A bunch of extension and fresh UNIX fixes

November 11, 2010 · by Patryk Obara

Greetings from Poland to all Desktop Team blog readers.

Almost five days have passed since last snapshot, so it's about time we shared new builds with you. Teams in Oslo and Wrocław were occupied with making extensions more reliable; we also have some user interface work included and lots of UNIX fixes (including few important ones).

BTW, we will occasionally refer to Opera 11 as Kjevik.

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. And keep your cat away (just in case).

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Changelog
Desktop

DSK-283362 Menu entry for Java console should be removed
DSK-283842 Keyboard shortcut missing for Dragonfly in the developer menu
DSK-296732 Panel opens when Opera is loaded
DSK-308709 Opening a bookmarks file from Manage Bookmarks overwrites the profile bookmarks file
DSK-310631 Tab cycle order wrong if 'When cycling through tabs with Ctrl+Tab' is set to 'cycle without showing list'
DSK-310760 Shift+F4 doesn't show or expand the panels
DSK-311439 Saving multiple items in link panel only saves the first entry
DSK-312121 Don't force autoupdate when the user has opted-out
DSK-312801 Missing repaint of Content area after resizing windows
DSK-313358 Progress bar broken
DSK-314374 Window should be called back when opening new tab while minimized
DSK-315330 Crash when opening a file with Content-Disposition: attachment directly in Opera: further fix
DSK-315504 JavaScript alerts that open shortly after page load close instantly
DSK-316696 Opening short url through address bar crashes Opera or causes memory leak

Extensions

DSK-315647 Popup doesn't point on button after resize
DSK-317513 Popup window visible after going full screen mode
DSK-317857 UserJS is not loaded while installing extension by d'n'd of config.xml
DSK-317879 Crash after extensions tries to access web in offline mode
DSK-317965 Extension popup isn't closed on second mouse click
DSK-318146 Right click on extension's popup window should not show context menu
DSK-318163 Clipstring on untrusted repository modal dialog while updating extension
DSK-318170 Popup closed when hitting enter while inside input field
DSK-318328 Dialogs opened through popup freeze opera
DSK-318506 Extension buttons disappear after closing popup
Further work on the Extension manager update and install dialog
Made the extension badge font smaller on Mac (90%)
Skinnable color and weight of font in extension badge
Uninstall dialog for extensions
Add icon for 'Open error console' button
Updates for browser crash dialog

Core

CORE-33473 New Facebook Chat is jumpy
CORE-33150 Crash when navigating on deviantart with extensions installed
CORE-33382 UserJS code not run in extensions if page does not include a script tag

Mac

DSK-301751 No search field in the Opera help menu: OS 10.6 non-English only

Linux/FreeBSD

DSK-264634 Opera sometimes crashes when a plugin crashes
DSK-296004 Scrolling corruption when a window covers Opera
DSK-297249 Crash on exit on FreeBSD with GTK in a non-gnome environment
DSK-304431 Maximized application mode widget uses a lot of CPU when compositing is off
DSK-305118 Cannot full screen in Openbox
DSK-308151 Input type=text has no borders in KDE 4.5.x and the Oxygen theme
DSK-310952 Define default keyboard shortcut to insert PRIMARY content under X11: Alt+Ctrl+R
DSK-314272 Opera crashes when detach and close a tab
DSK-314424 Opera crashes when detaching a tab with a plugin
DSK-314580 --geometry argument doesn't have any effect: Further fix needed for previously maximised state
DSK-314625 Opera icon in notification area disappears in Gnome
DSK-314724 Implement 'paste mouse selection' and go
DSK-315553 Empty popup menu in document still creates a widget blocking input
DSK-316497 Using DejaVu Serif Condensed instead of DejaVu Serif: and other incorrect font choices
DSK-316665 X11 based print dialog does not print with correct size
DSK-316789 X11 File dialog does not initialize with a correct path and extension list
DSK-316790 Many CSS3 cursors don't display on UNIX
DSK-316828 <input>s are rendered with shine-through background
DSK-317404 Dragged bitmaps are not initialized to a solid color
DSK-317411 Back/Forward button on address toolbar is dragged without an image and can open a popup menu while drag-n-drop is taking place
DSK-317417 Notifications show up in fullscreen mode
DSK-317427 Fix issues in X11 File dialog
DSK-317436 It is not possible to remotely open a tab in a given window in Opera: See -windowname argument
DSK-317741 Opera crashes when detaching a restored tab

Readers' comments

Comments left by My Opera members under the original post: the first 49, as archived.

Daniel Hendrycks11. November 2010, 13:01
Darker border for the installer's progressbar wanted. And thank you for the error console in developer mode!
Originally posted by desktopteam:

CORE-33473 New Facebook Chat is jumpy

Originally posted by desktopteam:

DSK-283362 Menu entry for Java console should be removed

Originally posted by desktopteam:

DSK-296732 Panel opens when Opera is loaded

Originally posted by desktopteam:

DSK-317965 Extension popup isn't closed on second mouse click

Great fixes, thanks!
krychu9011. November 2010, 13:17
Installation is corrupted ;/
nimu_chan11. November 2010, 13:17
Oh..Thanks Great!!
Mark11. November 2010, 13:20
I take it this doesn't include the Mail Panel phase 2 work?

http://twitter.com/RITS
Obese Maurice11. November 2010, 13:22
Oh my God, you fixed navigation mouse buttons! What a relief!!
Lukasz Pietrzak11. November 2010, 13:24
dzięki za znalezienie mi zajęcia w nudny wolny jesienny dzień.
ps. jak poprawnie po polsku wymówić kjevik?
Suchiman11. November 2010, 13:26
YEAH you really fixed the enhanced mouse buttons for navigation (under windows xD was still working with linux)
Rijk11. November 2010, 13:30
Originally posted by clashcityrocker:

I take it this doesn't include the Mail Panel phase 2 work?
Right. That still needed a little more loving attention to Mac and Unix display issues (and stability).
Asires11. November 2010, 13:34
Opera now warns before uninstall extension. We waited for it long

PS: many extensions is not working
pinfeng11. November 2010, 13:36
Cool! Looking forward to using full full screen mode under Openbox now

Btw, is there a chance to improve the Opera systray icon in Linux by replacing it with a nice SVG image? The one under Windows looks way better...
kanstisama11. November 2010, 13:37
Great job, finally Google Translate extension doesn't crash Opera when I try to translate a second world... so it means it's finally usable!
hobe11. November 2010, 13:38
Originally posted by Rijk:

Originally posted by clashcityrocker:

I take it this doesn't include the Mail Panel phase 2 work?
Right. That still needed a little more loving attention to Mac and Unix display issues (and stability).
Can't wait for those to come. There's something I noticed in connection with mail: appart of the menu entry there is no other way to get to your mails than to open the panels and click on the mail panel, which is quite weired, as you'd generally not need the panel during browsing (as it shows automatically when in the mail read). I hope I could point it out good enough :/
Martin Rauscher11. November 2010, 13:48
Installer doesn't start for me...

And after extracting it with 7Zip Opera doesn't start at all. 1055 Installer and build works fine.
sabisan11. November 2010, 13:52
Thanks and testing
Gereford11. November 2010, 13:54
Thx! Testing.
abhitux11. November 2010, 13:56
Unix builds are finally getting your TLC. Thank God for small mercies. Please please please work on the mail panel. Even though it is alpha snapshot, it needs a major revamp.
nanana111. November 2010, 13:59
Confirmed. Mouse forward and backward buttons fixed and now working with Build 1060.

Now back to doing business with Opera.

Thanks, Opera Dev Team !
pinfeng11. November 2010, 14:00
Originally posted by hobe:

Can't wait for those to come. There's something I noticed in connection with mail:
appart of the menu entry there is no other way to get to your mails than to open the panels and click on the mail panel, which is quite weired, as you'd generally not need the panel during browsing (as it shows automatically when in the mail read). I hope I could point it out good enough :/

You can easily set up a custom keyboard shortcut for opening the mail panel. Just add the following to your shortcut list in the preferences:

Platform Windows-Unix-MCE, m ctrl shift --> Read mail, 1

Then by using Ctrl+Shift+M you get to the mail panel.
Hope this helps
crash111. November 2010, 14:01
when will be windows fixes?
belthur11. November 2010, 14:03
Good Job...1055 was good...hoping this one's too....
pursanovd11. November 2010, 14:04
With links like this: https://login.live.com/login.srf?wa=wsignin1.0&wtrealm=urn%3asocial.msdn.microsoft.com&wreply=https%3a%2f%2fsocial.msdn.microsoft.com%2fforums%2fen-US%2ftransactsql%2fthread%2f4d876fb9-2b58-4038-bd7b-9eee2b0800f6%3fstoAI%3d10&wp=MBI_FED_SSL Opera keeps showing "Continue/Submit" dialog forever . This started several builds ago..But may be there is some my problem with cache or certificates and i just cant login into live.com (from chrome this works well)
Windows 7 x64
Avola11. November 2010, 14:07
Hm.. Half my extensions have stopped working after installing this build - NotScripts, Turn off the Lights, Google Images Direct, Youwatch...
jleslie11. November 2010, 14:08
Yahoo Mail Classic still hangs after one click (WinXPsp3), in this case on the Spam folder.

Also if I've been browsing for a few hours (or just left it running) it will take 1-2 minutes to shut down. (The Windows disappear over 20-30 secs then it loiters for the rest of the time.)
Obese Maurice11. November 2010, 14:21
Originally posted by crash1:

when will be windows fixes?

Desktop, Extensions and Core fixes are for Windows too.
eliotcougar11. November 2010, 14:22
Originally posted by pursanovd:

Opera keeps showing "Continue/Submit" dialog forever. This started several builds ago..But may be there is some my problem with cache or certificates and i just cant login into live.com

Clear cache, delete coocies, relevant to live.com, close Opera, then delete opcert6.dat and opcacrt6.dat in your Opera profile folder and then start Opera... It will recreate those files if they were corrupted... That happens to me from time to time...
ouzowtf11. November 2010, 14:30
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG
Mouse navigation is fixed on windows!

back to serious business:

"Install for" option in installer is greyed out. "External device" should be selectable even if another opera version is installed on that PC.
Luca Viozzi11. November 2010, 14:32
cannot close the facebook chat :|

seven x64 anyone confirm?
eliotcougar11. November 2010, 14:35
All extensions which require some kind of "Login" do not work... Google Tasks, Twitter button and so on... Clicking "Login" does nothing...
Witold Baryluk11. November 2010, 14:40
THANKS YOU FOR UNIX FIXES.

Now it is much more smooth and nice. Especially fullscreen mode, scrolling corruptions, file dialog and middle click pasting Not it all works

Dzięki. Mam nadzieje że macie dzisiaj wolne jednak!
Patkos Csaba11. November 2010, 14:50
Nice ... testing...
rekkoo11. November 2010, 14:54
Ok, I give up. Please, can someone tell me how can I run any extension? I add few of them but works only one which is helping downloading youtube videos. Rest of extensions I can't run, I see them in customize screen but cannot drag anywhere (even stupid clock extension), i can manage extensions, disable or enable them but can't run even one of them!
Karl Dubost11. November 2010, 15:00
What designates Kjevik?
Patkos Csaba11. November 2010, 15:13
NoAds extension is kind of broken, at least on Mac, with this build. I don't know who's fault it is, so I just comment here.

The extension is running but it is blocking a lot of thing it should not and the menu is not clickable and the shortcuts are not working ...
Morphdreamer11. November 2010, 15:16
@rekkoo
Right click on address bar and select "Reset toolbar to its defaults".
Patkos Csaba11. November 2010, 15:16
Originally posted by rekkoo:

Please, can someone tell me how can I run any extension?

Just install them, that's all. You can enable/disable them from the extension manager.

However, note that some extensions have buttons, others don't. For example, I use the mousetrail extension, it has no settings, button or anything. I just see a red line on the screen when I do a mouse gesture.

Other extensions do have a button and possibly configuration interface, too. I use Weather Forecast, Inline Translator, TaskBoard, etc.
oxygenroot11. November 2010, 15:23
writing for the first time love this browser and using it for ages and love it! and extensions work great too! and as more and more fixes are coming, becoming even better

one small issue that perhaps need reporting as it has been present for the last few linux snapshots (kde 4.5.3 - openSUSE). on some pages, the dropdown menus simply don't work and don't show any entries, while on some, they get disabled completely.
one example - samsungmobile(dot)com site, choose india or poland (these are the ones i tested) and when you go to join/register as a new user, the operator entry shows nothing, while in other browsers, the whole list is shown.

best wishes again!
alf24511. November 2010, 15:27
Though lots of scrolling corruptions have been fixed with this Linux build, there still is at least one scrolling corruption left:

http://jaggedmedia.tripod.com/broken_teeth__lyrics.htm
maexl11. November 2010, 15:29
Thank you!
Love the new installer everytime when I install a new snapshot (especially on my netbook).
Nice fixes.
-> testing
Ruarí Ødegaard11. November 2010, 15:36
Originally posted by sinhwasecurity:

why don't you fix korea ime?
it's big problem..
Care to clarify. It should work. What IME are you using. What platform are you using and where do you see the issue. All though out Opera or only in certain fields.
TZ8611. November 2010, 15:38
Using DejaVu Serif Condensed instead of DejaVu Serif: and other incorrect font choices

OMG you made it! :-O Thank you guys!
Remigiusz Bondarowicz11. November 2010, 15:53
Originally posted by jodzi2:

ps. jak poprawnie po polsku wymówić kjevik?

Cos jak SZEWIK
Scratch11. November 2010, 15:53
Please make all unread RSS messages appear in one place as it was before! I've described it in DSK-318416
danaopera11. November 2010, 15:56
it crashes on exit in Debian 64bits using xfce.
vilpapa11. November 2010, 15:58
The problem with avatars on Opera.com, remained.
Something with cache.
dacuan11. November 2010, 16:04
DSK-308151 Input type=text has no borders in KDE 4.5.x and the Oxygen theme
QuHno11. November 2010, 16:09
Extensions can "steal" userJS the localStorage Object. A bird told me, that there is a bug in the tracker where this happened with 2 extensions, may be someone can add the additional info that it happens with plain userJS and extensions too ...

I have the extension as plain userJS in 10.63 and it lives happily together with the other userJS.

The extension alone works in build 1060 and the userJS alone too, but putting them together kills one of them, most of the time the userJS but sometimes the extension too ...
omoboyth11. November 2010, 16:24
is Good..
Bhikkhu Pesala11. November 2010, 16:25
Install options dialogue "Use Opera as my default browser" status of check-box is not respected. Although this was cleared, Opera 10.63 was no longer my default browser after installing Opera 11 Alpha. (Windows XP SP3).
alf24511. November 2010, 16:27
Here is another scrolling corruption page not being fixed on Linux (Corruption appears with zoom set to 90%):

http://www.gilesorr.com/wm/bloodlines.svg