Changelog for Opera 7.60 Technical Preview 2 for Windows

Information

• This is no longer our latest release. Please see our preview release page for more information.
• Build: 7263
• Released: October 26, 2004

Announcements

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• Opera newsgroups (Google groups) or Opera newsgroups (news:// direct link)

Release Notes

• Please note that voice support in clean installs now needs to be manually enabled in Preferences > Voice. Enabling voice will prompt the user to download and install voice libraries.
• Opera's help files have not been fully synchronized with this preview release.

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.

Windows-specific

• Fix to restore previous default file settings after uninstalling Opera.

Voice

• Voice libraries are now in a separate download. Voice must be enabled in Tools > Preferences > Voice, which will prompt the user to download voice libraries.
• Optional "no key required to talk" mode is now fully implemented.
• Voice button is now located on the View toolbar.
• Enabled bargein for browser control. This allows users to issue a new command before the execution of the previous command has been completed.
• Added "Speak" to the right-click menu for selected text. Keyboard shortcut: V.
• Added several other new commands; see standard_voice.ini (in the "Defaults" directory) for a complete overview of the default voice commands.
• Preferences for speech now also apply to speech generated from Web pages.
• "Cancel voice prompt" keyboard shortcut has been changed to Esc.
• Voice-enabled the panels for mail, links, and bookmarks, as well as all lists of messages in Opera Mail, and all overview pages from the Tools menu.
• Bookmark nicknames can be used for navigation, the syntax is "Go to bookmark <nickname>".
• Opera can now auto-install downloaded voice configuration files that use the MIME type "application/x-opera-configuration-voice".