Happy Tuesday!

June 14, 2011 · by Helge Gjølme

Hello all, after a long weekend in the Oslo office we are ready to present you with a new build.

This new build has a lot of interesting new stuff like some new core features:
- Indeterminate state for HTMLInputElement.indeterminate and checkboxes.
- EventSource is now enabled for Web Workers.

There are some performance and memory usage improvements in this build, the highlight here is a big speed up for parseInt.

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

Desktop

DSK-292114 Tab Bar fails to redraw correctly after returning from hibernation
DSK-338103 Crashes when using the tab cycler to move between tabs while a modal dialog is open
DSK-323390 Alt+Up and Alt+Down don't scroll messages anymore
DSK-336210 Menu > Mail > Read Mail fails to show mail
DSK-337889 In private tabs, context menu search using keyboard modifiers not opened in private tabs
DSK-338097 "Suppress External Embeds" config setting doesn't work
DSK-338342 Saved sessions containing a Mail tab will not load in a profile without a mail account
DSK-338303 Dragging a sessions file to an Opera window does not open the session
DSK-276827 Trashed favorites still show up in the panel toolbar
DSK-336892 Another Opera not shut down issue casued by message flooding from flash plugin

Core

CORE-1886 Cached HEAD requests (XMLHttpRequest) affect normal GET request
CORE-6596 Improve popup blocker (block more popups)
CORE-7874 Broken radial gradients
CORE-18313 Implement HTMLInputElement.indeterminate, and checkbox indeterminate state
CORE-20160 Asterisks (*) mistakenly escaped in form data
CORE-22453 Parsing of SVG <paint> fails in CSS for anything that has more than one value
CORE-29085 location.href="" doesn't reload page
CORE-29798 Make parseInt significantly faster
CORE-29903 Incorrect evaluation of RegExp: "aaa".match(/(a*){2}/)
CORE-30450 Uncaught DOMException does not show message in console, only [object DOMException]
CORE-30596 JS crash
CORE-31631 Variable becomes undefined within loop after assignment
CORE-31680 Array.prototype.join when separator is "this" doesn't work properly
CORE-32658 Document created by createHTMLDocument doesn't have a doctype
CORE-33787 RegExp.prototype.exec deviates from specification
CORE-34772 Videos on giantbomb.com just show blank page - real document.write sometimes called even though script has overwritten it with a custom function
CORE-35531 SVGElement constructors and prototypes not exposed to scripts
CORE-36304 input type=email incorrectly rejects IDNs (non-ASCII domains)
CORE-36497 SVG crash when drawing a large number of characters on a path
CORE-36733 W3C Geolocation test suite conformance fixes
CORE-37054 Enable EventSource in Web Workers
CORE-37234 Background on a block child of a height/width-constrained multicol spills outside the multicol container
CORE-37284 Float in multicol prevents break
CORE-37315 Array.prototype.join doesn't comply to ES3/ES5 specification
CORE-37342 High memory usage caused by browser.js
CORE-37501 Better handling of Link entries with invalid date
CORE-37503 Crash when a direct child of the HTML element is being deleted with the Document Edit functionality
CORE-37655 Constants are not exposed on EventSource interface object
CORE-37662 Freeze at domiteca.com
CORE-37848 Sync does not write the disk queue on first start using sync
CORE-38010 NSL on first load of Web Fonts testcase
CORE-38045 High memory usage at test262.ecmascript.org
CORE-38091 Fix calculation of table-caption inside a CSS table element
CORE-38123 Form crash
CORE-38137 .text property not available in svg:script during BeforeScript event
CORE-38207 Freeze in designMode when two body elements which are both part of a selection are replaced with new text
CORE-38218 Form submit and reset fields values can't be updated through JS
CORE-38236 Crash related to text node selection and closed/removed popup windows or iframes
CORE-38244 The willValidate property is returning false when it should return true
CORE-38287 history.pushState and replaceState do not set the referrer correctly for subsequent requests
CORE-38309 AUDIO/VIDEO element moved between windows with a script causes crash
CORE-38315 Gradients with more than 32768 stops will cause a crash when applied (canvas, SVG, CSS)
CORE-38342 SVG animation crash
CORE-38343 Plugin fix (viewing videos at tv2sporten.no)
CORE-38353 Save image option not available in context menu
CORE-38362 Form layout crash
CORE-38363 Web Worker crash
CORE-38408 OPTION background color doesn't work when initially off-screen
CORE-38431 Ensure that the server from the Link server is available to the sync UI
CORE-38441 contentEditable crash when typing
CORE-38523 Unable to close Flash dialog in the netlog.com video recorder
CORE-38554 Incorrect text alignment (baseline) of text in canvas element
CORE-38564 Print previewing large table freezes browser
CORE-38588 Crash when replacing singleton prototype with another prototype singleton
CORE-38600 "javascript:alert(new RegExp(('^(?:\\d{7}(?:\\d{3})?)$')).test('1234567'));" should evaluate to true
CORE-38615 Array.prototype.join() crashing on non-array objects with initial holes
CORE-38621 Wrong duplication of content with multi-column container with column-fill:balance and block-level children
CORE-38631 Invalid read outside array of text when checking for surrogates in layout
CORE-38656 Don't throw for whitespace in atob()
CORE-38667 SVG BiDi crash/freeze
CORE-38688 Use less memory in representation of compiled ECMAScript code
CORE-38759 Cannot change inline styles of adopted node
CORE-38766 Should not consider <option> elements that are not children of <select> or <optgroup>
CORE-38767 Custom web fonts cause onload not to fire
CORE-38809 Crash when loading page with select box with many OPTIONs

Windows

DSK-286597 Starting Opera again to get new window in SDI mode doesn't work

Mac

DSK-337930 QuickTime plugin does not show up when loaded in background tab (or non-visible area of the page)
DSK-318787 Text with opacity is not painted when baseline is outside painting buffers
DSK-314922 Fix the Save dialog's dislike for extension preferences

Linux/FreeBSD

DSK-337721 Selected (or active) push buttons do not look native under GTK toolkit

Readers' comments

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

ClashCityRockerclashcityrocker14. June 2011, 13:05
Nice Changelog!
arnaud lautierGrouick14. June 2011, 13:06
Amazing changes list.

Trying under 7 64bits and Lion
Mina Saherminathegreat14. June 2011, 13:09
good move
metude14. June 2011, 13:09
There are some performance and memory usage improvements in this build, the highlight here is a big speed up for parseInt.

Thanks for that.
Михаилmikolka-paravoz14. June 2011, 13:10
Wow! So much core fixes!
sirsimon14. June 2011, 13:11
What about this bugs: http://sirsimon.ovh.org/opera.html ?
ClashCityRockerclashcityrocker14. June 2011, 13:15
Some improvement deleting RSS feeds, but still some problems. I managed to delete one, but another one remained, and numerous deletes did not remove it. Drag it to another folder, and it finally disappeared.
Fhury14. June 2011, 13:20
Thanks for the new build.

Icon bug in jump list DSK-331882 still there

http://files.myopera.com/Fhury/files/Opera.png

(the last pic of this bug i uploaded was from october 2010...)

W7 32 bit
ClashCityRockerclashcityrocker14. June 2011, 13:21
Mod edit: Please try to be specific and to the point if you want to report a problem. Avoid derogatory remarks.
Returner14. June 2011, 13:22
nice work!
ClashCityRockerclashcityrocker14. June 2011, 13:25
SunSpider 0.91 hung at: math-cordic

(Last-pass is my only extension, no user-js).

Sputnik also hangs (35%)
Rijk14. June 2011, 13:31
Originally posted by clashcityrocker:

Some improvement deleting RSS feeds, but still some problems. I managed to delete one, but another one remained, and numerous deletes did not remove it. Drag it to another folder, and it finally disappeared.
The problems with deleting feeds/empty trash/delete permanently are not supposed to be fixed yet in this build
pursanovd14. June 2011, 13:33
Impressive changelog! By the way updated through Check For Update-> your update servers work just nice.
266 at html5test.com.
Had several crashes with previous build(sent them automatically) but: lets test this one!
JanGen14. June 2011, 13:36
Seems to choke on the math-cordic test in Sunspider
doesn't finish
crash114. June 2011, 13:38
Originally posted by clashcityrocker:

SunSpider 0.91 hung at: math-cordic

(Last-pass is my only extension, no user-js).

confirm
opticyclic14. June 2011, 13:40
Someone please look at DSK-338609.
None of these snapshots work with a proxy.pac
Luchio14. June 2011, 13:40
F4 still opens the Panel in ALL windows, and also shows the Find in Page toolbar... Weird
GreLI14. June 2011, 13:40
What does «CORE-7874 Broken radial gradients» mean? Radial gradients are still broken/not working yet.
«DSK-318787 Text with opacity is not painted when baseline is outside painting buffers» reminds me still disappearing text on twitter.com: http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23Opera (DSK-339195)
Bhikkhu PesalaPesala14. June 2011, 13:40
1. Install does not remember its last used folder.
2. Stacked tabs no longer stacked on continue from last time.
Gousti FruitGoustiFruit14. June 2011, 13:43
Visual Tabs still display inconsistent heights when positioned at the bottom.
Thomas PikeXiven14. June 2011, 13:46
Originally posted by GreLI:

What does «CORE-7874 Broken radial gradients» mean? Radial gradients are still broken/not working yet.

"CORE-7874 Broken radial gradients" refers to radial gradients in HTML5 canvas, not CSS3 radial gradients.
Petruspetrus14. June 2011, 13:48
I still have to click inside a newly opened page in a new tab before I can browse tabs back and forth with 1 and 2 (having single key shortcuts enabled). It's as if new pages aren't in focus. This bug did not show up until a couple of builds ago, in the Beta and a few after that it worked fine.

Present on both Win 7 x64 and OS X 10.6.7.

EDiT: To be more specific, this only happens if I open a new tab and go to a web page. Shift + clicking to open a page in a new tab works like it should, as I am then able to browse tabs with 1 and 2.
helsten214. June 2011, 13:51
All my previous issues still remain:
http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/show.dml/30974182?startidx=50#comment62429592
FavDjiXas14. June 2011, 13:58
Noise removed by moderator.
Mészáros AntalMesant14. June 2011, 14:03
Thanks!Keep it up!
Gousti FruitGoustiFruit14. June 2011, 14:05
Originally posted by petrus:

I still have to click inside a newly opened page in a new tab before I can browse tabs back and forth with 1 and 2 (having single key shortcuts enabled). It's as if new pages aren't in focus. This bug did not show up until a couple of builds ago, in the Beta and a few after that it worked fine.

Present on both Win 7 x64 and OS X 10.6.7.

EDiT: To be more specific, this only happens if I open a new tab and go to a web page. Shift + clicking to open a page in a new tab works like it should, as I am then able to browse tabs with 1 and 2.

I also mentioned this bug a couple builds ago (unable to switch pages with Ctrl+Tab/Shift+Ctrl+Tab after creating a new tab until I click on some element to give it the focus.
I don't have single key shortcuts enabled.
Satan D. Lucifersupertrol14. June 2011, 14:20
The presto version of this build is 2.8.165

looking at the changes(below link) it doesnt included(device orientation that should be in 159-162

http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/presto28/

Looks like opera is cooking up something big that will surprise us
Daniel AnghelMagnus61614. June 2011, 14:28
http://clients.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/: complex graphics test (the last one from c.g.t., the one with spaceships) is lagging (the others are fine) since this snapshot
QuHno14. June 2011, 14:33
HTMLInputElement.indeterminate seems to affect the skin too and leads to wrong display of checkboxes. See DSK-339373
Screenshot:
http://quhno.internetstrahlen.de/BUGS/20110614checkbox001.jpg
The upper and the lower half show a default speeddial with the same settings. Look at the view bar and compare with the true settings shown in the F12 menu in the upper half.
feld14. June 2011, 14:44
Thanks for the new build but I cannot resume testing Opera Next until the IMAP delete bug is resolved
mgl4evr14. June 2011, 14:52
Nice!
southparkstudios.com works perfectly now.
Thanks a lot and keep it up.
Xanashi14. June 2011, 14:53
Great new build! Amazing changelog.

However there is a bug, that started a couple of snapshots ago, with restored tabs turning up at the wrong position in the pagebar.

I believe it has something to do with tab stacking. To reproduce, try this:

1. Open, say ten tabs with random sites in Opera.

2. Stack the first and second tab.

3. If you close the third tab (first tab after the stack), it will be restored to an incremented position of 1 i.e. the fourth position, counting the stack as well.

4. Now if you add another tab to the initial stack, and do 3. again, the restored tab will now open at the fifth position.

5. If you continue doing this, the incremented position of the restored tab will soon become invalid, and the restored tab will start showing up in position 1 instead.

It's a simple indexing bug, so I hope it's not too hard to fix.

Anyway, thanks for your continued hard work, it's always appreciated.

EDIT: I'm on Windows 7 x64, just in case.
minho14. June 2011, 14:59
Great changelog!
Testing!
earth0114. June 2011, 14:59

Since the 1st 11.50 snapshot.
Edit : Hope it will be fixed before final...
Gousti FruitGoustiFruit14. June 2011, 15:02
Would be nice to be able to un-close tab (Ctrl+Z) when on Speed Dial !
DoTheEvolutionTheEvolutionBaby14. June 2011, 15:15
#1 Bug: If I pin-up operanext in windows 7 task bar, icon changes to classic red one.

#2 Bug: In one of the speedials I have:
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/

For some reason every time I open new tab, reload animation appears on this thumbnail.

Every time! The best part is that it does not even refresh it.

Thanks for fixing streaming video issueas
Gousti FruitGoustiFruit14. June 2011, 15:23
Freezing for a few seconds every time I open a new tab from http://www.developpez.net/forums/ :'-(
minho14. June 2011, 15:25
Go to http://uploading.com/files/get/2b5bf61d/
Pess "Free download" button
A countdown should appears in button but Opera does not show it. Compare with Firefox.
Confirm?

win 7 pro sp1 64 bits
Luis Tar Quinceluistar1514. June 2011, 15:31
Don't forget the ignored css-image-background in the "select" element. Try here: http://demo.phpmyadmin.net/STABLE/
Savageman14. June 2011, 15:34
Nice! Thanks for the snapshot.

Does "DSK-286597 Starting Opera again to get new window in SDI mode doesn't work"
fix the problem that when we change the tabs position (top/left) it changes across all windows? If yes, that's great! :-)
metude14. June 2011, 15:38
Originally posted by minho:

A countdown should appears in button but Opera does not show it. Compare with Firefox.
Confirm?

Not confirmed on Win7. http://prntscr.com/2240p
minho14. June 2011, 15:42
Originally posted by metude:

Originally posted by minho:
A countdown should appears in button but Opera does not show it. Compare with Firefox.
Confirm?

Not confirmed on Win7. http://prntscr.com/2240p

Strange. Change site language to brazilian portuguese and repeat the test please.
Bhikkhu PesalaPesala14. June 2011, 15:44
Opera 9.2 Compatible Keyboard needs updating:

1 Ctrl = Go to speed dial, 0
2 Ctrl = Go to speed dial, 1
3 Ctrl = Go to speed dial, 2
etc.
eilegz14. June 2011, 15:56
my speed dial its gone with this build =/
minho14. June 2011, 15:59
"Top 10" is not working? Several sites that I access dailly dont appear in "Top 10" icon. Confirm?

win 7 pro sp1 64 bits
Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks14. June 2011, 16:04
Originally posted by ClashCityRocker:

SunSpider 0.91 hung at: math-cordic

Confirmed Win7 x64
Gereford14. June 2011, 16:17
Thx guys. Good work. Nice changelog.
But what about mail.yandex.ru?
I have some problems, because I'am very often using mail.yandex.ru. And many peoples from Russia using it.
metude14. June 2011, 16:24
Originally posted by minho:

Strange. Change site language to brazilian portuguese and repeat the test please.

Confirmed now. But there's no problem in Opera. It's site's fault.
http://prntscr.com/22491

Originally posted by GoustiFruit:

Freezing for a few seconds every time I open a new tab from http://www.developpez.net/forums/ :'-(

Not confirmed on Win7. Did checked it with clean profile?
minho14. June 2011, 16:46
Originally posted by metude:

Originally posted by minho:
Strange. Change site language to brazilian portuguese and repeat the test please.

Confirmed now. But there's no problem in Opera. It's site's fault.
http://prntscr.com/22491

Correct!
I have send an alert message to site administrator.
newbie pronewbiepro14. June 2011, 17:38
Win7 SP1 x64

Can anyone confirmed that editing the body of an email in Yahoo! is all screwed up...using arrow and delete keys!

Never had any problems with previous builds.

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Published in	Desktop Team blog
Date	June 14, 2011
Author	Helge Gjølme
Tags	memory performance snapshot
Original	Internet Archive

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