Bringing <video> to the Mac (and a free movie!)

February 19, 2010 · by Daniel Aleksandersen

We now bring you the latest and greatest from the Mac Team! The team has fixed bugs, improved Cocoa integration, introduced an annoying beeping sound whenever you press keyboard shortcuts (known issue!), and last but certainly most exciting: brought <video> to the Mac!

To ensure that we actually get some testing of this, we have included a fun filled 10 minute movie. Enjoy! (It is not cats on skateboards but we are doing the best we can.)

Big Buck Bunny © Copyright Blender Foundation

Known Issues

Beeping sound for many keyboard shortcuts
Java applets may show up in unexpected places

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.

Downloads

Mac Intel OS 10.5 or newer
Windows and UNIX released earlier today

Changelog
Mac

Experimental Java plug-in implementation
Experimental video implementation
Crash fixes
Fixed DSK-281364 (Crash when Escaping address field)
Fixed DSK-278728 (Links dragged from other applications bounces back)
Fixed DSK-278733 (Link URL and titles messed up)
Fixed DSK-273241 (Approperiate CJK fonts not used)
Fixed DSK-280316 (Cannot select in <select multiple/>)
Fixed DSK-278725 (No representation for "stuff" being dragged around)
Fixed DSK-277052 (Open With list not populated)
Fixed DSK-277040 (<input> opacity doesn't apply opacity)
Fixed DSK-277034 (Painting corruption when enlarging <input/>)
Fixed DSK-274052 (Fix Dock menu)
Fixed DSK-278837 (Progress bars are gone)
Fixed DSK-238724 (Tahoma and Lucida Grande is not available in italics)
Fixed DSK-280355 (Opening panels changes position of plugins on page)
Fixed DSK-280863 (All links in M2 components (Mail, Feeds, Chat) are opened in background tabs)
Fixed DSK-276690 (Command-< doesn't switch between Opera windows)
Fixed DSK-279017 (Drag file to mail attachment)
Fixed DSK-279480 (event.keyCode of Ctrl-<letter> is wrong)
Fixed DSK-280310 (Blocks OS shortcut "Focus menu bar")
Fixed DSK-280468 (Function keys doesn't function)
Fixed DSK-281330 (Cmd-T does not open new window if there are no open windows)
Fixed DSK-265118 (Menlo being rendered as Helvetica on Snow Leopard)
Fixed DSK-280896 ((Cmd-Shift-V) Paste and Go Fails)

And all the changes from the previous snapshot

Readers' comments

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

endless love19. February 2010, 15:46
Mamonong, Gerard R.19. February 2010, 15:48
second !! XD
Luca Viozzi19. February 2010, 15:53
wonderful video xD
nikitash19. February 2010, 16:08
hmmmm...... mac version now where is my virtual mac. lets do this Vip style:sherlock:
MrFrodo19. February 2010, 16:09
Movie was hysterical. Only thing I noticed was the scrubber did not move with the progress until I clicked on it. May not be opera's issue, but...
Dustin Wilson19. February 2010, 16:12
I think you all waited to release this AFTER I WENT TO WORK, but it's okay . I guess there'll never be any PPC builds again, hmm? Unfortunate if that's so. I'll be stuck on a PPC machine at work for at least a good while longer as it's only a few years old, but I can understand why the architecture is being abandoned.

Not going to say any problems I've found here at the moment as I've yet to test them on the new build to see if they've been fixed. However, great job so far. The hidden click-to-flash feature is pure gold.
MrFrodo19. February 2010, 16:15
Still have an issue with the intranet we use here. It's Flash based. Here is a screen of the login. Every character typed is duplicated.

http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo289/tomliv/Screenshot2010-02-19at111037AM.png

Other issues as well, but the inability to even login is a biggie...

The company does not support Opera, unfortunately, but if this issue and others are fixable by Opera, all the better. Opera USED to work with this. It is just since v10.x does this occur.
Olli19. February 2010, 16:15
Seems to be a great build so far. Hope you get the keysound problem solved. Veery stable till now. Yeah and as MrFrodo said the scrubber doesn't work.
Pitiphong Phongpattranont19. February 2010, 16:18
Cmd+` to switch is great

but it still has and bug, if I am in thai keyboard and press Cmd+` Opera will zoom out to lowest level I think it think the key is Cmd+(-) (It is - in Thai keyboard at the ` key) and then switch window and then if I press again it won't but if I reset the zoom level again It will occur again

PS. I still waiting for holding right click and scroll to scroll through pages ^^
itsfresh19. February 2010, 16:20
problem here? video not loading
Lukas19. February 2010, 16:21
Opera : browser on steroids!

I have clocked page loading time for Firefox 3.6 (tweaked heavily by me, it is much faster than default) and Opera 10.5-3257

The results for reuters.com are FFX 16 seconds till page is readable and 4 seconds for Opera
"Ernie"19. February 2010, 16:21
Re-use current tab does not work, opens new tab.
Two finger swipe on MagicMouse Back/Forwards does not work.
Wand button missing from toolbar.

10.6.2
MrFrodo19. February 2010, 16:24
Not only am I getting your above-mentioned beep using kybrd shortcuts, but the toolbar buttons (next, previous, refresh...) stop working after I use a shortcut (command-r, in this case). Right-click > Reload works and does NOT stop the buttons from working.
João David19. February 2010, 16:30
So funny the video with this retarded bunny!
Jeff ™19. February 2010, 16:54
Thanks mac developers for the new build.
Zafer19. February 2010, 17:00
1. Drop-down menus do not work.
2. Right click menu does not work.
3. When a flash movie is running (youtube movie for example), if I click the file menu(to view the options) on the up mac bar, the flash movie stops playing around 5 seconds after the menu shows up and resumes if I click somewhere else.
Can anyone confirm ?
OS: Mac OS 10.6.2
SteveKong19. February 2010, 17:28
I dont't know whether this is already know: Since a couple of builds Opera Link does not update all speed dail entries during first sync. Places 4 and 5 remain unchanged, sometimes 1 - 3 too.
Jeff ™19. February 2010, 18:01
http://macnn.com bring up a security warning box in opera. It says You are about to go to an address containing a username.

Username: photos_macnn
Server: photos.macnn.com

Are you sure you want to go to this address?

It also does the same thing in opera 10.10. intelimac mac os 10.6.2
Idan Adar19. February 2010, 18:03
Windows users - you already have a post dedicated to the latest Windows snapshot - use it to report your issues (and file your bug reports with the bug wizard). Please keep this post for Mac-only issues, since this post is all about Mac.

Here are some of the issues I have noticed:
- ESC key doesn't work
- Volume knob for <video> is flipped (mute shows as full volume; full volume shows as mute).
Kyle Baker19. February 2010, 18:22
Nice!
Christopher Unger19. February 2010, 18:27
These Mac builds are getting obscenely good...if you guys get javascript performance up to snuff and smooth scrolling nice and silky (specifically with the magic mouse and trackpad), I'd dare call Opera the best browser on the Mac platform. Is the mac team up to the challenge?

PS - Great job, y'all.
edvakf19. February 2010, 18:30
Can you guys please publish source code for GStreamer (for Mac Opera)
http://sourcecode.opera.com/gstreamer/
Mark Gillespie19. February 2010, 18:42
Originally posted by YtseJam:

Windows users - you already have a post dedicated to the latest Windows snapshot - use it to report your issues

No, we are constantly told to use the latest blog post....
micfey19. February 2010, 19:10
Movie Plays fine. Latest snapshot Win7 64bit.
windshear19. February 2010, 19:13
I would be happy if proxy support would return to the builds... Extremely frustrating not being able to use Opera at work...
mlouis19. February 2010, 19:54
You guyz rock !!!!
Can't wait the final release on UNIX !!
thobi19. February 2010, 20:17
awesome video
Harlekin MOND19. February 2010, 20:33
Problem with flash on the Mac version...
Test it on : http://harlekinmond.free.fr/opera/operabugs/flashonmac.html
or watch the video here : http://files.myopera.com/harlekinmond/opera/operabugs/flashonmac2.mp4

Thank you very much for this build and its video support
Michel Budnyatsky19. February 2010, 21:37
There is no option to disable Inspect element.
Junior Lucero19. February 2010, 21:57
Flahs seems to be usable again! That's rather amazing
Junior Lucero19. February 2010, 22:05
Originally posted by arzafen:

1. Drop-down menus do not work.

2. Right click menu does not work.

3. When a flash movie is running (youtube movie for example), if I click the file menu(to view the options) on the up mac bar, the flash movie stops playing around 5 seconds after the menu shows up and resumes if I click somewhere else.

Can anyone confirm ?

OS: Mac OS 10.6.2
3: Confirmed. Also happens with the sample bunny video (including by only right-clicking on it), not only with flash then.

1 and 2: menus do work PRIOR to the video bug. After you freeze a video by opening a menu, right-click menus DO stop working, and you only get them back after closing all the windows. Therefore, confirmed.

Mac OS 10.6.2 here too.
Martin Eberhardt19. February 2010, 22:10
The UI (especially tab bar) still takes up way too much space, mind shaving off a couple of pixels in height? Perhaps move the tabs up, like in chrome?
Junior Lucero19. February 2010, 22:11
Originally posted by harlekinmond:

Problem with flash on the Mac version...
Confirmed.
And i'd so better stop flooding - really sorry, but this build's really gotten me all excited
mmpietro19. February 2010, 22:57
Every time I open a new tab, my mac plays a sound "ping!" from the system!!! I downloaded this release on the current post!

The video plays perfectly, but the playback controls are not working properly.
d4rkn1ght19. February 2010, 23:03
Christian Kliesch19. February 2010, 23:33
Any estimate when Automatic Proxy Configuration will return? I can't do without, I'm afraid.

Also, PGP for M2 has been promised for Opera 10. Will we see that anytime soon?
Rijk19. February 2010, 23:53
Originally posted by gpv:

problem here
Versión 10.01
Huh? You understand what this blog is about?

Originally posted by intelimac20inch:

http://macnn.com bring up a security warning box in opera. It says You are about to go to an address containing a username.
Username: photos_macnn
Server: photos.macnn.com
Yes, that is because they serve a few images with a username in the URL (format http://username:[email protected]/). The warning is intended to prevent you from unknowlingly visiting an address formatted like this:
http://www.google.com:[email protected]/

The warning doesn't make much sense for image URLs, but then the use of a username:password in an IMG url doesn't make much sense either
Christopher Unger20. February 2010, 00:02
"Enable on demand plugins" seems to be broken in this build. I was LOVING the flash blocking capabilities!

OSX 10.6.2
Kamalesh20. February 2010, 00:10
I'm seeing unresponsive sites with this build again, but it's tough to pin-point; links not clickable. Forced to close the tab or restart Opera.

Zoom slider still not changing value when zooming a site.

Originally posted by UncleUngie:

"Enable on demand plugins" seems to be broken in this build. I was LOVING the flash blocking capabilities!

Confirmed...it seems to block some flash content, but not most.
myownfriend20. February 2010, 00:30
http://www.rmphantasy.net/x_Test/Reboot_RMP/showthread.php

This dummy page I set up to test some things for my site crashes Opera immediately. I have no idea why.
Junior Lucero20. February 2010, 00:32
Originally posted by myownfriend:

http://www.rmphantasy.net/x_Test/Reboot_RMP/showthread.php

This dummy page I set up to test some things for my site crashes Opera immediately. I have no idea why.
works apparently fine here
Kamalesh20. February 2010, 00:55
I'm getting a "cert page incomplete" warning on this page.
Junior Lucero20. February 2010, 00:57
oh, video does play fine, but it shows a total duration of "119304" (sic) , which i believe to be related to the fact that the video "progress bar" (how is it called, btw? lol) is unusable.
Kamalesh20. February 2010, 01:23
Originally posted by danaleks:

Fixed DSK-281364 (Crash when Escaping address field)

Not sure if related, but ESC key not working at all now, when there's a few characters in the addr bar (v10.6.2)
Jeff Walden20. February 2010, 03:07
Any reason the video's served with an application/octet-stream MIME type rather than video/ogg or something more specific?
syplex20. February 2010, 03:55
Some problems with popup windows

1. Titlebar text is being drawn over the close and maximize buttons making them really hard to see if the title is long (which seems to be most of the time)
2. Cannot double click titlebar to maximize a popup. This is really annoying.
3. I have maximize new windows set to true, but popups are not maximizing. It is nice that popups dont take up a tab, but I am used to browsing with popups becoming full size tabs and would like to return to that.

*edit to add:

No ESC from search is really annoying. You also can't ESC from "integrated search".
Ben20. February 2010, 05:15
I'm using the latest build for Mac with OS X 10.6.2 and I've noticed that some of drop-downs are showing only 1 option, and some are showing all of them. And also I haven't been able to make widgets work in a really, really long time.
Em In20. February 2010, 07:58
great to see another snapshot. Firing up the mac now
Didier Caizergues20. February 2010, 09:22
Sorry to rain on everyone's parade, but this build (I know, I know, it's still in beta) is for Leopard and above only. Does it mean that Opera is taking after Mozilla and withdrawing support for older Mac platforms? My MacBook Pro still has Tiger in its bowels, and given the price of the upgrade to Snow Leopard and the current state of my finances, I don't think a change of scenery is in the cards yet. So, in a nutshell, is there gonna be a Tiger-compatible build of Opera 10.50 during beta stage, or for final release? If not, it'll be a real shame... Especially considering that 10.50 in its most recent build does work on Windows XP...
berend ytsma20. February 2010, 10:19
Originally posted by iveinsomnia:

HTML5 video tag don't work.

Seems to load the system but not the codec.

Fail on youtube beta too. (http://www.youtube.com/html5)

Read the known issues.

Also Youtube uses an different codec