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Weekend snapshot

February 20, 2010 · by Haavard

Another Windows snapshot is ready for testing. There will probably not be anything for Unix and Mac this weekend.

Note that we would still like to know if you are able to find any problems when upgrading from previous versions.

Known Issues
  • Crashes a lot under Windows 7 (can be worked around by disabling opera:config#UserPrefs|UseWindows7TaskbarThumbnails)
  • GDI leak when opening pages
  • HTML5 <video> is still broken

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

Desktop
  • DSK-219288 Can't "Paste and go" in a background tab (added "Paste and go background" action)
  • DSK-278748 font-style regressions
  • DSK-279904 Memguarded Opera crash on maximizing tab pages
  • DSK-244632 When pressing Ctrl+T, the new tab opens in background.
  • DSK-279844 O-menu button can be removed with no way of getting it back
  • DSK-281888 Text in form dropdowns disappear (or goes white) on hover
  • DSK-279381 "Private" tab settings not inherited in new tab when "reuse current tab" is disabled
  • DSK-279538 Middle-clicking folders in the bookmarks panel is not working
  • DSK-278711 Deleting and readding bookmark shows Bookmark Properties dialog
  • DSK-277996 "Go to Web Address" not working
  • DSK-278189 Zoom menu inactive on opera:* pages
  • DSK-168869 Certain characters truncate URLs in messages, breaking links
  • DSK-278062 File icons in the download dialog are stretched
  • DSK-266465 Shockwave painted in wrong place in Evenes
  • DSK-280443 Clicking the Go button in the search box doesn't always search
  • DSK-279994 Increasing the maximum number of connections from 20 to 64
  • DSK-280722 Zoom menu does not reflect the actual zoom level

Core
  • CORE-24740 Crash with XSLT
  • CORE-27172 FTP Browser shows windows style path seperators "\", breaks ftp browsing
  • CORE-25799 Page content not resized to fit window on maximizing
  • CORE-25985 Mountpoint URLs with a numeric name gets converted to IPv4 address before resolving
  • CORE-24369 Client sends all its data after dirty sync
  • CORE-27159 Unknown option 2005 when right-clicking on images
  • CORE-27080 Starting Dragonfly causes 10.50 to crash
  • CORE-25980 URL fragment dropped from links in MHTML files

Readers' comments

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

  • Strago20. February 2010, 13:12

    testing!!!
  • zilchide20. February 2010, 13:12

    First????
    GREAT WORK!!
  • hcym20. February 2010, 13:16

    Another Windows snapshot
    :hat:
  • xeon054120. February 2010, 13:24

    1)no,font-style regression is still existing in chinese fonts

    Please compare with opera 10.10
    http://chinese.engadget.com/


    2) why characters are rotated, it is very serious problem
    http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJKV


    3)ry to right click->block content, and then click the block content, the crash is occurred
  • Mark Gillespie20. February 2010, 13:24

    Hmm, I might give this one a miss. The Known Issues have sorta put me off! Wait till next week and pick up the next one methinks.

    Totally unrelated:

    I wonder if Google are about to OpenSource On2 Codec VP9?
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/20/google_nabs_on2/
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/06/google_vp6_open_source/

    I really hope so, and then this HTML5 Video codec nonsense can be put behind us for good...
  • karlosrocks20. February 2010, 13:26

    Next week starts the ballot screen in windows... Are we getting close to the final stable version?? I hope not, still ther is work to do, besides I use it as my everyday browser.
  • Кирилл20. February 2010, 13:29

    Yeeah! When the Release Candidate wiil be released? :hat:
  • nimu_chan20. February 2010, 13:29

    Thank You !!
  • Mark Gillespie20. February 2010, 13:30

    Originally posted by karlosrocks:

    Nest week starts the ballot screen in windows...



    Not widespread rollout. You can download the update manually from Microsoft from next week (but then if you are smart enough to be able to do that, you are already smart enough to be running Opera!). The automatic updates don't start til March 1st, and then on gradual rollout basis.
  • karlosrocks20. February 2010, 13:34

    Originally posted by mgillespie:

    Not widespread rollout. You can download the update manually from Microsoft from next week (but then if you are smart enough to be able to do that, you are already smart enough to be running Opera!).



    well... you're completely right.
  • Александр Карпинский20. February 2010, 13:38

    Anyone, please try select text and select «send to Email» in context menu. 100% crash with great count of new tabs for me.
  • BS-Harou20. February 2010, 13:42

    :hat: desktopteam is awesome!!!

    BTW thank you sooooo much for fixing DSK-281717. I thought that it will be never fixed :angel:
  • FAKoLL20. February 2010, 13:43

    anyone else having trouble using google analytics? if i click to access to the stats of my sites it just wont load anything ._.
  • Abhishek Thakur20. February 2010, 13:44

    Snapshots are raining once again :up:
  • Galileo20. February 2010, 13:44

    :up:
  • Dennis Tardio20. February 2010, 13:48

    "Crashes a lot under Windows 7"

    Ok, i will wait the next snapshot ^^
  • kimyu9220. February 2010, 13:50

    :up:

    but opera still categorized as a "buggy" version
    1. Hotmail really unstable on WINDOWS XP SP3, build 3263, even i cant delete any mail now ><

    2. Blogger.com when i want upload a image for my NEW POST...it cant work...sad =(

    3. WTH, View source windows , right click still nothing

    any regression pls fix them ASAP
  • Александр Карпинский20. February 2010, 13:50

    Build completely unusable.
    Problems with <select> tag on http://www.livejournal.com/ and right on this page.
  • berend ytsma20. February 2010, 13:50

    Originally posted by Tardio:

    "Crashes a lot under Windows 7"



    Ok, i will wait the next snapshot ^^


    (can be worked around by disabling opera:config#UserPrefs|UseWindows7TaskbarThumbnails)
    Than it doesn't crash anymore
  • Mamonong, Gerard R.20. February 2010, 13:56

    DSK-279844 O-menu button can be removed with no way of getting it back



    There's a way of getting it back look at my blog:


    http://my.opera.com/pieRr0Ur/blog/what-to-do-if-you-suddenly-removed-the-o-menu-on-10-5

    But my guide is only for Windows :frown:
  • Akbalder20. February 2010, 13:56

    Dragging a config.xml file within the browser to debug a widget doesn't function with this build.
  • Vectronic20. February 2010, 14:00

    Phantom e-mail message (started in last snapshot which was a clean profile, this an upgrade from that), seems somewhat random though... can be fixed if I delete everything in the ..\mail\* folder except the critical stuff, but then sometimes when I close and re-open Opera, it will be back again. (one POP Hotmail account, one IMAP Gmail account, both otherwise working perfect)

    Also, the mail viewer [No Message Selected] has a visual glitch when clicking blank areas in the mail list... it will first show in the top left corner, with no frame/background and large bold text... then draw the normal one
    No Message Selected

             [No Message Selected]

    ---

    And one (very) small problem with the Zoom/View pop-up... it doesn't deselect the
    (100% Ctrl+*) button if you zoom while the pop-up is showing, and sometimes even after you click somewhere to close it, then re-open it, the 100% button is still selected, even though the zoom might be at 50 or 200% etc... but sometimes works fine.

    On the same topic, why Ctrl+0 now instead of Ctrl+*? :frown: ...lol, sort of conflicts with Ctrl+# for SpeedDials (even though 0 doesn't work for that)

    XP SP3
     
  • Medium20. February 2010, 14:04

  • Kai Ockendorf20. February 2010, 14:04

    :hat:
  • Daniel James Hendrycks20. February 2010, 14:06

    Originally posted by Akbalder:

    Dragging a config.xml file within the browser to debug a widget doesn't function with this build.


    Or the last two snapshots.
  • King Crimson20. February 2010, 14:06

    I think that "Windows7 Taskbar Thumbnails" is a very ugly feature, and disabling it was the first thing I made when I installed Opera 10.5beta.

    I use Windows7 and I'd like Opera 10.5 had an option in preferences for simply disabling this feature.

  • King Crimson20. February 2010, 14:07

    Another observation:

    please reintroduce close tab button on Opera status bar!
  • Russell20. February 2010, 14:14

    Dragonfly does not work when 2 or more pages are open.

    http://files.uploadffs.com/d/b/b303b845/dragonfly.png

    (Windows 7 x64)
  • Z1-AV6920. February 2010, 14:17

    Since it seems you want to make a final soon: are you aware that when aero is disabled (or on xp) basically all custom skins corrupt the ui on restart? With Aero they are all fine.
  • Frenky Frenky20. February 2010, 14:18

    I still can't paste anything in search field of speed dial .
    Using Gmail and Hotmail I still have to right click on the page to be able to use scripts .
    Win7 32 bit
  • Saurabh Kumar20. February 2010, 14:20

    @haavard I have not had the mail greying out issue till now.(fresh install). Since no mention of it in changelog,problem will probably occur again.

    Some of my other issues posted last build are there and some are fixed.
    http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/show.dml/7964601?startidx=50#comment19318031

    One of the private tab issues is fixed. But middle clicking in a private speed dial opens non-private tab.

    If you tile all tabs and resize window , all tabs get maximized. (Minor issue, or maybe by design)
    Now things are starting to look really good. Hope you get this out in time.
  • BS-Harou20. February 2010, 14:23

    Originally posted by Z1-AV69:

    Since it seems you want to make a final soon: are you aware that when aero is disabled (or on xp) basically all custom skins corrupt the ui on restart? With Aero they are all fine.



    DSK-281706 =)
  • King Crimson20. February 2010, 14:25

    Yes, there's no way to paste a link in search field of speeddial.

    And there's no way to copy text in some webpage.

  • alekksander20. February 2010, 14:40

    YES!
  • haruto886120. February 2010, 15:06

    When come back Proxy auto-config?
  • MetalRaise20. February 2010, 15:06

    Originally posted by FAKoLL:

    anyone else having trouble using google analytics? if i click to access to the stats of my sites it just wont load anything ._.


    Content blocker checked?
  • CogitoErgoSum20. February 2010, 15:09

    Unfortunately, since the last Opera build I have been experiencing hanging and/or slow downloading when attempting to open several tabs and sites at the same time. I have also observed that the cpu will spike to 50% from time to time with the last two builds.

    If I had to guess, it may have something to do with the maximum connections to a server and maximum total connections. I speculate that regardless of ones settings that the actual settings are drastically less. FYI, I am using Opera under Vista 32 SP2.
  • Alexander F20. February 2010, 15:14

    I can bet a lot of money that in the near 1-2 builds we will have hardware acceleration :smile:.
  • BS-Harou20. February 2010, 15:17

    Originally posted by Sasko88:

    I can bet a lot of money that in the near 1-2 builds we will have hardware acceleration :smile:.



    Why do you thing so?
  • Daniel James Hendrycks20. February 2010, 15:26

    Originally posted by Alexander F:

    I can bet a lot of money that in the near 1-2 builds we will have hardware acceleration


    I doubt that. The ballot screen is a week away!
  • MyOpera team, please fix this!20. February 2010, 15:27

    Thanks guys but there is a pretty major regression. This build freezes as soon as it opens for me. 95 tabs, plugins disabled, xp64. It opens and then starts loading all the tabs and then it becomes unresponsive. I'm trying to get it to crash or generate a crash log before I file it.
  • Agentjp20. February 2010, 15:29

    Originally posted by Sasko88:

    I can bet a lot of money that in the near 1-2 builds we will have hardware acceleration :smile:.



    Yeah why?
  • Saurabh Kumar20. February 2010, 15:32

    Tumblr (The Customize tumblr page and the theme garden page) works slowly and unreliably. Firefox is faster on the site but it also works unreliably. Probably bad website design.
  • sleepyhead20. February 2010, 15:32

    so quick to put out new Snapshots these days :up:

    DSK-279538 Middle-clicking folders in the bookmarks panel is not working

    yay \o/
  • Kai Ockendorf20. February 2010, 15:33

    Originally posted by Agentjp:

    I can bet a lot of money


    you must be very rich, cause you´ll lose :sherlock:
  • Haavard20. February 2010, 15:35

    Originally posted by fearphage:

    This build freezes as soon as it opens for me. 95 tabs, plugins disabled, xp64. It opens and then starts loading all the tabs and then it becomes unresponsive.

    Have you tried using Process Monitor or some other tool to see what Opera is doing? You could also try generating a freeze log:

    http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/888/
  • z-o-o-m20. February 2010, 15:40

    > Crashes a lot under Windows 7
    that is cool update :D

    Fortunately, it hasn't crashed yet on Win7 64bit :wink:

    Still, I see just one thumbnail in taskbar even if I have many tabs open :frown:
  • Agentjp20. February 2010, 15:41

    Originally posted by Ockendorf:

    you must be very rich, cause you´ll lose :sherlock:



    I was quoting someone else! Those weren't my words.


    Also will there be anymore skin updates Haavard?
  • mjpa20. February 2010, 15:42

    Are you sure about the GDI leak existing? I've had this build open for some time, the closed tabs menu has ~100 entries and I'm still under 300 GDI objects which is the lowest I've seen with any 10.5 build.

    Edit: Unless its tied to the crashing of win7 thumbnails (which i've got disabled)
  • FreeBrain20. February 2010, 15:44

    A beautiful view... Opera beats Chrome easily in my system...

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Published inDesktop Team blog
DateFebruary 20, 2010
AuthorHaavard
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