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Opera 10.51 RC1 for Windows

March 13, 2010 · by Haavard

This is the first 10.51 Release Candidate for Windows. The changes since the previous build are mostly stability fixes, and there's some work on improving Carakan memory usage compared to Futhark. We have also fixed a minor issue related to performance.

Let us know if you discover any regressions or other major issues.

Changelog
  • Several Carakan crash fixes
  • Fixed CORE-27660 (Improve Carakan memory usage compared to Futhark)
  • Fixed ALIEN-892 (Fix unite 404 issues due to zip loader not adding all folders)
  • Fixed DSK-287613 (Crash when right-clicking entries under "All messages" and selecting Compose)

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Readers' comments

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

  • set13. March 2010, 23:10

    :up:

  • Khaled Khalil13. March 2010, 23:21

    "Improve Carakan memory usage compared to Futhark"
    :up: that's good to hear that, i hated to read reviews stating that Opera 10.5 is the worst on memory management.

  • Asires13. March 2010, 23:22

    Time for the test :up:

  • AECX13. March 2010, 23:23

    Was browser.js permanantly disabled in the last version and this? I can't seem to enable it.

  • xeon054113. March 2010, 23:23

    all chinese characters are 90 degree rotated in windows xp and windows 7,Please check following link

    www.yahoo.com.hk
    www.mydrivers.com

    i am using default setting,and this serious problem affected many chinese web-pages

  • Daniel James Hendrycks13. March 2010, 23:26

    :up:

  • Stamgastje13. March 2010, 23:32

    I encountered the following bug with Opera 10.50/51 under Windows XP SP3: when I click a link in another program when Opera is not running, the link is not always opened correctly. I observed the following:

    - If Opera was closed the previous time with a web page displayed in a tab, the link that was clicked is correctly opened in a new tab after Opera has started again

    - If Opera was closed the previous time with only a single tab which displays SpeedDial (so not a web page), the link that was clicked is not opened; instead, Opera only displays the SpeedDial tab.

    Can anyone confirm?

  • Daniel James Hendrycks13. March 2010, 23:39

    Very good speed improvement. I got +600 points (on Peackeeper) more than the best result I have ever recorded. But, could you please finish the system integration, there are just a few small things left.

  • jptest13. March 2010, 23:41

    DSK-276834 (Ini file variables no longer working: %s, %t, %c, %u, %l)

    I expected this bug would have been fixed. :frown:

  • Hector Macias Ayala13. March 2010, 23:43

    :yikes: Thank you!!

  • berend ytsma13. March 2010, 23:45

    This one solved my performance degrade, and is again faster than 10.50

  • Daniel James Hendrycks13. March 2010, 23:45

    @Staff

    Do you want us to say regressions from Opera 10.1 in this post?

  • d4rkn1ght13. March 2010, 23:52

    :up:

  • Matheus13. March 2010, 23:54

    Opera won another round on the Browsers Fight:



    :yes:

  • Daniel James Hendrycks13. March 2010, 23:55

    The resize cursor stays like the resize cursor icon after hovering over a resizable place then hovering over some other place. This is a Vega bug. I noticed this since 10.5 pre-alpha but it is not yet fixed. Example: Help>Check for updates>hover over glass outline>move the cursor elsewhere>see it?

  • Dennis Tardio14. March 2010, 00:01

    Horizontal scrolling still not working with my Logitech MX1000.

    Bookmarks load time is slower than Opera 10.10.

    Good job.

  • WOFall14. March 2010, 00:01

    Ah, so now we'll finally see a 10.5× release hit the auto-update servers :wink:

  • Lucero Jr.14. March 2010, 00:03

    Will try it on my laptop.

    Thanks for the hard work!

  • LexDN14. March 2010, 00:03

    Incorrect work site Google Translate - http://translate.google.ru / http://translate.google.com, pop-up element of Google Translate (when you hover on the word / sentence) is superimposed on the page, making it difficult to view.
    Attached screenshot.

    http://files.myopera.com/LexDN/files/GoogleTranslate.jpg

  • TinoSLE14. March 2010, 00:05

    downloading :yes:

  • OperaDrBruce14. March 2010, 00:06

    Woah, this is incredible!!! I tested Peacekeeper:

    10.50: 5673 Points
    10.51 snapshot: 6403 Points
    10.51 RC1: 7761 Points :yikes: :yikes:

    Keep up the good work!

  • AECX14. March 2010, 00:10

    Originally posted by DanielHendrycks:

    The resize cursor stays like the resize cursor icon after hovering over a resizable place then hovering over some other place. This is a Vega bug. I noticed this since 10.5 pre-alpha but it is not yet fixed. Example: Help>Check for updates>hover over glass outline>move the cursor elsewhere>see it?



    Confirmed XP SP3

  • Daniel James Hendrycks14. March 2010, 00:18

    Originally posted by AECX:

    Confirmed XP SP3


    Filed as bug: DSK-287929

  • aznkid2514. March 2010, 00:21

    What is the difference betweeen the Windows MSI & Windows Classic?

  • Daniel James Hendrycks14. March 2010, 00:23

    Originally posted by aznkid25:

    What is the difference betweeen the Windows MSI & Windows Classic?


    Both are different installers. For me, Windows Classic is a faster installer and it is a lighter download too. But, Windows MSI is prettier.

  • naatha14. March 2010, 00:25

    WoW
    Opera(v10.50.3298) - 2908 Points
    Opera(v10.51.3311) - 3442 Points
    http://service.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/results.action?key=38e4
    LoL

  • Publisher14. March 2010, 00:27

    Switchtab

    Imagehack.com don't looks nice.

  • operapryanik14. March 2010, 00:30

    Hm.... :smile:...

    10 51 - beta - 7233 Points
    10 51 - RC 1 - 8871 Points

    http://clients.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/results.action?key=3070

  • Ben Ryves14. March 2010, 00:31

    Good work, but find in page is still unusable in the source code view. :frown:

  • Lucero Jr.14. March 2010, 00:32

    Originally posted by Stamgastje:


    I encountered the following bug with Opera 10.50/51 under Windows XP SP3: when I click a link in another program when Opera is not running, the link is not always opened correctly. I observed the following:
    I never observed it with such details, but, yes, as far as I have noticed it, if I open a link on an external program while Opera is closed, Opera will simply open with speed dial (as I set it to open), not the link.
    BTW, I saw this on Mac, never tested on Windows.

    On other versions, Opera would open speed dial on the first tab and the link on a second tab (a behaviour I always thought to be quite weird as well).

  • OperaDrBruce14. March 2010, 00:35

    Originally posted by operapryanik:

    Hm.... :smile:...



    10 51 - beta - 7233 Points

    10 51 - RC 1 - 8871 Points



    http://clients.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/results.action?key=3070



    Can you tell your PC specs? Thanks.

  • Lucero Jr.14. March 2010, 00:36

    Talking about performance, I got a slight increase on the overall peacekeeper results with this RC here on my laptop.

    Some specific items have decayed a little, though.

  • Daniel James Hendrycks14. March 2010, 00:38

    Originally posted by operapryanik:

    10 51 - RC 1 - 8871 Points


    Wow, you might beat the highest score.

  • sebt14. March 2010, 00:39

    Any news on the problems behind a proxy?

    Seb :smile:

  • Constantine14. March 2010, 00:40

    do you have a rest in any weekend? )

  • Lucero Jr.14. March 2010, 00:42

    For what it's worth, my single-cored acer rather sh-tty laptop has gotten a solid 2801 score and I'm utterly proud of him. :love:

  • Avola14. March 2010, 00:44

    Good stuff, the peacekeeper results on this one are excellent. I don't have any new bugs to report, but I wish you would fix the small artifacts on zoomed pages bug that's been around since early pre-alphas.

  • Sulphide14. March 2010, 00:44

    wow! peacekeeper 6923 marks on my phenom II 925, slightly overclocked :D great work!
    previous build gave me only 5700 marks...

  • Bill_Josephs14. March 2010, 00:44

    The red close "x" is still not there when "show close buttons on each tab" is unchecked, and the %u parameter from the standard_menu.ini is still not working for passing links to flashget. I don't mean to sound unappreciative...your efforts are awesome... it's just that we want perfection, IMMEDIATELY:D :D :D

  • Sulphide14. March 2010, 00:46

    can somebody raplace those "chrome 10031 Points" in peacekeeper with our beloved opera?))

  • naatha14. March 2010, 00:51

    Firefox 3.6 - 1998 Points
    Chrome(v5.0.335.1) - 2506 Points
    Chrome(v4.0.302.2) - 2523 Points

    Opera(v10.50.3298) - 2908 Points
    Opera(v10.51.3311) - 3442 Points
    E2140 @1.60Ghz 0.99Gb

  • Daniel James Hendrycks14. March 2010, 00:53

    Originally posted by Sulphide:

    can somebody raplace those "chrome 10031 Points" in peacekeeper with our beloved opera?))


    +1

  • sebt14. March 2010, 00:56

    This page is still sending Opera's memory usage nuts...

    http://www.business.brookes.ac.uk/postgraduate/Scholarships.asp?err404=postgraduate/scholarships.html

    Please check into this, I've noticed similar behaviour on a few other sites as well.

    Original post from 10.5 RC5 build here.

    Also have noticed a few times on multiline text input controls (like this one), Opera gets confused about some text which shunts off the bottom, and I can't scroll to it. The only fix is to scroll up, cut-paste some text, and scroll down again. Can't find exact circumstances to reproduce this, but have had it quite a few times here.

    Seb :smile:

  • dupel14. March 2010, 00:57

    Originally posted by Avola:

    but I wish you would fix the small artifacts on zoomed pages bug that's been around since early pre-alphas.



    Yeah, that annoys the hell out of me =)

  • Krio Lyth14. March 2010, 01:05

    Another brilliant release :smile: A huge speed-up (40%) compared to 10.50 in Peacekeeper drives me crazy :D

  • karlosrocks14. March 2010, 01:10

    It'll be great if Opera could complete this test without a failure.

    http://sputnik.googlelabs.com/run

    I had failed 84

  • Daniel James Hendrycks14. March 2010, 01:11

    Originally posted by sebt:

    http://www.business.brookes.ac.uk/postgraduate/Scholarships.asp?err404=postgraduate/scholarships.html


    Confirmed. :yikes:

  • Daniel James Hendrycks14. March 2010, 01:12

    Originally posted by karlosrocks:

    I had failed 84


    I have 78 errors, it still beats other browsers by quite a margin. :up:

  • karlosrocks14. March 2010, 01:13

    Originally posted by sebt:

    This page is still sending Opera's memory usage nuts...

    http://www.business.brookes.ac.uk/postgraduate/Scholarships.asp?err404=postgraduate/scholarships.html



    Confirmed

  • aznkid2514. March 2010, 01:19

    Can someone tell me how good this is?
    http://clients.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/results.action?key=38el
    Google Chrome 5.0.342.3: 2467
    Opera 10.51: 2465
    Safari 4.0.5: 1807
    Firefox 3.6: 1645
    Minefield 3.7a3pre: 1634
    Internet Explorer 8.0: 404

    Specs:
    CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core
    GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 7000M

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Published inDesktop Team blog
DateMarch 13, 2010
AuthorHaavard
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