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Friday morning improvements

By Ruarí Ødegaardruario. Friday, December 10, 2010 7:21:30 AM

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It is Friday morning and most of my colleagues are not yet in the office (likely due to the fact that the Oslo office has a Christmas party this evening and they want to conserve their energy to party the night away later). However, I can't help but think that we have all these great fixes just lying around waiting to be tested. So why not put out a snapshot?

Ok then! Here is a new snapshot. Highlights include: Crash fixes, improved memory usage, mail panel improvements, extension fixes, a font-family settings fix, the preference to disable visual mouse gestures is back, prettier inline dropdown toolbars button styles, and a whole load of *nix fixes. How does that suit you? wink

One final thing I should mention. For now we have switched off WebSockets by default.

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.

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Known issues
  • Tab stacking issues: changes are coming but are still being tested internally

Changelog
Desktop
  • DSK-202992 ("Bookmark all open pages" puts bookmarks in wrong folder or root folder in Manage Bookmarks view)
  • DSK-280303 (Opera uses wrong color for tooltips)
  • DSK-308593 (Opera 10.60 ignores font-family settings for some locales)
  • DSK-319279 (Need a pref to disable the mouse gestures popup)
  • Fixed all the inline dropdown toolbars button styles

Extensions
  • DSK-316846 (Icons in extension manager scaled to 60x60 size instead of 64x64)
  • DSK-318528 (Small icon shouldn't be resized in install dialog)
  • DSK-319432 (Extensions isn't updated from untrusted repository)
  • DSK-319703 (Pages with http auth in the background do not show the auth dialog on restart)
  • DSK-320723 (Links from popup .html always opened as non private tab)
  • DSK-321285 (Notification about installed extensions contains wrong text)
  • DSK-321287 (Extension Manager content font sizes incorrect)
  • DSK-321293 (Make sure that generic extension icon is deployed where needed)
  • DSK-321436 (Remove addons.labs.opera.com references from browser)
  • DSK-321482 (Security policy is not tracked during extensions update)
  • Make a generic extension icon Opera add-ons
  • Fix to regression in size of statusbar
  • New Extension Update dialog plus some minor fixes of install dialog
  • New privacy dialog for extensions
  • Some minor memory leaks fixed

Mail
  • DSK-309588 (Make category headers and their context menu keyboard accessible)
  • DSK-309599 (Add support for Feed folders in in- and export of OPML files)
  • DSK-309628 (can only create subfolders for feeds when top level folder is focused)
  • DSK-311695 (Pretty scrollbar in mail panel for Mac)
  • DSK-312575 (Dragging parent feed folder into third level child causes a freeze)
  • DSK-312975 (Make it easier to find out how to hide categories)
  • DSK-317692 ('New Label' from Label section header context menu creates sub-labels)
  • DSK-318045 (Make unread count labels clickable)
  • DSK-318387 (Non existing filter view says "OK")
  • DSK-318389 (Feed is added to panel even when cancelling dialog)
  • DSK-318392 (Super scrollbar doesn't move when tabbing into out-of-view expanded section)
  • DSK-318536 (Can't collapse sections which are taller than the panel)
  • DSK-318665 (When drag and dropping an accordion item treeview items are highlighted as if it could be dropped in there)
  • DSK-319077 (Make 'remove from view' apply to label)
  • DSK-319241 (Resizing the mail panel freezes Opera)
  • DSK-319248 (Crash when importing feeds or mail)
  • DSK-319257 (Mail tabs display tooltip as From last selected message)
  • DSK-319296 (Label icon not displaying in the Labels column)
  • DSK-319440 (Removing a message label has no immediate visual feedback)
  • DSK-319458 (Odd animation when opening the mail panel)
  • DSK-319492 (There's no shortcut to apply labels)
  • DSK-319538 (Too much scrolling when clicking views in really long treeviews in the accordion)
  • DSK-319558 (No message count for trash)
  • DSK-319686 (Crash using an own button for accessing mail folders without a mail account)
  • DSK-319784 (Dropdown toolbars like geolocation and plugin wizard look corrupted while page reloads)
  • DSK-319795 (Fix "Show Messages From" not hiding other account sections)
  • DSK-320419 (Wrong default mail signature)
  • DSK-320670 (Sections in mail panel moved to the bottom disappear after restart)
  • DSK-320694 (Removed 'followed contact' still counted for section unread count)
  • DSK-320881 (Clicking on a partially visible section header on the bottom should collapse it, not scroll to it)
  • DSK-321160 (Opera doesn't check newsfeeds after importing)

Core
  • CORE-35052 (Disable WebSockets by default due to security problems)
  • CORE-34903 (Crash when adding pages to "Read later" extension)
  • CORE-27718 (Fix to help with memory usage)
  • CORE-32166 (Crash in flash when going in and out of print preview)
  • CORE-32755 (Can't sent email from gmail on private mode)
  • CORE-33235 (Opera not compatible with Lufthansa Austria and Sweden booking website)
  • Plugin improvements
  • Fixed several other common crashers

Windows
  • DSK-250396 (By changing selected characters with Microsoft IME/IME 2007, the background color of selected characters goes transparent)
  • Installer renamed

Mac
  • DSK-320204 (Fix cmd+n and cmd+q when Opera is minimized)
  • DSK-320274 (UI is unclickable after using visual mousegestures)

Linux/FreeBSD
  • DSK-293790 (Comboboxes lack hover and pressed styling)
  • DSK-295272 (Opera with KDE4 toolkit blocks input to X11 when saving a file for the first time in a non KDE4 environment)
  • DSK-295615 (Tabs in dialogs are not GTK native): possibly further improvements in the future
  • DSK-311301 (Color of webpage input fields don't update when changing theme)
  • DSK-311302 (Crash Opera when the pop-up menu loops)
  • DSK-318043 (The geometry argument doesn't have any effect if Opera was maximised in the previous session)
  • DSK-319664 (Pressing enter in open dropdown does not select the highlighted item)
  • DSK-320293 (Opera on *nix fails to distinguish between Serif and San Serif fonts for Japanese)
  • DSK-320331 (Command-line argument -newprivatetab opens regular tab in Unix)
  • DSK-320592 (Shift key events abort Input Method processing causing Korean to break)
  • DSK-320595 (Crash on exit if XIM is active with a pre-edit string)
  • DSK-320733 (Wrong text color when hovering over Push and Header buttons for some dark themes under GTK)
  • DSK-320808 (Right-clicking on flash content with wmode=transparent blocks user clicks)
  • DSK-320898 (Menu bar does not behave natively in KDE): further fixes also needed
  • DSK-321112 (Crash after dragging a tab outside Opera window)
  • DSK-321189 (Midclick paste and drag-n-drop does not work on an empty workspace)

Address, Search, Extensions, and InstallerFriday evening improvements

Comments

Tamil Friday, December 10, 2010 7:53:51 AM

Originally posted by ruario:

the preference to disable visual mouse gestures is back

Thanks.

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The requested URL /windows/partytime_11.00-1136/Opera_installer_1100_1136_en.exe was not found on this server.
Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) Server at snapshot.opera.com Port 80

Max-=>13<=- Friday, December 10, 2010 7:55:46 AM

windows build link - 404 not found

ouzowtfouzoWTF Friday, December 10, 2010 7:56:04 AM

The requested URL /windows/partytime_11.00-1136/Opera_installer_1100_1136_en.exe was not found on this server.


sad

However, I can't help but think that we have all these great fixes just lying around waiting to be tested. So why not put out a snapshot?


Vote for employee of the month! bigsmile

Richard Woodrichardhula Friday, December 10, 2010 7:57:22 AM

Seems like its so early in the office you forgot to upload the executable ;-)

Asires Friday, December 10, 2010 7:59:37 AM

Not Found
Now works smile

Originally posted by ruario:

How does that suit you?

Even without Gestures UI they don't work as in 10.6 sad

How about new universal option: "new gestures with UI" / "old gestures without UI, with good sensitivity and without false operation (in a word, same as in Opera 10.6)"? up

vipin kumarmvk6 Friday, December 10, 2010 8:02:49 AM

hasn't any one turned up yet?rolleyes

blackcaeser Friday, December 10, 2010 8:03:01 AM

Admit - you teased us! cry p

Gousti FruitGoustiFruit Friday, December 10, 2010 8:03:32 AM

Broken link and Ruarí Ødegaard is probably to the party already :'-(

Ruarí Ødegaardruario Friday, December 10, 2010 8:06:57 AM

Ok, calm down! wink I forgot one changelog item. We renamed the installer! It is there now. wink

Reload the page if the link is still broken and it should work. Or use this link.

Jimmy Tsatsosjimmy_tsatsos Friday, December 10, 2010 8:11:13 AM

1. The site http://adf.ly doesn't work correctly. To test it just sign in and then use the menu (Home, Referrals, Tools, Account, Withdraw, Logout), whatever you choose you stay in the same page.

2. Video on this page doesn't load http://screenr.com/StL .

Windows 7 x64

EDIT: I love you Opera team, thank you for fixing this!

kloon Friday, December 10, 2010 8:16:29 AM

Horrible startup times are still a show stopper to me, affecting both the installer and the browser itself. Sticking to the beta until u guys figure this out (DSK-321463).

Ruarí Ødegaardruario Friday, December 10, 2010 8:17:08 AM

Originally posted by ouzoWTF:

Vote for employee of the month!

I think I probably lost any chance of that when I miss-linked the windows build! doh

Chiragchirag64 Friday, December 10, 2010 8:19:12 AM

Damn, that was fast!!! :O

Jimmy Tsatsosjimmy_tsatsos Friday, December 10, 2010 8:20:13 AM

Originally posted by ruario:

Originally posted by ouzoWTF:

Vote for employee of the month!

I think I probably lost any chance of that when I miss-linked the windows build! doh

Surely you wont be the employee of the month since you wrote Olso instead of Oslo p cheers

arnaud lautierGrouick Friday, December 10, 2010 8:24:10 AM

Hi it seems I'm having some issue with the way Opera behave with our Adobe Flex application.
We send variables with the POST method from our application to a php script, those variables aren't accessible using the table $_POST but by using the variable HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA with the last 3 snapshots.

It is still here and it's preventing us to use Opera in this state.

Tamil Friday, December 10, 2010 8:25:45 AM

In skin\windows_skin.zip\skin.ini

[Panel Normal Tcoolbar Skin]

Kyle Bakerkyleabaker Friday, December 10, 2010 8:25:50 AM

bigsmile

ouzowtfouzoWTF Friday, December 10, 2010 8:28:10 AM

I like plugin improvements, but I still get this error (since the last two builds I think) when trying to load a silverlight app:

[HttpWebRequest_WebException_RemoteServer]
Arguments: NotFound
Debugging resource strings are unavailable...

sad

Its an internal app at work for time registration and I have to use Firefox for that.

youngjr Friday, December 10, 2010 8:28:41 AM

Thanks! Happy Christmas!

Ruarí Ødegaardruario Friday, December 10, 2010 8:28:53 AM

Originally posted by jimmy_tsatsos:

Surely you wont be the employee of the month since you wrote Olso instead of Oslo

Yeah it is definitely too early for me!

janaco Friday, December 10, 2010 8:34:04 AM

Originally posted by Ruarí Ødegaard:

CORE-32755 (Can't sent email from gmail on private mode)



You. Are. Great! smile

But in the Installer when klicking the questionmark there is now a scrollbar, intended to see all the help-Text ... but the scrollbar is not functional wink

WinXP3

Erebos42 Friday, December 10, 2010 8:37:15 AM

The texts in the visual mouse gesture thing seem to have scrollbars. Otherwise: great work!

OS: Ubuntu 10.10

Edit: Apparently there are also scrollbars at empty pages in the Speeddial Page. Maybe it's a problem with the widescreen resolution?!

townsendgalakadon Friday, December 10, 2010 8:39:06 AM

Windows 7 x64 still getting the creation of a "desktop.ini" file on my desktop everytime I run Opera.

Zdeněk Zikánzdenek.zikan Friday, December 10, 2010 8:42:48 AM

Compose key does not work properly in address bar. I think it is issue that has been here for more builds, but I haven't reported yet.

OS: Linux (Ubuntu 10.04)
I have Compose key mapped on my keyboard and use it for writing non-ascii characters. It works in all apps but Opera address bar. It works e.g. in textareas or google search box (the one which is next to the address bar). If I click into the address bar and press Compose + keys combination, it works only the for the first character and the first time after I focus on the address bar. So e.g. I can write "åsomething" but not "somethingå". If I write non-ascii character and delete it and try it again, it doesn't work either the second time. I have to un-focus and focus the address bar again.

Writing non-ascii characters by changing keyboard layout e.g. to Norwegian works fine in the address bar, it's only Compose that doesn't work properly.

Ramkumar Shankarramkumarshankar Friday, December 10, 2010 8:43:17 AM

Originally posted by Erebos42:

The texts in the visual mouse gesture thing seem to have scrollbars. Otherwise: great work!



Yup, still the scrollbars persist all around in ubuntu. Like in the security information popup from the address bar too. Hope it all gets fixed soon. smile

I'll try the mac build later. Looking good.

Gereford Friday, December 10, 2010 8:45:26 AM

Thx. Downloading and testing. Thx for chance to disable Visual Mouse Gesture

BinbiK-Gergo Friday, December 10, 2010 8:47:05 AM

Hy Ruarí Ødegaard!

http://www.tomshardware.de/opera-11-beta,news-245016.html

This is true in the news?

Welcome

Gergő

NicoHellbillyDeluxe Friday, December 10, 2010 8:50:56 AM

Awesome, thanks a lot for a new Snapshot. I will test it as soon as possible!

One small thing: I know that I can check for Extension updates through the Opera menu, but would it be possible to have an extra button on the internal Extension page, which triggers a search for updates?

Jimmy Tsatsosjimmy_tsatsos Friday, December 10, 2010 8:56:20 AM

Originally posted by galakadon:

Windows 7 x64 still getting the creation of a "desktop.ini" file on my desktop everytime I run Opera.


+1

Same OS

marbross Friday, December 10, 2010 8:57:25 AM

Still problem to open a file enclosed in email. For example when I try to open file wrote in .pdf, Opera crashes sad

ken2k Friday, December 10, 2010 8:58:06 AM

Hi,

thx for the new snapshot.
But why can't I use mouse gesture within this green bounding box : http://files.myopera.com/ken2k/files/opera_gesture_bb.jpg ??

On Opera 10.x it worked perfectly, and small moves within the box represent at least 80% of my gesture movements.
So PLEASE, could you provide us information about this : will you let the user do small movements in a future release ?

Thx

ouzowtfouzoWTF Friday, December 10, 2010 9:15:02 AM

Originally posted by HellbillyDeluxe:

One small thing: I know that I can check for Extension updates through the Opera menu, but would it be possible to have an extra button on the internal Extension page, which triggers a search for updates?


Yeah, I wished this too.

Mtlrrr Friday, December 10, 2010 9:16:58 AM

Still opera gets corrupt cookies for the page in iframe.

opensuse 11.3 x32 kde 4.5

Jure Hamhamax Friday, December 10, 2010 9:18:50 AM

It's not build specific but this really should get fixed
http://wtikay.com/top5k

sTeeVeboY Friday, December 10, 2010 9:20:07 AM

Originally posted by jimmy_tsatsos:

2. Video on this page doesn't load http://screenr.com/StL .

Windows 7 x64

EDIT: I love you Opera team, thank you for fixing this!



Video not loading - confirmed
Solving Javascript crash error - confirmed

Originally posted by ruario:

I think I probably lost any chance of that when I miss-linked the windows build! doh



bigsmile It's OK, just remember, it was very early in the morning and about 8.00 it was already fixed. Most of the people were still asleep! p

Originally posted by jimmy_tsatsos:

Surely you wont be the employee of the month since you wrote Olso instead of Oslo p



As I mentioned above lol need time to wake up!
________________________________________________________________________

There is still a major bug in Opera which needs to be fixed! Linking an image in a dialogue box and afterwards trying to type some text beneath causes Opera to crash! Look @ this picture...



And there is still the bug of not-displaying favicons in the search bar!



Is it true that Opera 11.00 final will have hardware acceleration? Would be just PERFECT and make Opera the best browser just as it used to be.

Hokkuthokkut Friday, December 10, 2010 9:22:51 AM

waiting for this^^
Tab stacking issues: changes are coming but are still being tested internally

hupfdule Friday, December 10, 2010 9:25:28 AM

Could you please make a comment on whether you are planning to include multi-key shortcuts in the final releease again?

frogstomp Friday, December 10, 2010 9:27:56 AM

great, voice is back from the previous build.

Unrealmirakulix Friday, December 10, 2010 9:30:35 AM

previews in Tabs look strange, if preview box is wider then web page. (perherps only when you have more then one stack)

http://s1.directupload.net/images/101210/ufcyye6a.png

Vladkadvlad Friday, December 10, 2010 9:30:39 AM

DSK-202992 ("Bookmark all open pages" puts bookmarks in wrong folder or root folder in Manage Bookmarks view)


Yes! Thanks a lot!

Unfortunately, bug (DSK-319312 or DSK-321400) with re-opened page position still is not fixed.
Please, pay attention to it, that's a really nice Opera's feature.

cybpsychdsync Friday, December 10, 2010 9:31:15 AM

Originally posted by jimmy_tsatsos:

Originally posted by galakadon:

Windows 7 x64 still getting the creation of a "desktop.ini" file on my desktop everytime I run Opera.

+1 Same OS

on Win7 x86 too

ouzowtfouzoWTF Friday, December 10, 2010 9:31:56 AM

Originally posted by hupfdule:

Could you please make a comment on whether you are planning to include multi-key shortcuts in the final releease again?


??? Whats wrong now?

hupfdule Friday, December 10, 2010 9:35:09 AM

Originally posted by "ouzowtf":

Originally posted by "hupfdule":


Could you please make a comment on whether you are planning to include multi-key shortcuts in the final releease again?

??? Whats wrong now?


They just don't work. For example I have configured "x ctrl, k" to close a tab (as in emacs). This was working very well in previous opera releases. Since the opera 11 beta (I think) they do not work.

Charlie ClarkMuzzlehatch Friday, December 10, 2010 9:35:37 AM

Great - loads of Mail fixes! Of course, some long standing ones such as missing newlines when replying remain but I've sort of grown used to it! The new stuff really does increase usability. When do we get idenitities? ;-)

Tab-stacking is an extremely elegant solution that is "quietly" useful and does not get in the way.

Anyone know why http://www.chip.de/s_specials/c1_static_special_index_31891802.html will not load at all with the NotScript extension installed?

Bela Lubkinfilbo Friday, December 10, 2010 9:41:24 AM

Originally posted by ken2k:

But why can't I use mouse gesture within this green bounding box : http://files.myopera.com/ken2k/files/opera_gesture_bb.jpg ??

(This worked in 1111, haven't tried 1136 yet) -- set opera:config#UserPrefs|Gesture Threshold lower than the default of 5. 0 worked for me; possibly a bit too sensitive...

BTW, DON'T try a negative number. At least in 1111, a negative gesture threshold crashes opera:config and you have to edit operaprefs.ini to get it back! (DSK-320374)

youngjr Friday, December 10, 2010 9:41:56 AM

Trusted site (e.g. https://addons.opera.com/addons/extensions) badge in address field is still yellow not green like the previous build (1133).

Henrik HelmersHelmers Friday, December 10, 2010 9:43:43 AM

Originally posted by sTeeVeboY:

And there is still the bug of not-displaying favicons in the search bar!


My icons seem to display. Could you give some more details?

Rus-land Friday, December 10, 2010 9:44:08 AM

Right click in Google Text Document - the page is incorrect...

ken2k Friday, December 10, 2010 9:45:49 AM

Originally posted by filbo:

(This worked in 1111, haven't tried 1136 yet) -- set opera:config#GestureThreshold lower than the default of 5. 0 worked for me; possibly a bit too sensitive...

BTW, DON'T try a negative number. At least in 1111, a negative gesture threshold crashes opera:config and you have to edit operaprefs.ini to get it back! (DSK-320374)



Unfortunately this doesn't work for me. Changing the threshold has no effect (still can't make small movements to work)

tenplus1 Friday, December 10, 2010 9:48:15 AM

Gif Anim's dont play...

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