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Speed Dial, and other fixes

By Alexey Feldgendlerfeldgendler. Friday, March 11, 2011 3:33:37 PM

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Today's snapshot fixes numerous issues, including Speed Dial bugs, various crashes, and content blocker synchronization problems.

In the previous build, we changed the way we display thumbnails/images in Speed Dial. This was done to make it easier to recognize your favorite web sites quicker. If you would like to learn more about how your site can control what appears in Opera's Speed Dial, Dev.Opera has a more detailed overview of the available options. When a site doesn't specify the look of the Speed Dial image, Opera tries to zoom in on the page to make it more recognizable.

This build does not contain any changes to the way Speed Dial thumbnails are generated, but there are numerous bug fixes to Speed Dial in general.

Take a look at the changelog for more information on the changes since the previous build.

Known issues

  • Crash on startup for some users
  • Windows Installer crashes for some users
  • Fraud protection not working correctly
  • Check for updates entry is sometimes missing on the Mac
  • Custom searches are not always preserved after upgrade
  • Possible clipping of some dialogs under Linux/FreeBSD
  • Some Speed Dials refresh every second if you upgrade between 11.10-2020 and 11.10-2025: This only affects snapshot users and will not affect those who upgrade from the stable, so will not be fixed.

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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Changelog
Core
  • CORE-37160 (Fix for crash when extensions need HTTP Auth after restart)
  • CORE-34650 (Memory leaks caused by missing call to deallocate() on the scriptable object)
  • CORE-37136 (Enable Cookies DNS Check is default true, should be false)
  • CORE-37060 (Deleting a Wand Password crashes Opera)
  • CORE-36823 (100% cpu usage when installing application cache on developers.whatwg.org)
  • CORE-36808 (developers.whatwg.org crashes opera)
  • CORE-36805 ("work offline" conflicts with "application cache")
  • CORE-36243 (IFRAME with scrolling=no interferes with scrollwheel/keyboard scrolling of parent document)
  • CORE-34738 (Some sites flicker when loading plugins)
  • CORE-27392 (Windowed plugin position not updated when moved in overflowed container)
  • CORE-36871 (Application cache not detected for explicit cache entries when loaded outside of the application cache)

Desktop (general)
  • Improved strings and translations
  • DSK-328884 (Content blocker crashes when Opera Link is enabled)
  • DSK-313944 ("Ctrl+Shift+V" opens in a new background tab)
  • DSK-326198 (Enter when composing HTML mails sometimes has large line spacing)
  • DSK-304402 Declarative UI (dialog.ini replacement): more information later

Desktop (Speed Dial)
  • DSK-330681 (Crash related to the new logo finder)
  • DSK-330693 (Entering addresses that start with a number opens the corresponding Speed Dial instead)
  • DSK-329199 (Added Speed Dial entry is not focused)
  • DSK-329522 (Opera hangs or crashes when editing/deleting Speed Dial cells in multiple windows at the same time)
  • DSK-329877 (OK button should be focused in add speed dialog when text has been entered in the urlfield)
  • DSK-330030 (It should be possible to set Speed Dial to use 6-7 columns)
  • DSK-330319 (Page title is shown on top of thumbnail when hovering background tabs with thumbnail previews enabled)
  • DSK-330339 (Clicking on the "100% Zoom" button in zoom dropdown doesn't update the Speed Dial thumbnail)
  • DSK-330363 (When adding a speed dial, a fuzzy plus icon appears inside in the thumbnail)
  • DSK-330443 (Crash on removing an entry being edited)
  • DSK-330472 (Opera crashes if a lot of speeddials are added [and background image is changed])
  • DSK-330520 (Make add-new-dial separately skinable)
  • DSK-330530 (Zooming with + or - with focus on the Speed Dial page zooms any page opened from that Speed Dial tab)
  • DSK-330555 (Opera crashes on exit after drag/dropping a Speed Dial thumbnail onto desktop)
  • DSK-330624 (Opera crashes after deleting thumbnail that was dragged onto status bar)
  • DSK-330362 (Configure speed dial dialogue - align the 'OK' and 'cancel' to the right of the dialog box)
  • DSK-330361 (Configure speed dial dialogue - remove the cross button (close) top right)
  • DSK-330360 (Change 'Configure Speed Dial' button to use custom skin element)
  • DSK-329976 (Speed dial zoom level button displays wrong value if going back from webpage)
  • DSK-330327 (Dragging a speed dial outside the tab changes speed dial positions)
  • DSK-330520 (Correct Speed Dial background color on Mac)
  • DSK-330629 (Update Speed Dial styling on Mac)

Windows
  • DSK-330717 (Broken animations on Windows)
  • DSK-330721 (Cannot create characters that require dead keys on Windows)

Mac
  • DSK-330675 (Localized search broken)

Your thumbnails, now prettier!Important crash fixes

Comments

blackcoder Friday, March 11, 2011 7:14:20 PM

up

Just installed the previous snapshot! *g*

Topimrkukov Friday, March 11, 2011 7:17:44 PM

Originally posted by blackcoder:

Just installed the previous snapshot! *g*


Same... about ½ minute before this. bigsmile

nice changelog

flm Friday, March 11, 2011 7:24:25 PM

  • Crash on startup for some users
  • Windows Installer crashes for some users

    • Indeed. Same crashes as in previos build. :/

    Darkman-ua Friday, March 11, 2011 7:25:41 PM

    Crashes after the RSS-feeds window opening.
    Troubles with searches still presents.furious

    Alexsalexs Friday, March 11, 2011 7:32:40 PM

    DSK-328990: "Execute program" doesn't work on Linux.

    http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=930002

    Kike Punkkiketrejo Friday, March 11, 2011 7:32:41 PM

    With more than 4 columns in Speed Dial, some thumbnails dissapear and also the Speed Dial config button

    yurchor Friday, March 11, 2011 7:33:55 PM

    Thanks for this new version. It works fine on Mandriva 2010.2, i386. Previous versions (prior 2033) were very problematic.

    smile

    Peter HenkelTerepin Friday, March 11, 2011 7:33:56 PM

    Since previous build I have now all speed dials with empty thumbnails. This isn't exactly that kind of improvement I was hoping to see.

    Øyvind ØstlundNoteMe Friday, March 11, 2011 7:37:00 PM

    @Kike Punk

    I guess that depends on resolution on your monitor(s), what is yours?

    berend ytsmaytsmabeer Friday, March 11, 2011 7:38:40 PM

    Originally posted by Terepin:

    Since previous build I have now all speed dials with empty thumbnails. This isn't exactly that kind of improvement I was hoping to see.


    Clean or dirty build can make a lot of difference how Opera reacts.
    Did you do a clean install?

    Gereford Friday, March 11, 2011 7:39:00 PM

    Thx. Testing

    Gousti FruitGoustiFruit Friday, March 11, 2011 7:42:43 PM

    WOWOWOW, CPU usage is still 100% for a few seconds whenever I hover this comment editing zone with my mouse !

    Vitaliy_UTShahidUA Friday, March 11, 2011 7:44:18 PM

    gmail not working, the browser generates an error sad
    win7 Sp1 32bit

    Idan AdarYtseJam Friday, March 11, 2011 7:44:30 PM

    uhm, an Opera Link error: "Opera Link is not supported in this version of Opera".

    Say what?

    11.1.2039 Mac

    blackcoder Friday, March 11, 2011 7:53:42 PM

    The configuration-button in Speeddial is wrong in a german install here. The text shows "Configure...". Simply not yet translated or is this a bug?

    http://files.myopera.com/blackcoder/files/opera1110b2039-speeddcfgbtn.jpg

    Philee Friday, March 11, 2011 7:54:07 PM

    Originally posted by GoustiFruit:

    WOWOWOW, CPU usage is still 100% for a few seconds whenever I hover this comment editing zone with my mouse !


    I can confirm this on Win7 x86. Not 100% but up to 50%.
    Also since last build Opera uses a lot CPU with visual mouse gestures.

    blackcoder Friday, March 11, 2011 7:56:00 PM

    Originally posted by Philee:

    I can confirm this on Win7 x86. Not 100% but up to 50%.


    If you have a dual core then it is like 100%. One core fully accelerated.

    eliotcougar Friday, March 11, 2011 8:03:24 PM

    I was so incredibly happy to see
    CORE-34650 (Memory leaks caused by missing call to deallocate() on the scriptable object)

    But now I realized that this version crashes from start for me... sad
    Previous build worked here... It's not "the same" crash, it's new one...

    zombie Friday, March 11, 2011 8:03:37 PM

    I really need the old speed dial view back! It is impossible to see which pages to open when I can't see the content! cry

    Philee Friday, March 11, 2011 8:14:22 PM

    Originally posted by blackcoder:

    If you have a dual core then it is like 100%. One core fully accelerated.


    You're right, I have dual core. So one core uses up ~100% CPU.

    ncc50446 Friday, March 11, 2011 8:14:52 PM

    More excellent work from Opera!
    I haven't had any cpu problems...(Mandriva 2010.2 i386 KDE).
    Haven't had any crashes in most of these builds as well.
    The Speed Dial changes are good. It would be nice to have the option per thumbnail to use the new way, or the old way.
    But other wise, keep it up smile

    VictormwChief Friday, March 11, 2011 8:15:08 PM

    Opera still removing all custom search engines. And restore defaults after restart.

    eliotcougar Friday, March 11, 2011 8:18:00 PM

    Originally posted by eliotcougar:

    But now I realized that this version crashes from start for me... sad
    Previous build worked here... It's not "the same" crash, it's new one...


    Did a "Portable" install to another folder... Now it doesn't crash... I guess I have to reset preferences in my main installation...

    IusedtobeOOlli91 Friday, March 11, 2011 8:18:52 PM

    Moderator edit: This comment has been removed for breaching our terms of use.

    Jan StandalThink Friday, March 11, 2011 8:21:32 PM

    @zombi: any examples?

    r3m00r3 Friday, March 11, 2011 8:26:42 PM

    Originally posted by flm:

  • Crash on startup for some users
  • Windows Installer crashes for some users

    • Indeed. Same crashes as in previos build. :/

    Same here, crashed immediately, but last build was OK.

    DaringineerQuadunit404 Friday, March 11, 2011 8:31:50 PM

    Originally posted by Terepin:

    Since previous build I have now all speed dials with empty thumbnails. This isn't exactly that kind of improvement I was hoping to see.


    Same problem here. All my Speed Dial thumbnails are blank.

    Devocalypse Friday, March 11, 2011 8:32:22 PM

    One of the better reasons to use SD is to see if a page has changed by refreshing. By zooming around the page randomly in search of a logo, that is no longer possible. The link rel thumbnail on the other hand is a complete joke. A funny/lame example would be 2 speed dials on different sections of deviantart now both have the identical ugly 48pixel DA icon (or is it logo) and no visual way to differentiate them.

    If Opera Software really wishes to go that extra mile, a more sensible solution would be to present the entire page to the users and allow them to crop a region themselves, similar to how most sites allow you to crop an avatar, as well as retain and remember the offset of that region upon refreshing of the thumbnails. If not, there should at least be an option to use the old generation method.

    I am aware they are still pretty much work in progress, but in my opinion the new thumbnails are pretty much useless and some of them come out plain ugly.

    CouneSS Friday, March 11, 2011 8:32:59 PM

    Originally posted by flm:

  • Crash on startup for some users
  • Windows Installer crashes for some users

    • Indeed. Same crashes as in previos build. :/

    Confirmed. WinXP SP3 32-bit.

    Joonas Lehtolahtigodjonez Friday, March 11, 2011 8:33:37 PM

    DSK-313944 ("Ctrl+Shift+V" opens in a new background tab)


    For those that had this bug, is this now fixed for real?

    For me it just seemed to make things even worse. The last time changelog mentioned fixing this bug it changed the Paste & Go to open a new tab, except when done from address bar. Now Paste & Go opens a new tab, even if you are paste&go'ing directly in address bar... not very logical since you paste and then click Go manually, it doesn't open a new tab, as it shouldn't.

    Shane Bundyoperabaker Friday, March 11, 2011 8:33:58 PM

    Originally posted by GoustiFruit:

    WOWOWOW, CPU usage is still 100% for a few seconds whenever I hover this comment editing zone with my mouse !


    Same here. It's always been like that in Opera (while other browsers can't do it smoothly).

    Shane Bundyoperabaker Friday, March 11, 2011 8:35:04 PM

    Originally posted by OneginUA:

    WTF? Dont load site
    http://i.min.us/immQZw.PNG


    Is that Opera 10.5 by any chance?

    Bhikkhu PesalaPesala Friday, March 11, 2011 8:37:20 PM

    DSK-330721 (Cannot create characters that require dead keys on Windows)

    Confirmed fixed áéíóú ďťň

    Editing desktop blog comments still freezes Opera, but it recovers after a little while.

    rseiler Friday, March 11, 2011 8:38:10 PM

    Originally posted by Quadunit404:

    Same problem here. All my Speed Dial thumbnails are blank.


    Confirmed here with a fresh profile on Win7. All 6 never load.

    On my "dirty" install, the existing SDs are not affected.

    Jeherrin Friday, March 11, 2011 8:39:06 PM

    Using custom thhumbnails, PNG transparencies appear to be broken on SpeedDial.

    eliotcougar Friday, March 11, 2011 8:42:21 PM

    Originally posted by r3m00r3:

    Same here, crashed immediately, but last build was OK.


    Well, okay... There are some "upgrade problems"... I noticed that "clean installation" works fine...

    Here's what I did:
    I went to C:\Users\%Your_Username%\AppData\Local\Opera\Opera
    and manually cleared theese folders (they are for history, so it's safe to delete):
    cache, icons, opcache, thumbnail_cache and thumbnails

    Only after that Opera started...

    zombie Friday, March 11, 2011 8:48:45 PM

    @Jan Standal: Huffingtonpost.com is an example. I used to be able to view the top stories in the speed dial, but now I can only see the very top of the page. It is useless to me. I use speed dial to preview content. If I just want to open a page I can use bookmarks.

    ricksper Friday, March 11, 2011 8:49:21 PM

    tigerblood eh? Bye bye fishes?

    erickdeoliveiraleal Friday, March 11, 2011 8:49:30 PM

    I did a clean install and my speed dials on-line are not synced to desktop. Is that normal?
    I'm from Brazil, pardon for my english.

    eliotcougar Friday, March 11, 2011 8:51:01 PM

    Originally posted by erickdeoliveiraleal:

    I did a clean install and my speed dials on-line are not synced to desktop. Is that normal?
    I'm from Brazil, pardon for my english.


    It's expected... Sync does not work with new Speed Dial yet...

    Branobrano99 Friday, March 11, 2011 8:53:50 PM

    I have 19 speed dials with 80% zoom and all are transparent, I tried to change the zoom, they load but remain transparent or white. win xp sp3

    J1Hundred Friday, March 11, 2011 8:55:21 PM

    crash when i try to adjust the speed dial layout from automatic. winxp sp3

    ahoj1234 Friday, March 11, 2011 8:57:19 PM

    good job,but please do something with a bug which is indication as DSK-330028 ,it´s terrible bug.. I report it more than week ago. In previously builds was everything about the bug OK,so I think it isn´t hard to fix it.. PS:The bug started about the first barracuda versions.
    edit:I thank you so much for fix the bug "DSK-326198 (Enter when composing HTML mails sometimes has large line spacing)" party up

    vilpapa Friday, March 11, 2011 8:58:11 PM

    Surprisingly! Working today.

    minho Friday, March 11, 2011 9:00:08 PM

    DSK-313944 ("Ctrl+Shift+V" opens in a new background tab)

    Unbelievable! yikes
    it's really fixed!
    Thanks, Opera Desktop Team!

    ricksper Friday, March 11, 2011 9:04:12 PM

    Wanted pop-ups are working again. TY

    setsutekh Friday, March 11, 2011 9:04:38 PM

    Regression, overlay dialog boxes get a white background after canceling, click to download a windows build here then cancel the download dialog:

    http://files.myopera.com/sutekh/bugs/white.png

    Also noticeable on opera:config confirmation dialog.

    eliotcougar Friday, March 11, 2011 9:10:28 PM

    Opera does not remember the sorting order in mail/feeds...

    minho Friday, March 11, 2011 9:11:18 PM

    Originally posted by sutekh:

    Regression, overlay dialog boxes get a white background after canceling, click to download a windows build here then cancel the download dialog:

    http://files.myopera.com/sutekh/bugs/white.png


    Confirmed on win xp pro sp3.

    minho Friday, March 11, 2011 9:19:07 PM

    Originally posted by eliotcougar:

    Opera does not remember the sorting order in mail/feeds...


    Confirmed on win xp pro sp3.

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