Opera 11.50 beta for Mac changelog
Release notes
Release date: May 31, 2011
This is a beta version of Opera. It incorporates new features, improvements, and stability adjustments.
Please use this Opera beta only on properly backed up computers.
New and improved features
Code name
- Opera 11.50 beta uses "Swordfish" as its code name.
Opera Presto 2.8 rendering engine
- Opera 11.50 beta uses the latest version of the Opera Presto 2.8 rendering engine.
Opera Next
Opera Next is a stand-alone installation of the Opera desktop browser intended for testing the development of new features,
technologies, and improvements.
- It is automatically updated to include the latest changes as they become available.
- Important note: Pre-release builds may be unstable and include known issues, such as crashes or data loss situations.
- See: What is Opera Next?
Opera Link: Password synchronization
The most requested feature for Opera Link is password synchronization.
- You can enable it when you set up link for the first time or in the Synchronization Options dialog.
Plugin installation wizard
- Enables easy installation of, for example, the Flash plug-in if it is missing from the system.
Speed Dial extensions
Speed Dial extensions are like small web pages embedded in your Speed Dial powered by Opera's extension framework.
Web specifications support
Opera 11.50 beta incorporates web specifications added up to and including Opera Presto 2.8 core-integration-point 158.
For further reference please see:
CSS
DOM event handling
HTML5 dataset attribute
HTML5 Session history and navigation
HTML5 and SVG classList attribute
HTML5 <time> element
Opera Widgets specification
Selectors API
- Implemented
Element.oMatchesSelector.
- Prefixed implementation of the
Element interface .matchesSelector method with "o".
- Note: The
refNodes parameter is not supported.
- See: W3C Selectors API Level 2.
Changes since Opera 11.11
User interface
Improvements
- Added support for Speed Dial extensions
- Added support for Opera Link password synchronization
- Opera Next packages now produced for all future snapshots
- Logo finder improvements
- Added a "Double click to close tab" option to the tab options dialog
- Manually zoom Speed Dials to 30% (minimum zoom was 50%)
- Paste and Go in the search field will perform a search, instead of loading as an URL
- The "On Demand Plugin" option is now available in Site Preferences
- Use Cmd + click a link to open it in a background tab (Cmd + Shift + click will also
still work for now)
- Added animation when removing Speed Dials
- Speed Dial auto reload timer reset when zooming
- Added thumbnails for page suggestions into the Speed Dial add dialog
- Added new installer graphics for Opera Next
- Improvements made to window and tab handling
- Internally scale and save all favicons to 16x16 .png's
- Preferences for Speed Dial extensions now open in an overlay dialog
- Improvements to auto-update handling for Opera Next
Fixes
view-mode: minimized Speed Dial thumbnails sending image requests on reloading- Iframe ad being misplaced on a zoomed-in thumbnail
- URI fragment being sent with Speed Dial
GET requests
- Speed Dial using the wrong icon after restart
- Context menu being available from the keyboard with Speed Dial
State=2
- Missing Mouse gesture translations
- Tweak to animation when dragging a Speed Dial thumbnail diagonally
- Crash when installing the mini.del.icio.us widget
- Single click creating an empty text selection
- URLs in the typed history address drop-down not taking up the whole width
- Not being able to scroll down with mouse wheel over an IFRAME with
scrolling=no if smooth scrolling is enabled
- Unable to type in the address field after activating a plug-in
- Crash when waiting a few days before starting Opera when an autoupdate is ready
- Focused address bar always opening a dropdown
- Opera Unite Home application not being downloaded if Opera Link is already enabled
- Crash on startup
- Changes to toolbar style and alignment not taking effect immediately in other tabs
- Dialog warning about submitting to an insecure site should not block program window
- Speed Dial fixes:
- String changes
- Crash when uninstalling/disabling updated Speed Dial extensions
- Extension update freezing Opera
- Crash when Opera is closed while Speed Dial edit dialog is open
- Crash when autoupdating extension
- Adding extension through Add Speed Dial dialog not replacing synced placeholder
- Speed Dial extensions being merged on Desktop instead of the Opera Link server
- Duplicate entries for extensions on Opera Link server
- Untrusted repository warning for removed extensions occurring when checking for update
- Crash when closing tab/window while Add Speed Dial dialog is open
- Crash when opening Speed Dial after closing it with an open edit dialog
- Installation of same extension fails after uninstalling older version
- Update notification for removed Speed Dial extension
- Address field in Speed Dial add dialog being linked to address field from Document Toolbar
- Updating running Speed Dial extensions to regular ones does not remove duplicates
- Crash when installing Speed Dial extension with Speed Dial disabled in opera:config
- Changing the name of a Speed Dial extension uninstalls it
- Wrong context menus for Speed Dial add/edit dialog edit field
- Editing Speed Dial with URL in typed history opening an address drop-down menu
- Extension being displayed only once if installed in both developer and user mode
- When typing an address, Speed Dial edit field focus moves to the end after each keyboard press
- Inline find shortcut ("/") incorrectly opening the find text toolbar in Speed Dial
- Site-specific override for plug-ins on demand
- Paste and Go can not perform searches
- Crash when changing certain settings in the Preferences dialog
- "Open JS Console on Error" opening on warnings
- Cmd + click should open links in the background
- The Speed Dial configure callout being movable
- Opera sending unnecessary Opera Link updates (separators, passwords)
- Opera Link "Setup" dialog not closing when "Improve Password Strength" dialog is opened
- GIF images not being possible to copy-and-paste
- Emacs-style keyboard shortcuts activating twice
- "Bookmark page" being disabled in the bookmarks menu
- Browser window disappearing after switching tabs if thumbnail is shown
- Crash when drawing date picker at zoom level other than 100%
- Names of week days for the last week always being in English on Mac
- Checkmarks being rotated 180° when zoom is not 100%
- Transformed rotated web fonts not being read out correctly
- Wrong font and size occurring for webforms
- Auto updates for Opera Next being downloaded into the wrong cache folder
- The hole in the Opera "O" cannot be clicked to select the icon
Display and scripting
Improvements
- Start request for CSS resources now occurs during parsing
- Implemented the HTML5 History Extension API
- Implemented the HTML5 data-* attributes API
- Implemented the HTML5 Element.classList
- Implemented the HTML5 TimeElement.valueAsDate
- Implemented the matchesSelector API
- Improved SVG load performance
- Improved the SVG animation engine
- Added
atob() and btoa() in Web Workers
- Added CSS props-changed flags for SVG properties
- Memory usage improvements to ES cache
Fixes
- Redraw corruption occurring in resized HTTP auth dialog
- Specified background image in skin section [Hotlist Panel Skin] not being displayed
- Icon decoding issue triggering an infinite sync
- Remove delay when closing sockets on Windows to increase performance
- Opera Next's user-agent string must not include an extra "Opera"
- Crash when using spell check with a Korean dictionary
- Spatial navigation in an
overflow:hidden box not scrolling the box
- Spatial navigation skiping a large number of links under certain conditions
- Saved images from image viewer attaching the image size to the name
- Hidden animated gif causing high CPU load because of constant repaints
- Fixed positioned backgrounds being jerky on scroll
- Hardcoded key bindings in the image viewer not considering modifier keys
- Java applets being loaded in new tabs
- Font weight and style changes occurring during transition
- Update spoof and mask strings to Firefox 4 and IE9
EventSource will not connect if document.domain is setEventSource sending the wrong Accept http header- Updating an existing property with "
!important" has no effect
cssText not showing "!important" declarations- Crash occurring when
contenteditable attribute placed on html
- Infinite loading occurs when going forward after an unfinished history navigation
- Media being ignored for
@import in user style sheets
- Reading
window.closed fails with browser.js enabled
- Mixing SVG fonts and
@font-face CSS fonts with the same font-family may cause the font to disappear
- Incorrect characters used when
"open-quote"/"close-quote" nest deeper than "quotes"
- Default margin on
hr element being different from other browsers
- Crash when removing container that has
::first-letter properties
- Incorrect handling of percentage values occurring in
border-radius
- Memory leak occurring when reloading documents connected to Opera Dragonfly debugger
- Crash occurring when
gradient is set on body with zero height
- Plugix plug-in proxy crashing Opera
- Widget access requests not working in extensions
- Crash when removing
cssRule
- Crash when printing a page with
frames and no body tags
- Crash in
documentedit when removing the first line in body element
- Some Google Font Preview fonts not loading (Droid Sans)
opera:cache not showing the contents of IDN- Cookies added to
localhost via AddCookie not being returned by GetCookie
onchange event not firing on month or week input types- The "
required" attribute on select elements not being supported
- ES to JSON converter creating invalid JSON when inital elements in an array are
NULL
- Crash after opening Opera Dragonfly on a page with
insertRule and @import
Mail, news, chat
Fixes
- Not being able to drag messages to mail folders or labels
- Incorrect warning dialogue when changing Contacts file
- Hovering collapsed access point in mail panel while dragging does not expand it
Miscellaneous
Improvements
- Improved response performance during heavy disc access
Network
Improvements
- Improved proxy preferences, with black and white listing of proxy usage per server.
- Added preferences UI for SOCKS