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Improving the stability of Wahoo (12.00)

February 20, 2012 · by Ruarí Ødegaard

It has been a little over a week since the last Wahoo (12.00) snapshot, so here is a shiny, new update. wink

As you might expect, internally work continues apace on Hardware Acceleration and other upcoming features. For this snapshot however the focus is improving stability and as such there are several key crash fixes.

In terms of feedback we primarily interested in any new regressions you notice since the previous Wahoo snapshot (12.00-1301), so please keep on topic and let us know if you find anything.

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-357043 Crash when typing numbers in the address field
  • DSK-356131 Crash loop when trying to start Opera with active panel window
  • DSK-340697 Crash after logging into Opera Link
  • DSK-355518 Shortcut action "Manage Keyboard" crashes Opera
  • DSK-356472 Crash on startup when using "Allow window with no tabs" and "Tile all automatically" settings
  • DSK-341550 Zoom slider in configuration dialog for Speed Dial ranges from 20% to 300%
  • DSK-319912 Dragonfly panel should have a minimum height (200px) and should not restart with Opera
  • DSK-346838 Searching from the address bar fails if the query begins with a server name on the network

Windows
  • DSK-278418 Sites listed in Windows Jump List show no favicon at all
  • DSK-332652 Files set to open with default application lead to error after the default program is uninstalled

Mac
  • DSK-355621 Dragging and dropping a tab too high can result in the marker being left behind: Mac variant of DSK-355547
  • DSK-294301 Open in background window opens new window in foreground

Linux/FreeBSD
  • DSK-357021 Crash on startup after installing some themes: e.g. Monster

Readers' comments

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

  • Christophchristoph142Monday, February 20, 2012 12:05:54 PM

    DSK-346838 Searching from the address bar fails if the query begins with a server name on the network

    What about DSK-356195 (Searching from the address bar fails if the first search term contains a "." and at least two characters behind it, e.g. "gmx.com brainstorm")?

    DSK-278418 Sites listed in Windows Jump List show no favicon at all

    Wow, they are really back bigeyes yes
  • SergeLuxusmanMonday, February 20, 2012 12:08:33 PM

    yes testing
  • brumac53Monday, February 20, 2012 12:13:42 PM

    Thanks!
  • OlegYchMonday, February 20, 2012 12:23:49 PM

    Using IMAP with unverified ssl certificates is still broken.
    Please fix this ASAP, i can't use my email in a normal way for over a week now!
  • MaximSailorMaxMonday, February 20, 2012 12:33:04 PM

    Menu bar under WinXP is still broken... Is it known bug?
  • Jordan TrillesCristallixMonday, February 20, 2012 12:33:13 PM

    DSK-278418 Sites listed in Windows Jump List show no favicon at all

    Enfin! Thank you party
  • Lương Thế Minh QuangquangltmMonday, February 20, 2012 12:33:56 PM

    Thank you, testing, report soon smile
  • Ruarí ØdegaardruarioMonday, February 20, 2012 12:35:25 PM

    Originally posted by SailorMax:

    Menu bar under WinXP is still broken... Is it known bug?

    Yes, the bug number is DSK-357123. We have actually fixed this internally but the fix is still being regression tested. Look out for a fix to it in a future snapshot.
  • nimu_channimuchanMonday, February 20, 2012 12:35:29 PM

    Thank you!! Juat testing!!up
  • Manoj ChandrasekharanmachsMonday, February 20, 2012 12:37:50 PM

    Thanks, jumplist favicons are back!!up
    Now waiting for a fix for unreadable text on windows skydrive..!
  • BS-HarouMonday, February 20, 2012 12:52:01 PM

    DSK-319912 Dragonfly panel should have a minimum height (200px)



    This is not good. Sometimes I want to hide (but not close) Dragonfly so I make the height like 20px .. now I can't sad
  • AvolaMonday, February 20, 2012 1:05:22 PM

    Speaking of the jumplist, could you add a "New window" task? That would be a lot more useful than having "new tab" there. Does anybody actually use that?
    Would also be nice if "new window" was added to the start menu thing.
  • PneumatigpneumatykaMonday, February 20, 2012 1:33:20 PM

    Mod Edit: Removed off-topic comment
  • Surferz WorldsurferzworldMonday, February 20, 2012 1:42:42 PM

    Originally posted by surferzworld:

    1)This build is crashing on Signed in https://twitter.com/ page. Simply signing in makes this build to crash and the worst part is it does not generate a crash report. It simply closes the browser. 2) One more problem is O menu button suddenly disappears while using this build.These are all two strange things happening with me. So far, no one has reported this yet. Is it only for me?



    I had these problems with the previous wahoo snapshot. There are fixed now. Thanks.

    Sorry. It is happening now itself. sad Issues 1 & 2 have not solved yet.
  • King CrimsonMonday, February 20, 2012 1:48:43 PM

    Some issues:

    1. It's still very unstable! In about 15 minutes I had 3 crashes in pages with java and flash contents! And sometimes it crashes with pop-ups too!

    2. In this page I can't read products buttons (on mid-top): http://www.panasonic-batteries.com/eu/products/primary-batteries

    3. On closing Opera, I sometimes get an error message again!

    4. When I set startup "Show Start-up dialog"



    Opera then opens this way:





    Anyone going to confirm?
    cry
  • YaroslavFeyFreMonday, February 20, 2012 1:51:27 PM

    Originally posted by BS-Harou:

    DSK-319912 Dragonfly panel should have a minimum height (200px)



    This is not good. Sometimes I want to hide (but not close) Dragonfly so I make the height like 20px .. now I can't sad
    I agree. I very often hide DF this way too. Both closing and undocking DF are not solution: first kills debugging environment, last makes debugging impossible due overlapping of windows.
  • DanDaComboManMonday, February 20, 2012 1:51:57 PM

    I don't know if it's just because i've just set it up along with a couple of email accounts, but i've tried three times to upload a .jpeg image to ImageShack.us and the browser "jams" (non responsive mode).
    The image is uploaded but the browser becomes non responsive after that so i can't even copy the link to the uploaded image.

    No such problem with 11.61
  • Obese MauriceObeseMauriceMonday, February 20, 2012 1:53:54 PM

  • SKYnvMonday, February 20, 2012 1:56:08 PM

    1) go to http://www.dartlang.org/docs/getting-started/index.html
    2) click on "try anyway"
    3) and Opera dying...
  • Ja`Nusz WuPLUserMonday, February 20, 2012 1:56:42 PM

    "Transfers Panel Window=36,850,12124309,7274635,0"

    HELP!!!
    Transfers Window is broken - I can use it!!!
    Copying this data from stability Opera don't fixing this sad

    It was in Opera.NEXT 1301 too.

    Win-XP SP3 PL
  • Darkwing Duckchp101Monday, February 20, 2012 2:04:37 PM

    I hope it will stop crashing smile Can't stand Chrome anymore sad Tried to google on Safari performance (FF never was my thing either), but this build came just in time smile
  • OlliOlli91Monday, February 20, 2012 2:05:11 PM

    Opening iTunes from the iTunes Web Store still does not work on Mac. Immediate crash.
  • RijkMonday, February 20, 2012 2:12:44 PM

    Originally posted by PLUser:

    Transfers Window is broken

    In what way?
  • MaximSailorMaxMonday, February 20, 2012 2:12:54 PM

    What about problem with textareas? Opera hang up on loading page with large value of textarea. Is it know bug?
  • lisek91Monday, February 20, 2012 2:13:59 PM

    I have just installed this snapshot and there is a problem. Ealier, I didn't install any snapshots of version 12, but heard about problems with Opera 12 on integrated graphic card (intel hd graphic). After start I saw sth like this: http://iv.pl/images/12523604520095060851.png
    This issue is related to support webgl by opera? Is there any solution?
  • RijkMonday, February 20, 2012 2:14:26 PM

    Originally posted by ObeseMaurice:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si6t5nrbhKg

    This is not very useful if you don't explain what customizations and skin you used.
  • MaximSailorMaxMonday, February 20, 2012 2:24:16 PM

    And do you have any news about "not responding" on www.phpmyadmin.net site? It have random hang up while loading any page.

    Looks like problem with loading external script, like page counter, like Flattr.
  • nicklas bomansmurfdMonday, February 20, 2012 2:24:51 PM

    Twitter.com seems to work better! smile
    logging in into Hootsuite.com, still seems to hang opera sad
  • minhoMonday, February 20, 2012 2:25:08 PM

    DSK-294301 Open in background window opens new window in foreground
    This bug persistis on linux. sad
    Fedora 16 x32
  • RijkMonday, February 20, 2012 2:26:18 PM

    Originally posted by SailorMax:

    What about problem with textareas? Opera hang up on loading page with large value of textarea. Is it know bug?

    Yes, there is a known issue with textareas set in certain ways. A fix is coming along.
  • Владимир Назаровirdose7Monday, February 20, 2012 2:26:26 PM

    Clean jerks at scrolling of pages
    WINDOWS 7-64 SP1
  • Obese MauriceObeseMauriceMonday, February 20, 2012 2:27:15 PM

    Originally posted by Rijk:

    This is not very useful if you don't explain what customizations and skin you used.



    Default skin and everything. When I press the button on my address bar, that happens. This is a very old bug, since ~10.50.

    Win7 x64.
  • RijkMonday, February 20, 2012 2:28:38 PM

    Originally posted by FeyFre:

    Originally posted by BS-Harou:

    DSK-319912 Dragonfly panel should have a minimum height (200px)



    This is not good. Sometimes I want to hide (but not close) Dragonfly so I make the height like 20px .. now I can't sad
    I agree. I very often hide DF this way too. Both closing and undocking DF are not solution: first kills debugging environment, last makes debugging impossible due overlapping of windows.
    How about undocking, and then docking again when you need it? We've seen cases where people accidentally opened DF and tried to get rid of it by minimizing it... but their browsing experience wasn't much helped by that being possible.
  • BS-HarouMonday, February 20, 2012 2:32:06 PM

    Originally posted by Rijk:

    How about undocking, and then docking again when you need it? We've seen cases where people accidentally opened DF and tried to get rid of it by minimizing it... but their browsing experience wasn't much helped by that being possible.



    I see. I've never actually used undocking so I guess it's finally time to try that smile. Anyway, it would be still nice to drop the minimum height from 200px to 100px.
  • minhoMonday, February 20, 2012 2:34:01 PM

    M2 regression?
    Spam message is not immediately moved to inbox when I mark it as not spam.
    Confirm?
    Fedora 16 x32 (I use GMX imap server)
  • EricJHMonday, February 20, 2012 2:46:28 PM

    Originally posted by SKYnv:

    1) go to http://www.dartlang.org/docs/getting-started/index.html2) click on "try anyway"3) and Opera dying...

    What do you mean with dieing? Did it crash? If it crashed did you get the crash dialogue and did you submit it?

    I tested it and Opera freezes; it maxes out one of my four cores and have to close it with Task Manager. I am on Win 7 SP1 x86. What OS are you on?

    Originally posted by SailorMax:

    What about problem with textareas? Opera hang up on loading page with large value of textarea. Is it know bug?

    I think that is a shortcoming of Opera. It takes very long for such pages to load. Do you have a test case?
  • JustasdrumbliusMonday, February 20, 2012 2:49:05 PM

    Last two Wahoo builds keeps freezing Opera for me (becomes absolutely unresponsive, none of menu or open tab works). Unfortunately I can't tell the exact reason but noticed it often happens when creating new ticket in Jira.
  • micfeyMonday, February 20, 2012 2:49:18 PM

    Menu is looking funky:

    http://www.fotos-hochladen.net/view/garbleunpfqw1lcr.jpg

    Edit: Using XP
    Esit: Sorry, was already reported.
  • DavedfyfeMonday, February 20, 2012 2:49:54 PM

    Originally posted by minho:

    DSK-294301 Open in background window opens new window in foreground
    This bug persistis on linux. sad
    Fedora 16 x32

    Confirmed. Ubuntu 11.10 64bit
  • Pablo BellucciampkstroffMonday, February 20, 2012 2:51:16 PM

    Still crashing when using the bookmark menu from the address bar
  • minhoMonday, February 20, 2012 2:56:02 PM

    This snapshot crashes on exit yet.
    Fedora 16 x32
  • Ja`Nusz WuPLUserMonday, February 20, 2012 3:07:35 PM

    Originally posted by Rijk:

    Originally posted by PLUser:
    "Transfers Window is broken"
    In what way?



    "Transfers Panel Window=36,850,12124309,7274635,0"
    look for dimension this window ___^
    I don't have so big monitor like this. I think, nobody have smile
    I see only border transfer window, without any data insert or panel description.
  • Ja`Nusz WuPLUserMonday, February 20, 2012 3:14:33 PM

    Now I see - all Opera windows are broken - bookmark manager, notes... sad
    All this windows I have alone - not opened in tab.

    I have - Enable Hardware Acceleration = 0
  • igorigor2209Monday, February 20, 2012 3:17:15 PM

    Skydrive does not work . Name of files are not shown . Cannot upload anything for like half a year .

    Is there any fix coming ?
  • inDigazzZAnuarShMonday, February 20, 2012 3:17:21 PM

    1.
    2.

    DSK-278418 Sites listed in Windows Jump List show no favicon at all



    Right after install, but after restart there's no favicon again
  • PropellertopMonday, February 20, 2012 3:20:11 PM

    After Upgrade, the browser is totally unstable.
    Tab icons went from full size to tiny: http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/3696/tabst.jpg
    Then, after another restart it showed the X on every tab and somehow facebook didn't show up in the full windows and my EMAIL was behind it and you can see part of the email: http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/1900/tabs2.jpg
    when attempting up login and work with the screen shots I had just taken, Opera seems to freeze and never comes back with the imageshack.us tab is open.
    That's my report after using this version for like... 5 minutes.

    Appears as if there's a windows within a window almost. The 2nd jpg illustrates that and the bottom of that tab 'windows' is distinct from the bottom of the browser window.

    After some more checking, all those tabs are acting like detached tabs that aren't detached. Toolbars are greyed out for example. Weird.
  • Darkwing Duckchp101Monday, February 20, 2012 3:42:41 PM

    Unusable. Page with lots of text-imput-fields = freeze :(
  • SKYnvMonday, February 20, 2012 3:43:51 PM

    Originally posted by EricJH:

    Originally posted by SKYnv:

    1) go to http://www.dartlang.org/docs/getting-started/index.html2) click on "try anyway"3) and Opera dying...

    What do you mean with dieing? Did it crash? If it crashed did you get the crash dialogue and did you submit it?

    I tested it and Opera freezes; it maxes out one of my four cores and have to close it with Task Manager. I am on Win 7 SP1 x86. What OS are you on?

    Originally posted by SailorMax:

    What about problem with textareas? Opera hang up on loading page with large value of textarea. Is it know bug?

    I think that is a shortcoming of Opera. It takes very long for such pages to load. Do you have a test case?
    dead = infinite freeze. Win7 sp1 x64
  • RSDMonday, February 20, 2012 3:52:23 PM

    Opera 1306 (and 1301) closes itself when I click on the Read more... link in this blog. But it doesn't show any crash window, just the Continue from last time window when I start it again.

    Windows XP, Hardware acceleration disabled.
  • D1sasterp1eceMonday, February 20, 2012 4:01:41 PM

    Tabs opened by an extension still open to the left. That was also so in the previous snapshot, so maybe you know about it, but I just wanted to point it out - it's maybe the only thing for now that's keeping me from jumping to the 12.00 bandwagon.

    Btw

    shiny, new update


    Well, what are we supposed to be waiting for, OLD updates maybe? bigsmile

About this article

Published inDesktop Team blog
DateFebruary 20, 2012
AuthorRuarí Ødegaard
Tagswahoo, 12.00, monday
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