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Fixes and improvements - on demand plug-in sitepref, Ctrl-click support

By Rijk. Friday, May 27, 2011 2:00:00 PM

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Here's the next Opera Next. This Swordfish snapshot has another bunch of bug fixes and improvements for you, some eagerly awaited, and polishes the Speed Dial and Password Sync some more.

Opera was the first browser that gave you the option to load tabs in the background by holding Ctrl+Shift down while clicking. Now, you can do it with one key less, just Ctrl is enough. This change aligns this feature with how it works in other browsers. Just like with Ctrl+Shift, you can also hold the Ctrl-key while clicking bookmarks or the 'Search' option in the context menu of selected text, to make the resulting pages open in a background tab. Holding Shift while clicking links etc still opens in a new foreground tab.

Highlights[/SIZE]
  • Manually zoom the Speed Dials to 30% (minimum zoom was 50%)
  • Paste and Go in the search field will perform a search, instead of loading as an URL
  • The 'On Demand Plugin' option is now available in Site Preferences
  • Ctrl-click on a link to open it in a background tab (Ctrl+Shift-click will also still work for now)

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

General
  • Various crash fixes[/b]
    • DSK-285010 Site-specific override for plugins on demand
    • DSK-332240 Paste and Go can not perform searches
    • DSK-335650 Crash when changing certain settings in the Preferences dialog
    • DSK-334236 Turbo info page should be different from the first run page
    • DSK-325673 "Open JS Console on Error" opens on warnings
    • DSK-311796 The mail text input field's background color is not "edit background"
    • DSK-310853 Incorrect warning dialogue when changing Contacts file
    • DSK-328518 Ctrl+click should open links in the background
    • DSK-332808 Icon decoding issue triggers infinite sync
    • DSK-336509 The Speed Dial configure callout is movable
    • CORE-35105 Remove delay when closing sockets on Windows to increase performance
    • CORE-38461 Opera seems to send unnecessary Link updates (separators, passwords)

    Speed Dial
    • Added animation when removing Speed Dials
    • DSK-334385 Allow Speed Dial zoom below 50%
    • DSK-333446 Auto reload timer reset when zooming
    • DSK-332489 Inline find shortcut ("/") works in Speed Dial

    Windows
    • Changed the filename of the Windows installer
    • DSK-337155 The password indicator for synchronization is cut off on the right hand side
    • DSK-336605 Transfer manager crash
    • DSK-323603 Menu always appears on primary screen

    Mac
    • DSK-337189 Link Setup dialog is not closed when Improve Password Strength dialog is opened
    • DSK-325789 GIF images are not possible to copy'n'paste
    • DSK-301506 Emacs-style keyboard shortcuts activate twice
    • DSK-329207 Hovering collapsed access point in mail panel while dragging should expand it
    • DSK-333694 "Bookmark page" gets disabled in the bookmarks menu
    • DSK-336689 Browser window disappears after switching tabs if thumbnail is shown
    • DSK-325822 Crash when drawing date picker at zoom level other than 100%
    • DSK-336048 Names of week days for last week always in English on Mac
    • DSK-291769 Checkmarks are rotated 180° when zoom is not 100%
    • DSK-334768 Transformed rotated web fonts are not read out correctly
    • DSK-329226 Wrong font and size for webforms

    Linux/FreeBSD
    • DSK-336503 Opera freeze when changing bookmarks file with Link enabled
    • DSK-333713 "Username and password" malplaced in the HTTP auth dialog when it's not overlaying the address bar
    • DSK-333486 Unclear status of the Japanese license in UNIX packages
    • DSK-324434 Replace kfmclient exec with kioclient exec
    • DSK-319677 Vertical space from deleted labels not reclaimed until mail panel is scrolled
    • DSK-335741 GTK+: Don't paint drop-down background because GTK+ doesn't

    Slashing bugs, and improved Speed Dial extensionsA second build to celebrate Friday

    Comments

    Obese MauriceObeseMaurice Friday, May 27, 2011 2:12:58 PM

    Testing! bigsmile

    tisazalay Friday, May 27, 2011 2:15:22 PM

    Thanks.
    There are issues with the manual check for updates, nothing found!

    IusedtobeOOlli91 Friday, May 27, 2011 2:17:43 PM

    Is that a bug or intended? When I double-click the tabbar the new tab opens in the background, when I click the + it opens in the foreground. Since I always just double-click this new behaviour leads to closing wrong tabs and needing to extra-activate the tab I just created with another click.
    Please fix that - hope it's not a feature. bigeyes

    Edit: Even when I click links in other programmes the clicked site loads in a background tab - probably this is not intended. I'm on OSX.

    Haavardhaavard Friday, May 27, 2011 2:18:04 PM

    Automatic updates have not been activated yet.

    tisazalay Friday, May 27, 2011 2:19:55 PM

    Originally posted by haavard:

    Automatic updates have not been activated yet.


    Thanks for the quick answer... and the new build...

    Andrew FrazierAndrewDFrazier Friday, May 27, 2011 2:20:30 PM

    Spellchecker still doesn't work in a TinyMCE editor window. Was submitted as a bug several builds ago.

    Not a massive problem, but annoying nonetheless.

    miki100 Friday, May 27, 2011 2:21:54 PM

    Looks nice as for five minute install smile Even without HWA (which I don't want now) you can interest people with interesting features! BTW: Some of you Opera guys said once (year ago?) that you will look into integrating with Linux libnotify. Will it appear someday? (Even not now, but I would like to know if it will ever happen).
    Thanks for the snapshot! bigsmile

    JaredpieRr0Ur Friday, May 27, 2011 2:22:06 PM

    Originally posted by tisazalay:

    Originally posted by haavard:
    Automatic updates have not been activated yet.

    Thanks for the quick answer... and the new build...



    Thanks, I was about to ask the same thing.

    . . . When will it be enabled anyway? . . .

    Rijk Friday, May 27, 2011 2:33:55 PM

    Originally posted by Olli91:

    Is that a bug or intended? When I double-click the tabbar the new tab opens in the background, when I click the + it opens in the foreground.

    I can't replicate this here on Windows. External links also open a foreground tab. Mac specific?

    hobe Friday, May 27, 2011 2:34:27 PM

    For some reason, I have the feeling that there's some big core update pending. We didn't have any update in this regard since Opera 11.11.

    Obese MauriceObeseMaurice Friday, May 27, 2011 2:36:59 PM

    I often receive this message about slow network. Why is that? I have FTTH, so ...

    http://i.imgur.com/NMfKm.png

    Win7 x64.

    JarradAkdor1154 Friday, May 27, 2011 2:39:49 PM

    Oh yay! Now we're looking at site preferences again, any chance of applying usercss and userjs to sites opened as panel bookmarks? smile

    Sushubh Friday, May 27, 2011 2:39:57 PM

    Ctrl-click on a link to open it in a background tab (Ctrl+Shift-click will also still work for now)




    Can you please provide an option to disable this feature? I am way too used to clicking on images to save them. And this feature breaks that functionality. Can this be changed from the keyboard/mouse shortcut settings?

    IvanBugMeNot Friday, May 27, 2011 2:40:06 PM

    maybe fix it ?
    http://s1.ipicture.ru/uploads/20110527/kDb3Re8M.jpg

    Can you please provide an option to disable this feature? I am way too used to clicking on images to save them. And this feature breaks that functionality. Can this be changed from the keyboard/mouse shortcut settings?


    +1

    Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks Friday, May 27, 2011 2:41:30 PM

    Originally posted by desktopteam:

    Now, you can do it with one key less, just Ctrl is enough


    Yes!

    Originally posted by desktopteam:

    The Speed Dial configure callout is movable


    Funny, I was going to file that sometime soon.

    seaman123 Friday, May 27, 2011 2:43:25 PM

    "The 'On Demand Plugin' option is now available in Site Preferences"

    Opera, you are great!!!! Thank you very much!!!!

    IusedtobeOOlli91 Friday, May 27, 2011 2:43:56 PM

    Originally posted by Rijk:

    I can't replicate this here on Windows. External links also open a foreground tab. Mac specific?



    My tabbar is on the left and visual tabs are activated. Probably it is.

    Haavardhaavard Friday, May 27, 2011 2:43:57 PM

    Originally posted by Sushubh:

    Can you please provide an option to disable this feature? I am way too used to clicking on images to save them. And this feature breaks that functionality. Can this be changed from the keyboard/mouse shortcut settings?

    We are evaluating optional keyboard modifiers, for example Alt+click or Ctrl+Alt+click. But we have to make sure they don't conflict with other things.

    There is an extension to enable Ctrl+click to open tabs in the backgrounds already, so perhaps it will be possible to change the new behavior back using an extension as well:

    https://addons.opera.com/addons/extensions/details/control-click/

    I have not looked into whether or not it is actually possible, though.

    Sushubh Friday, May 27, 2011 2:47:47 PM

    Originally posted by haavard:

    Originally posted by Sushubh:

    Can you please provide an option to disable this feature? I am way too used to clicking on images to save them. And this feature breaks that functionality. Can this be changed from the keyboard/mouse shortcut settings?

    We are evaluating optional keyboard modifiers, for example Alt+click or Ctrl+Alt+click. But we have to make sure they don't conflict with other things. There is an extension to enable Ctrl+click to open tabs in the backgrounds already, so perhaps it will be possible to change the new behavior back using an extension as well: https://addons.opera.com/addons/extensions/details/control-click/ I have not looked into whether or not it is actually possible, though.



    Cool thanks. I do hope I can find a work around otherwise I would be stuck with the 2nd last build!

    Opera is the only browser that makes it easy to quickly save images by control+clicking on them. This functionality is now gone (for images with links...). hehe.

    Léon McGregorleonmcg Friday, May 27, 2011 2:49:25 PM

    thank you, downloading now. auto-update seems to be not working on build 1016, though

    Andreaandrea1816 Friday, May 27, 2011 2:52:07 PM

    May seem a dumb question, but how is the speed dial callout movable?

    tisazalay Friday, May 27, 2011 2:52:17 PM

    When you close all tabs, and you press Shift+Ctrl+Alt+H to hide Opera to the tray a settings dialog is briefly showed. When you restore Opera from the tray a custom button (to hide opera to the tray) next to the tab trash can is disabled until you open any dialog (like settings) or a new tab.
    Weird behavior not seen before, specially the ghost setting when hiding to the tray.
    W7 64b SP1. 11.50 1018 Alpha

    nick_el_sonnickelson Friday, May 27, 2011 2:54:49 PM

    Originally posted by Sushubh:

    Can you please provide an option to disable this feature? I am way too used to clicking on images to save them. And this feature breaks that functionality. Can this be changed from the keyboard/mouse shortcut settings?


    +1

    Bring Ctrl+click option back!

    smile

    trojanobelix Friday, May 27, 2011 2:55:27 PM

    http://dhl.de/de/paket/privatkunden/national/paket.html

    Does not load: I can only see a white page!

    Can anyone confirm

    WXP, SP3


    Nicolás GuzmánNicoseco Friday, May 27, 2011 2:55:43 PM

    There is still a bug with opera turbo when using twitter
    Activate opera turbo, log-in in twitter, when you enter there is a message that you have reached the limits of use try again in 1 hour, then scroll down the page and the page will reload automatically.
    I'm using Windows 7 64 bits
    It happens too with the stable build 11.11

    Andrew FrazierAndrewDFrazier Friday, May 27, 2011 2:57:04 PM

    Originally posted by Rijk:

    Originally posted by Olli91:

    Is that a bug or intended? When I double-click the tabbar the new tab opens in the background, when I click the + it opens in the foreground.

    I can't replicate this here on Windows. External links also open a foreground tab. Mac specific?




    I'm getting it on Mac OSX; links that open new tabs and links from external programs are opening in the background. It's driving me mad because I keep thinking nothing's happened when I click a link.

    NoFanboyNofanboy Friday, May 27, 2011 2:58:12 PM

    The site-specific plugin on demand is a great improvment!
    I love it!

    tisazalay Friday, May 27, 2011 3:03:24 PM

    Originally posted by tisazalay:

    When you close all tabs, and you press Shift+Ctrl+Alt+H to hide Opera to the tray a settings dialog is briefly showed. When you restore Opera from the tray a custom button (to hide opera to the tray) next to the tab trash can is disabled until you open any dialog (like settings) or a new tab.



    OK, my mistake, that happens when you have at least two opera windows, and you hide only one, the contents of the second one are briefly shown, then both windows hide to the tray.

    minho Friday, May 27, 2011 3:09:44 PM

    I love plug-ins on demand option in site preferences! I love Opera Desktop Tema, thanks!

    yikes yes

    Mod0528 Friday, May 27, 2011 3:11:31 PM

    Thank you, finally something really (The 'On Demand Plugin' option is now available in Site Preferences) important.
    Still waiting zzz for 2 more things - remember page zoom and really better search in address bar. What I mean?
    Let's take a sample.
    1. Open http://746246.ieskok.lt/ Remember this man as his nick - incognitus
    2. Close tab
    3. Open new tab and try to search by word incognitus, in Opera no chances to find like this (FF, Chrome, even sh**ty Ie can find). Can some1 normally in people language, not geeks explain why Opera can't find in this way? By the way need to mention, that in address bar write incognitus, then press search history and yes I see 746246.ieskok.lt/ as incognitus.
    Opera please, these 2 features and I'' broke up with FF jester

    MetalRaise Friday, May 27, 2011 3:13:28 PM

    Bug:
    Flash content is being loaded even when "plug-ins only on demand" is enabled

    One example is the Sony website.
    Another very prominent example is the music player on Myspace, for example here.

    "Plug-ins only on demand" is pretty pointless when it's still possible for websites to display Flash content.

    odysseuscm Friday, May 27, 2011 3:15:15 PM

    "Opera was the first browser that gave you the option to load tabs in the background by holding Ctrl+Shift down while clicking. Now, you can do it with one key less, just Ctrl is enough."

    Thanks you, thank you, thank you! I honestly thought the day would never come!

    mattie Friday, May 27, 2011 3:16:35 PM

    i always use middle-click to open links in background..

    donny85 Friday, May 27, 2011 3:21:25 PM

    Originally posted by trojanobelix:

    http://dhl.de/de/paket/privatkunden/national/paket.html

    Does not load: I can only see a white page!

    Can anyone confirm



    Page loads, but then disappears. So, confirmed - Linux KDE4 x86_64

    tisazalay Friday, May 27, 2011 3:21:44 PM

    Originally posted by mattie:

    i always use middle-click to open links in background..


    I don't have a middle button, I dream of the day that you can use extensions on the mail panel, so I can long click to open links in the background, right now the only way to accomplish it WITH ONE FINGER is with the right click menu and selecting open in background tab, bother some for many links like a newspaper on my laptop (no space for a three button mouse)... I'll keep dreaming!

    gibson Friday, May 27, 2011 3:24:34 PM

    Moderator edit: Comments should be on-topic, polite, and constructive.

    C.N KOR RODGERSKor Friday, May 27, 2011 3:28:58 PM

    Still can not update. Seems that the processor that the 1016-1018 use are beyond my Athlon.
    Anyone confirm that they may be having the same problem?
    It looks as if future versions of OPERA will be beyond my older computer's capability.
    Anyone else?
    KOR-

    DavideDosky Friday, May 27, 2011 3:33:29 PM

    Originally posted by AndrewDFrazier:

    Spellchecker still doesn't work in a TinyMCE editor window. Was submitted as a bug several builds ago.



    It's a TinyMCE thing, when initialing try give this parameter:
    gecko_spellcheck : true

    By default now TinyMCE disable the spell checker by adding a spellcheker="false" attribute in the body of the editing area

    Martin RauscherHades32 Friday, May 27, 2011 3:33:38 PM

    This build broke searches that use POST. sad

    minho Friday, May 27, 2011 3:35:31 PM

    Originally posted by mattie:

    i always use middle-click to open links in background..


    Ok, but it does not work to links from personal/bookmarks bar or bookmarks library. cry awww

    ahoj1234 Friday, May 27, 2011 3:37:28 PM

    The name of this is Opera 10.50 1018,so why I have written in info 11.50 1016? smile
    W7 x64

    trojanobelix Friday, May 27, 2011 3:37:48 PM

    Originally posted by donny85:

    Originally posted by trojanobelix:

    http://dhl.de/de/paket/privatkunden/national/paket.html

    Does not load: I can only see a white page!

    Can anyone confirm


    Page loads, but then disappears. So, confirmed - Linux KDE4
    x86_64



    Exact, it disappears after a second => DSK-337867

    setsutekh Friday, May 27, 2011 3:42:57 PM

    Originally posted by Hades32:

    This build broke searches that use POST.


    Confirmed

    Kim Jong-Ilkoyamaneko Friday, May 27, 2011 3:44:09 PM

    The 'On Demand Plugin' option is now available in Site Preferences


    Thank you very much!!

    Danieledarklink88 Friday, May 27, 2011 3:44:36 PM

    Originally posted by Rijk:

    Originally posted by Olli91:
    Is that a bug or intended? When I double-click the tabbar the new tab opens in the background, when I click the + it opens in the foreground.I can't replicate this here on Windows. External links also open a foreground tab. Mac specific?



    same problem on osx 10.6.7.... seems like it's a mac-only bug

    PengePenge4 Friday, May 27, 2011 3:46:47 PM

    Thanks for the site-specific On Demand Plugin! And now should be fix the ODP-releated SWFObject bug. smile

    Originally posted by Hades32:

    This build broke searches that use POST.


    Confirmed (Win7 x64 SP1)

    Torrente Torrente Friday, May 27, 2011 3:51:46 PM

    1. Shift + Paste&Go doesn't work.
    2. Shift + Enter doesn't work in speed dial tab.

    Daaamn, I came here for trolling, but this is nice build, thanks.

    YaroslavFeyFre Friday, May 27, 2011 3:52:22 PM

    off-topic comment removed

    christopherFearful Friday, May 27, 2011 3:54:16 PM

    im just wondering is opera team aware of the zoom issue i have large screen so my default zoom is 150% lots of pages render incorrectly like gmail and hotmail

    ncc50446 Friday, May 27, 2011 3:56:41 PM

    Excellent work Opera! Some great improvements smile

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