Opera 7.50 for Unix Beta 1 Changelog

New in Opera 7.50 for Unix Beta 1

Opera 7.50 beta 1 adds several new features and improves on the innovations of Opera 7.

Changelog

Changes since Opera 7.23:

At first glance

• User interface redesigned
• Chat client
• RSS newsfeeds
• Fast full-text indexing of e-mail messages
• Support for spell check
• Graphical smileys in chat and e-mail

New chat client

• Uses IRC (Internet Relay Chat) protocol
• New chat panel lists visited chat rooms and status of on-line contacts
• Graphical smileys

Opera Mail

• Faster indexing and searching of e-mail messages
• Learning spam filter and custom filters
  • New option to "Mark as spam"
  • Marking message as "Not spam" no longer adds sender to contacts
  • Ctrl+X removes message from any filter
• Support for Aspell spell checker (requires separate install)
• Added support for subscription to RSS newsfeeds
  • "Newsfeeds" added as access point in the e-mail panel
  • RSS 0.9x, 1.0 and 2.0 are supported
  • Clicking RSS links automatically adds newsfeed to Opera Mail
  • Auto-detection of RSS file (link rel="alternate") displayed in navigation bar
• Improved handling of contacts with multiple addresses
• Improved handling of invalid List-ID headers
• Improved threading of e-mail and newsgroup messages
• Graphical smileys
• Unread message count shown in mail panel selector button
• Unseen e-mail messages have same color as unvisited links
• Open access points are remembered between sessions
• Multipart message improvements
• Added setting (Preferences > Programs and paths: "Show e-mail client") to disable all e-mail, news and chat functionality

User interface

• New default skin
• New "Tools" menu
• New "Customize toolbars" dialog for placing and customizing all toolbars
• Hotlist now known as panels
• Panel items, such as e-mail filters, are now single-click. This can be reversed by adding Hotlist Single Click=0 to the [HotListWindow] section of opera6.ini.
• New "Search" panel with multiple search fields
• Enabled favicons in bookmarks and personal bar
• "New page" button added to page bar
• "Reuse existing page" now includes e-mail pages
• Newly downloaded skin will not be saved if user opts not to keep it

Keyboard and Mouse

• Improved and expanded support for drag and drop
• New mouse gestures. Rewind: Shift+Gesture left, Fast Forward: Shift+Gesture right
• Keyboard shortcut changes:
  • 5 now rightly toggles between maximized and restored page
  • i toggles between split and maximized view in e-mail pages
  • Ctrl+click on image opens "Save image" dialog
  • Open new page: Ctrl+N in MDI, Ctrl+Shift+N in SDI
  • Open new window: Ctrl+Alt+N in MDI, Ctrl+N in SDI
  • Close page: Ctrl+W. Closing last page in SDI closes Opera.
  • Close (application) window: Ctrl+Shift+W in MDI, Ctrl+W in SDI
  • Changed keyboard shortcut for "Duplicate page" from Ctrl+Shift+N to Ctrl+Shift+Alt+N
  • Changed keyboard shortcut for "Close all" to Ctrl+Shift+N to Ctrl+Shift+Alt+W
• CSS 'overflow' content can be scrolled using keyboard or mousewheel

Display and standards

• Overall stability improvements
• Overall CSS support improvements
• Added support for SCRIPTs in XML documents
• Improved JavaScript support
• Improved display of HTML entities in XML documents
• Added support for the XMP HTML tag
• Added support for inheritance of CSS background properties
• Improvements of bidirectional text support

Privacy and security

• Individual cookies can now be edited in the server manager
• Increased maximum number of cookies per server to 30
• Fixed Secunia Advisory #10760 (Download Extension Spoofing)
• Fixed Telnet URI Handler issue as notified in personal communication by Idefense

Kiosk mode

• Allow Alt+Space menu when using /NoMinMaxButtons command line option
• Enabled Page bar when using /KioskWindows command line option
• Added /NoPanel as alias for /NoHotlist command line option
• /KioskButtons will now display address bar by default

Miscellaneous

• Fixed problem with Netscape bookmarks import where URL data could confuse parsing of titles
• Improved plug-in support
• Faster and more efficient image caching

Unix-specific changes

• Support for starting external helper applications with files in the transfer panel. A separate ini file (filehandler.ini) specifies extension-handler mapping
• Added dialog for configuring external handlers for downloaded files
• Added Open and Open folder to context menu for transferred files
• Added support for "Detach page". A page can now be detached from the workspace from the page bar tab context menu or the context menu of the "Windows" panel list
• Default minimum font size set to 9 pixels
• Support for new start option "nosession", which opens neither saved sessions nor home page. URLs specified on the command line will be opened. Two windows can be avoided using "opera --nosession --newwindow <url>"
• Added support for named windows. A toplevel window can be assigned a name when opened from the command line. Commands like these will open page in separate windows:
  • "opera -windowname mailbrowser -newpage <url>"
  • "opera -windowname general -newpage <url>"
• Improved support for symlinked files. Opera will accept more files as symbolic links when data is written to the file. Example: The cookie file
• Fixed problem preventing opening of minimized windows when closing and restarting Opera
• Fixed window positioning problem when returning from full-screen mode
• Added extra monitoring code for plug-in process. Faulty plug-ins would sometimes exit the plug-in process without properly telling Opera, resulting in a short state of blocking for all pages in need of the plug-in.
• WM_CLASS property will now contain "opera", "Opera" not "opera", "opera"