Download Opera 10.0 build 1456

The Opera Desktop Team has released a new development snapshot of the new 10.0 branch of the Opera browser released. It concerns build 1456, which is available for Windows and Mac OS X, but is not considered suitable for use as a default browser and according to the developers, this build may not even run on some systems. This build of Opera 10.0 has made necessary improvements, including in the user interface, stability and the mail and chat client. The main innovation in this version is a crash reporter, which automatically generates a crash report and sends it to Opera. The reporter is currently only available in the Windows build:

Highlights

• Added user interface for built-in crash reporting. Please remember to add any relevant details before sending the report (only Windows for now)
• Turbo mode is now disabled automatically for local IP addresses and hostnames
• Work on adding a placeholder image for plugins that are missing or not loaded (in Turbo mode) – see the “extras” folder for the SVG file
• Google TLD server work. On first run, we contact a Google server, and it returns the correct top level domain (TLD) to use (google.ru for Russia, google.no for Norway, and so on)
• Show sent mail when using threading in the email client
• Updated Presto version to 2.2.2
• Some improvements for skin designers:
• Added “Reload skin” action, which can be assigned to a keyboard shortcut in the shortcut editor (eg “F5 ctrl” – “Reload skin” under the “Application” section)
• You can point to an unzipped skin by adding the full path to the skin.ini file in opera:config#UserPrefs|ButtonSet (use the “Reload skin” action after changing the setting)
• Toolbar.ini defines new button skins for each toolbar, so each toolbar can be skinned separately. Fallback is Toolbar Button Skin. (Known issue: Native skins not updated yet, so they will get the hover state for the default skin instead)

User Interface

• [DSK-172058] Insufficient label height for Japanese translation in “Download Opera setup” dialog
• [DSK-221828] Fix for Thunder Download menu entry (popular Chinese download accelerator)
• [DSK-248608] Manual update check wasn’t working when Opera was set to “don’t check for updates”
• [DSK-248813] Any search from personal bar triggered Google, regardless of selected search engine (related to Google TLD work)
• [DSK-250489] “Show menu=0” didn’t work
• [DSK-250519] Fix for Fast Forward at Polish Google site

Site Compatibility

• [DSK-251475] Couldn’t click zoom buttons at Google Maps
• [CORE-9016] Moving an iframe didn’t move Flash content
• [CORE-13140] Empty text nodes shouldn’t always cause line breaks in rich text editors (needs testing)
• [CORE-16468] Mouse events were captured on transparent SVG
• [CORE-19542] SVG image not repainted correctly after scrolling
• [CORE-20005] Opera would not set document.cookie when IP address was specified in the URL

Stability

• Several crash fixes (table-row styled optgroups, kiosk mode crash on startup, document.write crash in javacript:, crash when overwriting TEXTAREA in designMode, back button crash, crash when selecting all in documentedit with generated content, sync crash on exit)
• Plugged some memory leaks
• [CORE-19951] Fixed freeze with nexted CSS display styles
• [CORE-20185] Freeze when searching DOM in Dragonfly

Mail/Chat

• Show sent mail when using threading
• [DSK-198726] “- Opera” incorrectly added to IRC toolbar
• [DSK-226853] Threaded mail view showed as Flat, and Period didn’t work on PowerPC and SPARC
• [DSK-231550] Inconsistent icons for Check and Send
• [DSK-240924] Switching to RTL directionality fails in M2

Widgets

• [CORE-18771] 302 wasn’t handled properly in widgets when using XHR

Windows

• [DSK-250506] Profile lost after upgrading single user installation
• [DSK-241585] Opening a download in an external application would open several tabs because of spaces in the local path

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 MSIA / Windows Classic
• Macintosh (Intel only) / Macintosh (Universal)
• Unix builds are not ready yet. Please check back early next week.