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Speed Dial, now with crisp thumbnails
Hello from the Opera Wroclaw team,
This snapshot adds more fixes to the new Barracuda Speed Dial, taking away the need to reload all the Speed Dial items on each and every zoom level change. Opera will now cache your thumbnails in the biggest size needed and resize them as requested, adding necessary padding. The thumbnails for pages with the "view-mode: minimized" media type will change their rendering viewport width when zoomed above 100%, and keep a fixed viewport when zoomed below that. We hope this will make your thumbnails readable regardless of the Speed Dial zoom level.
The build brings also some improvements to thumbnail quality; your favorite pages should now be nice and sharp.
We haven't just been working on Speed Dial, though. There's a new Core upgrade, Windows installer fixes, numerous crash fixes, and more!
As usual, this is still work in progress, so we count on your feedback to inform us about any problems you might encounter with this build.
And remember, this is not an April Fools' Day joke:
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.
Known Issues
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This snapshot adds more fixes to the new Barracuda Speed Dial, taking away the need to reload all the Speed Dial items on each and every zoom level change. Opera will now cache your thumbnails in the biggest size needed and resize them as requested, adding necessary padding. The thumbnails for pages with the "view-mode: minimized" media type will change their rendering viewport width when zoomed above 100%, and keep a fixed viewport when zoomed below that. We hope this will make your thumbnails readable regardless of the Speed Dial zoom level.
The build brings also some improvements to thumbnail quality; your favorite pages should now be nice and sharp.
We haven't just been working on Speed Dial, though. There's a new Core upgrade, Windows installer fixes, numerous crash fixes, and more!
As usual, this is still work in progress, so we count on your feedback to inform us about any problems you might encounter with this build.
And remember, this is not an April Fools' Day joke:
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.
Known Issues
- Upgrading from older Barracuda installations could cause Speed Dial thumbnail quality problems
- My Opera community Speed Dial may not finish loading on a clean install
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Changelog
Core
- CORE-8579 (Setting <input>.type removes focus)
- CORE-37297 (Scrolling breaks in Facebook after viewing a photo)
- CORE-13327 (Element with dimensions with larger element inside stretches unexpectedly)
- CORE-13649 (Left auto offset incorrect for an absolutely positioned floated inline or inline-block)
- CORE-14232 (Scrollbars for top document with absolutely positioned element with clip applied)
- CORE-16055 (Absolutely positioned child of an element with height larger than its parent with hidden overflow): will generate a scrollbar as if its ancestor had not had non-visible overflow
- CORE-21938 (box-shadow mixed with opacity results in clipped shadows)
- CORE-24951 (Crash on focusing input positioned outside of overflow container and hiding container)
- CORE-27255 (-o-transform + zoom = text problems)
- CORE-28534 (floats not cleared if elements with clear are preceded by an element with a negative bottom margin)
- CORE-30960 (Events and :hover don't fire on element that has absolutely positioned parent with clipping applied)
- CORE-31054 (Border disappears when parent container is inline-block with z-index and opacity < 1)
- CORE-32254 (padding-top on outer container hides replaced alt if anchor parent has opacity < 1)
- CORE-33349 (Incorrect (bounding_box based) calculation of content size causes problems with scrollbars)
- CORE-33607 (Inner width/height of overflow auto elements does not compensate for scrollbar width/height)
- CORE-33762 (Transformed text-shadow not shown when vertically offset above content box)
- CORE-34316 (Setting form action causes error when reading out tagName for object elements inside form on gallito.com.uy)
- CORE-34386 (Generated :after content adds to element's height)
- CORE-34389 (List item with padding adds to height of list with already defined height)
- CORE-34419 (Text overlaps on BlackBerry product site, Cufon font replacement not initialised due to sheet.disabled returning true for empty sheets)
- CORE-34502 (:checked query does not find elements that had checked set before they were in the document): worldoflogs.com display issues
- CORE-34745 (Can not add options to newly created SELECT that is not in the DOM (only the first two sub-levels in a "tree" work on elfa.se))
- CORE-34811 (Embedded Flash with src starting with "file" and with colon in URL fails to load)
- CORE-34824 (Images (especially background image) flickering when following a link on the same domain)
- CORE-34918 (Text selection is not painted correctly when selecting between two block elements)
- CORE-35194 (Bing.com hotels popup autocloses on opening after being closed first time)
- CORE-35722 (Inline element overflow clipped when opacity is applied)
- CORE-35752 (Opacity not applied to absolute positioned descendant of inline with opacity)
- CORE-35900 (Reading nodename on an unknown tag kills scripting (parsed to HTMLElement))
- CORE-35964 (Nested positioned file input doesn't respond due to clip)
- CORE-36023 (Focusing partially visible form element moves it fully on screen)
- CORE-36138 (Iframe with empty scrolling attribute gets no scrollbar and is unscrollable)
- CORE-36174 (Fix crash when downloading files in the link panel)
- CORE-36184 (New image viewer breaks platform/user key bindings (eg. fast forward) in directory of images)
- CORE-36363 (Crash when passing empty parameter to Java applet)
- CORE-36440 (Really bad scrolling performance on MyTrendyPhone.se - reading and outputting scroll position on scroll)
- CORE-36467 (opacity <1 on an inline parent crops inline-block child)
- CORE-36576 (Colour selector in opera:config initialized to black)
- CORE-36598 (Use <update-description> for Opera Widgets as well)
- CORE-36603 (Implement the W3C's 'view-mode' media feature in browser)
- CORE-36652 (New image viewer not handling certain image widths)
- CORE-36672 (Remove -o prefix of CSS zoom cursors -o-zoom-in and -o-zoom-out)
- CORE-36695 (Quora.com never fully loads and is always stuck at "Loading")
- CORE-36736 (Background image on root element mispositioned when document contains nested positioned blocks)
- CORE-36923 (All Speed Dial spots are rectangles, not squares)
- Multiple crash fixes
Desktop
- DSK-219715 (Periods after links in history search are preceded by a space)
- DSK-329506 (Adjust new Speed Dial recent sites order)
- DSK-330333 (Speed Dial thumbnails are double-shrunk (and cropped))
- DSK-330340 (Crash on zooming for some users)
- DSK-330532 (Speed Dials that have been dragged can't be focused using the keyboard)
- DSK-331049 (Speed Dial should handle page-up/page-down keyboard events)
- DSK-331154 (Make sure Global Speed Dial Config dialog always aligned below the 'configure')
- DSK-331622 (Adding page with javascript message loop to speed dial crashes Opera)
- DSK-331863 (Speed Dial Add Button does not take .hover state)
- DSK-331888 (There is no padding between the Speed Dial thumbnail spinner and the thumbnail title)
- DSK-331897 (Page preview thumbnail close button is misaligned)
- DSK-296552 (Search engine menu doesn't close after selecting new search engine)
- DSK-300719 (Web panels' Small Screen setting gets disabled on restart)
- DSK-324490 (Wrong search icon in hotclick pop-up menu)
- DSK-325766 (Security protocols cannot be disabled in Opera 11)
- DSK-329494 (Can't run Widgets on a USB installed Opera on Windows XP, nor use '-pd' On Linux/FreeBSD from an extracted tar package)
- DSK-328922 (Some sites logos are not recognized correctly for use in the Speed Dial)
- DSK-329149 (High icons bottom part isn't displayed in Speed Dial thumbnails)
- DSK-329482 (Some pages get a blurry Thumbnail)
- DSK-330099 (Speed Dial thumbnail icons are resized not re-generated on zoom)
- DSK-330318 (Pages are loaded over again when Speed Dial zoom level is changed)
- DSK-330338 (Friendly thumbnails aren't generated on browser update)
- DSK-331006 (Long labels list in mail expands labels dialog too much)
- DSK-331083 (New declarative UI filter dialog has drawing issues when editing mail labels)
- DSK-331199 (Thumbnails with viewmode="minimized" and autoreload lose minimized viewport dimension settings)
- DSK-331313 (Search term in search suggestion GET requests do not get URL encoded)
- DSK-331359 (Speed Dials sends "cache-control : no-cache" in its request header)
- DSK-331659 (Reloading Speed Dial sends GET request twice)
- DSK-331660 (Changing zoom level for Speed Dial loses pixels between zoom steps)
- DSK-331661 (When thumbnail minimized are set to fixed size whole Speed Dial content is filled with color of (0,0) pixel)
- DSK-331671 (Regular thumbnail display only part of site instead of 1024x768 viewport)
- DSK-331811 (X-Purpose preview header isn't sent with GET requests for redirected pages)
- DSK-331878 (Thumbnail resize caching doesn't respect validity age for viewmode=minimized pages)
- DSK-332305 (Changing Speed Dial zoom level with more the one Speed Dial tab resizes thumbnails few times)
- Updates to strings and translations
- Multiple crash fixes
Windows
- DSK-321356 (The installer should update Opera.HTML in both HKEY_CURRENT_USER and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE when installing for "All users on this computer")
- DSK-322322 (Language selected incorrectly in the installer)
- DSK-324395 (In some rare cases Windows user names in file paths can trigger crashes during installation.)
- DSK-327342 (Add ability to associate Opera with .ogg files)
- DSK-329496 (With an autoupdate pending for install it is not easy to uninstall Opera prior to updating)
- DSK-329844 (Replace the "Terms of Service" button with a hyperlink widget)
- DSK-330451 (Uninstalling Opera while Widgets are running does not give a locked file dialog)
- DSK-330452 (It says "Stop installing" when you click "Ignore" in the installer locked files dialog)
- DSK-330915 (Opera changing Shell Folders on startup)
- DSK-331261 (Installation fails to a path with extra spaces at the end)
- DSK-331940 (The help text for installation type does not work)
- DSK-331941 (During installation the "Accept and Install" button changes text when you open the TOS)
- DSK-332042 (Crash on launching the installer)
- DSK-332045 (Terms of service link doesn't work in the installer)
- DSK-331002 (Crash when restoring a page)
Mac
- DSK-301310 ([IME] Finish composition when clicking with the mouse)
- DSK-325990 (Widgets crash on initializing gstreamer)
- DSK-326600 (High CPU usage with Content Blocker dialog open)
- DSK-327249 (Fullscreen on Mac appears not on second display, even if the Opera window is currently placed on the second one)
- DSK-328256 (Tahoma no longer using bold and italic styling)
- DSK-329239 (Pasting copied cells from OpenOffice into body of html compose body inserts markup, instead of formatted text)
- DSK-330057 (Left tab bar collapsing while resizing)
- DSK-331479 (Crash on start-up in OS 10.4)
- DSK-331651 (Crash on starting second WAV playback)
- DSK-331653 (Crash on Facebook front-page with VoiceOver)
Linux/FreeBSD
- DSK-260858 (Support and use fontconfig aliases)
- DSK-329536 (X11 system color setting broken)
- DSK-330652 (Wrong text color for popup menus for many styles and color settings under KDE)
- DSK-331776 (X11 File selector selects wrong directory)
- DSK-331808 ("Execute program" concludes the whole line parameters in quotes (also buttons using execute are broken))
Readers' comments
Comments left by My Opera members under the original post: the first 50, as archived.
About this article
| Published in | Desktop Team blog |
|---|---|
| Date | April 1, 2011 |
| Author | Michal Zajaczkowski |
| Tags | snapshot, fixes, speed dial, Barracuda |
| Original | Internet Archive |
Muhammad-Ubaid raza1. April 2011, 16:22
XenoAntares1. April 2011, 16:22
Francisco Herrera1. April 2011, 16:23
Gereford1. April 2011, 16:23
maexl1. April 2011, 16:23
edit: Speeddial-thumbnails are looking very nice now and the zoomlevels can be used very well now with custom thumbnails!
Only remark: With this build the thumbnails are loading longer so the "progress-circle" appears at every startup.
IKoke1. April 2011, 16:25
When Opera work in this image hosting?
"If you're seeing this message, your browser does not support Drag & Drop upload."
elsweify1. April 2011, 16:27
Testing~~~
Francisco Herrera1. April 2011, 16:30
Maxim1. April 2011, 16:30
BS-Harou1. April 2011, 16:33
Also the wider speed dials was better with 4x4 speed dials. Now I've got lot's of space on the left and right
Muhammad-Ubaid raza1. April 2011, 16:37
1-Some thumbnails are too sharp. For example Gmail.
2-When starting opera, speed dial thumbnail is not shown correct ( just some random colors)
3-Some website thumbnails are moved to top-left (Not centered))... For example
www.google.com and mail.yahoo.com
Originally posted by BS-Harou:
Did you try using zoom button?
brunocesar1. April 2011, 16:39
BS-Harou1. April 2011, 16:39
Originally posted by mubaidr:
I've got automatic zoom
Muhammad-Ubaid raza1. April 2011, 16:42
Originally posted by BS-Harou:
You should set zoom yourself to use spare space...
BS-Harou1. April 2011, 16:44
Originally posted by mubaidr:
I'm used to resize window a lot so manual zoom is not an option for me.
it wouldn't help anyway, because I can't make speed dials wider with manual zoom
Gereford1. April 2011, 16:46
Muhammad-Ubaid raza1. April 2011, 16:47
Originally posted by BS-Harou:
I was talking about bigger not wider. btw square thumbs looks good to me.
pinfeng1. April 2011, 16:50
Originally posted by BS-Harou:
The wider speeddials worked also better for me. Now they are squared and a lot smaller than before...
Besides, I like the new thumbnail quality
BS-Harou1. April 2011, 16:51
Originally posted by mubaidr:
I'm not saying they are not looking good. With 5x4 speed dials they are even better. But with 4x4 there is just too much space on the left and right. There might be some "width" option
ncc504461. April 2011, 16:52
PraetorianX1. April 2011, 16:59
1) the "Configure" button gets lost
2) there is no horizontal scroll bar (middle click mouse panning does not work either), and
3) for some reason the distance from the speed dial search field increases.
Win7 x64 SP1
Moe Greene1. April 2011, 17:00
2. Tooltips used by page tabs are initially rendered without background shadow.
3. The text in tooltips used by e.g. panels is not redrawn when triggering a new tooltip while one is still visible.
4. The background colour in the tooltips is grey instead of yellow which is the native tooltip colour.
Mac OS X 10.6.7 using the Native MacOS skin.
flatter1. April 2011, 17:01
João David1. April 2011, 17:03
Gereford1. April 2011, 17:05
Different background color in Speeddial when zoomlevel more than 80% at my 22' monitor
Kamalesh1. April 2011, 17:06
raphweng131. April 2011, 17:07
Windows 7, 64bit, 1366*768:
- Opera 11.10 2076 with settings: automatic/ automatic (space wasted on the left and right): http://my.opera.com/raphweng/albums/showpic.dml?album=6655492&picture=101287122
- Opera 11.10 2067 with manual 5 columns/ zoom: 90% (3rd row cut on the bottom): http://my.opera.com/raphweng/albums/showpic.dml?album=6655492&picture=101287152
- Safari 5: http://my.opera.com/raphweng/albums/showpic.dml?album=6655492&picture=101287172
What one can see that, even if I have to accept two dials less in Safari, I see a much better use of the given space. This is because they neither have that border around each dial, nor do they have the titles at the bottom. Finally, the dials adjust in height.
Caterpillar1. April 2011, 17:12
iPristy site1. April 2011, 17:12
highstream1. April 2011, 17:12
What problems?
The thumbnails are cleaner, thank you. However, upgrading has left my 6x5, 5x5 of which which was visible with the last build at 80%, now partly off the screen at the bottom at 60%. And there is lots of spare room left and right (and some on top). The blue tinted background on the SD also continues here (but not on this page). Given your desire to change the SD, I'm not seeing how you can solve the configuration problems without adding user settings for rows and thumbnail size to the mix (a la FF's extension).
Update: after a page reload the thumbnails are fuzzy and, because of the necessary new zoom settings, smaller than before.
metude1. April 2011, 17:13
I tried with Opera Standart toolbar setup but anything fixed.
Some examples:
Standard skin (NORMAL): http://prntscr.com/1p13t
11 Clean: http://prntscr.com/1p13l
Crystal Onyx Bull: http://prntscr.com/1p13h
Clean Revamped: http://prntscr.com/1p13w
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More examples (no problem with these skins):
OPera Lite: http://prntscr.com/1p142
werwolf lobo: http://prntscr.com/1p143
SSK Dynamic: http://prntscr.com/1p145
ALeX27861. April 2011, 17:14
andrsyng1. April 2011, 17:21
7thGear1. April 2011, 17:26
João David1. April 2011, 17:26
Michel1. April 2011, 17:27
When I remove one of speed dials, Opera Link removes it, but doesn't re-arrange all others dials.
Let's suppose I have 16 Speed Dials, now I removed dial #15, after Opera Link synchronization on https://my.opera.com/username/account/link/speeddial/ I can see empty box on place of SpeedDial number 15, My Opera doesn't rearrange all other dials after sync.
eliotcougar1. April 2011, 17:27
The memory leak with youtube video player (including embedded player), and some other flash elements, is still present:
1. Open 10 tabs with youtube.com webpage.
2. Watch increasing memory usage.
The bug annoys me because I always leave my PC turned on with Opera and a lot of tabs open... If some of those tabs have embedded youtube videos, I have unresponsive PC in the morning with huge swap-file and no available RAM...
PraetorianX1. April 2011, 17:28
Originally posted by piroxicam:
I get that too on Ubuntu 10.10 x32
Bhikkhu Pesala1. April 2011, 17:31
Originally posted by BS-Harou:
Standard aspect ratio monitor looks much better with 4 x 3 (as in earlier versions), or 4 x 5 speed dials. Either will make full use of available space better than earlier versions.Martin Rauscher1. April 2011, 17:31
Milan Petrovic1. April 2011, 17:33
nimu_chan1. April 2011, 17:35
berend ytsma1. April 2011, 17:35
Originally posted by GDragoNWS:
Read the known issues
Andrey1. April 2011, 17:37
Pablo Belluccia1. April 2011, 17:39
Besides that, very nice snapshot!
eliotcougar1. April 2011, 17:40
Originally posted by Hades32:
Same in Russian...
Ralf Beckebans1. April 2011, 17:40
Originally posted by zayc:
Are you sure, that i can read it better now? I don't think so.
Opera 11.01 (1190): http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/7263/11011190.png
Opera 11.10 (2076): http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/5647/11102076.png
The settings are columns: 4, zoom: manual, zoom level: 100%.
Michel1. April 2011, 17:41
Michel1. April 2011, 17:45
http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/6842/01204235.jpg
Morphdreamer1. April 2011, 17:47
Originally posted by budnyatski:
Same problem with http://www.fourtheye.net/