Changelog for Opera 7.60 Technical Preview 2 for UNIX

Information

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• Build: 840
• Released: October 26, 2004

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Changes Since Technical Preview 1:

User interface

• Simplified first start-up dialog.
• Menus have undergone a significant simplification. Note in particular:
  • The "Window" menu has been removed. Most of the options have been moved to the tab context (right-click) menu.
  • The Navigation menu is now a sub-menu of View and has been shortened. Enable the navigation bar or use toolbar shortcuts for easy site navigation using embedded links.
  • The Mail and Chat menus have been combined to form the Messages menu. IMAP folders, newsgroups and newsfeeds are found in Messages > Subscribe.
  • "Save with images as" is now an option within the Save dialog; select "HTML with images" as file type.
  • The Links page is now in the Tools menu.
  • Toolbar and panel customization is now done from within the "Customize" dialog.
  • "Create linked" has been moved to the tab context menu.
• Major changes have also been done to toolbars and button setup:
  • New pages have a start bar that replaces the personal bar as part of the default setup.
  • Added dropdown button for easy access to closed pages on the page bar. The button doubles as blocked pop-up notifier.
  • Added close icon for every tab on the page bar.
  • The eye icon on the right end of the address bar toggles a view toolbar with "Find in page", voice icon, and view options.
  • The security icon (padlock) and RSS icon are now displayed within the address field when on a secure page or a page correctly linked to a valid RSS newsfeed.
  • Menu bar buttons for minimizing/maximizing, restoring and closing pages (MDI buttons) have been removed.
• "Block unwanted pop-ups" is now enabled by default.
• Option to simply press Enter in a http-auth dialogue to use the first stored Wand login has been restored.
• Possibility to use security password without reentering every time has been restored.
• Fixed issue with text selection for justified text.
• "Continue from last time" remembers fit-to-width setting.
• Several minor focus issues solved.
• Space + Shift when a forms button is focused should submit in the background.
• Added Alt + Backspace as shortcut for "undo".

Mail and messaging

• Chat status is now set globally in Messages > Chat status.
• Added /invite as typed chat command.
• Fixed scrolling issue in chat pages.
• Improved "Add newsfeed?" dialog.
• Re-enabled smileys in e-mail/news/newsfeeds.
• Several improvements to quick reply: expand automatically when typing multiple lines, handle one draft per message, and reset focus to message list after replying.
• Improved handling of file name characters when saving e-mail attachments.
• Improved news URL handling.
• Fixed problem with e-mail import from Outlook Express where mailboxes were assumed empty.

Display

• Render black background again in small-screen mode to make the document width more visible.
• Borders in SSR set to "not specified" rather than zero.
• Fix for zoom not being preserved on pages containing frames.
• Changed calculated line height to be based on actual font size rather than specified font size.
• Allow mixing of background-position and keyword, in accordance with CSS2.1.
• Fix for issue with elements with negative text-indent inside floating block.
• "border: 0;" on input will produce a text field with no border.
• Improved handling of forms padding.
• Borders for radio buttons and checkboxes can not be turned off with CSS.
• Fixed problem with disabling form styling causing borders around all form elements to disappear for all open pages with forms.
• Speedier recognition of :hover.
• Improved handling of paged media.
• Solved issue with display of wrong favicon when multiple icons are located on the same server.
• Recognize "application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml" documents as handheld.

Scripting

• Multiple fixes to XMLHttpRequest support.
• Solved issue with attributes with certain names and values being inaccessible when using DOM for XML documents.
• Referrers will be remembered when a script is reread from the cache.
• Added setting in opera6.ini for allowing scripts to hide the address bar in pop-ups (Preferences > Multimedia > JavaScript options. Default is "allow".
• Let link actions and the link pop-up menu work if a link has been selected as text.

Security

• Fix for tabbed/MDI browsing vulnerability reported in Secunia Advisory SA12713. For more information, see Opera's security advisory: Phishing attack possible with a delayed JavaScript prompt
• Fixed issue reported by Marc Schoenefeld: Intrusive JavaScript or Java applet could exploit Sun Java vulnerability to retrieve logged-in user's username and install directory.
• TLS 1.1 setting removed — for now.
• Sonera CA certificates added.

Miscellaneous

• Multiple improvements to printing.
• Multiple stability fixes.
• Fixed problem with frozen file uploads.
• Several improvement to spell-checking feature.
• Multiple fixes for display of bi-directional text.
• Improved performance of page navigation during page loading.
• If Java is enabled, but not found, the user will be prompted and offered a download. If confirmed, go to JRE download page.
• Improved search in page.
• Improved plug-in handling.
• Convert newlines to spaces and convert non-printing characters in bookmark names.
• Fix to ensure consistency in generated bookmark names.

UNIX-specific

• Up and down buttons in plug-in path dialog work again.
• Fix to prevent various key-presses from being executed twice with certain actions.
• Ensured that all keypresses and keydown actions can be intercepted by ECMAScript.
• Previous search text is again selected when using Edit > Find (or Ctrl + F) and F2 dialogs.
• Solved issue with saved sessions being maximized when saved as minimized.
• Enabled support for in-line error pages instead of error dialog boxes.
• Fixed problem with link activation when scrolling using the keyboard.
• Added menu bar layout change when toggling between browser modes in first time install dialog box.
• Prevented start of multiple searches when searching from the search dropdown control.
• Let cursor blink be visible at the end of selected text.
• The default font size for forms and compose fields are now the same as for PRE font.
• Fixed layout problems that would occur if Opera was started in minimized (-iconic) mode.
• Fix for a problem that made the cursor invisible/hard to see when located at right edge of selected text in edit fields.
• Extended shortcut support so that we can now use a number of new shortcuts (Shift + 3 and various user defined).
• Made it possible to paste (with the center mouse button) the selected text of an edit field into the same edit field. Earlier the selected text would be replaced with the new text.
• Fixed spell-checking.
• The openFile(), openM2() and openComposer() command line options now support destination arguments (see opera --help).
• Fixed auto proxy.
• Fixed problem causing unwanted resizing of framed pages.