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A shining new [bookmark] star

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There is a new star in town! and it is located right there in your address field! You can now easily add and remove a page from your bookmarks. This is not a full bookmark manager (which we still have in the Bookmark menu and as a panel) but a quick and easy way to save a page for later. You can also add and remove a page from your Speed Dial page.


The star will light up star in the address field when you visit a page that is either bookmarked or is a Speed Dial. We have experimented with a similar UI in Opera 9 Technical Preview 1 almost six years ago. We have revamped this popular request and hope you will all like our new take on it.

In addition to a fancy new gadget to play with in the address field, we have also just finished a large Core upgrade. Fixes, improvements, and other known keywords apply. We also changed how we handled XML parsing failures by automatically reparsing as HTML instead of displaying an error.

Mac and Windows users can start using the -pd argument the same way as it works on Linux. Meaning you can specify a path to a folder that should contain the Opera profile for that session.

We have upgraded the compiler we use on Mac, which resulted in a nice JavaScript performance increase for the platform.

Known issues
  • Some overlay dialogs have reduced padding
  • Extension’s pop-out arrows is not painted correctly
  • Reduces Acid3 score to 99 because of XML failures
  • Widget installation crash on Mac

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-30325 (Color of the link to a redirected page does not change after visiting)
  • CORE-307 (Can't read .pac files in browser)
  • CORE-38067 (Single-click creates empty selection)
  • CORE-39517 (gstoperasrc: Request more data when a buffer is popped from the queue)
  • CORE-39760 (Khmer Unicode is not displayed properly with the Window's platform textshaper)
  • CORE-40115 (Crossdomain XHRs don't work from WebWorkers from OEX-background processes)
  • CORE-40224 (Invisible elements used to compute bounding box in SVG)
  • CORE-40310 (Parsing web font as html causes major loss in performance and eventually crash)
  • CORE-40339 (CSS units improvement)
  • CORE-40712 (MTreat ISO 8859-9 as an alias for windows-1254 for compatibility with IE, Safari and Chrome)
  • CORE-40766 ({add,remove}EventListener's capture should default to false)
  • CORE-40796 (Minor issue in opera:config styling): Line visible behind expanded header should not be there
  • CORE-40817 (Improved support for discerning Persian characters)
  • CORE-40826 (border-radius wrong on non-square images)
  • Fixed numerous crashes fixes and some memory leaks, to greatly improve stability

Desktop
  • DSK-346670 (Opera Unite applications are deleted when stopping Unite or restarting Opera)
  • DSK-312074 (Bypass XML parsing failed message by automatically reparsing as HTML)
  • DSK-342556 (Provide an option in addressbar which can be used to add/remove/modify URL into/from bookmark manager)
  • DSK-343927 (Switching application while typing in address bar highlights all text)
  • DSK-346262 (Cursive joining broken on Persian BBC website)

Windows
  • DSK-339862 (Implement -pd on Mac and Win the same way it is on Linux/FreeBSD)
  • DSK-340611 (Strange dialog when installing 11.50 on windows 7)
  • DSK-346340 (Startup crash due to voice plugin)

Mac
  • DSK-339862 (Implement -pd on Mac and Win the same way it is on Linux/FreeBSD)
  • DSK-318433 (Excel file not attached if the files was already open in OpenOffice)
  • DSK-342491 (Scroll acceleration for scroll wheel devices): smoother scrolling in general
  • DSK-343850 (Update Xcode to increase speed of Mac version)

Linux/FreeBSD
  • DSK-318433 (Excel file not attached if the files was already open in OpenOffice)
  • DSK-339825 (HTML sliders are not Gtk2 native)
  • DSK-340306 (Wrong text color (unreadable) when hovering over drop down buttons (in UI) for some dark themes)
  • DSK-346119 (XRandR causes Opera to freeze on resolution change)

JavaScript Performance with new Mac compilerAn updated Core, with Ragnarök and CSS3 radial gradients

Comments

ClashCityRockerclashcityrocker Thursday, September 29, 2011 10:51:30 AM

Originally posted by DragonLP:

that's so funny?



No but interesting...

However we have seen stuff accidently included in snapshots that don't make the final cut. Password Sync opera:config was included by accident in a shapshot of 10.50, but never made it until 11.0, so I wouldn't take it as absolute proof of anything....

However my belief is that much of the hardware acceleration work is already in these snapshots but disabled. We know that Operas implementation allows to to work with OpenGl, DirectX, or none. I'm guessing it's just hardwired to use none right now.

Stilezy Thursday, September 29, 2011 11:10:53 AM

Originally posted by toyotabedzrock:

Originally posted by Stilezy:
"Enable plugins only on demand" is unreliable - I loaded a past session with various YouTube tabs, most started "with flash disabled, one started playing automatically. No idea why."

You need to clear your cache manually. That usally helps when I experiance the problem.


Killed Opera. Deleted cache, application_cache, opcache, and temporary_downloads folders (skeptically, I should say). Started Opera 12.1076. 12 Youtube videos began playing simultaneously. Checked preferences, option was enabled.

Bug report DSK-347150.

LinuxMint7 Thursday, September 29, 2011 11:13:29 AM

Downloaded yesterday and testing now, Looking very good so-far, No crashes on quitting Opera yet, Which was happening every time with the last snapshot.

NeXaen Thursday, September 29, 2011 11:26:31 AM

when you search in "source code" page , results will show with a bad color[gray] that are not visible, please make a change to this part; yellow or red are better colors

win7 x64

Unrealmirakulix Thursday, September 29, 2011 11:43:38 AM

nice.

But still the realoading problem in speeddial, that reordern links and extensions.

Also many TI-sites don't work anymore, i.e. http://www.ti.com/ww/de/analog/ant_ble/index.shtml

Chirpie Thursday, September 29, 2011 11:44:24 AM

Originally posted by Swapnil99pro:

You should understand the non-technical language to communicate with non-technical people/general user.

This is a technical blog isn't it?

Originally posted by Swapnil99pro:

But in general terms, add-on means something that you add to a thing. In this case, the add-on or the functionality added is this Star bookmark functionality and the thing is Opera browser.

Nope! Add-on means an add-on. A native browser feature is not an add-on.

Why are you hijacking the blog with pointless (and wrong) comments like that anyway?

Originally posted by Swapnil99pro:

What a "busy" team that doesn't even have time to write a line confirming more JS performance updates in Opera 12 and click the "publish" button on the blog.

Why on earth would they do that? Why would they spam the blog with pointless single-line updates? Man... Use your brain!

Chirpie Thursday, September 29, 2011 11:45:17 AM

Originally posted by joshas:

Looks useful, but maybe it is time to work on some more important things, like download manager updates, e.g. download resuming after browser restart, or WegGL?

Who are you to tell everyone else what's important, and did you miss the fact that they are working on WebGL already? Seriously, you are just trolling.

Swapnil RustagiSwapnil99pro Thursday, September 29, 2011 11:53:48 AM

Originally posted by Chirpie:

This is a technical blog isn't it?


Yes but the comments for appreciation to Opera Desktop team are not. I mean comments like "Thanks! I was waiting for this feature since months" are non-technical only.

Originally posted by Chirpie:

A native browser feature is not an add-on.


Speaking generally it could be. Speaking technically you are right.

Originally posted by Chirpie:

Why are you hijacking the blog with pointless (and wrong) comments like that anyway?


That comment has been marked off-topic. And why are you bashing with me since I joined My Opera?

Originally posted by Chirpie:

Why would they spam the blog with pointless single-line updates? Man... Use your brain!


In regards to single line, I meant that in a snapshot announcement they could write it as a last line.

Bhikkhu PesalaPesala Thursday, September 29, 2011 12:17:34 PM

Originally posted by NeXaen:

when you search in "source code" page , results will show with a bad color[gray] that are not visible, please make a change to this part; yellow or red are better colors

Off-topic here, but see My Skin Blog (bottom of page)

Crabman Thursday, September 29, 2011 12:32:40 PM

A minor cosmetic issue: Some arrows of the overlay-dialogs aren't centered correctly, e.g. http://666kb.com/i/bxd57cpxrj4hrlmau.jpg , http://666kb.com/i/bxd5804g25fmrcn52.jpg and http://666kb.com/i/bxd5cvvoj6qi1z31i.jpg

MrFrodo Thursday, September 29, 2011 12:33:55 PM

Latest version of Opera Next Mac. All I did was launch it...

http://twitpic.com/6sbbf1

Rijk Thursday, September 29, 2011 1:49:55 PM

Originally posted by sabisan:

Every 10-15 minutes Opera freezes and MessageBox is shown:

"A script in this movie is causing Adobe Flash Player 10 to run slowly..."

It takes some 10 seconds until MessageBox is shown (in the mean time Opera is totaly frozen).

Win7x64 (+latest adobe flash player)

This is an message from the plugin, not Opera, so it would be nice to know which page this happens on, and whether other browsers are also affected?

oartigues Thursday, September 29, 2011 2:25:23 PM

This snapshot seems to be more stable than previous one : congrats and many thanks !
Memory consumption is also less than previous release : 928 Mb with a peak at 1438 Mb with 175 tabs opened automatically at startup (I know this is a lot); compared to 1400 Mb with a peak at 2100 Mb for last one.

But something very strange in this release is CPU load which is very high all the time between 30% and 75%.
Could you confirm ? How to investigate on the reason ?

Olivier

QuHno Thursday, September 29, 2011 3:05:52 PM

Originally posted by Unrealmirakulix:

Also many TI-sites don't work anymore, i.e. http://www.ti.com/ww/de/analog/ant_ble/index.shtml


Err, what doesn't work there? It seems to load fine and I can click everywhere...

Gap51 Thursday, September 29, 2011 3:14:17 PM

http://acid3.acidtests.org/
99/100 (no extensions)

Igorigorditerni Thursday, September 29, 2011 3:16:58 PM

Here http://my.opera.com/365/about/ the list is not well formatted.

The XML parsing failure page have not to be removed, at least you can make a countdown (10 seconds?) and then re-parse the page as HTML but the error have to be clearly declared, as the standard want.

Ciao, Igor

Tamil Thursday, September 29, 2011 3:37:00 PM

Dropdown button is missing in go to page (F2) dialog. sad

zoquete Thursday, September 29, 2011 4:12:24 PM

Originally posted by Tamil:

Dropdown button is missing in go to page (F2) dialog


´confirmed

zoquete Thursday, September 29, 2011 4:14:08 PM

for reparsing xml as html just put there a button to do so, giving developers the oportunity to debug their code.

led9 Thursday, September 29, 2011 4:29:20 PM

please write example - how disable this star?
or only way do it - replace icon of star - "transparent place" in skin-file?

АлександрDragonLP Thursday, September 29, 2011 4:32:26 PM

opera:gpu devil

King Crimson Thursday, September 29, 2011 4:50:45 PM


I can't find my post...maybe it has been cancelled...no


However...here's a new bug: when you're saving files, Opera 12 can't distinguish between folders for private and normal tabs.

Please fix this, and fix the other two bugs I've noticed!

Thanks!

Rafael Luikrafaelluik Thursday, September 29, 2011 5:11:05 PM

Originally posted by btyop:

Disqus is not working at all, infinite loading.

Originally posted by olak:

Yes, known.

ahoj1234 Thursday, September 29, 2011 5:13:04 PM

Opera mail problem:
Icon "unread" don´t change to "read" if I click on it..,but I can mark message as "read" or "unread"

(unread icon in the middle)
[img]http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/4193/operamail.png
confirmation?

Rijk Thursday, September 29, 2011 5:45:05 PM

Originally posted by ahoj1234:

Icon "unread" don´t change to "read" if I click on it..,but I can mark message as "read" or "unread"

Yes, known.

Originally posted by King Crimson:

However...here's a new bug: when you're saving files, Opera 12 can't distinguish between folders for private and normal tabs.

I'm not sure if remembering a save folder for private tabs is such a good idea... Anyway, this more like a feature request IMHO.

Originally posted by Tamil:

Dropdown button is missing in go to page (F2) dialog. sad

You mean, after enabling it in opera:config.

Bhikkhu PesalaPesala Thursday, September 29, 2011 5:46:27 PM

Originally posted by NeXaen:

it'd be better to be solved by default via Opera team and just needs a change in color - isn't it ?


It would be better to post feature requests in the Desktop wish-list where they belong, rather than in the blog.

Bhikkhu PesalaPesala Thursday, September 29, 2011 5:47:34 PM

Originally posted by Rijk:

You mean, after enabling it in opera:config.


Confirmed here too, but it appears on clicking where it should be.

Rijk Thursday, September 29, 2011 5:47:44 PM

Originally posted by zoquete:

for reparsing xml as html just put there a button to do so, giving developers the oportunity to debug their code.

Maybe discuss that in the Opera Developer Network blog?

Tamil Thursday, September 29, 2011 5:54:24 PM

Originally posted by Rijk:

Originally posted by Tamil:

Dropdown button is missing in go to page (F2) dialog. sad

You mean, after enabling it in opera:config.

http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Yes.gif -

highstream Thursday, September 29, 2011 6:36:07 PM

I'm getting a lot of pages, including this one, that seem to complete loading, then act as if the process is not finished. They'll be a spinning circle off the cursor and the address field will show the elements not quite finished loading. Then even after the latter finally stops, every so often the spinning will start again.

For example, the cursor right now is over this text box and the spinning circle is going, but if I take the cursor ouside the text area, it stops. Bring it back in and after several seconds it starts again and continues until it's taken out. Looking at Win 7 (64 bit) Task Mgr, nothing there seems amiss. Could it be related to Win 7 and Opera? I thought it occurred a little since installing Win 7/32 a couple of weeks ago, and has been quite frequent with the 64-bit version, which I installed 36 hrs ago. Doesn't occur with XP and this or the last Next build. And doesn't occur with IE9 or FF7.

Afterward: having posted, the spinning started while hovering over my post. Move the cursor and it stops. Looking at Task Mgr, "opera.exe 32" does frequently jump into the 20-23% CPU range, though I can't correlate that with symptom.

ClashCityRockerclashcityrocker Thursday, September 29, 2011 7:35:23 PM

opera:gpu#enable=true

yikes

Satan D. Lucifersupertrol Thursday, September 29, 2011 7:36:41 PM

I tried this skin in stable version(11.51) and im amaze how the widget and RSS feed icon is the same

the downside is there is no bookmark star

nevertheless im using this skin in opera 11.51:yes:

IusedtobeOOlli91 Thursday, September 29, 2011 8:12:56 PM

Crash on youtube when playing a video (OSX 10.7.1, Flash 11 RC).

woj-tek Thursday, September 29, 2011 8:50:48 PM

the '-pd' is awesome! it actually made me test new builds more as a main browser... Now if only those could be made semi-default... smile

anyhow - a bug with displaing overlay envelope icon on new mail: DSK-347178

DillonAstrophizz Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:11:59 PM

Originally posted by clashcityrocker:

opera:gpu#enable=true


I'm not at home right now where I have next installed... does that actually do anything (enable webgl or even just rendering speed improvements on benchmarks)?

Oopsthunpin Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:17:30 PM

this current is faster to navigate in site omgubuntu.co.uk, for example, nice =)

Obese MauriceObeseMaurice Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:19:45 PM

Originally posted by Astrophizz:

I'm not at home right now where I have next installed... does that actually do anything (enable webgl or even just rendering speed improvements on benchmarks)?



No, it's fake.

minho Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:46:22 PM

Put in yellow star an option to change bookmark location please.

Ericheavensrevenge Thursday, September 29, 2011 10:20:01 PM

The Acid3 Test Fails with a 98 sad

http://acid3.acidtests.org/

minho Thursday, September 29, 2011 10:44:50 PM

Originally posted by heavensrevenge:

The Acid3 Test Fails with a 98


99 points here.

win 7 x64

IusedtobeOOlli91 Thursday, September 29, 2011 10:53:03 PM

Originally posted by heavensrevenge:

The Acid3 Test Fails with a 98 sad



100 points for me.

Eduardo Garri Pérezegarrip Thursday, September 29, 2011 11:09:17 PM

Originally posted by Olli91:

Originally posted by heavensrevenge:

The Acid3 Test Fails with a 98 sad

100 points for me.



99 points here.

Windows 7 x64

blinkybill Friday, September 30, 2011 12:56:33 AM

Hi,

Loving the new bookmark star....thanks for adding it guys,


cheers
blinky

I need a namequangltm Friday, September 30, 2011 1:00:58 AM

Why I only have 96 points in Acid3 test confused (extension disabled).

BetaMorph Friday, September 30, 2011 1:17:28 AM

Originally posted by egarrip:

99 points here.


Same here, but this has been reported already.
It's probably because of the change in the XML parsing.

But as said, known. smile

BetaMorph Friday, September 30, 2011 1:22:51 AM

Originally posted by quangltm:

Why I only have 96 points in Acid3 test (extension disabled).


You're sure all is disabled? No block-scripts running?
Tried on a fresh install?

LinuxMint7 Friday, September 30, 2011 1:30:29 AM

99 on acid test here too.

As said, Known, And mentioned way back in this thread.

EDIT: WinXP Pro 32bit.

btyop Friday, September 30, 2011 2:17:29 AM

Originally posted by minho:

Originally posted by heavensrevenge:

The Acid3 Test Fails with a 98

99 points here. win 7 x64



99 points too in Win 7 32bit.

klaken Friday, September 30, 2011 3:08:20 AM

99 acid 3 . windows 7 32 bits

Rafael Luikrafaelluik Friday, September 30, 2011 3:36:39 AM

STOP TALKING ABOUT ACID3 PLEASEEEE! furious

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