Opera 10.00.1497 Alpha Released

A new face on the blog! Well, not really new, I've been part of the inventory at Opera for longer than most other team members

Anyway, here's the latest snapshot. This time, we've told the auto-update server before posting here. Everyone with the option opera:config#AutoUpdate|DownloadAllSnapshots checked should get the new build automatically (or be informed, in the case of Unix/Linux users) when going to Help > Check for updates, or after 24 hours of running Opera, or after restarting Opera if it didn't check in the hour before restarting. Please use this method of updating so we can test our systems

We still recommend regular backups of your profile, but everything should just keep working now if you upgrade from 9.6x to this latest build. If you still see problems with some profile data not getting migrated correctly to the new locations, please tell us! The only thing that will not get migrated are manual additions you might have made to the old operadef6.ini files.

Known Issues

• The license dialog when adding languages to the spelling checker is work in progress, it is not usable yet
• [DSK-250495] Linux: Spellcheck no longer working in some Linux distributions (Mandriva, Fedora) after recent changes to locations of configuration files.

Changelog

Highlights

• New context menu on the Turbo button

Core

• Reverted [CORE-17828] GetBoxRect gives incorrect result for inline which contains block (caused the regression with empty anchors)
• [CORE-6713] Absolutely positioned sibling of a relatively positioned child of a block with overflow hidden is not visible until all text is selected
• [CORE-19778] Scripting does not resume if embed is replaced with CSS "content" property (stream.cz)
• [CORE-20253] Facebook links wrap to new lines with Norwegian layout
• [CORE-20438] Query stripped from hash - mobile books on Google does not work properly
• [CORE-20596] portal.cyberjapan.jp never stops loading with Delayed Script Execution enabled
• [CORE-132609] Nested absolutely positioned element disappears if ancestor has non-visible overflow

UI

• Work on license dialog for spell checking dictionary downloads
• Crash logging: Some improvements and rollbacks to crash upload dialog, startup will NOT be skipped
• Increased the width of the inline find pop-up
• [DSK-249030] (null) in the server security icon instead of server name
• [DSK-249277] Server name button in authentication dialog gives info for originating URL

Mail

• [DSK-246549] Kill the lexicon file if it's corrupted, and let it be reindexed

BitTorrent

• [DSK-252091] "Use system default" dropdown in the BitTorrent download dialog should be inactive when that radio button isn't selected
• [DSK-252084] BitTorrent dialog only works the first time you click a torrent link

Opera Turbo

• Added info menu item in Turbo context menu
• Changed Turbo info URL
• Tweaks to the detection of slow connections
• Small fix for Turbo not enabling when clicked

Dragonfly

• [CORE-15825] Crash in DOM inspector when inspecting document object with 'node' setting

Unix

• Prefs setting to control display of crash dialog
• [DSK-228856] Address field not updated on redirect for tab opened in the background): Don't handle focus different for unix desktop
• [DSK-251817] Crash when opening menus
• [DSK-251930] Linux builds do not upload any crashlogs

Mac

• [DSK-252561] Flash content loses its position when scrolling

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 MSI / Windows Classic
• Macintosh (Intel-only) / Macintosh (Universal)