Opera Desktop Team

Fonts, usability, widgets ... Oh my!

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Here is a nice shiny new build. It is particularly interesting for our Linux and FreeBSD users in that it contains a several nice *nix fixes, including crash and freeze fixes, fixes that improve usability, fixes to widgets and three font bugs are fixed. (Yes, we know it hasn't fixed all the font issues yet!p )

In addition we have fixed a cross platform issue with the reload menu and done some Windows widgets fixes. wink

Enjoy the build and the weekend! bigsmile

Mac Known Issues
  • Java is not fully working after OS 10.6 Java Update 2 and OS 10.5 Java Update 7

UNIX Known Issues
  • Java is not working
  • IME is not working
  • Some font issues remain

WARNING: This is a development snapshot with the latest changes. It may contain severe bugs and cause data loss.

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Changelog

Desktop
  • Fixed several small issues with "Reload Every" menu

Unix
  • Fixed DSK-295897 (CSS transformed text looks bad when using slight or medium hinting)
  • Fixed DSK-297450 (Fonts render too narrow when subpixel rendering is applied to truetype fonts containing bitmap)
  • Fixed DSK-298412 (Opera doesn't understand system name fonts)
  • Fixed DSK-296741 (Crash when "create search" is chosen from context menu)
  • Fixed DSK-297613 (Crash when loading page while context menu is open)
  • Fixed DSK-298884 (Crash on right click over select)
  • Fixed DSK-295304 (Clicking in a restored tab does not make it the current tab)
  • Fixed DSK-298761 (Menubar and context menus are unusable with dark themes)
  • Fixed DSK-296745 (Paste replaces current text in textboxes)
  • Fixed DSK-298758 (Drag and drop can hang after a drop (normally on a speed dial page))
  • Fixed DSK-285955 (Zoom popups are misplaced in some non-compositing Window Managers)
  • Fixed DSK-296580 (fileio widgets display only directories - files are not displayed)

Windows
  • Fixed DSK-296295 (Manually created folder is being removed with widget)
  • Fixed DSK-298891 (Installation fails for widgets with SVG icon)
  • Fixed DSK-299343 (Widget files are not removed if widget archive contains folders and there is no space on disk to install it)

WebM Labs releaseLinux WebM Labs, minor update

Comments

Remco Lantingremcolanting Friday, May 21, 2010 3:33:51 PM

Yay! *testing*

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks Friday, May 21, 2010 3:34:46 PM

up

Gosha Friday, May 21, 2010 3:34:50 PM

yuhu! testing!

romanrrmen Friday, May 21, 2010 3:35:01 PM

thx, have a nice weekend too!

Alexsalexs Friday, May 21, 2010 3:36:38 PM

Thanks for this build, but please fixed DSK-296605 (scrollbar knob is too small on large pages)
example site: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html

sidux/xfce

Øzikzakatak Friday, May 21, 2010 3:38:01 PM

testing...


thanx for fixing the paste bug...

Kai OckendorfOckendorf Friday, May 21, 2010 3:38:31 PM

yes

Asires Friday, May 21, 2010 3:38:50 PM

good up

Ruarí Ødegaardruario Friday, May 21, 2010 3:38:51 PM

Originally posted by mgillespie:

Does it contain WebM support

The tags will tell you the answer! p

hurug Friday, May 21, 2010 3:40:41 PM

long awaited but thks.

healer Friday, May 21, 2010 3:45:40 PM

don't know why opera still does not work with IBM Lotus iNotes (Domino Web Access)

sad

Harish Lakshminarayanaharish-l Friday, May 21, 2010 3:51:07 PM

please excuse me for being a bit off-topic, but can anybody "direct/instruct" a linux n00bie to get this to work on the latest distro of Puppy Linux (btw yes i googled, i did get the .pet packages for Opera 10.10 Final build from the official repositories but never got around to get the snapshots to work)

OperaDrBruce Friday, May 21, 2010 3:54:22 PM

To be honest, I expected really long Windows changelog, but thanks anyway. Testing. up

www.nenelinux.tk ®nenericardo Friday, May 21, 2010 3:54:55 PM

thanks opera team bigsmile

Ruarí Ødegaardruario Friday, May 21, 2010 4:01:36 PM

Originally posted by harish.l:

please excuse me for being a bit off-topic, but can anybody "direct/instruct" a linux n00bie to get this to work on the latest distro of Puppy Linux (btw yes i googled, i did get the .pet packages for Opera 10.10 Final build from the official repositories but never got around to get the snapshots to work)


No need to apologise, everyone is new once! wink

We don't provide native .pet packages ourselves. You could repackage but if you are new as you say this would be a little involved and isn't strictly needed. If you want to install, from a terminal window issue the following commands:

This downloads Opera:
wget http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/snapshot-6340/opera-10.54-6340.i386.linux.tar.gz

This unpacks Opera:
tar xf opera-10.54-6340.i386.linux.tar.gz

This starts the install script:
opera-10.54-6340.i386.linux/install

Just follow it step by step and you'll be fine. If you have Opera 10.10 Final installed at the moment and want to run the snapshot alongside then you will need to provide a suffix. I would suggest the suffix snapshot

If you just want to run in place view the README file.

The UNIX forums are the best place to ask for help if you run into any issues.

FavDjiXas Friday, May 21, 2010 4:05:06 PM

Does it fix address bar anomalies?

Where you have to be very precise on "mouse overing" specific urls, otherwise it just opens wrong one.

Patkos Csabapatkoscsaba Friday, May 21, 2010 4:07:15 PM

Downloading ... Testing .... Thanks. ..... . .. . ..... . . drunk

Harish Lakshminarayanaharish-l Friday, May 21, 2010 4:13:37 PM

Originally posted by ruario:

You could repackage yourself but if you are new as you say this would be a little involved. If you are sure you actually want to install, from a terminal Window issue the following commands:



thanks for the help: will give it a try.

nimu_channimuchan Friday, May 21, 2010 4:15:39 PM

thanks for opera team love

exterminans Friday, May 21, 2010 4:20:30 PM

Some fonts still rendered quit narrow.

Screenshot:
http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/4282/screenshotuj.png

Taken on:
http://developer.android.com/reference/dalvik/system/PathClassLoader.html

Opera 10.10 renders them much nicer here.
Ubuntu 9.04 x86

Kyle Bakerkyleabaker Friday, May 21, 2010 4:21:11 PM

Woohoo!

jaybonline Friday, May 21, 2010 4:22:37 PM

it's been so long bigsmile ...... tnx, opera team ^_^

Rafael Luikrafaelluik Friday, May 21, 2010 4:26:36 PM

I was expecting Speed Dial fixes, specially the double-click "mouse gesture" to go to the homepage.

PengePenge4 Friday, May 21, 2010 4:29:21 PM

Originally posted by mgillespie:

Does it contain WebM support, or is it a backwards step from the Labs Release in that respect?


Works if you save the gstreamer folder in the Program Files before uninstall the Labs build and overwrite after install this build. wink
http://files.myopera.com/Penge4/albums/929867/webmwithb3394.png

OperaDrBruce Friday, May 21, 2010 4:32:56 PM

Double click gesture for homepage still not working. cry

Win7x64.

João Davidpiroxicam Friday, May 21, 2010 4:34:10 PM

I have a bug. For example, if I start transferring the Windows MSI file posted above and then click again on the same link while the first file in transferring, I get a transfer dialog but with the Open and Save buttons grayed. Only the Help button is clickable.
Also, this happens several times with several other files. Almost every file that now I try to transfer, the Open and Save buttons are gray.
Windows XP SP3.

Michałph-tea Friday, May 21, 2010 4:44:38 PM

Problem with flash & address bar

http://img710.imageshack.us/i/6340.png/

Debian Linux (squeeze), KDE 4.4.3 & build 6340
website: http://en.within-temptation.com and others with flash on top

Lukaslksd Friday, May 21, 2010 4:47:24 PM

Thanks smile

Hasinahasina Friday, May 21, 2010 4:49:18 PM

Fonts are much closer to 10.10. Howevere some fonts are narrow and have uneven thickness still as in the below screenshot.

Originally posted by exterminans:

Some fonts still rendered quit narrow.



Screenshot:

http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/4282/screenshotuj.png


Scam Friday, May 21, 2010 4:55:34 PM

I noticed that this 3394 build has +500 points ("social networking" and "text parsing" values are increased) in peacekeeper test versus previous 3390 build. Anyone confirm?

João Davidpiroxicam Friday, May 21, 2010 4:58:20 PM

In the About screen, the build is 21868. Is it me, or shouldn't it say instead 3394?

Scam Friday, May 21, 2010 5:05:45 PM

Links and some controls are not clickable on several websites.
Windows 7 x32

Try to click:
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-reviews/30387-cheap-draft-80211n-router-roundup?showall=&start=6
"<< Prev - Page 7 of 7 - Next"

AlessandroBraveale Friday, May 21, 2010 5:06:00 PM

Thank you! Nice weekend! yes

PengePenge4 Friday, May 21, 2010 5:06:59 PM

Originally posted by piroxicam:

In the About screen, the build is 21868. Is it me, or shouldn't it say instead 3394?


You have to uninstall the Labs build before install this build.
Due to higher build number the installer doesn't overwrite the previous version.

echoes1 Friday, May 21, 2010 5:08:30 PM

Originally posted by ruario:

It is not ignored we just don't see the issue on our openSUSE test machines or internal users who run openSUSE. Check if you have NSPluginWrapper installed. If yes disable npwrapper.libflashplayer.so as per the instructions on http://my.opera.com/ruario/blog/problems-with-nspluginwrapper-and-flash-on-64bit



well now we know it is not! thank you for replying! how were we supposed to know if no one addressed us/the problem?
i do not have nspluginwrapper installed because it specifically states on flash/linux/64bit page that nspluginwrapper is no longer needed with 64bit flash and should not be used. (flash with firefox works without nspluginwrapper installed).

problem still exists with this build.

Bhikkhu PesalaPesala Friday, May 21, 2010 5:10:19 PM

Originally posted by Penge4:

You have to uninstall the Labs build before install this build.


Use the Classic Installer, then you can run several builds alongside each other.

Ruarí Ødegaardruario Friday, May 21, 2010 5:11:04 PM

Originally posted by harish.l:

thanks for the help: will give it a try.

If there is no link to this Opera build in the 'Internet' menu you can always start it from the terminal when you want to run it.

Assuming you took my suggestion and used snapshot as a suffix, you could start it with:
opera-snapshot &
(If you used a different suffix, then adjust accordingly).

If you used no suffix then:
opera &

P.S. If you want to uninstall then either issue the command 'uninstall-opera-snapshot' (where snapshot represents the suffix you selected) or just 'uninstall-opera' if you didn't use a suffix.

Daniel Söderströmdrauks Friday, May 21, 2010 5:12:39 PM

This is Opera's homepage with this build, don't really like the font here wink
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_QlFjLnLuSNc/S_a9lD6PLFI/AAAAAAAAF_Y/fdHJv0kppfQ/s800/screenshot.jpg

Scam Friday, May 21, 2010 5:18:57 PM

Originally posted by Scam:

Links and some controls are not clickable on several websites.

Windows 7 x32



Problem was in allblock.js plugin from here:
http://my.opera.com/Lex1/blog/flashblock-for-opera-9

Ruarí Ødegaardruario Friday, May 21, 2010 5:18:58 PM

@drauks: Read this to get an idea of the information we need and submit a bug report.

Ruarí Ødegaardruario Friday, May 21, 2010 5:19:58 PM

Can I remind everyone to mention your OS and OS version when discussing issues and in the case of Linux, your distro and distro version.

Abhinavdecodedthought Friday, May 21, 2010 5:21:21 PM

*downloading the new snapshot for ubuntu* up

derekn Friday, May 21, 2010 5:24:35 PM

I'm still seeing the problem on Linux where opening a URL remotely ("opera -newtab www.opera.com") always chooses the bottom-most window. Earlier 10.5x snapshots used the top window. Is this an intentional change? The old behavior (open in the top window) was much nicer.

joshas Friday, May 21, 2010 5:25:03 PM

One issue I'm still having is Opera's main menu popping out after pressing Alt+Shift (I use this hotkey to switch my keymap layout).

arekm Friday, May 21, 2010 5:26:50 PM

So who is able to open link below under Linux opera 10.5x without getting it hang for ever?

http://buildlogs.pld-linux.org/index.php?dist=th&arch=x86_64&ok=1&name=kernel-bare-vserver&id=11eec8b6-3285-402c-b017-5baa3be0fee7

http://tnij.org/gy4j

Loaded page is big but stable opera is able to deal with it.

Franckyfrk34 Friday, May 21, 2010 5:32:08 PM

an other one...cool...testing!!!
yes

Abhinavdecodedthought Friday, May 21, 2010 5:33:07 PM

this doesn't have WEBM support ?? confused

PengePenge4 Friday, May 21, 2010 5:34:15 PM

Originally posted by Pesala:

Use the Classic Installer, then you can run several builds alongside each other.


On Vista and above the Classic installer doesn't integrate itself with the system (Control Panel->Default programs) therefore not too good the system integration (external links and such).

Abhinav: Officially not, unofficially read this. (On Linux the paths and filenames maybe different)

Ruarí Ødegaardruario Friday, May 21, 2010 5:35:34 PM

Originally posted by metude:

Is that all for two weeks

Firstly, I would appreciate if you asked more politely. Consider if I said to you, "Is that all you have done for two weeks" with regards to your daily job. doh

However, I'm hoping it wasn't meant the way it came across, so I'll do my best to answer you.

No this is not everything we worked on for two weeks. Firstly the changelog is high level and so does not represent absolutely everything that has changed in the build. Secondly you are only seeing our work for this line (10.5x) of the Desktop browser. Not future versions, nor other non desktop platforms. Thirdly, we don't fix issues one by one and then produce a snapshot. Opera is too big a project to work that way. Groups of fixes are worked on in multitudes of different branches and once all the bugs of a particular branch are fixed and internally tested (to minimize regressions) only then is that branch rolled back into the current desktop version. What you seeing in the change log relates to a particular branch that was ready in time for this snapshot. Several others were very close to being ready. Had they been the change log would have been quite a lot bigger. And finally, this is not the only release for two weeks. We also provided a labs release, which itself required a fair amount of work.

Rest assured your will probably see another snapshot next week.

Ruarí Ødegaardruario Friday, May 21, 2010 5:37:12 PM

Originally posted by decodedthought:

this doesn't have WEBM support

No that was a labs release. WebM support isn't yet ready to go into the main desktop browser (yet). Labs releases are about showcasing some of the interesting new stuff we are working on. It is quite common for features from labs to be missing from the next few snapshots.

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