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12 Release Candidate, Euro 2012 edition

Today we start a big sport event in Poland and Ukraine, Euro 2012. Also we have a big event at Opera, a new Release Candidate. It includes important updates for Out Of Process Plugins, and some nice bugfixes.

Download Opera 12 RC2

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Changelog

Core
  • CORE-46797 [html5dnd] Stability fixes for Drag and Drop

Desktop
  • DSK-365559 Change version string to RC
  • DSK-365499 Plugin crash logging stopped working, "Crash log writing failed, error getting temp directory"
  • DSK-365421 Wrap to multiple lines setting lost after going to fullscreen mode
  • DSK-365532 Unable to interact with some major sites: cnet.com, reuters.com, etc.

Windows
  • DSK-364186 Opera doesn't react to keyboard input after switching from other applications

Mac
  • DSK-364349 [html5dnd] Dragging text to certain other applications fails

Linux/FreeBSD
  • DSK-365497 Ctrl+TAB cycler window crashes when closed when drag-n-drop is active. Prevent it from opening during drag-n-drop
  • DSK-364866 opera.extension.tabs doesn't return correct attributes for tabs which visit pages by typing in addressbar

Plug-ins: ✓ Release Candidate: ✓Opera 12 RC 3

Comments

Владимирbigvovan Saturday, June 9, 2012 6:00:39 AM

https://twitter.com/LeraTV/status/211276121306705920/photo/1

http://i.piccy.info/i7/3962900cc03944d0023725a38c1dbbaf/1-5-8807/17858876/Bezymiannyi_500.jpg -

When paging (scrolling) page images (background page on Twitter party) disappears and appears. This was seen in the x64 bit version of Opera.
In Opera x32 everything is fine.

WebGl - 0, HWA - 0

Victor Alberto Gilvhanla Saturday, June 9, 2012 6:20:44 AM

I miss the old skins, the new ones are just background pictures that in practice no one appreciates IMHO, it will be only visible on speeddial which is not a best place to stay longer.

Would the old skins still be supported?, I tried changing the Opera's user-agent so I could use plus.google.com and when accesing to themes (shift-f12), I did find the old download page, and installed those old and better application skins.

I read that those skins will be removed for the new one(and pardon my intolerance to this new poor themes).

I love the old skins because they modify the appearance of tabs, buttons, and I don't know what else. And I hope those features remain, because giving only color configuration and background pictures which most of the time will only be shown the top of it (title area not even tabs area) is just as selecting the color combinations in the Shift+F12 dialog window.

Other than that, I'm back using Opera after a long time. And I'm loving the speed and extensions, turbo feature rocks, and I will hopefully continue porting some of my extensions from Chrome.

Thanks for your good and great work!

Сергей СавинSergey2key Saturday, June 9, 2012 6:24:51 AM

buffer overflow opera_plugin_wrapper.exe at http://uralttk.ru/webcam/
text is disappearing, when typing in adressbar, before extensions are loaded
freezing video on youtube.com, when I change volume
win 7 x86

ayespy Saturday, June 9, 2012 6:37:36 AM

W7 SP1 X86 no HWA or WebGl

After successfully entering several events online on Google Calendar, the entire Google page becomes completely immune to user input.

Have to restart browser to regain functionality on page.

Edit:

Even after the page was responding again, I still could not edit/modify an event. Trying to access an event to edit it produced only a blank page.

shaneh Saturday, June 9, 2012 6:59:08 AM

Originally posted by vhanla:

I miss the old skins,



The new skins/themes can do this too, e.g: https://addons.opera.com/en/themes/details/opera-metro/

The problem is few do, and there's no way of knowing which ones are full skins and which are just background pics. Also, the background image ones cause the minimise/close etc buttons to be misplaced.

Sergeispamer80 Saturday, June 9, 2012 7:14:49 AM

Still a lot of

http://i.imgur.com/F28Ow.png

Even on Battle.net http://i.imgur.com/ebONh.png

Config: Windows 7 HP x64, Opera x64

Romanfeil0ng Saturday, June 9, 2012 7:38:27 AM

i also see some font rendering issues
--> example
(http://fabiensanglard.net/doom3/index.php)

with and without HWA:
Version 12.00 RC
Build 1450
Platform Linux
System x86_64, 2.6.32-5-amd64
NVIDIA Driver Version: 295.53

but the rest is fine for me yes

Боян КрачевKrachev Saturday, June 9, 2012 7:58:30 AM

Mageia 2 x64 KDE 4.8.2

1450 + themes HWA off/WebGL on

O menu and Mini/Maxi/Close buttons still disappear when Save As dialog pops out or if I change the home page. After minimize-maximaize they are back on.

Also scrolling on Linux is much slower than on windows, with or without smooth scrolling enabled.

Speeddial now is using the whole screen again and is not limited to 100% as in previous build. Thanks for that fix.

Pikkopikko1991 Saturday, June 9, 2012 8:05:20 AM

Upload videos on youtube don't work..

TZ86 Saturday, June 9, 2012 8:20:29 AM

Originally posted by Krachev:

1450 + themes HWA off/WebGL onO menu and Mini/Maxi/Close buttons still disappear when Save As dialog pops out or if I change the home page. After minimize-maximaize they are back on.


Confirm.

UPD: Also it happens when I just enable and disable menubar.

hrh-fourtyseven Saturday, June 9, 2012 8:30:33 AM

Originally posted by NeXaen:

it seems that the bug below is not going to be fixed before final, but you promised to have a look at it some builds ago and no news till now , do you confirm it ? or ignored ? , if you confirm there will be hope to be fixed in next major version.


DSK-362047 :: RTL characters distinguish || or letter spacing problem
ex.
try to slelect characters one by one :
با ؛ بله ؛ صحبت ؛ امتناع ؛ کسی ؛ به ؛ کیبرد؛ گلپر ؛ ژله
characters only :
بـ ا ؛ بـ لـ ـه ؛ صـ حـ بـ ت ؛ ا مـ تـ نـ ا ع ؛ کـ سـ ی ؛ بـ ـه ؛ کـ یـ بـ ر د ؛ گـ لـ پـ ر ؛ ژ لـ ـه



confirm
PLZ FIX IT.

Otto WasserfeldtmyOnno Saturday, June 9, 2012 8:32:45 AM

Originally posted by Avola:

Clicking the video on http://www.opera.com/browser/ produced this page: http://i.imgur.com/ROCzA.png
Works normally in other browsers.

Works good here

Çağlar Yeşilyurtgreench Saturday, June 9, 2012 8:33:12 AM

Originally posted by Rijk:

Originally posted by hectormaciasa79:
Ok, now we have a serious problem over here.http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/42/skydriveproblem2.jpg/From my work computer, using Windows XP SP3 x86, just upgraded from 11.64. At home Im running Win7 x64 on the Desktop and Ubuntu 12.04 on Laptop, same problem.HWA/WebGL OFFWhat's the problem? Did you blank out the file names for privacy reasons or is that the problem you see? (Don't use SkyDrive myself yet)


Names of the files are not visible.

Alexeylexa77 Saturday, June 9, 2012 9:21:41 AM

Hi!
What kind of plugin must be in Opera in order to look everything at this page:
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/authorwareonly.html?
Need I to work with Framework 3.5 only?
Thanks!

Vista x32

devloop Saturday, June 9, 2012 9:26:32 AM

Flash plugin still crash so many times. I can't get any video to play on Vimeo.
Same problem with some others websites (ex: http://bit.ly/KM6YCp)
Something must be done before the final release.

Platform : Linux 64bits
Opera Next 12.00-1450.x86_64
Flash Player 11,2,202,236

nb: the problem is the same with Chromium but it works with Firefox

PengePenge4 Saturday, June 9, 2012 9:36:40 AM

Performance improvements will be made in the next version?

This site (huge filelist) doesnt load in Opera: http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/index.html?path=Win/&sort=desc

This site: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/

In Chromium: http://i.imgur.com/ECppX.png

And in Opera: http://i.imgur.com/khLpY.png

Furthermore, if in Opera I hit Ctrl+F the browser will not responding. (I tested in clean profile. With extensions, for example Linkifier the site would freeze the whole browser permanently).

Once the Opera was the best in the field. sad

Aleksandar Simovicviperaberus Saturday, June 9, 2012 9:40:02 AM

Ok i have win 7 x64, what to download 64 or 32 bit opera? or whatever? and why
Thanks

Erik HauboldAltarius Saturday, June 9, 2012 9:48:08 AM

Originally posted by Penge4:

Performance improvements will be made in the next version?

This site (huge filelist) doesnt load in Opera: http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/index.html?path=Win/&sort=desc'>http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/index.html?path=Win/&sort=desc

This site: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/'>http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/

In Chromium: http://i.imgur.com/ECppX.png'>http://i.imgur.com/ECppX.png

And in Opera: http://i.imgur.com/khLpY.png'>http://i.imgur.com/khLpY.png

Furthermore, if in Opera I hit Ctrl+F the browser will not responding. (I tested in clean profile. With extensions, for example Linkifier the site would freeze the whole browser permanently).

Once the Opera was the best in the field. sad



- the filelist is complete empty here (or just loads nothing)
- the whatwg-document is extremely laggy / slow
- ctrl+f is also extremely slow, but works (also with extensions
opensuse 12.1

edit: and somehow linebreaks while writing a comment are only saved when i edit it again 0o

proxonic Saturday, June 9, 2012 10:10:31 AM

I'm getting Java Error messages when i'm logged into postbank.de and for example changing the account view:

1. <banking.postbank.de>

DataTables warning (table id = 'ida5'): Cannot reinitialise DataTable.

To retrieve the DataTables object for this table, please pass either no arguments to the dataTable() function, or set bRetrieve to true. Alternatively, to destory the old table and create a new one, set bDestroy to true (note that a lot of changes to the configuration can be made through the API which is usually much faster)

2. <banking.postbank.de>

DataTables warning (table id = 'id1b6'): Cannot reinitialise DataTable.

To retrieve the DataTables object for this table, please pass either no arguments to the dataTable() function, or set bRetrieve to true. Alternatively, to destory the old table and create a new one, set bDestroy to true (note that a lot of changes to the configuration can be made through the API which is usually much faster).

3. <banking.postbank.de>

DataTables warning (table id = 'id1c3'): Cannot reinitialise DataTable.

To retrieve the DataTables object for this table, please pass either no arguments to the dataTable() function, or set bRetrieve to true. Alternatively, to destory the old table and create a new one, set bDestroy to true (note that a lot of changes to the configuration can be made through the API which is usually much faster).


Actually my banking page doesn't work good on opera next (and now 12 as well) and i have to use chrome to go there.

Francesco De Domenicofrankdd89 Saturday, June 9, 2012 10:16:28 AM

I'm still trying to figure out why you've removed the border inside the content pane.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSSBwsXu0CM&feature=youtu.be

3sigma Saturday, June 9, 2012 10:29:27 AM

On one my PC with C2Q:Q9650 CPU always running opera_plugin_wrapper_32.exe instead of opera_plugin_wrapper.exe, if I delete opera_plugin_wrapper_32.exe it runs opera_plugin_wrapper.exe and works good. On second one with Ci7:720QM this bug bug wasn't detected.

Both have Windows 7 x64 SP1

Владимирbigvovan Saturday, June 9, 2012 10:29:31 AM

http://radio.online.ua/ukr/radio/kiss-fm/
Radio does not work. I can not listen to the radio in the Opera browser. There are two modes of flash player or radio, or via plug-in Windows Media Player.
Since I have not installed the plugin Windows Media Player, I tried to run it through a flash player, but in Opera it does not work.
And when the press switch on the flash player plug-in Windows Media Player that Opera does not respond, just downloaded something and did not respond to mouse clicks.
Tested on Opera x32 and x64 (WebGL - 0, HWA - 0
Win7 x64

alexl1984 Saturday, June 9, 2012 10:43:43 AM

Sometimes when i scroll, it seems like part of the webpage tears along a vertical line. It seems to happen more often if anything pops up that covers part of the page, like an extension info box or whatever. Anyone confirm?

xpsp3.

Edmund BlackadderHypnotoad Saturday, June 9, 2012 10:47:11 AM

I was using firefox for some testing, noticed the updated flash plugin and had firefox launch the plugin upgrade.
Opera was running in the background with flash running video stream in several tabs and windows.
As the flash plugin from firefox updated, Opera became unresponsive and had to be closed. I realize that it was probably not a good idea, but at the same time it's something that's likely to happen to people so I wanted to see how Opera would react. Crashing wasn't what I'd hoped for.
This was on Win764, 64bit Opera, 64 bit flash.

I was also about to echo the performance issues that other people have had with Opera 12 and flash.
Watching this http://www.majorleaguegaming.com/live#sc2 for instance and just trying to adjust the volume is seriously laggy compared to other browsers using the same plugin. Doing any interaction with it in fact, changing quality or window size was met with a second long delay or so before the flash would respond to the interaction.
However, there does seem to be some improvement in the performance department with the new flash version so I'll keep testing.
The bad news is that it still crashed as I loaded a new page with several embedded flash animations in a separate window of the same Opera session, so the crashing hasn't been entirely eliminated yet, that's for sure.

*Edit*

I've been testing back and forth and the performance of flash even in this build with the new flash version is much much wrose in Opera than any other modern browser.

Pavelratt Saturday, June 9, 2012 11:04:42 AM

No-go, apparently.

200+ MB memory footprint with a single Facebook tab open, scrolling consumes up to 50% CPU.

Mac OS 10.6.8, HWA/WebGL off

Szczepan Hołyszewskirulatir Saturday, June 9, 2012 11:06:55 AM

Freezes terribly! This is a URL that causes a freeze reliably on my Arch Linux x86_64:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYAn6bMgqVs

Szczepan Hołyszewskirulatir Saturday, June 9, 2012 11:14:25 AM

Originally posted by rulatir:

Freezes terribly! This is a URL that causes a freeze reliably on my Arch Linux x86_64:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYAn6bMgqVs

Actually 11.64 freezes there too. Looks like a nasty regression. Firefox works.

Владимирbigvovan Saturday, June 9, 2012 11:32:28 AM

http://vk.com/id56044840#/vladimirjoker?z=photo-3517931_284875399%2Fwall14504403_3469

Opera x64 When scrolling the page with a picture, drawing constantly reboots, rattles.
In other browsers all is normal and in the same opera 12 x32, too, all is well, and a page with a picture that looks like a distantly than Opera x64.
As I have pointed out, YOU MUST BE GOOD TO ADAPT TO WORK BRUZER MOST POPULAR SOCIAL NETWORK - http://VK.COM, FACEBOOK, google +

http://i.piccy.info/i7/ecf5e0473b8671691c1a362f178ea9ad/1-5-8814/931564/12456_500.jpg -

Otto WasserfeldtmyOnno Saturday, June 9, 2012 11:44:01 AM

Шуйский Николай [krigstask, Ŝtérkrìg]Sterkrig Saturday, June 9, 2012 11:46:05 AM

Originally posted by rulatir:

Freezes terribly! This is a URL that causes a freeze reliably on my Arch Linux x86_64:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYAn6bMgqVs 


Can't confirm. Gentoo Linux ~amd64.
Using HTML5 version.

Originally posted by rulatir:

Actually 11.64 freezes there too


How could this be a regression then?

blackcoder Saturday, June 9, 2012 11:52:12 AM

@Otto Wasserfeldt
Looks like a design decision and therefore it is not a bug.

kubat1987 Saturday, June 9, 2012 11:53:07 AM

Even with the latest build, Flash 11.2.xxx still randomly crashes in Kubuntu 12.04, especially while watching a video, like YT. I have even switched from OpenJDK to the latest Oracle/Sun Java, but still no effect.

Gousti FruitGoustiFruit Saturday, June 9, 2012 12:04:20 PM

Originally posted by vilpapa:

When you create a bookmark on the personal bar, creates another empty bookmark.


Just noticed this too, when dragging a url from the button in the address bar to the bookmark panel, it also creates a second - empty - bookmark.

umbrator Saturday, June 9, 2012 12:04:40 PM

Originally posted by alexl1984:

Sometimes when i scroll, it seems like part of the webpage tears along a vertical line. It seems to happen more often if anything pops up that covers part of the page, like an extension info box or whatever. Anyone confirm?

xpsp3.

Yes, I've seen that too. I use an extension called Imagus. When I hover with mouse over a picture link, Imagus shows the picture's thumbnail in a pop-up. But when I close that thumbnail and try to scroll the page, everything, that was under the pop-up, scrolls with a slight delay, compared to the rest of the page. I'm on Win7 x64 and HWA is off.

spectatorxSpectatorx Saturday, June 9, 2012 12:18:40 PM

ipko.pl - logout doesn't work.

You have to fix it before releasing final version. There can't be problems like this in final version.

Opera 12 rc2 x64 windows 7 Enterprise x64 SP1.

Christophchristoph142 Saturday, June 9, 2012 12:50:07 PM

[offtopic]really nice that Flash gets updated with Opera running now. An improvement of Adobe or a side effect of OOPP? smile[/offtopic]

Geocitiesgeocities Saturday, June 9, 2012 12:56:21 PM

Gousti FruitGoustiFruit Saturday, June 9, 2012 1:23:30 PM

Little bug (not recent, but I never complained before ;-))
-> it's impossible to have the tabs in the title bar whenever the main "Opera" button is removed.

vilpapa Saturday, June 9, 2012 1:35:01 PM

Scrolling by pressing the space bar is not working properly. The top is a paragraph from the previous page.

Willem Visservisserw Saturday, June 9, 2012 1:37:04 PM

In the 64bit edition you cannot delete the history. When you delete history it seems to work. But the next time you start Opera all history is back!

Opera 12.00 1450 64bit| Windows 8 Release Preview 64bit| Core i3

Charles SchlossChas4 Saturday, June 9, 2012 1:37:35 PM

Originally posted by geocities:

Flash has been updated


Adobe posted 11.3.300.257 yesterday for Mac and Windows (security update, added a auto update to Mac,(windows already had the option)), tho I have not seen a Linux update

Flash runs well on http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/index.cfm

Bhikkhu PesalaPesala Saturday, June 9, 2012 1:41:51 PM

Originally posted by vilpapa:

Scrolling by pressing the space bar is not working properly. The top is a paragraph from the previous page.


Yes, this is another stupid intentional change to match other browsers. No one needs this as it makes finding your place much harder. Opera users are accustomed to the command "page down" doing what it says, not "page down - 10%"

Work around: modify the shortcut to do "Page down & scroll down & scroll down

PraetorianX Saturday, June 9, 2012 1:55:39 PM

Originally posted by Chas4:

Adobe posted 11.3.300.257 yesterday for Mac and Windows (security update, added a auto update to Mac,(windows already had the option)), tho I have not seen a Linux update


There is a Linux update, though it slightly update the version from 11.2.202.235 to 11.2.202.236.
The Update Manager (Ubuntu 12.04) spotted it and installed it a few hours ago for me.

Still, all the problems I had persist with this version too.
thedreammachine.se/ is slow, and may cause the browser to freeze (if you try to pan down), and youtube flash embedded videos also may cause the browser to freeze and the flash plugin to take up the whole cpu. All of these, regressions from 11.6x.

Opera x64 12.00 1450, Ubuntu x64 12.04. Flash plugin: 11.2.202.236

Charles SchlossChas4 Saturday, June 9, 2012 1:56:50 PM

Flash Player in the plugin wrapper does not close when there is no flash player content left

OS X 10.7.4 x64

minho Saturday, June 9, 2012 2:03:10 PM

Originally posted by mimi_s_mum:

I also confirm the issue with PDFXChange Viewer plugin not loading/opening .pdf documents, either plugin on-demand turned on or off. Opera Next x64 on Win7x64 sp1.


Sumatra pdf plug-in owrks fine for me.
win 7 x64, x64 build

minho Saturday, June 9, 2012 2:08:33 PM

Originally posted by Krachev:

Also scrolling on Linux is much slower than on windows, with or without smooth scrolling enabled.


Confirmed.
Fedora 17 x32, hwa off, webgl off, Gnome 3.4.1

mfbd Saturday, June 9, 2012 2:11:26 PM

Originally posted by bigvovan:

http://radio.online.ua/ukr/radio/kiss-fm/
Radio does not work. I can not listen to the radio in the Opera browser. There are two modes of flash player or radio, or via plug-in Windows Media Player.
Since I have not installed the plugin Windows Media Player, I tried to run it through a flash player, but in Opera it does not work.
And when the press switch on the flash player plug-in Windows Media Player that Opera does not respond, just downloaded something and did not respond to mouse clicks.
Tested on Opera x32 and x64 (WebGL - 0, HWA - 0
Win7 x64

kiss fm plays fine both in flashplayer-mode (with flashplayer-plugin) an in mediaplayer-mode (with gecko media player plugin) opensuse 12.1 (64)

ahoj1234 Saturday, June 9, 2012 2:12:20 PM

Originally posted by minho:

Originally posted by mimi_s_mum:

I also confirm the issue with PDFXChange Viewer plugin not loading/opening .pdf documents, either plugin on-demand turned on or off. Opera Next x64 on Win7x64 sp1.

Sumatra pdf plug-in owrks fine for me. win 7 x64, x64 build


with pdf plugin you are using?
for me (and not only for me!) is not working "PDFXChange Viewer plugin" also adobe reader is not working.. only reinstalling pdf´s plugin/SW after installing opera solve this but not tested reinstalling pdf´s plugin (again) with this build. but it seems to be older bug and before this build I solve this problem this way but.. who wants to update/reinstall pdf´s reader(s) all the time..
the same OS and O-build.. W7 x64 with this x64 build

minho Saturday, June 9, 2012 2:17:17 PM

Originally posted by bigvovan:

http://radio.online.ua/ukr/radio/kiss-fm/Radio does not work. I can not listen to the radio in the Opera browser.


I can listen the radio using the flash mode.
win 7 x64, x64 build

minho Saturday, June 9, 2012 2:18:58 PM

Originally posted by ahoj1234:

with pdf plugin you are using?


SumatraPDF Browser Plugin - 2.0.1.0.0

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