Software Update: Opera 10.50 Build 3257 Beta

The Opera Desktop team has released a new development version of the Opera web browser. Version 10.50 includes a newer version of Carakan, the JavaScript engine that is part of version 2.5 of the layout engine Presto. This version of Carakan should be a lot faster than its predecessors. The developers recently announced that they will focus on the Windows version first and release the Mac OS X and Linux versions at a later date. This beta can only be downloaded for Windows. The changelog for this release looks like this:

core

• Numerous crash fixes (including crashes on sites like gamesspot.com and Google Buzz)
• Numerous general Carakan fixes and improvements
• Some memory work
• Fixed Bug CARAKAN-942 (Function.prototype.apply fails for non-Array, non-arguments objects)
• Fixed Bug CARAKAN-985 (Button directs to wrong URL on blogger.com)
• Fixed Bug CARAKAN-1003 (No content shown after loggin in at gmx.com)
• Fixed Bug CARAKAN-1018 (Property caching is broken in combination with special properties)
• Partial fix to Bug CARAKAN-940 (Ray tracing performance fix)
• Fixed Bug DFL-935 (Command line not evaluated in local scope with Dragonfly+Carakan)

Opera unit

• Crash fixes
• Fixed Bug DSK-277782 (Context Menu missing for Images and Links in Widgets)

Opera Widgets

• Support for window style (floating/below etc)
• Various stability improvements
• Fix for widget not closing when close initiated from decoration button
• Fixed Bug DSK-279044 (Widget Edit Field Context Menu crashes application after Spellcheck has been enabled)
• Fixed Bug DSK-277335 (Password manager does not work)
• Fixed Bug DSK-277563 (Download from untrusted repository: pressing no on warning message makes it impossible to download widget until browser is restarted)
• Fixed Bug DSK-276592 (wgt mime-type set “Save on hard drive” causes Opera freezes on download dialog)
• Fixed Bug DSK-278144 (Install unite apps when drag and dropping config.xml)
• Fixed Bug DSK-278020 (Scrollbars appear when Yandex Traffic widget is docked)
• Fixed Bug DSK-277775 (Untrusted repository dialog opened many times)
• Fixed Bug DSK-277450 (widget control buttons don’t change their position if changing widget size by script)
• Fixed Bug DSK-276622 (Zooming widgets displays scrollbars)
• Fixed Bug DSK-279010 (Scrollbars do not appear for widgets in application mode)
• Fixed Bug DSK-271522 (Widget with faulty folder structure is being opened)
• Fixed Bug DSK-176615 (Downloading widget fails if it’s already in transfers list)
• Fixed Bug DSK-278555 (Change “untrusted widget” dialog)
• Fixed Bug DSK-278562 (Download more widgets does not work for widget that is opened by d’n’d of config.xml)

The following downloads are available:
Opera 10.50 build 3257 for Windows (msi)
Opera 10.50 build 3257 for Windows (Classic)