Opera 10.70 snapshot with more desktop fixes

August 4, 2010 · by Haavard

Yesterday's "10.70" (not necessarily the final version number) snapshot contained a new batch of Presto fixes and even web standards improvements. Today we're focusing more on the desktop side again.

But before I continue, I just have a quick note regarding the addition of object-fit and object-position from the CSS3 Paged Media Module properties in the previous 10.70 snapshot: These are currently only supported with the -o- prefix, but we recommend that you also add them without the prefix as well if you choose to use them on a page. It should also be noted that the specification may not yet have been updated to reflect that image-fit and image-postion have been renamed.

Returning to this snapshot, there are quite a few crash fixes, and we have improved the Add Bookmark dialog when you try to add a site that's already in your bookmarks by letting you change the folder, and adding a message letting you know what's going on.

For more information about the fixes in this snapshot, please take a look at the changelog.

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

Desktop/cross-platform

DSK-236194 (yahoo.cn mailproviders SMTP entry does not use submission port)
DSK-265492 (Sender name in mail view area is taken from contact list rather than the From header)
DSK-271885 (Tracking of which of the default Speed Dials are removed)
DSK-286882 (Show Properties dialog and informational message when trying to bookmark page that is already bookmarked)
DSK-290437 (No error message on widget installation customization dialog if widget name is too long)
DSK-292617 (HTML5 Video stops playing after right clicking and saving file to local disk)
DSK-294443 (In Mail Tab, when i cliking on any folder - incoming or sent - Opera crashes)
DSK-298929 (Zoom menu appears too high on the screen when enabling the menu bar)
DSK-300559 (Opera freezes when you try to change the URL while viewing a PDF having start bar enabled)
DSK-301560 (opera:help not in auto-complete list)
DSK-302065 (The "Searches" string in Opera Link is confusing)
DSK-303021 (Crash on page with certificate)
DSK-303102 (No bookmarks shown in bookmarks manager after restart)
DSK-303210 (Cannot clear previous search from drop-down menu)
DSK-303369 (Vertical scrollbar in advanced preferences due to new local storage section)
DSK-304060 (Crash when adding a contact to the personal bar)
DSK-304177 (No tooltips when hovering Speed Dials)
DSK-304377 (Crash when downloading files from Links panel)
DSK-304435 (wrong ID for Teszvesz search in Hungarian search.ini)
DSK-304463 (Search URL for Taobao is wrong)
DSK-304540 (Yandex search suggestions don't work)
DSK-307168 (Tooltip string when the turbo button is disabled)
DSK-308559 (hotmail.co.uk should be added to mailproviders.xml)
DSK-308722 (FastMail domains missing from mailproviders.xml)

Windows

DSK-302708 (Downloading Voice with MemGuard causes Opera to crash)
DSK-306318 (Voice download dialog goes behind the preference dialog)
DSK-306319 (Opera initiates multiple voice plug-in downloads)

Mac

DSK-273098 (Dropping .webloc or links on crash dialog crashes Opera)
DSK-287896 (Crash/freeze when closing tab with "Save" dialog open)
DSK-293917 (Modal dialog hides below browser if opera is clicked)
DSK-304367 (Crash on start-up when starting with URL from Terminal)
DSK-305708 (Crashes when playing audio files)
DSK-301071 (Ever-growing memory consumption when hovering over thumbnails)

Readers' comments

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

Tamil4. August 2010, 12:35
Another snapshot within a day.
t.ashula4. August 2010, 12:38
Aleksander Aas4. August 2010, 12:44
Back on track it seems!
Pedro Ferreira4. August 2010, 12:50
porneL4. August 2010, 12:50
Thanks for fixing 265492! However, the same problem remains with To: field (which for me is much more important, because I want to know who's got my real name, and who has just harvested my e-mail address).
Nico4. August 2010, 12:53
That's a long changelog, considering that the last snapshot has been released less than 24 hours ago.

Impressive!
MGillespie4. August 2010, 12:57
Another nice long list of fixes. 10.61 is very good, it's great to see loads of stuff being lined up in 10.70
pursanovd4. August 2010, 13:00
Bookmarks improvement is good! Can you do a better bookmark manager? In this one there is no even option to sort ALL bookmarks by date created. The easiest way is to add column date and ability to sort by it(like Name, Nickname and Address that already are).
You, team, rock!
Artur „Jurgi” Jurgawka4. August 2010, 13:17
I would like to see Opera developers at work.
Do they sleep at all?
Kawa4. August 2010, 13:18
Originally posted by Jurgi:

I would like to see Opera developers at work.
Do they sleep at all?

They obviously don't. And if you would watch them work, neither would you.
aFamous4. August 2010, 13:21
dockersfan4. August 2010, 13:33
Faaaaaabulous
nimu_chan4. August 2010, 13:34
Oh..Thanks.
ouzoWTF4. August 2010, 13:37

DSK-286882 (Show Properties dialog and informational message when trying to bookmark page that is already bookmarked)

I think I see a very big smile on the face of one of the hardcore testers here in this blog
Phạm Phú Thọ4. August 2010, 13:40
I'm pleased with this snapshot. Thanks for your working .But, I have an idea that why don't we have a small place for a feedback button in snapshot. This is more convenient for the users when they have the problems,and we can have more information about errors than now.
IKoke4. August 2010, 13:44
peterp-sun4. August 2010, 13:52
unbelievable. guess there is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_sun in Opera's development centre

unbelievable jump in performance there: http://www.q3.cz/images/94Screen_shot_2010_08_04.png

and no, I do not want to complain, report or anything. just wish to thank developers for all the fixes and work done. hope a few of my personal ones make it there soon
z@h3k4. August 2010, 13:53
Rustam4. August 2010, 14:00
по кайфу)
Luchio4. August 2010, 14:00
So I can't bookmark anything twice? Seems like a regression... Use case: I want to have Google in my bookmarks root, but also in my "Bookmark->Searches" folder.

It's a "good" idea, but I believe that some people will be annoyed by that behavior.
cascarudex4. August 2010, 14:05
thx!
David Tsunamy4. August 2010, 14:08
Oh Thanks!!

Remember de new Touchpad inertial scroll on Mac. It's fastest and incontrolable
pa sk4. August 2010, 14:09
I am totally disoriented with snapshots.
What one should I install over my 10.60.3445 Win and 10.70.6396 Linux?

Are that new snapshots parallel or they are should be one-by-one installed till latest one?
Anton Diaz4. August 2010, 14:11
DSK-286882 (Show Properties dialog and informational message when trying to bookmark page that is already bookmarked)

Great! Now we can edit directory of the bookmark
Rick4. August 2010, 14:13
Bookmark icons for sites that have custom icons are still showing as a blank space.

Placeholder stars are showing, but every time I visit a site with a custom icon, instead of showing the icon, all you see is a blank space.
maxmara24. August 2010, 14:15
when will ya guys fix the CJK font display problem on win/mac ?
rseiler4. August 2010, 14:16
Originally posted by Nico:

That's a long changelog, considering that the last snapshot has been released less than 24 hours ago.

Yesterday's build was compiled on July 28th.
getnikkoo4. August 2010, 14:17
why 10.61 and 10.70 r still slower than 10.60
Penge4. August 2010, 14:34
Originally posted by CoolDudio:

Freeze Animated PNG
Thanks! Anyway this wouldn't a big problem in a snapshot, but very big problem in the 10.60 final. So, Dear Developers! Please fix these ugly bugs in the final 10.61. I want to recommend proudly this browser to my acquaintances again.
sierkb4. August 2010, 14:36
******************
* Regression *
* DSK-301119 *
* DSK-254388 *
******************

DSK-301119 (Regression of DSK-254388) is still unfixed!

It has been fixed in 10.5.0. It is there again definitely since 10.6.x, maybe already since 10.5.2 or 10.5.3 or 10.5.4.

Please fix it again! Since this bug has been (temporary) fixed in 10.5.0, it seems to be a regression bug!
See also http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=284430
Rick4. August 2010, 14:37
Another note, the missing bookmark icons occurred on Linux, and even a deletion of the .opera directory int he user's home directory did not get the custom site icons to show again in the bookmarks drop down.

These are shown correctly in the bookmark manager. So the icons are there, they just never show correctly in the drop-down bookmark menu.
Daniel James Hendrycks4. August 2010, 14:51
For some reason, I cannot scroll down to the comment box in Opera (Posting with Chrome Canary (masked as Opera)); every time I scroll close to the comment box Opera freezes (when I see cooldudio's comment it freezes, more specifically). Cleaned the cache.

Can anyone confirm?
Win7 x64

(Update: I see the APNG froze everyone)
Martin Tang4. August 2010, 14:53
we have improved the Add Bookmark dialog
Martin Tang4. August 2010, 14:55
Originally posted by DanielHendrycks:

For some reason, I cannot scroll down to the comment box in Opera

Yes, easily freezed.
Ubuntu 10.04.1 64-bit
Penge4. August 2010, 14:56
Originally posted by DanielHendrycks:

every time I scroll close to the comment box Opera freezes (when I see cooldudio's comment it freezes, more specifically). Cleaned the cache.

Confirmed.

F12-> uncheck "Enable Animated Images"
s14shyam4. August 2010, 15:03
It was only now that I installed the previous release ! BTW, I hope that you've changed the version number in the welcome screen of the MSI install.
Daniel James Hendrycks4. August 2010, 15:08
Originally posted by Penge4:

Confirmed.

DSK-309167
Kai Ockendorf4. August 2010, 15:12
Originally posted by DanielHendrycks:

For some reason, I cannot scroll down to the comment box in Opera

confirmed! I cleaned the cache too and disabled cache for testing...on the "Opera" pages this snapshot hangs on the last 2 elements . This snapshot seems slower than the previous one! Both 350 points slower than 10.61 on Peacekeeper.

W7x64
minho4. August 2010, 15:12
DSK-303102 (No bookmarks shown in bookmarks manager after restart)
QuHno4. August 2010, 15:29
Originally posted by DanielHendrycks:

For some reason, I cannot scroll down to the comment box (...)
Can anyone confirm?

Not only that, my tab bar vanishes behind some other bars.
Screenshot:
http://quhno.internetstrahlen.de/BUGS/2010-08-04-opera.png

That bug occurs with the 3468 build too, 10.61 RC2 stalls for some time but recovers.

XPSP3
highstream4. August 2010, 15:32
Glad to see the continued work with Presto. Someone on opera.general recently noted a certain jumpiness at the end of page loading with either 10.61 or 10.70, and it struck a bell. I just saw it with this page. As the page was nearing the end of loading, I started to scroll down using the mouse wheel, i.e., click-focus hadn't changed. I had thought the page was loaded, but apparently not, because there were two small jumps of the page onscreen, separated by a few seconds. XP/SP3, cable broadband.

Update: just saw it again at http://fasterskier.com/2010/08/norway-more-running-less-rollerskiing/. Page just jumped upward a bit seemingly several seconds after it had finished loading.
kury4. August 2010, 15:33
DSK-308559 (hotmail.co.uk should be added to mailproviders.xml)

and what about adding gmail as default? i always have to add it manually..
Luchio4. August 2010, 15:48
Originally posted by rskunath:

Bookmark icons for sites that have custom icons are still showing as a blank space.

Placeholder stars are showing, but every time I visit a site with a custom icon, instead of showing the icon, all you see is a blank space.
Same here...

Originally posted by kury:

and what about adding gmail as default? i always have to add it manually..
+1
techffm4. August 2010, 15:54
SSL Handshake issue with Planetromeo still unsolved. DSK-300828.

Opening https://www.planetromeo.com results in SSL Error 40 shown in multiple elements/frames of the page. Results differ during page reloads. This was not present in 10.10 and earlier, seems to sneaked in somewhen around 10.50. Tested on win7 (x64) and xp-sp3 (x86).

Please confirm/acknowledge.
Arthur Wilkinson4. August 2010, 16:01
This is weird... When I went to check mail, it started redownloading all 3,893 e-mails in my inbox... I may need to delete my mail account and recreate it...
Wouter4. August 2010, 16:04
Alas, still unusable on Mac OS 10.4.11/PPC. Are there any plans for fixing this bug, ever? See here.
Дмитрий4. August 2010, 16:12
I have such a problem!
When i scroll a web page with video (for example Youtube) I see some visual artifacts Безымянный.jpg
Please confirm this!
Windows 7 x86
Борис4. August 2010, 16:13
Namelesske4. August 2010, 16:14
Thanks for this awesome work...
blang4. August 2010, 16:15
Still get two characters instead of one on Mac when using fn+option (bug DSK-297676)