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Swordfish and Opera Next

By olli. Tuesday, May 3, 2011 7:11:50 AM

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We're happy to present you the Alpha of Opera 11.5 aka Swordfish. There are 3 features in focus here:
1. Opera Next, basically a dev channel for snapshots
2. Password synchronization
3. Speed Dial extensions

Opera Next allows you to run the upcoming release of Opera alongside with your stable installation of Opera. It will always be automatically updated to the latest snapshot build. Opera Next is easily distinguishable by the Opera menu and the white icon. Read more here.

We've been continuously enhancing Opera Link with new synchronization options. Swordfish introduces the most requested feature for Link: password synchronization. You can enable it when you set up link for the first time or in the Synchronization Options dialog. Read about password synchronization security at the Opera Link blog.

Swordfish brings your Speed Dial to life with Speed Dial extensions. Speed Dial extensions are like small web pages embedded in your Speed Dial, powered by Opera's extension framework. They allow developers to make live previews of web pages or other nice decorations for your Speed Dial. Find out how to make Speed Dial extensions here. On the Opera extensions page you can find some sample Speed Dial Extensions (requires Opera Swordfish).

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
  • Added support for Speed Dial extensions
  • Added support for Opera Link password synchronization
  • Various minor skin bug fixes
  • Opera next packages now produced for all future snapshots
  • DSK-333190 Improve PGO instrumentation
  • DSK-333165 view-mode: minimized Speed Dial thumbnails send image requests on reloading
  • DSK-333276 Iframe ad misplaced on zoomed-in thumbnail
  • DSK-333295 URI fragment sent with Speed Dial GET requests
  • DSK-333037 Speed Dial uses wrong icon after restart
  • DSK-333433 Viewport:minimized thumbnails are blurry above 100%
  • DSK-333176 Context menu available from keyboard with Speed Dial State=2
  • DSK-333659 Mouse gesture translations missing
  • DSK-333549 Thumbnail gets distorted after restoring removed Speed Dial
  • DSK-335668 Logo finder improvements (logos on the right side look better now)
  • DSK-330458 Tweak to the animation when dragging Speed Dial thumbnail diagonally

Windows
  • DSK-329792 Speed Dial preview in thumbnails is not refreshed
  • DSK-333425 Speed Dial entries in Jumplist are not updated

Mac
  • Dropped support for Mac OS 10.4 ‘Tiger’ (less than 5% of Mac users)
  • DSK-333366 Impossible to drag messages to mail folders or labels

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Comments

Alternatiwealternatiwe Tuesday, May 3, 2011 8:06:00 AM

yes

kirpich Tuesday, May 3, 2011 8:06:20 AM

Good work!

QuHno Tuesday, May 3, 2011 8:07:05 AM

installing ...

Changelog of the other changes to the stable or to Ragnarök?

tvd88 Tuesday, May 3, 2011 8:07:47 AM

awesome, it is reason why I cannot leave Opera smile)

DayderDay Tuesday, May 3, 2011 8:08:17 AM

cool blue opera menu wink
Bug: usb installation, create new folder, rename folder, ok and the path ends with "new folder" not the renamed foldername
Win7Pro x64

Stanleyfreerider Tuesday, May 3, 2011 8:08:26 AM

what is the security for password sync?

berend ytsmaytsmabeer Tuesday, May 3, 2011 8:12:45 AM

Speeddial extension example.

pursanovd Tuesday, May 3, 2011 8:13:05 AM

Nice thing! Like Chrome's DEV channel smile Can you provide more information about changes and fixes?

Originally posted by freerider:

what is the security for password sync?

Will there be an article, explaining why you've implemented it just now, and how did you overcome all the problems with security?

Xombiemubaidr Tuesday, May 3, 2011 8:13:27 AM

love heart cheers spock

János, Vinczevinczej Tuesday, May 3, 2011 8:13:52 AM

Again build1009? bigeyes

pursanovd Tuesday, May 3, 2011 8:15:43 AM

BTW, SpeedDial extensions open a wide range of new extension types! Like currency exchange, weather updates in live, news and so on! Really must try this thing! But what about synchronization? If i install one SD extension-it wont show on other computer with SDSync, right?

asfaltas Tuesday, May 3, 2011 8:20:07 AM

finally new build very THANKS smile i love opera ...

Xombiemubaidr Tuesday, May 3, 2011 8:21:35 AM

Preferences menu for extensions does not work (on extension page in opera)

windows 7 32bit

pursanovd Tuesday, May 3, 2011 8:23:34 AM

Originally posted by mubaidr:

Preferences menu for extensions does not work


not confirmed in windows 7 x64.

maexl Tuesday, May 3, 2011 8:29:13 AM

Great!! Testing smile

Giuseppe Bilottagbilotta Tuesday, May 3, 2011 8:29:29 AM

"Alpha of Opera 10.5 aka Swordfish" I think you wanted to write 11.5 there

tiberiusvp Tuesday, May 3, 2011 8:31:15 AM

Sounds great :-)
What measure of security/encryption is taken in password synchronization?

floweb Tuesday, May 3, 2011 8:31:41 AM

Opera Next is an awesome idea bigsmile

Igor ReverserRReverser Tuesday, May 3, 2011 8:35:08 AM

Originally posted by pursanovd:

Nice thing! Like Chrome's DEV channel smile Can you provide more information about changes and fixes?

Originally posted by freerider:

what is the security for password sync?

Will there be an article, explaining why you've implemented it just now, and how did you overcome all the problems with security?


Agree. Now I want smth like Canary channel too (fresh updates every few days) smile
Too late for internal password sync, most of people went to LastPass extension while waiting for that feature.

glimps3d Tuesday, May 3, 2011 8:36:19 AM

"happy to present you the Alpha of Opera 10.5 aka Swordfish" ... Opera 10.5???

NicoHellbillyDeluxe Tuesday, May 3, 2011 8:36:34 AM

Great, thank you!

By the way: Is the blue menu icon only used for Opera Next or will it be the default color for 11.50?

archive1 Tuesday, May 3, 2011 8:38:09 AM

i love to see a gold/silver price speed dial extension

olli Tuesday, May 3, 2011 8:38:19 AM

Originally posted by glimps3d:

"happy to present you the Alpha of Opera 10.5 aka Swordfish" ... Opera 10.5???



Ops corrected :-)

Passie Tuesday, May 3, 2011 8:39:14 AM

Would be fun if you could animate the weather extension like HTC bigsmile

jottosson Tuesday, May 3, 2011 8:39:33 AM

1. Which security is used when transferring and storing my wand passwords?
2. Will the wand sync be synced with other devices? Perhaps not on the Desktop team's table, but I'd love to see the wand sync feature on Opera Mobile on my Android device.

Excellent alpha by the way, works perfectly!

Giuseppe Bilottagbilotta Tuesday, May 3, 2011 8:41:47 AM

btw is there an easy way to import all my stuff from opera into opera-next? (bookmarks, magic wand, speed dial ...)

berend ytsmaytsmabeer Tuesday, May 3, 2011 8:42:56 AM

Originally posted by gbilotta:

btw is there an easy way to import all my stuff from opera into opera-next? (bookmarks, magic wand, speed dial ...)


For that Opera Link exist, just sync between builds

Z1-AV69 Tuesday, May 3, 2011 8:45:53 AM

Password sync is a great feature, but I would like some information about it's security too.

archive1 Tuesday, May 3, 2011 8:47:37 AM

How do I keep myself logged into both youtube and my gmail account when they both use different username. I have to type in the password everytime I visit either webpage and opera can't seem to save the username/password on youtube

kanstisama Tuesday, May 3, 2011 8:48:08 AM

huh nice, this build works for me better than the last final version bigsmile
at least it's not crashing so often...

j0c1323 Tuesday, May 3, 2011 8:55:54 AM

I thought this version was the one with hardware acceleration sad

ClashCityRockerclashcityrocker Tuesday, May 3, 2011 8:58:05 AM

Originally posted by Z1-AV69:

Password sync is a great feature, but I would like some information about it's security too.



+1

I am keen to ditch Last-Pass, with it's "hacky" JS based solution for a proper solution like OperaLink. However I would like to read about where encryption takes place, what is sent to Opera link servers, how it's secured.

andrsyng Tuesday, May 3, 2011 8:58:07 AM

make extensions synchronization

nycoon Tuesday, May 3, 2011 9:04:04 AM

Looks nice! smile But how ca i get my Speed Dials from stable to OperaNext??

Damian StępnikeDameXxX Tuesday, May 3, 2011 9:04:27 AM

One question... When will Hardware Acceleration? confused

This snapshot had already WebGL and Hardware Acceleration.

Necroman Tuesday, May 3, 2011 9:09:27 AM

"DSK-329792 Speed Dial preview in thumbnails is not refreshed" party

Z1-AV69 Tuesday, May 3, 2011 9:12:20 AM

Originally posted by HellbillyDeluxe:


By the way: Is the blue menu icon only used for Opera Next or will it be the default color for 11.50?



Judging from the skin file it's only for the "next" installation.

Владимир Назаровirdose7 Tuesday, May 3, 2011 9:16:01 AM

heart heart heart

Irontiger Tuesday, May 3, 2011 9:16:31 AM

Great - testing starts now wink

Hope for session sync as well wink

Greetings

IT

ChrisSlamdex Tuesday, May 3, 2011 9:18:26 AM

Originally posted by RReverser:

Too late for internal password sync, most of people went to LastPass extension while waiting for that feature.

I don't think that's a valid assertion. Most people will not install an extension like that. However, those who use Opera Link are likely to syn passwords as well, so they will be using it anyway.

It's there as a built in feature, so people who use sync will also sync passwords.

ClashCityRockerclashcityrocker Tuesday, May 3, 2011 9:18:42 AM

Originally posted by eDameXxX:

One question... When will Hardware Acceleration?

This snapshot had already WebGL and Hardware Acceleration.



That does not mean that Hardware Acceleration will be a 11.50 feature..... Most companies use continuous integration which means new features are constantly kept inline with upto date releases. It may be a Opera 12 (or later feature), we simply don't know.

You shouldn't take it as concrete that because a labs release called 11.50 had a HW accel demo that it will mean 11.50 will get the feature. The feature is ready when it's ready....

ClashCityRockerclashcityrocker Tuesday, May 3, 2011 9:19:47 AM

Originally posted by caune:

+1 for password sync, I hope that session & tab sync are next.



M2 Contacts Sync (or Google Contacts Link)
Form-Fill Sync.

Mod0528 Tuesday, May 3, 2011 9:23:21 AM

Hmmm Opera devs polishing speed dial, when (in MY opinion) it is just a shiny toy.
Myself never will store passwords in browser. I'm handling it thru Keepass.
For me more way important if Opera devs can make to remember zoomed pages, not tabs and more polish at address bar.

BS-Harou Tuesday, May 3, 2011 9:23:52 AM

I would make the blue of O-menu button a bit darker, otherwise good job Waiting for core updates smile

petvalcaune Tuesday, May 3, 2011 9:24:53 AM

Originally posted by Z1-AV69:

Password sync is a great feature, but I would like some information about it's security too.



Second that, I will not use it before Opera confirms it is already encrypted by my link password or master password when it leaves my computer.

Does it even support master password? If I have master password on one computer, turn on password sync, will it be required on other computer before I am able to use or even Opera code is able to access those synced passwords? If not already then I would very much like it this way.

Stein73 Tuesday, May 3, 2011 9:25:19 AM

Originally posted by clashcityrocker:


M2 Contacts Sync (or Google Contacts Link)


+1 - Oh yes, PLEASE smile

ChrisSlamdex Tuesday, May 3, 2011 9:25:36 AM

Originally posted by eDameXxX:

This snapshot had already WebGL and Hardware Acceleration.

Not a snapshot. Just a demo build.

Originally posted by caune:

What's with that speed dial obsession? Just stop that, seriously. There are more important features that modern browsers need.

Says who?

Originally posted by caune:

Focus on HTML5, implement SPDY, plugin sandboxing etc and don't waste resources on eye candies.

Speed Dial is not eye candy. It's one of Opera's popular features. And it's a UI feature, so I'm not sure why you started talking about things that are irrelevant to the UI, and handled by a completely different team at Opera. Fail?

pikachu01 Tuesday, May 3, 2011 9:27:00 AM

Site: gmail.com
Options: Zoom != 100% (e.g. 150%)
Behaviour: Hovering on a tab causes the zoom to not scale correctly.
Impact: Gmail.com becomes a 100% scaled zoom (on a 150% sized canvas)

Anyone getting this?

Ondřej MorávekWooshcz Tuesday, May 3, 2011 9:30:13 AM

I like this 'dev channel' very much. I can have my stable Opera version right next to this developer snapshot. This could encourage much more people to test snapshots. Great work smile

venin Tuesday, May 3, 2011 9:30:17 AM

Previous builds also had this issue, but if you set Scaling of pages to 120 % and have preview on the tabs, there will be misplacement of different objects on some sites.

For instance in Engadget:



To easy replicate: Do not show preview on tabs, open Engadget, hit + 2 times to get 120 %, then drag down the bar under the tabs so you see the previews.

Win 7 64 bit.

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