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Speed Dial zooming, multi-column, and mail fixes

March 3, 2011 · by Alexander Remen

Back at the office for a few minutes, during a break in the skiing World Championships at Holmenkollen, to share a new Barracuda build with you!

We are still focusing on improving Speed Dial, and here's the next piece of the puzzle! The first thing you should test is zooming in on the Speed Dial page and then add some new Speed Dials. When that is done, why not try out some of the new options in the configurations dialog? Note that this is still work in progress, so more changes are expected. See the highlights below for more on what's new in Speed Dial.

In other news, we've upgraded Core to Presto 2.8.115 to get some bug fixes and new features, including CSS 3 Multi-column and some polishing of Opera Turbo. We also have this document that lists all the specifications we support in this core version.

On the mail side, we've added support for phrase searching, which will also improve CJK searches in mail. Use quotes in the search field and it searches for phrases like you are used to in other search engines. There are also various bug fixes for the mail panel, eg when drag-and-dropping. If you don't like the auto displaying of the mail panel when opening a mail window, you might like opera:config#UserPrefs|AutoMailPanelToggle

Check out this great changelog, give the builds a spin and stream the skiing WC in your favorite browser like us! yes

Which country are you cheering for?

Highlights

Speed Dial
  • Added a button to configure Speed Dial
  • Added the ability to set the number of Speed Dial columns (automatic by default)
  • Speed Dial can now be zoomed
  • New dialog when adding/editing Speed Dials
  • It is now possible to add a custom title to Speed Dials, through the new add/edit dialog

Mail
  • Support for phrase searching
  • Improved CJK searches
  • Fixes to the panel, including a setting to disable automatic toggling

Presto
  • Added support for CSS3 multi-column layout

Known issues
  • Crash on startup when combining a master password with Opera Link
  • The Speed Dial configuration button can disappear outside the window
  • Speed Dial synchronization is disabled for now
  • Address bar not focused when starting Opera with extensions
  • Tabs opened by extensions open to the left instead of the right
  • Using the Content Blocker while logged in to Opera Link can cause a crash
  • Ctrl+Shift+V opening in a new background tab
  • Slightly older skin
  • Mac: No HTML5 media playback
  • Mac: International font settings are not remembered
  • Mac: Broken Cyrillic local paths
  • Linux/FreeBSD: Multi problems with plugins. We suggest you temporarily disable them via "Preferences > Advanced > Content" or you will have crashes and disappearing tabs
  • Linux/FreeBSD: Cannot copy text from certain applications on 64bit
  • Linux/FreeBSD: Workspace is incorrect with the X11 toolkit
  • Linux/FreeBSD: Tooltips re-appear and remain after clicking on the Opera sys tray icon twice
  • Linux/FreeBSD: Opera crashes on exit after hiding to systray, whilst a dialog is displayed

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

Core
  • Implemented CSS multi-column support
  • Turbo tweaks and improvements
  • Updated strings and translations
  • Crash fixes
  • CORE-2379 (Missing redraw when removing position:fixed elements overlaying other fixed elements)
  • CORE-6342 (NPN_PushPopupsEnabledState doesn't work with NPN_Evaluate (some plugin popups blocked))
  • CORE-13209 (Failed repaint when removing fixed positioned element that overlaps body padding/margin)
  • CORE-23609 (Fixed positioned elements not invalidated properly when removed)
  • CORE-23644 (Failed redraw when hiding parent of a fixed position element)
  • CORE-29833 (Incorrect parsing of JS array literal)
  • CORE-30098 (Content with position: fixed and top placement is not hidden)
  • CORE-32345 (Crashing when closing www.eksisozluk.com)
  • CORE-32489 (Top menu sometimes disappears when clicking buttons on google docs)
  • CORE-32740 (Opera crashes loading svg webfont TC)
  • CORE-32964 (Dynamically setting display:none doesn't properly repaint fixed-position descendant)
  • CORE-33943 (Focusing iframe scrolls it on screen)
  • CORE-33951 (TR added to TBODY via HTML string insertion loses attributes)
  • CORE-34902 (Setting ancestor to visibility:hidden doesn't redraw a position:fixed element (redrawing error on twitter.com))
  • CORE-35055 (Cookies on "localhost", "127.0.0.1" are not returned by GetCookie (Cookie-Manager service))
  • CORE-35090 (Paste from right-click menu creates unformatted text even inside formatted blocks with CKEditor)
  • CORE-35299 (Opera crashes while spatnav on rapidshare.com page)
  • CORE-35515 (Opera freezes while loading <canvas> elements on https://clubcompy.com/ )
  • CORE-35586 (Javascript problem checking if window (pop-up) is closed - window.closed undefined)
  • CORE-35587 (window.closed throws exception after window from other origin is closed (tuenti SNS popup fail (showModalDialog issue)))
  • CORE-35642 (document.write from timed script clears page)
  • CORE-35836 (thenounproject.com - Can't download zip files from the noun project.)
  • CORE-36161 (Doing location.replace on iframe and reading out iframe's document before load fails on orkut.com)
  • CORE-36209 (Broken data received from GetResource)
  • CORE-36387 (Add a command to get a resource id with an URL in the resource service for DragonFly)
  • CORE-36392 (HTML5 video crashes when files are hosted on ftp server)

Desktop
  • Added zooming to the new Speed Dial flow layout
  • Added an option to fix the number of columns in Speed Dial flow layout
  • Re-introduce the button for configuring Speed Dial
  • Update the dialog for adding a Speed Dial
  • Crash fixes
  • DSK-278988 (Prevent Opera from opening an infinite number of tabs when a mime type is set to use Opera's executable as an external application)
  • DSK-305792 (Menu button misplaced in a restored window when Tab Bar is set to wrap to multiple lines)
  • DSK-313442 (Opera's tooltip appears in front of another applications when hovered element has mouse event listener)
  • DSK-321386 (Multiple lines get selected in Advanced Preferences - Storage)
  • DSK-322308 (Cut string in the startup dialog in some languages)
  • DSK-322487 (Search engines with non-ASCII characters in the address do not work)
  • DSK-326001 (Cut text featured in the Crash Report window - remaining languages)
  • DSK-328009 (Mousegesture blob shrinks to nothing)
  • DSK-328082 (Rocker gesture actions are displayed in the mousegesture UI)
  • DSK-328284 (www.http// added to urls when urls opened from auto complete dropdown in urlfield)
  • DSK-328301 (Crash on pressing save in internal source viewer)
  • DSK-328641 (In Image Properties, exposure time is sometimes slightly off)

Mail
  • DSK-251786 (Progress bar percentage goes haywire when importing a large mbox)
  • DSK-257937 (Rounded corners on the "No message selected" Mail/Feeds page)
  • DSK-317644 (Opening a feed tab *also* opens the "Mail" Panel)
  • DSK-320350 (Moving mouse in new mail panel while in drag state doesn't scroll super scrollbar)
  • DSK-320676 (Hovering over collapsed access point in new mail panel while in drag state should expand the access point so you can continue dragging to a view)
  • DSK-327987 (Enter a feed, delete the feed, click a column header -> crash)
  • DSK-327701 (Feed labels not showing in message list after restart)
  • DSK-328311 (Log files can be stored in the wrong location)
  • Double quotes should search for whole phrase in mail

Windows
  • DSK-270600 (Many CSS3 cursors don't display on Windows)
  • DSK-285327 (Pasting copied cells from Excel into body of text/html compose body inserts table markup without opening and closing table tags (StartFragment and EndFragment))
  • DSK-300587 (Picasa won't start properly, when called by Opera)
  • DSK-306701 (Opera's submenus do not appear on hover)
  • DSK-327651 (NPAPI plugins not detected)
  • DSK-328105 (Windows classic native skin uses black text on dark progress bar in the address field)
  • DSK-328186 (Mouse panning stopped working on mainline)
  • DSK-328894 (Drag and Drop to Attachments Field Opens Files in Opera on Windows)

Mac
  • DSK-295262 (Command-Shift-F shortcut for Full Screen)
  • DSK-314922 (Opera Browser "Save As..." doesn't give choices for filename extension)
  • DSK-316249 (The correct color from colorpicker is not applied in mail)
  • DSK-327029 (Check marks inconsistent in View > Encoding)
  • DSK-328531 (Unintentionally using Helvetica instead of Lucida Grande in panels)

Linux/FreeBSD
  • DSK-326376 (Opera uses predefined RGB color mask instead of querying X Server): Opera is the wrong color when accessed remotely via a PPC or SPARC
  • DSK-327324 (KDE File selector can not save to a non-existing file)
  • DSK-327398 (Wrong text color for menu bar buttons for some KDE widget styles)
  • DSK-327772 (Opera shows up with black content. Nothing gets drawn.)
  • DSK-327986 (Popup menus do not support identical shortcuts and hardcoded shortcuts can provoke two shortcuts in the same menu item)
  • DSK-328124 (WM_CLASS(STRING) for some dialogs not visible on GTK)

Readers' comments

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

  • Sam Van den Vonder3. March 2011, 19:15

    A lot of known issues that should be taken note of (more than usual), but a lot of fixes too. Great job desktop team!

    Keep doing what you do best.

    EDIT: After a bit of testing, I can conclude that speed dial isn't what I want it to be just yet. There is still a lot of wasted space. When zooming it just feels like it could get the 'tabs' next to each other, but it doesn't.

    I don't know if this is because I'm used to the old speed dial, but the pop up box that allows you to assign a page to a 'tab' just feels like it shouldn't be there. It feels a little bit unnatural to me.

    In any case, can't wait to see the next improvements

  • Serdar3. March 2011, 19:16

    party

  • Jan Frode Høines3. March 2011, 19:19

    Testing sherlock

  • Torrente3. March 2011, 19:20

    Now you're talking.

  • QuHno3. March 2011, 19:21

    downloading smile

  • fashisti3. March 2011, 19:22

    no

    drunk

  • max1c3. March 2011, 19:23

    OMG. Speed dial custom description thank you god and Opera software. Have been asking for this for years. Starting to like new speed dial a lot better also.

  • BS-Harou3. March 2011, 19:26

    I really like the new configuration dialog smile however, I still want the possibility to set the old fix layout too smile (vertical align middle looks just better)

  • stargaze3. March 2011, 19:32

    Please add the possibility to hide this big "+" button. It is not very useful if one has a fixed 9, 12 and so on favorite sites and don't want to add another one. Thus the plus destroys the layout

  • Gousti Fruit3. March 2011, 19:38

    - CSS 3 Multi-column: YES !

    - Speed Dial:
    * I removed the Zooming button so to zoom I'm using the keyboard shortcuts, and in order to zoom on the Speed Dial page using the keyboard, one has to set the focus on the "Configure Speed Dial" button, else the input characters default int the search bar.
    * the Speed Dial thumbnail in Visual Tabs is still broken
    * I don't understand why every zooming in/out requires reloading each webpage attached to a Speed Dial button to redraw the thumbnail !? Wouldn't it be easier and faster to save a once a time full size screenshot of the page and resize it at will ?
    * When choosing the Speed Dial layout, the width of the buttons should adapt to the width of the browser.

  • DrillSarge3. March 2011, 19:38

    http://www.spiegel.de/
    http://www.computerbase.de/
    http://store.steampowered.com/
    = all broken.
    content blocker works kinda strange. it blocks ads but on flash ads it just shows the placeholder instead of hiding them at all (I have on demand plugins enabled)

    opera @win vista x64 sp2

  • Nico3. March 2011, 19:38

    Looks good so far, thank you for the new Snapshot! smile

  • Domel3. March 2011, 19:39

    It is now possible to add a custom title to Speed Dials, through the new add/edit dialog

    Hurray!

  • Torrente3. March 2011, 19:40

    Originally posted by Domel:

    It is now possible to add a custom title to Speed Dials, through the new add/edit dialog


    Great, now what do you think about custom thumbnails (from hard disk or url), because the grabbed ones are usually hard to distinguish?

  • BjoernD3. March 2011, 19:42

  • FataL3. March 2011, 19:42

    Implemented CSS multi-column support

    Yay!

    DSK-328105 Windows classic native skin uses black text on dark progress bar in the address field

    yes

  • Nico3. March 2011, 19:44

    I've got an idea for Speed Dial preferences: When preferences are open, make the whole background (i.e. the Speed Dial) look blurry.

  • Avola3. March 2011, 19:44

    A bunch of new speed dial tabs keep opening in the background on my tab bar whenever I use/edit the speed dial or click a link bigeyes . I'll have to revert to 11.01 for now. Also not a fan of the flow layout, or the configure button. Love being able to change the titles though. I hope you also add the option to change the pictures!
    Win7 x64, upgraded from 11.01

  • Rijk3. March 2011, 19:44

    Originally posted by DrillSarge:

    (some sites) all broken.

    Please check your settings etc, those sites look fine here (at a quick glance)

  • Gousti Fruit3. March 2011, 19:46

    Originally posted by Rijk:

    Originally posted by DrillSarge:

    (some sites) all broken.

    Please check your settings etc, those sites look fine here (at a quick glance)
    I concur, they look fine here too.

  • mutley902103. March 2011, 19:46

    Great build. Now that's how the speed dial should be. :-)

  • DrillSarge3. March 2011, 19:47

    I am gonna do a clean reinstall (upgraded from last build) will report back then...

  • max1c3. March 2011, 19:49

    Originally posted by Torrente:

    Great, now what do you think about custom thumbnails (from hard disk or url), because the grabbed ones are usually hard to distinguish?



    That would be a dream come true. But we can't always have what we want to, can we? smile

  • flm3. March 2011, 19:50

    Still crashes on extensions page...

  • DrillSarge3. March 2011, 19:55

    Originally posted by Rijk:

    Please check your settings etc, those sites look fine here (at a quick glance)


    Originally posted by DrillSarge:

    I am gonna do a clean reinstall (upgraded from last build) will report back then...


    okay I did clean reinstall. just moved over my bookmarks.adr, wand.dat, urlfilter.ini and speeddial.ini. no other changes but problems persists. ???

  • Cjcr3. March 2011, 19:55

    Some troubles on tuenti.com (Sometimes get disconnect from chat,and also upload of images is partially broken).

    All Opera versions. Win7. worried

  • set3. March 2011, 19:56

    A suggestion, and a question:

    Put the opera:config#UserPrefs|AutoMailPanelToggle toggle button on the Mail toolbar somewhere as a "Un/pin mail panel"

    And are speed dials supposed to refresh after I zoom in/out the speed dial?

  • Robert Meijers3. March 2011, 19:59

    Originally posted by DrillSarge:

    okay I did clean reinstall. just moved over my bookmarks.adr, wand.dat, urlfilter.ini and speeddial.ini. no other changes but problems persists. ???


    I bet your urlfilter.ini is corrupted.

    See the "Using the Content Blocker while logged in to Opera Link can cause a crash" known issue. This crash can lead to a corrupted urlfilter.ini and thus (a lot) of pages not loading/getting blocked.

  • lynott3. March 2011, 20:02

    This build destroyed my wand file. Login with wand didn't work on any site, and when I saved a now entry, the wand file was reset from 90 k to 3 k. Sorry for me I have no backup of the wand sad
    Also, the gmail - check mail extension does not work.

  • Rijk3. March 2011, 20:04

    Originally posted by sutekh:

    And are speed dials supposed to refresh after I zoom in/out the speed dial?

    Yes, for now at least.

  • Mark3. March 2011, 20:04

    Mod edit: Try to report problems briefly, yet with a thorough description. Avoid noise that doesn't directly address the problem you are trying to report.

  • flm3. March 2011, 20:05

    Also:
    - Still caches all directly viewed images in \icons folder. (Some weird feature??)
    - "Panning" of big image with middle or right mouse button give strange results (right mouse button getting "stuck", random mouse gestures triggers sometimes, etc.

    winxpsp3

  • karin meyer3. March 2011, 20:07

    noise removed

  • DrillSarge3. March 2011, 20:07

    Originally posted by Robert90:

    I bet your urlfilter.ini is corrupted.


    no, I tried without urlfilter and with a fresh copy from fanboys adblock list. no changes at all.

  • marcel3. March 2011, 20:07

    Speed Dial ROCK AND ROLL !!! yes

    Can now change column number. (more choice in opera:config )
    And zoom ! headbang

    Thank you opera team !

  • Rijk3. March 2011, 20:07

    Originally posted by Avola:

    A bunch of new speed dial tabs keep opening in the background on my tab bar whenever I use/edit the speed dial or click a link.

    I'm not seeing that, sounds strange.

  • KHH3. March 2011, 20:08

    Snotr (http://snotr.com) doesn't seem to work, the videos aren't showing up.

    Gaikai beta (http://www.beta.gaikai.com) reports error on tests (though they claim it went wrong on their end)

    Windows 7 x64

  • Alex3. March 2011, 20:10

    Nice build. Any way to lock the Speed Dial so there would be no + and no scrolling?

  • Aleš Zavec3. March 2011, 20:13

    When zooming in and out on speed dial rapidly, some thumbnails look out of focus (even after (or without) (automatic) reload).

    ubuntu 10.04 32 bit

  • Alessandro Germanotta3. March 2011, 20:20

    it can be possible to insert a external and personal snapshot of the site in the speed-dial?

  • IKoke3. March 2011, 20:21

    "It is now possible to add a custom title to Speed Dials, through the new add/edit dialog"

    YEEES bigsmile

  • BugBuster3. March 2011, 20:23

    Mouse panning is back - yay! bigsmile I'm able to testing again (mouse panning was too important for me)

  • Rijk3. March 2011, 20:23

    Originally posted by lynott:

    This build destroyed my wand file. Login with wand didn't work on any site, and when I saved a now entry, the wand file was reset from 90 k to 3 k. Sorry for me I have no backup of the wand

    Anything special about your system? Are you using Master Password, and/or Opera Link?

  • Terepin3. March 2011, 20:26

    A few suggestions, if I may:
    1. Extended SD's background into chrome and tab.
    2. Use same style in AOM.
    Feature request:
    - Add support for grouped emails from Gmail.
    Question:
    Is there a way to open mail above deleted one?

  • Daniele3. March 2011, 20:34

    I really like the way the new speed dial looks....also I don't know whta you changed under the hood but this snapshot is really fast on my macbook!

  • Alatial3. March 2011, 20:35

    Youtube dead in ubuntu 10.10:(.

    Por lo demas exelente trabajo.smile

  • Maxim3. March 2011, 20:35

    Can you add option to new Speed dial "Fill empty space by empty cells"? Speed dial page looks more complete, when it filled by cells, event if cells are empty smile

  • hundredorzero3. March 2011, 20:36

    Speeddials are now much better than previous barracuda snapshot. However i still prefer liquid layout for speed dials. Hope you will add an option for it soon.
    If 5 coulumn layout is selected and panel is open, the last column goes out of the screen. (My resolution is 1280x1024)
    I hate the very sight of that big + sign.

  • Ruarí Ødegaard3. March 2011, 20:36

    Originally posted by oldienr1:

    DSK-327324 (KDE File selector can not save to a non-existing file

    It does work for me. Could you give more detail, like your distro name and version and also the version of KDE.

  • Ruarí Ødegaard3. March 2011, 20:37

    Originally posted by Alatial:

    Youtube dead in ubuntu 10.10:(.

    read the known issues

About this article

Published inDesktop Team blog
DateMarch 3, 2011
AuthorAlexander Remen
Tagszooming, multi-column, phrase searching, 11.10, speed dial, Barracuda, turbo
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