Changelog for Opera 6.0 for Unix TP 3

This document details the changes made in Opera 6.0 for Unix 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.