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Opera 11.50 beta for Mac changelog
Release notes
Release date: May 31, 2011
This is a beta version of Opera. It incorporates new features, improvements, and stability adjustments.
Please use this Opera beta only on properly backed up computers.
New and improved features
Code name
- Opera 11.50 beta uses "Swordfish" as its code name.
Opera Presto 2.8 rendering engine
- Opera 11.50 beta uses the latest version of the Opera Presto 2.8 rendering engine.
Opera Next
Opera Next is a stand-alone installation of the Opera desktop browser intended for testing the development of new features, technologies, and improvements.
- It is automatically updated to include the latest changes as they become available.
- Important note: Pre-release builds may be unstable and include known issues, such as crashes or data loss situations.
- See: What is Opera Next?
Opera Link: Password synchronization
The most requested feature for Opera Link is password synchronization.
- You can enable it when you set up link for the first time or in the Synchronization Options dialog.
Plugin installation wizard
- Enables easy installation of, for example, the Flash plug-in if it is missing from the system.
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.
- The Add Speed Dial dialog now promotes Speed Dial extensions, and the way Speed Dial extensions are shown in the extensions manager has been improved.
- You can also install the same Speed Dial extension more than once.
- See: Opera Extensions API: Speed Dial guide
- See: Creating Opera Speed Dial Extensions
- See: Extensions - in Speed Dial!
Web specifications support
Opera 11.50 beta incorporates web specifications added up to and including Opera Presto 2.8 core-integration-point 158. For further reference please see:
CSS
- Improved deep nesting of the
quotesproperty. - See: W3C CSS 2.1 Section 12.3: Quotation marks
DOM event handling
- Updated the list of DOM events visible on
window,documentandelementobjects.- Events supported by Opera and part of the
Windowinterface of the HTML standard are now exposed on thewindowobject. - Events supported by Opera and part of the
HTMLDocumentinterface are now exposed on the HTMLdocumentobject.onstoragehas been removed.
- Events supported by Opera and part of the
HTMLElementinterface are exposed on all elements, unless the events areformspecific, in which case they remain visible only onformelements.
- Events supported by Opera and part of the
- See: HTML5 elements, attributes, and APIs support in Opera Presto 2.8
- See: W3C HTML5 Section 3.1.1: Documents in the DOM
- See: W3C HTML5 Section 3.2.2: Elements in the DOM
- See: W3C HTML5 Section 5.2: The
Windowobject
HTML5 dataset attribute
- Added support for the
datasetattribute on elements which exposesdata-*attributes on an element. - See: Dev.Opera: An Introduction to Datasets
- See: HTML5 elements, attributes, and APIs support in Opera Presto 2.8
- See: W3C HTML5 Section 3.2.3.8: Embedding custom non-visible data with the data-* attributes
HTML5 Session history and navigation
- Added support for the
historyinterface. - See: HTML5 Session History and Navigation support in Opera Presto 2.8
- See: W3C HTML5 Section 5.4: Session history and navigation
HTML5 and SVG classList attribute
- Enabled the
classListattribute for HTML and SVG elements. - See: HTML5 elements, attributes, and APIs support in Opera Presto 2.8
- See: W3C HTML5 Section 3.2.3.6: The
classattribute
HTML5 <time> element
- Implemented the HTML5 <time> element.
- See: W3C HTML5 Section 4.6.10: The
timeelement. - See: W3C HTML5 Section 10.4.17: The
timeelement
Opera Widgets specification
- Default widget size has been overridden from
100x100to300x300. - See: Opera Widgets specification
Selectors API
- Implemented
Element.oMatchesSelector.- Prefixed implementation of the
Elementinterface.matchesSelectormethod with "o". - Note: The
refNodesparameter is not supported. - See: W3C Selectors API Level 2.
- Prefixed implementation of the
Changes since Opera 11.11
User interface
Improvements
- Added support for Speed Dial extensions
- Added support for Opera Link password synchronization
- Opera Next packages now produced for all future snapshots
- Logo finder improvements
- Added a "Double click to close tab" option to the tab options dialog
- Manually zoom Speed Dials to 30% (minimum zoom was 50%)
- Paste and Go in the search field will perform a search, instead of loading as an URL
- The "On Demand Plugin" option is now available in Site Preferences
- Use Cmd + click a link to open it in a background tab (Cmd + Shift + click will also still work for now)
- Added animation when removing Speed Dials
- Speed Dial auto reload timer reset when zooming
- Added thumbnails for page suggestions into the Speed Dial add dialog
- Added new installer graphics for Opera Next
- Improvements made to window and tab handling
- Internally scale and save all favicons to 16x16 .png's
- Preferences for Speed Dial extensions now open in an overlay dialog
- Improvements to auto-update handling for Opera Next
Fixes
view-mode: minimized Speed Dial thumbnails sending image requests on reloading- Iframe ad being misplaced on a zoomed-in thumbnail
- URI fragment being sent with Speed Dial
GETrequests - Speed Dial using the wrong icon after restart
- Context menu being available from the keyboard with Speed Dial
State=2 - Missing Mouse gesture translations
- Tweak to animation when dragging a Speed Dial thumbnail diagonally
- Crash when installing the mini.del.icio.us widget
- Single click creating an empty text selection
- URLs in the typed history address drop-down not taking up the whole width
- Not being able to scroll down with mouse wheel over an IFRAME with
scrolling=noif smooth scrolling is enabled - Unable to type in the address field after activating a plug-in
- Crash when waiting a few days before starting Opera when an autoupdate is ready
- Focused address bar always opening a dropdown
- Opera Unite Home application not being downloaded if Opera Link is already enabled
- Crash on startup
- Changes to toolbar style and alignment not taking effect immediately in other tabs
- Dialog warning about submitting to an insecure site should not block program window
- Speed Dial fixes:
- String changes
- Crash when uninstalling/disabling updated Speed Dial extensions
- Extension update freezing Opera
- Crash when Opera is closed while Speed Dial edit dialog is open
- Crash when autoupdating extension
- Adding extension through Add Speed Dial dialog not replacing synced placeholder
- Speed Dial extensions being merged on Desktop instead of the Opera Link server
- Duplicate entries for extensions on Opera Link server
- Untrusted repository warning for removed extensions occurring when checking for update
- Crash when closing tab/window while Add Speed Dial dialog is open
- Crash when opening Speed Dial after closing it with an open edit dialog
- Installation of same extension fails after uninstalling older version
- Update notification for removed Speed Dial extension
- Address field in Speed Dial add dialog being linked to address field from Document Toolbar
- Updating running Speed Dial extensions to regular ones does not remove duplicates
- Crash when installing Speed Dial extension with Speed Dial disabled in opera:config
- Changing the name of a Speed Dial extension uninstalls it
- Wrong context menus for Speed Dial add/edit dialog edit field
- Editing Speed Dial with URL in typed history opening an address drop-down menu
- Extension being displayed only once if installed in both developer and user mode
- When typing an address, Speed Dial edit field focus moves to the end after each keyboard press
- Inline find shortcut ("/") incorrectly opening the find text toolbar in Speed Dial
- Site-specific override for plug-ins on demand
- Paste and Go can not perform searches
- Crash when changing certain settings in the Preferences dialog
- "Open JS Console on Error" opening on warnings
- Cmd + click should open links in the background
- The Speed Dial configure callout being movable
- Opera sending unnecessary Opera Link updates (separators, passwords)
- Opera Link "Setup" dialog not closing when "Improve Password Strength" dialog is opened
- GIF images not being possible to copy-and-paste
- Emacs-style keyboard shortcuts activating twice
- "Bookmark page" being disabled in the bookmarks menu
- Browser window disappearing after switching tabs if thumbnail is shown
- Crash when drawing date picker at zoom level other than 100%
- Names of week days for the last week always being in English on Mac
- Checkmarks being rotated 180° when zoom is not 100%
- Transformed rotated web fonts not being read out correctly
- Wrong font and size occurring for webforms
- Auto updates for Opera Next being downloaded into the wrong cache folder
- The hole in the Opera "O" cannot be clicked to select the icon
Display and scripting
Improvements
- Start request for CSS resources now occurs during parsing
- Implemented the HTML5 History Extension API
- Implemented the HTML5 data-* attributes API
- Implemented the HTML5 Element.classList
- Implemented the HTML5 TimeElement.valueAsDate
- Implemented the matchesSelector API
- Improved SVG load performance
- Improved the SVG animation engine
- Added
atob()andbtoa()in Web Workers - Added CSS props-changed flags for SVG properties
- Memory usage improvements to ES cache
Fixes
- Redraw corruption occurring in resized HTTP auth dialog
- Specified background image in skin section [Hotlist Panel Skin] not being displayed
- Icon decoding issue triggering an infinite sync
- Remove delay when closing sockets on Windows to increase performance
- Opera Next's user-agent string must not include an extra "Opera"
- Crash when using spell check with a Korean dictionary
- Spatial navigation in an
overflow:hiddenbox not scrolling the box - Spatial navigation skiping a large number of links under certain conditions
- Saved images from image viewer attaching the image size to the name
- Hidden animated gif causing high CPU load because of constant repaints
- Fixed positioned backgrounds being jerky on scroll
- Hardcoded key bindings in the image viewer not considering modifier keys
- Java applets being loaded in new tabs
- Font weight and style changes occurring during transition
- Update spoof and mask strings to Firefox 4 and IE9
EventSourcewill not connect ifdocument.domainis setEventSourcesending the wrong Accept http header- Updating an existing property with "
!important" has no effect cssTextnot showing "!important" declarations- Crash occurring when
contenteditableattribute placed on html - Infinite loading occurs when going forward after an unfinished history navigation
- Media being ignored for
@importin user style sheets - Reading
window.closedfails with browser.js enabled - Mixing SVG fonts and
@font-faceCSS fonts with the samefont-familymay cause the font to disappear - Incorrect characters used when
"open-quote"/"close-quote" nest deeper than "quotes" - Default margin on
hrelement being different from other browsers - Crash when removing container that has
::first-letterproperties - Incorrect handling of percentage values occurring in
border-radius - Memory leak occurring when reloading documents connected to Opera Dragonfly debugger
- Crash occurring when
gradientis set on body with zero height - Plugix plug-in proxy crashing Opera
- Widget access requests not working in extensions
- Crash when removing
cssRule - Crash when printing a page with
framesand nobodytags - Crash in
documenteditwhen removing the first line inbodyelement - Some Google Font Preview fonts not loading (Droid Sans)
opera:cachenot showing the contents of IDN- Cookies added to
localhostviaAddCookienot being returned byGetCookie onchangeevent not firing on month or week input types- The "
required" attribute onselectelements not being supported - ES to JSON converter creating invalid JSON when inital elements in an array are
NULL - Crash after opening Opera Dragonfly on a page with
insertRuleand@import
Mail, news, chat
Fixes
- Not being able to drag messages to mail folders or labels
- Incorrect warning dialogue when changing Contacts file
- Hovering collapsed access point in mail panel while dragging does not expand it
Miscellaneous
Improvements
- Improved response performance during heavy disc access
Network
Improvements
- Improved proxy preferences, with black and white listing of proxy usage per server.
- Added preferences UI for SOCKS
From opera.com/docs/changelogs, archived on June 23, 2013. See the original page.