Changelog for Opera 9.0 for Unix

Opera version 9.0 for Unix is available for download.

Changes since 8.54.

Changes Since Opera 9.0 Beta 2

User Interface

• Available accesskeys are now listed when entering accesskey mode with Shift+Escape.
• "Save as HTML file with images" now uses a folder for external files.
• Cookie site preferences now override globally disabled cookies.
• Bookmarks exported to HTML are now in the Netscape Bookmark File Format, making them compatible with Yahoo bookmarks, Scuttle, MyBookmarks, etc.
• When enabling the status bar, link and form tooltips will not show the URL address anymore, and will display the content of the title attribute without the "Title: " prefix.
• Several content blocker fixes.
• Some plug-in content will now require you to click before you can interact with it.
• Changing alignment of mail headers no longer causes headers to overlap or disappear.
• Fix for font preferences being ignored when restarting Opera.
• Double-click to select words now doesn't select punctuation.
• User JavaScript can now be set as a site preference.
• Temporary download directory used for opening files in external applications can now be modified in opera:config.
• Added setting Show New Opera Dialog, to allow version check to be disabled without turning off updating of browser JavaScript site patches.
• Added setting User JavaScript on HTTPS, to allow User JavaScripts to be used on secure pages.

Widgets

• window.moveTo and window.resizeTo are now supported, as well as window.close.
• widget.setPreferenceForKey for Widgets now works.
• Fixed unwarranted security violation errors.
• Any <plugin> and <java> tags must now be inside the <content> tag, which itself should be inside the <security> tag.

Messaging and newsfeeds

• Several IMAP fixes including improved drag/drop from IMAP trash.
• Opening images in mail by right-clicking the image now works.

Display

• Improved handling of percentage heights on tables.
• Stand-alone images are now centered on the page; image.css is read again.
• User set encoding is now window and site specific.
• Baseline for CJK characters is now correct.
• Fixed animation speed of animated GIF images.
• XHTML mobile profile rendering is fixed.
• Fix for missing marker on floated list items.
• Fix for display: block; on button elements.
• background-position can now accept positions larger than 2047px.

Script

• Added support for DOM level 2 Style Sheets and associated parts of DOM level 2 CSS.
• Added support for the CONTENTEDITABLE attribute and contentEditable property.
• Several improvements to behavior of designMode.
• Added support for Audio.loop.
• Improved handling of mouse events passing through clipped or overflowed (or otherwise transparent) regions of an element.
• Implemented JavaScript 1.5 const as an alias for var.
• Added support for document.charset and document.characterSet.
• Improved handling of offsetTop, offsetLeft and offsetParent.

SVG

• Improved SVG performance for dynamic changes.
• Allowed SVGMatrix to be read/write.
• Added smallcaps support.
• Support panning.
• Fixed handling of gradientTransform attribute when gradientUnits is objectBoundingBox.
• Support keyboard navigation in SVG.

Forms

• Several fixes for Web Forms 2.0 stepping.
• Improved display of date inputs.

Miscellaneous

• Multiple stability fixes.

UNIX-specific changes

• Now using operapluginwrapper to detect plug-ins.
• Improved handling of keyboard focus on pages containing Java applets.
• Ctrl+H now hides Opera to the systray if there is one.
• Installer now recognises all Sun OS versions.
• Plug-ins work better now.
• The tray icon can now be disabled with the command line option -notrayicon.
• Middle-click features ("paste and go" and panning) are fixed.