PRWeb crashes Opera

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Crashed here, Opera 12.16 XP SP3.
The page loads and then Opera just shuts down.
Submitted a crash report, but I suspect that Opera aren't paying any attention to reports from Presto based Opera versions now.
It just came back "There is no detailed information available for this crash" which is what they always say now.

Fine in Opera 20 BTW!

[missingno]

missingno last edited by

Crash with Opera 12.16 64bit on Linux confirmed.

But as DaveHawley wrote, I doubt anyone cares.

[stng]

stng last edited by

Broken in 12.16... But works in 12.14!

That's another proof that 12.16 (which were released after the Presto's engine team dismissal) was defective release.

An another examples:
http://www.chapters.indigo.ca (12.16 - cookies support broken; works fine in 12.14).
http://www.twitch.tv/directory/all (12.16/x64 - it can't display content; works in 12.14).
Both sites are unusable in 12.16, but works fairly well in 12.14

12.16 is worse than 12.14 Reason: broken site compatibility.

[missingno]

missingno last edited by

The website in your first example complains about cookies, Twitch is showing me content, though. I disabled browser.js some time ago as it caused more problems than helped with site compatibility. If this is intentional or not, I can't tell.

[stng]

stng last edited by

missingno

The website in your first example complains about cookies

But works in 12.14. This one site is not the only example of the site with broken cookies in 12.16. AFAIR, some user had reported about the similar problem with an another URL.

Twitch is showing me content, though. I disabled browser.js some time ago as it caused more problems than helped with site compatibility. If this is intentional or not, I can't tell.

Try 12.16 x64.
Oh. So Browser.js is more likely is issue?

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Disabling browser.js makes no difference here, still crashes.

Can anyone say whether the problem still happens in 12.15?
IIRC the update from 12.15 to 12.16 was only to fix a certificate problem, and no other changes were recorded, so it should theoretically crash in 12.15 as well.
Are there any reasons not to roll back to 12.14 from 12.16 or 12.15?

[missingno]

missingno last edited by

Originally posted by DaveHawley:

Are there any reasons not to roll back to 12.14 from 12.16 or 12.15?

Nope. In fact, a lot of people stay with 12.14 or below as you cannot change the default search engine to your liking anymore in 12.15 and 12.16.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Thanks.
Haven't had any reason to roll back yet, although if I find that more sites are crashing or not working correctly in 12.16 I'll certainly try rolling back!

[stng]

stng last edited by

Here is an another broken site in 12.16:
http://www.asos.com/women/ (click "Help" under the "Questions" in bottom of page). Unattended redirect to the index page.
Works fairly well in 12.14 (no redirect).

Dear Opera Software, what's wrong with you? Where is your quality control?
Or you probably want to alienate remaining Opera's 12.x user base in every way...

[Tbird761]

Tbird761 last edited by

Are there any significant security fixes between 12.14 and 12.16? I've been using 12.16 for ages now but annoyingly it crashes all the time. If rolling back would help, I think I will do so. If 12.x didn't crash so much and wasn't so slow at JavaScript compared to modern JS engines found in other browsers, I'd be content for some time to come.

Upgrading to a modern branch is not feasible for me. The new branches are still not usable from my perspective as I consider tab bar placement to be a critical requirement in my daily browser and will not switch until its return.

[stng]

stng last edited by

Version 12.15 is also affected (just like 12.16).

There is no critical security fixes between 12.14 and 12.16 (there is NO buffer-overflow vulnerabilities etc.).

I believe that a web-sites compatibility that has worsened and poor stability of the 12.15/12.16+ is more critical flaws.

[missingno]

missingno last edited by

I don't know about changes "under the hood", but main change from .14 to .15 was a non-issue, that is the default search engine may be changed ("hi-jacked") by other software, and the main change from .15 to .16 was about some certificates being "hi-jacked" and therefor should be invalid.

[stng]

stng last edited by

Yet another broken site (12.15+):
http://www.flashscore.com/

Works pretty well in 12.14

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Lol, it crashed bang on time with Opera 12.16. Impressive.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

flashscore.com seems to be working OK here with 12.16.
Certainly no crashes and seems to display OK too.

[stng]

stng last edited by

Originally posted by DaveHawley:

flashscore.com seems to be working OK here with 12.16.
Certainly no crashes and seems to display OK too.

12.16 x64 - not working (shows "Loading ..." message instead of the content).

And i guess there is no hope that it's won't be fixed ever.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Still fine here.
Perhaps it's just the 64 bit Opera 12.16 having the problem, I'm using 32 bit.

[missingno]

missingno last edited by

Originally posted by STNG:

12.16 x64 - not working (shows "Loading ..." message instead of the content).

Hm... O12.16 x64 (Linux) shows content for me.

[stng]

stng last edited by

Originally posted by DaveHawley:

Still fine here.
Perhaps it's just the 64 bit Opera 12.16 having the problem, I'm using 32 bit.

Yes. The site is broken in 12.16 x64 (windows).
Anyway, there is no reasons to use 12.15+.

[stng]

stng last edited by

Opera 12.16 (x64, Windows platform) is not compatible with the largest Russia-speaking social network VK.com. The is no ability to upload photo into user's profile. The mentioned functionality works fine in 12.14 (in both x86 and x64 version, OS Windows).