Opera 10.50 for Windows is released

March 2, 2010 · by Ruari Ødegaard

Windows 10.50 is released and we are still the fastest browser available! If you haven't downloaded it yet, what is taking you so long? Head over to www.opera.com/download, to get your hands on it now.

We have gone from Pre-Alpha to Final in just over two months (with a Christmas holiday in between I might add). Never has the development of the desktop browser been so fast. Our developers are rivalling Carakan for speed! But the thanks doesn't just go to them, we simply couldn't have done it without your testing and feedback. So give yourselves a big pat on the back for all that we have achieved together.

In the last couple of blog posts, several of you commented that our developers deserve some time off and whilst that is true, I know the Mac and UNIX teams are still hungry to get their own versions of 10.50 out. So there will be no slacking off, just yet. Development continues apace!

Whilst you Mac and UNIX users await your respective finals, we thought we'd give you another snapshot. Like the Windows final, these builds have the latest rendering improvements but are understandably still rougher around the edges, as they have not yet been fully optimised and integrated into their environments (though Mac is getting close).

Highlights

The latest Presto and Carakan improvements

Known Issues

Mac
- No support for PowerPC (PPC)
- Minimal Java Support
- Possible performance issues on low end machines
UNIX
- Font problems
- Language input issues
- Compiz issues
- No .deb or .rpm packages
- Some Command line option don't work

WARNING: Opera 10.50 for Mac and Unix 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.

Downloads

Readers' comments

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

bachokocho2. March 2010, 11:10
no waaaaaay ))
Abhishek Thakur2. March 2010, 11:11
bhsand2. March 2010, 11:11
Congratulations!!
Cavan D. Mejias2. March 2010, 11:12
Oh boy!!! More UNIX.!!! Please.
Topi2. March 2010, 11:13
Woohoo!
Cavan D. Mejias2. March 2010, 11:13
Can we get a peek at the kde integration please?
Ahmed Alshmari2. March 2010, 11:14

thanks
Abhinav2. March 2010, 11:16
thank you very much
bhsand2. March 2010, 11:16
Originally posted by DarkRadeon:

-youtube html 5.0 mode dowsnt work;

For the millionth time, this is caused by YouTube, not Opera. It doesn't work in Firefox either, and the reason is YouTube's choice of codec, not a bug.
Stefan2. March 2010, 11:17
since the latest rc some pages (fe www.devexpress.com) are not working correctly anymore.

Home, Products, ... is not clickable.
Ruari Ødegaard2. March 2010, 11:18
Originally posted by KerenSkyy:

Can we get a peek at the kde integration please?
I have been testing it, it still needs a bit more work.
RevathyKumar2. March 2010, 11:18
Great...
just downloading..
Will see the improvements..
hobe2. March 2010, 11:18
Originally posted by DarkRadeon:

opera 10.50 rtm for windows:

-Acid3 test perfomance fails;

What do you mean by that:

<acid3.acidtests.org>

Failed 0 tests.
Test 26 passed, but took 114ms (less than 30fps)
Test 69 passed, but took 32 attempts (less than perfect).
Test 71 passed, but took 48ms (less than 30fps)
Total elapsed time: 1.56s
Georg Meyer2. March 2010, 11:19
Will this be available through autoupdate?

Nothing so far.
lokezdc2. March 2010, 11:20
Congratulation to 10.50

however Mouse "GestureRight = Forward | Fast forward " doesn't work since 10.10
Serpher2. March 2010, 11:22
YUPI!!!!
Otto2. March 2010, 11:22
Wow! Fantastic! Well done guys! I am very impressed by the speed and sheer determination of The Opera Dev Team finalising this version! I really enjoyed getting the frequent test builds, but think you guys deserve a holiday now!
Jurgis20072. March 2010, 11:22
Thanks for fast release But I have one problem, it is not big

right-left scroll won't work.
I am using logitech mouse with set-point software, and in opera 10.10 everything was working fine
Jakub Marton2. March 2010, 11:23
It's nice to see that you have been sleeping Choose opera blog posted this at 8.00am, you just now, so i hope you slept
Ruari Ødegaard2. March 2010, 11:23
Originally posted by DarkRadeon:

youtube html 5.0 mode dowsnt work;

As bhsand said this is down to Google/Youtube's codec choices. There is a way around that on UNIX though.
Teal_One2. March 2010, 11:24
Is the Final == RC5 (Build 3296)???
bhsand2. March 2010, 11:24
Yes.
Immanis2. March 2010, 11:25
Originally posted by DarkRadeon:

i mean this: http://webkit.org/blog/280/full-pass-of-acid-3/
opera 10.50 still dosn't pass performance test

Don't forget to read the small letters:
To try it for yourself, grab a nightly. Keep in mind that on slower machines, the timing may not be perfect, and you need to do a cached run of the test (load it once, close window, open new window, load it again) to avoid delays from the network.
eini2. March 2010, 11:28
Congrats!
Very good work!!!!

Seems like there are a lots of downloads at the moment, or is there another reason why the webservers are so slow?
Ruari Ødegaard2. March 2010, 11:30
Originally posted by anticitizen101:

I sent a bug report some time around when beta 2 was released.

Fair enough, then it will have been looked at an prioritised by now.
Ben Ryves2. March 2010, 11:30
Congratulations on shipping! Sadly "Find in page" is still virtually unusable in the "Source" view (the highlighted results are very pale grey on white, not very visible), hopefully this will be fixed soon (DSK-282798).
damir lukic2. March 2010, 11:31
It would be really nice if someone could solve a bug in Opera's e-mail client that won't let me open or save attachments. Especially in a release version.
Nfes642. March 2010, 11:32
Congratulations to the team on their excellent work!
oysteint2. March 2010, 11:32
Woho! Thank you Opera!

Found bugs:
- Dromaeo-test failes (stops running) when it comes to the regular expressions.
- Speed dial entered a state where Opera could not show the right-click pop-up menu, and no thumbnails were shown. Had to go into opera:config, and edit the speed dial state to another number than '0' which was the current state.
- I choose to upgrade my Opera 10.10. Everything went wrong. Looked like a mixture between those two versions. Had to Uninstall, delete AppData-folders, reboot, reinstall 10.50 before it worked (not sure all those points were necessary).

I'm running Windows 7, 32 bit.
Proxxis2. March 2010, 11:32
Thank You!
I'm excited about Opera 10.50 since first pre-alpha build
Whisky2. March 2010, 11:34
Asires2. March 2010, 11:36
Olli2. March 2010, 11:37
The mac build so far seems better than the last really performance-eating one. Still in some flash-apps special characters like ?öäü and so on don't work: see kyte.tv.

Edit: Maybe that's cause of my flash, I use 10.1 Beta 3. Dunno if anyone else has these probs.
EricJH2. March 2010, 11:37
Congrats with the release of 10.5 for Windows. You guys must be wasted from the development speed.

Time now for the people on the other platforms now to catch up.
illiad2. March 2010, 11:42
Originally posted by bhsand:

For the millionth time, this is caused by YouTube, not Opera. It doesn't work in Firefox either, and the reason is YouTube's choice of codec, not a bug.
And please campaign to DUMP you tube !! :angry:

Dailymotion has plenty HTML5 that WORKS on both opera and FF..
campaign to make it the no 1 vid site...
Otto2. March 2010, 11:42
'Find in page' is not working properly;

When positioned at the top of this page and searching for a word e.g. 'bookmarks', nothings seems to be found. If you hit F3 to goto next word it jumps down to the first incident.
Liu Yun2. March 2010, 11:50
nice but feels its a bit too rush.
samMD2. March 2010, 11:52
Charlie Clark2. March 2010, 11:53
@DarkRadeon - All the tests pass. Can you please go and troll somewhere else.

@Opera devs - the first run screen http://www.opera.com/portal/startup/ is seriously borked on installs of 10.5 in Windows XP and Mac OS (clean install)
Zotlan2. March 2010, 11:54
alas, google analytics is still not completely functional in this build.
MetalRaise2. March 2010, 11:55
Guys, there's a displaying issue with all non-english Opera startup pages, see screenshot:

That certainly isn't a good first impression when using Opera, better fix it faaast!
Mitom2. March 2010, 11:57
Unfortunatelly the latest version (at least under Windows XP), is still not working properly with proxy "on". By "not working properly" I understand significantly longer time for loading pages. It looks like after entering address nothing happens for a long time (half a minute, minute or two), and after that it loads almost immediatelly.
Some people has reported similar problems during releasing RC versions. Please confirm!
Carlos López2. March 2010, 11:59
Is the Final == RC5 (Build 3296)???
masterofopera2. March 2010, 11:59
so soon
F.V.2. March 2010, 12:00
OK, so inline find is broken after upgrading, as I reported a couple of versions ago and hoped would be fixed before rushing to final.

Can anybody tell how to repair this? Inline find is of vital importance to me so the alternative is to downgrade.
박춘우2. March 2010, 12:03
World Best Browser Opera! Goodjob and Thank you^^
Mark Gillespie2. March 2010, 12:03
Originally posted by Immanis:

Originally posted by DarkRadeon:

i mean this: http://webkit.org/blog/280/full-pass-of-acid-3/

opera 10.50 still dosn't pass performance test

Don't forget to read the small letters:

To try it for yourself, grab a nightly. Keep in mind that on slower machines, the timing may not be perfect, and you need to do a cached run of the test (load it once, close window, open new window, load it again) to avoid delays from the network.

ACID3 on Safari does not pass either. It also fails the same tests, and actually takes longer (3.5 seconds, compared to 1.5seconds for Opera 10.50).

However It's impossible to remove the fact from the ACID3 Wikipedia entry because it's owned by Apple Fanbois it seems who can't accept the fact that Safai is not (and never was) out on top.. They cling to some pathic wording in a blog entry as a Wikipedia Cite.
illiad2. March 2010, 12:04
Carlos López: yes - much more on the community forum!!
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/group.dml?id=45961

there is sections for mac and linux, but most dont bother, go to the first one...
illiad2. March 2010, 12:06
Originally posted by F-V:

Can anybody tell how to repair this? Inline find is of vital importance to me so the alternative is to downgrade.
you can drag 'find in page' to a toolbar... ???
Shaffe2. March 2010, 12:06
If I choose to hide the bar menu and if I validate the preferences form, the bar menu reappears and the button menu stays visible.
Still no flash plugin.
Great job otherwise !