New Snapshot

March 5, 2010 · by perarnevollan

We're closing in on the 10.5 Final for Mac, and we've been working hard on getting it ready. Of course we have been working hard on all the platforms but Mac has made some big strides this week.

Mac Highlights

Fix for extensive CPU usage and slow down
Drop downs display again
Lots of Flash and other plugin fixes
Java is back!
Mac Universal Binary is back! (including Video on PPC)

Enjoy, and please report issues you find with the build

Known Issues

Carakan less stable on PowerPC
Mac
- Possible Java issues for PowerPC (PPC)
- Signed Java Applets may cause UI misbehaviour
UNIX
- Font problems
- Language input issues
- No .deb or .rpm packages
- No KDE integration
- Problem with address field drop down position under non compositing Window Managers
- Black drop down menus for some KDE3 users
- Black border around Ctrl+Tab dialog when running under a compositing Window Manager
- Some command line options don't work

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

Core

Updated Carakan: Multiple crash fixes
Bookmarks crash fix
Fixed a memory leak related to plugins
Fixed Bug CORE-27582 "lang header attribute not always considered when selecting a font"
Fixed Bug CORE-28233 "DD-WRT Router's admin unuseable with Opera 10.5 Beta2"

Mac

Fixed Bug CORE-28174 "Get PPC libs working for gstreamer"
Fixed Bug DSK-276004 "Support for printing forms"
Fixed Bug DSK-282644 "Double keypress on unkle.com"
Fixed Bug DSK-268468 "Silverlight doesn't display (again)"
Fixed Bug DSK-275779 "QuickTime control not working"
Fixed Bug DSK-282264 "Dropdown menu randomly will not open"
Fixed Bug DSK-285427 "Text clipping in <select> drop-down"
Fixed Bug DSK-284260 "Opera starts using 100% CPU"
Fixed Bug DSK-283776 "Incorrect mouse cursors in Flash"
Fixed Bug DSK-283891 "Position of Java applets"
Fixed Bug DSK-276069 "Get print paper size right"
Fixed Bug DSK-270474 "Fix mouse events for quicktime"

Unix

Fixed Bug DSK-277528 "Drop down overlaid when using a compositing Window Manager"
Fixed Bug DSK-285237 "Dragging buttons to toolbar doesn't correctly show drop cursor"
Fixed Bug DSK-270347 "Hide Opera in Exit dialog doesn't work"
Fixed Bug DSK-273132 "Wrong or missing taskbar icon"

Readers' comments

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

hcym5. March 2010, 15:41
New Snapshot
NR5. March 2010, 15:41
segundo
flatter5. March 2010, 15:42
cool
Benjamin5. March 2010, 15:42
Blackmerlin5. March 2010, 15:45
Fixed Bug DSK-284260 "Opera starts using 100% CPU"

Perfekt
OperaDrBruce5. March 2010, 15:45
Wait, new snapshot for Windows too?
Joel5. March 2010, 15:47
Is it just the core fixes that are new in the Windows snapshot?
Ruari Ødegaard5. March 2010, 15:47
Originally posted by OperaDrBruce:

Wait, new snapshot for Windows too?
There are core and carakan fixes that would interest Windows users.
Ruari Ødegaard5. March 2010, 15:47
Originally posted by spadija:

Is it just the core fixes that are new in the Windows snapshot?
yes
Onegin Evgeniu5. March 2010, 15:48
Adrian5. March 2010, 15:48
Mac Universal Binary is back!
oke5. March 2010, 15:50
Why didn't they at least mention the Windows changes in the change log?

They always mentioned MAC and Linux changes in the log when they were still prioritizing the Windows 10.5 release
QuHno5. March 2010, 15:50
Thanks, downloading
porneL5. March 2010, 15:51
Link to intel-only Mac build is broken (or you're so awesome that you've compressed Opera down to 2KB).
petos5155. March 2010, 15:51
The Mac (Intel-Only) is a 2.2kb download… something is wrong there….
PraetorianX5. March 2010, 15:53
I'll take it! Nice to see a new build!
Joonas Lehtolahti5. March 2010, 15:54
Originally posted by oke:

Why didn't they at least mention the Windows changes in the change log?

There were no Windows-specific changes? The only changes on Windows version were the changes listed under Core, and as far as I see those applied to all versions (Windows, Mac, Unix), so there were no Windows-specific changes, so no use for Windows-specific part in changelog either.
OperaDrBruce5. March 2010, 15:55
Originally posted by ruario:

There are core and carakan fixes that would interest Windows users.

Thanx for the info!
Ar1Pe5. March 2010, 15:57
Thank you
dapxin5. March 2010, 15:58
wtf! Opera on steroids.....new snapshot? Do you devs sleep?
Onecar5. March 2010, 16:01
I made a quick (very quick) test about TinyMCE crashing Opera and it looks like that Carakan fix helped. No more crashes so far, hope it stays this way :-).
Ruari Ødegaard5. March 2010, 16:01
Originally posted by porneL:

Link to intel-only Mac build is broken (or you're so awesome that you've compressed Opera down to 2KB).

Originally posted by petos515:

The Mac (Intel-Only) is a 2.2kb download… something is wrong there….
Fixed. Sorry
ALLIGATOR5. March 2010, 16:04
I'm glad to see your new snapshot! Yaaaahoooooo! Thank you!
Daniel Aleksandersen5. March 2010, 16:04
Originally posted by dapxin:

Do you devs sleep?

Not much.
dupel5. March 2010, 16:07
Not a really windows version (meaning no skin fixes, etc) but I guess most of windows dev team is on very much deserved holiday =)

Good to hear about Mac (though I dont use it) and thanks for core updates, especially Carakan =)
Kiuze5. March 2010, 16:10
Still about 2 times slower rendering (all) pages on my 3.06 Ghz C2D iMac running 10.6.2 than Firefox 3.6. Both with clean profile.
dupel5. March 2010, 16:10
Btw, if it fixes issues with facebook, it might be a good idea to update the final build everyone is downloading =)
petos5155. March 2010, 16:11
Originally posted by ruario:

The Mac (Intel-Only) is a 2.2kb download… something is wrong there….
Fixed. Sorry

Thank you!
ArcticAce5. March 2010, 16:12
Thanx!
elyon5. March 2010, 16:14
Can we have a fix for the widget platform?

I have some web apps which I've encapsulated in iframes to turn them into widgets. However, their external links don't work.

In fact, this is the same situation as the Twitter widget from Opera widgets. If you click a link in someone's update, it won't work.

If there's another solution I can apply, let me know
solvpilen5. March 2010, 16:15
The context menu is working fine now in almost every sites:) But I have a problem on TinyMce, I have tried support forum but the admin says it an Opera issue?

http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/punbb/viewtopic.php?pid=70982#p70982
hylik5. March 2010, 16:19
yay snapshot day!
Angeli-Ka5. March 2010, 16:25
Since updgrading to 10.5 images on speed dial thumbnails are not fully loaded, for some sites a blank white page is shown
[img]http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/4092/speedial.png
oceanic5. March 2010, 16:25
thank you!
Buchtic5. March 2010, 16:26
Fix for extensive CPU usage and slow down on MAC is no, but please too for Windows. e.g. scrolling
amapy.cz still not working
belthur5. March 2010, 16:32
woohoo...
Dennis Tardio5. March 2010, 16:32
Bookmarks still very slow to be loaded at startup or it's fixed ?

On Opera 10.50 final (and win7 32bits):
I've 2900+ bookmarks, and I've to wait 6-10 seconds before Opera loaded them. Ok I can use Opera during this 6-10 seconds, but I can't use my bookmarks so finally I can't really use Opera...

So I can't use Opera because with this problem, Opera 10.50 is the slower browser (start up time).
No problem with 10.10.

And what about the systray icon ?
Jernej Simončič5. March 2010, 16:46
Windows Native skin is still ugly, and alert() boxes still have unreadable text.
Gabriel5. March 2010, 16:50
I have one FOR ME, BIG problem... (and i heard since the beginning of the pre-alpha releases and they're still there... )

BUG: I like to have a single place to close tabs. When I unclick "show close button on each tab" I don't get a close "X" in the standard place (upper right)...I get no close "x" at all and have to center click on a tab to close it.

clean install 10.50 final, original bug report, and later upgrade to this build, and the same bug is still there
Version 10.50 Build 3298
Platform
Win32 System Windows XP
Dustin Wilson5. March 2010, 16:58
Status Tooltips on links still seemingly disappear when the status bar is disabled. Same behavior on Mac OS X 10.5 PowerPC and Mac OS X 10.6 Intel. I haven't been able to pinpoint what's causing it. Dumping preferences makes them come back for a bit, but eventually they stop showing up.
Dustin Wilson5. March 2010, 16:59
Originally posted by Buchtic:

and HTML5 on youtube still not working !!!

This has been said many times on here. It's not going to work. Youtube uses H.264, and only Chrome and Safari support those. It won't work on Firefox either.
EricJH5. March 2010, 17:01
Thanks again for the new build.

Please get some rest. You have worked hard enough to deserve a vacation as far as I am concerned.
Martin5. March 2010, 17:02
Carakan problem on ord.se. I can not mark text an click links I have to scroll down before. This Problem I have since 10.5 the first. I have also reported it to ord.se but it seems to be a opera problem and not a script-error.

thank you for the new Snapshot
Morphdreamer5. March 2010, 17:03
So.. Windows build is snapshot for 10.51 or what?
Logan5. March 2010, 17:06
Middle mouse click and scroll not functioning.. Anyone confirm this on Windows 7 32?
Never mind. But it really wasn't working a minute ago.
John Barnett5. March 2010, 17:14
Still unable to get this web page with Java to work! could it be the web page it's self??

Reported as bug DSK-284251

URL of page. http://www.ips.gov.au/HF_Systems/7/1/1
MyOpera team, please fix this!5. March 2010, 17:17
Originally posted by solvpilen:

The context menu is working fine now in almost every sites:) But I have a problem on TinyMce, I have tried support forum but the admin says it an Opera issue?

http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/punbb/viewtopic.php?pid=70982#p70982
I shut that kid up... or down... depending on how you look at it.
FreeBrain5. March 2010, 17:19
I am not able to play NASA videos from www.nasa.gov on Opera, or Chrome or FF.... works only in IE8 ...

I have the WMP firefox plugin and plugin path... (I am using VISTA 64bit)

Does anybody knows what is happening? I have VLC too...
Have not been able to fix this...
Kai Ockendorf5. March 2010, 17:25
...I can´t believe it, a new snapshot Thx!!!
AK-47pro5. March 2010, 17:27
Geez! Please fix DSK-277964 - Text and elements inside plugins can be transparent instead of black, making it hard to read. <cry> <cry>
Please, please, please... :C