This is a snapshot of Opera 11.01, a possible future minor/bugfix release for Opera 11.

In addition to mouse gesture fixes and various other things, we have also looked at the top crashers in Opera 11, and several of them have been fixed in this snapshot.

Although this is a minor/bugfix release, you may notice that there are more Core fixes in this build than you might expect. This is due to our development model at Opera, where we often receive batches of fixes from the Core team that have been tested, and are ready for public consumption. Since the batch of fixes contains important bug fixes, we receive other fixes as well as a "bonus". We also get to test these fixes in public.

Changelog

Cross-platform
Mouse gesture sensitivity/recognition fixes
Several crash fixes (Dragonfly reload, file download, extension autoupdate, search suggestions, mail account dropdown, and more)

Core
Several crash fixes
CORE-1377 Support DOM3 window.DOMStringList
CORE-6716 Script element re-executed if child text changes
CORE-8390 HTMLElement.toString() throwing an exception for all HTMLElement prototypes
CORE-32425 Crash when clicking a link twice
CORE-34292 Touch event attributes misnamed in SVG
CORE-30292 Cross-network warning misfires
CORE-33886 opera:config cannot do cross-domain xmlhttprequest after reloading
CORE-28407 Small amount of alphanumeric characters breaks the heuristic language detection
CORE-17830 href property for import returns resolved URL instead of original string
CORE-16738 Dynamically added stylesheet fails to apply if rel attribute is set after href attribute
CORE-23627 Add name and align as HTMLEmbedElement members
CORE-27624 Pressing Enter in <input type="number"> doesn't submit form
CORE-33113 Default margin on body is 5px when the document is in an iframe, should be 8px
CORE-28251 Fragment identifier matching needs to allow ID to override NAME
CORE-20367 textContent creates multiple text nodes from big (>32000 characters) string
CORE-18529 DocumentType not prototypable
CORE-34298 Empty script elements still have an empty text node child
CORE-33964 Feed preview fix
CORE-28782 Windowed plugin not shown if displayed inside positioned iframe with overflow container

Winstaller
DSK-322193 Crash when installing or uninstalling Opera
DSK-316074 No File Lock window on upgrade when Opera is running on Windows 2000
DSK-306014 Several processes when upgrading on limited Windows Vista/7 account
DSK-320566 Problems after MSI update that requires reboot
DSK-321901 Opera creates a file called desktop.ini and places it on the desktop
DSK-322333 Switching languages in the winstaller does not change the language in the help tooltip
DSK-323419 Error code 76 if the MSI uninstallation fails to find the source package

Mac
DSK-288233 Streaming Silverlight will not display (NRK nett-TV)
DSK-320146 Scroll bar not shown properly in M2
DSK-322782 Window switching keyboard shortcut not working (Command-`)
DSK-208657 Enable Mac OS' File Quarantine

11.01 snapshot: Mail improvements, crash logging and widget detection on Mac, and faster DNS resolution on Linux/FreeBSD

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There are lots of new interesting projects emerging at Opera behind the release of Opera 11. We’re not letting you guys see any of that just yet, but we will be serving more bug fixes and increasing stability.

Highlights:
Fresh batch of mail improvements
Experimental changes to the crash logger on Mac (more)
Changed how Opera is detected during widget start-up on Mac (more)
Slow DNS responses due to IPv6 fixed on Linux/FreeBSD (more)

Mac users: This snapshot only will contain a special version of our crashlogger to help us determine the cause of a very elusive crash on Mac. If you’re having frequent crashes or know of someone who does, than please use this build and submit crash logs as usual. (Other platforms have the normal crashlogger. The Mac crashlogger changes will be reverted after this special testing release.)

Mac widget users: You must uninstall all widgets and reinstall them using this build. We have changed how our standalone widgets detect the Opera bundle on your machine, thus making them much more stable and less prone to fail on update. Unfortunately we cannot automatically update older widgets. Get widgets!

Linux/FreeBSD users: If you have problems with connections being slow to initiate, or not initiate at all, we believe that this build has a fix for you. The problems we’ve identified are a combination Opera behaviors and bugs, one glibc bug, and some DNS bugs. We believe we have worked around most of these issues by determining if there is a usable IPv6 connection before we do the DNS lookup, and then don't do any Ipv6 lookup if there isn't. Please test this build and report back with network logs if you used to have connection problems and it works now, or vice versa.

Changelog

Mail/M2
DSK-287668 (Delete Private Data/Clear all e-mail account passwords doesn't do anything)
DSK-312140 (HushMail mailproviders entry needs updating)
DSK-312143 (Add MobileMe Mail—me.com—to mail providers)
DSK-319534 (mail bodies sometimes not loading in single message view)
DSK-321903 (Settings lost for POP views after restart)
DSK-321984 (Unread count in Mail panel button not updated)
DSK-322280 (Crash when changing M2 account)
DSK-322369 (Default font for HTML mail compsition): also fixes an issue with dir=rtl that was inserted in the wrong place in the html
DSK-322795 (Mail Toolbar instead of Feed Toolbar shown when searching in 'feeds only' installation)
DSK-322822 (Right click context menu in Mail panel section headers misplaced when the section is expanded)
DSK-322869 (Wrong right click context menu in the Mail Toolbar search field)
DSK-324498 (crash on trying to edit two links in mail compose at once)
Partial fix for DSK-321557 (can't send mail during mail database loading): disabling the send action while loading the mail database
Solved issues with alpha channel for filter icons
Fix crash for creating folders when no item selected in the feed section
Fixed index sizes above 2 GB that have negative values in the mail panel window
Made it possible to open the mail panel as a tab when only using feeds
Fixed some issues with the mail panel context menu when only using feeds
Fixed an issure where if the signature is wrong, account doesn't load on startup
Made the signature editor a bit nicer
Fixed an issue where the html formatting toolbar was always drawn as 4px height grey bar in the compose window
Showing feeds when showing a mail account (show messages from)
Improved html replying and forwarding formatting

Core
CORE-32574 (typekit webfont test page needs reload to show webfonts)
CORE-33751 (Iframe with document.domain is not allowed to open parent's document)
CORE-35257 (Cannot submit forms with input[type="search"] pressing enter)
CORE-35316 (Deeply nested (5+ levels) iframe doesn't load in Analytix)
CORE-35651 (Crash when clicking in a dropdown on a wap page)

Windows
DSK-313056 (Opera crashes when downloading to a non accessible target)

Mac
DSK-323392 (Experimental changes to the crash logger)

Linux/FreeBSD
CORE-35606 (Don't look-up IPv6 addresses if we probably won't use them)
DSK-323440 (Crash on exit in some Gtk environments after using the file selector)

Another 11.01 snapshot with even more crashfixes.

Hello, my name is Helge, and unlike Ruarí I have a life. That's why I don't post snapshots as often as him.

Here we go with another 11.01 snapshot with even more crash fixes. This build will hopefully fix the most annoying crashes from the last snapshot, for example logging in to vkontakte.ru

Please remember to give as much information as possible if you do experience a crash and you upload the log. Reproduction steps are always valuable.

Changelog

Core
CORE-32345 (Crash on page load on some sites, vkontakte.ru)
CORE-35650 (Severe repaint issues on Facebook)

Windows
DSK-326050 (Installer crash when upgrading a running copy of Opera)

Linux
DSK-326062 (2011 signing keys in Debian packages)

Opera Portable for Mac (USB)

I’m pleased to announce that Mac users now will be able to put Opera on a USB stick (or encrypted disk image) and carry their bookmarks and settings, mail, and everything else with them.

Linux/FreeBSD and Windows users can sit this one out, and skip straight to the changelog.

Mac user, please stay with me. You can install Opera to /Applications like you have always done, or you can put it on a external USB stick or an encrypted disk image and have your preferences go with you.

The rest of the blog post will cover technical details about the changes relevant if you are running more than one copy of Opera on your Mac.

If your unsure where your preferences are stored, open the opera:about page to see the full paths.

Opera Portable for Mac Installation
Download and mount the disk image
Drag Opera from the disk image to an USB stick or external drive
Open Terminal.app and drag Opera ontop of the Terminal window
Press backspace once then type /Contents/MacOS/Opera -createsingleprofile

You only have to run this once and it will create a hidden folder /Volumes/volume-name/.operaprofile/ that will contain all your bookmarks and settings, mail, and the disk cache. With Unite you can think of it as an instant-on server in your pocket. There is also a short-form -csp.

Managing multiple installations of Opera
We’ve put an end to the use of the PrefsSuffix file to manage multiple installations. The -pd (personal directory) option have also been deprecated as we never used personal directories. Replacing it is -ps (preference suffix) which works as -pd used to do.

The default suffix for preview released changed with this build from ‘110’ to ‘Next’. You can rename your preference directories to mirror this change if you want to preserve user-data from previous preview releases of Opera 11.

Please note that you cannot easily move between a stand-alone installation and a regular installation. This is not even supported. We don’t expect much trouble for you if you carefully move files between installations.

Changelog

Core
CORE-32762 (Crash prevention for spell checking)
CORE-35898 (URI fragment identifier wasn't being exposed in all URIs)
CORE-35350 (Expose the widget object to extension scripts)

Desktop
DSK-324730 (Crash on printing Trafikanten.no)
DSK-309863 (Disk cache in Turbo mode prematurely emptied after bringing up a context menu)
DSK-321933 (Deactivate auto-reload in speed dials when the address changes)
DSK-322244 (Pinned tabs too wide with a collapsed tab stack)

Windows
DSK-324504 (No close button on tabs that are not selected)

Mac
DSK-326380 (Opera Portable/USB for Mac and single profile)
DSK-323299 (Optimize bookmark menu updating. Prevents freeze on keyboard input.)

This is a second Release Candidate for Opera 11.01 final. Please test it. There are further crash fixes and we fixed some issues with installer errors on Windows Vista and Windows 7.

This snapshot has been placed on the Windows and Mac auto-update server. We'd appreciate feedback on how that works for you.

Bugs that are not regressions between 11.00 and 11.01 or auto-update related should be discussed in our forums or logged. If you post them below they will be ignored.

Note: Auto-update will not be available until 25 minutes after this post goes live.


Cross-Platform
Fixed some common crashes

Windows
Fixed installer errors