Opera 10 Revision 1723 Revealed

Another revision of Opera 10 is now available. With many small repairs to fix the interface and other workings, it makes me think about the changes that are occurring in the extremes of the browser space.

Google keeps releasing revisions of Chrome, at a pace so frenetic that only the Jolt cola crowd can keep up with the efforts, and has moved from initial release to major revision 4 in record time. On the other hand, Opera 10 has been in progress about the same time, to firm up one major revision level. The changes taking place, if you look, are about the same in number for each, but where Chrome seems hurried, unpolished, and unfinished (to me anyway – I have been extensively testing Iron 3.07.193), while Opera 10 is like a diamond, after the perfect cut, being polished to the n-th degree, while getting the new setting just right. The people at Opera still are using the 9.80 notification underneath, which is as much a nod to the outside community of their imagined progress, as it is a way of not being mislabeled as revision 1. It would seem that the folks at Opera are really wanting to achieve zero-defects status with this one, and so the wait, for those who are waiting, is well worthwhile.

For those who know this method, we jumped in long ago, knowing that the betas are so very well wrung out that they are fully serviceable for day-to-day duties.

Some of the things updated/repaired -

The updated releases are two snapshots - Opera 10.0 and Opera 10.10 with Unite which are available @ The Opera Desktop Team site. (for Windows, Mac OS and Linux) and feature the following:

User Interface

- Various fixes to the paddings and margins of the skin. Sorted out some errors
- Don’t schedule new check on startup if timer not timed out
- Increased autoupdate check interval to 3 hours
- Fix the layout of the “Configure Speed Dial” button in small windows
- Fixed Bug DSK-195906 (Opera error page selects URL field when displayed, also when focus is already inside URL field)
- Fixed Bug DSK-229231 (Favicon disappears a while after clicking a boomark on the personal bar)
- Fixed Bug DSK-239430 (Pressing Enter to select an item in a dropdown box submits a form)
- Fixed Bug DSK-253672 (Visual tabs do not reflect Speed Dial if selection is canceled)
- Fixed Bug DSK-257223 (Update dialog, new version download size value does not fit)
- Fixed Bug DSK-258007 ([nb] Strings don’t fit on crash logging dialog)
- Fixed Bug DSK-259154 (Crash when closing tab)
- Fixed Bug DSK-259498 (Crash when removing Speed Dial or changing background image)
- Fixed Bug DSK-259986 (Opera crashes if you cancel the dictionary wizard before downloading)
- Fixed Bug DSK-261223 (Quick find in dictionary wizard list not working)
- Fixed Bug DSK-261250 (Opera will not close when disabling and enabling history)
- Fixed Bug DSK-261471 (Crash related to automatic updates)

Core

- Fixed Bug DSK-244670 (Server redirects and Opera reports address as invalid even though there’s a custom handler to handle that protocol): Fixes Spotify link conversion issue
- Fixed Bug DSK-257016 (FileSystem.browseFor
method callback executed with automated call to method.)
- Fixed Bug DSK-257269 (webfont with local src not working)
- Fixed Bug DSK-257612 (Freeze when loading hulu.com)
- Fixed Bug DSK-258378 (Crash with some Flash sites)
- Fixed Bug DSK-258624 (Middle click doesn’t paste in compose after first left clicking)
- Fixed Bug DSK-260601 (Words in mail and feeds are cut off by the vertical scrollbar)
- Fixed Bug DSK-261037 (calling fileObject.refresh() if fileObject.exists is false creates the folders forming the path of fileObject)
- Fixed Bug DSK-261386 (Unable to complete secure transaction)

Opera Mail/Chat

- Fix to prevent the consistency check running without first asking the user
- Ask about the mail database check if the user has feeds as well
- Fixed Bug DSK-245600 (Mail imported into account with no downloading of message bodies loses bodies)
- Fixed Bug DSK-258117 (Checking “import contacts” in import mail dialog doesn’t actually import any contacts)
- Fixed Bug DSK-257202 (String don’t fit on IRC password dialog)

Opera Unite

- Fixes to activity feeds for improved Fridge usability
- Minor fixes to the lounge service
- Fixed Bug DSK-256752 (Double-clicking the home service often opens /home/)
- Fixed Bug DSK-261475 (Upgrading services that use fileio is not possible)

Windows

- Fixed Bug DSK-256039 (Alt+down, left or right arrow in address bar or find box produces strange characters)

Mac

- Fixed Bug DSK-259542 (Mac crash with some plugins)

Unix

- Added “Enter = Select item” to dropdown section in unix_keyboard.ini
- Fixed Bug DSK-259949 (Crash when an icon can’t be loaded)
- Fixed Bug DSK-260718 (Make Opera run on FreeBSD 8)
- Fixed problems with drag-n-drop after a popup is closed with the mouse in Qt4
0 Reverted Fix to Bug DSK-243508 (Opera tray icon transparency issue in Qt4 builds with dark themes): Caused other issues. An alternative solution will be found.
- Fixed Bug DSK-261436 (Qt Native skin in Qt4 builds): Skin temporarily removed

In the mean time, I do see small changes with the Windows version, but nothing that was readily apparent to a user that was not used to the latest builds.

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