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PowerPC and KDE fans rejoice

By Ruarí Ødegaardruario. Tuesday, April 13, 2010 8:01:03 PM

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Here is a new build with some very nice fixes for PowerPC and our initial work on KDE 4 integration. Neither is perfect but we hope that you will see that we are finally getting somewhere. bigsmile Opera running in KDE 4 with the Plastique style Being work in progress, there are some issues that you may stumble across. PowerPC users will hit a crashing bug if they try to run the Acid 3 test. However many other sites will see a vast improvement. We'd therefore encourage users to test a range of their favourite sites and submit cash logs if they hit any. KDE users should also be aware of a crash on exit. Even if you aren't interested in PowerPC or KDE we would encourage you to give the build a spin as there fixes to Core and Carakan as well. Note: As always try to keep comments on topic and don't repeat already reported bugs. Also, when discussing new issues please mention which Operating System you use, including the version (and the distribution and Desktop Environment on UNIX/Linux). Known Issues
  • PPC builds crash on the Acid 3 test.
  • Windows
    • Accessibility crashes and freezes
  • Mac
    • Slow domain resolution on some sites
  • UNIX
    • Problems with some font settings
    • Plugin MIME types without file extensions don't work
    • No printing
    • Crash on exit for KDE users
    • Upgrading .rpm packages from prior 10.5x builds will result in broken application menus (uninstall and reinstall instead)
WARNING: This is a development snapshot: it contains the latest changes, but may also have severe issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all. Download

Changelog
Desktop/UI
  • The Windows and UNIX 'notrayicon' command line switch has been converted to a preference

Core
  • Fixed DSK-293735 (Fix Carakan on PPC)
  • Fixed DSK-293753 (Performance regressions in build 3346)
  • Fixed CARAKAN-1245 (GCing with a JSON parser instance in an uninitialised state)
  • Fixed CORE-28932 (Some FTP links doesn't work)
  • Fixed CORE-29063 (Swedish BankID crashes Opera, on pensionsmyndigheten.se)
  • Fixed CORE-29139 (Fixes to make Zip compressor work with PPC)

Unite
  • Fixed DSK-291828 (UNIX: Unite Media Player closes down by itself right after being launched)

Opera Widgets
  • Fixed DSK-276007 (UNIX: fileio browseForDirectory doesn't launch dialogue)
  • Fixed DSK-249873 (UNIX: Crash occurs after closing widget)
  • Fixed DSK-249947 (UNIX: Double click on wgt file should start widget installer)
  • Fixed DSK-271916 (UNIX: Widget Manager do not contain icon for every exported widget)
  • Fixed DSK-273524 (UNIX: Add application/x-opera-widgets and application/x-opera-uniteapplication to mimetype list)
  • Fixed DSK-290760 (UNIX: Choosing any option from widgets context menu crashes widget)

UNIX
  • KDE4 Skinning enabled
  • Support for system session manager interaction: automatic exit and restart
  • Support for native X11 dialog/messageboxes
  • Command line options re-enabled
  • Do not scan for opera on startup unless a lock file is detected: Should improve startup time.
  • Fixed DSK-293120 (Stop using xdg-utils with the rpms)
  • Fixed DSK-293776 (Fix broken XDG files on RPM upgrade)
  • Fixed DSK-275880 (--help output and --debughelp output are mixed up.)
  • Fixed DSK-283431 (Opening Opera through the command line opens 3 windows)
  • Fixed DSK-286971 (Non-ASCII dialogue titles are broken)
  • Fixed DSK-289505 (Mouse keys ("Button6" and "Button7", as reported by xev) don't work)
  • Fixed DSK-292266 ("opera -version" starts opera)
  • Fixed DSK-292425 ([regression] keyup event is not fired for input elements)
  • Fixed DSK-292933 (Send events for mouse buttons 4-9 to core.)
  • Fixed DSK-292934 (Add additional back and forward mapping to mouse buttons 8 and 9.)

Windows
  • Fixed DSK-291499 (Opera 10.51 will not run on windows XP x64 for some users)
  • Fixed DSK-293250 (Missing plugin box not clickable)
  • Fixed DSK-288967 (Streamline MSI/Installshield installer)

Mac Beta 2... well almostOpera 10.52 Beta 2 for Mac!

Comments

Alamooofofo4popo Wednesday, April 14, 2010 7:38:46 AM

At last some KDE work. Thanks guys!

hcym Wednesday, April 14, 2010 7:39:09 AM

Fixed D

cyberdude mminicyberdude Wednesday, April 14, 2010 7:41:10 AM

ah new snapshot!!!!!!!!bigsmile
hope this snapshot will solve facebook-crash problem:happy:

sabisan Wednesday, April 14, 2010 7:45:59 AM

Switching the tabs (with mouse-clicking on them) with some random (quite long sometimes) delays.

Win7x64

EDIT: Also scrolling&typing delays

EDIT2: Cpu usage too high

EDIT3: After just restarting Opera all problems above dissapeared. Weird bigsmile

EDIT4: After a while all the problems come back.

Zotlan Wednesday, April 14, 2010 7:49:11 AM

Do you still want the crash reports from craching on exit or do you not need them?

EDIT: ah, it's great to have the KDE file dialog back.

koimark Wednesday, April 14, 2010 7:52:29 AM

Upgrading from last snapshot destroyed my session-file. Now I have only desktopteam blog tab and 18 empty page tabs and 4 empty tabs with quick launch shortcuts. But this could be my own fault - because I accidentally clicked some mail link (in Postbox-mail client) same time I was installing this newer versio - I got some error message: Error in Opera 10 module or something.) It could be that this caused some locking situation during installation but I decided tell this observation anyway.
[Windows XP Pro SP3]

Ruarí Ødegaardruario Wednesday, April 14, 2010 7:52:30 AM

Originally posted by Zotlan:

Do you still want the crash reports from craching on exit or do you not need them?

Nope, don't need the crash on exit reports but please do upload any other crash reports.

Zotlan Wednesday, April 14, 2010 7:53:54 AM

Originally posted by ruario:

Nope, don't need the crash on exit reports but please do upload any other crash reports.


Naturally.

EDIT: the preferences interface looks a lot nicer now BtW.

Kyle Bakerkyleabaker Wednesday, April 14, 2010 7:54:50 AM

Seems smoother thus far, however, flash hasn't worked for the last couple builds for me in Ubuntu 10.04 x86_64. Plugin wrapper constantly crashes on startup.

@Mark Gillespie
Technically speaking, yours accomplished that. wink

Khaled KhalilKhaled-Khalil Wednesday, April 14, 2010 7:56:05 AM

no word about the network issue (nsl ?) (loading freezes on certain sites until restart) whistle
but on another side i see that Unix got some love. wink
many thanks

Ruarí Ødegaardruario Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:04:47 AM

Just a further note on this known issue:

Originally posted by ruario:

Upgrading .rpm packages from prior 10.5x builds will result in broken application menus (uninstall and reinstall instead)

Uninstalling ('rpm -e opera') will not remove your personal preferences.

P.S. If you upgrade from a stable (10.10) this will not be a problem. Nor will it be a problem upgrading in the future.

crisps Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:06:21 AM

The new installer (in Windows) is a bit unclear if it upgrades your Opera build or not. While in the previous version there was a nice (already ticked) checkbox for that.

Even when looking at the "Options" button it is still not completly clear if it upgrades or not.

Lucalucaviozzi Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:07:02 AM

can't log in on facebook, opera crash all the times i try to put username and password.
Tried to clear the cache but no luck it crashes anyway.
anyone got the same problem?

xp sp3

Ruarí Ødegaardruario Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:08:02 AM

Originally posted by kyleabaker:

Seems smoother thus far, however, flash hasn't worked for the last couple builds for me in Ubuntu 10.04 x86_64. Plugin wrapper constantly crashes on startup.

Edit: I suggest you read my latest blog post.

hk3dom Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:08:11 AM

bug still not fixed

This build keeps removing one of my bookmarks from the personal bar (it only removes it from the personal bar, not from the bookmarks itself).

I open the bookmarks panel, right-click the affected bookmark to change its properties where I tick Show on Personal Bar. I click OK, the bookmark re-appears on the personal bar, but when I close Opera and start it again, the bookmark is gone again.

PS: This issue was not present in the previous build 3344.

DSK-293324

Zotlan Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:08:15 AM

Originally posted by ruario:

Uninstalling ('rpm -e opera') will not remove your personal preferences.


Why is that BtW? (i know it's off topic but it's something that's been bugging me.Though it is convenient in this case.)

berend ytsmaytsmabeer Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:09:09 AM

Originally posted by crisps:

The new installer is a bit unclear if it upgrades your Opera build or not. While in the previous version there was a nice (already ticked) checkbox for that.


When installer apears there is the button "options"

Alecalecmg Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:10:10 AM

Alt-B for bookmark menu doesn't work. Ctrl-Tab does now

(Linux 32bit)

Danieledarklink88 Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:14:20 AM

Thank you. Can someone post an Opera kde screenshot? On Mac 10.6.3 opera still doesn't respect spaces rules but opera link seems to work fine...

Kyle Bakerkyleabaker Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:16:34 AM

Originally posted by ruario:

Originally posted by kyleabaker:

Seems smoother thus far, however, flash hasn't worked for the last couple builds for me in Ubuntu 10.04 x86_64. Plugin wrapper constantly crashes on startup.

Do you have NSPluginWrapper installed? If yes, set it to be ignored for Flash.


Thanks. This worked...
Preferences -> Advanced -> Content -> Plug-in Options... -> Change Path... -> (unchceck) "/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins"

...but what if I don't want to lose other plugins in that folder such as the rhythmbox plugin? What is the conflict with this plugin and why can't the wrapper ignore it instead if necessary?

Lucalucaviozzi Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:18:13 AM

using ccleaner to clear the data worked and now facebook login is working again.

dovelove Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:22:28 AM

Just downloaded scared to review so quickly but seems to be MUCH better on proxy with Vista 64 ...just downloaded 7 NEW security updates on Vista 64 before this ...hope it doesn't cause more problems.

Had same installer problems went to loading instead of upgrade box it usually has don't know if that is a problem.

dupel Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:24:40 AM

First run - crash on opening + crash report.
Second run - became unresponsive on crash report page that opens automatically.
Third and further runs - crash without crash report dialogue.

After I started new session - works. However, I still thinks its almost unusable, because of problems with my session (will try to find the site-problem).

Win7 x64

Edit: Ended up downgrading, as I need my previous session.

Nozu Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:24:57 AM

The webpage http://www.bodyrock.tv/ hasn't worked after 10.5x. Either the main page or after clicking some link in it the website turns into a jibberish code.

Windows 7 Ultimate x64

newbie pronewbiepro Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:27:29 AM

http://www.techbargains.com causes build 3353 to become non-responsive. Previous builds worked fine.

WinXP Pro SP3

MichałEmdek Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:28:55 AM

@Zotlan, why it should remove preferences? ;-)

@Daniele, not perfect (no gradients etc.), but works. ;-)
http://simplest-image-hosting.net/i0-opera-kde-png.png

d4rkn1ght Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:29:53 AM

Originally posted by lucaviozzi:

can't log in on facebook, opera crash all the times i try to put username and password.

Tried to clear the cache but no luck it crashes anyway.

anyone got the same problem?



xp sp3


Same here, it crashes going to this blog too. awww

XP SP3

Zotlan Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:30:50 AM

Originally posted by Emdek:

@Zotlan, why it should remove preferences? ;-)


On uninstalling? It's what you'd expect no? Everything removed, a completely fresh start (which is what you need with some problems), no private data left behind.

It's easy to remove the profile though, so not a big issue.

sabio Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:31:53 AM

"... and submit _cash_ logs if they hit any."
lol

MichałEmdek Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:32:40 AM

By the way, creating thumbnails for websites in speed dial is still broken (probably started with first April build), it looks like CSS is disabled for them.
Mandriva 2010.1, KDE 4.4.2.

Patkós Csabapatkoscsaba Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:34:27 AM

Originally posted by Zotlan:

Originally posted by ruario:

Uninstalling ('rpm -e opera') will not remove your personal preferences.

Why is that BtW? (i know it's off topic but it's something that's been bugging me.Though it is convenient in this case.)


That's how RPM and usually any package management system works. It installs/uninstalls the application but it is not touching user files. BTW, Windows uses the same logic ... if you uninstall something, configurations are kept.

MichałEmdek Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:34:46 AM

@Zotlan, if enabled by default then it would cause not expected data loss for many users, but maybe as an option could make sense.

d4rkn1ght Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:40:08 AM

I'm experiencing random crash browsing through here. I went back to previous build. scared

XP SP3

Ruarí Ødegaardruario Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:45:02 AM

Originally posted by kyleabaker:

Thanks. This worked...

Preferences -> Advanced -> Content -> Plug-in Options... -> Change Path... -> (unchceck) "/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins"

...but what if I don't want to lose other plugins in that folder such as the rhythmbox plugin? What is the conflict with this plugin and why can't the wrapper ignore it instead if necessary?

Edit: I suggest you also read my latest blog post.

Sebastian Adrian Cosmacosmasebastian Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:45:06 AM

Still having random crashes, still i can't add new certain file extension(.cbz) and still some bookmarks keeps dissapearing from personal bar after restart.

Lucalucaviozzi Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:48:00 AM

mhmhm here i am again p
I've to delete the opera data every time i restart it or it will crash on facebook login.

(xp sp3)

Ruarí Ødegaardruario Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:50:44 AM

Originally posted by patkoscsaba:

That's how RPM and usually any package management system works. It installs/uninstalls the application but it is not touching user files. BTW, Windows uses the same logic ... if you uninstall something, configurations are kept.

And Mac for that matter.

Patkós Csabapatkoscsaba Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:51:27 AM

Wow ... I am amazed ... this is the fastest and smoothest Opera ever on Linux ... at least for me. It rocks! And no crashes, yet. cheers

withme Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:57:54 AM

http://www.tvcountdown.com/
Opera lags a lot while scrolling. Try to scroll down the page as fast as you can.
Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit

Ruarí Ødegaardruario Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:59:39 AM

@patkoscsaba: Good to here. Also we are almost 'feature complete' on UNIX now as well (we still need printing support added back). Most of the issues are bug fixes.

BlackDex Wednesday, April 14, 2010 9:00:33 AM

Hello there,
Im trying to enable Java in this build, but im not able to get it working.
Im using Ubuntu 10.04 (64Bit)

Does anyone know where to look for, or how to enable this, or is this still something a work in progress??

Thx.

kimyu92 Wednesday, April 14, 2010 9:00:54 AM

Originally posted by withme:

http://www.tvcountdown.com/

Opera lags a lot while scrolling.

Windows 7 Ultimate



Laggy? but for me, Crash!!!!!!!!!
on Windows XP XP3 (32 bits), Opera 10.52 build 3353

brumal Wednesday, April 14, 2010 9:03:10 AM

FTP - missing ".." for return and "." do nothing sad

Ruarí Ødegaardruario Wednesday, April 14, 2010 9:03:47 AM

Originally posted by BlackDex:

Im trying to enable Java in this build, but im not able to get it working.

Im using Ubuntu 10.04 (64Bit)

Plugin MIME types without file extensions don't work. You are hitting that bug. Nothing you can do. You need us to fix it.

nimu_channimuchan Wednesday, April 14, 2010 9:07:21 AM

Ooo! Thanks Good job ＼(^_^)／

Ti-bsd Wednesday, April 14, 2010 9:09:38 AM

alt+tab fixed
search and [enter] fixed

thanks

Patkós Csabapatkoscsaba Wednesday, April 14, 2010 9:13:47 AM

I found an IMAP folder bug. When you create a new folder, instead of creating a new folder with the name "New folder", 2 folders are created with the names "New" and "folder" ... maybe related to the bug that files with spaces in their names can't be directly opened ???

Reported as DSK-294075

sabio Wednesday, April 14, 2010 9:19:50 AM

Originally posted by cybpsychdsync:

switch (/notrayicon) to disable tray icon = not working.


The Windows and UNIX 'notrayicon' command line switch has been converted to a preference

Ruarí Ødegaardruario Wednesday, April 14, 2010 9:19:50 AM

Originally posted by cybpsychdsync:

switch (/notrayicon) to disable tray icon = not working.

Please read the changelog, it was the very first item! faint

You can now set it with:
opera:config#UserPrefs|ShowTrayIcon

AnuaR ShInDigazzZ Wednesday, April 14, 2010 9:21:27 AM

Originally posted by kimyu92:

Originally posted by withme:

http://www.tvcountdown.com/ Opera lags a lot while scrolling. Windows 7 Ultimate

Laggy? but for me, Crash!!!!!!!!! on Windows XP XP3 (32 bits), Opera 10.52 build 3353




lags confirmed, crash didn't conmirmed

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