Opera

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.