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Lots of little fixes can result in a big improvement

By Ruarí Ødegaardruario. Wednesday, May 12, 2010 9:15:23 AM

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Another new snapshot just one day after the last one! wink

This snapshot is particularly good news for our FreeBSD and Linux users, since it includes fixes to a number of irritating issues. We'd encourage *nix users to scan through the change log below. We have also made builds available on Windows and Mac. Whilst not much has changes for you guys there is a cross platform fix on mail, so if you were experiencing mail crashes this might be a good build to test.

With regards to bigger outstanding issues on UNIX (Plugin performance improvements [including Java], IME, fixes to fonts), these issues are being worked on, however we still need more time before we can share with you the fruits of our labour. Thanks for your patience!

Remember to keep comments relevant, descriptive and brief, and avoid repetition of issues that have alread been reported. Your comments may be removed if they are off-topic.

UNIX Known Issues
WARNING: This is a development snapshot with the latest changes. It may contain severe bugs and cause data loss. Or it may be all you have ever wanted.

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Changelog

Desktop
  • Fixed a crash that could happen whilst using mail
  • Fixed DSK-292420 (Widgets from untrusted repository are not downloaded)

Unix
  • Fixed DSK-277198 (Tabbing in chat message box crashes Opera)
  • Fixed DSK-279451 (Some subfolders in bookmarks are not reachable with the mouse)
  • Fixed DSK-279544 (The menu bar is corrupted if skin is applied)
  • Fixed DSK-280876 (Using F2 (Go to page), typed text is appended rather than replacing the pre-existing URL)
  • Fixed DSK-281663 (Cannot keep the bookmarks menu open without holding the mouse)
  • Fixed DSK-285455 (Opera crashes while trying to block page content (ads))
  • Fixed DSK-287850 (When clicking show report after a crash, it does not display)
  • Fixed DSK-289335 (Full screen does not work when menubar is on)
  • Fixed DSK-289618 (Favicons on some sites are corrupted)
  • Fixed DSK-291402 (Can't minimize to tray)
  • Fixed DSK-291822 (Opera doesn't exit if it started another application)
  • Fixed DSK-291875 (UI doesn't restore properly when going back from fullscreen mode)
  • Fixed DSK-293412 (Crash when addressbar dropdown covers flash)
  • Fixed DSK-294120 (Enable dragging of transparent speeddial thumbnails under compositing environments)
  • Fixed DSK-295617 (Menu item color cannot be set in the skin)
  • Fixed DSK-295927 (Right mouse button context menu content is not refreshed after subsequent RMB-clicks)
  • Fixed DSK-296014 (Clicking on a submenu causes the parent to close)
  • Fixed DSK-296598 (Search from the context menu doesn't work everytime)
  • Fixed DSK-296996 (Crash when saving an Opera session)
  • Fixed DSK-297605 (Fix various problems related to popup menus)

A couple of more fixesWebM Labs release

Comments

Kamaleshkamalesh Saturday, May 15, 2010 10:46:38 PM

Originally posted by KHH:

Opera won't download itunes from Apple's site. When I click the Download Now button, it loads a new page but the popup to download a file doesn't show. Can anyone confirm?

http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
edit: winxp, 10.54



Not confirmed, downloads initiates properly with OSX (v10.6.3) build.

whizzkide-mak Saturday, May 15, 2010 10:50:58 PM

@Zoquete

it's probably improper rendering of fonts rather than broken fonts. In the image below, the web page is shown in firefox (right) and opera(left).

http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/1549/screenshotpg.png

echoes1 Saturday, May 15, 2010 11:01:37 PM

Originally posted by passerbycmc:

hmm im running a pretty similar setup with this buid of opera on

openSuSE 11.2 64bit

KDE SC 4.4.3

kernel 2.6.31

and everything works fine with flash

where did you get your flash from, is the the binary installer that you got it from or the packman repo


i have tried the binary installer and the package from this repo:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/matteotomasoni/openSUSE_11.2_Update/
(keep in mind i'm using the 64bit flash plugin not the 32bit).

KHH Saturday, May 15, 2010 11:24:50 PM

Originally posted by KHH:

Opera won't download itunes from Apple's site. When I click the Download Now button, it loads a new page but the popup to download a file doesn't show. Can anyone confirm?



http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/


Ok, did another clean install and the problem went away.

echoes1 Sunday, May 16, 2010 6:39:47 AM

i can confirm that the flash problem i posted about previously also occurs with a new profile. (plugin is found but doesn't work).

Joan Phamtho1009 Sunday, May 16, 2010 7:10:06 AM

Opera can't display the Mathematical symbols of ASCIIMath. Can you fix it?
http://www.wjagray.co.uk/maths/SymbolList.html

zoquete Sunday, May 16, 2010 7:15:51 AM

Originally posted by e-mak:

it's probably improper rendering of fonts rather than broken fonts. In the image below, the web page is shown in firefox (right) and opera(left).


Your Opera uses different font, you are on linux, right? Here in xp sp3 is everything OK. I get the English version, not the arabic one, WHY? The source code is a mess sad

zoquete Sunday, May 16, 2010 7:30:19 AM

Originally posted by tho1009:

Opera can't display the Mathematical symbols of ASCIIMath. Can you fix it?


I see these symols 0.5 sec .... no idea what happens then.

EDIT: works with disabled javscript!

Joan Phamtho1009 Sunday, May 16, 2010 9:16:27 AM

Originally posted by zoquete:

I see these symols 0.5 sec .... no idea what happens then.

EDIT: works with disabled javscript!



I don't think opera displays correctly what I want.These are imagines loaded by opera and firefox
opera: http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/8633/65666200.png
firefox: http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/9971/16119353.png
P/s: at page http://www.wjagray.co.uk/maths/SymbolList.html

zoquete Sunday, May 16, 2010 10:13:41 AM

Originally posted by tho1009:

P/s: at page http://www.wjagray.co.uk/maths/SymbolList.html


right click > side options > options of scripts > disable javascript

berend ytsmaytsmabeer Sunday, May 16, 2010 10:24:26 AM

Originally posted by zoquete:

Originally posted by tho1009:

Opera can't display the Mathematical symbols of ASCIIMath. Can you fix it?

I see these symols 0.5 sec .... no idea what happens then. EDIT: works with disabled javscript!


Also work when identify as firefox

Bappynidhivn Sunday, May 16, 2010 11:11:58 AM

This time, I have a screenie:
http://imgur.com/jyDPL.jpg
The start bar goes blank on my computer

andrewzandrewz1986 Sunday, May 16, 2010 12:02:27 PM

Originally posted by Pesala:

Bhikkhu Pesala 14. May 2010, 17:47

Originally posted by andrewz1986:

with Opera_1054_3390_in, images are squeezed again like in the past

Try disabling fit to width.



I have "fit to width" under full control, don't worry. This problem ignores original aspect ratio of the pictures, while "fit to width" respects it. But thanks anyway for your reply.

lisek91 Sunday, May 16, 2010 1:15:08 PM

Originally posted by kamalesh:

Originally posted by lisek91:

Only Opera is offended at flash.

What OS and which site(s)?


I use Windows XP SP3 (HE). What sites? Almost all. Sometimes flash application do not hang Opera, but often happen that Opera crash or hang on flash (game for example). I have rather old PC, but Firefox or Chrome don't cause such problems.

dkoroskin Sunday, May 16, 2010 1:56:34 PM

Opera started opening all the binaries (zip-archives, executables etc) inside the browser, instead of suggesting saving them to disk.

This is *so* annoying. Clean Windows 7 install.
Example: http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/updaters/10/flashplayer_10_sa_debug.exe (paste into the address bar)

Other issue: one of the downloaded executables was saved as .html file (I pressed "save", choose a folder and pressed Enter. I typed no file extension, so it is Opera's fault).

Thanks!

Kamaleshkamalesh Sunday, May 16, 2010 3:07:12 PM

Originally posted by lisek91:

Originally posted by kamalesh:

Originally posted by lisek91:

Only Opera is offended at flash.

What OS and which site(s)?

I use Windows XP SP3 (HE). What sites? Almost all. Sometimes flash application do not hang Opera, but often happen that Opera crash or hang on flash (game for example). I have rather old PC, but Firefox or Chrome don't cause such problems.



If it's "almost all flash sites", then try a clean install of Opera with a default Preferences file. (Flash is working fine for me on OSX v10.6.3). Also, check your Flash installation, if it's identical to the flash copy being accessed by other browsers (see ABOUT screen for plug-in paths).

Which flash game?

zoquete Sunday, May 16, 2010 3:54:04 PM

Originally posted by denis.koroskin:

Example: http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/updaters/10/flashplayer_10_sa_debug.exe (paste into the address bar)


works here. check preferencies Advanced Download exe

Alexander Eeriealex-eri Sunday, May 16, 2010 5:04:55 PM



buttons on express panel overlap each other then size is set "2x2".

Corey Mwambacoreymwamba Sunday, May 16, 2010 5:42:25 PM

Originally posted by italianjob44:

I have manage to isolate the problem with http://www.wendys.com/

http://files.myopera.com/italianjob44/backup/home.swf (works here)
http://www.wendys.com/home.swf (brings that code from main site, this is also equal to other browsers)
I don't understand if content is the same why then show up as "scrambled eggs" just on theirs server and how are other browsers manage to precess www.wendys.com normally remains a mystery.



How odd! It's not a snapshot problem though: I've got the same weirdness in Opera 10.10.

Looking at the source, Zoquete is incorrect:


object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="946" height="393" data="home.swf"



They've clearly used the correct MIME-type for the object.
I can only think that someone's got the conditional comments a bit messed up...

Егорtermi1uc1 Sunday, May 16, 2010 5:54:41 PM

Originally posted by ytsmabeer:

Originally posted by zoquete:

Originally posted by tho1009:

Opera can't display the Mathematical symbols of ASCIIMath. Can you fix it?

I see these symols 0.5 sec .... no idea what happens then. EDIT: works with disabled javscript!

Also work when identify as firefox


By the way, if you just edit string 1309 in ASCIIMathMLwFallback.js from "var nd = AMisMathMLavailable();" to "var nd = null;" all will working fine smile (AMisMathMLavailable() function is not working properly)
No one think about cross-brousing when this javascript was writen knockout

dennisdotse Sunday, May 16, 2010 6:54:28 PM

opera keeps adding weird files like "opr2fa2NB" in the folder where I keep my bookmarks file. Most of them are zero kb, and they seem to be created more and more often.
edit: on closer inspection, these get created all the time, but most of them are deleted. still - and this happens more and more frequent - some of them are not.

also, opera sometimes won't quit until I activate the window or move the mouse over it.


mac os 10.6.3

dkoroskin Sunday, May 16, 2010 8:16:52 PM

Originally posted by zoquete:

Originally posted by denis.koroskin:

Example: http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/updaters/10/flashplayer_10_sa_debug.exe (paste into the address bar)

works here. check preferencies Advanced Download exe


Interesting... There is nothing but flash and java. I wonder that list was empty before installing these plugins (or one of them cleared the list?)

I have a fresh install of Win7 and Opera (the OS is barely a day old). Why would I have this issue? Could it be an installer issue? I didn't upgrade, just installed latest snapshot, *.msi version.

Thanks!

dkoroskin Sunday, May 16, 2010 8:19:45 PM

I think I didn't have this issue before installing flash. I remember downloading nvidia driver, and Opera showed Save as dialog. OTOH, that said driver got saved as HTML (even though it was an executable). I had to launch file manager to change the extension before installing it.

karlosrocks Sunday, May 16, 2010 9:33:07 PM

When Jim Carrey's Page is completely loaded uses up to 90% of CPU
http://jimcarrey.com/

Michael A. Puls IIburnout426 Sunday, May 16, 2010 11:15:40 PM

Originally posted by alvespaa:

After I logout from my Gmail account, appears a page with "Moved Temporarily - The document has moved here.", and it won't load gmail properly again till I clear my cache. Someone else with this?



Yep. I've seen this too.

Борисxdevel Monday, May 17, 2010 12:37:53 AM

modx evo 1.0.3 admin - create new page - crash again sad
sad

tvd88 Monday, May 17, 2010 3:56:05 AM

Windows XP SP3
Intel Core 2 Duo 2Ghz
Video Card Intel Onboard
Opera cannot render correctly these sites:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24340618/IELTS-Writing-Task-2-Essay-100-Plus-Essay
http://mail.yahoo.com

nick_el_sonnickelson Monday, May 17, 2010 7:49:28 AM

Guys, does anyone have the problem with speed dial?

After upgrading my opera 10.53 to the newest version (10.54 build 3390) images in speed dial got stretched. Is it some kind of bug or I have to change resolutions of logo images (currently 256x150 - 265x60 thumbnails)? confused

JaredpieRr0Ur Monday, May 17, 2010 8:05:26 AM

I don't know why but Opera Unite displays this status.
"An error occurred during application discovery."

XP SP3 HOME

simexi Monday, May 17, 2010 8:07:29 AM

toolbar still refresh oddly.. (after opening browser)
http://i42.tinypic.com/10441dv.gif

jckinnick Monday, May 17, 2010 8:57:02 AM

Does this allow you to uncheck the advanced preferences downloads box and keep it unchecked?

mnicky Monday, May 17, 2010 9:07:23 AM

This build (6336) seems much slower to me when loading the page for the first time... Does anybody have the same feeling?
It just takes twice more time than my 10.10 while in statusbar it writes: "Looking up hostname URL..."


OS: Linux Debian 5.0 / i386 / Gnome 2.22 / kernel 2.6.32

Jaywin Jacob Varghesejaywin Monday, May 17, 2010 10:09:58 AM

UNABLE TO SCROLL TO BOTTOM OF PRINT PREVIEW.

...sorry for shouting...o

OS: Windows 7 x86; 1.5G ram; Pentium 4 HT 3.4GHz

atomskasarma Monday, May 17, 2010 10:35:45 AM

Incorect display of web page:
http://www.blic.rs/

KHH Monday, May 17, 2010 10:58:46 AM

Originally posted by coreymwamba:

Looking at the source, Zoquete is incorrect:

object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="946" height="393" data="home.swf"

They've clearly used the correct MIME-type for the object. I can only think that someone's got the conditional comments a bit messed up...


It's the webserver that screws up, when you request the /home.swf file you get the headers
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 10:53:37 GMT
Server: Apache
Content-Length: 241986
Last-Modified: Tue, 04 May 2010 13:56:34 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

Content-Type should be "application/x-shockwave-flash", not "text/html".

MystaMagoo Monday, May 17, 2010 12:38:53 PM

solved my saving problem.

octetstream was set to save files as .zip
deleted the association and now file saves as it should.

NorbeeertBurnAfterReading Monday, May 17, 2010 12:40:39 PM

Yeah it will, changelog will include 6 random fixes then 10 RC ver. each RC with one fixed bug! Welcome to Opera browser ;]

Ryazor Monday, May 17, 2010 1:18:40 PM

Seems to be all I have ever wanted. Thanks!

JaredpieRr0Ur Monday, May 17, 2010 1:47:06 PM

Originally posted by Arnt:

Today is Norway's national day and most people have the day off.



Oh yeah, Aleksander (Aas) posted a picture entitled "happy birthday norway"

cousin333 Monday, May 17, 2010 4:21:16 PM

No build today? wait

I've just came across a strange bug.

- I've only seen the half of my installed widgets on the sidepanel
- one element is usually 2 lines high, and I've cannot select the widget by clicking on the second line (the one contains the name of the author)
- switched back to standard skin, yet the problem remained
- now, here's the turn: I accidentally performed a backflip on the sidebar, and the problem was gone!

Unfortunately, now I don't really know how to reproduce the problem...

Arguggi Monday, May 17, 2010 5:07:44 PM

I don't know if anyone has already said this, but since the bugged download dialog seems to be a widespread problem can any one confirm that this bug only occours when you click a download link with the "open in new tab" (mouse wheel), otherwise it works fine?

Vista Basic 32

cyberjunkie Monday, May 17, 2010 8:11:29 PM

Am I the only one having problems with Opera rendering large image? With Loading set to draw instantaneously or 1 second, Opera stops drawing images beyond a certain point (~5-10%) unless fully downloaded. This happens more often if you scroll or switch tabs. Happens with all 10.5x builds including snapshots.

Martin KadlecBS-Harou Monday, May 17, 2010 8:41:50 PM

Originally posted by cyberjunkie:

Am I the only one having problems with Opera rendering large image? With Loading set to draw instantaneously or 1 second, Opera stops drawing images beyond a certain point (~5-10%) unless fully downloaded. This happens more often if you scroll or switch tabs. Happens with all 10.5x builds including snapshots.



same problem here, but I thought that its know issue

OperaDrBruce Monday, May 17, 2010 8:58:14 PM

Originally posted by cyberjunkie:

Am I the only one having problems with Opera rendering large image? With Loading set to draw instantaneously or 1 second, Opera stops drawing images beyond a certain point (~5-10%) unless fully downloaded. This happens more often if you scroll or switch tabs. Happens with all 10.5x builds including snapshots.



Yes, VERY annoying. knockout Rendering is very slow and it stops drawing ... Fix this as soon as possible.

Win7x64.

John Tomasjbtomas Monday, May 17, 2010 9:13:39 PM

Other than my above post, I have no problem whatsoever with Opera.

John Tomasjbtomas Monday, May 17, 2010 9:44:51 PM

http://forums.comodo.com/defense-sandbox-help-cis/gui-quits-working-t55467.0.html;prev_next=prev

So, could this be my problem as well?

Please help so I can help all the people I have converted to Opera over the years.

Thanks in advance

EricJH Monday, May 17, 2010 11:12:16 PM

When you want to keep Opera snappy let is clean cache when exiting. And when installing snapshots I would recommend to start each new version with a clean profile (i.e. delete the operaprefs.ini when Opera is not running).

I have never seen Opera get slower when the firewall is not letting that traffic through.

I would say start with the two basics I gave in the above and see what they bring you in the longer run.

JaredpieRr0Ur Tuesday, May 18, 2010 1:19:56 AM

Run isn't working.
XP Home SP3

sTeeVeboY Tuesday, May 18, 2010 3:42:33 AM

First of all, great job @ Opera Dekstop Team & keep on ruling!

Can u plz implement something in the next final Opera-Version (which would be 10.54 I assume)? That would be 4 Windows 7...

When u play a video e.g. @ YouTube it never shows me a real-time preview of the video in the superbar. The window with the vid running doesn't show any preview @ all. Hope you guys can fix that. Google Chrome & Firefox e.g. do it real-time, otherwise Opera's the best!

DrillSarge Tuesday, May 18, 2010 4:01:44 AM

Originally posted by jbtomas:

http://forums.comodo.com/defense-sandbox-help-cis/gui-quits-working-t55467.0.html;prev_next=prev

So, could this be my problem as well?

Please help so I can help all the people I have converted to Opera over the years.

Thanks in advance


3rd-party software firewalls running on the same system you wish to protect are useless. uninstall them and use the built-in firewall in windows (Xp and above). it protects you fine and additionally most internet (dsl-) routers today have built-in hardware-firewalls wink.
And I wouldn't trust this company (comodo) who sell their certificates to known malware-sites.

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