Changelog for Opera 7.60 Technical Preview 3 for Windows

Information

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• Build: 7321
• Released: November 12, 2004

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Release Note

• Use of the prefix "browser" is now mandatory for all voice commands.

Changes since Technical Preview 2

User interface

• Removed Internet suite/Browser only selection from start-up procedure and made messaging client integration dynamic:
  • E-mail, newsfeeds, and chat may now be activated independently of each other.
  • Individual menus and panels for Mail and Chat will be displayed as accounts are added under Tools > Chat and mail accounts.
  • The contacts panel is displayed when an e-mail and/or chat account is added.
  • Removed Enable mail and chat option from preferences.
• Added a choice between Prefer pages inside window (tabs), Separate windows (SDI), and Advanced MDI in Preferences > Windows
  • Prefer pages inside window enables an interface similar to 7.60 Preview 2, with close buttons on each tab, no MDI controls (minimize, maximize, and restore), and click-to-minimize disabled.
  • Separate windows enables SDI.
  • Advanced MDI enables MDI.
• The Start bar for blank pages now drops down from the URL field.
  • Start bar is fully customizable and can be disabled in Customize
  • The Top 10 list contains the 10 sites you visit most
• Favicons for bookmarks work again.
• Notification tooltips will now appear where the System tray is, usually in the bottom right of the screen.
• Fixed a problem preventing toolbars from being enabled if their placement had been set to off
• Fixed a crash that occurred when opening a new window if the Page bar placement wasn't set to top
• Added Ctrl + F12 and Shift + F12 as keyboard shortcuts for the Preferences and Customize dialogs, respectively.
• Swapped F4 and Shift + F4 shortcuts for toggling panels.
• Moved Customize to View > Toolbars menu.
• Q focuses quick reply if focus was on message list.
• Added Use current button for home page preference in Preferences > Start and exit.
• Improvements to scrolling.

Display

• Activated ERA (Extensible Rendering Architecture), enabled by selecting Fit to width from the View menu. ERA formats the viewed page differently according to the available width.
• Printing now defaults to Fit to width (disable in File > Print options).
• Borders are now always printed, regardless of the File > Print options > Print page background setting.
• Multiple rendering fixes.
• Trigger quirks mode to render pages using the IBM doctype correctly.
• Made <button> look more like <input type=button>

Voice

• The prefix browser is now mandatory for all commands directed at the Opera interface, to avoid problems with pages written in X+V.
• Unchecking Enable sound in Web pages in Preferences > Multimedia/Quick preferences will now disable Voice.

Messaging

• Made sure that the newsfeed name is not left empty when clicking on a feed and subscribing to it.
• Fix to avoid duplicate newsfeed items.
• Preliminary support for links/URLs using irc://. Only the server/room parts of the URLs are supported.
• Fixed preview 2 problem where clicking the CC button would add input to the "To:" field.
• Reenabled saving of chats
• Made threading toggle into a single button

Miscellaneous

• Multiple stability fixes.
• Multiple scripting improvements and fixes.
• Fixed several cursor issues.
• Preview 2 Wand auto-login regression fixed.
• Improved handling of DDE URLs.
• Added support for INI files with escapes (similar to LNG files).
• Added support for the FTP command EPSV.
• Fixed problem where local URLs containing con could not be opened