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Opera 10.50 Beta for Mac!

By Adam Minchintonminch. Thursday, February 25, 2010 1:00:00 PM

Opera 10.5 Beta for Mac has been released! party

Can't wait any longer? Just head over to the Next Browser page to grab your copy
http://www.opera.com/browser/next/

Good news for all Mac OSX 10.4 users, support on Intel returns!

Highlights
  • Cocoa
  • Unified tool bar
  • Growl notifications
  • Multi-touch gestures
  • Happy Easter! Well almost, but multi-touch users should look out for the egg jester

Known Issues
  • No support for PowerPC (PPC)
  • Possible performance issues on Mac O SX 10.4 (Tiger)
  • Minimal Java Support
  • Some Widget keyboard and window issues

Changelog
  • 10.4 (Tiger) support returns
  • Widgets fixed and panel enabled
  • Fixed Bug DSK-282851 (Slow typing)
  • Fixed Bug DSK-276782 (Hangs on NYT and Reuters and other sites): Page Freezing Bug


Full change log for the Beta can be found here

More fixesA small changelog

Comments

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks Thursday, February 25, 2010 1:12:42 PM

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Mağruf ÇolakoğluZAHEK Thursday, February 25, 2010 1:14:50 PM

Oh my god. Will it come another one smile

quarkdrunkensurgeon Thursday, February 25, 2010 1:21:18 PM

Third! party

Stevestevegerak Thursday, February 25, 2010 1:21:57 PM

yay bigsmile

Abhishek ThakurAbhishek9102 Thursday, February 25, 2010 1:22:59 PM

Quite expected up

Jeff ™intelimac20inch Thursday, February 25, 2010 1:45:51 PM

up coffee party

Pitiphong PhongpattranontDeathscytheSephiroth Thursday, February 25, 2010 2:02:02 PM

Oh my god, I found the really serious bug in this build.
I have Thai keyboard layout along with English layout, no matter my current keyboard layout is what when I type it will be the Thai language (if I want to type English I mush turn Caps lock on). This is very serious bug.

PS. Holding right click and scroll to scrolling through tabs is still don't work.
PS. 2 By the way Thank you very much for this build ^^

Lucero Jr.Luxer88 Thursday, February 25, 2010 2:19:04 PM

CAN'T WAIT TO GET HOME eek

Ruarí Ødegaardruario Thursday, February 25, 2010 2:27:50 PM

Hmm ... so which user (not counting Opera employees) will be the first to discover the Easter egg? wink

SovGVD Thursday, February 25, 2010 2:27:50 PM

so... what about Linux? =)

Harlekin Mondharlekinmond Thursday, February 25, 2010 2:31:21 PM

Great build thank you smile
----

>> Still problems with Flash :
Test it on : http://harlekinmond.free.fr/opera/operabugs/flashonmac.html
or watch the video here : http://files.myopera.com/harlekinmond/opera/operabugs/flashonmac2.mp4

>> And there is a problem with Flash here too :
When I type one letter, it is duplicated : http://www.livewii.fr


>> And Opera Unite takes a lot of CPU (I have an Intel Core 2 Duo)


>> When I type two ^ to make a smiley (^^) it doesn't work : I have to type ^[space]^[space]

Zaferarzafen Thursday, February 25, 2010 2:32:09 PM

Thanks for the beta. The interface looks nice and smooth.

I see a yellow background behind the thumbnails when hovered over the tabs. I filed a bug report. Was it already known?

Ruarí Ødegaardruario Thursday, February 25, 2010 2:32:17 PM

Originally posted by SovGVD:

so... what about Linux? =)

Go here or use the 'Latest Snapshot' sidebar link. It is effectively the same build, with the same Core fixes but with added 'breakage' comparative to Mac (and Windows) since UNIX is still in Alpha.

Pitiphong PhongpattranontDeathscytheSephiroth Thursday, February 25, 2010 2:34:01 PM

Oppss seem like my keyboard bug is occasionally occurred

mmpietro Thursday, February 25, 2010 2:34:33 PM

I still can't bring back the Opera window by clicking on its icon when minimized to dock. It can be done only using the second mouse button and selecting the first option on the contextual menu.

bobwonderful Thursday, February 25, 2010 2:51:00 PM

I've been getting alot of crashes with the previous build. Hopefully that is now solved. Facebook and Yahoomail are sites I use all of the time and before they have been very problematic. Hopefully this build will solve the unstability and have better usability. I'll have to document the issues later as I hadn't had time to note it.
Thanks for the new build.

King Crimson Thursday, February 25, 2010 2:56:17 PM

Please re-introduce closing tab button on Opera window as in 10.1 version.

Hans Bendiksenhansbendiksen Thursday, February 25, 2010 3:02:07 PM

Originally posted by mmpietro:

I still can't bring back the Opera window by clicking on its icon when minimized to dock. It can be done only using the second mouse button and selecting the first option on the contextual menu.



Confirmed on 10.6.2

Danieledarklink88 Thursday, February 25, 2010 3:04:26 PM

Originally posted by hansbendiksen:

Originally posted by mmpietro:

I still can't bring back the Opera window by clicking on its icon when minimized to dock. It can be done only using the second mouse button and selecting the first option on the contextual menu.

Confirmed on 10.6.2


+1
Anyway great work guys, safari is going to collect dust in the near future

Karolhexplor Thursday, February 25, 2010 3:05:56 PM

Still Opera Link does not import Peronal Bar for me.

windshear Thursday, February 25, 2010 3:12:42 PM

Same as above: Maximize dont work. But in the bright side: Proxy is back! smile

TanselTanshaydar Thursday, February 25, 2010 3:45:11 PM

I'm waiting for Unix Beta smile
My default browser on Windows, I want it on my linux too

Danieledarklink88 Thursday, February 25, 2010 4:10:50 PM

sometimes i've got an high cpu usage
10.6.2

thartist Thursday, February 25, 2010 4:21:01 PM

"Find in page" should say how many MATCHES were found please, so we don't have to scroll the site looking for more than there are highlighted at sight.

Tarmas Thursday, February 25, 2010 5:25:54 PM

Is it just me or does the user interface feel sluggish and choppy? I'm running the beta alongside 10.10 stable at this very moment and the degradation of the UI performance is really noticeable. It's best seen when trying to move a tab to another position or loading a new Speed Dial page. Mind you, a 2 GHz C2D shouldn't have any problems with that.

I hope you guys at Opera do something about it.

*EDIT*

OK, it seems that Opera is slowing down when there is a page loading. It doesn't have to be anything fancy. Loading anything either in a foreground or a background tab will cause a noticeable UI lag.

Isaac Mwangieyezark Thursday, February 25, 2010 5:57:04 PM

Now now now, tommorow is the first thing i do... try it. ;-)

Mika Takalamtakala Thursday, February 25, 2010 6:07:35 PM

hmm. Reports from some of my friends who installed this as the first 10.50 build they've tried:

* Youtube is at 0.5fps.
* Cannot change ctrl-click and ctrl-shift-click -settings, those in keyboard setup have no effect.
* dd-wrt router setup page (login) didn't work.
* paypal hanged.
* mouse cursor didn't change on links.

IusedtobeOOlli91 Thursday, February 25, 2010 6:33:06 PM

Originally posted by darklink88:

sometimes i've got an high cpu usage

10.6.2



Yep same here. Some crashes, especially when I just hit shutdown with Opera open. Opera crashes and prevents the Mac from shutting down. Not really sure if this can be called beta bigsmile...duouble ^ still doesn't work, but made many huge fixes. bigsmile

And what the hell is the easteregg now? I tried many kinda gestures, but no chance:D

Niko Salonenmyhyuga Thursday, February 25, 2010 6:36:06 PM

Ooh! Good job! Its much better now, but still it looks bit weird, as if something is missing..

Btw, could we have Bing added before release to search engine list? Quite many people use it nowadays. I add it always with keyword "b" smile

EDIT: I also sometimes get really high CPU usage and there is pretty much nothing running at tabs..

tmsn Thursday, February 25, 2010 6:47:16 PM

- Smooth scrolling is now laggy like FireFox's. It used to be completely responsive in 10.10. Sad sad

- Some flash video artifacts when videos are played back while embedded into a page. When I hit the fullscreen button however I get great performance and no cropping glitches.

- It's not giving me the constant crashing with keyboard input that 10.10 was giving me so that's good smile

ααяσηAeRonn Thursday, February 25, 2010 6:51:41 PM

 im a Geek & im proud that's the point 

Taneltankest Thursday, February 25, 2010 6:52:53 PM

Hi,

first of all, very nice work, can't wait for this release to be more stable (:

Gave it a testrun and encountered a constant crash in Google Docs. Made a new document there, pasted in some paragraphs of text and then started to bolden parts of it. Opera crashes after I've stylized 3-4 sentences. This also occurs in 10.10

Don't know how to check system's performace on OS X, but my MacBook's cooling system doesn't usually get all that noisy when doing regular browsing...

10.5.8

And, I probably won't get an anwer to that, but are there plans to take the toolbar unification further? To something like you did with win7 version?

KornelNiLok Thursday, February 25, 2010 6:59:57 PM

I remember that I was testing Opera 10 beta on Mac and it was quite a nice experience. Probably because Opera 9.x wasn't so good. Right now using Opera 10.5 beta as the default browser is almost impossible, because it still crashes a lot. I don't know why it isn't so stable, but right now I've just downloaded it, used it for a few minutes and had to uninstall it.

Besides, I don't know why, but having both versions (stable 10.10 and beta 10.5) Snow Leopard chooses the latter as the default browser. I try to install 10.5 into a different folder and under a different name (instead of Opera I rename it to e.g. 'Opera 10.5' or 'Opera beta') but still the system recognizes it as the default one, even if i choose Opera 10.10. Any ideas how to deal with it?

Didier CaizerguesOneCatFamily Thursday, February 25, 2010 7:04:35 PM

Sorry, still not ready for everyday use (I know, I know, it's a beta...). Installed it three times on my MacBook Pro on Tiger, and every time my personal bar would only show some favorites, but not all of them (go figure). Pressing F2 won't show the "Go to webpage..." dialogue anymore, and rendering isn't on par with 10.10 yet. Reverted to a stable version, and I'm a bit miffed, because I was really expecting this Tiger-compatible release... I had merged my Preferences folders between 10.10 and this beta, just to get the same layout and homepage, etc... Still, some preferences are overwritten, but not all of them. chef

In short, this release is still far from perfect, and I'm beginning to wonder if the Opera team didn't bite more than they could chew with this one... whistle

Erunno Thursday, February 25, 2010 7:06:20 PM

I've played around with the beta for a short time and this are my observations so far (OSX 10.6.2 on a MacBook Pro 5,1)

1. There's a strange shadow behind the active tab. Since the shadow is visible on both ends of the tab it looks quite unnatural (graphic glitch?).

2. I haven't found an option to turn on smooth scrolling. Contrary to what a previous poster claimed both Safari and Firefox have extremely smooth, err, smooth scrolling and it's really jarring to use a browser without it (Chrome suffers from the same problem).

3. Scrolling with the touchpad seems quite fast by default. In my opinion the acceleration still needs some fine-tuning.

4. Auto-completion in the address bar does not work when skipping the www. prefix of an address (tested with www.heise.de).

5. On the speed dial page the help links (Synchronize Opera, etc.) look like captions for the lowest row of pictures due to similar alignment and lack of visual separation.

Despite some quirks (some bugs, some intentional) 10.50 looks like a promising release on both Windows 7 as well as OS X.

ααяσηAeRonn Thursday, February 25, 2010 7:06:38 PM

"I don't know why it isn't so stable, but right now I've just downloaded it, used it for a few minutes and had to uninstall it. "
me too sad

Joshjoshhhab Thursday, February 25, 2010 7:28:13 PM

Show/Hide images, Fit to width, Author mode buttons looks awful if i place it to left or to right of address bar

Lucero Jr.Luxer88 Thursday, February 25, 2010 7:35:44 PM

WHAT. AN. AMAZING. WORK.

Have clean-installed and, wow, it's flying as never before. Seriously!

Thanks for the greeeeaaaat beta!

Idan AdarYtseJam Thursday, February 25, 2010 7:44:15 PM

Originally posted by joshhhab:

Show/Hide images, Fit to width, Author mode buttons looks awful if i place it to left or to right of address bar


Long standing issue in Windows too. I do wonder if they'll ever fix that.

peterp-sun Thursday, February 25, 2010 7:49:17 PM

10.6.2, previous profile used:
[I submitted all of these, just reposting here and sorry, I don't have the report numbers sad ]
- google street view crashes Opera after a few seconds
- gesture 'new tab' (rightclick+down) while using different app does not bring focus to Opera
- leftclick-rightclick quick gesture makes context menu appear (really annoying)
- some skin issues (but those I bet are worked on) wink
- (dev's don't kill me for this one please! no ): javascript engine performance lagging behind chromium's one (using http://v8.googlecode.com/svn/data/benchmarks/v5/run.html gives me ~2800 with Opera, 4700 with Chromium build 39593)

mjraczkowski Thursday, February 25, 2010 7:53:08 PM

I am running 10.6.2.

Any time I open a Digg article from my google IG homepage I get an instant crash.

Other than that I like 10.50.

digitalinksmudge Thursday, February 25, 2010 8:56:27 PM

Thanks Opera!

Im confused by this web write up on Opera 10.5 for mac.

"Computerworld had a chance to run some quick JavaScript benchmarks on the new version and found that Opera 10.50 is 10% faster than the latest version of Safari, making it the fastest WebKit-based browser on the Mac platform"

http://www.macrumors.com/2010/02/25/opera-10-50-beta-for-mac-released-performs-well-in-javascript-benchmarks/

Opera's not webkit, or did I miss something?

EDIT: Macromors corrected the facts to "and also tops WebKit and Chrome browsers included in the study. According to Opera."

Cheers!

d4rkn1ght Thursday, February 25, 2010 8:56:50 PM

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Hans Bendiksenhansbendiksen Thursday, February 25, 2010 9:07:19 PM

I hope Opera for Mac gets the same title bar as Opera for Win XP.

It would save valuable screen space.

Made a mock up of what it would look like...
http://files.myopera.com/hansbendiksen/files/opera_mac.jpg

It looks really great on XP!! up

Ruarí Ødegaardruario Thursday, February 25, 2010 9:19:13 PM

Originally posted by digitalinksmudge:

Opera's not webkit, or did I miss something?

No, they missed something

Moe GreeneMoeGreene Thursday, February 25, 2010 9:35:37 PM

In previous versions I could click and move background tabs without moving them in front, but in 10.50 the tab is activated instantly on click. I suppose there must be a reason for this change, but is there a way to get the old behaviour back?

Andylee Satomichaelpuermayr Thursday, February 25, 2010 9:56:55 PM

is there a way to run 10.5 on powerpc?
Or does Opera in 10.5 only support intel macs?

Ruarí Ødegaardruario Thursday, February 25, 2010 10:08:32 PM

In this beta it is only intel macs

Zaferarzafen Thursday, February 25, 2010 10:08:50 PM

Does the easter egg have something to do with page up/down? wink

Lucero Jr.Luxer88 Thursday, February 25, 2010 10:38:55 PM

Originally posted by arzafen:

Does the easter egg have something to do with page up/down?

i personally dont have a clue awww

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