Opera 11.50 Released

[Mem]

Opera 11.50 for Windows changelog
Release notes

Release date: June 28, 2011

Opera 11.50 is a recommended upgrade offering new and improved features, plus security and stability enhancements. For your reference, please see the previous Opera 11.50 beta changelog on the Opera changelogs website.
New and improved features
Code name
Opera 11.50 uses "Swordfish" as its code name.
Improved user interface

Opera developers continue to make Opera light, bright, and as user-friendly as possible without sacrificing power or flexibility. Some changes are highly visible, such as those to the address and status bars. Also, you will find that much of the skin has been reworked, including a brand new icon set. Some highlights are:
Brand new toolbar icon set
Brighter, softer colors for backgrounds and borders
Padding and alignment improvements
Updated status bar design and content
Removed button borders in the address bar
The Home and Fast Forward buttons are now optional
New "tab fold" attention state: no more blue blob
Opera extensions
Opera extensions can now share cookies with the browser. You will not have to log in separately from an extension.
Opera Link: Password synchronization

The most requested feature for Opera Link is password synchronization.
You can enable it when you set up link for the first time or in the Synchronization Options dialog.
Opera Mail
Improved the Gmail IMAP support that was added in Opera 11.10.
Added support for setting designated "Trash" and "Spam" folders for IMAP servers that do not support the X-LIST or Special-Use IMAP extensions.
Added a "Match messages in" setting that can be set on any label with filter rules.
For further details, please see Rijk van Geijtenbeek's article in the Opera Desktop Blog.
Opera Next

Opera Next is a stand-alone installation of the Opera desktop browser intended for testing the development of new features, technologies, and improvements.
It is automatically updated to include the latest changes as they become available.
Important note: Pre-release builds may be unstable and include known issues, such as crashes or data loss situations.
See: What is Opera Next?
Opera Presto 2.9 rendering engine
Opera 11.50 uses the new Opera Presto 2.9 rendering engine (Presto/2.9.168).
Speed Dial extensions

Speed Dial extensions are like small web pages embedded in your Speed Dial powered by Opera's extension framework.
They allow developers to make live previews of web pages or other nice decorations for your Speed Dial.
The Add Speed Dial dialog now promotes Speed Dial extensions, and the way Speed Dial extensions are shown in the extensions manager has been improved.
You can also install the same Speed Dial extension more than once.
See: Opera Extensions API: Speed Dial guide
See: Creating Opera Speed Dial Extensions
See: Extensions - in Speed Dial!
Speed Dial tab activation improvements
When Speed Dial is the active tab, other tabs are not activated on mousedown.
This allows you to drag open tabs into Speed Dial.
Hovering a Speed Dial tab while dragging something will also activate it.
Windows installer
The Windows installer now has an option to pin Opera to the taskbar on Windows 7.
Web specifications support

For further detailed information, please see:
Web specifications support in Opera Presto 2.9
Web specifications support in Opera products
CSS
Improved deep nesting of the quotes property.
See: W3C CSS 2.1 Section 12.3: Quotation marks
Support is added to provide the original source line for CSS rules, benefiting future versions of Opera Dragonfly.
Improved CSS parsing performance is up to 10-15% faster due to CSS tokenizing optimizations.
DOM event handling
Updated the list of DOM events visible on window, document and element objects.
Events supported by Opera and part of the Window interface of the HTML standard are now exposed on the window object.
Events supported by Opera and part of the HTMLDocument interface are now exposed on the HTML document object.
onstorage has been removed.
Events supported by Opera and part of the HTMLElement interface are exposed on all elements, unless the events are form specific, in which case they remain visible only on form elements.
See: HTML5 elements, attributes, and APIs support in Opera Presto 2.8
See: W3C HTML5 Section 3.1.1: Documents in the DOM
See: W3C HTML5 Section 3.2.2: Elements in the DOM
See: W3C HTML5 Section 5.2: The Window object
HTML5 dataset attribute
Added support for the dataset attribute on elements which exposes data-* attributes on an element.
See: Dev.Opera: An Introduction to Datasets
See: HTML5 elements, attributes, and APIs support in Opera Presto 2.8
See: W3C HTML5 Section 3.2.3.8: Embedding custom non-visible data with the data-* attributes
HTML5 <input> indeterminate attribute
Added support for the <input> element indeterminate attribute for checkboxes. This is used to change the appearance of checkbox controls.
See: HTML5 Section 4.10.7: The input element.
HTML5 Session history and navigation
Added support for the history interface.
See: HTML5 Session History and Navigation support in Opera Presto 2.8
See: W3C HTML5 Section 5.4: Session history and navigation
HTML5 and SVG classList attribute
Enabled the classList attribute for HTML and SVG elements.
See: HTML5 elements, attributes, and APIs support in Opera Presto 2.8
See: W3C HTML5 Section 3.2.3.6: The class attribute
HTML5 <time> element
Implemented the HTML5 <time> element.
See: W3C HTML5 Section 4.6.10: The time element.
See: W3C HTML5 Section 10.4.17: The time element
Opera Widgets specification
Default widget size has been overridden from 100x100 to 300x300.
See: Opera Widgets specification
Selectors API
Implemented Element.oMatchesSelector.
Prefixed implementation of the Element interface .matchesSelector method with "o".
Note: The refNodes parameter is not supported.
See: W3C Selectors API Level 2.
Server-Sent Events enabled for Web Workers
Enabled the EventSource interface for Web Workers
See: W3C Server-Sent Events: Section 4 The EventSource interface

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[Chiefcrowe]

Thank you, just updated and it looks good.
interface looks different too!

and it does feel faster too!!

 

[Anubis]

lol i thinks its even faster now. damn it feels snappy as fuck

 

[Mem]

lol i thinks its even faster now. damn it feels snappy as fuck

Very nippy with latest Flash .

 

[bruceb]

Updated fine. Can someone try a site for me ? ? ?
www.thinks.com .. try the daily puzzles (except chess as that works)
See if they load ok (word search, jigsaw, etc) .. they seem to have stopped
loading as of June 01, 2011 and I have tried it with Opera, Firefox and IE8
with the same results. Latest versions of Shockwave, Flash & Java

 

[Mem]

Updated fine. Can someone try a site for me ? ? ?
www.thinks.com .. try the daily puzzles (except chess as that works)
See if they load ok (word search, jigsaw, etc) .. they seem to have stopped
loading as of June 01, 2011 and I have tried it with Opera, Firefox and IE8
with the same results. Latest versions of Shockwave, Flash & Java

Tried daily jigsaw with both FF5 and Opera,no go .

 

[bruceb]

OK, now I know for sure it is not my computer. I also tried it with IE8 and with AdBlock in Firefox disabled. Still bad. Odd thing is, it all worked fine until June 1st .. emails to the website support have gone unresolved. I suspect it has something to do with Java, the way the link is calling the script it needs.

 

[evident]

wtf.. this new update just hosed all the settings i had for opera. and WTF is with removing the drop down history button in the URL bar? i swear both mozilla and opera fuck with too many user interface things with each update and it's fugging confusing to get it back.

 

[zokudu]

Downloaded a few days ago. Love the new speeddial extensions.

 

[Lorthreth]

and WTF is with removing the drop down history button in the URL bar? i swear both mozilla and opera fuck with too many user interface things with each update and it's fugging confusing to get it back.

Go to opera:config, and write in the quick search Dropdown. One of the results is "Show Dropdown Button In Addressfield", just toggle it and hit Save.

 

[evident]

Go to opera:config, and write in the quick search Dropdown. One of the results is "Show Dropdown Button In Addressfield", just toggle it and hit Save.

thanks.

why would they get rid of this as a default option though?

 

[sactoking]

wtf.. this new update just hosed all the settings i had for opera. and WTF is with removing the drop down history button in the URL bar? i swear both mozilla and opera fuck with too many user interface things with each update and it's fugging confusing to get it back.

This. I loaded 11.50 on my main desktop and the first time I ran it there was no 'Home' button and no drop down history. I found the Home button but still couldn't find the history drop down, so I refused to install on my laptop. Note to developers: DON'T MOVE/REMOVE CORE FUNCTIONALITY FOR NO REASON.

 

[Mem]

This. I loaded 11.50 on my main desktop and the first time I ran it there was no 'Home' button and no drop down history. I found the Home button but still couldn't find the history drop down, so I refused to install on my laptop. Note to developers: DON'T MOVE/REMOVE CORE FUNCTIONALITY FOR NO REASON.

History is either via Opera menu or side bar(panel toggle) 5th one down on mine.

 

[bruceb]

Yes, I noticed that the Home icon was hidden as well. I agree, leave well enough alone. Your programmers, like those idiots at Yahoo Mail, do not know what I want in MY interface to a program or a web site. At least give us the choice of New or Old ways if that is what we want.

 

[Anubis]

man i installed it and didnt notice a single change in the interface

 

[evident]

man i installed it and didnt notice a single change in the interface

did your drop down button in your address bar stay there? or do you not use that function? i still dont understand why they removed that by default, its not like it took up any more horizontal space in the web browser


another similar thing, when firefox 4 came out my mom wouldn't stop calling me because she was so confused to why everything got moved around. sheesh.

 

[Arg Clin]

Very fast for sure. This thing is giving me a bad itch to upgrade my puny 10M DSL

still no GPU acceleration though. Not sure that it's something we need very badly right now, but it sounds like fun. I wonder if it will do CrossfireX :biggrin:

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

Very fast, very good. Not sure how to work the new Speed Dial feature and even less sure that it's a feature that I'll actually want, but still cool.