Changelog for Opera 8.0 Beta 1 for Windows
Information
Announcements
Changes Since Technical Preview 4
User Interface
- Re-added window handling preference to first run start-up dialog.
- Improved on the pop-up block notification. Click notifier to open the pop-up, page trash switches to attention state if the current page has a blocked pop-up, and items blocked from the current page are displayed in bold.
- Added support for dynamic relayout of dialogs, including expanding dialogs. Changing skins, fonts, and so forth while dialogs are open will now relayout correctly.
- Changes to "Windows" preferences; moved some options to an "Advanced" section, renamed Advanced MDI to Advanced Opera workspace.
- Made "Delete private data" dialog expanding.
- Simplified bookmark and bookmark folder properties dialogs.
- Solved issue with saving of redirected images.
Voice
- Default browser command prefix has changed from "browser" to "Opera".
- The Voice button and "Speak" in hotclick/context menu now prompt Windows 2000 and XP users to download and install voice libraries if voice is not enabled.
- Improved handling of URLs in bookmarks.
Messaging and newsfeeds
- Avoid newsfeed update check getting stuck if server is down.
- Improved handling of redirected newsfeeds.
- List of chat servers updated and expanded.
Miscellaneous
- The closed padlock icon for secure sites now appears inside the address field. Click to display security information concerning the site.
- More information on non-errors will be presented in the JavaScript console when available.
- Made sure links inside the JavaScript console launch in source viewer again.
- Fixed authentication issue: pages can now be authenticated in any sequence.
- Multiple fixes and enhancements related to ERA.
- Fixed issue with non-US locales in the xml:lang attribute.
- Fixed several rendering issues.