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Post-beta fixes

February 19, 2010 · by Haavard

We promised you more things test after the beta, and here is the first part of the fixes that didn't make it into the beta. In addition to Windows, we also have new Unix builds for testing. We are trying to get something for Mac later on.

These builds contain a number of Unix specific fixes and improvements, as well as some of the many general bugs we have been working on since before the beta. This includes some work on the e-mail client.

If anyone is feeling adventurous and wants to test upgrading from Opera 10.10 or earlier, let us know about any problems you come across. We recommend against upgrading your stable installation of Opera, but it is of course possible to take a backup copy which can be restored after you have performed the test upgrade.

Important: We have switched back to the old bookmarks format. If you have upgraded from an older 10.50 build and your bookmarks are missing, you may have to copy over your bookmarks manually.

Known Issues

General
  • The bookmarks might be ignored if you upgrade from older 10.50 builds
  • Hovered/selected items in dropdown menus go white

Windows
  • HTML5 video is not working correctly
  • Scrolling on pages with plugins leaks GDI handles

Unix
  • Font problems
  • Command line option problems
  • Compiz issues
  • Language input issues
  • ...and more

Highlights

General
  • Several mail improvements, such as a better startup sequence, new features for the reply button, and bug fixes
  • Bookmarks work
  • Some performance work

Windows
  • Ghostbusting

Unix
  • Added drag&drop
  • Remote commands 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.

Downloads

Changelog

User Interface
  • Fixed a crash affecting some users when Turbo was running
  • Fixed an issue with duplicating tabs using mouse gestures not working
  • Some changes to strings in the O-Menu for Unite and Link
  • Fixed DSK-279310 (RSS/newsfeed preview is not working: Stuck at "loading")
  • Fixed DSK-276591 (Current images mode isn't inherited when opening links in new tab)
  • Fixed DSK-275798 (Tray icon notifies of new chat messages even if the chat tab that has new content is currently active)
  • Fixed DSK-277974 (Button urls are unescaped)
  • Fixed DSK-277039 (Can't disable bittorrent download dialog for content-disposition: attachment torrent links)
  • Fixed DSK-278073 (New tab gesture opens blank page without focus in address bar instead of Speed Dial
  • Fixed DSK-279457 (Crash on gesture)
  • Fixed DSK-135208 (Pasted bookmarks stored in wrong location)
  • Fixed DSK-278863 (Page zoom menu is not keyboard accessible)
  • Fixed DSK-279465 (Webfonts with specified format don't work)
  • Fixed DSK-279572 (Separators gone and wrong order in Edit menu)
  • Fixed DSK-278275 (Full name of dictionaries not showing)
  • Fixed DSK-278489 (Trash not automatically created if not present in bookmarks file)
  • Fixed DSK-278993 (Deleting many bookmarks freezes Opera)
  • Fixed DSK-274951 (Import/Export only supports old .adr bookmark format and not new .ini format)
  • Fixed DSK-278486 (Trash name not displayed if name is absent in bookmarks file)
  • Fixed DSK-278742 (After importing IE bookmarks, the dialog can't be opened again)
  • Fixed DSK-275988 (Opera creates both bookmarks.adr and bookmarks.ini file on first start)
  • Fixed DSK-274462 (Order of personal bar items not remembered between sessions)
  • Fixed DSK-252361 (Import and Export bookmarks support)

Core
  • Crash fixes
  • Fixed CORE-24402 (Optimized canvas putImageData operation)
  • Fixed CORE-27301 (Plugin size and position not updated when plugin is in synchronous state (Youtube))
  • Fixed CORE-27610 (SVG background-image misplaced and clipped)
  • Fixed CORE-27678 (Page reusing same font name as another page gets the font from that page)
  • Fixed CORE-27725 (Fix for 3rd party native skin icons)
  • Fixed DFL-953 (Reloading Google Spreadsheet from cache with Dragonfly open hangs Opera for a long time)
  • Fixed DSK-277033 (Can't escape <input>)

Mail/Chat/Feeds
  • Fixed DSK-261896 (Freezes, and ghost feed items after restart)
  • Fixed DSK-277945 (Smileys don't show image in mail and chat)
  • Fixed DSK-279013 (Crash when trying to send file in Opera chat/IRC)
  • Fixed DSK-280923 (Feed article mixup)
  • Fixed DSK-273867 (No mail messages selected on startup)
  • Fixed DSK-264993 (Cyrillic plain text in Mail on a Mac)
  • Fixed DSK-274109 ("Mark messages as read" option in filters broken)
  • Fixed DSK-278684 (Loading mail in Evenes can be very slow)
  • Fixed DSK-278543 (Merlin store upgrade happens even if already upgraded)
  • Fixed DSK-273317 (Loading mail in Evenes has no progress indicator)
  • Fixed DSK-277488 (Mails lost on imap when deleting draft reply)
  • Fixed DSK-279589 (Lots of sent mail in the received index)
  • Fixed DSK-277781 (Cut and paste not working in mail compose context menu)
  • Fixed DSK-275736 (Can't attach files by drag&dropping them to compose window)
  • Fixed DSK-273348 (Add "Reply to list" button for mailing list mails)
  • Some crash fixes

Unite
  • Fixed DSK-281408 (Disabling sending of services to asd doesn't work)
  • Fixed DSK-279556 (Cross network request is issued when accessing a unite application)

Windows
  • Fixed DSK-274685 (Fullscreen problems)
  • Fixed DSK-278428 (Unable key input at maff.go.jp's silverlight based search)
  • Fixed DSK-278520 (Opening a new window opens a ghost window)
  • Fixed DSK-273110 (Auto-hiding Windows taskbar obscured by Opera window)
  • Fixed DSK-277032 (Bottom arrow in vertical / horizontal scrollbar points up when hovering the scrollbar)
  • Fixed DSK-277694 ("New (Private) Tab" from taskbar or systray does not show Opera window)
  • Fixed DSK-278847 (Changing fonts in Preferences and then restarting Opera sets a random font)
  • Fixed DSK-277567 (bookmarks.ini file not created on multiuser installs; no default bookmarks)
  • Fixed DSK-279148 ("Open file" from the completed download notifications open sessions dialog)

UNIX
  • Support for the X11 IPC mechanism: this also fixes the '-remote' command line options
  • Re-implemented drag and drop without Qt: This fixes numerous other issues
  • Fixed some networking issues relating to IPv6
  • Fixed DSK-277578 (No Middle-click panning on UNIX)
  • Fixed DSK-277439 (Last option in context menus is not possible to highlight/click when entering menu from below with mouse)
  • Fixed DSK-275219 (shift+click no longer selects multiple messages)
  • Fixed DSK-276886 (flip back and flip forward mouse shortcuts flipped)

Readers' comments

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

  • XenoAntares19. February 2010, 13:06

    :D

  • Ø19. February 2010, 13:06

    second

  • endless love19. February 2010, 13:07

    :up:

  • Sp.Shut19. February 2010, 13:07

    Third!

  • Daniel19. February 2010, 13:07

    Looking good!

  • NeOn122519. February 2010, 13:08

    Great :D :hat:

    Starting testing :sherlock:

  • Bartek Sumowski19. February 2010, 13:09

    thx testing

  • Olli19. February 2010, 13:09

    " We are TRYING to get something for Mac later on." - sounds REAAAALLY optimistic :D

  • Robert9019. February 2010, 13:10

    Great, testing time again since we have a brand new unix build :smile:

  • pursanovd19. February 2010, 13:12

    Great Work!!Lets test......

  • dualbore19. February 2010, 13:13

    Good news that you started working on M2. Lets hope these freezes are history now.

  • BS-Harou19. February 2010, 13:13

    :hat:

  • Abhishek Thakur19. February 2010, 13:14

    :up:

  • hcym19. February 2010, 13:20

    linux-6225

    no deb

    monkey

  • Oops19. February 2010, 13:24

    Unix \o/

  • Vectronic19. February 2010, 13:29

  • twili19. February 2010, 13:30

    Fixed DSK-274462 (Order of personal bar items not remembered between sessions)

    Thanks a lot! :D

  • Paul Chanseaud19. February 2010, 13:31

    let´s see...

  • ileoo19. February 2010, 13:31

    \o/ IPv6 working in Linux

  • Ruari Ødegaard19. February 2010, 13:32

    Originally posted by hcym:

    no deb



    why do you need it for testing :wink:

  • Paul Dail19. February 2010, 13:32

    Testing, Testing, Testing!!!

  • Mark Gillespie19. February 2010, 13:33

    This build also reports itself as Presto 2.6

    Is this correct or a temporary thing?

  • dualbore19. February 2010, 13:34

    OK, getting back to my own comment. The freezes are not history.
    Drag & drop of messages is shaky at best (instant freeze), the new, shiny reply-button gave me a freeze on the first try (though this may be related to a different skin I used).
    Wotlab boards still don't work, still very frequent system freezes in the mail panel = back to 10.10. I can't help, the last alphas (before Beta RC) felt more stable.

    Question: what is the best way of reporting freezes where no
    crash log is generated?

  • Nebli19. February 2010, 13:35

    Congratulations!

    I test in Vista and xpsp3, Opera 10.50 d'ont change the background of custom buttons for show/hide toolbars for showing their condition, like the opera turbo button (green o gray), Opera 10.20 do this with custom buttons.

    The Reload image, Copy image address, Copy image and Image properties option in the right-clik menú of images are disabled.


  • nikitash19. February 2010, 13:36

    So many old fixes now included in this build i am so happy works like a charm u guys deserve big warm applause:yes:

  • DrillSarge19. February 2010, 13:37

    "The bookmarks might be ignored if you upgrade from older 10.50 builds"

    okay, but is there a way to import my bookmarks.ini manually?

  • Arguggi19. February 2010, 13:37

    Loving the daily builds :cheers:

  • Zotlan19. February 2010, 13:37

    period on numeric pad is still not working alas DSK-280495
    (Linux)

  • Trizen19. February 2010, 13:37

    Great work, thanks for UNIX builds :D

  • nikitash19. February 2010, 13:45

    :devil: :raider: :troll: :jester: cow

  • airbourn19. February 2010, 13:47

    Incorrectly displays thumbnail Speed Dial:

    http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/3182/schowek01fp.jpg

  • Joonas Lehtolahti19. February 2010, 13:47

    Great, great! This is the build I have been waiting for! Big thanks for fixing those bugs! :D

  • gregbahun19. February 2010, 13:51

    "end" key not properly functioning when typing an email

    type an email that spans a few lines in the window - but don't hit "enter" while typing. now, move the cursor back to the top line, and use the "end" button on the keyboard, it does not take you to the end of that top line, rather to the front of the last line.

    if the cursor is on the second line, and you hit "end", it takes you to the very end of the paragraph.

  • Mark Gillespie19. February 2010, 13:54

    Browser Choice screen March 1st...

    http://microsoftontheissues.com/cs/blogs/mscorp/archive/2010/02/19/the-browser-choice-screen-for-europe-what-to-expect-when-to-expect-it.aspx

  • Zotlan19. February 2010, 13:57

    Nice and speedy but his Linux build crashes a lot more than the last one, even trying t use the appearance dialog makes it crash, as does confirming changes in preferences. it's going to be hard to test this one.

  • Arguggi19. February 2010, 13:58

    Originally posted by mgillespie:

    Browser Choice screen March 1st...



    http://microsoftontheissues.com/cs/blogs/mscorp/archive/2010/02/19/the-browser-choice-screen-for-europe-what-to-expect-when-to-expect-it.aspx



    Site loads really slowly...

    Expect hourly builds from now on then
    p:

  • Saurabh Kumar19. February 2010, 14:02

    Since mail and feeds are getting attention, can any Opera guy mention whether DSK-278058 is a known issue or not? (I mean I couldn't mention any steps to reproduce it so it may have been marked as non-reproducible or something).

    http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=391791

    I have tried everything from fresh installs to computer restarts. Sometimes the problem goes away only to come back.

    Mail and feeds are pretty important for me. I will keep with 10.10 if this issue exists only for me and remains unfixed. :frown:

  • Herwig19. February 2010, 14:04

    Persisting problems (tested in Windows XP):

    1. In Windows XP, the browser menu (if enabled) appears smeared. I have to select a non-truetype font like MS Sans Serif to get a better display. (The problem does not exist in Windows 7.)

    2. For self-defined buttons, e.g. for opening a page with Notepad, the argument "%s" does no longer work; the linked application starts with an empty page instead of the source code. This makes self-defined buttons more or less useless.

    3. Opening opera:config shows lots of CSS errors in the error console (if the console is enabled for local pages), so Opera seems to be incompatible with itself.

    4. When pasting a long text into a textarea (like here in this forum), the last line is invisible even though the scroll bar is at the bottom.

    5. If another application tries to open a .htm file, the Opera browser (if not running yet) shows its start page (or whatever is configured for startup) instead of the requested. It works if an instance of Opera is already running.

    6. Selecting a web address in the text and using the context menu to jump to it does not work.

    7. The context menu (paste etc.) in the built-in editor does not work; a workaround is to use Ctrl+C=copy, Ctrl+V=paste.

    Great improvements:
    - Ghost windows are gone
    - Scrolling is now possible in the print preview

    Thanks & cheers!

  • Henryk Husarski19. February 2010, 14:05

    there is still problem with adres bar, Opera remembers addresses entered even if in Preferences -> Advaced -> History rembember adresses value is set to 0 (zero) and on close Opera (ie.: Alt+F4) are checked all options like: clearing visited sites, cookies, passwords - only manual clearing works good.

  • sirnh119. February 2010, 14:06

    Hmmm... I'm having a problem uninstalling widgets. If I rightclick (in opera) and choose uninstall. I see an error saying "Can not load file c:\<...>\uninstal.vbs (access denied", followed by AVG claiming it to be a virus (link)...
    Anyone an idea how to report that as a false positive at avg?
    Edit: same thing happens, when (in windows) I go to the control panel --> 'add & remove software' and click 'uninstall'

  • nikitash19. February 2010, 14:10

    The white line appears between opera bottom and windows 7 taskbar very ugly.:sst:

    http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/3084/whitelinebetweenoperaan.jpg

  • Ø19. February 2010, 14:11

    Originally posted by ruario:

    why do you need it for testing




    makes life easier :devil:

  • Galileo19. February 2010, 14:13

    :up: Thank you :cool:

  • sleepyhead19. February 2010, 14:15

    :up: thanks a lot

  • Ø19. February 2010, 14:28

    can't install widgets on ubuntu karmic.


    a screen pop up and is all black...


    anyone?


  • Willian Argollo19. February 2010, 14:32

    Fixed DSK-273110 (Auto-hiding Windows taskbar obscured by Opera window)

    Thanks!!! :D :D :D

  • nimu_chan19. February 2010, 14:36

    Oh !!!

    Thank You. Nice Job !!

  • Ruari Ødegaard19. February 2010, 14:37

    Originally posted by zikzakatak:

    makes life easier :devil:



    It also completely replaces your stable install. The tarballs are pretty easy to use.

  • Angelomon19. February 2010, 14:38

    Off-topic comment removed by moderator.

  • Ø19. February 2010, 14:41

    Originally posted by ruario:

    It also completely replaces your stable install. The tarballs are pretty easy to use.




    your are right...


    also the issue of selecting on flash is solved!...


    thanx!


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Published inDesktop Team blog
DateFebruary 19, 2010
AuthorHaavard
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