Changelog for Opera 7.11 beta 2 for Unix
Opera version 7.11 beta 2 is now available for
download.
Changelog
Opera 7.11 for Unix Beta 2 has the following changelog:
User interface features
- Added "Redo" to edit menus; "Load image" and "Open image" added
to image context menu
- Closing with active downloads triggers a confirmation dialog
- Session file always saved after opening and closing windows
- Skinable progress also in transfers panel
- Made center/end ellipsis configurable (
[User Prefs] Ellipsis
In Center=0|1 , 0 is default)
- 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
- SDI (open pages in new windows) mode:
- Bookmarks do not open in new window when "Reuse pages" is
checked
- Automatic offset of windows in SDI mode
- Fix for issues with Ask cookie dialog
- Bookmarking improvements
- Use link text instead of document title for "add link to
bookmarks"
- Include #fragment in URL when bookmarking a
link
- Fixed a Netscape bookmarks import issue
- Fixed potential problem when adding bookmarks with very large
description
Preferences
- Improved automatic selection of international fonts
- New "Show Web Search" and "Delete to end of line" actions
- Improvements to Cookie/Wand manager dialog
- Fixed issue with keyboard selection when saving mouse and keyboard
settings
- Made changing action from filetype box via download dialog stick
- Middle-mouse-button click configuration
options
- Added enable/disable menu bar actions
- Remove selected text in edit fields before
pasting data with the middle-mouse-button
- Java path validation support
- "Find plugins" and "Show plugin path selector"
actions On "Plug-ins" page in pref box
Usability and accessibility
- UNIX keyboard shortcut support using a
separate ini file (unix_keyboard.ini)
- Added Alt+Home shortcut for Homepage
- Press Ctrl+L to show link pop-up menu (after selecting
a link with the keyboard)
- The GoTo dialog and search boxes support Shift and
Ctrl+Shift when pressing Enter and when clicking the
"Ok" button
- A middle-mouse-button click opens a document in a new page when
clicking on an entry in the Links, History, and Bookmark panels, or
on the Personal bar
- Ctrl+Shift+middle-mouse-button click on pagebar will
open new page in background
M2, Opera's new e-mail and news client
- Improved readability of e-mail filters
- Fixed issue with spam filter when you are in your own contacts list
- Remove temporary account when import is finished
- SMTP: CRAM-MD5-support; always
use HELO as EHLO-fallback
- Allow quote character in incoming e-mail adresses
- Bcc is never sent in SMTP and
NNTP
Privacy and security
- Mask password in URLs in various places
- Support for "Clear bookmark visited time"
- Fixed possible buffer overruns for (illegal) long filenames,
as reported by
Secunia
- Fixed JavaScript issue reported by Nesumin and commented on by
Secunia
More features
- Added support for the ALINK attribute
- Various improvements to DOM support
- Increased wait-for-styles timeout from 0.5 to 2.0 seconds
(FOUC)
- Replace non-breaking spaces with a regular space in text copied
to clipboard as some editors cannot properly handle the non-breaking
space character
- Keystrokes are ignored when plug-ins have focus
- This makes typing into Flash fields behave normally
- Impossible to use Opera keyboard shortcuts as long as Flash
has focus
Miscellaneous
- Stability fixes
- Plug-in fixes
- All strings translatable for localized versions
- Fixed spelling errors
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