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Much work and lots of play makes Unite a shiny feature

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Yes, it's snapshot day again! :wizard:

We've been working hard this week to polish Opera Unite. There were improvements on the infrastructure and Opera's stability, as well as many other improvements, for example:
  • The discovery of other Opera Unite instances on your local network should behave now (and be quiet if it's asked to)
  • Opera's reconnection strategy in case of connection problems is now more flexible
  • The services look even shinier - with an extra touch of Opera styling

Again, please do check out Opera Unite and play around with it!
Watch out for connection issues (only with the most recent builds, of course), behavior on your local network, confusing workflow or settings, or anything else you don't feel happy with. The more detailed issues are reported, the easier it is for us to follow up. :idea:

Highlights
  • Stability work: Several common crashes fixed
  • Many Qt4 stability fixes
  • More Unite polishing
  • Skin improvements, including fixing the new tab button for visual tabs
  • Print selection should now be fixed
  • Alt+Shift to switch languages should be working

Known Issues
  • No autoupdate this time around since it's Friday
  • Some Unix builds may be missing, but most of them will be continuously uploaded

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.

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Changelog

User Interface
  • Improved margins and padding in the Turbo dialog
  • Minor changes to Visual Tabs
  • Minor changes to opera:x, error and fraud pages look
  • Improvements to tab states and positioning for Standard Skin
  • Fixed an issue with toolbar updates
  • Spelling checker: Make sure the language ID is printed in the brackets on the auto install dictionary dialog
  • Fixed a number of voice related crashers on exit
  • Fixed Bug DSK-213883 (Crash on opening address bar dropdown)
  • Fixed Bug DSK-252622 (Opera crashes when navigating back and forth to a form with open input suggester)
  • Fixed Bug DSK-258403 (Links not disabled on Navigation bar)
  • Fixed Bug DSK-261105 (Insufficient space for translations in Turbo dialog)
  • Fixed Bug DSK-261155 (Gradient background image behind close button on tabs no longer needed)

Core
  • Fixed some deficiencies in the EcmaScript allocator/garbage collector
  • Fixed Bug DSK-259154 (Crash when closing tab)
  • Fixed Bug DSK-252291 (Crash when opening the HTML5 spec page)

Opera Mail
  • Fixed Bug DSK-233373 (Marking message as read before body is downloaded does not show body)
  • Fixed Bug DSK-258118 (Unchecking "import messages" in mail import dialog still causes the messages to be processed)
  • Fixed Bug DSK-260934 (Opera does not fetch all e-mail addresses from a header using iso-8859-15 encoding)
  • Fixed Bug DSK-261112 (Resetting HTML compose toolbar makes font list unusable)

Opera Unite
  • New Home Service design
  • Change to status message in Home Service
  • Improved the flexibility of the reconnection strategy
  • Fixes to Home service and ASD
  • Fixed styling for the status message on the non-admin page and added a message when there is no status set by the owner
  • Fixed Bug CORE-21620 (Webserver crash)
  • Further fix to Fixed Bug DSK-257931 (Add visibility of Unite users on the local network)
  • Fixed Bug DSK-261243 (UPnP requests even though Unite and service discovery is turned off)

Windows
  • Fixed Bug DSK-173244 (Cannot print selection, printer not accessible)
  • Fixed Bug DSK-260452 (Alt+Shift focuses menu bar instead of switching languages)

Mac
  • Updates to Unite dock icon
  • Improvements to tabs states and positions on Mac Native skin
  • Fixed Bug DSK-259542 (Plugin crash)

Unix
  • Fixed Bug DSK-256020 (The leading '/' is stripped when draging and droping files from UNIX file managers with Qt4 builds)
  • Fixed Bug DSK-259412 (Crash on closing undocked Dragonfly window)
  • Fixed Bug DSK-259949 (Crash related to menus)
  • Fixed Bug DSK-260901 (Unable to edit source after detaching Source View tab in Qt4 builds)
  • Fixed Bug DSK-261040 (Lock tab locks active tab no matter which one you rightclick)
  • Fixed Bug DSK-261262 (A large box shows as the background for Opera's tray icon when the systray is hidden or unavailable)

Opera 10.0 Beta 3More snapshots

Comments

remcolanting 14. August 2009, 14:54

\o/

EdFlanders 14. August 2009, 14:54

Cool!

Greetings from Chile

Commaster 14. August 2009, 14:56

Great!:jester:

strat89 14. August 2009, 14:56

:cheers:

Sutekh 14. August 2009, 14:56

:up:

ZAHEK 14. August 2009, 14:58

:cheers:

Tamil 14. August 2009, 14:59

:up:

HellbillyDeluxe 14. August 2009, 15:10

Thanks a lot!

ruaman 14. August 2009, 15:25

:up:

neon1225 14. August 2009, 15:27

THANKS!!! :D:D

Z1-AV69 14. August 2009, 15:27

The new unite homepage is a big improvement, thanks. But the field for some text is strange, it doesn't allow line breaks?

skin "bugs":
- When tab-thumbs are on the side, the new tab button does overlay the last tab if this is inactive. Additionally the very first tab overlays with buttons in tabbar tail.
- The space between buttons in pagebar tail is too big; when all buttons are taken out of tabbar tail, it disappears and cannot be "refilled"
- When another button is put in pagebar head to the menu button, the menu button becomes bigger

Pages in thumbnail previews aren't centered very well, this was better in the last builds.

Zop 14. August 2009, 15:33

I can't add dictionaries in this build. Can only use the installed dictionary English (US).

adiq90 14. August 2009, 15:39

There is bug in polish language file.


Previously everything was fine..

DjiXas 14. August 2009, 15:58

Is it possible to turn off menu icon in the following build?

Also, disable dots?

Thanks.

Buchtic 14. August 2009, 16:01

Why don't still disable home button? grrr

Robert90 14. August 2009, 16:01

One of my two bugs are fixed, while both are listed as being fixed :frown:

Fixed Bug DSK-259412 (Crash on closing undocked Dragonfly window)


Fixed :smile:

Fixed Bug DSK-261262 (A large box shows as the background for Opera's tray icon when the systray is hidden or unavailable)


Still not fixed :frown: On startup it wasn't there, but when I killed plasma, it was there again as being a large box, in previous builds, the box was only the size of the icon, which isn't any problem, but not with this large box.

Edit:
The sys tray icon is also still not transparent of me :frown:, while it was already listed to builds ago

Edit2:
After I deleted and reinstalled Opera the sys tray icon behaved somewhat better, if I killed plasma, the sys tray icon appeared as small icon in the upper left corner, but when I started plasma again, before the sys tray icon found it's way to the sys tray, it was for a sec. a large black box again.

hogehogehoge 14. August 2009, 16:03

skin bug

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nom4d3br 14. August 2009, 16:09

* Fixed some deficiencies in the EcmaScript allocator/garbage collector.
nice!

No news about Carakan?!

sbach 14. August 2009, 16:13

is great, good job

lordmorgul 14. August 2009, 16:15

Still terrible performance, nearly 100% CPU usage while loading pages, making Opera absolutely unusable until I stop loading the page with escape/clicking on 'stop'. It actually forces me to use Arora recently (it's been like this since build 4529, I think.
32-bit openSUSE, KDE 4.3.

Immanis 14. August 2009, 16:16

wow, another weekly!

Robert90 14. August 2009, 16:18

Originally posted by lordmorgul:


Still terrible performance, nearly 100% CPU usage while loading pages, making Opera absolutely unusable until I stop loading the page with escape/clicking on 'stop'. It actually forces me to use Arora recently (it's been like this since build 4529, I think.
32-bit openSUSE, KDE 4.3.


No problems here on openSUSE 11.1 32 bit using KDE 4.4 dev. (and KDE 4.3 before). You could try to delete Opera using YaST and install it back again, or cleaning/deleting (or moving) your profile, maybe that will help.

davidtsunamy 14. August 2009, 16:18

Nice one!! :D

Galileo 14. August 2009, 16:19

:yes: No problem adding dictionaries here.
Xp+Sp3, Classic Installer

Vectronic 14. August 2009, 16:20

Originally posted by hogehogehoge:

skin bug



Confirmed on XP, and I haven't even tested this Snapshot yet, the missing bar is also (not) there in Windows Build 1703.

Edit: Just Upgraded, (still gone) but a request with the installer, considering the default is "Upgrade" (presumably if Opera is detected as installed) the "Set as default browser" checkbox should be checked (if the previous Opera is Default)

Also, instead of the buttons doing this: (and changing back to "normal" after resizing the bar)


They stay with large spacing *always* now (B1708)


Also... Problem with "Windows Native" seemingly related to it:

The Blur


It's using the "Opera Standard" buttons (which have their own problems, that weird blur) when in "Windows Native" skin.

Also, the (Main) Menu Button is transparent, which is kinda cool, but would be nice if it was in "Opera Standard" too.

Arguggi 14. August 2009, 16:20

Downloading :yes:

megaf 14. August 2009, 16:23

this build is quite faster, the previous build was little slow for a "cold start".

thanks.

elviz 14. August 2009, 16:25

I think, it would be better without that white line below tab.



Also, if the last tab is inactive, new tab button overlaps it.

Zop 14. August 2009, 16:26

I'm using the OS X build (clean install) by the way. The Add Dictionaries dialogue is empty.

paulgca 14. August 2009, 16:34


From my RSS Feed i see this link...

http://my.cn.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/show.dml/4243663

But click on the link and you get!

----
We are sorry, but this page is not available for all countries.

You can still take advantage of these Opera services:
My Opera community
Opera Link
Opera Wallpapers
Chinese Opera forums at www.operachina.com

Regards,
The My Opera community team
-----

The Great Wall of China!



Buchtic 14. August 2009, 16:35

When type some diacritical and another char (č,ř,),(,ů etc) font is change to arial
bug: DSK-261514

MetalRaise 14. August 2009, 16:37

Originally posted by nom4d3br:

No news about Carakan?!


What news are you expecting? They already said a couple of times that it is very unlikely that Carakan will be part of the Opera 10.00 release.

lordmorgul 14. August 2009, 16:43

Originally posted by Robert90:

No problems here on openSUSE 11.1 32 bit using KDE 4.4 dev. (and KDE 4.3 before). You could try to delete Opera using YaST and install it back again, or cleaning/deleting (or moving) your profile, maybe that will help.


Tried it with the last build, tried it again a while ago ─ didn't help. Still getting absurdly high CPU usage.
edit: and it doesn't matter if Unite is enabled or disabled.

ar1pe 14. August 2009, 16:47

Again! :eyes:

hectormacias 14. August 2009, 16:48

Carakan will be part of Presto or substitute Presto? How will we find out? will it take too long?

ytsmabeer 14. August 2009, 16:52

Originally posted by hectormacias:

Carakan will be part of Presto or substitute Presto? How will we find out? will it take too long?

You could just read about Carakan

http://my.opera.com/core/blog/2009/02/04/carakan
http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/carakan-faq

gbilotta 14. August 2009, 16:55

Woo, bug DSK-260933 is fixed too (makes me wonder if this was related to DSK-256020?)

Patatina 14. August 2009, 16:56

Problems with Russian Citibank Online page rendering:
https://www.citibank.ru/RUGCB/JPS/portal/BusLocSwitch.do?locale=ru_RU&subBusiness=RUGCB
Here is how it looks with all cookies deleted:

After the first login the page looks like that:

And there is also a problem with the table used to enter your password. It is impossible to move it when it is easily moved in other browsers:

Patatina 14. August 2009, 17:01

And thank you very much for solving ALT+SHIFT issue!!!!!!!:beer:

archive1 14. August 2009, 17:10


This bug has been around for too long
opening pdf files in its own tab

The only way I could get around this is to open the program by application, but not plugin

archive1 14. August 2009, 17:17

opera unite suggestion
remove the "open service" and "start service" option when you right click file sharing, fridge etc. It was confusing at first, because this option appears at the top as well. Its like two buttons on the same page that does exactly the same thing. Redundant

WOFall 14. August 2009, 17:17

Originally posted by elviz:

Also, if the last tab is inactive, new tab button overlaps it.

It isn't like that anymore for me... Right click the button, customize, and 'reset toolbar to its defaults'.

intelimac20inch 14. August 2009, 17:20

Nice another build. :up: :coffee:

grcool 14. August 2009, 17:21

Originally posted by Manuela Hutter:

Fixed Bug DSK-260452 (Alt+Shift focuses menu bar instead of switching languages)


wow!))) My bug report) Thanks a lot)

Vectronic 14. August 2009, 17:21

Originally posted by archive1:

opera unite suggestion


Not Suggest.

lol, seriously though, a lot of people like to customize their interface, which may mean removing the top button from its bar.

Plus "Power Users" or "Advanced" or whatever, will use the context menu because it's quicker, both with the mouse, and using Tab + Menu Key (between Win and Ctrl)

Originally posted by WOFall:

Right click the button, customize, and 'reset toolbar to its defaults'.


Hmm, found a problem here (did it just for the hell of it, not because I wanted to) and it also reset my Panel buttons to default.

Don't use the Personal Bar, but...


It should either show all the Keys (img, gv, def, etc) or none of them instead of ignoring all the ones with a single Char as the Key.

Truss 14. August 2009, 17:25

I'm unable to create search from ling.pl

Filip007 14. August 2009, 17:26

I have pin point the problem with double horizontal bars on Safari/Download/Thank page and it looks like Opera have a bug with CSS parameter display: block; and this page said that you support this http://www.quirksmode.org/css/display.html

I suggest that you check display: block; how it behave
http://www.shrani.si/f/1G/K6/1w8sqbni/bug.jpg

Next time i will not do this for free just for fun and nobody thank me for line-height:normal; before. Homer: Doh!

And please add MSVCR71.dll to your install i had this problem before!
Shrani.si

Jokerhomenet 14. August 2009, 17:31

yeeeeah! Thank you very much for
"Fixed Bug DSK-260452 (Alt+Shift focuses menu bar instead of switching languages)" :up:

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