Lots of little fixes can result in a big improvement

May 12, 2010 · by Ruari Ødegaard

Another new snapshot just one day after the last one!

This snapshot is particularly good news for our FreeBSD and Linux users, since it includes fixes to a number of irritating issues. We'd encourage *nix users to scan through the change log below. We have also made builds available on Windows and Mac. Whilst not much has changes for you guys there is a cross platform fix on mail, so if you were experiencing mail crashes this might be a good build to test.

With regards to bigger outstanding issues on UNIX (Plugin performance improvements [including Java], IME, fixes to fonts), these issues are being worked on, however we still need more time before we can share with you the fruits of our labour. Thanks for your patience!

Remember to keep comments relevant, descriptive and brief, and avoid repetition of issues that have alread been reported. Your comments may be removed if they are off-topic.

UNIX Known Issues

Java is not working
IME is not working
Some outstanding font issues

WARNING: This is a development snapshot with the latest changes. It may contain severe bugs and cause data loss. Or it may be all you have ever wanted.

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Changelog

Desktop

Fixed a crash that could happen whilst using mail
Fixed DSK-292420 (Widgets from untrusted repository are not downloaded)

Unix

Fixed DSK-277198 (Tabbing in chat message box crashes Opera)
Fixed DSK-279451 (Some subfolders in bookmarks are not reachable with the mouse)
Fixed DSK-279544 (The menu bar is corrupted if skin is applied)
Fixed DSK-280876 (Using F2 (Go to page), typed text is appended rather than replacing the pre-existing URL)
Fixed DSK-281663 (Cannot keep the bookmarks menu open without holding the mouse)
Fixed DSK-285455 (Opera crashes while trying to block page content (ads))
Fixed DSK-287850 (When clicking show report after a crash, it does not display)
Fixed DSK-289335 (Full screen does not work when menubar is on)
Fixed DSK-289618 (Favicons on some sites are corrupted)
Fixed DSK-291402 (Can't minimize to tray)
Fixed DSK-291822 (Opera doesn't exit if it started another application)
Fixed DSK-291875 (UI doesn't restore properly when going back from fullscreen mode)
Fixed DSK-293412 (Crash when addressbar dropdown covers flash)
Fixed DSK-294120 (Enable dragging of transparent speeddial thumbnails under compositing environments)
Fixed DSK-295617 (Menu item color cannot be set in the skin)
Fixed DSK-295927 (Right mouse button context menu content is not refreshed after subsequent RMB-clicks)
Fixed DSK-296014 (Clicking on a submenu causes the parent to close)
Fixed DSK-296598 (Search from the context menu doesn't work everytime)
Fixed DSK-296996 (Crash when saving an Opera session)
Fixed DSK-297605 (Fix various problems related to popup menus)

Readers' comments

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

Aditya Patel12. May 2010, 09:51
welcome update...
Trizen12. May 2010, 09:55
Nice fixes.. Testing time..
Spc12. May 2010, 10:01
Is there any progress with DSK-298403 (Opera periodically stops responding for a minute)? It really keeps me from using Opera normally.
NickOnSync12. May 2010, 10:05
When will you fix image smooth rendering on scale bigger than 100% ?

Look at YouTube logo...
stonemind12. May 2010, 10:20
Ubuntu 8.04 i386
- Minimize to taskbar icon is okie
- See picture for history search box

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/4968/screenshotvri.png
Jesus Andersson12. May 2010, 10:24
Mouse rocker gesture has quite a few random effects on OSX, any known bug reports?
disinvis12. May 2010, 10:28
Changelog gladden the eye.
Rolf12. May 2010, 10:30
Thanks for fixing F2
Gosha12. May 2010, 10:30
Everytime when i'm close opera builds 6333,6335 and that 6336. It crashes and sends crash report.
OS: FreeBSD 8.0 i386 + Fluxbox, no plugins.
Dennis12. May 2010, 10:33

Opera still just exit when you press on the top of the closed bin tab. (when Opera is not running in maximized mode)

Win7 X64
nimu_chan12. May 2010, 10:48
Thanks !!
Fixed DSK-292420
Juliata12. May 2010, 10:55
Thank you, thank you for F2!!! It has been bugging me for such a long time! Opera team, you are awesome!
Quppa12. May 2010, 11:07
Thanks

Unfortunately the Acrobat plugin still doesn't work with 'Enable On Demand Plugin' enabled in opera:config. Any chance this might be fixed for 10.54 final? (Whitelisting would also be great, but I understand that's going to take a non-trivial amount of time to implement.)
zoquete12. May 2010, 11:08
OMG another one???? thank you so much!
and dcc??? works now?
Trygve12. May 2010, 11:10
Serious skin regression in this build. Can't read text on any context menus.
http://files.myopera.com/trygveaa/files/opera-context-menu-6336.png
This was an issue on earlier builds but was fixed a while ago. In this build, the problem is back.
OS: Ubuntu 10.04, x86_64. Theme: Dust
Patkos Csaba12. May 2010, 11:25
UNIX fixes ... yeppeeee
Dennis Tardio12. May 2010, 11:28
Problem with images, 50% downloaded, only first 25% showed until downloaded at 100%, for example, not fixed I think. it's really visible on "big" image.
Horizontal scrolling with mouse like the Logitech MX1000 still not working, thats not working with ONLY ONE browser, this browser is opera 10.5x...

Graphic bug with combobox is apparently fixed !

Memory usage is also a problem... too memory is used by Opera 10.5x, the 10.10 version use less memory to do the same things. I think you can improve this.

There is also another thing which is VERY IRRITATING, very BORING, it's this :
http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/4144/operahu.jpg

Double click in the red zone = maximize/window opera
Double click in the blue zone open a new tab.

PLEASE, just did the same thing in CHROME, ONLY ONE zone which only maximize opera, because every time I want to maximize opera, I open a new tab...... it's just HORRIFIC !

Win 7, 32-bits
Quppa12. May 2010, 11:30
In both this build and the last, the address bar drop down list doesn't like to register clicks at times. That is, items do not respond even though the mouse is currently over that element. Unfortunately I haven't come up with reproducible instructions, yet...
Vectronic12. May 2010, 11:32
Originally posted by Tardio:

Double click in the red zone = maximize/window opera
Double click in the blue zone open a new tab.
And it better stay that way.
Daniel James Hendrycks12. May 2010, 11:32
Originally posted by Trygve:

Serious skin regression in this build. Can't read text on any context menus.

http://files.myopera.com/trygveaa/files/opera-context-menu-6336.png

Confirmed Regression
Ubuntu 10.04

Also Opera does not repaint the GUI when a skin is changed, Firefox does.
joshas12. May 2010, 11:41
Take all the time you need to fix all issues, but not too long
One issue on Linux - when there's a smaller window (Arrange->Restore) on top, clicking inside window below it doesn't put underlying window up to front. I think clicking on window below smaller window should put it up to front (like clicking on tab).
Milan Petrovic12. May 2010, 12:15
Can you finally fix many problems with Google Docs:

1. After awhile working on a document, Opera crashes (half hour).
2. After few minutes of working on a document, using arrow keys prints strange characters into the document.
3. Randomly on save document error pops up (Google) that save object is empty and displays some JSON formated empty object.

Also, there are still many problems with FaceBook. I don't use it much, but I know of many people who used Opera and had to swith to other browsers because many Facebook features are broken, only in Opera.

It's great that Opera is most standardized browser, but most websites are not obeying standards, so if you don't want to continue loosing users, fix the problems. I have reported several times bugs in Facebook and none of them is fixed. This include click problems in many applications (Flixter for instance, you can rate anything, and same things happens in other applications using similar model), most Flash games crash (again, only in Opera)...
Andrew Sam12. May 2010, 12:24
Will traditional menubar shortcuts be supported when the menubar is hidden. For instance the closing all but the active tab and all tabs is now strictly mouse driven? any suggestions as to how these will be implemented, coz we are very used to these menu shortcuts.

Kubuntu 10.04 i386
Topi12. May 2010, 12:42
This build boosted peacekeeper a lot. The score has been going down but this was positive surprise.
Flash crash bug is still there. (when loading some page do the mouse gesture "back" over a flash element)
btyop12. May 2010, 12:44
King of Kungfu Facebook Game Layout still broken.

http://i41.tinypic.com/t9xlkp.jpg
polosatus12. May 2010, 12:48
Problems with connection. Several sites do not open in opera at all, such as http://www.garfield-comics.ru/

When you try to open it, Opera gives some "network error". If you then refresh the page, Opera would give "internal networking error".

Xubuntu Lucid, no proxies, other browsers (firefox, chromium, w3m) open this site well.
Илья12. May 2010, 12:51
Opera still just exit when you press on the top of the closed bin tab. (when Opera is not running in maximized mode)

+1
http://mepic.ru/view/?id=6a346f97ac2ea74634e086a0a02c27c4
Oleg12. May 2010, 13:05
Thanks a lot! Great thanks to fixing much of issues of UNIX systems, but, Opera team, please fix IME issues! My patience while using Chromium is finishing (at last time geometrically) !

Your browser is like LSD for me
Andrew Frazier12. May 2010, 13:07
"Fixed a crash that could happen whilst using mail"

Looks like that's DSK-298328 fixed. It's working for me now, anyway, I can use the Unread view again.
dogggggggggg12. May 2010, 13:16
F2 still doesnt view correct... like wrote stonemid - http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/4968/screenshotvri.png
Cavan D. Mejias12. May 2010, 13:31
opera on bsd still depends on Qt4 then. I am getting complaints about mixing incompatible qt libraries.
time to do a portmaster -a i think.
DoubleT12. May 2010, 13:34
I have heavy CPU load (near 100%), while resizing the Opera window. Can anyone confirm this?

Native skin on Win2k.
Kyle Baker12. May 2010, 13:36
Finally! This is what I've been waiting for for weeks! Cheers!
Ruari Ødegaard12. May 2010, 13:38
Originally posted by KerenSkyy:

opera on bsd still depends on Qt4 then. I am getting complaints about mixing incompatible qt libraries.
It doesn't depend on them but it will try to use them if they are there.

Could you clarify the problem you are seeing?
Pitiphong Phongpattranont12. May 2010, 14:01
New build, does this build fix the open new window take (very) long time issue when global_history.dat is large?
sa66666612. May 2010, 14:06
Yes, it looks like the F2 issue is finally fixed. Now there's the other half of bug report DSK-297808; the 'Show Web Search' functionality (tied to Alt-Space) isn't working. Pressing Alt-Space pops up a dialog, and after entering some text and pressing Enter, the dialog doesn't disappear. You have to manually click in the textfield and then press Enter. Older versions (pre-9.2x) worked from just the keyboard, without having to use the mouse.
jeangrey12. May 2010, 14:13
Today DENIC had a problem with their DNS servers and i discovered an absolutly NO GO issue with Opera.

I don't know how Opera tries to resolve domains but aparently it fails with that.

Windows resolves google.de fine (Pinging google.de [74.125.77.104] with 32 bytes of data:)

and Opera gives me "Could not locate remote server" after Looking up host name.

FIX THIS!
Oleg12. May 2010, 14:23
May be not a bug, just funny feature with Google Reader.
When keeping mouse on date of any post, it shows in a popup with date and time posted. That's normal, ok.

When I scroll a page without moving mouse, line-by-line with mouse scroll and cursor is again placed on date, popup window appears in unexpected place
The most often it's placed on left upper corner
OperaDrBruce12. May 2010, 14:33
Click on the second bottle from the right.

http://www.coca-cola.si/

"XML parsing failed"

Win7x64.

Can anyone confirm?
Bill P12. May 2010, 14:34
Google maps labs - after clicking to enable new features, when clicking ok Opera cpu goes to 100% and must me killed

64bit Linux kde4
Kai Ockendorf12. May 2010, 14:39
Originally posted by OperaDrBruce:

Click on the second bottle from the right.

http://www.coca-cola.si/

"XML parsing failed"

Win7x64.

confirmed W7x64
dennisdotse12. May 2010, 14:47
when quitting opera on mac, the program doesn't actually quit until I activate it either by clicking on the opra icon og moving the mouse over the opera window
Dennis Tardio12. May 2010, 14:48
Originally posted by OperaDrBruce:

Click on the second bottle from the right.

http://www.coca-cola.si/
"XML parsing failed"
Win7x64.
Can anyone confirm?

Confirmed on Win7 32bits, and same thing with Opera 10.10.
Oleg12. May 2010, 14:50
Originally posted by OperaDrBruce:

Click on the second bottle from the right.

http://www.coca-cola.si/

"XML parsing failed"

Can anyone confirm?

Confirmed. Ubuntu Linux 10.04 / GNOME 2.30 / Opera Portable
misiek12. May 2010, 14:57
after install i have lost all my saved tab!!
Tell why that happened? I had a lot of very important tabs.
How can I get them back?

I installed back Opera 10.52 but didn't help
Robson12. May 2010, 14:59
Originally posted by Tardio:

Problem with images, 50% downloaded, only first 25% showed until downloaded at 100%, for example, not fixed I think. it's really visible on "big" image.

Horizontal scrolling with mouse like the Logitech MX1000 still not working, thats not working with ONLY ONE browser, this browser is opera 10.5x...

Confirmed. Old issue. [email protected].

XP sP3
Didier Caizergues12. May 2010, 15:02
Got some strange behaviors on some sites with dynamic content (which site doesn't have it nowadays...?), such as: http://www.ratp.fr, the website for Metro and buses in the Paris area; here, you can choose a starting and arrival point, and the site will tell you which train/metro/bus you should take, at what time, and where to switch, etc...

For a while, when I tried to enter an address in the "Arrival" frame, typing shift-4 would switch tabs! I couldn't get a number "4" in that frame. Then, for no apparent reason, I was suddenly able to enter a full address in both frames, but for a moment, I thought my MacBook Pro was haunted...

Aside from that, nothing new to report. Couldn't reproduce this "bug", so I'm beginning to wonder if I haven't dreamed it all...
elyon12. May 2010, 15:04
Yay! Thanks for the mail fix
wRAR12. May 2010, 15:11
Qt4 widgets still do not have native look.
hupfdule12. May 2010, 15:12
The numbers of empty slots in the speeddial window are now black instead of light grey as in previous releases. I think this was no good decision. The empty slots are now too eye-catching. Since they are empty, they shouldn't be that obtrusive