enabled)
  • Fixed Bug DSK-258470 (Global visibility options not saved when enabling Unite)

Mac
  • Improvements to panel appearance

New snapshotNew snapshot, new possibilities

Comments

Tamil 16. July 2009, 08:07

:up:

_Grey_ 16. July 2009, 08:16

No known issues? Great :smile:

Xanashi 16. July 2009, 08:22

Testing time! :coffee:

greench 16. July 2009, 08:24

Thanks

Taufiq Ahmed 16. July 2009, 08:26

nice to see that Opera still in its beta phase
I think we need more feature and surprise in the final build.can wait for it.

Galileo 16. July 2009, 08:41

:headbang: Thank you for the build

doc 16. July 2009, 08:54

Great. Thanks !

David Tsunamy 16. July 2009, 08:55

:yikes: PERFECT :D

Morphdreamer 16. July 2009, 09:06

Nice :smile: But redirection page still use old design.

solcroft 16. July 2009, 09:22

For some reason I'm not seeing this blog post on the main Desktop Team blog page - I got here by entering the URL of this post directly into the address bar. Anyone have any idea why this is happening?

doc 16. July 2009, 09:29

@ solcroft : Look at the time of this post :wink:

Thursday, 16. July 2009, 11:23:00

zoquete 16. July 2009, 09:41

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/ takes me to http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2009/07/09/snapshot

it is 11:41am

What happens, please?

z@h3k 16. July 2009, 09:45

Thanks.
Interesting thing is that this post does not seen on main screen in http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog

:eek:

Nico 16. July 2009, 09:50

Can anyone please make some screenshots for me (especially from the less red error pages)?

I can't download the new Build until evening because I'm at work right now.

Thanks a lot in advance!

zoquete 16. July 2009, 09:51

HellbillyDeluxe, it looks horrible even without red. Only the headline is in read, it is gray.

exotek 16. July 2009, 10:03

Obrázek

Linux

Grey backround in tray...
Please fix it:)

Robert90 16. July 2009, 10:05

No translations this time? I can only find the English locales and not the Dutch one (or whatever language, the locales folder only contains the "en" folder)

And I don't think the new error pages are to bad, but the problem with the not appearing image (footer) remains.

zoquete 16. July 2009, 10:17



error page screenshot


footer image loads very long, then it appears

solcroft 16. July 2009, 10:19

Just a quick comment regarding the skin.

I'm not sure if this exists in previous builds, but I just noticed it a while ago. On the active tab, if you mouseover the Close button, the right border of the button appears awfully close to the right edge of the tab.

Might look a bit better of a few extra pixels were added in between.

[img]http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/7646/81936289.jpg

Groovy 16. July 2009, 10:20

a) On opera:* pages keyboard shortcut for Zoom is not working.

b) Compare error page in 9.6 and new one. New one have too dark background and its harder to read.

c) If you click link like this: link to #comment notice how Opera hangs on last couple of elements like 88/93. Consequence is that it doesn't take you to expected position in document.

d) Opera Chat: When you go offline, wrong status sign (Online) stays next to server name (forum topic).

e) Is 'Full screen' button icon still old style?

f) http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=gravitation - drop down menus like 'Calculate' is not shown correctly on hover (maybe it's same problem that was fixed on Youtube via browser.js?)

[System: Intel, WinXP_sp3, Opera10b_1643]

zoquete 16. July 2009, 10:23

solcroft, the problem is that the background gray area of the button is too large. The same in addressbar.

zoquete 16. July 2009, 10:27

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/ works again after Hall announced it. :smile:

Robert90 16. July 2009, 10:30

Originally posted by Micky:


c) If you click link like this: link to #comment notice how Opera hangs on last couple of elements like 88/93. Consequence is that it doesn't take you to expected position in document.


This is a general problem, it also occurs when you open a normal page without navigating to an anchor. For example, this blog page is for me still "loading" while I'm typing this (66/67), a refresh most of the time solves this problem, or, if you want to navigate to the anchor, just hit enter in the address bar.

koimark 16. July 2009, 10:39

Originally posted by solcroft:

I'm not sure if this exists in previous builds, but I just noticed it a while ago. On the active tab, if you mouseover the Close button, the right border of the button appears awfully close to the right edge of the tab.

Might look a bit better of a few extra pixels were added in between.



I can confirm this behaviour. It seems that active tab couple pixels smaller than non-active tab but still close-button -element is in the same place.

Buchtic 16. July 2009, 10:43

Why can't still remove Home button? DSK-257807

Ruari Ødegaard 16. July 2009, 10:48

Originally posted by exotek:

Linux

Grey backround in tray...



Yep see it on dark themes. The bug number is DSK-243508 if you want it.

DoubleT 16. July 2009, 10:48

My personal showstoppers in Opera 10

  • Why i can't combine the options 'Allow window with no tabs' and 'Start with Speed Dial'

  • Unknown Content-Type will not open the Open/Save dialog (Citrix: application/x-ica)

  • Can't open old web software which needs IE6 form opera, because there is no entry in the dialog (Win2k, IE6)

  • No option to set the VPS directory to another location

  • All favicons are in one directory. They should be separated in single sub-folder like bookmarked, personal, visited, temporary,...


zoquete 16. July 2009, 10:49

I know, this error-page is not that important, but may something like his would look a way better:

Tri M. Nguyen 16. July 2009, 10:50

The Opera crash reporter creates a second Opera icon on the OS X Dock. When letting it start Opera automatically again after the crash. The two icons remains on the Dock. I just played around and got THREE Opera icons on the dock :D
http://files.myopera.com/TriMN/files/Screen%20shot%202009-07-16%20at%2012.44.04.png

lesiem 16. July 2009, 10:55

Why the error is not corrected again??? !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:mad: :irked: :furious:


Originally posted by lesiem:


lesiem # 25. June 2009, 10:49

Hi All!
On site: http://www.torrentsmd.com/, Opera crashes when trying to save the torrent file!

1) Go to http://www.torrentsmd.com/
2) Choose any torrent and push it.
3) In the window that appears, choose: Download With => Opera => Open = Crash!!!



My login and password:
Login: Flatron89
Password: <removed>

http://www.torrentsmd.com/details.php?id=620393
Or something on your choice...
P.S.
Sorry for bad English

Dennis Tardio 16. July 2009, 10:58

Can you fix the space problem when thumbnails in tabs are disabled ?

thumbnails in tabs disabled, buttons are too near from tabs:
http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/3514/skinb.jpg

thumbnails in tabs enabled :
http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/3333/skinmorespace.jpg


Except that, is perfect, final release will be awesome.

Hewi 16. July 2009, 11:05

Tardio, Too near? What? I think it's better in that way. Actually i would take some pixels away from below buttons aswell.

Nathan Chan 16. July 2009, 11:08

Awww, I liked the red error page :frown:

rriiicchh 16. July 2009, 11:10

Originally posted by TriMN:

The Opera crash reporter creates a second Opera icon on the OS X Dock. When letting it start Opera automatically again after the crash. The two icons remains on the Dock. I just played around and got THREE Opera icons on the dock :D
http://files.myopera.com/TriMN/files/Screen%20shot%202009-07-16%20at%2012.44.04.png



This happened to me on occasion but with this build seems to be behaving a little better.

Still no auto population of email address in the creash reporder


Still getting the crash on start up issue if you have Show start up screen and click a link in an external application

Still getting football365.com crashes. I did submit lots of crash reports with the previous build.

You would like us to resubmit the crash reports, How?

Also what about times when crash reporter doesn't kick in?

Christos Lazaridis 16. July 2009, 11:11

Great build, thanks!

+1 for the new error page

I have a problem assigning a shortcut to toggle the Tab thumbnail view. I tried assigning "F5 shift" (and other combinations) to "Toggle Tab Thumbnails" with no luck. Am I doing something wrong?

hogehogehoge 16. July 2009, 11:15


BUG : Font Auto Select doesn't function.
http://my.opera.com/japanese/forums/topic.dml?id=277259

BUG : Can't scroll in Print Preview mode
http://www.umechando.com/javascript/index.html

BUG : Site unusable
http://chatpad.jp/

Mark Gillespie 16. July 2009, 11:16

Getting some really nasty tab bugs. Tabs that take a VERY long time to close (if they ever close at all), tabs showing the wrong text for a very long time, new tabs not being created.

Anyone else seeing this?

Ben Tudball 16. July 2009, 11:21

I like the colour adjustments to Opera Turbo states.

UI inconsistency: Opera Turbo button does not have a green background when click (hold) down on it.

Dennis Tardio 16. July 2009, 11:22

There is also an option to sort by name folders in bookmarks.
We can ONLY sort by name ALL folders and files, an option to sort by name only one folder by a right click on it and choose "sort by name", like in Firefox.
I need this option ! :smile:

Svoboda 16. July 2009, 11:32

When i type some search phrase in opera search field and resize the field, the phrase just disappears.

zoquete 16. July 2009, 11:32

addressbar is slimmer in native skin and looks better so. Pleas make the same height of it in standard skin.

Tabbar-height looks huge in native skin.

Ben Ryves 16. July 2009, 11:33

Looking great, but I'm still hoping for a reliable way to remove the menu drop-down button when menus are hidden. You can comment it out from [Pagebar Head.content] in ui\standard_toolbar.ini and then remove it by right-click, Reset toolbar to defaults, but it keeps adding itself at odd moments (lock/unlock workstation, drag tab, drag image on page, toggle menu).

xoed 16. July 2009, 11:37

sexy flexi... :smile:

Alexs 16. July 2009, 11:39

Thanks for add de-at in dictionary, and please fix the background in Opera icon. (sidux)

zoquete 16. July 2009, 11:45

statusbar height has been changed again, as result the turbo unit and link ikons look terrible.

make the statusbar the height as it was in 9.5

archive1 16. July 2009, 11:46

http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/8/1/5/1/5/8/webimg/171479201_o.jpg
anyone getting a downloading file window when trying to open this jpg file

karnayna 16. July 2009, 11:52

Yes. (XP SP2)

eini 16. July 2009, 11:56

I still don't like the red color of visited bookmarks.
Please change it to something not so flashy.

@archive1: Me two. (XP, SP2)

Ben Ryves 16. July 2009, 11:58

Originally posted by archive1:

http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/8/1/5/1/5/8/webimg/171479201_o.jpg
anyone getting a downloading file window when trying to open this jpg file

Yep, seems to be because it is being served as Content-Type: binary/octet-stream rather than image/jpeg or similar. Firefox and Safari also prompt to download; I guess IE makes a guess based on the extension.

zoquete 16. July 2009, 11:58

Originally posted by archive1:

anyone getting a downloading file window when trying to open this jpg file


confirmed

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next »

Showing comments 1 - 50 of 363.

Write a comment

You must be logged in to write a comment. If you're not a registered member, please sign up.

Articles

Latest Snapshot

Got feedback?

  • Report a bug

    If you've found a bug in Opera, report it here.

  • Feature requests

    This is the place to post your feature requests. Opera employees monitor this forum