Opera 11.10 Released

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http://www.opera.com/browser/

Opera 11.10 for Windows changelog
Release notes

Release date: April 12, 2011

Opera 11.10 is a recommended upgrade offering new and improved features plus stability enhancements.

New and improved features

Code name
Opera 11.10 uses "Barracuda" as its code name.

Opera Presto 2.8 rendering engine
Opera 11.10 uses the new Opera Presto 2.8 rendering engine as identified in its user agent string.
Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto/2.8.131 Version/11.10

Plugin installation wizard
Enables easy installation of, for example, the Flash plug-in if it is missing from the system.

URL Filter API for Opera extensions

The URL Filter API for Opera extensions defines a DOM interface that allows extensions to add temporary rules to Opera's native content blocker. Rules added through this API are associated with an extension and apply as long as an extension is enabled. Once an extension is disabled or the browser is shut down, the temporary rules are discarded.

• It defines the API that is applied to an extension browsing context.
• An extension browsing context is a browsing context that implements the Opera extension interface (opera.extension).
• See: URL Filter API for Opera extensions

WebP

Opera adds support for the Google WebP image format.
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• his enhances Opera Turbo's compression performance with images.
• WebP is a new image format that provides lossy compression for photographic images.
• A WebP file consists of VP8 image data, and a container based on the Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF).

Feature improvements

Declarative UI

• Written in YAML:
• • A human friendly data serialization standard for all programming languages
  • A tool for visual layout development of YAML based CSS layouts
• Improves:
  • Adaptation to different string sizes for different languages
  • Changes in layout for a specific platform to get closer to platform guidelines
  • Dialogs with variable contents

Feature discoverability
Subtle animations and messages have been added to improve discoverability of Opera features.

Opera Dragonfly beta 1

• Opera has improved its Dragonfly debugging tool with the release of Opera Dragonfly beta 1. Opera Dragonfly covers the full debugging workflow, from inspecting network access and downloaded resources, to correcting JavaScript issues and seeing how CSS rules apply to the DOM. It supports all the newest web technologies, including SVG and HTML5 APIs such as Web Storage.
• JavaScript debugger
  • Enables stepping through your code line by line, setting break points along the way.
  • Monitor the exact expression or specific variable in your JavaScript code.
  • Use the Break points panel to see exactly what caused a JavaScript fail.
  • Added new types of break points and more granular control.
• CSS inspector
  • Check out what CSS rules apply to which element, and what rules are inherited or set by browser defaults.
  • Overridden rules are highlighted showing what styles are, or are not applied.
  • Use the CSS editing feature to edit existing properties and values.
  • Use the auto-complete feature to make editing faster and more convenient.
• DOM inspector
  • Allows inspection of the updated DOM and all of its properties.
  • The DOM can be edited to experiment with changes directly in the browser.
• Network inspector
  • Allows inspection of the HTTP request and response headers.
  • A summary of each request is shown, with the method type, response status and the time taken to be retrieved.
  • Drill down to see full details of each requests header.
  • Find latency, see how resources download and in what order, and even view cached resources.
• Resource inspector
  • See all site resources such as images, scripts, fonts, HTML files and videos at a glance.
• Storage inspector
  • Cookies and Web Storage can be dynamically updated, tested, inspected, and manipulated.
• Error console
  • Allows you to see, filter and log any errors in your scripts, pointing to the exact position where the error occurred.
  • Use the Error console in combination with the other tools to hunt down and fix your site's bugs.
• Debug your phone or TV
  • Debug pages whether they are on your computer or a supported device, such as a phone running Opera Mobile 10 for Windows Mobile.
  • You can connect to any device running Opera Presto 2.1 or above and debug using your computer's screen and keyboard. There is no need to struggle inputting test data with your phone's keypad again.
  • Opera Widgets can also be debugged via remote debugging.
• Design utilities
  • A color picker and a screen magnifier allow you to pick out colors from a website or widget.
  • The average color of an area can be selected to make it easier to pick out colors from bitmap images.
  • Chosen colors can be stored in a palette for later access.
• Open source
  • Built using the open web standards you know and love, Opera Dragonfly's source is available to view.
  • Not only that, but it is released on a Apache 2.0 license, meaning it is free as in freedom, as well as in beer.
  • Join in the project, or just check out the source code at the Opera Dragonfly repository.

Mail

• Added support for phrase searching.
• Improved CJK searches.
• Improvements made to the panel, including a setting to disable automatic toggling.
• Improved support when using the Opera Mail client with a Gmail IMAP account.
  • Opera now recognizes the special IMAP folders "Sent items", "Spam", "Trash" and treats them as equivalents of the native Sent, Spam and Trash views in Opera Mail. This also works for other IMAP servers that support the XLIST or SPECIAL-USE extensions for the IMAP specification, including the Fastmail IMAP service.
  • Opera now recognizes the special way in which Gmail duplicates messages that appear in the "All Mail" IMAP folder and the various folders created by Gmail's own "labels" (including Inbox). To make the best use of this, it is recommended that you subscribe to the all the Gmail IMAP folders (this is a change from earlier advice to suggested users to unsubscribe from the [Gmail]\* folders).
  • Opera Mail will then make sure that messages do not show up twice in its "Unread" and "Recieved" views. As for other views like "Mailing lists", "Contacts", "Labels", and "Attachments", duplication can still occur there. You can improve on this for now by unchecking "Show hidden" for such views (use the "View" button in the mail view, then "Show > Show hidden").

Search

• Search hijacking protection: Opera now prevents third party applications from hijacking searches and other customizations in Opera.
• Added a Search field to error pages, where the browser will make a search request over the net for suggestions and display them.

Speed Dial

• Added Speed Dial animation to help when reordering (dragging and dropping) existing Speed Dial cells, using smooth visual cues.
• Added a new "logo finder" which keys in on the main title of a page; diabled when "Reload every" is applied.
• Improvements have been made to the Speed Dial flow layout.
• Added the ability to set the number of Speed Dial columns (automatic by default).
• Added a new dialog when adding/editing Speed Dials
• It is now possible to add a custom title to Speed Dials, through the new add/edit dialog.
• Sites can now reload Speed Dials automatically using one of two methods:
  • HTTP header: Preview-refresh: seconds
  • HTML code: <meta http-equiv="preview-refresh" content="seconds">
• The Speed Dial thumbnail/icon is now determined using these criteria (in order):
  1. Send a http header to tell the server it is a Speed Dial request
  2. Detect big icons: <link rel=icon,apple-touch-icon ...> and display them instead of a thumbnail
  3. Find the important part of the page (logo), and zoom in closer
  4. Apply CSS view-mode: minimized when generating the thumbnail
• Updated graphics for Speed Dial and callout dialogs
• Speed Dial now has automatic zooming
• Speed Dial options are instantly applied

User JavaScript

• Added support for the BeforeCSS and AfterCSS events.

 

[evident]

awesome. will be getting this as soon as i get home

 

[scienter]

This release seems to have fixed the problems I've had with the scroll wheel behavior. For years the scroll wheel has not behaved like in every other application and it was a constant source of frustration. But it works way better now. Before the first indent of the scroll wheel from the top of the page would move it a very small amount and then a huge amount for future indents. Scrolling back up would always move it the huge amount. Now every indent is consistent and about half of the previous huge amount. Much more consistent with other applications and the OS now.

 

[bruceb]

Downloading it now.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

thanks. just updated and it doesn't feel any faster but i like the new speed dial. I don't use turbo mode but i'd like to test it out on a slow connection sometime just to see.

 

[bruceb]

only thing it does crazy is add all those search engine bookmarks (which I don't need and had to manually delete)

 

[Anubis]

didnt like how they tossed all those bookmarks at me. everything else is the same

not sure i like how they changed the speed dial page but i messed with it so it looks like i want it again. However some pages i have there are zoomed in and some aren't in their thumbnails but thats just me nitpickin

 

[scienter]

Looks like I spoke too soon. The wheel scrolling is better but still a bit bugged. First indent seems small. Second one seems very large. Third and subsequent ones seem 'normal' or 'just right'.

 

[dennilfloss]

Installed. Doesn't feel any different but that's a good thing probably.

 

[dennilfloss]

I too like the new speed dial. Bigger thumbnails FTW!

 

[bruceb]

Odd thing, on my laptop those added bookmarks showed up. On my desktop this morning I did the upgrade, no extra bookmarks.

 

[ForumMaster]

Opera Dragonfly Beta

Open source

• Built using the open web standards you know and love, Opera Dragonfly's source is available to view.
• Not only that, but it is released on a Apache 2.0 license, meaning it is free as in freedom, as well as in beer.
• Join in the project, or just check out the source code at the Opera Dragonfly repository.

NO FREAKIN' WAY!
Opera dragonfly is about the best web debugger that exists imo. It's much better the firebug. And now opensource? God i love opera!

 

[Mem]

Looks like I spoke too soon. The wheel scrolling is better but still a bit bugged. First indent seems small. Second one seems very large. Third and subsequent ones seem 'normal' or 'just right'.

I always get smooth scrolling with my Razer mouse with Opera(Win7 x64 PC),could be driver issue with your mouse or try a clean install of Opera rather then upgrade?...btw just updated my laptop to Opera 11.10 as well,again no mouse scrolling issues(Win7 x86 ),I just need to update my Opera on my Ubuntu PC later.


I like 11.10, no issues so far,the new Speed Dial is interesting,however I wish there was a way to show full image of web pages in Speed Dial rather then big part of web page(I can get used to it however).

I played around with the config option for speed dial (top right corner) but all that does is change size of speed dial icons etc...

 

[Anubis]

I like 11.10, no issues so far,the new Speed Dial is interesting,however I wish there was a way to show full image of web pages in Speed Dial rather then big part of web page(I can get used to it however).

I played around with the config option for speed dial (top right corner) but all that does is change size of speed dial icons etc...

i VERY much agree with this

whats funny is that some pages i have in in display the full image of the site in the thumb and some dont

 

[Mem]

I updated my Ubuntu 10.10 PC with Opera 11.10 ,basically its same comments as my previous post about my Win7 PCs.

Anubis yep I noticed that about Speed dial thumbs on my Ubunutu(typing this on my Ubuntu PC),some are showing full web page while others only show part,weird maybe bug I guess?.... who knows.

 

[MotF Bane]

Don't like the new Speed Dial adjustment, but more importantly, I left my computer idle with Opera up and one open tab for about two hours, came back to find 2.8 GB of memory in use for Opera alone.

Back to 11.01.

 

[Mem]

Don't like the new Speed Dial adjustment, but more importantly, I left my computer idle with Opera up and one open tab for about two hours, came back to find 2.8 GB of memory in use for Opera alone.

Back to 11.01.

Something wrong there,my PC and Opera has been on all day with 7 tabs open and its showing 514,000k.

 

[Mem]

Amazing what a reboot does plus I've also installed latest version of Adobe flash player,mem usage is now only 270,000k and that's with 10 tabs open.

Btw not had a single crash, infact I can't remember the last time Opera crashed since it was ages ago.