Opera

Opera 7.50 for Unix Changelog

Opera version 7.50 is available for download.

Release Notes

• On upgrade, all e-mail from previous Opera versions will be reindexed for faster searching and sorting. This means that e-mail indexed by Opera 7.50 will not be compatible with previous versions of Opera.
• 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.
• Opera 7.50 introduces a new toolbar setup. Previous toolbar customizations will be overridden on upgrade and can no longer be used.

For a 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.
• Opera6.ini
  • 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 again toggles the panels with the panel selector.
• "Document Window" added to list of sections in the shortcut editors for keyboard and mouse.

Opera Mail

• Spam filter will be set as learning when upgrading from 7.23 regardless of previous setting.
• 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.

UNIX-specific changes

• Added license dialog that will be shown the first time Opera launches.
• Text will no longer be selected when mouse changes focus to edit fields, as this would replace text in the mouse selection buffer.
• Fix to let triple-click selection work properly in form edit fields.
• Let named windows (-windowname option) work properly with "-newwindow" and remote commands.