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Opera 12.10 beta for Windows changelog
Release date: 2012-10-02
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 Features and Important Notes
- We have added basic touch support for Opera in Windows 8 Classic, so you will be able to scroll, zoom and browse pages and elements easily. As an extra bonus, touch support also works on Windows 7.
- Meanwhile, our Mac users will enjoy using the new capabilities of OSX Mountain Lion with Opera. You are now able to use Mountain Lion's built-in share function, using the new Share button in Opera’s address bar, as well as seeing Opera notifications in the Notifications Center.
Operating system compatibility: Windows 8 and Mac OSX
- Several new and improved APIs are included in this version of Opera including:
Extensions, improved
- Improved support for all high-resolution displays, including Apple's new Retina Displays is included in this beta.
High-resolution Display Support
- Opera 12.10 beta will include changes in the Opera Presto 2.12 engine up to core-integration-point 388.
Web Specifications Support
- SPDY
- Support for the SPDY ("Speedy") network standard is included in Opera 12.10 beta. SPDY was designed to cut down the time it takes for a webpage to load, while reducing some of the security risks posed by HTTP.
- CSS3 Gradients, Transitions, Animations, and Transforms
- All members of these specifications are now available without the
-o-prefix and have been updated to the latest published versions. - CSS Site Compatibility
- To improve site compatibility and interoperability, Opera 12.10 beta also introduces aliasing for a selection of prefixed CSS properties.
- See our blog post to find out more about which prefixed and unprefixed CSS properties are supported
- Fullscreen API
- Fullscreen API support has been implemented and fully supports Draft 7 of the Fullscreen API specification
- Page Visibility API
- Basic support for the Page Visibility API specification has been added, including support for
visibleandhidden - WebSockets
- Support for WebSockets has been updated in Opera 12.10 beta and is now enabled by default.
- ICC Profiles
- International Color Consortium profile support has been added, ensuring images look as the author intended
Improvements
Display and Scripting
- Add
onpastetodocument - Add an href attribute to the widget element in config.xml
- Add
Fixes and Changes
For a complete list of bug fixes for this version, please see the full bug fixes list.
General and User Interface
- The OS X version of Opera has been reverted to in-process plugins while stability issues stemming from the out-of-process plugin system are investigated and resolved
Mac-only
Fixed issues
Release date: 2012-10-02
The following is a full list of bugs fixed by this version of Opera. To view the major changes and improvements for this version, please see the changelog.
Fixes and Stability Enhancements since Opera 12.02
General and User Interface
- Incorrect behavior with webpages occasionally stuck 'loading' forever
- Cache update process would not be properly aborted when navigating away from site before update finish
- Errors with keyboard shortcuts in 12.50 while using Russian layout
- Problems loading Flowplayer with Flash 11.4
Display and Scripting
- Pages would no longer fit-to-width when zooming under certain conditions
- JavaScript added to the DOM by a bookmarklet would not load
- XPath problems when using a literal predicate
- Unable to complete secure transaction (with an error) under certain conditions
- Opera isn't connecting to some secure pages correctly
- Opera doesn't use X-OC headers from HEADERS frame sent by turbo-spdy server
- Minor error with SVGStringList
- Allow document.execCommand(copy|cut|paste) on non-editable documents
- Errors related to prefix changes in CSS Transitions, Animations and Transforms
- -o-linear-gradient not recognizing legacy position/angle syntax
- LocalStorage problems in Dragonfly and extensions
- Using WebSocket('ws://.') causes a syntax error, breaks Modernizr feature detection
- Accessing the parentNode object too early in page load fails
Mail, News, Chat
- Keyboard shortcuts in the mail compose window would be repeated twice under certain conditions
Network and Site-Specific
- tv2.no and dinside.no: Errors when appending scripts to doc.written element
- Netgear router configuration pages: Links take an extremely long time to come up
- slashdot.com: Some links not working
- outlook.com - People: Clicking on an entry doesn't show contact information
- Pasteboard.co: FileReader's readAsDataURL fails with large images
From opera.com/docs/changelogs, archived on February 28, 2013. See the original page.