By blaabjerg. Wednesday, 9. April 2008, 09:55:00
snapshot, kestrel, keyboard
New snapshot! A nice mix of fixes and enhancements for you today. As usual, head over to
the Desktop Team Blog for the full changelog and known issues list.
Highlights- Launch time optimizations
Our developers have worked on optimizing the font loading code, so Opera now starts up 13-14% faster on both cold and warm launches using a clean profile on our test machine. These optimizations were already in the previous snapshot, but a bit buggy.
- Keyboard input might be fixed
Thanks to your feedback to our previous blog post, we believe the keyboard input issue with special characters is fixed. Please test this if you've had this problem and let us know if it's fixed 
- Changed "Meta" to "Control" in the Keyboard Shortcut editor
Previously, the control key has been named "Meta" in the Keyboard Shortcut editor, but this understandably caused some confusion. We have now changed it to the much more intuitive "Control".
- Importing Safari bookmarks works again
It is once again possible to select the Safari bookmarks plist file and import it.
- Scroll bar issues fixed
The scroll bar should now behave properly again.
- Fixed a font issue with serif/sans-serif fonts
We had an issue with serif fonts overriding sans-serif fonts due to the optimizations in the font loading code, but this is now fixed.
- Fixed an issue with lingering Real Player video plugins
Fixed a bug that made some Real Player videos stay on screen even when switching tabs.
New known issues- You might bump into a seemingly random font-related crasher if you have many open tabs. A fix is in the works.
Download build 4758
By blaabjerg. Tuesday, 18. March 2008, 15:53:41
snapshot, kestrel, keyboard
New snapshot today, and the main Mac-specific highlight is a bunch of keyboard fixes. Function keys, Shift+space and a few other keyboard issues are fixed. There's still one issue left, and we need your help to fix it. More on that after the highlights and known issues. The complete changelog and known issues list is available in the
Desktop Team blog.
Highlights- Shift+space for Page Up works again.
You can use Space and Shift+space for Page Down and Page Up, respectively, and the latter now works again.
- Function keys work again.
F2, F4, F5 and friends should now work reliably again.
- Opera now uses the proper OS X Downloads folder by default.
We used to download stuff to the Desktop by default when you clicked "Save to Download Folder". We have now changed it to use the default Downloads folder on Leopard, so your downloads show up in the Downloads stack in the Dock.
- Changed the icon in alert and prompt dialogs to something prettier.
A small Macification, but a Macification nonetheless. The default exclamation mark icons in prompts and alert dialogs has been changed to a more native-looking icon. Enter "javascript:alert()" in your address field to see it.
- Fixed outgoing encoding selection in Opera Mail for non-English installations on Intel hardware
There was a bug that made the outgoing encoding on non-English setups default to UTF-8 instead of the appropriate local encoding on Intel machines; this is now fixed.
New known issues- The scroll bar is a bit dodgy
- Unicode keyboard input might still be buggy
Help!Some testers reported that keyboard input was somewhat broken in the previous two snapshots, particularly accented characters. To help us figure out what's causing this, we've made a special debug build that prints some debug info to the terminal. Here's what you do if you're having problems with special characters:
- Download and install this build instead of the one below
- Instead of launching it normally, right-click it and choose Show Package Contents
- Enter the Contents/MacOS folder
- Right-click the Opera file and select Open With > Terminal
If everything went according to plan, a Terminal window will appear together with the usual Opera window. You should be able to use Opera as usual, but whenever it encounters some funky character that's not supposed to be there, it will print some debugging info to the Terminal. Please copy this debugging information and
send it to us.
Thank you, enjoy, and have a nice easter!
Download build 4716
