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YAS (Yet another snapshot)

May 28, 2012 · by Łukasz Derkacz

Hi Guys,

As some of you have noticed, there were 4 snapshots in a row last week. So we have decided to tease you more and release another one today pirate

There was not much time to get to the issues reported by you during the weekend but still we have some fixes. As you may guess, we are putting effort to make the browser more shiny and stable.

Our jewel for today is the fix for Restore button closing Opera that many of you have complained about. We have also added support for sending GPU details in crashlogs and we believe this will help us improve the Hardware Acceleration feature. There are fixes for the Opera Mail UI, something for RTL users on Linux, and some site compability issues (including one with Facebook API bigsmile )

There were a few comments regarding rendering issues (UI, web page, scrolling). Please check them with Hardware Acceleration off first and then, if they still exist, send us a comment/report.

Thanx for testing up

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
  • CORE-44712 All Facebook API don't work - do not fire onload for IFRAME with about:blank document if navigation elsewhere was started
  • CORE-46162 Canvas content is not cleared if the the same width and height are set
  • CORE-46477 Support sliced file uploads via xhr.send(File)

Desktop
  • DSK-349382 Send GPU details with the crash log
  • DSK-364204 Active renderer loses "Graphics hardware and driver details" section at opera:gpu page

Mail
  • DSK-364425 Crash when dragging mail panel header and use scroll wheel
  • DSK-359867 [Unix] [Win] Mail tree view's drag and drop interferes with splitter

Windows
  • DSK-362235 Restore tabs button closes Opera with Menu Bar enabled
  • DSK-364481 Only show default mail client dialog on major version upgrades
  • DSK-364249 Crash on dragging a tab around if Speed Dial is opened in a background tab, and when dragging bookmark to page

Linux/FreeBSD
  • DSK-362044 "View report" button doesn't work in HWA-CrashLogging builds on Linux
  • DSK-364005 RTL UI dropdowns use same backround as LTR
  • DSK-364278 [unix] No prompt dialog when dropping files on Opera

Readers' comments

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

  • WesleytechwgMonday, May 28, 2012 3:46:24 PM

    Oh yeah! Good work guys. I need Opera 12 final so much that my eyes are curling back inside my head.
  • Cristian SecarăsecaricaMonday, May 28, 2012 3:49:25 PM

    Facebook has now its own API ? Sinister ...

    Cristi
  • CryioAcryionMonday, May 28, 2012 4:09:52 PM

    I think you guys are great with this rapid succesion of snapshots. Keep the burst of fixes coming
  • Ayrton Nádgelayrtonnadgel92Monday, May 28, 2012 4:14:23 PM

    thanks... up
  • epidemicMonday, May 28, 2012 4:17:39 PM

    Closing background tabs with x button steals focus from selected tab for a split second.

    Opera 12 x64/x86 hwa:off Win7 x64

    Anyone confirm?
  • ClashCityRockerclashcityrockerMonday, May 28, 2012 4:23:30 PM

    DSK-359867 Yes.... :-) Opera 12 is now usable for me.
  • CristiancristianerMonday, May 28, 2012 4:25:04 PM

    Thanks!
  • m910qMonday, May 28, 2012 4:25:16 PM

    Opening the download tab for the first time makes Opera stall for a moment, while loading the icons. Even if the list only contains a few couple of files. (5 last Opera Next releases for instance)
     
    This happens on all my computers, even the ones with an SSD.
     
    Win 7 & 8, x64
     
     

    Originally posted by epidemic:

    Closing background tabs with x button steals focus from selected tab for a split second.

    Opera 12 x64/x86 hwa:off Win7 x64

    Anyone confirm?



    Confirmed, Win7 x64
  • King CrimsonMonday, May 28, 2012 4:29:25 PM



    Is there any chance to give back the ability of uniting folder with the same names (as I wrote here: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=1332222)?


    Thanks!
  • ВладимирbigvovanMonday, May 28, 2012 4:34:06 PM

    Thank you very much for the improvement of Ukrainians favorite browser!
  • NeXaenMonday, May 28, 2012 4:38:10 PM

    these important bugs are not fixed :

    DSK-362047 :: RTL characters distinguish
    DSK-362073 :: Star icon

  • ВладимирbigvovanMonday, May 28, 2012 4:38:42 PM

    I have a question and odnovoremenno request to the developers! When it was in the Opera browser will be possible to copy text formatting, and save images to the clipboard for further pasting to MS Word for example.
  • minhoMonday, May 28, 2012 4:42:33 PM

    Thanks for fix some problems with "Show border" on linux. up
  • SebastiánslalauretteMonday, May 28, 2012 4:49:56 PM

    Originally posted by epidemic:

    Closing background tabs with x button steals focus from selected tab for a split second.


    Confirmed, and expected behaviour.
  • SebastiánslalauretteMonday, May 28, 2012 4:51:23 PM

    Originally posted by bigvovan:

    I have a question and odnovoremenno request to the developers! When it was in the Opera browser will be possible to copy text formatting, and save images to the clipboard for further pasting to MS Word for example.


    +1. And please could you fix the print selection feature? It's been broken for a decade now.
  • ownedownsMonday, May 28, 2012 5:00:23 PM

    Third useless snapshot for me.
    Again the same problems as previous 2.
    Installer info button popup has transparent background and the text in the info popup is cut from the bottom.
    Installer's progress bar is pale.
    Opera interface is not rendered correctly, almost all elements are black.
    Browser is not loading any pages.
    I really hope you are not near RC!

    WinXP Pro SP3, 32bit, 1GB of RAM
    Athlon XP 2500+, GeForce 7600GS 256MB
  • ВладимирbigvovanMonday, May 28, 2012 5:01:05 PM

    With the passage of the test (http://peacekeeper.futuremark.com/), there is an error Test timeout exceeded while running test webglSphere.
    The system win7 x64 Opera x64
  • minhoMonday, May 28, 2012 5:04:14 PM

    Nwe bug on linux?
    Install any theme and enable it
    press shift+f12 and select "Opera Unix Skin"
    When the "Opera Unix Skin" is enabled, the appearence windows is hidden and I need alternate to other application and back to Opera to see the appearence dialog again.

    Confirm?

    Fedora 16 x32, no hwa
  • Rafał MiłeckiZajecMonday, May 28, 2012 5:05:13 PM

    CORE-44712 All Facebook API don't work - do not fire onload for IFRAME with about:blank document if navigation elsewhere was started

    Is the the bug that was commonly workarounded with:
    if (window.opera)
    {
    	FB.XD._transport = "postmessage";
    	FB.XD.PostMessage.init();
    }
    ?
  • DayderDayMonday, May 28, 2012 5:05:34 PM

    Originally posted by Lukasz:

    Our jewel for today is the fix for Restore button closing Opera that many of you have complained about.


    what about the tabs restore button, which is a triangle (and should be reverted to the recycle bin)?! many of us complained therefor too worried
  • XombiemubaidrMonday, May 28, 2012 5:10:10 PM

    Atleast Memory leak Issues related to DirectX H/W acceleration should be fixed before Opera 12. sad

    Adding heavy pages (33 total, 7,8 heavy pages) (for which thubnail size is larger then 512Kb) to speeddial, WebGl does not work.
  • r2x0tMonday, May 28, 2012 5:15:46 PM

    Still impossible to move/reorder tabs when "Wrap to multiple lines" is used.
    This bug was introduced in 12.00-1431 snapshot, it WORKED in previous versions!

    Reported it as DSK-364749.
  • Bill PBill_PMonday, May 28, 2012 5:37:31 PM

    rss feed sorting by subject is strange (others appear to sort correctly)
    screen-20120528-133543
  • Eduardo Garri PérezegarripMonday, May 28, 2012 5:44:06 PM

    Originally posted by bigvovan:

    With the passage of the test (http://peacekeeper.futuremark.com/), there is an error Test timeout exceeded while running test webglSphere.
    The system win7 x64 Opera x64

    Confirmed when I have HWA enabled
  • ВладимирbigvovanMonday, May 28, 2012 5:56:19 PM

    Found a lot of small problems when working on the most visited site (social networking site Vkontakte) in the CIS (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus ....). The problems are different, for example, does not always appear when you click the window Like, sometimes there are characters on a pale red background, and then themselves disappear when you view (scrolling), images (pictures), it always restarts. I understand that you are fans of Facebook, and find and fix bugs only him, but do not forget about those countries in which your browser is the most popular and we all enjoy the site Vkontakte ( http://VK.COM/ ), not Facebook site.
  • gollyMonday, May 28, 2012 5:57:05 PM

  • vgakkharMonday, May 28, 2012 6:03:13 PM

    Some basic flaws still remain in Mails. For example, the following ;-
    1) Mailing List loses its sort sequence on every restart
    2) Searching in "All Messages" does not give accurate results
    3) "Search Mail" and "Quick Find" show same result
    4) "Status Field" does not give accurate numbers.
    5) Search engine moves very slow while searching.
    Thanks for working on improving these flaws too.
    Vinay Gakkhar
  • dafaliasMonday, May 28, 2012 6:04:07 PM

    I haven't had many crashes with the latest snapshots, but a lot of freezes, Opera not responding in seemingly random situations.
    Infinite loading with the last resource is also very common - why not include a timeout, especially with javascript resources that come from different domains? It is very tiring to always wait for advertisement networks to respond.
    A very common flaw is that I have to re-click links to slow sites several times before Opera starts loading them at all.
  • minhoMonday, May 28, 2012 6:05:54 PM

    Originally posted by derDay:

    what about the tabs restore button, which is a triangle (and should be reverted to the recycle bin)?! many of us complained therefor too


    +1
  • Ja`Nusz WuPLUserMonday, May 28, 2012 6:17:23 PM

    Black windows are still here.

    It's impossible to work with this. I'm back to 1289.
  • Frederick Barnettfred8615Monday, May 28, 2012 6:18:02 PM

    FWIW, still not able to add files using the Mediafire upload program except via drag & drop, or IDing as another browser.
  • sirnh1Monday, May 28, 2012 6:23:27 PM

    * Tools --> advanced --> show ALL open tabs under the 'reload from cache' menu item (you can guess the problem with over 50 tabs open in total p )
    * Gmail buttons are white (I have the 'dark'-color theme enabled in gmail)

    (screenshot)
    (No problems with opera 11.64)
  • alekksanderMonday, May 28, 2012 6:25:09 PM

    Thanks for the snapshot, but:
    Scrolling performance still behind 11.64 (hwa disabled).
    Panel toggle doesn't respect color changes.
    Flash performance - very poor.
  • BS-HarouMonday, May 28, 2012 6:27:45 PM

    Originally posted by derDay:

    what about the tabs restore button, which is a triangle (and should be reverted to the recycle bin)?! many of us complained therefor too


    Originally posted by minho:

    +1


    +1
  • ahoj1234Monday, May 28, 2012 6:35:54 PM

    Opera is too slow when using USB install from flash disk.. no problem with data transfer other way then via Opera.. little bit bad that you have to transfer all folder to HDD..
    (Transcend JetFlash 700 16GB) Opera (still only build 1429) x64 on W7 x64
    FB loading time is over 5minutes when using flash disk.. on HDD a few sec (+- 5s) , of course USB install
  • Eugenesie65Monday, May 28, 2012 6:39:27 PM

    i see this when i visit facebook both when HW is on and off: http://clck.ru/d/883zrVzB19PCs
  • Gousti FruitGoustiFruitMonday, May 28, 2012 6:40:18 PM

    There was not much time to get to the issues reported by you during the weekend but still we have some fixes. As you may guess, we are putting effort to make the browser more shiny and stable.



    The "mail database loading" bug, introduced 3 builds ago, makes Opera 12 totally unusable. Back to build 1424 again.
  • ahoj1234Monday, May 28, 2012 6:44:58 PM

    I cant see any changelog for flash and gesture.. is bug when you click right on mouse on some flash video (youtube for example) and you see info about it AND mouse gesture indicator?
    W7 x64 with x64 build (1429),default setting..
  • MaximSailorMaxMonday, May 28, 2012 6:51:06 PM

    Originally posted by bigvovan:

    I have a question and odnovoremenno request to the developers! When it was in the Opera browser will be possible to copy text formatting, and save images to the clipboard for further pasting to MS Word for example.



    May be in next version.
    http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/presto2.10/#m210-294

    Implemented copy, cut, and paste events for text/plain and text/html content.

  • MaximSailorMaxMonday, May 28, 2012 6:52:40 PM

    Originally posted by derDay:

    what about the tabs restore button, which is a triangle (and should be reverted to the recycle bin)?! many of us complained therefor too


    +1 for button without text (only image button)
  • Tze ArepotzearepoMonday, May 28, 2012 6:57:50 PM



    The problem reported on 1431 hasn't been addressed!

    No Backward or Forward arrows!

    http://files.myopera.com/tzearepo/albums/11871792/Opera%2012%201433%20bug.JPG

    Next 1433
    Win XP 32 bits
  • ahoj1234Monday, May 28, 2012 7:00:00 PM

    Originally posted by SailorMax:

    Originally posted by derDay:

    what about the tabs restore button, which is a triangle (and should be reverted to the recycle bin)?! many of us complained therefor too


    +1 for button without text (only image button)
    +1 triangle is really bad.. trash was trash.. we can only hope.. but.. no,we have hoped since they replace it with triangle..
  • Charles SchlossChas4Monday, May 28, 2012 7:01:22 PM

    opera:plugins Does not show all plugins on first load, have to click Refresh plug-ins to show them

    OS X 10.7.4
  • MaximSailorMaxMonday, May 28, 2012 7:03:04 PM

    Looks like option "Redraw instantly" at "Preferences / Advanced / Browsing / Loading" is broken sad Now Opera always using redraw on loaded.

    confirm?

    Win7 32bit, Opera 32bit, With/Without HWA
  • zoqueteMonday, May 28, 2012 7:04:45 PM

    hwa disabled, no change
    DSK-363972
  • zoqueteMonday, May 28, 2012 7:07:04 PM

    hwa disabled:

    black addressbar in native skin, still present

    using alternative stylesheet, when you click a link, Opera returns to default style, so that the alternative stylesheet is useless.
  • alf245Monday, May 28, 2012 7:08:44 PM

    Page flickering on Linux x64, hardware accel=off:
    If an URL contains an anchor the page is displayed twice. First, the page is displayed as if there were no anchor in the URL and a fraction of a second later the page is displayed with the anchor position at the top of the rendering area. This kind of flickering needlessly stresses the eyes and is a regression from Opera 11.64.
  • maggregMonday, May 28, 2012 7:12:25 PM

    Negative "letter-spacing" still broken if header has non-english characters (HWA enabled only).



    pzdr
  • cousin333Monday, May 28, 2012 7:16:03 PM

    "There were a few comments regarding rendering issues (UI, web page, scrolling)."

    Here you are: http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/25/3042640/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-review

    Scrolling is much more choppier as in IE9. Using this build (64-bit) on Win7 x64 with HWA off.
  • Christian WaldeXenoFurMonday, May 28, 2012 7:17:49 PM

    Build 1433, 32 bit crashes for me while trying to load my email/feed store, even with no tabs open. :/

    Edit: And builds 1429 as well as 1431 do it as well. Build 1424 is the last one to work.

About this article

Published inDesktop Team blog
DateMay 28, 2012
AuthorŁukasz Derkacz
Tagsrtl, M2, hw, mail
OriginalInternet Archive