Content blocker synchronization, and *nix fixes

August 19, 2010 · by Haavard

It has been a while since we added something to Opera Link, but with this "10.70" snapshot, we are introducing synchronization of the content blocker. This makes it easy to build and maintain a list of blocked items anywhere you go.

This snapshot also has a few Linux/FreeBSD fixes.

Known issues

Existing URLs might not be synchronized: If you already have a list of blocked URLs before enabling synchronization, you might have to add a URL to the block list through the content blocker for synchronization to start working after logging in to Opera Link

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.

Reminder: Please keep comments relevant. Requests should be posted in the wish-list forum, not here.

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Changelog
Cross-platform

Added sychronization of the URL filter (content blocker)
DSK-304462 (Personal bar only shows its content in one window)

Linux/FreeBSD

DSK-307161 (The shortcut dialog shows platform information in front of the shortcut values)
DSK-308602 (Popup menus background is plain color instead of pixmap/gradient breaks some GTK Themes)
DSK-309032 (Slow UI with progress bar set to pop up at bottom and GTK Native used)
DSK-309213 (Widgets: Upgrade wizard, "more" leads to wrong location)
DSK-309799 (Geolocation memory fix)

Readers' comments

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

J1Hundred19. August 2010, 13:32
there's a bug with Site preferences. javascript is ignored.

i browse the web with JS disabled in the browser. i use a userjs script on youtube that displays download links and have the site preferences to javascript enabled. i go to youtube and my scripts don't load. if i enable JS in the browser it loads.

last build i tested, 3476, it was working fine.
NickOnSync19. August 2010, 14:00
Opera stops when trying to synchronize.
Penge19. August 2010, 14:01
Originally posted by J1Hundred:

i use a userjs script on youtube that displays download links and have the site preferences to javascript enabled. i go to youtube and my scripts don't load.

It's not bug. The userJS doesn't work without enabled JavaScript. Did you add the "Extensions|Scripting=1" to your override.ini file to the site where you want to use your UserJS file(s)?

Maybe in the past the browser added automatically this, but it is not safe, because if you modify any preferences of site, the override.ini store other settings (like: Target Destination, popup settings, script raising/lowering settings, etc.), so the average user disable the JavaScript, and he/she thinks, it's safe, but doesn't remember, that he/she modified the preferences on the site x months ago and he/she blames the browser.
AndrewLow19. August 2010, 14:14
It's a link bug, not properly of this snapshot, but I can't use it: it synchronize with old bookmarks, notes and speed-dials and even though I changed them it still do synchronize with old ones....
J1Hundred19. August 2010, 14:15
Originally posted by Penge4:

It's not bug. The userJS doesn't work without enabled JavaScript. Did you add the "Extensions|Scripting=1" to your override.ini file to the site where you want to use your UserJS file(s)?

i did not know about the override.ini. i opened it in notepad and my youtube settings are there and Extensions|Scripting=1. but the browser js still needs to be enabled?

correction on my earlier post. build 3476 doesn't work either. i've been using opera 9.64 and it works. so how do i get it to work in opera 10? or do i need to have the browser js enabled all the time?
Haavard19. August 2010, 14:17
Originally posted by origPumu:

In installscreen it shows V10.60 not 10.70...
Don't worry about version numbers right now. It's a snapshot, and graphics and such will be updated when needed.
Penge19. August 2010, 14:42
Originally posted by J1Hundred:

i opened it in notepad and my youtube settings are there and Extensions|Scripting=1. but the browser js still needs to be enabled?

The browser.js is a special userJS, that works everywhere.
Your custom userJS files just works on sites where you are enabled, except if not set differently in the userJS header @include or @exclude parameter.

I have no more idea, move or delete operaprefs.ini from your profile folder and restart Opera.
ONjA19. August 2010, 14:55
Binary downloads are broken again:(
ksec19. August 2010, 15:25
Are there any more JS Engine Speedup coming?
BS-Harou19. August 2010, 15:57
Opera doesn't change title in "hover box" of tabs.

Open for example this site: http://martin.m-core.net/aktualni-cas/

You can see that the time is changing in the tab title, but now move the mouse on the tab so the "hover box" appears and in this box the title is static.

Is it bug or not?
Eugene Paskevich19. August 2010, 16:05
Hope this build has _all_ the fixes of the 10.6x branch, as opposed to the previous build...
Witold Baryluk19. August 2010, 16:06
Thanks. Content blocker sync is really usefull!

Will you fix long standing bug that in GTK, when pressing input type=file, canceling, and pressing it again, shows different directory?
Blagoj Radezov19. August 2010, 16:06
please sort the problem with the downloads it is showing strange signs and I must use save page as to save a file this is very strange
deruelay19. August 2010, 16:08
"Content blocker synchronization" great feature!
mp3geek19. August 2010, 16:12
Haavard,

So where in the Opera Link page can I link to a url for the content blocker?

/fanboy
otzi19. August 2010, 16:16
Thanks for synchronization of the content blocker. Will you add any another future to the opera link?
michaelpuermayr19. August 2010, 16:19
Originally posted by otzi:

Thanks for synchronization of the content blocker. Will you add any another future to the opera link?

I think this is a very good improvement now and enough for the moment... better make it work properly than adding too much at once.
Iamallen19. August 2010, 16:36
When I exit hotmail, it says I must enable cookies, but they are already enabled by default. Why is this happening? Other browsers do not have this issue.

Allen
minho19. August 2010, 16:42
Originally posted by iamallen:

When I exit hotmail, it says I must enable cookies, but they are already enabled by default. Why is this happening? Other browsers do not have this issue.

Allen

Same problem here. I've talked about it but no one seems to think important.
highstream19. August 2010, 16:46
Originally posted by iamallen:

When I exit hotmail, it says I must enable cookies, but they are already enabled by default. Why is this happening? Other browsers do not have this issue.

It's a form of browser sniffing; i.e., there are still some sites that block Opera by doing this. Perhaps someone else can explain exactly how.
Былин Максим19. August 2010, 16:51
Print Preview not working properly. Pages not fully leaf.
I have one like that?
Please reply someone quoting before.
EricJH19. August 2010, 16:52
Thanks for the possibility to synch the content blocker.

At Haavard. Was this the function you have been referring to lately?
wywh19. August 2010, 17:12
Hey!

Twitter main page has some problems with search bar ( visualy )

Works fine on other browsers!
OperaDrBruce19. August 2010, 17:17
I have problems with favicons.

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/8546/3443.png

Only one of these sites is 4chan and all of them have the same icon. When I click on them, it changes. The same is happening with tabs, 4chan icons all over, but not all the time.

Why?

Win7x64.
prelude219. August 2010, 17:35
Is there a bug with "ctrl tab" or "right click + wheel" ? it cycles the the tabs with a mixed order if you choose the "cycle without showing list" option.
Rick19. August 2010, 17:54
Custom site icons in Bookmarks are now working, these are displayed as they should beside each bookmark entry.

However, when a custom icon is shown on the URL bar, if the next site has no custom icon, the custom icon of the last site is displayed. Each time a custom icon is displayed on the URL bar, this will be displayed for a site without a custom icon.

Whatever the last custom icon was, stays there until the next site with a custom icon, at that point this new custom icon becomes the default.

Sites with no custom icon display the last custom icon and not the generic icon as they should.

This is under Linux.
Zotlan19. August 2010, 17:56
Originally posted by prelude2:

Is there a bug with "ctrl tab" or "right click + wheel" ? it cycles the the tabs with a mixed order if you choose the "cycle without showing list" option.

Was introduced in the last snapshot and has been reported. You can fix it by setting opera:config#UserPrefs|AlternativePageCycleMode to 1
set19. August 2010, 18:20
Regression from this build - Progress Bar doesn't work properly

When set to simple, it shows either a fixed value "Document 0%" or "3.4KB" etc. until eventually site loads and the progress bar disappears

When Progress Bar is set to 'pop-up at bottom' or 'show in address bar', only field that doesn't work properly or it slowly updates (displays a fixed value for more than it should, like Document 40%) is the Document status button

/ Windows Vista
dragossto19. August 2010, 18:34
still problem whit flash
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/driving/rallisportchallenge/video/2897174/rallisport-challenge-movie-15
don't see the movie,
and on hi5 the flash games don't load
and the games on facebook like farmville after a while stop responding :(
MyOpera team, please fix this!19. August 2010, 18:59
Originally posted by desktopteam:

introducing synchronization of the content blocker
Nice. I think I wanted that. Getting closer to being able to clone an Opera install. Since this is syncing a text file already, we can't be too far off from syncing userjs and user.css.
rseiler19. August 2010, 19:56
DSK-304462 (Personal bar only shows its content in one window)

I don't quite understand what that means (one window?), or if it's referring to the well-known missing personal bar issue, but to be safe I thought I'd mention that I still see the random missing personal bar issue (Windows).
Penge19. August 2010, 20:04
Originally posted by MaxDamage:

Why not update content blocker with defined URL like adblock in Firefox?!

Because if you steal the content with adblock (which is the websites only source of income) the Opera Software won't hold them back.

Also, Mozilla didn't make Adblock. The third-party users made Adblock.

If you want autoupdate for urlfilter.ini, you could use Mark Gillespie's urlfilter.ini updater: http://my.opera.com/mgillespie/blog/2010/02/27/adblock-updater-service-for-windows
Iamallen19. August 2010, 20:14
Originally posted by Былин Максим # 19. August 2010, 16:51
Print Preview not working properly. Pages not fully leaf.
I have one like that?
Please reply someone quoting before.

I have the same printing problems. Some pages won't load properly. Used other browsers and no problems. Tried adjusting margins and % size but still cannot get some pages to print properly.
Test site:
http://www.cainer.com/

Allen
10.70 3488 Win7 Pro
SteveKong19. August 2010, 20:32
Is content blocker sync the beginning of syncing site preferences? I'd really love it!
Mihkel19. August 2010, 21:17
Does/will this new adblock sync work with Opera Mobile, too? Because that would be totally great
Me19. August 2010, 21:35
Ah that's a good feature. Always a pain to have to setup my blocked content on each new installation.

Still have the border-radius bug with background images:
http://test.popre.net/test.html
klaudyuxxx19. August 2010, 21:41
I can confirm that Existing URLs are not synchronized. Besides that the syncing worked pretty well.
Penge19. August 2010, 21:52
My Existing URLs are synced well.
In the urlfilter.ini every url got an unique ID.
set19. August 2010, 22:40
Originally posted by sutekh:

Regression from this build - Progress Bar doesn't work properly

When set to simple, it shows either a fixed value "Document 0%" or "3.4KB" etc. until eventually site loads and the progress bar disappears
Update on this, the percentage changes when you switch to a different tab and then back to the one loading (loading field is only updated once, when that tab is made active)
klaudyuxxx19. August 2010, 22:45
Personal Bar placed on the Right gets above the close button.
Eugene19. August 2010, 23:30
Content blocker synchronization - WOW, just wow. Exactly what I was waiting for. Good job. Thanks.
Steve20. August 2010, 00:20
Is it just my memory, or hadn't they at one time fixed the issue with the "chrome" (title bar) of tabs opened in the background overlaying the chrome of a (restored) foreground tab? If it used to be fixed, it has regressed (not in this build either, the previous build had the same issue).
jonnyquesty2k20. August 2010, 01:34
Does this do the same thing as Adblock and more?

Edit: Guess it doesn't work with ads. Tried on AnimeNewsNetwork.com / Anime44.com / and GoodAnime.net
falcon9220. August 2010, 01:36
Build Almost Freezes.. Back 3486..
Steel Using "Opera URLFilterDownloader"..

Found that your script don't synchronize with my rules, it creates your ones, but not save my and don't add them to new urlfilter.ini... Too bad, if i'm updating from fanboy.co.nz or pgl.yoyo.org/as or smth else.

P.S. Sorry for my bad english.

UPDATE: IT FREEZES ON WINDOWS SERVER 2003 Enterprise R2 SP2 X86
michaelpuermayr20. August 2010, 01:54
Originally posted by jonnyquesty2k:

Does this do the same thing as Adblock and more?

Edit: Guess it doesn't work with ads. Tried on AnimeNewsNetwork.com / Anime44.com / and GoodAnime.net

Where are the ads on the site you mention? I cannot see them (and therefore cannot try to block them)
Vladimyr Ivanov20. August 2010, 04:17
there is something strange with search field in a few latest builds, including this one...
Sometimes (not always) text rendering in this field looks weird.
I could not find dependencies, when it becomes broken, but it is

as it becomes sometimes:

as it should be:

also, regression with downloading binary files as html still exists

example: http://get.adobe.com/ru/flashplayer/thankyou/?installer=Flash_Player_10.1_for_Windows_-_Other_Browsers
leomaks20. August 2010, 07:57
content blocker. There is a mask?
imgn.dt00.net/*.jpg
(not imgn.dt00.net/876/876715_m.jpg)
blinkybill20. August 2010, 08:06
Hi,

Still getting the message.

Opera Turbo is enabled, but not availabe in Private Tabs.

So does this mean Opera Turbo is working, but you can't change
the settings when in Private Tabs or what?.

Happens on Windows XP 32Bit and Windows 7 32 Bit.

cheers
blinky
berend ytsma20. August 2010, 08:13
Originally posted by blinkybill:

Hi,

Still getting the message.

Opera Turbo is enabled, but not availabe in Private Tabs.

Happens on Windows XP 32Bit and Windows 7 32 Bit.

cheers
blinky

Opera Turbo doesn't work anymore in private tabs,
so the message you see is correct
blinkybill20. August 2010, 08:24
@berend ytsma,

What was the wisdom of that idea.... do you know?.
As for me I am on dial-up and use Opera Turbo all
the time so now when I browse in Private Mode it
will be slower.

cheers
blinky