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Snapshots for everyone!

By Alexander Remenalexremen. Friday, March 26, 2010 3:12:31 PM

Hi! I'm the main Opera Mail developer in the team and have been working in the Desktop-Team for a couple of years. Unfortunately no major mail changes this time, I've been working on our CVS to Git transition, but I'll be back on M2 from now on! After several months of hectic schedule to get the windows 10.50 release out, we're now going to try to get snapshots in sync again, meaning releasing on all three platforms at the same time. This time we've got some really cool stuff like font bug fixes for both Mac and Unix cow In other news, GTK skinning has received some more attention and we'd like some more feedback on that. If you are seeing a problem in the skin, let us know, and don't forget to mention which GTK theme you use. Several widget fixes also managed to get included in time! Look at the changelog for more details about this. Also, you can expect Unite to be up and running again. Happy Friday beer cheers Known Issues
  • Mac
    • Some Carakan stability problems
    • Some stability problems on PPC
    • Fonts may be cut off when scrolling
    • Crashlogger doesn’t work for OS 10.4 ‘Tiger’
  • UNIX
    • Several font problems still remain
    • Language input issues
    • No KDE integration
    • Black drop down menus for some KDE3 users
    • Some command line options don't work
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

Changelog

Desktop
  • Fixed DSK-290757 (Password doesn't get remembered)
  • Made the download dialog tab-modal and overlayed

Core
  • Fixed CORE-14632 (Support 'binary download' of 'text/plain;charset=x-user-defined' resource with XmlHttpRequest)
  • Fixed CORE-28120 (xhr.overrideMimeType() called before xhr.open throws)
  • Fixed CORE-28527 (Better cache for redirects)

Widgets
  • Fixed DSK-283478 (Crash when starting a special build that includes widgets)
  • Fixed DSK-278149 (Crash when launching widget)
  • Fixed DSK-287273 (Crash on RMB click in Connect to Remote Debugger dialog)
  • Fixed DSK-284947 (Widget installation detection is subpar)
  • Fixed DSK-284905 (Installed widget gets maximised on hovering over the taskbar)
  • Fixed DSK-285623 (Unite music player & Ebook reader widgets always captures focus)
  • Fixed DSK-287988 (File I/O in widgets is broken)
  • Fixed DSK-275480 (simaquarium widget does not display aquarium's animated content)
  • Fixed DSK-259451 (There is no question about creating folders if installation path is simply typed)
  • Fixed DSK-282026 (Widget 'Torus' does not work)
  • Fixed DSK-283220 (changing from always on top/below to normal mode doesn't show widget on task bar again)
  • Fixed DSK-276971 (CLONE -Widget preferences not upgraded)
  • Fixed DSK-286033 (Widgets with sufficiently long non-ASCII names do not always appear as installed)
  • Fixed DSK-286039 (Widget in application mode position stored incorrectly after restart)
  • Fixed DSK-287641 (eBook reader does not display icon on taskbar)
  • Fixed DSK-284758 (Spellcheck do not fix words in widgets)
  • Fixed DSK-283767 (Connect to Remote Debugger - clipped string EN)
  • Fixed DSK-283507 (About This widget has clipstring while hovering (PL))
  • Fixed DSK-283432 (Number is not displayed on initial installer screen if installing another instance of same widget)
  • Fixed DSK-287440 (number is not added to widget name if customizing its name and <widgetname> is longer than 87 bytes)
  • Fixed DSK-290503 (Widget with : and / in its name is not installed)
  • Fixed DSK-272641 ("Widget Remote Debugging" window name is clipped.)

Mac
  • Fixed DSK-283461 (Authentication dialogs buttons are the wrong way around)
  • Fixed DSK-290357 (CJK displayed as squares)
  • Fixed DSK-287881 (Opera uses 100% CPU with very very long URLs)
  • Fixed DSK-281691 (Doesn't remember window position when exiting fullscreen)
  • Fixed DSK-289617 (Does not restart after submitting crashlogs)
  • Fixed DSK-251746 (Aborting print from VG.no crashes Opera)
  • Font drawing improvements

UNIX
  • Fixed CORE-28797 (Fonts are always 'light', 'italicized', 'condensed', etc)
  • Fixed DSK-274848 (Window repainted incorrect when minimized and restored)
  • Fixed DSK-275086 (Menu font color problem)
  • Fixed DSK-282115 (Crash in libX11 when opening or closing dialogs with Unite enabled)
  • Fixed DSK-283461 (Authentication dialogs buttons are the wrong way around for Gnome)
  • Fixed DSK-287356 (Default font size is far too small)
  • Fixed DSK-288654 (File chooser dialog isn't modal)
  • Fixed DSK-275089 (GTK styled scrollbars to narrow)
  • Fixed DSK-287312 (save dialog on linux is broken - no file name)
  • Fixed DSK-288202 (Crash in liboperagtk when canceling file chooser)
  • Fixed DSK-289312 (Opera version on debian uses dash instead of dot in build denotation)
  • Improved the looks with skins that use a dark toolbar

Windows 10.52 snapshotMac Monday Special

Comments

Виктор Майоровintruder04 Friday, March 26, 2010 5:46:15 PM

superb

Galileo Friday, March 26, 2010 5:48:39 PM

yes

Tobias C. Bernertcberner Friday, March 26, 2010 5:49:30 PM

awesome -- seems to launch faster too.

Fabio Palliniflitz Friday, March 26, 2010 5:49:53 PM

great!

Øzikzakatak Friday, March 26, 2010 5:50:40 PM

thanx a lot... for the linux and the sync snapshots...

nimu_channimuchan Friday, March 26, 2010 5:55:45 PM

Ohhh Thanks !!

Jan Frode Høinesmaake93 Friday, March 26, 2010 5:55:54 PM

cheers Happy weekend to the devs

rocco Friday, March 26, 2010 5:56:03 PM

Scrollbar is not painted correctly when pressed, in opera_10.52.6272_amd64.deb with kde44-oxygen-molecule widget style under kde 4.4.1.

One has to have some sort of kde look until No KDE integration is fixed smile

Davedfyfe Friday, March 26, 2010 5:57:57 PM

Looks like the same "stability problems" are there on PPC.

OSX 10.4.11 PPC sad

Besmir Godolebgodole Friday, March 26, 2010 6:01:40 PM

Work on fonts on Unix, thank you, happy.

Licaon Friday, March 26, 2010 6:02:13 PM

Originally posted by ruario:

Could you expand a little and clarify what you are talking about?

i'll post the picture again, here:

Default Opera skin on KDE4 4.3.4, no KDE3 libs, GTK-QT theme used for GTK apps, QTCurve installed but not used
( using some custom skins like OpFox fixes the dialogs but not the menus )

What info do you want ?

Arguggi Friday, March 26, 2010 6:04:12 PM

I was joking when i said since it is Friday i expected a new snapshot bigsmile

Robert MeijersRobert90 Friday, March 26, 2010 6:06:30 PM

Great, /me gets busy testing lol

James Cassellelitegeek Friday, March 26, 2010 6:11:34 PM

thanks for the Linux builds!

Philphilharris Friday, March 26, 2010 6:17:40 PM

xp sp3 - this seems to have fixed the 'large image incrementally loading to 30% and then stalling until appearing complete at 100" issue. Thanks gais.

Antipatternnodata Friday, March 26, 2010 6:17:47 PM

Mac built kills all open tabs again...

I'm now used to this behaviour. ;-)

bennyfletch Friday, March 26, 2010 6:18:04 PM

No issues with GTK theme so far (Mepis 8.5 - KDE 4.3.4 using QTcurve for GTK apps). Looks wonderful actually! This build also cleared up the menu display as well (w/ previous snapshot I was getting the black drop down issue).

Fixed DSK-287312 - A great deal of thanks for this!!! It was a tad bit annoying.

Speed dial previews still look garbled (especially but not limited to the fonts, so possibly due to the font issues?)

Still experiencing font issues, but this is a known issue, so I can't complain. I am sure this will get resolved.

Again, thanks a million for this snapshot, cleared up quite a bit of issues on my system.
up

dupel Friday, March 26, 2010 6:18:13 PM

Very nice!

A regression since last build: http://btjunkie.org/ (everything is wrong with this page now).

Win7 x64

Originally posted by philharris:

xp sp3 - this seems to have fixed the 'large image incrementally loading to 30% and then stalling until appearing complete at 100" issue. Thanks gais.



Still here for me.

Danieledarklink88 Friday, March 26, 2010 6:19:26 PM

mac version feels very fast! Thank you for improving the look and the animation of the new mac menus in Opera!

michaelmilliVanilli Friday, March 26, 2010 6:20:02 PM

still hoping that the standard skin under winxp will be changed...

NicoHellbillyDeluxe Friday, March 26, 2010 6:20:53 PM

New Snapshot AND Friday beer. Great stuff smile

I really love the modal Download dialog, good job!
Now, I only need the default explorer on Windows 7.

I know, you must be tired of hearing it, but it is very important. Not only for me, but also for platform integration.
A small statement on this will be much appreciated. Even if it's only "We're working on it".


Nevertheless, thank you for the Snapshot and have a great weekend!

mjpa Friday, March 26, 2010 6:23:14 PM

If "Fixed CORE-28527 (Better cache for redirects)" is meant to fix the middle clicking links caching the redirects, then it's not fixed sad

pbrw Friday, March 26, 2010 6:23:54 PM

Error still occurs with Polish fonts :/

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks Friday, March 26, 2010 6:23:56 PM

Originally posted by desktopteam:

but I'll be back on M2 from now on!


Yeah, mail improvements to come!

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks Friday, March 26, 2010 6:26:25 PM

Originally posted by desktopteam:

File I/O in widgets is broken


I thought it was me, I guess I can start working on my widget again smile

dupel Friday, March 26, 2010 6:28:41 PM

http://www.snitchseeker.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-79703

Still isnt loading, though I filed report not that long ago...

Abhinavdecodedthought Friday, March 26, 2010 6:30:10 PM

finally all three together up love opera dev smile cheers
small catch "NO INTEGRATION FOR KDE " sad sad sad cry

WOFall Friday, March 26, 2010 6:31:52 PM

Aww, I had started getting used to those fonts... p

evgendrujebober Friday, March 26, 2010 6:32:13 PM

>>Language input issues

cry

John BarnettJohn164 Friday, March 26, 2010 6:32:19 PM

This widget does not work http://widgets.opera.com/widget/downloading/5377/1.3/ Not sure if it's Opera or the widget

akapune Friday, March 26, 2010 6:33:21 PM

I am using the »Aesthetical Classic« and the »WinVista MSOffice 2007 black« skins. In Settings (F12) I can only see the controls, but not their labels. This happens in all 10.5x versions.

dualbore Friday, March 26, 2010 6:34:52 PM

Nice, it's getting more and more stable for me. I am in the process of returning to M2, and the browser somehow got tired of crashing, or so... smile

Jeff ™intelimac20inch Friday, March 26, 2010 6:35:07 PM

up coffee

snowbord Friday, March 26, 2010 6:36:38 PM

Some sites (like imdb video) don't show videos. Just a white box. Please fix - a convert is going back to Chrome to watch these videos! sad(

snowbord Friday, March 26, 2010 6:38:33 PM

Also Facebook chat bouncing up and down when messages are received..

berend ytsmaytsmabeer Friday, March 26, 2010 6:39:31 PM

Originally posted by snowbord:

Some sites (like imdb video) don't show videos. Just a white box. Please fix - a convert is going back to Chrome to watch these videos! :frown:


Works fine here, check you're settings.
Block content maybe?

Zaur NasibovBasicWolf Friday, March 26, 2010 6:46:36 PM

Hey, Linux version users!

Could you please check and confirm a bug I've been facing since earliest versions of Opera 10.5:

1. Enable panning on middle-click
2. Watch the CPU overload while scrolling any page via panning

mopi1978 Friday, March 26, 2010 6:47:36 PM

Chrome 5.0.356.2 is 20% faster than this build in my system in Peacekeeper and in Sunspider (w7x64 HP 8510 pT9300, 4Gb DDR2-667)awww

edupav Friday, March 26, 2010 6:48:34 PM

Cool all version in all plataform now are sync yes bravo you are the best!

cyberdude mminicyberdude Friday, March 26, 2010 6:49:40 PM

oh new snapshot within one day....great........bigsmile smile up yes

IusedtobeOOlli91 Friday, March 26, 2010 6:51:36 PM

Ok 3900 points, now really faster than Safari on my Mac. Thanks guys, great build so far...

Antero Hytönenanzah Friday, March 26, 2010 6:53:27 PM

I wonder how much time will be saved at Opera once the migration to Git is done. I have never really used CVS, but what I have heard hasn't been good smile

Git is not perfect though, or at least before you understand how it works and get the work flow right.

Kai OckendorfOckendorf Friday, March 26, 2010 6:57:03 PM

what have you done? Peacekeeper results with 10.51: 7136, build3333: 6630, and now 7540!! My best result ever bigsmile impressiv
W7x64

Виктор Майоровintruder04 Friday, March 26, 2010 6:59:34 PM

everything is ok so far

the only bug i see is igoogle page.
cannot see time and news areas.

xp sp3 x32

http://j.imagehost.org/0487/Scrshot_0_25_03_2010_21_56_54_IgoogleOpera.jpg

Arup Roy ChowdhuryArup65 Friday, March 26, 2010 6:59:47 PM

Thanks, specially for Linux deb, do you guys ever sleep. Keeps getting better and better, shame on pwn2own for ignoring the fastest browser out there.

Adam Kaczmarekadamkpl Friday, March 26, 2010 7:05:07 PM

Originally posted by philharris:

xp sp3 - this seems to have fixed the 'large image incrementally loading to 30% and then stalling until appearing complete at 100" issue. Thanks gais.



Can't confirm.
Vista 32b Home Premium

dbgEsinedbguy Friday, March 26, 2010 7:07:23 PM

Thank you for the Linux snapshot, Opera staff.

I've tried a few of the 10.5x releases, but I'm sorry to say the interface still seems very buggy :-( It's getting better by the release, but there are still quite a few problems.

Disclaimer: I've been Opera user since 6.5 on Windows, and since 7 or 7.2 on Linux. I have gotten accustomed to the speed of Opera: mainly the speed of user interface in that navigating pages has always been very fast. The use of keyboard shortcuts and especially mouse gestures has been drilled into my brain.
I'm also fan of the opera.config setting History Navigation Mode=3, in which pressing back button will redraw the previous page instantly rather than querying everything from the server again and having the screen flicker for 2 seconds.

1. I cannot get Japanese input to work on the new Opera. Using 10.10 (gcc4 qt3-shared build) it works fine, as it does in other QT3 and 4 and GTK+ applications. I cannot tell if the new Opera uses QT anymore, or if it's statically linked, but it still seems to be without immqt support. Whatever the reason is, the fact remains I cannot type in the language (fwiw, I use UIM with Anthy).


2. The other problem is with shortcut keys and mouse gestures.

I'll start with the mouse. If I have a window open with no tabs, certain mouse gestures do not work, such as GestureDown (hold right click, drag mouse down and release) to open up a new page. This is an important feature for me. Also double clicking the window will not open a new page, however double clicking the tab bar will.

One other mouse gesture that I have gotten very accustomed to does not work, although I'm not sure if it's a setting problem, is holding the right mouse button and scrolling with your mouse. In older Opera releases it will show a list of pages and let you choose which one you want to open, much like pressing ctrl+tab. It allows you to switch between pages swiftly without having to think about it.

Also it seems my mouse's back and forward buttons do not work in the new Opera. There is flipback (press and hold rmb, click lmb and release) which is good, but it'd be nice to have the back and forward buttons work as well. I have the mouse gesture set to "Button6" as action "Back" on both new and old Opera, but I have not tried other values.

Concerning keyboard input, I like to use single key hotkeys (such as 'n' for new page, 'w' for closing the page). I've noticed that if you open a new page (with speed dial), the focus is automatically on the address bar. This is fine, except that hitting escape will not defocus it, meaning it is impossible to close the page with a single key shortcut, and you have to use a mouse gesture to close the page.

These may sound like small details, but those are exactly what make Opera very speedy to use. Hotkeys and mouse gestures will let you surf the web, check your favorite websites and manage pages in such speed that many other browser's users can't keep up with :-)


Well, at least IPv6 works with the new Opera, unlike the older broken 10.x builds. The video support seemed lovely as well.

Because of the problems I mentioned above, I am however going to have to stay with Opera 10.10 for now. More details are available if needed, of course assuming that an old grumpy user's opinions are heard.

mopi1978 Friday, March 26, 2010 7:09:19 PM

http://j.imagehost.org/0102/Peacekeeper.jpg

Nigel Thornberryharijspoters Friday, March 26, 2010 7:09:52 PM

when I press new tab button, it opens after a small delay - it is very annoying, and makes people think that opera is not the fastest browser...

adamthirnis Friday, March 26, 2010 7:11:52 PM

For me on Linux just needs the font anti-aliasing sorting then I will upgrade

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