Glyphs and plugins

November 28, 2011 · by Tommy A. Olsen

Our hardware acceleration work is marching on, and we have now integrated a round of fixes for a bunch of bugs in this area, as well as the fixes we have on 11.60.

Some of the most notable fixes on hardware acceleration:

Plugins should now paint in the correct places when scrolling
Dropdown menus on Windows XP don't flicker that badly anymore
Bold hebrew text on Mac should now display properly
Several crash fixes

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

Hardware acceleration

DSK-345136 Crash on running khronos webl tests
DSK-348071 memory leaks in Opera 12 Alpha
DSK-347582 Add OS info to the blocklists
DSK-347883 Error console is slow
DSK-349345 Huge memory consumption on turbosquid.com website
DSK-347647 drawing artifacts on Radeon X1300/X1550 Series
DSK-347650 No fish in IETank on X1300/X1550 on DirectX
UNIX
DSK-348597 Hardware broken on old mesa+Intel (Blocked old mesa on Intel )
DSK-347831 With blacklisted video drivers operaplugin wrapper crashes
DSK-347479 Using Vega backends = Software results in missing dialog title bars
Mac
DSK-345923 WebGL conformancee test gl-min-textures.html demo crashes Opera
DSK-347269 Part of the plugin left on screen after scrolling out of view
DSK-347980 Crash when loading Conway's Game of Life 3D
DSK-349463 Address field drop-down painting problems with hw/acc off
DSK-344703 Add command line argument for disabling hardware acceleration (-nohwaccel)
DSK-349765 Words containing ZWJ or ZWNJ are not displayed in hwaccel builds
DSK-350519 Hebrew text + hardware acceleration = lots of text missing
DSK-347833 Crash on shadertoy's Quaternion
DSK-338511 Input buttons have redraw issues
Windows
DSK-343507 Severe drawing corruption or crash when opening addressbar dropdown
DSK-341896 Opera crashed when opening content blocker on page
DSK-347376 Popup windows addressbar dropdown and menu borders flicker on XP
DSK-348141 Painting garbage on screen with HWA enabled on GeForce FX 5200 (Driver version not available, card blocked)
DSK-348404 letter-spacing makes hebrew text rendering order flip
DSK-350023 Flash painted on top of UI
DSK-347201 Crash in Windows font manager after restarting opera

Core

Continous work on Raganrök
CORE-280 "Find in page" do not find strings that contains soft hyphen characters "" and others .
CORE-3738 timeStamp property is not set on event object
CORE-16741 Caret placement at line ends broken in contentEditable <pre> tags newline case
CORE-17630 Thrown value inaccessible in Dragonfly when stopped on exception
CORE-17653 Implement parts of XMLHttpRequest Level 2 XHR2 cross-origin, EventTarget
CORE-28468 Should detect UTF-8 or fall back to page encoding for scripts with no encoding header : messy codes on qidian.com
CORE-31954 Linux, FreeBSD and Mac hang on exit when network is not working
CORE-34613 Drop support for <bgsound>
CORE-36771 Support File in structured clone for worker.postMessage and window.postMessage
CORE-36772 FileAPI FileError interface object not available in workers
CORE-38222 Scripts run after xml parse error
CORE-39687 Can't save application/octet-stream image
CORE-40011 XHR with overrideMimeType breaks if Opera is setup as viewer for the given mime-type
CORE-40571 Support sending blobs in XHR
CORE-41047 Wrong values returned by ExamineObjects in Dragonfly
CORE-41052 Continuing while on breakpoint line does not break again on the same breakpoint in Dragonfly
CORE-41253 When JIT is on levenshtein distance function is wrong
CORE-41305 Adjusting volume on a YouTube HTML5 video can cause Opera to freeze
CORE-41415 Validation error popup for input fields with non-left text-alignment is too wide and text justification is wrong
CORE-41520 Opera crashes on start-up with broken dcache4
CORE-41582 Memory leak in Ecmascript when going to eonline.com with limited memory
CORE-41586 Very large number input in an input type=number gives 'number required' error on validation
CORE-41604 SVG pattern code doesn't seem to compensate for patternTransform expansion when rendering the pattern tile
CORE-41609 Svg pattern with invalid patternUnits attribute doesn't fallback to the proper lacuna value
CORE-41627 Domain in webstorage and web sql dbs truncated
CORE-41701 RAGE map viewer renders incorrectly
CORE-41937 MSDN - Infinite log in loop because Opera drops cookies
CORE-41952 Crash when loading thepokerbay.org
CORE-41958 XHR2 FormData support
CORE-41959 Print preview broken for multipart/* documents breaks M2 printing
CORE-41968 Further extend the ECMAScript argument conversion format strings
CORE-41990 property assignment is slow for objects with a large number of properties
CORE-42008 JavaScript URLs not correctly excaped in plugins
CORE-42016 Script embedded in SVG blocks page loading NSL
CORE-42019 Part of a SVG textArea that is not filled with text content does not respond to mouse clicks
CORE-42107 Invalid Dates on unhandled exceptions logged to console
CORE-42117 img.naturalWidth/Height should be 0 when images are disabled
CORE-42171 Updating the contents of a span inside a list item fails to repaint it
CORE-42221 Multiple background is not painted fully when loaded
Fixed various memory leaks and crashes

Readers' comments

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

blackcoderMonday, November 28, 2011 4:01:59 PM
sleepyheadbooz0rMonday, November 28, 2011 4:04:12 PM
Thanks for the update
miki100Monday, November 28, 2011 4:04:27 PM
Hey! No blurry GUI at last!

Also I see the overall performance increased a bit. Good snapshot!
XombiemubaidrMonday, November 28, 2011 4:09:04 PM
Thank you so much!!!
KilokilozaMonday, November 28, 2011 4:16:30 PM
Yay... New week, new release.

DSK-350023 Flash painted on top of UI

Tesing
beBossMonday, November 28, 2011 4:16:52 PM
Yeaahhhhh Opera 12 (bow) i love silver icon and Opera next :*
Thanks !
AlexsalexsMonday, November 28, 2011 4:18:33 PM
Menu bar isn't fixed when HWA is enable…

OS: aptosid (Debian/sid) 64-bit with Xfce

GeForce 9600 GT, NVIDIA 290.10
nimu_channimuchanMonday, November 28, 2011 4:21:03 PM
WAoowww!! Thank you very much!!
krychu90Monday, November 28, 2011 4:21:48 PM
Opera window is too big when I restore and maximize the window.

Win 7 64x, 8800gtx
LucalucaviozziMonday, November 28, 2011 4:24:27 PM
crash immediatly at start on notebook with seven x64 with ati mobility radeon hd 5450.
CristiancristianerMonday, November 28, 2011 4:26:55 PM
Fantastic! Thanks.
BugfixerMonday, November 28, 2011 4:28:48 PM
It's totaly unstable here. Opera crashes when i try to start with HWA. And without HWA Opera crashes when i try to open a website or load the speed dial.

Windows 7 32Bit
Geforce 7600 GS with driver version 285.62
Surferz WorldsurferzworldMonday, November 28, 2011 4:30:28 PM
Regression : DSK-348677 is back with this snapshot. It was fixed by the last Wahoo Snapshot. (12.1155).
Z1-AV69Monday, November 28, 2011 4:30:48 PM
Win7 x64, Ati HD5700: crashes immediately after starting. Doesn't work at all.
XombiemubaidrMonday, November 28, 2011 4:32:20 PM
Originally posted by Z1-AV69:

Win7 x64, Ati HD5700: crashes immediately after starting. Doesn't work at all.

Same here!

Same here;
Crashing on Windows 8 DP, With AMD beta drivers for Windows 8,almost on every page! I will try using other drivers to check if its not driver issues!

Amd 5750
AbaddonMonday, November 28, 2011 4:34:11 PM
Does opera-next still require LD_PRELOAD hack for flash to work on Linux?
AmundamundgjersoeMonday, November 28, 2011 4:39:51 PM
Nice changelog.
I tested a some what simple WebGL demo, but screen was just black. Worked in Chrome.
http://oos.moxiecode.com/js_webgl/xwing/

Win7x64
Vega backend:OpenGL
OpenGL
Blocklist version: 1.0.2
Blocklist status for 2D: Supported
Blocklist status for 3D: Supported
GL_VENDOR: ATI Technologies Inc.
GL_RENDERER: AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series
GL_VERSION: 4.1.11251 Compatibility Profile Context
beBossMonday, November 28, 2011 4:45:09 PM
Still have bug with circle mail icons. When you click "Check/Send" button it' shows circle images, but not always hide it !!!
MichałEmdekMonday, November 28, 2011 4:46:02 PM
Originally posted by alexs:

Menu bar isn't fixed when HWA is enable…

http://i.imgur.com/Dg50Q.png

Yes, still present...
KDE 4.7, Kubuntu 32 bit.
krychu90Monday, November 28, 2011 4:47:00 PM
Originally posted by beBoss:

Still have bug with circle mail icons. When you click "Check/Send" button it' shows circle images, but not always hide it !!!

confirmed
z@h3kZAHEKMonday, November 28, 2011 4:49:01 PM
It seems big job:)
4esn0kMonday, November 28, 2011 4:56:11 PM
Good job!
Implement parts of XMLHttpRequest Level 2 XHR2 cross-origin, EventTarget - very cool!
CORS+EventSource (server-sent-events) also supported !
Ruarí ØdegaardruarioMonday, November 28, 2011 4:57:32 PM
Originally posted by Abaddon:

Does opera-next still require LD_PRELOAD hack for flash to work on Linux?
Only on Gentoo (and derivatives) with certain video drivers, yes. It is and always has been fine on other distros.
wannadanceMonday, November 28, 2011 5:00:24 PM
Smooth scrolling still needs some work, especially if there are a lot of images and embed videos on page .
GalnospokeMonday, November 28, 2011 5:04:12 PM
VERY good build. No BSOD in YouTube/flash like all 11.6x. Good work!

Little problems:
1) Dropdown menus on Windows XP don't flicker that badly anymore - no at all on AMD Radeon!
2) little blur on fonts with HWA.
ricksperMonday, November 28, 2011 5:05:39 PM
Maximized window obscures the Windows Task Bar on occasion. In order to view the Task Bar I have to minimize the window then re-maximize it again. This has been happening on all 12.00 builds and can't be replicated at will.

Is this known?
Win XP SP3

{EDIT] OK I see krychu90 reports similar issue.
ArsenytarcMonday, November 28, 2011 5:07:21 PM
Wahoo!!! Nice work!
Mateusz RomanowskiAlphaOmega666Monday, November 28, 2011 5:11:26 PM
Still low efficiency hardware acceleration on 8200M G

Windows 7 SP1 x86
ahoj1234Monday, November 28, 2011 5:13:28 PM
I dont know how to explain it.. but..
If I type some words into search address bar (some part of visited URLs) Until now still sort URLs by last visited but now it is sorted by name??
for me it is a huge bug.. and a lot of problems.. now it is worst that before..
confirmations? Can I reactivated old sorting?
Patkos CsabapatkoscsabaMonday, November 28, 2011 5:15:05 PM
I do not know if you tried to optimize the hardware rendering or not, but on my Linux machine it is still very slow. It takes about 2 sec for the "new tab" animation to finish, scrolling is very slow also. Could not really try any webgl site/stuff yet, it creashes almost all the time!

However, in software rendering it is very stable.

Linux 64 bits, Mandriva 2011, KDE 4.6.x, opengl effects in KDE started, video Nvidia 8600GT, driver 280.13
PraetorianXMonday, November 28, 2011 5:15:13 PM
Originally posted by Z1-AV69:

Win7 x64, Ati HD5700: crashes immediately after starting. Doesn't work at all.

*EDIT 2*!!!! (ATI 5770). As I have written in a next comment, I updated catalysts from 11.9 to 11.11. This build now seems stable and does not crash.

win7 x64 sp1, catalyst 11.11
Alexanders-a-s-hMonday, November 28, 2011 5:16:22 PM
Don't forget about auto tab stacking!
tbb505Monday, November 28, 2011 5:16:39 PM
This build is pretty fast and stable on my computer...I like it a lot. Good Job!
blackcoderMonday, November 28, 2011 5:16:54 PM
Originally posted by amundgjersoe:

I tested a some what simple WebGL demo, but screen was just black. Worked in Chrome.
http://oos.moxiecode.com/js_webgl/xwing/

Confirmed.

Windows Vista 64-Bit
Vega-Back-End: OpenGL
Blocklist version: 1.0.2
Blocklist status for 2D: Supported
Blocklist status for 3D: Supported
GL_VENDOR: ATI Technologies Inc.
GL_RENDERER: ATI Radeon HD 3300 Graphics
GL_VERSION: 3.3.11251 Compatibility Profile Context
GL_SHADING_LANGUAGE_VERSION: 3.30
Hersteller-ID: 0x1002
Geräte-ID: 0x9614
Treiberversion: 8.911.0.0
ncc50446Monday, November 28, 2011 5:17:47 PM
I'm having some troubles with text still. I just formated and installed Fedora 16...Happened in 15 as well, but was hoping a clean start might solve the issue.
I'm having text vanish..If I disable HWA, then all the text comes back.

I also had some troubles with imageshack..It took a long time (Maybe 2 minutes) to open the upload window...

http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/3108/snapshot1c.png

Vega backend: OpenGL
Blocklist version: 1.0.2
Blocklist status for 2D: Supported
Blocklist status for 3D: Supported
GL_VENDOR: X.Org R300 Project
GL_RENDERER: Gallium 0.4 on ATI RV530
GL_VERSION: 2.1 Mesa 7.11

Other than that, it's looking good, thank you for a new snapshot with the 11.60 changes

Edit: Removed the image tags..don't know how to attach an image apparently lol

Edit 2: Fedora 16 i686 KDE
kanstisamaMonday, November 28, 2011 5:23:24 PM
Crashes every time until Opera Unite is disabled.
StayPuftMonday, November 28, 2011 5:23:26 PM
Opera NSL (never stop loading) on this site .
http://www.taringa.net/
and
http://www.taringa.net/posts/taringa/12265115/Taringa-MI_---Guia-de-uso.html

Opera Next 12
build 1174
Windows 7 64 bits

Same With

Opera 11.60
build 1173
Windows 7 64 bits.
ekalinkinMonday, November 28, 2011 5:32:07 PM
Originally posted by kanstisama:

Crashes every time until Opera Unite is disabled.

same for me
cssmMonday, November 28, 2011 5:33:13 PM
Same shit performance at http://www.youtube.com/charts
It's unusable.
cssmMonday, November 28, 2011 5:37:34 PM
Originally posted by Galnospoke:

No BSOD in YouTube/flash like all 11.6x

try to update flash player to 11.2 and your video drivers.
I dont have any instabilities with 11.60 and flash.
SkyREMonday, November 28, 2011 5:46:43 PM
Originally posted by StayPuft:

Opera NSL (never stop loading) on this site .
http://www.taringa.net/
and
http://www.taringa.net/posts/taringa/12265115/Taringa-MI_---Guia-de-uso.html

Opera Next 12
build 1174
Windows 7 64 bits

Same With

Opera 11.60
build 1173
Windows 7 64 bits.
Dind't confirmed on Win7 x64 SP1 - Opera 12.00-alpha b1155 There ~300 elements on second link.
BakLANMonday, November 28, 2011 5:48:02 PM
On Linux Opera's new skins still not working.
P.S. Kubuntu 11.10.
JackWagonMonday, November 28, 2011 5:52:10 PM
Why, oh why, do I have to continually toggle Spell Checking off/on in order to keep it working? All builds, Opera 11 & 12.
Allyn GibsonallyngibsonMonday, November 28, 2011 5:52:58 PM
The "Check Mail" button still isn't responding on Windows XP. The button depression graphic happens, but the actual mail check does not.
ToxigeneMonday, November 28, 2011 5:53:43 PM
Originally posted by ekalinkin:

Originally posted by kanstisama:
Crashes every time until Opera Unite is disabled.
same for me

Odd. Actually crashes for me when enabling Unite.
GalnospokeMonday, November 28, 2011 6:01:28 PM
Originally posted by cssm:

Originally posted by Galnospoke:
No BSOD in YouTube/flash like all 11.6x

try to update flash player to 11.2 and your video drivers.
I dont have any instabilities with 11.60 and flash.
I have updated all the time.
cssmMonday, November 28, 2011 6:01:49 PM
"most notable fixes"???
Most notable is BAD performance.
cssmMonday, November 28, 2011 6:04:16 PM
Originally posted by Galnospoke:

I have updated all the time.

And video to 11.10/11? If so, i dont know)
AbhinavdecodedthoughtMonday, November 28, 2011 6:05:33 PM
downloading
ahoj1234Monday, November 28, 2011 6:08:48 PM
Another big issue..

this page:
http://spszl.cz/
never load (thats right),but if you visited http://www.spszl.cz/ and after this (for example a day later) again this http://spszl.cz/ page the page load fine. thats was right because opera was clever.. But now i type "sp" it find in history "http://spszl.cz/" and try to open.. ERROR..!

please.. tell me that it is only issue and all will be good in next version..
(a first problem with pages is posted here: http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/show.dml/38097852#comment75807872 )
thank you.. Maybe I have another question.. Why did you did this with Opera?

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Published in	Desktop Team blog
Date	November 28, 2011
Author	Tommy A. Olsen
Tags	webgl, wahoo, hardware acceleration, 12.00
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