EV and Certificate Updates

By csant. Tuesday, 8. April 2008, 14:12:24

We've introduced subtle, but important UI and back-end changes is this build. In just a few words: Kestrel gets EV, the address field will change the way it displays page information, and we now have automatic certificate updates!

This latest snapshot build has support for Extended Validation (EV) certificates. This means that on EV sites you'll see a padlock on a green background. And remember: It ain't EV 'til it's EV, all EV. Opera is a more strict than other browsers, and will display an EV site with a "green padlock" only if all elements on the page are from EV sites. Read Yngve's article for more details.

There are some more changes in the address bar: the fraud protection button will now work differently. For HTTP sites you will not see the button anymore. On HTTPS sites the padlock will be on a yellow background (green for EV). If, however, you come across an HTTPS site which lowers the overall rating of the security level of the page (details on the levels are again to be found in Yngve's article), you will see a grey "?" button, which will provide you with more information on the security level. A fraudulent page will still be flagged with a red warning in the address field.

The back-end change in this snapshot affects the certificate database: we can now add new Roots to the Certificate Authority database without requiring users to update their installation. Find details about this over in Yngve's article.

WARNING: These are development snapshots: they contain the latest changes, but they also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, they may not work at all.

Known Issues

Too many searches in the search engine list
"Open With" other browsers doesn't work
The progress bar does not show if it's set to "Pop-up at the bottom"

Changelog

New Features

Added EV certificate support
Added root certificate update
Added Notes synchronization
Added opera:historysearch to default list of search engines

Core Fixes

Fixed problems loading Gmail
Improved XHR (AJAX) performance
Fixed mouse gesture crash in print preview
Windowless mode for Silverlight 1.1 now works

Mail Fixes

Fixes to decoding of mailto: URLs
Fixed crash when listing channels/rooms on IRC server
Fixed problem when fetching feeds would freeze Opera for a long time
Fixed problem where Opera wouldn't start for some users with old mail directories
Optimized newsfeed download when users have lots of existing feed messages
Fixed problem seen when changing the status of several messages at the same time
Fixed several parse errors caused by IMAP server bugs
Fixed problem adding contacts to messages when the contact has multiple e-mail addresses

UI Fixes

Fixed crash when opening Help
Some fixes to Opera Link synchronization
Fixed problem saving pages in formats other than HTML
MHTML files can now only be saved as MHTML
Fixed problem where Personal bar was greyed-out sometimes
Viewing source doesn't put the file in the system temp folder anymore
Viewing source and applying changes to local files commits the changes to the local file again
Fixed the internal "Execute program" command, which caused Open in buttons to stop working

Platform-specific

[Windows] Fixed opacity inversion on web pages
[Windows] Fixed GDI leak related to favicons
[Windows] Fixed crash when closing Opera
[Windows] Fixed printing issues where some words would run into each other
[OS X] Fixed problem scrolling to the bottom of the pages using scrollbars

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Comments

OMG, no comments?

good work guys!

By robodesign, # 8. April 2008, 17:11:09

Ouhaou !!!!!

By GregLand, # 8. April 2008, 17:13:38

Ohhh yeah

Subtle, but important UI and backend changes are coming up.

can't wait!

By stranded, # 8. April 2008, 17:15:31

'< auuuuuuuuu

By zoquete, # 8. April 2008, 17:16:26

Juppdiduh

By vivabrevis, # 8. April 2008, 17:17:18

Waoww lots of fix Thanks

By efekan258, # 8. April 2008, 17:18:07

Excellent! Nice changelog.

By Darken, # 8. April 2008, 17:24:05

'< I love this build!!!

By zoquete, # 8. April 2008, 17:27:26

Thanks!

By jarinkirill, # 8. April 2008, 17:38:00

Yay

By sebt, # 8. April 2008, 17:45:15

Thanks for the new built... When opening the view bar and doing a search, is it supposed to pop up the search requester now ??? Before it just searched without a problem.

By tenplus1, # 8. April 2008, 17:49:36

The king of all F5 keys, Lamarca, is SO going to be pissed.

By rseiler, # 8. April 2008, 17:54:59

Thank you!

By ar1pe, # 8. April 2008, 18:00:04

Did I see Opera 9999 - final comming?

By zoquete, # 8. April 2008, 18:09:48

*gone to edit PKGBUILD for new build*

By Sterkrig, # 8. April 2008, 18:17:16

Since version 9864 there's a serious regression in displaying pages like e.g. http://www.medard-online.cz/index.php. The redrawing of the pictures now flickers. This never happened before since version 3, and never in IE 6, IE 7 and even FF.

Moreover, in the latest build 9903 the slider button is misplaced on top of the page.

(Win XP SP2)

By yksyks, # 8. April 2008, 18:17:29

Thanks for this new build but some websites dont load. For example : http://www.numerama.com/

By nataniel, # 8. April 2008, 18:18:58

It ain't EV 'til it's EV, all EV

By Cyro, # 8. April 2008, 18:19:40

I don't know if it was reported earlier -> the menu at deviantart.com doesnt work at all :/

By kal8, # 8. April 2008, 18:20:56

@nataniel: loads here, slowly though

By ar1pe, # 8. April 2008, 18:21:11

I know it isn't place to put "feature request", but it nice, if you would add Search Engine synchronization (Notes synchronization has added. yupi!) vide http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=224320
Ow, and when do you correct cookies in preferences?

By Raistlin, # 8. April 2008, 18:21:16

Originally posted by yksyks:

Since version 9864 there's a serious regression in displaying pages like e.g. http://www.medard-online.cz/index.php. The redrawing of the pictures now flickers.

Is this perhaps something particular? I can't seem to see any flickering, and I clicked through on several of the weather images.

By rseiler, # 8. April 2008, 18:22:34

Originally posted by rseiler:

Since version 9864 there's a serious regression in displaying pages like e.g. http://www.medard-online.cz/index.php. The redrawing of the pictures now flickers.

I can't seem to see any flickering too (today build).

http://mapa.targeo.pl/ doesn't work at all (it's loading infinity time). Any confirm?

By Raistlin, # 8. April 2008, 18:26:40

I wish Opera would make up its' mind on the highlight for spatial navigation! Slow scrolling (w/ down arrow) is back again when a link is highlighted. I don't care what they go with (Esc key solves the problem) but this is the third change in the last three (3) releases.

Just a useless eye-candy change. Sigh!

By rwf, # 8. April 2008, 18:30:19

Originally posted by csant:

Added Notes synchronization

By Tamil, # 8. April 2008, 18:33:33

Originally posted by "Sterkrig":

*gone to edit PKGBUILD for new build*[\quote]

Can I have a direct link, please? Thanks

By pejakm, # 8. April 2008, 18:34:09

"Improved XHR (AJAX) performance"

can't use "lightbox" or some "IPB" features (I think some other JS-scripts too) with this build.

greets

By wieselding, # 8. April 2008, 18:34:48

Devs, is it possible to supply some safe example sites that will trigger all of the different security warning colours? You've linked to an article that gives examples of the new green bar but how about some for yellow, grey and the one we never want to see - red?

Telling us what will happen is one thing; it's quite another to see it in operation for ourselves.

By GrantTLC, # 8. April 2008, 18:35:30

Fixed the internal "Execute program" command, which caused Open in buttons to stop working

Nice.

By fearphage, # 8. April 2008, 18:40:37

I'm glad to see this EV stuff. I remember reading the "It ain't EV 'til it's EV, all EV" article a while back.

Thanks for the new build.

By elitegeek, # 8. April 2008, 18:42:33

Thanks a lot, it's always good to have a safer browser, maybe you could release a 2nd beta? Public Beta 1 is far away from latests snapshots. Great to have notes synchronization

By andresruiz, # 8. April 2008, 18:42:47

Am I being thick? The Opera Sync dialog does not list Notes as the types that can be sync'd

By mgillespie, # 8. April 2008, 18:42:48

>>>The progress bar does not show if it's set to "Pop-up at the bottom".

When it will begin work???

By VSB, # 8. April 2008, 18:43:34

"The progress bar does not show if it's set to 'Pop-up at the bottom'"

for heaven's sake! Please solve this problem. Please!

By mht220, # 8. April 2008, 18:43:51

To rseiler & Raistlin:

Just press the animation button (the green arrow). Unless the forecast pictures are already cached, the redrawing is visible. It was never like this before, and it's not in other browsers. Compare it with IE 7, for example, to see how smooth this should be (and used to be).
Note also the misplaced slider button.

By yksyks, # 8. April 2008, 18:45:00

the new security toolbar section isn't green as Yngve's article and the screenshot states. bug or not?

By shikaka, # 8. April 2008, 18:47:04

@rwf: improved visibility is "useless eye candy"? Wow!

By GoJoeGo, # 8. April 2008, 18:47:18

Thanks for fixes, mainly Gmail, but open web from localhost is still not function.

By Buchtic, # 8. April 2008, 18:50:00

Thank you very much

I can write letter with accent again

By supersphinx64, # 8. April 2008, 18:51:13

Ah, nice, Gmail now loads.

However, the developer console still fails to load. Looks like an excessive cross-site scripting prevention: even a UserJS of mines that loads some data from my server to extend functionality on a forum fails to work (both in this and in the previous build).

By gbilotta, # 8. April 2008, 18:51:36

@mgillespie and Devs
Yes, the Opera Sync dialog doesn't list Notes as type that can be Sync'd
@Devs

By andresruiz, # 8. April 2008, 18:53:47

Wow, that's quite a production for a snapshot build! Thanks a lot!

By GeorgoSK, # 8. April 2008, 18:56:46

bug with search in current page. searching only text, that input first. (not in menu, but in input field in toolbar)

sorry. my english is bad

By Ruzzz, # 8. April 2008, 19:03:10

Boston Globe site http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ still will not load

update - per ar1pe it does load after a reload but not initially

By Bill_P, # 8. April 2008, 19:06:49

By me the buttons on Google Docs don't work. (All are inactive)

By vinczej, # 8. April 2008, 19:06:59

My progress-bar does show up, when set to pop-up at bottom.
(win XP 32bit w. SP2)

By stoffix, # 8. April 2008, 19:07:44

@Bill P: try to reload..after that works here.

By ar1pe, # 8. April 2008, 19:09:30

Re: ~/.opera/cache4/ directory.

Does anyone else have a sub-directory calles 'revocation' in the cache4/
directory? Mime contains some oprnnnn files; a dcache4.url file and a vlink4.dat file. rm -rf ~/.opera/dcache4/revocation

By rwf, # 8. April 2008, 19:14:04

@rwf

Same here..

By man on the street, # 8. April 2008, 19:17:24

Originally posted by shikaka:

the new security toolbar section isn't green as Yngve's article and the screenshot states. bug or not?

Please tell which EV using https website you are looking at?

Regarding 'Notes' not being listed under Opera Link options: well indeed, I swear I saw it yesterday but it is not visible in this snapshot!

Regarding the Developer Console: try to renew the button, remove the current one and go to http://dev.opera.com/tools/ for a fresh one.

Originally posted by wieselding:

can't use "lightbox" or some "IPB" features (I think some other JS-scripts too) with this build.

Details please... preferably in a Beta Forum thread and a bug report.

There are no bugs listed for http://www.medard-online.cz/index.php if you can replicate the problems with a clean installation, file a bug report. Else, try to find out what is causing it...

For http://mapa.targeo.pl/ - I wasn't patient enough to see if it would eventually finish loading...

Originally posted by tenplus1:

When opening the view bar and doing a search, is it supposed to pop up the search requester now ??? Before it just searched without a problem.

Please elaborate, what is a search requester?

@rwf: I think that has to do with the EV certificates, the browser is supposed to check regularly with the certificate authorities whether there have been revocations. Better ask Yngve about that

By Rijk, # 8. April 2008, 19:20:23

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