Changelog for Opera 9.0 Beta 1 for UNIX

Information

Fixed Proxy On/Off toggle in Quick Preferences.
Script dialogs now have the option to stop the current script running, in order to prevent further dialogs from appearing.
Added support for saving and opening Web archives.
opera:config now uses file choosers for file paths.
Quick find in opera:config now searches section names as well as preference names.
Sections can now be expanded in opera:config even while searching.
The [Adv User Prefs] section of opera6.ini and opera:config has been renamed to [Network].
Changed feed notification icon.
Removing buttons on one toolbar now removes from all open tabs not just active one.
Added ability to save to disk from source viewer.
Default mode for "Cycle without showing list" is now visible tab order.
"Cycle without showing list" now includes also minimized pages.

Site and Web page content preferences moved into Preferences > Advanced > Content.
Tabbed browsing preferences have been moved to Preferences > Advanced > Tabs.
Reorganized Network and Browsing preferences.
Re-added Preferences > Advanced > Cookies, for managing cookie preferences.
Re-added gender setting to voice preferences.

A dragable widget tab is shown at the top of the screen, providing quick access to widgets. This can be removed using the settings button when viewing widgets, or using Preferences > General > Show widgets tab.
Widgets are now displayed on a faded background - click on the background to exit widget viewing mode.
Pinned widgets will now appear in the operating system's window lists, and can be activated with Alt+Tab as with normal application windows.
Pinned widgets can be kept on top using the right-click menu.
Links from widgets now respect the "Open windows instead of tabs" setting.
Dragging a scrollbar in a widget no longer drags the widget.
Added widget error reporting to the error console.

In content blocking mode, clicking an image or plug-in shows all other content that matches the filter.
Content blocker shows previously blocked content when entering content blocking mode.
Content blocker filters are no longer case sensitive.
Shift+click on images and plug-ins while in content blocking mode blocks the exact path instead of using a wild card.
Leaving content blocking mode removes all content that matches the new filters, including pages in inline frames.
Improved blocking of plug-in content when an object tag is used without an embed tag.
Improved display of content blocker toolbar.

Fixed timestamp bug in Mail.
New welcome mail to replace dialog when first creating a mail account.
Up/down arrows no longer select next/previous messages in e-mail and news views when the message view has focus.
Corrected encoding when redirecting e-mails.
DCC file transfers now displayed as a link in a private chat window.
DCC file transfer now respects the nosave and nodownload switches in kiosk mode.

Improved handing of image changes through CSS :hover effects.
Fixed float and inline box stacking order, as required by the Acid 2 test. This completes Opera's support for Acid 2.
Removed support for SGML comments in HTML. Comment parsing is now based on the Web Applications 1.0 draft.
Several fixes for the position style.
Fixed :required :optional :read-only :read-write and :default pseudo-class selectors.

Added support for PUT method in XMLHttpRequest.
Fixed support for LSSerializer.writeToURI.
Improved support for HTML output in XSLT.
Allowed mouse events to pass through clipped or overflowed (or otherwise transparent) regions of an element.
Added class constructors for CanvasGradient, CanvasPattern, and CanvasRenderingContext2D.
Added support for HTMLTableElement.cells collection.
<xml> elements are no longer removed from the HTML DOM.
Improved handling of offsetTop, offsetLeft, and offsetParent.
Added support for Selection.removeAllRanges and Selection.addRange.
Added support for Audio, as described in the Web Applications 1.0 draft.
Several designMode improvements, including handling of queryCommandEnabled and queryCommandState, and converting multiple paragraphs into list items.
Added support for onmousewheel events.
Fix for canvas gradients and blur.
Script events now report correct keyCode for insert, delete, home, end, pause/break, scroll lock and num lock keys.
Added support for element.cssText.
Allowed self closing SCRIPT tags in HTML documents.
Removed support for "javascript:" URLs in CSS.

Flash is no longer bundled in the installer. The first time you visit a page that uses Flash, you will be prompted to download the Flash installer.
Fix to allow object tags with an empty or missing data attribute to load plug-ins.
Added support for controlling plug-ins with site specific preferences.

Support for Java on FreeBSD.
Full widget user interface available only if KDE or Gnome are detected. It can be overridden with the command line option "-overlay yes" to enable it in different environments, or "-overlay no" to force disable it.
Netscape Plug-in API 0.16 enabled on Linux/Unix.
New dapper_i386.deb package for Ubuntu Dapper Drake users.
Improved window manager session management.
Modified pluginwrapper so that plug-ins see a Composite widget. This improves support for some versions of the Real plug-in.
Fixed problems with resizing content in detached windows.
Cleanup and fixed problems with parsing of remote commands, allowing filenames containing spaces.
Quicktime movies may crash the mplayer-plugin.