Software update: Opera 10 build 1551 beta 1

Opera has been developing the next generation of its web browser of the same name for some time and has now released its first beta release. The version number of this so-called ‘development snapshot’ is 10.0 build 1551. Opera is free to use and includes features such as tabbed browsing, a popup blocker and an email program with spam filter. Updates can be retrieved automatically if DownloadAllSnapshots is enabled in the configuration. This also applies to upgrading from version 9.6x, although backing up the configuration is still recommended. Below you will find everything that has changed since the previous snapshot:

Unix support
On the Linux/Unix front, we are discontinuing support for builds made with gcc 2.95. Also, Sparc Solaris builds are now made on Solaris 10 (with gcc 3) – they should run on Solaris 9 as well. If these changes affect you, we’d love to hear your feedback.

skinning improvements

• [DSK-253666] “new tab” button is too tall in multi-line setup
• partial [DSK-253753] Closed tabs icon on the right: When set to “text only”, the text is nearly unreadable (partially black on black), and touches the right part of the screen)
• [DSK-253759] Cancel button in mail panel way to unobtrusive
• [DSK-253818] Locked tabs change size when being hovered
• Fix for highlight of head and tail bar images
• Fixes for the head and tail gaps in Windows Native skin
• Fixes for pagebar head and tail icons in Windows Native skin
• Opacity changes to Speed ​​Dial on standard skin
• New skin sections: “Pagebar Thumbnail Head Skin”, “Pagebar Thumbnail Tail Skin”, “Pagebar Thumbnail Floating Skin”, “Pagebar Thumbnail Head Button Skin”, “Pagebar Thumbnail Tail Button Skin”, “Pagebar Thumbnail Floating Button Skin”
• Fix for attention states on tabs
• Updated smileys. They are now more smiley.
• Tweaks to borders on addressbar and splitter to be consistent color
• Tweaks to dialogs
• Revised panel icons and buttons
• Revised icons for mail toolbar

User Interface

• [DSK-194184] Can’t find ‘show Speed ​​Dial at startup’ option)
• [DSK-253774] Crash in action handling
• [DSK-226623] Ctrl+Ins doesn’t copy outside or edit fields
• [DSK-253386] Crash when clicking help in startup dialog
• [DSK-253202] Replace ‘Language’ with ‘Dictionary’ in dictionary download wizard
• [DSK-253550] Turbo notification is cropped if the turbo icon is placed on the right of the window
• Removing obsolete ini-entry “view hotlist”

Mail

• [DSK-253731] Opens broken Compose Message view when creating new account

core

• [CORE-21309] Full language names in spell check context menu
• [CORE-21052] XSLT: Using keys in match expressions causes crash
• [DSK-253743] Operator cache deleted when Opera starts
• [DSK-251805] Hang when doubleclicking text while flash is running
• [DSK-253773] Plugin crash

Windows

• [DSK-253102] Classic installer can’t be used to install Opera on a limited account or Windows Vista with admin account
• [DSK-253374] Crashes on download of file when ‘Save File’ dialog pops up.
• [DSK-253884] “Debug: Elevated updater” dialog when autoupdating
• [DSK-253888] Can’t autoupdate Opera on Windows Vista

mac

• [DSK-252555] Opera Crashes on Startup on PowerPC
• Correcting issue on Mac Pagebar

Unix

• [DSK-253567] Crashes on Solaris
• [DSK-253761] Crash in Plugin manager

The following downloads are available:
Opera 10.0 build 1551 for Windows
Opera 10.0 build 1551 for Windows Classic
Opera 10.0 build 1551 for Mac OS X (Intel)
Opera 10.0 build 1551 for Mac OS X (universal)
Opera 10.0 build 1551 for UNIX/Linux