10.51 snapshot for Windows

March 11, 2010 · by Haavard

This Opera 10.51 build brings a few important fixes to the e-mail client. We have also been working on stability, and some tweaking of performance related to JavaScript timers, which should lead to smoother animations in some cases. Some bugs related to customization have been addressed as well, along with fixes to Opera Link and bookmarks handling.

It's difficult to summarize and highlight specific fixes, as most of them could be important to different groups of people. Just take a look at the changelog, and let us know if you spot any regressions.

Unix users can check out a better looking Opera in a separate snapshot and Mac users should look for further updates in a few days or so.

For questions about Secunia advisory 38820, please refer to the official statement in the security blog.

Known issue: Carakan crashes on some sites (such as yahoo.com).

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Windows MSI / Windows Classic

Changelog
Desktop/UI

Skin tweaking (more native default skin)
Fixed several common crashers reported via the crashlogging tool
Fixed DSK-273787 (Inline find toolbar uses Google search)
Fixed DSK-283210 (Drag & Drop in page broken)
Fixed DSK-283085 (Icons on customized status bar duplicated on upgrade)
Fixed DSK-279809 (Wrong accelerator key for CJK)
Fixed DSK-275798 (Chat notification appears even if chat tab is active)
Fixed DSK-278443 (Importing bookmarks imports a second "Trash" folder)
Fixed DSK-276834 (Ini file variables no longer working: %s, %t, %c, %u, %l)
Fixed DSK-279652 (Deleting bookmark closes/collapses all folders)
Fixed DSK-274429 (Focus lost when deleting bookmarks)
Fixed DSK-272965 (Plugins not moved to new window when dragging tab from a different window)
Fixed DSK-280340 (Use image on desktop doesn't work)
Fixed DSK-268249 ('Use Integrated Search' searches in google, not in the page)
Fixed DSK-280390 (The O menu button can reappear when the menu bar is enabled)
Fixed DSK-274949 (Icon remains in the system tray after closing Opera)
Fixed DSK-283422 (Crash on startup with old profile)
Fixed DSK-286209 (Crash when disabling "Encode international Web addresses with UTF-8)
Fixed DSK-279060 (Minimized tabs don't display after restart)
Fixed DSK-280780 (Favicon not added to bookmarks due to question mark in filename/path)
Fixed DSK-282359 (Icons missing from menus in 16-bit color mode)
Fixed DSK-285442 (Scrolling performance is slower in 10.50 than 10.10 on some configurations)
Fixed DSK-275546 (No main menu after upgrading)

Core

Fixed DSK-279742 (Incorrect font used for UTF8 page without lang specified)
Fixed DSK-284316 (Crashers when syncing against random Link data)
Fixed DSK-285606 (Opera Link fails to sync when item has no value for id or content attribute)
Fixed CARAKAN-1058 (Memory leak in Dromaeo tests)
Fixed CARAKAN-1138 (Crash when throwing exception from JIT-invoked eval())
Fixed CARAKAN-1141 (Crash on thejit.org demo (JIT only))
Fixed CARAKAN-779 (Incorrect toString of accessor properties)
Further Carakan crash fixes
Fixed CORE-28353 (Thread migration with cross-scheduler back references cause a crash)
Fixed CORE-28317 (Cookies received over NPAPI are incorrectly parsed): DnB NOR login fails
Fixed CORE-17989 (Should allow cookie mode override in ua.ini)
Fixed CORE-27420 (drawImage called with an image with non-existent source throws)
Fixed CORE-28379 (Crash when calling opera.io.filesystem.browseForDirectory() from widget)

Mail

Fixed DSK-255372 (Add functionality to get quote-marks from documentedit)
Fixed DSK-284837 (Attachments not accessible for sent messages)
Fixed DSK-284161 (Ghost e-mails in the Trash folder after emptying it and a restart of Opera)
Fixed DSK-286102 (Message not loaded when it's deselected and selected again)
Fixed DSK-284168 (Only possible to attach images after inserting an image in an HTML mail)
Fixed DSK-262824 (Missing inlined image when reopening draft when image has space in filename)
Fixed DSK-283465 (Mail is blank when using fit to width)
Fixed DSK-284781 (Attachments not sent if mail is sent quickly after attaching files)
Fixed DSK-283709 (Emails container has extra border)
Fixed DSK-270134 (Welcome mail in Opera Mail shows old logo)
Fixed DSK-275889 (Quotes missing in mail.css and webfeeds.html)
Fixed DSK-269693 (Missing option to move mail.css)
Fixed DSK-286863 (Opera Mail welcome e-mail message not localized)
Fixed CORE-28422 (Added possibility to get blockquotes as text)

Readers' comments

Comments left by My Opera members under the original post: the first 50, as archived.

Виктор11. March 2010, 22:46
Widgets, widgets...Widgets!!!
Pleple11. March 2010, 22:46
Thanks, has left on the test)
ensaius11. March 2010, 22:46
Great!!
Ø11. March 2010, 22:47
mmmmmmmm
itsfresh11. March 2010, 22:47
good news!
Anton Diaz11. March 2010, 22:49
Nice!)
Asires11. March 2010, 22:50
Complex graphics: 11000 => 14000
Now Opera grabs amazing 5700 points in peacekeeper (5000 in previous).
But DOM and Data performance is drop...

Also, memory usage in http://v8.googlecode.com/svn/data/benchmarks/v5/run.html is not 1000MB at peak, only 290MB max
Tamil11. March 2010, 22:51
Juan Musat11. March 2010, 22:52
Thanks you good news!!
Grzegorz Osiński11. March 2010, 22:52
Nice job...
Kyle Baker11. March 2010, 22:53
Awesome!
Tr3x11. March 2010, 22:54
Thank you OperaTors
acaden11. March 2010, 22:56
Please continue to work on JavaScript...even though Opera now wins in the benchmarks, on a slow CPU script heavy sites such as Google Docs and the discussion board feature on the Angel LMS feel much more responsive in WebKit/Gecko.

For example, say I am trying to select a menu item in Google Docs...in Opera the browser will slowly highlight every menu item my mouse cursor passed over on the way to the one I'm actually pointing at. In Firefox and Safari it just directly hits the correct one.
damir lukic11. March 2010, 22:56
I still cannot open Word or TXT attachments. PDF, RAR, ZIP works fine. But, DOC and TXT files cannot be opened.
Georg Meyer11. March 2010, 22:57
Hmm, is this the final 10.51 version? I understand it says snapshot, but there is no red warning ...

Thank you Opera team !
soccerdog2311. March 2010, 22:58
transparent in active tabs are back
Matt11. March 2010, 22:58
thanks,
FreeBrain11. March 2010, 22:58
downloading.....
Ruari Ødegaard11. March 2010, 22:58
Originally posted by darklink88:

My question is: will Linux and mac have a 10.5 or we're going directly to 10.51?

Go directly to 10.51
ensaius11. March 2010, 22:59
"Known issue: Carakan crashes on some sites (such as yahoo.com)."

Not here
OperaDrBruce11. March 2010, 22:59
Talking about speed, I get +700 points in peacekeeper benchmark! That's awesome!
bhsand11. March 2010, 23:00
Thank you for not using "new snapshot" as title.

First impression - great snapshot. Only negative point is that flash content here (video) sometimes needs several reloads to show. Forcing redraw through pressing F4 twice doesn't help. Reported as DSK-287537.

(Btw, you need to add 10.51 to the version drop-down menu in the bug report wizard.)
IKoke11. March 2010, 23:02
Lv1z11. March 2010, 23:02
Thats great !!!
janaco11. March 2010, 23:06
Originally posted by IKoke:

Fixed DSK-285442 (Scrolling performance...

Wow! Thats really better now. What caused the high load, which "configurations" were to blame?

Whatever: thanks for the new build :-)
Sigil Thane11. March 2010, 23:08
...was hoping for a linux 10.5x release
Pablo Cornejo11. March 2010, 23:09
Btw.... in the last version like yesterday i couldnt view youtube videos with the new layout, it keeps saying i have an outdated flashplayer... i downloaded the new one, still sayes (Go Upgrade!) :| what do i do? btw i have this snapshot now
ohxten11. March 2010, 23:11
Wow! Scrolling performance is amazing... it uses way less than even 10.10! Thanks so much for improving that, guys, I'm switching to 10.51 now.

I think the 10.50 skin looked way nicer on XP... this new one looks bad with all of the gray in XP classic mode; also, still hoping for speed improvements when scrolling on a page that I'm searching with CTRL+F, and a way to have the address bar dropdown use one column per entry, as it is in 10.10.

Very nice job though, guys.
Mark Gillespie11. March 2010, 23:13
Transparent inactive tabs are back :-) me like....

Suprised the ugly panel is still there, it simply does not look right, a different grey to the address bar.
bhsand11. March 2010, 23:13
Originally posted by ViperGodL22:

Btw.... in the last version like yesterday i couldnt view youtube videos with the new layout, it keeps saying i have an outdated flashplayer... i downloaded the new one, still sayes (Go Upgrade!) :| what do i do? btw i have this snapshot now

Youtube.com -> F12 -> site preferences -> cookies -> delete all.
QuHno11. March 2010, 23:14
Thanks for %s, %t, %c, %u, %l ! My custom buttons are working again
PraetorianX11. March 2010, 23:14
Wow! Great! First impressions:

Background image problem is indeed fixed!
Also, I can now listen to streaming audio without crashes from: http://www.live24.gr/radio/sportfm.jsp?ref=sportfm

So DSK-286546 seems fixed.

Originally posted by ensaius:

"Known issue: Carakan crashes on some sites (such as yahoo.com)."

Not here

Crashes for me, though.
janaco11. March 2010, 23:15
Regarding "Scrolling":

If opera:config#Extensions|FramesShowActive is checked then scrolling with wheel or scrollbars gives high load, even on this simple iframe-Testpage. And btw. Auto-scrolling with Mouse-Middle-Klick does not work in iframes (same Testpage)
experttease11. March 2010, 23:19
YAY! Scrolling works properly! (it's now psychologically acceptible to use a touch pad!)
experttease11. March 2010, 23:22
Originally posted by janaco:

then scrolling with wheel or scrollbars gives high load

Ha! Thanks for the awesome game... *goes to try and max out CPU*

I only manage to score 85% though
NR11. March 2010, 23:22
ǝʇuǝlǝɔxǝ
digitalinksmudge11. March 2010, 23:23
Thanks Opera!

Nice speed, looks, and bookmarks load much faster.
Would appreciate the ability to bookmark a page more than once.

Cheers!
Mark Gillespie11. March 2010, 23:26
Confirmed it does crash on Yahoo.com (but they knew that). What's worth noting is that it does not come up with a crash reporting diaglog. THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT... Get that puppy fixed.. Without that it's gonna be hard to gauge problems...
TA5K11. March 2010, 23:28
loading ...
lwiczek11. March 2010, 23:28
Brilliant! This one looks more like a stable
- working custom buttons
- minimized tabs are properly restored
- opera link doesn't hang after exiting browser (this was a huge pain in the... because I had to kill the process which entailed a lots of clicking (; ).

Still tho: problem with multiple trashes and trash from 10.10 isn't the same as the one in the 10.50 (reported, however I don't have but # at hand)
Plazzmex11. March 2010, 23:30
Most of the bugs from the 10.50 final not fixed...
See a full list on my blog : http://my.opera.com/Plazzmex/blog/
André Luís M. Santos11. March 2010, 23:30
so far, so good...
and the "ghost icon" in the traybar is gone!
exorcized!
A.Ruzanov11. March 2010, 23:31
Fixed DSK-276834 (Ini file variables no longer working: %s, %t, %c, %u, %l)

Not best fix The extra quotes are added (in the buttons).
Yndi11. March 2010, 23:32
Great:
transparent inactive tabs are back
no crashing so far here

Peacekeeper(updated from previous version, no clean install this time):
Rendering nearly doubled
Data and DOM Operations around 1000 Points less than in build 3298

But the problem with start bar and plugin content is still there.
samMD11. March 2010, 23:33
sweet will give it a run thanks opera team!
A.Ruzanov11. March 2010, 23:39
Fixed DSK-276834 (Ini file variables no longer working: %s, %t, %c, %u, %l)

Incorrect information.
Test:
```
[Link Popup Menu]

Item, "Test"=Execute program, "c:\test\ShowCmdL.exe", "%l %u",,"Attachment Archives" 
```
Result: blank string.
Joel11. March 2010, 23:47
Nice! My system tray is no longer flooded with red O's.
There's still a few annoyances left though:
- dropping a bookmark onto a folder in the bookmarks panel places it under, not inside, the folder. I can't tell if this behavior is intended, but everywhere else in Windows, dropping something on a folder puts it in the folder.
- The tab cycler still looks weird when thumbnails are turned off.
- Using mouse gestures to flip to an adjacent tab, then quickly to another adjacent tab causes Opera to seem unresponsive. Actually, it is completely responsive, except to the first tab you switched to, not the tab it is currently drawing. (DSK-283923)

Also, some sites, like Youtube user channels, break when Delayed Script Execution is on. It would be awesome if that could be fixed, as Firefox, Safari, and Chrome can download scripts in parallel without breaking things. (or at least http://www.browserscope.org says they are capable of it)
Lucero Jr.11. March 2010, 23:50
Installed on my laptop, i can't recall the old native skin (i only use the default), but this new one is looking quite attractive - but obviously not as attractive as the default skin in all its win7 glory.

Also, acid3 seems to be running a bit smoother now. If it's true, NICE!

Now looking forward anxiously for the next mac build.
Jochen Gress11. March 2010, 23:50
The servername completion ist still not working.
It sends me to google, when entering one word in the address field...
IKoke11. March 2010, 23:51
Click Scroll in link + Down Scroll = Cause Reload Background