Changelog for Opera 6.0 for Mac Beta 2

This document details the changes made in Opera 6.0 for Mac beta 2 since 6.0 beta 1.

Changelog

New features

  • Added support for Java under 8.6 - 9.2
  • Keychain support in forms
  • Support for favicons in tabs
  • Added support for sheets under Mac OS X

User interface

  • More "Maclike" buttons in toolbar
  • Added stop button for bookmark searches
  • Added grab scrolling
  • Added toolbar in transfer window
  • Enabled autofill of forms
  • Enabled Quick Preferences (F12)
  • Enabled "open new window" when clicking on the Opera icon in the dock when no window is open
  • Added cookie manager
  • Enabled the Link bar
  • Added encoding to the View menu
  • Enabled fallback encoding in the language preferences
  • Reading proxy settings from Internet preferences (except no proxy for...)
  • Added support for panels in the bookmark window

ECMAScript

  • Using Opera 7 ECMAScript modules. This should fix several JavaScript problems

Plug-ins

  • Enabled plug-ins under OS 8.6 - 9.2

Bug fixes

  • Fixed problem with the first occurrence of multiline forms in a session
  • Fixed text rendering issue in forms
  • Fix for scroll bar in multiline forms
  • Fix for sound preferences
  • Fixes for keyboard input that does not work
  • Updated the ECMAScript modules, to fix a bug with operamail
  • Fix for halfwidth characters to use osaka as the default font when it is available on the system
  • Fixed potential crash on quit
  • Displaying keyboards shortcuts in the menu
  • Fixed problem with cursor in the Flash plug-in under OS 8.6 - 9.2
  • Fixed crash at quit when cookie window was open
  • Fixed occasional rendering problem related to forms edit fields
  • Fixed problem with function keys
  • Added cookie dialogs
  • Enabled opera:blank
  • Fixed problem with update of fonts now displaying on current page
  • Fixed problems with insertion marker in forms
  • Fixed problem with font color under 9
  • Fixed problem with sounds
  • Disabled network timeout because of crashes
  • Fixed problem with list boxes in forms
  • Fixed problem with mouse move and links
  • Fixed problem with long underline of text
  • Fixed problem with missing space before bold text
  • Shortened timeout on sockets to approximately half of the previous value which appears to make web page loading faster when there are line issues
  • Fixed problem when selecting helper applications
  • Fixed sound preferences
  • Fixed Java crash under OS X
  • Several bug fixes for drag and drop
  • Fixed problem with security icon not displaying correct security level
  • Fixed problem with Japanese text display
  • Fixed problems with deleting file types in the preferences
  • Enabled find plug-ins
  • Fixes for image load and display
  • Removed the pop-up arrow in back/forward when the button is disabled
  • UI cleanup in Preference pane
  • Fixed problem with Opera not reading MIME types
  • Fixed problem with cookie dialogs
  • Fixed problem with saving international fonts
  • Fixed possible problems when copying bookmarks
  • Fixed redraw problem when swithcing toolbars
  • Fixed problem where Opera ignores ctrl-F2 key event instead of giving it to the system
  • Draw popup arrow on mouseover in toolbar to indicate that there is a pop-up menu
  • Fixed crash related to deleting sockets
  • Fixed bug that caused hyphens to print incorrectly on latin pages
  • Fixed problem with space before or after punctuation marks
  • Fixed potential crash problem at startup
  • Scroll speed optimization
  • Enabled history on hold down on back and forward buttons
  • Fixed problem with combination of tool bars
  • Fixed problem with docking of status bar in main bar
  • Speed optimized scrolling on pages with text input fields
  • Fixed problem with zooming and form elements
  • Enabled javascript: in URL field
  • Added delay in bookmarks searches, this makes it possible to write the whole word before search starts
  • Fixed problem with windows not loading at startup
  • F8 now select all when address field has focus
  • Fixed checkbox missing checkbox for allow pop-ups in Quick Preferences
  • Enabled detection for Java in Opera:about
  • Added timeout for network requests
  • Enabled drag and drop into the page bar
  • Speed optimization refinements
  • Fixed size problems in forms selection elements
  • Speed optimized and fixed speed related bug in event handling
  • Disabled checking of "domain/favicon.ico". Now we only use "LINK rel" instead
  • Enabled drag and drop from bookmarks to browser window, page bar and desktop
  • Enabled drag and drop from address bar and proxy icon
  • Fixed problem with loading of inline images
  • Speed optimized network and interface to Opera core
  • Opera is now built with CarbonLib 1.6
  • Removed the "Set home page" menu because Opera now use the Internet Control panel
  • Fixed problem with saved windows at startup
  • Fixed problem with CarbonLib 1.6 and contextual menus
  • Fixed problem with copy in the address bar
  • Speed optimized scrolling under 8.6 - 9.2
  • Speed optimized table display
  • Speed optimized font display
  • Fixed problems with keyboard scrolling in forms
  • Fixed problem with bookmark tabs and window size
  • Enabled sheets for complex dialogs on OS X
  • Fixed problem with autoproxy
  • Updated certificates from CREN
  • Fixed problem with large size fav icons
  • Added truncation menus for link bar and personal bar
  • Enabled mouse gesture for "Go to parent directory"
  • Event handling improvements to increase speed and stability
  • Speed optimization in menus
  • Added preferences for mouse gestures
  • Enabled Link menu
  • Fixed problem with greyed out menu items
  • Delete certificate no longer crashes when there is nothing to delete
  • Buttons.ini icons for the transfer window, if N/A then fallback to the old icons
  • Fixed crash for editing mime types which do not have plugins associated
  • Fixed offset problems, obscuring first character in the text edit fields
  • Fixed problem with buttons in bookmark windows and tabs
  • Partial fix for problem with forms
  • Fixed problem related to icon size in page bar
  • Fixed problem with forms in panels
  • Fixed problem with preferences for pop-up windows
  • Fixed problem with text displaying on scroll bars

See the changelog for Opera 6.0 for Mac beta 1, the previous version.