Opera 10.01

By Claudio Santambrogio. Wednesday, 28. October 2009, 09:14:44

We published today Opera 10.01, a recommended stability and security update. Thanks to the new automated crashlogging in Opera 10, we collected a lot of the issues that users were seeing, and had a good tool not only to identify some crashers difficult to reproduce in controlled environments, but also to prioritise issues that were affecting a lot of users. A great Thank You to everybody submitting their logs!

See the full changelogs:

Windows

http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/windows/1001/

Mac

http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/mac/1001/

Linux/UNIX

http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/unix/1001/

And then go go download Opera 10.01!

http://www.opera.com/browser/download/

Key fixes and a focus on stability

By Ruari Ødegaard. Thursday, 5. November 2009, 13:29:55

Time for another snapshot and also time for another team member to announce it!

Since I'm involved in UNIX/Linux testing it seems appropriate that I should be the one to announce a snapshot with some nice UNIX fixes. Firstly it seems we got around the Qt 4.5.3+ 100% CPU issue. Also a fix for freezes during DST-to-normal time switch. Finally, we noticed that a few of you were having problems getting Opera to pickup your default Qt style. If you are one of those users try running Opera with the new '-systemstyle' argument.

Of course it is not just Linux specific fixes. There are several Windows stability improvements, crash fixes, Unite fixes, tweaks to improve old features (e.g. check out the list of search engines in doubleclick menu.) ... But I won't list them all here, scroll down to the change log for the full details.

Oh, and before I go remember the Unite Apps competition!

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.

Download

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2009/...s-and-stability

Changelog

User Interface
Fix for proper Dragonfly toolbar button update
Favicons now shown in list of search engines in double-click menu
Fixed Bug DSK-240101 (When all tabs are closed, Ctrl+Z doesn't open closed tab)
Fixed Bug DSK-243433 ("Show thumbnails when hovering tabs" depends on "Show tooltips")

Core
Fixed Bug CORE-23622 (Canvas drawImage with SVG causes memory leaks)
Fixed Bug CORE-25241 (XML parsing errors on SVG documents)
Fixed Bug DSK-269070 (Crash when loading SVG containing foreignObject)
Fixed Bug DSK-256135 (Chat stops updating after "Save linked content as")
Fixed Bug DSK-260572 (Spatial Navigation crash)
Fixed Bug DSK-265082 (Crash after navigating to page by invoking link context menu on double click)

Opera Mail
Corrected a bug where messages were incorrectly added to the mailing lists index
Fixed missing drafts in draft view
Fixed a bug where the mail systray icon would not appear if you have a mail window open but not focused
Made it impossible to hide certain types of mail in trash, drafts, sent, outbox
Disabled possibility to not show mailing lists in mailing lists and similar for feeds and newsgroups

Opera Unite
Changes to "Downloading Unite Application" security dialog
Improved consistency in Opera Unite installation dialog
New strings for opened (UPnP) port info in Unite status dialog
New error string for Unite application settings dialog
Strings for new Unite dialog "Start or install application"
Replaced "code signing certificate" by "code-signing certificate"
Fixed Bug CORE-21620 (Web server crash)
Fixed Bug CORE-25025 (Too many continuous UPnP connections)
Fixed Bug DSK-267707 (Links in ASD fields are HTML linkified)
Fixed Bug DSK-269427 (Double-clicking Unite Home opens two pages)
Fixed Bug DSK-269874 (Unite applications start when restarting Opera after stopping them)

Windows
Further Fix to Bug DSK-254112 (Opera will not start (Error initializing Opera: module 9))
Fixed Bug DSK-266926 (Cannot send mail from a Windows host with underscores in hostname)
Fixed Bug DSK-268958 (With Japanese environment and Microsoft IME, input method always switches to hiragana on startup)
Fixed Bug DSK-269093 (Opera will not start after 10.01 upgrade; OUniAnsi.DLL not found on Win9x)
Fixed Bug DSK-269098 (10.01 startup crash)

Mac
Fixed Bug DSK-269768 (Crashing when using the mouse in the accesskey list)

Unix
Added Moonlight plugin path
Added support for "-systemstyle" to allow using system style
Further Fix to Bug DSK-263473 (No access to IPv6/v4 hybrid sites without IPv6 route (Opera doesn't load some sites))
Further Fix to Bug DSK-267319 (Sleepless main loop with Qt 4.5.3)
Fixed Bug DSK-268805 (Opera hung during DST-to-normal time change)

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2009/...s-and-stability

A lucky build?

By Haavard. Friday, 13. November 2009, 08:04:00
Do you feel lucky? Well do you, Opera user?

This lucky build was born on Friday 13th! As luck would have it, it became an RC for Opera 10.10. That means that you are lucky enough to get to report any critical bugs, regressions, and so on, before we release it.

This no longer installs in the snapshot/beta path, so watch out for that or you could quickly run out of luck. (The default startup page still says beta, and that is because as far as the rest of the world is concerned, the latest official version of 10.10 is a beta.)

Good luck!

WARNING: This is a Friday 13th RC. It no longer installs in a snapshot/beta folder. It contains the latest changes, but should be stable enough for release. But as an RC, it could be unlucky enough to be pulled if any serious issues are found.

Download

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2009/...3/a-lucky-build

Changelog

User Interface
Help pages open in new tabs
Removed shopping.com from Speed Dial
Watch out for Jason
Fixed Bug DSK-144064 (Return key opens Mail page instead of submitting forms or entering newline)
Fixed Bug DSK-267770 (Use cache when requesting favicons)
Fixed Bug DSK-270018 (Add widgets.opera.com to trusted sites)
Fixed Bug DSK-268417 (File access for every keypress when searching from address bar)
Fixed Bug DSK-268879 (Russian Yandex uses same IDs as English Yandex)
Fixed Bug DSK-269943 (EULA in Japanese on Linux has strange square box marks)
Fixed Bug DSK-270495 (Hitting Escape in Confirm Exit dialog hides Opera)
Fixed Bug DSK-270578 (Searching with g space leaks memory)
Fixed Bug DSK-270676 (New Hide Opera functionality can prevent exit)
Fixed Bug DSK-270800 (Amazon search present in Italian install [it])
Fixed Bug DSK-270814 (Default bookmarks with broken UUID)

Core
Fixed Bug DSK-231216 (Crash while background page is loading)
Fixed Bug DSK-266313 (It is possible to cancel the master password dialog and still change the setting)
Fixed Bug DSK-270155 (Crash when entering invalid URL if search field is enabled on error pages)

Mail
Fixed Bug DSK-265537 (Search doesn't search in sent items)
Fixed Bug DSK-270172 (Sent mail always shows up in received mail with IMAP)

Unite
Improved 404 error page
Added the service _asd, that provides the list of services in the "ASD" format
Changes to confirm exit dialog prefs to account for new three-state pref (exit, hide, show dialog): New pref for Unite exit confirmation
Improvements to Unite service performance
Fixed Bug CORE-24426 (Opera sends 3 UPnP NOTIFY messages each time a tab is closed)
Fixed Bug CORE-25294 (Add device name to UPnP friendly name)
Fixed Bug CORE-25435 (Opera does a fraud check for admin domains)
Fixed Bug CORE-25545 (Domain in cookies must be punycoded)
Fixed Bug DSK-265783 (Cannot access properties of services that have never been started)
Reverted Fix to Bug DSK-265783 (Cannot access properties of services that have never been started)
Fixed Bug DSK-267197 (Disabling Unite sometimes disables it only for current session)
Fixed Bug DSK-268520 (Make pref DoNotUseOperaAccount work)
Fixed Bug DSK-269895 (Not able to load homepage if username uses IDN)
Fixed Bug DSK-269778 (If Opera can't connect to auth, Unite doesn't start when Opera restarts with unite enabled)
Fixed Bug DSK-270093 (Implement new confirm exit dialogs)
Fixed Bug DSK-270351 (Unite applications never started after restart)
Fixed Bug DSK-270490 (Ok button disabled)
Fixed Bug DSK-270664 (Applications are not started after first install)

Windows
Unicode compatibility layer improvement
Fixed Bug DSK-190480 (Java error: MSVCR71.dll not found)
Fixed Bug DSK-267075 (Unable to upgrade Opera installed to 2-byte named directory)
Fixed Bug DSK-268192 (Crash in code to open the firewall (Unite))

Mac
Small Java fixes
Fixed Bug DSK-246913 (Opening external link when set to Start-up dialog freezes Opera)
Fixed Bug DSK-265390 (Freezes when accessing IPv6 sites)
Fixed Bug DSK-266578 (Java Crash)
Fixed Bug DSK-268873 (Implement smarter IPv6/IPv4 connection to prevent stalled loading or errors)
Fixed Bug DSK-270785 (Error about too many instances of this browser running on Norwegian BankID sites)
Fixed Bug DSK-270796 (About Opera moved back into Help menu)

Unix
Partial fix to Bug DSK-267544 (Simplify wrapper script)
Fixed Bug DSK-267550 (Opera binds a multicast socket to the UPnP port, but binds it to the wrong IP)
Fixed Bug DSK-267557 (Mouse click in page cycle dialog doesn't work with qt3)
Fixed Bug DSK-268271 (bookmarks.adr and speeddial.ini are created with readonly (444) permissions on clean install)
Fixed Bug DSK-270347 (Hide Opera in Exit dialog doesn't work with Qt4 builds)

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2009/...3/a-lucky-build

Faster photo sharing, and more

By Haavard. Thursday, 19. November 2009, 19:55:00
Here's another Unite build for you to test.

This time we have worked on making image generation in the Photo Sharing application faster (DSK-271038), and as you can see there are a few other tweaks as well. Give it a spin, and let us know if you find any regressions since the previous build.

Download

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2009/...haring-and-more

Changelog

Core/UI
Removed Inconsolata.otf and info-header.png from opera: pages
Fixes to select the default Speed Dials and bookmarks from custom/locale
Fixed Bug DSK-271292 ("No message selected" text missing)
Fixed Bug DSK-271097 (Opened widget does not get focus on double-clicking it in the widgets panel)

Unite
Fixes some string and translations issues
Fixes to the translation of the activity feed
Cookie infinite loop fix
Some small tweaks to the Photo Sharing application
Added a string "Preparing..." behind the main image
Changed the loading spinner to an image count for the thumbnails
Fixed Bug DSK-271007 (Spinner animation stretched in Unite config dialog)
Partial Fix to Bug DSK-271038 (Generating images in the Photo Sharing application is slow/cpu excessive in opera)
Fixed Bug DSK-271145 (Downloaded applications are set to invisible in upnp/asd/search engines by default)
Fixed Bug DSK-271306 (Unite password not protected by master password)
Fixed Bug DSK-271394 (Crash on toggling account creation section in Unite configure dialog after logging in once)
Fixed Bug DSK-271444 (Upgrading an uninstalled app doesn't ask to choose a folder)

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2009/...haring-and-more