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Beta RC2

By Haavardhaavard. Wednesday, February 10, 2010 1:13:00 AM

This is the second release candidate for the beta release of Opera 10.50 for Windows.

We have disabled geolocation for now because we need more preparation for the backend services.

As this is a beta release, you can still expect some obvious bugs and omissions, such as crashes, and not all context menus being in place yet. However, we need more testing to prepare for the final version, and beta versions typically reach a wider audience.

Unless any serious regressions are discovered since the previous build, this will most likely become the official beta release.

Let us know if you find any new showstoppers. If not, we have a lot of things in the pipeline that we need you to test after the beta is out. We also hope to have something ready for Mac and Linux users.

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Changelog
  • Disabled geolocation (backend needs more preparation)
  • Updated Carakan
  • Fixes to bundled Unite apps
  • Work on CORE-27301 (Plugin size and position not updated when plugin is in synchronous state (YouTube)
  • Fixed CORE-27424 (Crash when focusing editable iframe when iframe's base's href attribute has been removed)
  • Fixed CORE-27596 (originURL not set for preinstalled services)
  • Fixed DSK-277488 (Mails lost when deleting draft reply (IMAP))

Beta RCWindows Beta Released and More!

Comments

Haavardhaavard Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:17:52 AM

I would just like to reiterate that the reason for this beta release is not to have a stable, finished product, but rather to expand the testing a bit. It is not intended for everyday use, but rather to allow more people to test it and give us feedback. That way, we are better prepared for the way towards the final version.

The snapshot after the beta will likely contain a large number of fixes that did not make it for the beta, so bear with us while we get the beta out there, and expect even more fixes in future builds.

Tamil Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:19:02 AM

up

Willian Argollowargollo Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:19:23 AM

LOL bigsmile

ensaius Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:22:59 AM

Thks, you're doing a great job, can't wait till the finished product bigsmile

Mattmattberrytr Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:23:12 AM

THANKS

ericzb Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:24:06 AM

Wow, that's fast.

May I can expect a beta before Chinese New Year.

Yeah.

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:27:22 AM

up

ruaman Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:27:46 AM

up

shaneh Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:28:40 AM

Great stuff - here's hoping the leaks have improved a bit in this build.

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:29:32 AM

Originally posted by Haavard:

I would just like to reiterate that the reason for this beta release is not to have a stable, finished product, but rather to expand the testing a bit. It is not intended for everyday use, but rather to allow more people to test it and give us feedback. That way, we are better prepared for the way towards the final version.


That being said I think this is the snapshot for the beta release.

Plazzmex Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:29:47 AM

guys. you are great..
so quick releases and fixes.
Thought about start using and testing it on the way after the beta release..
But now i see that i Can't wait even one more day till the beta release so i'm start using it now !

slalaurette Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:30:54 AM

Yeah!!!

senchikodo Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:33:09 AM

Woooooot Opera ! go go go

Opera Japan Desktopjapan-desktop Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:33:43 AM

Take a good sleep, guys.

Danieledarklink88 Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:37:03 AM

great work guys!
Only a thing...when browsing ign.com or wii.ign.com opera crashes!
I don't know if this could be a blocker...anyway i think this site is very popular.

ouzowtfouzoWTF Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:41:04 AM

Maybe there should be an explanation what you guys from Opera call a showstopper as the discussions here in the comments differ enormous about what it is.
Anyway, thanks for working so hard. I'll test it.

zombie Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:41:14 AM

It's on the FTP server now. I guess it will be released tomorrow if no new showstoppers are found.

ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/win/1050b1/

Ericheavensrevenge Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:43:46 AM

Glad Google Buzz doesn't crash this build, but one bug which I noticed last build was middle click panning in Gmail doesn't actually work! Normal scroll wheel works but middle click scrolling doesn't seem to.

May I request some Gmail fixing for the next few builds??

The builds are coming out as if we have access to your internal daily build server bigsmile which is awesome since I can't compile Opera myself sad

haruto8861 Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:44:27 AM

RC2 can't run Peacekeeper when "scan-java.action"

AECX Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:44:38 AM

tv.ign.com & 7zip.org and all the other website crashes still persist for XP SP3.....so I doubt this should be the beta.

mtrmarko Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:45:11 AM

@Haavard:

Are there any plans to enable Java versions older than 1.6 in Opera 10.5? I understand you guys are focusing on fixing more important things at this point, but will you be looking at this later in development process?

BTW, you guys are makiing awesome progress so far. Opera 10.5 is shaping up to be the best browser on the market. Keep up the good work.

nimu_channimuchan Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:45:44 AM

Oh !!

Thank you

whydx Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:46:09 AM

http://my.opera.com/espanol/forums/topic.dml?id=402251

Kamaleshkamalesh Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:48:47 AM

Originally posted by haavard:

We also hope to have something ready for Mac and Linux users.


Yes, please! No fun being on the sidelines lately. wink

sleepyheadbooz0r Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:50:29 AM

wooo, late update!


sadly still:
· can't open whole bookmarks folders with middle mouse button
· and of course my pet bug DSK-275063 *sighs*

paulm84 Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:53:37 AM

ok i'm confused sorry but is there a way to make the text white so it's easier to read

http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/126/capturebi.jpg

any helps would be appreciated smile keep up the good work

mtrmarko Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:54:02 AM

Originally posted by AECX:

tv.ign.com & 7zip.org and all the other website crashes still persist for XP SP3.....so I doubt this should be the beta.



I can confirm that http://7-zip.org crashes this build on WinXP SP3, but not on Win7 x64. However, tv.ign.com does not cause crashes on either of the platforms for me.

EricJH Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:56:37 AM

Thanks for the new and clear announcement regarding post beta snapshots.sherlock

Fabio Palliniflitz Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:57:09 AM

you are doing a great work with this "evenes" release, those last builds are good enough to see the world. ;-)

please prepare a nice and polish beta page and give us the first official beta.

so next week we get tons of fixes and new features. praying for hardware acceleration! ;-)

PengePenge4 Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:58:36 AM

Originally posted by uonick:

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2010/02/07/approaching-10-50-beta-for-windows?startidx=300#comment18217511


Hold down the right mouse button and Shift+drop.

Originally posted by MisterMooth:

Right click -> Go to Web Address still not working


And Insert Note still not working. And the whole custom menu which is contains "javascript:" code (for example: BBCode menu, Lex1's Adblock+) still not working. cry

edit: And transparency problems with transparent skins (Z1-Glass) on the Flash objects: transparency

ouzowtfouzoWTF Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:58:36 AM

All REGRESSIONS of 10.10 mentioned in this comment of the last build are still seen in this build. :/

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:58:50 AM

Originally posted by haruto8861:

RC2 can't run Peacekeeper when "scan-java.action"


Ditto. This one bug could require an RC3. This is because Opera needs to be error free when it comes to benchmarks, we want Opera to have a good first impression on some users.

mjpa Thursday, February 11, 2010 2:02:35 AM

Betas really should have stable UIs, so for the example the painting issue when scrolling text areas really should be fixed before releasing a beta.

Similarly, regressions from previous releases should be fixed, example being the bug DSK-279072. If some simple regex used by a well known JS library (jQuery) doesn't work then people aren't going to get a good impression of Opera.

NRsuperici Thursday, February 11, 2010 2:04:02 AM

nice works bigsmile
testing.....

ouzowtfouzoWTF Thursday, February 11, 2010 2:04:07 AM

Originally posted by ouzoWTF:

All REGRESSIONS of 10.10 mentioned in this comment of the last build are still seen in this build. :/


While trying my own link I see another REGRESSION. When I open my posted link of the comment with middle mouse button in background, then the anchor of the comment is not appended. When using left mouse button everything is working fine.

ouzowtfouzoWTF Thursday, February 11, 2010 2:05:55 AM

Originally posted by DanielHendrycks:

Ditto. This one bug could require an RC3. This is because Opera needs to be error free when it comes to benchmarks, we want Opera to have a good first impression on some users.


I agree. The first thing news writers and other testers will do is starting some benchmarks against the other browsers.

nahtanoj999 Thursday, February 11, 2010 2:08:10 AM

Is this beta supposed to be feature complete? Or will we be seeing new features all throughout the process like in 10.0?

NEOAethyr Thursday, February 11, 2010 2:08:16 AM

Same bugs as the prev rev, check my last comment on page 9 of the last rev.

Also would like to include that the status and mood thingy on the myspace profile home page is not working.
They recently updated that and it's not working in opera (did not check v10.10).

Please fix javascript smile.
Here's some links for ref: (sorry for the content, meant for dev use)

http://www.watch-movies-online.tv/movies/the_book_of_eli/
The "watch full" links don't work.

The image links don't work in these:
http://latex-girls.net/promo/2/
http://latex-xxx.net/chrisblla/
http://www.bongum-video.com/TGP001/303/index.php?ID=9804000000686591
http://www.calmara.com/filelib.p/display_set.asp?id=79415

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks Thursday, February 11, 2010 2:08:58 AM

Originally posted by ouzoWTF:

I agree. The first thing news writers and others testers will do is starting some benchmarks against the other browsers.


It would pain me to watch a reviewer be cocky and say "Oh, look Opera can't even handle Java, Chrome can.".

Øzikzakatak Thursday, February 11, 2010 2:09:41 AM

we will be testing when linux is released...

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks Thursday, February 11, 2010 2:10:56 AM

Originally posted by nahtanoj999:

Is this beta supposed to be feature complete?


Who knows, let them do their magic.

rseiler Thursday, February 11, 2010 2:14:19 AM

Is it still too early to be testing (manual, for the time being) upgrades of 10.10? Sooner or later, it's going to become a factor. Most normal people are not doing clean installs, and a whole new avenue of bugs can open when testing upgrades.

AECX Thursday, February 11, 2010 2:15:31 AM

Originally posted by NEOAethyr:

http://www.watch-movies-online.tv/movies/the_book_of_eli/

The "watch full" links don't work.



Confirmed, but if you switch to mask as Firefox it works.



Keep up the good work, this build runs smoother in terms of performance but for some reason on Peacemaker my overall score is down to 400 from 1900 from 2 builds ago?


Also the excess horizontal scroll bug that was suppose to be fix still persists on http://www.sidereel.com/

Martin LarssonNeXur Thursday, February 11, 2010 2:24:22 AM

Originally posted by haavard:

The snapshot after the beta will likely contain a large number of fixes that did not make it for the beta, so bear with us while we get the beta out there, and expect even more fixes in future builds.


Totally respect that up
http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2010/02/09/beta-rc?startidx=200#comment18482921

PengePenge4 Thursday, February 11, 2010 2:24:41 AM

Zoom status still is not updating. Always shows 100%.

digitalinksmudge Thursday, February 11, 2010 2:27:26 AM

Originally posted by DanielHendrycks:

Daniel James Hendrycks 10. February 2010, 18:08

Originally posted by ouzoWTF:

I agree. The first thing news writers and others testers will do is starting some benchmarks against the other browsers.

It would pain me to watch a reviewer be cocky and say "Oh, look Opera can't even handle Java, Chrome can.".



Very true.

My mama always said to put on a new clean pair of underwear when I go out on a date!
I hope you pick me up, and open my door too! Good job guys!

Cheers!

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks Thursday, February 11, 2010 2:30:37 AM

idea Remember not to forget to update the http://opera.com/browser/next page.

lord-killer Thursday, February 11, 2010 2:33:35 AM

If I View button is a little buggy. If you change the zoom, it keeps "100%".


It just fix to the right percentage if I change the tab and go back to the one w/ zoom.

System: Windows 7 (64 bits)
Build: 3247 (but also happens on the last build, and others).

Jeff ™intelimac20inch Thursday, February 11, 2010 2:37:53 AM

Originally posted by kamalesh:

Originally posted by haavard:

We also hope to have something ready for Mac and Linux users.

Yes, please! No fun being on the sidelines lately. :wink:




Agrees. up coffee And something is better than nothing. happy

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