Stability, font work, and Geolocation for Linux

Readers' comments

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

• René-Gilles Deberdt25. June 2010, 13:10

  First!
  Thanks for the increased activity in build releases. We all love it.
  
  Still no news about the tab bar button hovering being off by a few pixels compared to 10.5x series? It's annoying to anyone who has hundreds of tabs at the same time... When your tabs are 4-pixel wide and you spend your time switching between them with a precision mouse, you can't afford to have a tab highlight itself when you're hovering over the center of the one next to it... :-/
  
  Edit: as a reminder -- this can be reproduced by installing a fresh copy of v10.60, installing the D.T.A skin (one of the few skins that are power-user-friendly in the tab bar), and launching at least a hundred tabs with Ctrl+T. Cancel them later with Ctrl+W. The highlighting works just fine with v10.54. If there's something that can be done by editing the skin, please feel free to share!
  
  

• soccerdog2325. June 2010, 13:17

  still the start bar bug... no text being showed when a tab is opened in the background....
  
  http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/5400/startbar.jpg

• berend ytsma25. June 2010, 13:18

  Originally posted by Nao:

  this can be reproduced by installing a fresh copy of v10.60, installing the D.T.A skin

  
  can it be reprodused with the standert skin?

• miki6925. June 2010, 13:19

  can't keep this pace with you guys

• Patrick O'Reilly25. June 2010, 13:22

  Just raised a bug with the application cache status and uncached values not having the correct value for a cached page.
  Great to see wifi accuracy coming to Linux.
  Vuvuzela all the way.

• René-Gilles Deberdt25. June 2010, 13:22

  Originally posted by ytsmabeer:

  can it be reprodused with the standert skin?

  
  Nope. Well, at least it doesn't look like it. Problem is, with 100+ tabs, the default skin starts showing gibberish instead of properly drawn simple tabs.
  I'm sure it's an issue with padding and margins or something. But the trouble is, *it worked with v10.54* and all versions before it. So, it means something was changed. I'd just like for the team to have a look into it and tell us what needs to be changed, if it can be fixed in the skin itself.
  
  

• macfly198725. June 2010, 13:23

  I use Debian. Environment KDE4/OpenBox. From the penultimate flash snapshots no longer clickable.

• alexxliu25. June 2010, 13:34

  Originally posted by soccerdog23:

  still the start bar bug... know text being showed when a tab is opened in the background....
  
  
  
  http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/5400/startbar.jpg

  
  
  confirm

• yihtang25. June 2010, 13:34

  yesterday "pineapple" today "vuvuzela" LOL thanks for the fast releasing speed!
  
  well, deviantart.com overlapping image issue is not yet fixed...
  and ya, I found opera still loading from its cache (didn't update) after visiting the page again although the page had changed a lot
  
  cheers!

• Luca Viozzi25. June 2010, 13:43

  i can't remove the search bar in the speed dial, it always reappear after the browser restart. And in the list of the search engines the icons are wrong.
  
  Anyone can confirm?
  xp sp3

• erupt25. June 2010, 13:43

  On www.guru3d.com the page is not fully loading, because of 'Waiting #19 for connection'. While this page is fully loaded Opera doesn't load any web sites, because of the very same issue above. The same happens when you try to reload the image of guru3d on the speed dial.
  Here is a screenshot: http://files.myopera.com/erupt/files/1.png
  
  WinXP x32; Opera Build 3437

• Wojciech Robótka25. June 2010, 13:44

  Don't work http://video.interia.pl/obejrzyj,film,117189
  no video window !

• Patata25. June 2010, 13:45

  Originally posted by lucaviozzi:

  Anyone can confirm?

  
  
  Yes, Speed Dial Search reappears and ask.com search has bing icon
  (Win7x64)

• Daniel Aleksandersen25. June 2010, 13:53

  Originally posted by lucaviozzi:

  can't remove the search bar in the speed dial, it always reappear after the browser restart. And in the list of the search engines the icons are wrong.

  Confirmed. I will open a bug for you. (DSK-303725)

• mrd25. June 2010, 13:53

  Excellent adding the suggestions to the address bar.

• Luca Viozzi25. June 2010, 13:57

  Originally posted by daniel:

  Confirmed. I will open a bug for you.

  Thanks a lot daniel

• Cristian Secară25. June 2010, 13:58

  Any chance to have back a functional "Show images / Cached images only / etc." toggle button in the lower right corner ready to be used when Opera starts ? When I am on mobile I use often that feature, but now I have to load any random page first (including any image it might have) in order to be then able to disable the image loading. I know that this option is also somewhere in main menu, but it is too far and annoying to be reached (and if so, then what's the purpose of the lower button to be there ?).
  
  This is a(another) regression, in 10.10 works as it should.
  
  Cristi

• Zotlan25. June 2010, 14:06

  Geolocation is now definitely working better on Linux, remarkably accurate really. It's only a few dozen meter off on your demo site.

• Penge25. June 2010, 14:08

  Thanks for the suggestions to the address bar.

• Bill P25. June 2010, 14:09

  geolocation does not work for me, Linux 64bit hardwired to dsl modem
  tested multiple test pages

• Wykladowca25. June 2010, 14:09

  Opera hangs on loading pages with flash content. It completely stops for more or less 15 seconds. After unfreezing no flash is loaded.
  Output when Opera is run from the console:
  
  opera: Plug-in 11800 is not responding. It will be closed.
  opera: Define environment variable OPERA_KEEP_BLOCKED_PLUGIN to keep blocked plug-ins.
  opera: Plug-in 11832 is not responding. It will be closed.
  opera: Define environment variable OPERA_KEEP_BLOCKED_PLUGIN to keep blocked plug-ins.
  opera: Plug-in 11863 is not responding. It will be closed.
  opera: Define environment variable OPERA_KEEP_BLOCKED_PLUGIN to keep blocked plug-ins.
  
  Moreover, Opera Dragonfly after changing the active tab covers part of the site instead of resizing the page display area.
  
  Another issue is 1px black outline around form select dropdowns. It breaks look of some native controls
  
  Compilation
  6382
  Platform
  Linux
  System
  x86_64, 2.6.33-gentoo
  Flash: 10.0.45.2-r1 (64bit)
  

• adze25. June 2010, 14:09

  The plugins issue that plagued the previous builds -- CORE-30895 (Does not find all plug-ins) -- seems to be fixed. Thanks.

• Ben Ryves25. June 2010, 14:13

  Installing this build set Ask as my default search engine and added the Speed Dial search (also Ask). I had previously set Bing as my default search engine and removed the Speed Dial search.

• jaybonline25. June 2010, 14:16

  suggestion: bookmark page shortcut key like safari please

• minho25. June 2010, 14:16

  Fix DSK-296161 please!

• Gap5125. June 2010, 14:16

  Geolocation is still not work for me. Win7, x86&64
  http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/2647/geofailed1.png
  http://img576.imageshack.us/img576/5996/geofailed2.png

• poorrichard0125. June 2010, 14:21

  I spoke too soon. Somehow I did something that allowed me to pull up a document and edit it in Microsoft Web Apps....but now I can't repeat that. It still gets stuck at 95%.

• yihtang25. June 2010, 14:21

  http://www.fifa.com/live/competitions/worldcup/matchday=15/day=1/match=300111111/index.html
  cannot show font in the center and chatbox. Something is seriously wrong. Regression, didn't happen in previous build
  
  Edit: I'm sorry. It's the problem with Z7-Glass skin version 2.60

• Josemi25. June 2010, 14:22

  Why is it called "Vuvuzela"?
  
  http://snapshot.opera.com/windows/vuvuzela_10.60-3437/Opera_1060_3437_in.exe

• cghislai25. June 2010, 14:24

  Originally posted by Zotlan:

  Geolocation is now definitely working better on Linux, remarkably accurate really

  
  Indeed ! Thats impressive!

• Bill P25. June 2010, 14:24

  google maps get directions freezes system w/100% cpu
  64bit linux

• berend ytsma25. June 2010, 14:25

  Originally posted by Josemi16:

  Why is it called "Vuvuzela"?

  
  For fun, and make it difficult for people to gues the next build

• OperaDrBruce25. June 2010, 14:27

  Vuvuzela, I lol'd! Testing ...

• getnikkoo25. June 2010, 14:28

  u don't get any better interface than it for xp

• Josemi25. June 2010, 14:30

  Originally posted by poorrichard01:

  Microsoft Web Apps still gets stuck at 95%.

  
  
  :-( Please, solve this...
  

• seaman12325. June 2010, 14:32

  The plugin "totem-mozilla" (version 2.30.2) doesn't work. It's in the right folders, but Opera can't find it.
  
  Can somebody help? It's a bug?
  
  OS: Ubuntu 10.04 64bit
  

• Kirilo8125. June 2010, 14:37

  "CORE-30895 (Does not find all plug-ins)"
  
  I was so full of hope, but still no Flash in OpenSuse 11.3. :-(
  
  Except for that everything works fine.

• Varun25. June 2010, 14:39

  Whats with these links
  http://snapshot.opera.com/windows/vuvuzela_10.60-3437/Opera_1060_3437_in.exe
  And previous build
  http://snapshot.opera.com/windows/pineapple_10.60-3435/Opera_1060_3435_in.exe
  
  pineapple, vuvuzela, am i missing something?
  
  Also this current build seems some 30% slower on Peacemaker Benchmark than the first 10.6 build.

• Rijk25. June 2010, 14:40

  Originally posted by jaybonline:

  suggestion: bookmark page shortcut key like safari please

  Isn't it Cmd-D in Safari? That's the same as in Opera...
  
  

  Originally posted by Gap51:

  Geolocation is still not work for me. Win7, x86&64

  You didn't disable it in opera:config? Anything special about your system?
  
  

  Originally posted by Bill_P:

  geolocation does not work for me, Linux 64bit hardwired to dsl modem

  What happens when you try those test pages?
  

• Robin Schouten25. June 2010, 14:42

  Geolocation works perfectly here, very accurate! Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit, used Wi-Fi connection on a laptop.

• Rijk25. June 2010, 14:43

  Originally posted by VarunM:

  pineapple, vuvuzela, am i missing something?

  A random number or word gets added to the download location, to prevent guessing of the next build. Gives us time to upload them and edit the blogpost before pushing the 'post' button.
  

• Varun25. June 2010, 14:47

  I am seeing these latest builds having some significant CPU usage
  It sticks around 15-23 % CPU constantly.
  Even when minimized its around that mark.
  Only some 8 tabs opened. Mem. usage is at 300MB (not an issue)
  Started noticing this in last few ones (possibly since 10.6 got out)
  
  Using Win 7 64bit.
  Processor is core2duo 3.16GHz 4GB RAM

• Bill P25. June 2010, 14:49

  @Rijk - re: geolocation not working
  
  they all ask for permission and I give it (pop up on top)
  
  http://benwerd.com/lab/geo.php - The page could not get your location.
  http://diveintohtml5.org/detect.html#geolocation - Unable to determine your location.
  http://html5demos.com/geo - failed
  
  turned off ujs and proxy and no help and did not work in Chromium either, so could it be a firewall port issue?

• MaxFragg25. June 2010, 14:50

  since when did you add the option to remove the menu button text again? anyway, nice you did
  
  @Bill P: they work all for me (win7 64 currently, and they did also work with linux in the last build) the only thing is, that for me geolocation is incredible unprecise and allways points towards the center of nuremberg, which is about 25km from here

• i4u125. June 2010, 14:57

  Originally posted by MaxFragg:

  since when did you add the option to remove the menu button text again? anyway, nice you did

  
  Where's this option?
  
  
  And again middle button/scroll click on tab opens nes instead of closing

• Avola25. June 2010, 14:57

  Sorry for being off-topic, but could you please stop these pages from jumping to the top of the comment section every time they load? It's really annoying.

• Zotlan25. June 2010, 14:59

  grrr, why does Opera feel the need to mess with my search settings? I'd previously deleted Bing and Ask, as well as some others. But this update brought back Ask and made Bing my default for speeddial search (i had history search). It's really quite annoying when updates mess with your settings when there is clearly no need for them to do so.
  (Linux build)

• MaxFragg25. June 2010, 15:00

  its no special option just select the "toolbar" that countains the button and change in apperance setting "show icons and text" to "show only icons"

• barioux25. June 2010, 15:01

  The last 3 builds hang completely when accessing Google Maps; Opera needs to be 'killed' but gives no error messages. Happens on Windows XP and 7.

• Mod052825. June 2010, 15:07

  Cha, cha, finally some really good stuff (Search suggestions now work in the address bar when using search keywords), not only 'we faster, we faster'
  Suggestions only for bing and Wikipedia? Any hope in near future for google?