Opera Releases Second Release Candidate for Version 10

With no word of putting off the new version availability on September 1, it seems that releasing another candidate right now is odd. However, Opera Labs has done it, and shows that bugs are being removed faster than actual ones could say ‘Raid!’ in the popular commercials.

The build is 1750, and makes quite a few changes, also picking up a fair amount of speed along the way. (This is a direct comparison to the prior version, RC1 or build 1733.) This build can be gotten from the Opera website, or from Betanews; using the built-in upgrade check yields nothing as a result.

from Tech Connect

For those who can’t wait until September 1st for the final (RTM) Opera 10, the Opera Software Desktop Team has released a second Release Candidate of its latest browser. The RC2 includes the following changes:

User Interface

- Native skin fixes
- Several fixes to strings that don’t fit
- Fixed Bug DSK-210876 (Reload Image is ignored after unfinished image load)
- Fixed Bug DSK-262341 (Deleting Speed Dials aren’t synced)
- Fixed Bug DSK-262356 (Crash on exit after deleting private data)
- Fixed Bug DSK-262389 (Crash in address bar dropdown)
- Fixed Bug DSK-262523 (”Sychronize Opera” button in Speed Dial is not working)
- Fixed Bug DSK-262622 (Crash when downloading spelling checker languages)

Core

- Fixed high CPU on HTML5 spec page
- Fixed Bug CORE-21052 (Using keys in match expressions causes crash)
- Fixed Bug CORE-23155 (Blocking content that is added as an iframe src using JavaScript causes page to never stop loading)
- Fixed Bug CORE-23169 (Opera claims collapsed selection isn’t collapsed - causes emoticon deletion in Gmail): Bad selection values in scripts when selection is the caret in documentedit
- Fixed Bug DSK-248214 (Crash when saving a picture that has not been fully downloaded)
- Fixed Bug DSK-258402 (Several images redirected to same URL can cause NSL)
- Fixed Bug DSK-261860 (Upgrading Opera from 9.64 to 10, widgets connecting to the Internet get network problems on first run, works after reload)

Windows

- Improved 8-bit icons, added 4-bit icons, PNG compressed bigger icons, lower quality icons for mail and chat
- Fixed Bug DSK-262674 (Context menu height calculations off, causing “more items…” to show)

Unix

- New/updated icons
- Fixed Bug DSK-238564 (Icon files are not installed with install.sh)
- Fixed Bug DSK-262492 (Old icon shows when dragging text)
- Fixed Bug DSK-262757 (Qt3: Do not use XPM files to draw icon in system tray, use images from skin instead)
- Fixed Bug DSK-252305 (Can not easily focus a widget on major Linux desktop environments)

… and (as expected) is available for Windows, Mac OS and Linux.

As you will see if you desire to install it, the RC2 will offer to install in place of the last standard release; if you have 2 locations, such as \Opera and \Opera beta; in this case, it will overwrite Opera 9.64 if that is what you have in the non-beta path (if you so choose - fear not, upgrades on a Celeron M laptop, a Pentium4, an Athlon64, and a Phenom X4 system, all upgraded without problems).

One suggestion, if you want to see the growth of Opera over the last few months, try your old Opera for about 5-10 minutes before upgrading, then do the in-place update… and prepare to be amazed.

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Instead of the banner, which does not lead to the RC2, try the Opera website, or Betanews, instead. Happy browsing.