New 10.70 snapshot with more Presto updates

August 9, 2010 · by Haavard

We have another Presto (Core) update for you. This update should improve performance in some cases, and it fixes a few crashes and freezes, some memory issues, and we have also removed the -o- prefix for CSS3 text-overflow. Widgets should be working again as well. There are some more quite important fixes in there, so take a look at the changelog for more details.

Let us know about any regression you may find compared to the previous 10.70 snapshot.

WARNING: This is a development snapshot of Opera. It is released for testing purposes, and there may be serious bugs and unfinished features.

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Changelog

Core (general)

CORE-10146 (WF2 autofocus attribute should be optional)
CORE-19728 (Rename -o-text-overflow to text-overflow, and support ellipsis on multi-line blocks)
CORE-24184 (Persistent Storage implementation for User JavaScript (more information))
CORE-24896 (Update Unicode support to Unicode version 5.2)
CORE-27509 (Reflow crash in opera:config when SVGCacheSize=0)
CORE-28592 (Server-Sent Events are not working)
CORE-28847 (Link: Crash when synchronizing typed history without "last typed")
CORE-29377 (Widgets not loading (config.xml not found))
CORE-29982 (Compressed plugin streams are never cached)
CORE-30118 (Plugin related crash with "submit form to insecure server" warning)
CORE-30193 (Memory problem related to certificates (verisign.com))
CORE-30257 (Memory problem with regular expression literals)
CORE-30310 (Carakan syntax error if the do-while statement was the true branch of an if-statement with an else)
CORE-30352 (Windowed Flash on Youtube not mouse accessible)
CORE-30372 (Broken PKCS #12 certificate import)
CORE-30391 (JIT related memory issue at dn.se)
CORE-30488 (Clean up Application Cache better when closing window)
CORE-30489 (Application cache request sent twice for a single Window, and cancel message sent with wrong id)
CORE-31175 (Ensure correct prototype chain for Dragonfly)
DSK-294403 (Mail: multipart/alternative parts that are not true alternatives are invisible)

Performance

CORE-16099 (Faster traversal of relatively positioned elements)
CORE-29469 (Slowdown on vg.no traversing and changing CSS properties)
CORE-29547 (Selector performance regression)
CORE-29510 (Style properties/presentation attributes (vg.no))

Layout

CORE-28440 (Freeze caused by nested tables, overflow, and align)
CORE-30229 (Crash caused by huge BMP image with CSS height:0)
CORE-27808 (Crash when reflowing pages)
CORE-30661 (Crash trying to find the offsetParent of an element without a layout box)
CORE-29750 (getClientRects returns wrong offsets for tables)
CORE-30667 (TinyMCE insertHR test regressed)
CORE-30672 (Unnecessary horizontal scrollbar caused by tall block with absolutely positioned child)

Readers' comments

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

Sam Van den Vonder9. August 2010, 08:44
The team is spewing out builds at a pace I've never seen before.

You guys are doing amazing work! Thank you to everyone who works at Opera.
marbross9. August 2010, 08:52
Thanks for team good work
darklemcs9. August 2010, 08:52
Today a snapshot, tomorrow the world! mwahahaha
Brano9. August 2010, 08:53
Plllllllzzzz Color management for Opera. I want see really colors.
Sp.Shut9. August 2010, 09:04
Is the video at http://www.opera.com/portal/startup/ supposed to glitch and echo the sound 3 times or is it only me? Installed this snapshot as a new installation.
Arguggi9. August 2010, 09:04
New snapshot every day

Testing
berend ytsma9. August 2010, 09:05
Originally posted by SpShut:

Is the video at http://www.opera.com/portal/startup/ supposed to glitch and echo the sound 3 times or is it only me? Installed this snapshot as a new installation.

No problem both on win7x64 and kubuntu
ouzoWTF9. August 2010, 09:08
Seems like some really old bugs are fixed now. Thanks
Arguggi9. August 2010, 09:09
Dragonfly seems to make Opera crash on every page. Just open Dragonfly and click on any link.

Vista 32
Sp.Shut9. August 2010, 09:12
Just trying to open dragonfly crashes opera
Valgrind9. August 2010, 09:14
Originally posted by SpShut:

Just trying to open dragonfly crashes opera

Originally posted by Arguggi:

Dragonfly seems to make Opera crash on every page. Just open Dragonfly and click on any link.

Confirmed.

/Windows 7 x64
berend ytsma9. August 2010, 09:14
Originally posted by Arguggi:

Dragonfly seems to make Opera crash on every page. Just open Dragonfly and click on any link.

Vista 32

Yup indeed
Avola9. August 2010, 09:15
Changing tabs is going in reverse order
Win7 x64
Sp.Shut9. August 2010, 09:16
video at http://www.opera.com/portal/startup/ glitches on winXP x86
Sp.Shut9. August 2010, 09:17
http://www.opera.com/portal/startup/
- the same bug in 10.60 stable
maurix9. August 2010, 09:18
since 10.70 opera does not show bookmarks favicons:

10.60 (ok):
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/5313/1060.png

10.70 (broken):
http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/723/1070s.png

same issue on "feeds" menu

os: Debian GNU/Linux squeeze x86_64 installed from .deb package
berend ytsma9. August 2010, 09:21
Originally posted by SpShut:

http://www.opera.com/portal/startup/
- the same bug in 10.60 stable

I see no bug, what's the problem
Gosha9. August 2010, 09:23
DSK-304501 not fixed since june.
Description of problem on forum: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=615122
AnuaR Sh9. August 2010, 09:23
Originally posted by Breo:

Plllllllzzzz Color management for Opera. I want see really colors.

Color Schemes
Vijay9. August 2010, 09:23
Mouse gestures tab cycling seems to be working differently now . GestureLeft takes you to LastUsedTab instead of PreviousTab and ofcourse the reverse for GestureRight
Pitiphong Phongpattranont9. August 2010, 09:23
My little serious regression
If I set "When cycling through tabs with Control+Tab" in Preference->Advanced->Tabs
And then I hold right click and scroll with the mouse scroll wheel
It should be cycling with the tabs order not recently used order

Opera Mac Intel build
Sashko Stolyarov9. August 2010, 09:24
DragonFly is broken down for me too(((
fatduude9. August 2010, 09:24
Originally posted by Arguggi:

Dragonfly seems to make Opera crash on every page. Just open Dragonfly and click on any link.

Vista 32

Confirm WinXP SP3

And..

Blank Remember Password pop-up bar where "Never, Not Now or something like that" should be. (WinXP, SP3)
marbross9. August 2010, 09:25
Yes, as above using of Dragonfly causes that Opera crash for each websites

Win7 32bit
Sp.Shut9. August 2010, 09:30
Originally posted by berend ytsma:

I see no bug, what's the problem

The video glitches and the sound echoes three times every second or so
berend ytsma9. August 2010, 09:31
Originally posted by SpShut:

Originally posted by berend ytsma:

I see no bug, what's the problem
The video glitches and the sound echoes three times every second or so
O, no I don't that, works great
Zotlan9. August 2010, 09:32
Originally posted by Arguggi:

Dragonfly seems to make Opera crash on every page. Just open Dragonfly and click on any link.

Vista 32

Also confirmed on Linux (opensuse 11.3 KDE4.4)
Siddhartha9. August 2010, 09:32
Originally posted by marbross:

Yes, as above using of Dragonfly causes that Opera crash for each websites

Win7 32bit

confirm on win7 x64
nimu_chan9. August 2010, 09:35
Oh...Thanks.
Vijay9. August 2010, 09:36
Does anyone notice the oddity with mouse gestures?
Zotlan9. August 2010, 09:37
Very odd, tab cycling seems to have become messed up and now follows, i think, the preference of closing tabs. This only affects the ctrl+tab and ctrl+shift+tab shortcuts, not the single key shortcuts 1 and 2, those still behave properly. Is anyone else seeing this or am i the only one?
Originally posted by lordvj:

Does anyone notice the oddity with mouse gestures?

What oddity?
Vijay9. August 2010, 09:39
Originally posted by Zotlan:

What oddity?

Mouse gestures tab cycling seems to be working differently now . GestureLeft takes you to LastUsedTab instead of the UI tab order
Zotlan9. August 2010, 09:43
Originally posted by lordvj:

Mouse gestures tab cycling seems to be working differently now . GestureLeft takes you to LastUsedTab instead of the UI tab order

ah, seems related to the shortcut problem i mentioned above then. Definitely something wrong there, will write up a bug report.

EDIT: reported as DSK-309592
Luca Viozzi9. August 2010, 09:45
dunno if it's a bug but i try to describe it anyway.
i've opera 10.60 and 10.70 (this snapshots) installed.
On windows seven 64bit before this snapshot i was able to open a new private tab directly from the icon on the taskbar of the 10.70 snapshot, now with this latest one i get an error that says that another user is running opera. Opening it from the menu get no problems at all.

Sry for my english

EDIT: ok was the fantastic windows seven that needed opera to restart after the first installation to know if the program was installed correctly -_-' Sry.
i4u19. August 2010, 09:55
Does anyone notice some html codepage problems lately?
heckenmann9. August 2010, 09:56
Hi,

I think there is a problem with font rendering under Ubuntu / LinuxMint with self-installed Tahoma-font. Below a screenshot made on facebook.de with Opera and Chromium on the same OS.

Opera:
http://img695.imageshack.us/i/fonthb.png/

Chromium:
http://img44.imageshack.us/i/chromed.png/

Thanks :-)
Дмитрий9. August 2010, 10:00
Originally posted by SpShut:

video at http://www.opera.com/portal/startup/ glitches on winXP x86

This is what i have when i scroll a page
http://my.opera.com/farmacevtua/albums/showpic.dml?album=3564912&picture=62101262
Windows 7 32 bit
Vijay9. August 2010, 10:10
Change "Alternative Page Cycle Mode" to 1
Originally posted by Zotlan:

ah, seems related to the shortcut problem i mentioned above then. Definitely something wrong there, will write up a bug report.

EDIT: reported as DSK-309592

Change "Alternative Page Cycle Mode" in opera:config to 1 , default 0

this fixes tab cycling for me
Дмитрий9. August 2010, 10:11
Originally posted by Arguggi:

Dragonfly seems to make Opera crash on every page. Just open Dragonfly and click on any link.

Vista 32

Confirmed!!! Win 7 x86
Tomorrow maybe there will be a new snapshot which will fix this BUG!!
Charlie Clark9. August 2010, 10:15
Yippee!

A couple of notes - looks like this build is back to using the default profile. Could this information be included somewhere.

CORE-30372 (Broken PKCS #12 certificate import)

Not quite - it is now asking for a password at least but failing. My certificate is verifiable with openssl. But I do have one that only Thunderbird can read. I have tested the reexported version of this with Opera, Thunderbird and Keychain. Both Thunderbird and Keychain can work with the reexported certificate.
sabisan9. August 2010, 10:15
Originally posted by lordvj:

Mouse gestures tab cycling seems to be working differently now . GestureLeft takes you to LastUsedTab instead of the UI tab order

Confirmed.

Win7x64

CORE-30372 (Broken PKCS #12 certificate import)

Cheers to Opera team
Vijay9. August 2010, 10:16
Originally posted by sabisan:

Originally posted by lordvj:

Mouse gestures tab cycling seems to be working differently now . GestureLeft takes you to LastUsedTab instead of the UI tab order
Confirmed.
Change "Alternative Page Cycle Mode" in opera:config to 1 , default 0 this fixes tab cycling for me
roman9. August 2010, 10:18
Spent few years in DT, KPMG, Logica, Cap Gemini - never seen anything comparable to Opera team. Opera devs .. my hat off.
xgamer79. August 2010, 10:29
Originally posted by Zotlan:

Dragonfly seems to make Opera crash on every page. Just open Dragonfly and click on any link.

Confirmed on Ubuntu 64bit, Win 7 64bit
HannesBender9. August 2010, 10:32
Bug with Offline-Mode since a few Versions !!!
-----------------------------------------------

Turning on the offline-mode has no effekt anymore.

E.g.: I use Opera very much, and have opened plenty (arround 130+) of webpages/tabs all the time.
Because Opera tries to (re-)load all these pages when I open Opera, I turn on the offline-mode, to stop loading all these Pages.

Since a few Beta-Releases the Offline-mode has no effect anymore. If I turn it on, Opera still loads the pages and still updates pages if I tell Opera to do so, without asking me to turn back to online-mode.
Further Opera turns itself back to online-mode - because the hook for Offline-mode disappears by itself.
BS-Harou9. August 2010, 10:41
What exactly should I imagine under: "CORE-24184 (Persistent Storage implementation for User JavaScript)" ?
F.V.9. August 2010, 10:41
Originally posted by SpShut:

Is the video at http://www.opera.com/portal/startup/ supposed to glitch and echo the sound 3 times or is it only me? Installed this snapshot as a new installation.
Are you on Windows XP? Lots of XP users have this, me as well. I already filed a bug report.
BS-Harou9. August 2010, 10:42
Crash here: http://html5demos.com/offlineapp

Anyone can confirm?
pursanovd9. August 2010, 10:46
Originally posted by BS-Harou:

Crash here: http://html5demos.com/offlineapp

Anyone can confirm?

Confirmed..
I think this is the regression with offline cache that causes the dragonfly to crash opera too (
Werner9. August 2010, 10:50
> CORE-30229 (Crash caused by huge BMP image with CSS height:0)

who give's an image in a document with no hight?