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Friday snapshot

May 25, 2012 · by Łukasz Derkacz

Hi All,

First of all I would like to say 'Hello World!' as it's my first post here. I have been working in the Desktop Team as a Mac QA for last one and half years and I'm happy to provide you with today's snapshot. Since the 12.00 RC is incoming fast we would like to give you a bunch of fixes to play with over the weekend.

This snapshot contains fixes for skin like: missing progress bar in the url field, ugly menu bar (Win), missing disclosure triangle (Mac, my favorite!).

You won't miss the crashers, especially the one when opening tabs from links (Win) and Opera freezing while playing some <video> elements (Mac).

There's more in the changelog so enjoy. Have a nice weekend and as usual thanx for any feedback!

PS. For those in Poland: it's Mother's Day tommorow so don't forget to buy some flowers! smile

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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Changelog
Core
  • CORE-46282 Drag and drop should not delete content of readonly form controls

Desktop
  • DSK-363948 Progress bar for large documents and images is missing in the addressbar
  • DSK-362977 Pinned tabs resized after changing preferences or going to fullscreen mode

Mail
  • DSK-354528 Crash when closing a mail tab with inline find result

Windows
  • DSK-361573 Menu bar has black background if Win7 basic or XP theme is used
  • DSK-364283 Vertical border of progress bar is missing in RTL
  • DSK-364279 Crash when shift or ctrl click on a link to open in new tab
  • DSK-363575 Candidate box of Japanese IME is hidden under the address field drop down

Mac
  • DSK-364254 Font contrast on darker themes works poorly on Mac
  • DSK-353496 Disclosure triangles not painted
  • DSK-358580 Freeze on reloading or closing tab that is loading video element (Need update of gstreamer libraries)
  • DSK-362859 Block QuickTime plug-in from handling PDFs
  • DSK-359463 New windows opened in background

Linux/FreeBSD
  • DSK-355110 Opera crashes when using skin that sets selected text color with HW enabled

    Readers' comments

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

    • UnrealmirakulixFriday, May 25, 2012 3:34:32 PM

      bigsmile

      thx for fast fixes
    • XombiemubaidrFriday, May 25, 2012 3:36:21 PM

      coffee
    • nanana1Friday, May 25, 2012 3:36:37 PM

      Was waiting for another snapshot today.
      Let the testing begins !
    • XombiemubaidrFriday, May 25, 2012 3:42:32 PM

      bug Cannot start or join Google plus Hangouts(button does not work).
      User agent string set to that of Opera 11.64.


      In Opera 11.64 everything works fine.

      OpenGL H/W
      Windows 8 64bit
    • XombiemubaidrFriday, May 25, 2012 3:44:54 PM

      bug If size of speed dial thumbnail is more than some speciifc figure, WEbGL does not work (too Slow).

      E.G: in my case, Thumbnail folder size was ~6.7Mb, with 33 speddials, and WebGL demos would not work.
      But after i reduced size of thumbnail folder (by reducing size of thumbnails) to ~600Kb, WebGL starts working fine.
    • XombiemubaidrFriday, May 25, 2012 3:45:54 PM

      bug Memory leak on VRAM,when enabled DirectX H/W

      bug MEmory leak on system ram when DirectX H/W is enabled. (Modiifed ram increases when switching between tabs)
    • Christophchristoph142Friday, May 25, 2012 3:46:32 PM

      What do you think about swapping the colors for the loading indication?
      Starting with a gray field and then having the background of the progress bar white would end up with the complete address bar in white when fully loaded which is what you see when nothing is loaded anymore (more consistent than white -> gray -> white again)
      Fade out the border and the text at the end instead of just setting it invisible and it would look soooo smooth flirt

      Any plans to fix DSK-357319 (speed dial loosing hover state) before RC?
    • XombiemubaidrFriday, May 25, 2012 3:47:23 PM

      bug "Enable thumbnail in tabs" does not have any effect, either checked or unchecked. But right clicking tab bar and then enabling/disabling thumbnails works fine.
    • AndréAn-dzFriday, May 25, 2012 3:53:58 PM

      4 Snapshots in a row? What's happening Opera team?
      That stuff on the left of the espresso machine now gives beer?cheers

      Testing... The progress bar now works, but it's too light, I can barely see it.

      One bug on Win7, it's present in 11.6*. It's easily seen with a lightweight theme:
      When you have Opera maximized and have a tab with Speed Dial open, if you hover the tab or hover the O icon in the taskbar you can see the background shifted. The size and location is determined by when Opera is un-maximized.
      This don't happen when Opera is not maximized. The background shows right.
    • artemeasFriday, May 25, 2012 3:55:16 PM

      using latest build (this one) opera doesn't show this blogpost... absolutely!
      I reloaded the page using all the ways to reload.. the very top post is about performance (previous build)...

      manually loading this page shows no post and no comments... only header, footer and right panel are shown.. no content. WTF?!

      archlinux x86_64

      p.s. writing that comment from chromium because I there is no way to load this page in opera :-/
    • devloopFriday, May 25, 2012 3:55:57 PM

      Mod edit: Off-topic comment removed.
    • ArsenytarcFriday, May 25, 2012 3:55:59 PM

      ATI & AMD Video card naming fixes?!
    • ArsenytarcFriday, May 25, 2012 3:57:49 PM

      Gmail rendering "jumps" more funny than in previous build!
    • minhoFriday, May 25, 2012 4:00:01 PM

      Originally posted by mubaidr:

      "Enable thumbnail in tabs" does not have any effect, either checked or unchecked. But right clicking tab bar and then enabling/disabling thumbnails works fine.


      Old bug...
    • minhoFriday, May 25, 2012 4:01:43 PM

      special thanks to this fix
      DSK-362977 Pinned tabs resized after changing preferences or going to fullscreen mode

      bigsmile up
    • Christophchristoph142Friday, May 25, 2012 4:03:57 PM

      Originally posted by artemeas:

      opera doesn't show this blogpost

      That sounds like the caching problems I mentioned in previous build (Try shift+F5 (explicitly bypassing caching))

      EDIT: every time I reload the page (using mouse gesture), Łukasz' profile picture changes from the smilie to his facepic back to the smilie and so on and on and on...?!
    • CristiancristianerFriday, May 25, 2012 4:16:52 PM

      Thanks!!
    • AvolaFriday, May 25, 2012 4:20:29 PM

      Will there be a fix for plugin wrapper crashes on Youtube before final? I'm getting worried now. This has prevented me from using Opera 12 since the introduction of OoPP.
      Edit: The Youtube frontpage still goes completely unresponsive to input sometimes.
      Please, fix this! If I can't have a working Youtube I will have to continue using 11.64
    • nimu_channimuchanFriday, May 25, 2012 4:26:32 PM

      Wowww...Thank you!!smile
    • Łukasz DerkaczlderkaczFriday, May 25, 2012 4:31:11 PM

      Originally posted by christoph142:

      every time I reload the page (using mouse gesture), Łukasz' profile picture changes from the smilie to his facepic back to the smilie and so on and on and on...?!



      I have double personality, maybe that's why wink

      As for other comments, I will quote Benjamin Franklin:

      You can't trust quotes on the internet

    • Ruarí ØdegaardruarioFriday, May 25, 2012 4:41:11 PM

      Originally posted by christoph142:

      That sounds like the caching problems I mentioned in previous build (Try shift+F5 (explicitly bypassing caching))

      The caching problem is with "My Opera" not "Opera".
    • Christophchristoph142Friday, May 25, 2012 4:45:19 PM

      Originally posted by lderkacz:

      I have double personality, maybe that's why

      so do you want me to file a bug report or are you going to see a doctor? bigsmile

      Edit:

      Originally posted by ruario:

      The caching problem is with "My Opera" not "Opera".

      I was speculating about that. Thanks for clarifying!
    • BS-HarouFriday, May 25, 2012 4:45:30 PM

      Are some Themes related fixes on the way? At least for the Exit/Restore/Minimize buttons? (There is about 10px space between the buttons and an edge of the screen)
    • Roy Matthewscheffo47Friday, May 25, 2012 4:52:48 PM

      When logged into my Opera can see all posts on this blog, when logged out of my Opera can only see a certain percentage of posts on this blog. Sometimes it could be only 10% of blogs and sometimes it could be between 10% and 80% ?? This happens on this 12 build and stable 11.64. Have seen other similar comments on this blog in the past few days. Windows 7 32bit.
      Great work still devs with this release smile
    • Danielweep86Friday, May 25, 2012 4:53:45 PM

      @Łukasz Derkacz
      Niestety. Na Windowsie XP nadal pojawiają się czarne artefakty oraz zanika tekst na stronach.
    • Roy Matthewscheffo47Friday, May 25, 2012 4:55:19 PM

      Originally posted by artemeas:

      using latest build (this one) opera doesn't show this blogpost... absolutely!
      I reloaded the page using all the ways to reload.. the very top post is about performance (previous build)...

      manually loading this page shows no post and no comments... only header, footer and right panel are shown.. no content. WTF?!

      archlinux x86_64

      p.s. writing that comment from chromium because I there is no way to load this page in opera :-/

      Try logging into my Opera then all posts on this blog should be visible. Have reported this to the devs along with several other users.
    • Ruarí ØdegaardruarioFriday, May 25, 2012 5:10:20 PM

      Originally posted by cheffo47:

      When logged into my Opera can see all posts on this blog, when logged out of my Opera can only see a certain percentage of posts on this blog.

      This is a "My Opera" problem not "Opera". It does not need to be discussed here further. We have passed on the information to the "My Opera" team.
    • Gap51Friday, May 25, 2012 5:30:58 PM

      This snapshot contains fixes for skin like: missing progress bar in the url field...


      The progress bar is still missing for me.
      (win8x64 cp)
    • techprinceFriday, May 25, 2012 5:43:13 PM

      http://files.myopera.com/techprince/files/opera%20bug.jpg
      Still having UI rendering problems here.

      using default theme
      win xp x86 (p2) no sse (just mmx)

    • EricJHFriday, May 25, 2012 5:44:27 PM

      Originally posted by An-dz:

      4 Snapshots in a row? What's happening Opera team?That stuff on the left of the espresso machine now gives beer?

      party

      That means Opera dev team is gearing up for release...knight sherlock
    • mkrFriday, May 25, 2012 5:45:02 PM

      Witaj Łukasz,

      Mam problem z ładowaniem się strony
      http://goo.gl/MjFCe

      na wszystkich wersjach Opera, włącznie z najnowszą Next
      Przeglądarka całkowicie się zawiesza na 10-20 sekund podczas ładowania tej strony.

      Problem występuje zarówno na WinXP, jak i Win7x64.
      Tutaj wideo obrazujące problem: http://youtu.be/Capou4rdalw

    • Sergey Babkevychkamtec1Friday, May 25, 2012 5:54:19 PM

      MEmory leak on system ram when DirectX H/W is enabled. (Modiifed ram increases when switching between tabs)
    • bongoyozoFriday, May 25, 2012 5:58:08 PM

      - http://slobodnadalmacija.hr/ is rendering slow with hw acceleration.

      - Restart and Stop icons in Downloads right-click menu are stretched
    • ahoj1234Friday, May 25, 2012 6:09:37 PM

      Originally posted by kamtec1:

      MEmory leak on system ram when DirectX H/W is enabled.


      Originally posted by bongoyozo:

      slow with hw acceleration


      Opera team have to have fun.. smile HWA is DISABLED and reason is that HWA is slow and unstable.. If you dont have the same problem with HWA off you should report this (and report it also via opera bug report wizard) after opera 12 final.. not my opinion I am only rewriting this..
    • Z-BotFriday, May 25, 2012 6:20:45 PM

      This and the previous build is not working (GUI broken, pages don't load)

      http://i38.fastpic.ru/big/2012/0525/94/c76bf6a8594d14e380283c5292085594.png

      Windows 7 SP1 x86, CPU with no SSE3 and SSE2 support
    • digitalinksmudgeFriday, May 25, 2012 6:22:17 PM

      Mod edit: Way off-topic. Multiposting.
    • Gousti FruitGoustiFruitFriday, May 25, 2012 6:36:50 PM

      Argh, the "mail database loading" bug is still present, I'm going two snapshots back !
    • kapsiFriday, May 25, 2012 6:53:30 PM

      Chrome shows twice in "open with" menu.
    • highstreamFriday, May 25, 2012 7:02:21 PM

      Thanks for the new build. So far I haven't run into the scrolling text rewrite problem.

      However, the two "Native" themes (skins) I've reported as turning the Address Bar background black in the X64 builds are still that way (werwolf lobo argentino nativo & Windows Native Thin). DSK-362102. Is Opera going to be fixing these or is it up to the developer?
    • geo dimogeodimoFriday, May 25, 2012 7:05:19 PM

      Moderator edit: This comment was removed for breaching our terms of service.
    • zoqueteFriday, May 25, 2012 7:07:25 PM

      Addressbar toolbar in native skins is still black. Can sombody confirm this?

      Desktopteam, will you fix it?

      opera:config#UserPrefs|DebugSkin set to 1

      does not work.
      neither this annoying bug - only present in Opera browser - regression to 10.54
      https://bugs.opera.com/browse/DSK-363972
    • Shomari-RBGFriday, May 25, 2012 7:16:13 PM

      Issues with skinning/theme are still present in this build. Address bar is messed up, same for menu navigation and entire GUI.

      Freezing issues are still present, especially upon calling Flash content on pages.

      Has there been any modifications to pop-up blocker behavior? Last few builds handle links and pop-ups differently (in a poorer way).

      XP SP3

    • zoqueteFriday, May 25, 2012 7:19:12 PM

      You broke voice in every single release, instead to fix it, you prefered to remove the item from the menu. Is that correct?
    • Erik HauboldAltariusFriday, May 25, 2012 7:25:22 PM

      Originally posted by zoquete:

      You broke voice in every single release, instead to fix it, you prefered to remove the item from the menu. Is that correct?



      voice was removed some time ago. the library they used wasn't maintained anymore (for quite a long time)
    • Matheusnom4d3brFriday, May 25, 2012 7:41:48 PM

      It's impossible to resize the "Mail Layout" (items on top and preview on bottom).
      It tries to drag an item from the emails list.
    • Nick Larryvulture-g7Friday, May 25, 2012 7:43:17 PM

      Still crashing on startup, no matter if I disable extensions, no matter if it's the 32 or 64 bit or if the HW accel is on or off. Completely unusable for me, Win 7 x64, Radeon HD 6950 - Catalyst 12.4.Back to 1424 build. Reported it via the report online tool.
    • EricJHFriday, May 25, 2012 7:47:26 PM

      Not sure if it is pertinent to mention. I noticed that there is still an issue with Opera messing with text when scrolling (while loading).

      See image:http://files.myopera.com/EricJH/albums/82740/Opera%20redraw%20issue%20with%20text%20when%20scrolling.png -

      Win 7 SP1 x86 no HWA.
    • PengePenge4Friday, May 25, 2012 7:49:47 PM

      Originally posted by zoquete:

      does not work.neither this annoying bug - only present in Opera browser - regression to 10.54https://bugs.opera.com/browse/DSK-363972


      How can you access to their private BTS? bigeyes
    • eidurFriday, May 25, 2012 8:10:05 PM


      The M2 email/rss buffer is missing a border.



      The Speed Dial options dialog is misplaced.



      SimpleNote (at https://simple-note.appspot.com/) does not show or retain any notes whatsoever.

      Gawker sites don't show the purposed fonts.

      Crash upon adding a RSS feed to Opera Mail.



      - Mac OS 10.5.8
    • r2x0tFriday, May 25, 2012 8:18:53 PM

      Oh NO!
      Re-ordering tabs when using "wrap to multiple rows" was working in previous Next snapshot, but it's BROKEN AGAIN!
      It's only possible to drag any tab to the end, inserting one tab between two other isn't working.

      Please look into this, this issue must be fixed before Opera 12 final.

    About this article

    Published inDesktop Team blog
    DateMay 25, 2012
    AuthorŁukasz Derkacz
    Tagsstability, skin, crashers
    OriginalInternet Archive