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Friday snapshot
Hi All,
First of all I would like to say 'Hello World!' as it's my first post here. I have been working in the Desktop Team as a Mac QA for last one and half years and I'm happy to provide you with today's snapshot. Since the 12.00 RC is incoming fast we would like to give you a bunch of fixes to play with over the weekend.
This snapshot contains fixes for skin like: missing progress bar in the url field, ugly menu bar (Win), missing disclosure triangle (Mac, my favorite!).
You won't miss the crashers, especially the one when opening tabs from links (Win) and Opera freezing while playing some <video> elements (Mac).
There's more in the changelog so enjoy. Have a nice weekend and as usual thanx for any feedback!
PS. For those in Poland: it's Mother's Day tommorow so don't forget to buy some flowers! :)
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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First of all I would like to say 'Hello World!' as it's my first post here. I have been working in the Desktop Team as a Mac QA for last one and half years and I'm happy to provide you with today's snapshot. Since the 12.00 RC is incoming fast we would like to give you a bunch of fixes to play with over the weekend.
This snapshot contains fixes for skin like: missing progress bar in the url field, ugly menu bar (Win), missing disclosure triangle (Mac, my favorite!).
You won't miss the crashers, especially the one when opening tabs from links (Win) and Opera freezing while playing some <video> elements (Mac).
There's more in the changelog so enjoy. Have a nice weekend and as usual thanx for any feedback!
PS. For those in Poland: it's Mother's Day tommorow so don't forget to buy some flowers! :)
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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Improvements to Performance, Mail, HTML5 Drag'n'drop and more!
As Opera fans I am sure you are aware that we are always working to make our browser even faster. So perhaps you won't be surprised to hear that this snapshot includes some nice performance improvements in software rendering, when run on a processor with SSSE3 available. No doubt you will be keen to try this for yourself but here is a quick graph comparing the last two snapshots on one of our test machines, when running the canvasbench, Retro DOM and Retro Canvas tests. I'm sure you will agree they show some very decent speed improvements!
Next up we have a range of really nice fixes and improvements for our Mail client. Rather than trying to do them all justice I would encourage you to have a good read of the Mail section in the Changelog below. I'm sure you will find plenty of stuff to make you smile. Though perhaps I should highlight the fix for the POP crash on 64-Bit Windows as we know a few of you have been waiting patiently for this! ;)
We have also done a fair bit of work to improve the Desktop HTML5 Drag and Drop implementation fixing various issues on all three platforms. :yes: Again, have a look at the Changelog for more details.
Another highlight for you bug hunters out there is that we now allow you to customize your User-Agent. Whilst we would strongly advise you not to run Opera like this all the time it can be handy to temporarily tweak your User Agent string to match that of another browser. This will let you see if a site is failing to load because we don't fully support it, or simply that the site's developers have intentionally blocked Opera. :no: Enjoy investigating and let us know if you discover anything interesting. :sherlock:
As always, thanks for testing!
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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Next up we have a range of really nice fixes and improvements for our Mail client. Rather than trying to do them all justice I would encourage you to have a good read of the Mail section in the Changelog below. I'm sure you will find plenty of stuff to make you smile. Though perhaps I should highlight the fix for the POP crash on 64-Bit Windows as we know a few of you have been waiting patiently for this! ;)
We have also done a fair bit of work to improve the Desktop HTML5 Drag and Drop implementation fixing various issues on all three platforms. :yes: Again, have a look at the Changelog for more details.
Another highlight for you bug hunters out there is that we now allow you to customize your User-Agent. Whilst we would strongly advise you not to run Opera like this all the time it can be handy to temporarily tweak your User Agent string to match that of another browser. This will let you see if a site is failing to load because we don't fully support it, or simply that the site's developers have intentionally blocked Opera. :no: Enjoy investigating and let us know if you discover anything interesting. :sherlock:
As always, thanks for testing!
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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Scrolling performance improvements
We are getting close to the first 12.00 Release Candidate and so we need to start wrapping up the worst issues to make a final a possibility. One of the main complaints has been scrolling performance and hence we have a fix that we think should help with this. Please note that it doesn’t fix all possible issues (some more work needs to be done for Facebook for example) but we think many people will have a nice improvement.
Many of the other issues that have been frequently reported are related to Hardware Acceleration. However, for this build what we are really interested in is how Opera performs with Hardware Acceleration disabled, as this will be the default when Opera 12.00 final ships to all our users. So please focus on testing in this mode for now. To get back to this state click on the "Default" button next to Enable Hardware Acceleration and then click "Save". Next click on the "Default" button next to Enable WebGL and then click "Save". After the 12.00 release we will put more focus on the Hardware Acceleration bugs once again.
Thanks for testing!
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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Sandboxed Mac version
We have fixed most of the reported issues we got from when we first released a sandboxed build two weeks ago. But we are still looking for more feedback! Backup your profile, and grab the sandboxed build below, and give it a spin! Make sure to note that you use the sandboxed build when providing feedback and bugreports. Sandboxed builds will not receive new builds via auto-update.
MAC WARNING: Mac users who opt for the sandbox build must backup their Opera Next profiles. The profile will be migrated to the sandbox when running a sandboxed build for the first time.
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Many of the other issues that have been frequently reported are related to Hardware Acceleration. However, for this build what we are really interested in is how Opera performs with Hardware Acceleration disabled, as this will be the default when Opera 12.00 final ships to all our users. So please focus on testing in this mode for now. To get back to this state click on the "Default" button next to Enable Hardware Acceleration and then click "Save". Next click on the "Default" button next to Enable WebGL and then click "Save". After the 12.00 release we will put more focus on the Hardware Acceleration bugs once again.
Thanks for testing!
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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- Windows 32-bit / Windows 64-bit
- Mac (Universal Binary 32/64-bit) [non-sandboxed]
- Linux/FreeBSD
Sandboxed Mac version
We have fixed most of the reported issues we got from when we first released a sandboxed build two weeks ago. But we are still looking for more feedback! Backup your profile, and grab the sandboxed build below, and give it a spin! Make sure to note that you use the sandboxed build when providing feedback and bugreports. Sandboxed builds will not receive new builds via auto-update.
MAC WARNING: Mac users who opt for the sandbox build must backup their Opera Next profiles. The profile will be migrated to the sandbox when running a sandboxed build for the first time.
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RTL, Camera, and other bug fixes for Opera 12
Here's a new Opera 12 snapshot with some RTL (Right-To-Left language) and other bug fixes.
It also fixes various issues with the camera support on the Windows platform, including freezes, camera compatibility, and BSoD situations sometimes caused by camera drivers.
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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It also fixes various issues with the camera support on the Windows platform, including freezes, camera compatibility, and BSoD situations sometimes caused by camera drivers.
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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New Opera 12 snapshot
Here's yet another Opera 12 snapshot with a number of fixes, including several common crashes. It contains Out Of Process Plugin fixes, Hardware Acceleration fixes and Skin fixes.
For Hardware Acceleration fans we have font bugs fixed and new Renderer preference which the user can set to 1 to prefer the DirectX back-end, or 0 to chose OpenGL. Make sure to turn on Hardware Acceleration in opera:config, to check this out (Hardware Acceleration is turned off by default in Opera 12, and the new preference has no effect).
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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For Hardware Acceleration fans we have font bugs fixed and new Renderer preference which the user can set to 1 to prefer the DirectX back-end, or 0 to chose OpenGL. Make sure to turn on Hardware Acceleration in opera:config, to check this out (Hardware Acceleration is turned off by default in Opera 12, and the new preference has no effect).
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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Understanding the Git Workflow
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- Create a private branch off a public branch.
- Regularly commit your work to this private branch.
- Once your code is perfect, clean up its history.
- Merge the cleaned-up branch back into the public branch.
If you’re fighting Git’s defaults, ask why.
Treat public history as immutable, atomic, and easy to follow. Treat private history as disposable and malleable.
The intended workflow is:
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Shell Apps and Silver Bullets
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The difference is shell apps come from the wrong mentality. They start from, “How do we reduce effort?” instead of “How do we deliver the best product?”
Great products require more work. They require commitment, attention to detail, and leaving your comfort zone. Shortcuts are just a distraction.
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New Opera 12 snapshot
Here's another Opera 12 snapshot with a number of fixes, including several common crashes.
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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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
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Beta stabilisation and Mac clean-up
In the run up to the Opera 12 final, we have been busy working hard on improving stability, and fixing bugs! Our HTML5 Drag and drop support has major improvements in this snapshot, along with all the other fixes.
On Mac we are endeavoring to become better by making Opera faster, easier and smarter. To achieve this we are with this snapshot adding more native OS X features as well as discontinuing some less relevant features.
Opera was the first major web browser in the Mac App Store, and we are making sure we stay there by introducing support for OS X Sandboxing in Opera 12. Sandboxing is a operating system level security measure that limits an applications access to the system to prevent malicious code from taking over an app and causing damage to the system. OS X Mountain Lion also introduces Gatekeeper, protecting users by only allowing Apple developer signed or sandboxed applications run on the system. Opera will be one of these applications. Look forward to even more of OS X Mountain Lion's new features in the future.
This snapshot also includes a more focused user interface for Mac. Legacy toolbars such as the start bar, navigation bar and the bar that once upon a time was the “main” browser toolbar, are all gone. Furthermore, the introduction of Themes in Opera 12 have made us remove the advanced preferences overriding things like the default icon size and the color tone of the skin. Finally, we have removed some little used features on Mac; IRC chat and BitTorrent. For these we believe there are better alternatives than the current features, and this move allow us to focus our resources on the stuff that really makes the browser better.
All these changes are only applicable for Mac for now.
Known issues
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
Sandboxed Mac version
We have included with this snapshot a sandboxed version of Opera so you can try out what we will be distributing though the Mac App Store in the future. Please give it a try and let us know if you have any problems, and remember to read the extra information and warnings below. If in doubt stick to the standard snapshot :)
Important notes for Mac users: Auto-update is disabled for the sandboxed build. It will not receive newer snapshots or final releases automatically. Your Opera Next profile will be migrated into a sandboxed profile when running a sandboxed build for the first time. Please backup your profile before running the build in case you want to go back to a non-sandbosed build.
MAC WARNING: Mac users who opt for the sandbox build must backup their Opera Next profiles. The profile will be migrated to the sandbox when running a sandboxed build for the first time.
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On Mac we are endeavoring to become better by making Opera faster, easier and smarter. To achieve this we are with this snapshot adding more native OS X features as well as discontinuing some less relevant features.
Opera was the first major web browser in the Mac App Store, and we are making sure we stay there by introducing support for OS X Sandboxing in Opera 12. Sandboxing is a operating system level security measure that limits an applications access to the system to prevent malicious code from taking over an app and causing damage to the system. OS X Mountain Lion also introduces Gatekeeper, protecting users by only allowing Apple developer signed or sandboxed applications run on the system. Opera will be one of these applications. Look forward to even more of OS X Mountain Lion's new features in the future.
This snapshot also includes a more focused user interface for Mac. Legacy toolbars such as the start bar, navigation bar and the bar that once upon a time was the “main” browser toolbar, are all gone. Furthermore, the introduction of Themes in Opera 12 have made us remove the advanced preferences overriding things like the default icon size and the color tone of the skin. Finally, we have removed some little used features on Mac; IRC chat and BitTorrent. For these we believe there are better alternatives than the current features, and this move allow us to focus our resources on the stuff that really makes the browser better.
All these changes are only applicable for Mac for now.
Known issues
- DSK-363145 (Tab close button is not ignored over inactive background tab when tab width is narrow)
- DSK-362951 ([Mac] Only English dictionary and dict. installer is non-functional)
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
- Windows 32-bit / Windows 64-bit
- Mac (Universal Binary 32/64-bit) [non-sandboxed]
- Linux/FreeBSD
Sandboxed Mac version
We have included with this snapshot a sandboxed version of Opera so you can try out what we will be distributing though the Mac App Store in the future. Please give it a try and let us know if you have any problems, and remember to read the extra information and warnings below. If in doubt stick to the standard snapshot :)
Important notes for Mac users: Auto-update is disabled for the sandboxed build. It will not receive newer snapshots or final releases automatically. Your Opera Next profile will be migrated into a sandboxed profile when running a sandboxed build for the first time. Please backup your profile before running the build in case you want to go back to a non-sandbosed build.
MAC WARNING: Mac users who opt for the sandbox build must backup their Opera Next profiles. The profile will be migrated to the sandbox when running a sandboxed build for the first time.
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Opera 11.64 released
Hey
We have today released a new security and stability update of Opera 11.6x
If you wonder why your Opera suddenly upgrade from 11.62 to 11.64 skipping 11.63 it´s because you are not on mac where we had to throw out a 11.63 release a short while back.
11.64 does not contain many bug fixes, but it is a recommended security update and it does fix some crashers and a bad nsl bug some people get on e.g Ebay.
Changelog:
Opera 11.64 for Windows changelog
Opera 11.64 for Mac changelog
Opera 11.64 for UNIX changelog
We have today released a new security and stability update of Opera 11.6x
If you wonder why your Opera suddenly upgrade from 11.62 to 11.64 skipping 11.63 it´s because you are not on mac where we had to throw out a 11.63 release a short while back.
11.64 does not contain many bug fixes, but it is a recommended security update and it does fix some crashers and a bad nsl bug some people get on e.g Ebay.
Changelog:
Opera 11.64 for Windows changelog
Opera 11.64 for Mac changelog
Opera 11.64 for UNIX changelog
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Snippet - Google+ Platform — Google Developers
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Opera 12 beta
Opera 12 beta has been released today.
Check out the new features in Opera 12 beta
Thanks everyone for testing and reporting issues. The upcoming weeks Opera 12 development will focus on stabilization and fixing of regressions. Stay tuned for new snapshots with loads of bugfixes.
If you have hardware acceleration turned on and are experiencing rendering or stability issues, consider turning it off (the default).
Happy testing!
Check out the new features in Opera 12 beta
Thanks everyone for testing and reporting issues. The upcoming weeks Opera 12 development will focus on stabilization and fixing of regressions. Stay tuned for new snapshots with loads of bugfixes.
If you have hardware acceleration turned on and are experiencing rendering or stability issues, consider turning it off (the default).
Happy testing!
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Editor & Publisher ®
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- So far, bostonglobe.com has published only one responsive ad. “Ad servers aren’t really ready for it yet, and advertisers aren’t quite (ready either),” Moriarty said.
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Jehl added that using responsive design forces news organizations to build uncluttered, lightweight websites.
“That’s not really generally true of most of the desktop websites on the Web right now. They tend to be quite heavy and slow, and ad networks are generally built to be run on the desktop with faster browsers. There are lots of technical considerations around that, trying to figure out how best to use the same resources in dramatically different environments,” Jehl said.
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Release Candidate for Opera 12 Beta
This is a release candidate for the Opera 12 Beta.
Since this will be a launch of a beta version, you can of course expect more problems than a final version. Still, if you find any new issues that seem to be too serious even for a beta, let us know.
Known issues
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Since this will be a launch of a beta version, you can of course expect more problems than a final version. Still, if you find any new issues that seem to be too serious even for a beta, let us know.
Known issues
- No FreeBSD builds (yet)
- Problems with dragging on Google Maps
- 64-bit Windows build crashes when connecting to a POP account
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How reliable is PHP Fog? | AppFog Developer Center
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- Note that CNAME records only apply to sub-domains, not the top domain name. You are required to use an A record for a top-level name which therefore would require using an IP Address. The best practice in this case is to use a redirect mechnism provided by your DNS provider to redirect the top level domain name to a sub-domain. That is, if you have your-app.com then perform a redirect to www.your-app.com. The www.your-app.com then can use the CNAME record mechanism
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Increased focus on Opera extensions and ending support for Unite applications, Widgets and Voice
Today we are announcing the beginning of the end for two of our current Add-on platforms. Starting with the upcoming Opera 12 release, Opera Unite and Opera Widgets will be turned off by default for new users. The two Add-on platforms will be completely removed in a later release expected before the end of this year.Read more on the Add-ons blog about this change of focus. ...
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Mirror, mirror on the wall, which browser is the fairest of them all?
A long, long time ago, Opera started supporting right-to-left (RTL) and bi-directional (BiDi) content in web pages. You know what they say, Content is King. But a king cannot rule alone, which is why for several months it has been mine and a few of my colleagues' task to bring RTL support in the UI up to speed with web pages. To be honest, there have been times when our work has felt a lot like staring into a mirror, as you can see in the screenshot below.
RTL support in the UI will be receiving some amount of polish before the final release of Wahoo, but we are happy to give you a preview already. If your Windows or *NIX OS language is one of Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew or Urdu, your Opera experience will be RTL automatically. That's because the direction of the UI is now determined by the direction of the UI language set in Opera. Note that you can override the default language selection by going to Preferences -> General and picking a language from the Language drop-down, or making even more fine-grained customizations by clicking the Details… button right next to it.
Happy RTL testing and keep the feedback coming!
Known Issues
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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RTL support in the UI will be receiving some amount of polish before the final release of Wahoo, but we are happy to give you a preview already. If your Windows or *NIX OS language is one of Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew or Urdu, your Opera experience will be RTL automatically. That's because the direction of the UI is now determined by the direction of the UI language set in Opera. Note that you can override the default language selection by going to Preferences -> General and picking a language from the Language drop-down, or making even more fine-grained customizations by clicking the Details… button right next to it.
Happy RTL testing and keep the feedback coming!
Known Issues
- Incorrect skinning in mail compose window.
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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New Opera 12 snapshot
Here's a quick Opera 12 update.
This snapshot mainly contains crash fixes, but we've also tweaked the Opera icon a bit:
Icon update: Old to the left, new to the right
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Changelog
This snapshot mainly contains crash fixes, but we've also tweaked the Opera icon a bit:
Icon update: Old to the left, new to the right
Download
Changelog
- Updated Opera icon
- CORE-45892 Opera crashes when closing page while it is scrolling
- CORE-45842 SSL crash
- CORE-45872 Proper DOM event type lost in some cases
- DSK-361054 Crash when trying to install autoupdate
- DSK-348837 Crash on exit while loading huge session file
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Popup Ads Still In Use
Ask just about any web user and they will tell you they despise popup ads. Web users hate them so much that browsers build the functionality to block them directly into the browsers. Yet, advertisers still pay a bit of money to websites to unleash them onto their audience who may not have an enabled blocker. Cost to the advertiser is rather minimal. Cost the to that portion of the websites' audience I'd have to think is severe.
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OnlineAthens.com Front Page - 8414px long (~11 pages)
Of the 1,240 x 8,400+ pixels, what is important for the web user on the onlineathens.com home page?
1024x768 is still the predominant screen resolution for onlineathens.com audience so 8414px is roughly equivalent to 11 pages. Resolution data acquired from Google Analytics.
1024x768 screenshot:
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