Changelog for Opera 6.0 for Linux TP 3

This document details the changes made in Opera 6.0 for Linux since TP 2.

Changelog

User interface

  • Operashow display mode should work properly
  • "opera:plugins" now lists the installed plugins
  • Plugin path components can be set in separate dialog box.
  • Added <firstname> <surname> and <surname> <firstname> to form autocompletion
  • Server filter list can now be sorted.
  • Framed pages can be opened in 1) new window and 2) background
  • Page reload timer was not correct (too slow)
  • Support for telnet addresses with a port specification.
  • A number of major and minor UI bug fixes.

Document and display

  • Break lines at the correct positions for TEXTAREA elements that have the WRAP attribute set to HARD. It used to be quite a bit off.
  • If the font settings for generic fonts (Serif, Sans-serif, etc.) in the preferences (opera5.ini) contained font families that didn't exist on the system, it would crash. This could happen if the QT_XFT environment variable (for anti-aliased fonts) was changed. It should be fixed now.
  • Ability to find the right font even if the family requested is provided by different foundries.
  • Support for CSS property letter-spacing.
  • Various display bugfixes
  • Site-license support. The site-license file must be put in /usr/share/opera/ in order to work.
  • Improved print preview - looks better, more stable
  • Fixed linebreaking issues when submitting TEXTAREA elements (didn't work properly when WRAP attribute was "HARD")
  • Fixed some socket leakage. Still some problems left, though.
  • Fixed display problems on pages with fixed elements or fixed background.
  • "Save as text" should be more stable now
  • http downloads of tar.gz (zipped) files should work again

Plugins

  • Minor stability improvements
  • Improved "Find Plugins" (it may even work...)
  • Better handling of plug-in name/description (Java is still wrong, though)
  • Better handling of some Java parameters

See the changelog for Opera 6.0 TP2.