Changelog for Opera 7.11 for Unix

This page details the changes made for Unix from version 6.12 to 7.11. (The changes made from version 7.11 Beta 2 to 7.11 are also listed separately.)

Opera version 7.11 is now available for download.

Opera 7.11 is faster and smaller than Opera 6, yet adds many new features! Again, Opera has proven that less is more. Opera has a completely new rendering engine, a revolutionary e-mail client, and can combine SDI, MDI, and tabbed browsing.

Changelog

Opera 7.11 for Unix has the following changelog:

Opera's new rendering engine ("Presto")

• Support for page/document reflow
• Support for DOM (Document Object Model) level 2
• Support for dynamic HTML
• Extended CSS2 support, including e.g. styling of form elements
• 100% ECMAScript support
• Improved HTML 4.01 support
• Complete WML 1.3 and 2.0 support

See the Opera specifications for more details.

M2, Opera's new e-mail and news client

• Automatically generated access points, a revolutionary method of viewing and organizing e-mail
• Support for SMTP authentication
• Support for news servers with password authentication
• Integrated spam filter
• E-mail import
  • Eudora
  • Netscape, versions 6/7
• Account wizard helps users set up e-mail and news accounts
• Possible to label messages, which makes messages easily accessible
• Support for POP3, IMAP, and ESMTP
• Support for threaded display of mailing lists
• Quick reply can send a reply without opening a compose window
• Pressing compose has the following possibilities:
  • When in a newsgroup: will automatically fill in the Newsgroups header
  • In a mailing list: fill in the mailing list as To: header
  • In a contact: view the contact address.
• It is possible to rename any access point, also rename e.g. "Unread" to "Today" (if that's your favorite way of viewing e-mail)
• It is possible to see e-mail from the day, week, month, last 3 months, year, or forever
• M2 will compress mailboxes automatically (see below)
• Reply and QuickReply can strip quote levels automatically
• Support for canceling usenet messages
• Use the forms multiline font for e-mail compose window so it can be changed from Opera preferences
• Automatically mark messages as read after [x] seconds (only active in views where read messages are shown)
• "Suppress external embeds" (defaults to "On" like previous versions of Opera, to prevent spam-verification)
• Space bar navigation. Space bar is page down. After reaching the bottom of the message, mark it as read and go to the next unread message. If there are no more unread messages, go to the next normal read message.

For more information about M2, please refer to the M2 tutorial.

User interface features

• New MDI/SDI combination gives users the best of two worlds by allowing surfing in both MDI or SDI, with tabs (or even a combination) without restarting Opera
• Extended and vastly improved drag-and-drop support
  • Rearrange or move toolbar items using drag-and-drop customization
  • Move bookmarks, tabs, and MDI pages between SDI windows
  • Open or save any page link, or make it a desktop shortcut
  • Rearrange the address, search, and zoom fields
• Menu items can be moved, added, or removed by editing "menu.ini"
• Support for one-click download-and-install skinning
  • If the server returns content-type "application/x-opera-skin" and the file has "zip" extension, Opera will download and install the skin directly
• Color schemes can be selected from the view menu, and new schemes can be added by editing the "menu.ini" file
• Page bar replaces MDI window bar
• User mode address-bar icon has a drop-down menu that lets you choose alternative ways to view a Web page
• New 3D buttons
• Enhanced alphablended effects
• Introduced FastForward for quick navigation to the next most likely Web page
  • Rules are defined in fastforward.ini
  • FastForward can be used as a "slide show" on galleries, like http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/
  • When spacing to the bottom of page, invoke FastForward
• Added Rewind button to jump back quickly. Return to manually entered addresses, a previously visited server when a link has gone off-site, or the first URL loaded, in the current window.
• New mouse gestures: right+Up for FastForward and left+Down for Rewind
• Double-click will select the full URL in Address bar
• View > Encoding will change encoding immediately
• Progress line added
• Status field now draggable
• Toolbars:
  • Personal bar appears beside banner if there is enough room
  • New "Identify as" widget (drag from "Customize toolbars" dialog)
  • Drag and drop on locked toolbars not allowed
• "Paste and go" added to the address field context menu
• Minimized pages are now hidden
• Minimizing a page activates the next one
• Middle button click closes a page tab
• Users can drag folders on the Personal bar while pressing Ctrl, or if the "Customize toolbars" dialog is open
• Added a cookie manager
• Added a Wand manager
• Enhanced tooltips for bookmarks and Page bar tabs, also status bar text shown
• Support for downloading setup files for menus and keyboard shortcuts. If the server returns content-type "application/x-opera-configuration-menu" or "application/x-opera-configuration-keyboard" or "application/x-opera-configuration-mouse" and the file has the "ini" extension, Opera will download and install the menu, keyboard or mouse gestures setup directly
• Option to open pages as 1) Always maximized, 2) Remember last size/position, 3) Always cascade

Hotlist features

• New floatable download and transfer manager, with drag-and-drop support
• Bookmarks can be shown as panels
• History is implemented as a panel
• E-mail manager
• Hotlist can float or dock either left or right
• Single-click opening of bookmarks can be enabled in the "opera6.ini" file by changing the "Hotlist Single Click=0" setting in the "[HotListWindow]" section
• New links panel
  • Shows links for active window
  • Panel can be "locked" to keep the links
  • Drag and drop and quick download
  • Quick-find filter
  • Detect images/music, etc and give them distinct icon
• New Contacts panel
• Added Notes panel, to store text snippets easily. Text on a webpage copied directly to a note (Copy to note, Ctrl+Shift+C) becomes a special web note. Double clicking the note opens the original web page. The lower pane is a text field where you can edit the selected note real-time. No saving is needed.
• Added Page info panel
• Rearrange, Show, or Hide panels at will

More features

• Introduced the Wand, a password and form manager
  • Wand shortcut is available from text areas
  • Enabled use of security password in the Wand
• Press Shift+F11 to enable small-screen mode, which emulates a hand-held (small-screen) device running Opera
• Support for multiple user style sheets, including 100% CSS-made text browser, that can be applied to any Web page
• New JavaScript console can be opened from "Window > Special > JavaScript console"
• Opera's new session manager lets you choose between (multiple) saved sessions from the start-up dialog
• Opera's FTP client supports the EPLF directory format as well as resume download "guessing"
• Start-up speed optimization
• Added support for printing during print preview
• Added support for the HTTP Content-Location header
• Added a preference setting to control whether the JavaScript console is auto-created on encountering the first error
• Added quick download to normal link menus
• The Transfer panel now contains two columns, where the last toggles between filesize and progress
• Added a "Manage contacts" dialog
• The new "Setup manager" offers a choice of skins and toolbars on the first run of Opera
• Added support for the ALINK attribute
• Replace non-breaking spaces with a regular space in text copied to clipboard as some editors cannot properly handle the non-breaking space character

Accessibility and usability

• Support for alternate style sheets
• Built-in accessibility user style sheet
• Move focus to page elements with Shift+arrow keys
• Support for access keys on Web pages using Shift+Esc with access key
• Mouse wheel now affects what is under the cursor, not necessarily what has keyboard focus
• New navigation bar supports page/document navigation defined using link tags
• Keyboard shortcuts for all actions can be customized (added, removed, or modified) in "input.ini", and Opera even supports shortcut sequences
• Dynamic on-the-fly generation of access keys in menus
• Press Shift+Tab to get out of compose window
• Shortcut for "Close all but active", Ctrl+Alt+W
• Paste and go
  • Pressing Ctrl+D will use clipboard URL to go to new Web page (replaces F8, Ctrl+V, Enter sequence)
  • Also works if focus is set to the Address field or a search field
  • Added to the Address field context menu

• Added Alt+Home shortcut for Homepage
• Pressing the down arrow in a single line edit field (in forms for example) will now open a dropdown menu with personal info and all notes. Similiarly, pressing down in the To, Cc and Bcc fields in the message compose window opens the same kind of menu as pressing the To, Cc and Bcc buttons.
• Added user controlled scaling of skin images
• New keyboard shortcuts: Shift+X and Shift+Z for FastForward and Rewind. Ctrl+1 to Ctrl+9 focuses the Hotlist panels in position 1 to 9.

Miscellaneous

• Support for accepting requested pop-ups only
• Support for favicon and icon files
• Improved "Send link in e-mail", which supports the RFC1738 format
• Updated "Identify as MSIE" version number from 5.5 to 6.0, and added keyboard shortcuts
• Status bar is off by default, and tooltip for link addresses is on by default
• DOCTYPE switching enabled (see separate document for details)
• Imported OpenSSL v0.9.7
• Help function
  • Files are updated
  • New layout
  • Better support for OperaShow
  • The help will now open in an ordinary browser window
  • Table of contents added
  • Help function makes full use of the Navigation bar
  • Added support for "opera:/help/" for direct access to help files
• :hover and :active now only apply to links (as in, hover and/or active without any other selector)

Changelog after 7.11 Beta 2

• Speed optimization when drawing long strings that will be clipped at the end showing an ellipsis (...)
• Avoid X-server or anti-aliased scaling of core X fonts, if the requested size is close to the actual size available
  • This should reduce the amount of blurry or aliased fonts
• Fixed a crash that could occur when a page was automatically scrolled (toggle full-screen mode, go back/forth in history etc.)
• Faster font code
• Fixed a problem when opening many pages on startup when in off-line mode
  • Each click on "OK" would toggle the on-/off-line state
• Added WM_CLASS property to JavaScript console
• Do not reset check-box settings when closing the "Edit keyboard setup" or "Edit mouse setup" dialog boxes
• Support for configurable fonts in menu bar and menus, dialogs, toolbars, panels (Hotlist), and e-mail compose area
• Let gestures work also right after a page has been opened from a menu
• Do not lose mouse selection when opening file-selector dialog box
• Fixed an instability issue that could occur when deleting an active contact
• Let newlines in postal addresses in contacts be saved and parsed correctly to avoid data loss
• Paste fix in multi-line edit
  • Cursor would not move to of inserted text
• Modified mid-click behavior to better match what was done in 6.x
• Fixed the drop-down control so that a mouse click on the "down" arrow of the control will not open the drop-down window if it is already visible
• "Open" from right-click menu in document would open link, but Opera would not permit going back to the original page without a reload
• DnD, right-click menu and mid-click activation of a link ignored anchors in URLs

More information

• 7.11 beta 2 changelog
• 7.10 beta 1 changelog
• 6.12 changelog
• Opera specifications
• Opera features