Changelog for Opera 6.0 for Unix TP 1

This document details the changes made in Opera for Unix since version 5.

Changelog

• Alpha-transparency for PNG images
• Support for XBM, BMP, WBMP
• Faster network communication
• Faster page layout
• Unicode support
• Gesture support
• "Delete private data" dialog box
• Extended MDI behavior. A normalized window can now appear on top of a maximized window without causing a resize of the maximized window
• Quick Preferences menu (press F12) with a number of handy on/off functions (javascript, popup-windows etc)
• Help is now shown in separate windows
• Contact list support
• Bookmark bar > Personal bar with more capabilities
• Improved bookmark editing capabilities
• Integrated search in bookmark page of hotlist view
• Panel support in hotlist view
• Bookmarks can be exported as an HTML page
• Skinning capabilities
• Cookie editor
• KDE 1/2 bookmark import. All bookmark paths can be specified
• Scroll position is restored in open documents
• Improved plug-in support:
• Codeweaver's crossover plug-in works (e.g. Quicktime w/Sorenson)
• Tcl 2.0 plug-in works
• "Find plug-ins" works (mostly...)
• Preference setting for plug-in search path
• Lots of stability improvements
• Possibility (through editing opera5.ini) of setting timeouts
• xml support
• Double/triple click on document text combined with language and currency translations (Hotclick)
• New printdialog that accepts a custom printer setup
• Numerous bugfixes
• Tip of the Day support
• A lot more I have forgotten now

See the changelog for Opera 5.0.