Opera 7.50 for Mac

Opera version 7.50 is available for download.

Release Notes

Opera 7.50 (Beta 1 and final release both) fixes a Telnet URI handler vulnerability as reported in iDEFENSE Security Advisory 05.12.04. Users of earlier Opera versions are adviced to upgrade.

Please also note the following concerning Opera 7.50 for Mac:

  • Mac OS X 10.1 or newer is required.
  • Although import from Address Book to Opera's contacts is supported, changes made in Opera's contacts are at this stage not written back to Address Book.
  • Some problems with switching fonts for Asian languages may occur, and inline Input Method Editors (IMEs) are not supported.
  • Coming releases will continue to improve on the Mac OS X integration and Macintosh look and feel of the user interface.
  • Users may experience some problems with the current Java implementation, which will also be improved on in coming releases.
  • LiveConnect is not supported at this point.

For a more complete overview of changes since 7.23, please also refer to the changelog for Opera 7.50 Beta 1.

Changes since Beta 1:

User Interface

  • New default skin finalized.
  • Made advertisement preferences consistent with first time setup dialog; clicking on Google ads turn off main bar, clicking generic turns it on.
  • Added "Show only when needed" option for page bar.
  • Removed hard-coded fallback text color (black) for labels.
  • Fixed several focus issues.
  • Fixed problem updating progress bar fields if moved to the main toolbar
  • Disabled keyboard shortcuts for graphics on/off and author/user style sheet in e-mail and chat.
  • Re-enabled separate manage page for links (Ctrl+Alt+L)
  • 'Links' and 'Info' panels and the zoom drop-down now work also for e-mail and chat.
  • "8)" and "8D" no longer generate smileys, as these combinations are frequently used for other purposes.
  • Fix for panel reordering being forgotten on restart.
  • Fixed transfers window not being displayed if transfers panel was disabled.
  • Allowed for more user interface text strings to be translated.
  • The "Opera Preferences" file
    • Added setting to make lists with alternating background colors more accessible (disabled by default):
         [User Prefs]
   Color List Row Mode=1
    • Added setting for controlling support of the autocomplete="off" attribute in FORMs (disabled by default): 
         [User Prefs]
   AutocompleteOff=0
  • Shift+F4 toggles the panels with the panel selector.
  • "Document Window" added to list of sections in the shortcut editors for keyboard and mouse.

Opera Mail

  • Unseen messages will now have the "Not visited" link color specified in Preferences > Page style > My link style.
  • Improved threading of messages.
  • 'Organization' e-mail header is now indexed for searching.
  • Removed mailing lists from "Active contacts" access points.
  • Fixed problem with forwarding .txt attachments
  • Fixed problem entering Korean characters in search fields
  • Improved handling of malformed MBOX files
  • Improved handling of invalid Content-Types in plain text messages
  • RSS newsfeeds
    • Fixed multiple update issues with RSS newsfeeds.
    • RSS 2.x: Added support for using guid elements to determine a feed item's uniqueness. Also, if guid is a permalink, that link element will be preferred for display.
    • Newsfeed creator's e-mail address is no longer appended to the feed name.
    • Fixed parsing problem with new feed items without description.

Chat client

  • Stability fixes.
  • Fixed file transfer by DCC.
  • Increased number of predefined servers when creating a new chat account.
  • Added support for comma separated IRC servers in the "server" input field in account properties.

Display, scripting and standards support

  • Stability fixes
  • Added support for DOM_Runtime and DOMEnvironment.
  • Fixed a problem with string.prototype.replace
  • Fixed multiple scripting issues.
  • Fixed an encoding problem when submitting FORM data
  • Fixed problems with vertical-align: top, font-style: inherit, and font-style: italic.

Customization

  • Toolbar version has been updated; old toolbar customizations will no longer work.
  • "Large images" setting no longer displayed in Customize toolbars > Properties if a skin has no support for large images. Add the following to skin.ini to disable large image support: 
    [Options]
Large images=0
  • Made it possible to also make large fields.
  • Improved support for "opera:button"; clicking a custom button will open the "Customize toolbars" dialog and add the button to the "My buttons" section.

Mac-specific changes

  • Apple Mail import is now supported.
  • Added X button for closing page at the right side of the pagebar.
  • Help key now works like Cmd+?.
  • Middle-click support fully enabled.
  • Main window now closes when last page is closed when using MDI.
  • Fix for Keychain import to Wand
  • Multiple entries in Keychain on a page should now show the Wand "Select user" log-in dialog.
  • "Determine action by MIME type" is no longer enabled by default.