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Improving the stability of Wahoo (12.00)

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It has been a little over a week since the last Wahoo (12.00) snapshot, so here is a shiny, new update. wink

As you might expect, internally work continues apace on Hardware Acceleration and other upcoming features. For this snapshot however the focus is improving stability and as such there are several key crash fixes.

In terms of feedback we primarily interested in any new regressions you notice since the previous Wahoo snapshot (12.00-1301), so please keep on topic and let us know if you find anything.

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

Desktop
  • DSK-357043 Crash when typing numbers in the address field
  • DSK-356131 Crash loop when trying to start Opera with active panel window
  • DSK-340697 Crash after logging into Opera Link
  • DSK-355518 Shortcut action "Manage Keyboard" crashes Opera
  • DSK-356472 Crash on startup when using "Allow window with no tabs" and "Tile all automatically" settings
  • DSK-341550 Zoom slider in configuration dialog for Speed Dial ranges from 20% to 300%
  • DSK-319912 Dragonfly panel should have a minimum height (200px) and should not restart with Opera
  • DSK-346838 Searching from the address bar fails if the query begins with a server name on the network

Windows
  • DSK-278418 Sites listed in Windows Jump List show no favicon at all
  • DSK-332652 Files set to open with default application lead to error after the default program is uninstalled

Mac
  • DSK-355621 Dragging and dropping a tab too high can result in the marker being left behind: Mac variant of DSK-355547
  • DSK-294301 Open in background window opens new window in foreground

Linux/FreeBSD
  • DSK-357021 Crash on startup after installing some themes: e.g. Monster

Thursday 11.62 snapshotPerformance improvements for 11.62 (Tunny)

Comments

ahoj1234 Wednesday, February 22, 2012 7:29:58 PM

I think that lot of us dont know nothing about Opera and memory usage..

1) Opera use how much memory how can.. If memory is needed by other program,Opera can use really only small peace of your ram memory..
2) Opera is not flash an other participial useful stuff but if flash is consuming a lot of memory it seems like opera use it..
3) And of course Opera in alpha version has time to time some memory leak.. as other browser have.

I am not a programmer (yet). but I think that my post is holly true.. If not I know that some human (maybe bot? smile) of Opera team explain it better than me..

Edit:
I wish releases where Opera can consuming all of free memory (so this releases) and releases with minimum consuming of memory.. I think that this is possible in 1 build.. something like turbo.. ON or OFF..

minho Wednesday, February 22, 2012 9:11:10 PM

Opera freezes here
http://filetram.com/mediafire/el-chapulín-colorado-3x04-el-caso-de-dos-hombres-que-eran-tan-parecidos-que-eran-idénticos-sobre-todo-uno-de-ellos-rar-8735948852

win 7 x64

MrFrodo Wednesday, February 22, 2012 9:56:46 PM

Crashed. Every launch. Sent 3 crash reports. Mac 10.6.8.

EricJH Wednesday, February 22, 2012 11:23:15 PM

Originally posted by thartist:

I know, it's been in alphas too during 11, 1110, 1150, 1160, developers never cared close to enough, and you know how Opera goes from Alpha to Final in two weeks.

You know that's not true...
coffee

Orionolistug Thursday, February 23, 2012 1:49:07 AM

Originally posted by EricJH:

Originally posted by thartist:

I know, it's been in alphas too during 11, 1110, 1150, 1160, developers never cared close to enough, and you know how Opera goes from Alpha to Final in two weeks.

You know that's not true...
coffee

Agreed. If Opera went from Alpha to final in two weeks, why would my install of Opera Next (12's Alpha) this past December still be in Alpha wen it's almost March. The Opera Dev team does an amazing job at holding back on major releases until a decent majority of the bugs are worked out, and the primary functionality they planned for is correctly implemented. They aren't like Chrome and Firefox developers that seem to crank out a new "version" faster than you can install it, with little changes actually made. Keep up the amazing work! smile

furue Thursday, February 23, 2012 3:29:14 AM

On this build, youtube becomes painfully slow when you start playing some video. Has this been reported?

Also, this very site is very slow. As I type this, my cursor moves cumbersomely; when I was logging in, the cursor was slow, too.

Debian GNU/Linux (testing). i386.

tschettler Thursday, February 23, 2012 6:31:22 AM

This build crashes on http://chrome.angrybirds.com/.

Сергей СавинSergey2key Thursday, February 23, 2012 7:22:08 AM

still freezes, if adding site in a bookmarks in an adress panel; and when regulate volume in youtube player

mutley90210 Thursday, February 23, 2012 7:38:39 AM

Uninstalled this build and went back to the previous one because of the black tool bar and on some forums when I click on the rely icon the CPU goes to about 95% and freezes the PC. Have to slay Opera to do anything.

Jernej Simončičеnder Thursday, February 23, 2012 7:56:03 AM

Are there any plans to fix text antialiasing in hardware-accelerated mode?

blackcoder Thursday, February 23, 2012 7:56:40 AM

Originally posted by tschettler:

This build crashes on http://chrome.angrybirds.com/.


Confirmed with Opera 12 Build 1306. No crash with Opera 12 1293 OOPP Labs (this is the only other Opera 12 Build installed here).

After submitting the crash on http://chrome.angrybirds.com/ and choose that Opera should restart minimal (so without any tabs) it restarts with the angrybirds tab and crashes again if i am not closing that tab fast enough.
Looks like minimal-restart is broken. Confirmations?

dylfin Thursday, February 23, 2012 8:37:17 AM

Opera hangs after I tried to login to my local phpmyadmin. I see main screen but left iframe with list of tables not loaded.
Opera fully loads one core of CPU and don't response to anything.
Opera don't hang if I disable javscript.

Silvery CorganSilvery-Corgan Thursday, February 23, 2012 9:15:30 AM

Originally posted by mattberrytr:

hang loading codeacademy.com


Confirmed!

sluwreac Thursday, February 23, 2012 9:18:24 AM

DSK-358013

Summary: Combined buttons is not work
Describe in 3 steps or more how to reproduce this bug *

When following the steps described above:
1. Add combined button in custom toolbar.ini like "ButtonSet, Combined Back Forward".
2. Switch to custom toolbar setup in preferences: ^F12 - Advanced - Toolbars - Toolbar setup.

1. What do you expect to happen? *
Combined button "Back - Forward" must appears on toolbar.

2. What actually happens? *
There's no button on toolbar.


cry cry cry

trojanobelix Thursday, February 23, 2012 9:43:35 AM

the default (bwd, fwd, refresh/close, wand) button in the toolbar disappeared from time to time. Just the close! button remains.

kachaev Thursday, February 23, 2012 11:12:36 AM

Opera crash when updating NVidia driver.
Win7 x64, HWA on

ChrisMrChris Thursday, February 23, 2012 11:30:12 AM

This build appears to have a freezing issue when creating/editing JIRA defects.

Version of Jira:
Atlassian JIRA (v4.2.4-b591#591)

The page will open, but you can't type into the fields and it locks Opera requiring a process kill.

minho Thursday, February 23, 2012 1:48:58 PM

blackcoder Thursday, February 23, 2012 4:06:07 PM

Confirmed, but not just this build. Opera 11.62 Build 1307 is also affected.

Screenshot:
http://files.myopera.com/blackcoder/files/jt-com-br%20-%20O12b1306-O1162b1307.jpg

Chirpie Friday, March 2, 2012 2:37:21 PM

Originally posted by thartist:

Memory Efficiency Benchmarks

Quite useless. The author clearly doesn't know anything about memory handling, so his conclusions are really weird.

leojh44 Saturday, March 3, 2012 12:29:31 PM

Hope they are not yet reported, or maybe i just repeat it lol:

1. Pure Virtual Function Called error message after just around 15 mins of browsing, (i do not know exactly what it triggers but i think it happen when i click the tabs while opera is doing something)...
2. It crashes the browser when you play with the zoom slider (zoom in and zoom out fast), then click the arrow beside it, something is triggered there, sometimes....
3. i do not think if it is bug, but i think tabs should reach real top (top = 0), it has margin of 2 pixels, so when you put the mouse pointer to the top part of the tab it restore (resizing) the window....
4. the browser crash here (Settings > Preferences > Advance tab > Voice > Details button)

more powers opera team! smile

leojh44 Sunday, March 11, 2012 2:14:06 PM

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