Software update: Opera 10.0 build 1691

A new development version of the web browser Opera was released on Friday. Opera is free to use and includes features like tabbed browsing, a popup blocker, and an email program with spam filter. This release includes several improvements to Opera Unite. For example, stability has been improved and a chat function has been added. The appearance has also been refined a bit. For example, the red notification dot has been changed to blue and the thumbnail tabs have been improved. Below is the full changelog for version 10.0 build 1691:

User Interface

• Changing the red notification dot to blue
• Further work on page bar elements
• Improvements to appearance and hit area of ​​standard skin floating, head and tail buttons
• Minor fix to ensure the menu button is shown even if the panel toggle is removed
• Minor fix to to UI customization to ensure the correct toolbar is highlighted
• Moved the tail toolbar to the top when tabs are on the side. Max width is also now 50% larger than the default
• Removed some of the redundant spacing on the right of the floating pagebar toolbar
• Removing text bold and blue color from attention tabs
• Fixed Bug DSK-236184 (Localized “Preview” text doesn’t fit in speed dial)
• Fixed Bug DSK-259720 (Tabs wrapping not set back to no wrapping when setting tab placement back to top from left or right)
• Fixed Bug DSK-259754 (Resizing tab thumbnails on the left or right side is slow)
• Fixed Bug DSK-260044 (Drag scrollbar skin leftover if changed tab bar placement from top/bottom to left/right)
• Fixed Bug DSK-260065 (Clicking on the thread expander selects the message but should only expand/collapse)
• Fixed Bug DSK-260111 (The tab bar tail has incorrect background)
• Fixed Bug DSK-260157 (Discrepancy in language names in prefs)
• Fixed Bug DSK-260333 (When hovering speed dial thumbnails they get a black line on the left and right side)
• Fixed Bug DSK-260396 (Thumbnails not shown on the side after restart if head toolbar is off)
• Fixed Bug DSK-260690 ([Pagebar Tail Button Skin] & [Pagebar Thumbnail Floating Button Skin] styling doesn’t show)
• Fixed Bug DSK-260786 (Clicking on where the thread expander would have been doesn’t show the message)
• Fixed Bug DSK-252540 (Error console no longer has a clickable link/icon to the filenames of the files throwing the errors)
• Fixed panels-as-tabs-toolbars in the Mac Native skin
• Fixed some menu button negative margin issues
• Fixed the layout of the floating + button when on the sides
• Fixed to prevent the menu button disappearing when entering the prefs dialog and changing something then pressing Ok
• Fixed various minor issues when Visual Tabs are shown on the side
• Further Fix to Bug DSK-259960 (Remember last email used in crashlog upload dialog)
• Partial Fix of Bug DSK-236446 (Encoded (unreadable) address in URL auto-complete)

core

• Fixed Bug DSK-235730 (Crash when saving the session)
• Fixed Bug CORE-22963 (A web font redefined in a style sheet that doesn’t get applied to the page breaks the previously defined webfont)
• Fixed Bug CORE-23336 (use error.css for cross domain warning page)
• Fixed Bug DSK-260106 (Blocking content that is added as an iframe src using JavaScript causes page to never stop loading)
• Fixed Bug DSK-260744 (Text under Appearance not updated after language change)

Mail

• Fixed Bug DSK-257667 (View > Period doesn’t work on PowerPC and SPARC)
• Fixed Bug DSK-236094 (Panel selector unread count not updated when marking mulitple mesasges)
• Fixed Bug DSK-236950 (Inaccurate naming of “published” column for feeds)
• Fixed Bug DSK-256504 (clicking on a popup email notification brings up the unread messages tab without the icon in the tab)
• Fixed Bug DSK-259266 (M2 doesn’t handle From header in message when QP encoding starts inside quotes)
• Fixed Bug DSK-259594 (Use system selected fonts for html compose font chooser)
• Fixed Bug DSK-259386 (Inlined images sent from Thunderbird are recognized as attachments and not content id elements)
• Fixed Bug DSK-260254 (Mail Column Header Alignment)
• Changes to make the database consistency check dialog appear less often

unite

• Added messenger unit service
• Stability improvements and crash fixes
• Fixed Bug CORE-22311 (%5C on the url will make the Unite webserver unresponsive)
• Fixed Bug CORE-23304 (Opera freezes when unite access folder with many files)
• Fixed Bug DSK-255935 (Upgrade from non-Unite to Unite build does not add Unite status icon)
• Fixed Bug DSK-260153 (“Computer name is in use” dialog sometimes appears more than once)
• Fixed Bug DSK-260230 (Unequal padding and minor adjustments needed in “Service Settings” dialog)
• Fixed Bug DSK-260317 (“Install as a new service” input fields not correctly aligned)
• Fixed Bug TURBO-259 (No Turbo for local Unite services)

Spelling Checker

• Fixed Bug DSK-259958 (Wrong compose context menu)
• Change so that when the UI is set to a language other than english, the dictionary wizard is opened when Check Spelling is enabled

Windows

• General improvements to Win Native theme
• Fixed Bug CORE-21083 (Copy of nbsp (non-breaking space) puts unexpected data on the clipboard)
• Fixed Bug DSK-257572 (Dropdown buttons in windows native skin overlap the select box)

mac

• Fixed Bug DSK-260185 (Pagebar is missing attention state when hovering a tab)
• Fixed Bug DSK-260298 (Mac native’s startbar is a lot wider than Mac standard’s startbar)
• Fixed Bug DSK-259775 (Mac skin top dragbar knob repeated on left/right)

Unix

• Fixed Bug DSK-260216 (Crash after dragging a tab to a second window, closing it and then activating the first window)
• Fixed Bug DSK-243508 (Opera tray icon transparency issue in Qt4 builds)
• Fixed Bug CORE-954 (Opera does not add .html extension when saving pages with images)
• Fixed Bug DSK-260188 (Upnp memory leaks on linux)

The following downloads are available:
Opera 10.0 build 1691 for Windows (msi)
Opera 10.0 build 1691 for Windows (Classic)
Opera 10.0 build 6604 for Mac OS X (Intel)
Opera 10.0 build 6604 for Mac OS X (Universal)
Opera 10.0 build 4529 for UNIX/Linux

It should be noted that Opera uses different build numbers for its Mac OS X and Linux versions.