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Friday evening improvements

December 10, 2010 · by Ruarí Ødegaard

It is Friday evening and all of my colleagues are in the office (even though the Oslo office has a Christmas party this evening and we should all really get going). However, I can't help but think that we have all these great fixes just lying around waiting to be tested. So why not put out a snapshot?

Ok then! Here is a new snapshot. Highlights include: address field changes, gesture improvements, extension fixes, and some nice core fixes. How does that suit you? p

And remember, for now we have switched off WebSockets by default.

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.

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Known issues
  • Tab stacking issues: changes are coming but are still being tested internally

Changelog
Address field
  • DSK-313751 (Two unicode hearts messes with the font highlighting)
  • DSK-317784 (New address bar: Ctrl+Tab to switch tabs does not work while callout is open)
  • DSK-318296 (Removed the username and password from display in URLs)
  • DSK-318591 (Badge and callout text/icon for private browsing)
  • DSK-318678 (Address field on other toolbar gets gray, empty badge)
  • DSK-319267 (Address bar popup hidden behind tab bar)
  • DSK-319268 (Text in the address bar call info gets cut of if you use a bigger font for the dialogs)
  • DSK-319321 (Unreadable (white on white) domain in the addressbar with dark themes)
  • DSK-319460 (Holding Shift selects the text before the cursor rather than behind it)
  • DSK-320043 (Expose UserPrefs|ShowFullURL in the UI): you can now right click on the badge
  • DSK-320297 (Writing https:/// in the addressfield makes Opera crash on the next URL entered in the addressfield)
  • DSK-320494 (HTTP Authentication skin elements to match Addressfield badge)
  • DSK-320545 (Fragment identifier not showing up when viewing full URL)
  • DSK-321324 (No icon for malware warnings)

Gestures
  • DSK-319129 (Only application-level gestures are working, not for mail or for collapsing tree views)
  • DSK-319130 (Gesture UI should not visible on right click + mousewheel)
  • DSK-319186 (Right click context menu does not work if mouse guestures are disabled)
  • DSK-319430 (Gesture actions not localised)
  • DSK-319854 (Right click on Flash should not show the Gestures UI)
  • DSK-319937 (Multiple Gesture UI on screen at once)
  • DSK-320007 (Crash when performing gesture)

Extensions
  • DSK-319057 (Hidden extension name or Non-optimal extension card layout)
  • DSK-321115 (Extension Manager is not resized)
  • DSK-321415 (Extension popup window size can't be changed while popup window is opened)
  • DSK-321482 (Security policy is not tracked during extensions update)
  • DSK-321528 (Author is moved too much right if there is no version defined)
  • DSK-321555 (Extension update notification shows "Opera Unite application update")

Core
  • Core-12422 (Disabled plugin won't let actions get through to the content)
  • Core-12813 (Cleared element's sibling with top margin resets the margin to 0 on reflow)
  • Core-32000 (Form action URL with ":" become invalid URL)
  • Core-34080 (Occasionaly very high CPU usage on Gmail)
  • Core-35097 (Connections with STP/1 remote hosts can fail when socket callbacks are unordered)
  • Core-35110 (Crash on http://optimus.usatoday.com/)
  • Fixed a Crash with certain Flash content

Readers' comments

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

  • FransFrenzie10. December 2010, 14:49

    Dude, crazy!
  • RolfRocknRolf10. December 2010, 14:51

    Thanks
  • Irontiger10. December 2010, 14:54

    Wow, amazing wink
  • ColKilkenny10. December 2010, 14:54

    I approve this pace.beer
  • delarge4210. December 2010, 14:55

    LOOOOOL
  • Edu_SS10. December 2010, 14:55

    Woww!!
  • Asires10. December 2010, 14:58

    It looks like you forwarding to beta2 rolleyes

    Originally posted by ruario:

    gesture improvements

    As I understand only UI...



    Good changes to Badge. But I think badge menu must be more.. fun. Not so plain. With transparent effect. Icons in it also may be better with matte gradient style (as badge now). They are too faint now.

    Concept
  • PraetorianX10. December 2010, 14:59

    This is madness. In a welcomed way!yes
  • naphil-removed10. December 2010, 14:59

    Mod edit: Hijacking attempt removed.
  • Lucalucaviozzi10. December 2010, 14:59

    looool i've read 2 times the title to be sure i was not drunk xD
  • Xombiemubaidr10. December 2010, 15:05

    cheers
  • delarge4210. December 2010, 15:07

    Still way too slooow startup:

    -- START LOGGING --
    2010-12-10 15:02:45.425 0 ms - Create core
    2010-12-10 15:03:04.006 18580 ms - Preferences pre-setup
    ...

    Windows 7 x64
  • Crabman10. December 2010, 15:09

    Ah, the "Web"-portion of the Address Bar now uses the selected Color scheme. Looks much better now. As does the new Search-PopIn*. And the shutdown crash seems fixed. Nice changes/fixes, thx.

    *Would be perfect if you could let it appear on the bottom. And the text field could be larger.
  • bachokocho10. December 2010, 15:10

    You Joker! smile
  • AndrewLow10. December 2010, 15:11

    I'm not sure, but (in the last snapshot, in this one I can't have a chance to see it but haven't seen nothing about it in the changelog) I feel it when multiple extension are updated, Opera shows just the pop-up of one of the updated extension...
  • Grasli10. December 2010, 15:13

    Is it just me or is there still something wrong with the status-bar and its padding?

    Compared to Opera 10.63, the status-bar is now slightly, just SLIGHTLY smaller than in 10.63. That results in what I see now, the buttons ("View 100%", "Opera Turbo" etc) are too big so they overlap with the border of the whole status-bar.

    Yes, take a look at the "View 100%" button for example. You can't see the border of the whole status-bar because the bar in itself is SMALLER than before in 10.63, thus the buttons OVERLAP with the border. Can anyone else see that? wink bigsmile
  • sTeeVeboY10. December 2010, 15:15

    WoW, perfectly tuned speed in releasing new snapshots! You guys from earth? bigsmile

    Testing...
  • Luchio10. December 2010, 15:18

    Is this a known issue?

    When default zoom > 100%, images show with black horizontal lines on first load (ex: 120% on www.amazingsuperpowers.com ).
  • ClashCityRockerclashcityrocker10. December 2010, 15:19

    "(Expose UserPrefs|ShowFullURL in the UI): you can now right click on the badge"

    Nice. Does not compromise it for 99% of people that like the new way, but it's easy and intuitive to switch it back to the old style.

    Have a great party and lots of Friday beer beer sing drunk party

    Our Xmas party too tonight, local curryhouse....
  • Cosma Sebastian Adriancosmasebastian10. December 2010, 15:21

    Ok...
    Keep it coming.
    Great work.
  • Diamond0074410. December 2010, 15:21

    2 snapshots in one day!!! Thanks!
  • minho10. December 2010, 15:28

    Amazing!!!yikes
    I love opera desktop team. bigsmile up
  • delarge4210. December 2010, 15:34

    "(Expose UserPrefs|ShowFullURL in the UI): you can now right click on the badge"

    I would prefer old school black font when switching to show full URL, not a fan of grey.

    Also mouse gestures UP and DOWN (DOWN and UP) seem to be almost impossible to do now, way worse than with previous snapshots ??
  • Kulakov Andreygrcool10. December 2010, 15:35

    While page scrolling CPU load close to 60%, and 0-1% in non-scrolling state. It is normal?)
  • Blaž Pristavitalianjob4410. December 2010, 15:36

    What's with http://optimus.usatoday.com/ it looks broken on my side...
  • ken2k10. December 2010, 15:38

    Now "gesture threshold" works for me, great. Gestures aren't perfect compared to 10.63, but it's better than in the previous build.
  • Bugfixer10. December 2010, 15:41

    Damn fast service from the Opera Desktop Team. Thanks for the very fast release of new beta versions.

    The website http://new.my.eyeos.org/ didn't show the login screen. I hope it will be fixed in the next beta versions (tested on Win XP SP3).

    Have some nice winter days. coffee
  • Crabman10. December 2010, 15:42

    Originally posted by delarge42:

    I would prefer old school black font when switching to show full URL, not a fan of grey.



    I like the mix of full URL and highlighted domain. So maybe an option would be best.
  • Ben Barberndluthier10. December 2010, 15:46

    I'm so so sad about the changes to pinned tabs. I realize that Opera is trying to be consistent with Chrome, but Opera did pinned tabs BETTER and BEFORE Chrome. This is a step backwards in my opinion, and I feel like it hurts Opera existing users who have already been using pinned tabs for a while.
  • Lucalucaviozzi10. December 2010, 15:46

    cannot send emails with gmail.

    seven x64.

    Works good with IE.

    Anyone can confirm?
  • NicoHellbillyDeluxe10. December 2010, 15:49

    Thanks a lot for another Snapshot!

    Shall we come back in a few hours for the "Friday night" Snapshot?lol
  • Robert MeijersRobert9010. December 2010, 15:51

    DSK-319130 (Gesture UI should not visible on right click + mousewheel)


    Seems like this broke the richt click + mousewheel popup, the release of the right mouse button isn't detected, so the popup stays open. Both with "Show Gesture UI" enabled and disabled. Anyone confirmed?
  • José Batistawyldkat10. December 2010, 15:51

    @ Luca. Gmail works great here.
    @ Robert90. Pop-up works fine here.
  • eonblue10. December 2010, 15:53

  • BottleField10. December 2010, 15:53

    Scrolling is too slow on some sites with specific scripts (at least, in Win2000). This problem began with Carakan.
    For example: http://drugoi.livejournal.com/ (slow because of updating string below). If disable scripts on the page, scrolling will be fast.
  • Lucalucaviozzi10. December 2010, 15:54

    ok that's strange, if i copy and paste a cell from excel in a mail (on gmail) it cannot send the mail, otherwise a simple mail works good.

    (it works with IE and the previous version)

    Anyone can try it?

    (openoffice not excel sry)
  • Rijk10. December 2010, 15:55

    Originally posted by italianjob44:

    What's with http://optimus.usatoday.com/ it looks broken on my side...

    That's better than the crashing it did yesterday smile

    Originally posted by grcool:

    While page scrolling CPU load close to 60%, and 0-1% in non-scrolling state. It is normal?

    Depends on the website. If the page uses fixed background images, a lot of work needs to be done on scrolling.
  • minho10. December 2010, 15:59

    Originally posted by italianjob44:

    What's with http://optimus.usatoday.com/ it looks broken on my side...


    Confirmed on linux mint 10 32 bits.
  • minho10. December 2010, 16:00

    Originally posted by eonblue:

    no changes here

    http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/5597/1111ky.jpg

    thks


    Same bug on linux mint 10 32 bits.
  • Vladkadvlad10. December 2010, 16:00

    DSK-319129 (Only application-level gestures are working, not for mail or for collapsing tree views


    Great! Many thanks!

    BUG: Scroll (cursor) position on the re-opened page still not remembered: page re-opens always at start (top).
    This is a very useful Opera's feature, please consider fixing it. Thanks.
  • Gereford10. December 2010, 16:07

    Wonderful. I don't know what say to you
  • ghostlyrics10. December 2010, 16:11

    I wonder if it's on purpose that the address bar has no icon for "web" anymore...
  • Cristiancristianer10. December 2010, 16:22

    Thanks !
  • blackcaeser10. December 2010, 16:23

    "DSK-320043 (Expose UserPrefs|ShowFullURL in the UI): you can now right click on the badge"

    Finally! Thank you so much for this additional snapshot today. yes

    Now you really deserve to have your Christmas party. party drunk
  • Philphilharris10. December 2010, 16:25

    Still need to execute back gesture twice on audible UK and Guardian.co.uk.
  • Andrew FrazierAndrewDFrazier10. December 2010, 16:27

    Originally posted by ghostlyrics:

    I wonder if it's on purpose that the address bar has no icon for "web" anymore...



    Interstingly I have one in my Windows installation but not Mac
  • Michelbudnyatski10. December 2010, 16:28

    Before you'll release Opera 11, please, update SQLite module, that has not been updated since March of 2010.

    Here are the reasons to do that:
    http://www.sqlite.org/changes.html
  • eugene_wolfe10. December 2010, 16:31

    You are the greatest! ^___^
  • IgorIgor Jerosimic10. December 2010, 16:33

    Wou that was some fast bug fixing smile
  • Blaž Pristavitalianjob4410. December 2010, 16:34

    Mod edit: noise removed

About this article

Published inDesktop Team blog
DateDecember 10, 2010
AuthorRuarí Ødegaard
Tagsstability, 11, gestures, party, address, friday, Extensions
OriginalInternet Archive