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Opera Desktop Team


Dialogs and text inputAugust 30
New week, and a new snapshot. :hat:

We have fixed the mail panel regression introduced with the previous snapshot, and improved on dialog modality on Mac. Mac users on older system will also find a very pleasant fix for ‘the slow typing issue.’ (Will be available in an upcoming Opera 10.62 update for the PowerPC crowd too.)

Known regressions
  • DSK-311905 [Mac] (Text input can be slow with a large number of bookmarks)
  • DSK-311564 [Windows] (The MSI installer may fail when upgrading an existing installation)
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.

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Note: If you are looking for a PowerPC build, please see our previous blog post. ...









The End of an ArchitectureAugust 30
We have some sad news for the 0.1% of our users who are still on the PowerPC architecture.

Starting with the Next version of Opera, as of the next snapshot release (due sometime later today), we are discontinuing the PowerPC architecture on Mac and Linux. Opera 10.6x will be the last release with support for this architecture. This is unfortunate, but with third party vendor support dwindling away, we can no longer keep developing Opera for this architecture.

After ending support for PowerPC, we will be able to focus more on our high quality browser to make sure that it meets the need of the modern web browser user on the popular architectures. ...



Bug fixing Wednesday on a unified build numberAugust 25
A nice bunch of fixes coming right up! :)

We are now using the same build number on all platforms. This should make it easier to coordinate your bug reports and comments (hint, hint) as we’ll know for sure you are all talking about the same build.

Known regressions
  • DSK-311417 (Crash on expanding items in the mail panel)
  • DSK-307161 [Windows] (Mouse navigation buttons not working)
  • DSK-311545 [Windows] (HTML5 video element doesn't work because of missing GStreamer files)
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.

Reminder: Please keep the comments relevant to changes in this snapshot. File other issues in the BTS and requests in the wish-list forum.

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Content blocker synchronization, and *nix fixesAugust 19
It has been a while since we added something to Opera Link, but with this "10.70" snapshot, we are introducing synchronization of the content blocker. This makes it easy to build and maintain a list of blocked items anywhere you go.

This snapshot also has a few Linux/FreeBSD fixes.

Known issues
  • Existing URLs might not be synchronized: If you already have a list of blocked URLs before enabling synchronization, you might have to add a URL to the block list through the content blocker for synchronization to start working after logging in to Opera Link

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.

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New 10.70 snapshot: Synchronizing build numbers (almost)August 18
It's been a few days since the previous 10.70 snapshot, so we decided it was time to do another one.

If you look at the build numbers, you will notice that Mac and Unix use the same number. We are currently working on synchronizing build numbers across desktop platforms, and this is the first step. Windows will hopefully follow in the near future.

Note: There are no Linux PowerPC builds this time.

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.

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