Changelog for Opera 9.0 Beta 1 for Unix

Release Notes

• This is a beta version of Opera. Use only on properly backed up computers.
• This release uses a new account storage format. If you install over an existing profile, you will be prompted to convert all accounts into the new format. This will not require a re-index. You will not be able to use the reformatted e-mail with previous versions of Opera.
• Deleting single messages from the Trash does not work.

Changes Since Opera 8.54

User Interface

• New Opera Widgets feature. Widgets are small Web applications that live outside the Opera window. Press F6 to enter widgets mode. See the widgets tutorials for more details.
• Added content blocking feature. Right click on a page and select "Block content", then click on content that you want to block. Alternatively, use Tools > Advanced > Blocked content to manage blocked content.
• Added search shortcut editor. Right click on a form input to add it as a search shortcut, or use Preferences > Search to manage search shortcuts
• Enabled support for BitTorrent.
  • New search shortcut 'b' searches BitTorrent
• Added site specific preferences feature.
  • Press F12 and choose Edit site preferences to set preferences for the current site, or use Preferences > Advanced > Content > Manage site preferences to manage site specific preferences.
• Added opera:config for managing preferences.
• Web page thumbnails are now shown when hovering tabs.
  • Thumbnails are also available when switching tabs using Ctrl+Tab. These are disabled by default but can be enabled using the [User Prefs] Use Thumbnails in Window Cycle setting in opera:config.
• Added grouping by date and site to the History panel.
• Tabbed browsing preferences have been moved to Preferences > Advanced > Tabs.
• Implemented tab locking. Right click on a tab and select 'Lock tab'. Individual tabs cannot be closed while they are locked.
• Local stylesheets can now be specified as a directory using the [User Prefs] Local CSS Files Directory setting, and all stylesheets in that directory will be used to populate the on-demand user stylesheet menu.
• Enhanced pop-up blocker to detect more unwanted pop-ups.
• Added new error console for warnings and error messages relating to email, widgets, scripts, and other Web page technologies.
• 'Find' feature now highlights all matches when searching for text on the page.
• Added internal source viewer. Set 'Source viewer' preference to 'Opera' to use the internal source viewer. On new installs, the internal source viewer is enabled by default.
• Updated search.ini
  • The file version number is now 7. All files with lower version numbers will be overwritten on upgrade.
  • New shortcut 'a' for searching with answers.com.
• Changed keyboard shortcuts for closer cross-browser compatibility:
  • Ctrl+T replaces Ctrl+N for opening a new tab.
  • Ctrl+N opens a new browser window.
  • Ctrl+D and Ctrl+Shift+D replace Ctrl+T and Ctrl+Shift+T, respectively, for adding pages to bookmarks.
  • Ctrl+B can be used instead of Ctrl+D for paste-and-go.
  • Added keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Enter to auto complete "www" and "com" when used in the address field.
• Simplified bookmarks and Wand dialogs.
• Added support for saving and opening Web archives.
• Changed feed notification icon.
• Removing buttons on one toolbar now removes from all open tabs not just active one.
• New styles for opera:about, opera:cache, opera:error, opera:history, opera:plugins, file: view, and Info panel.
• Default mode for "Cycle without showing list" is now visible tab order.
• "Cycle without showing list" now includes also minimized pages.

Messaging and Newsfeeds

• Enabled new IMAP code.
• New account storage format. If you install over an existing profile, you will be prompted to convert all accounts into the new format. This will not require a re-index.
• Added support for Atom 1.0.
• Added support for importing and exporting feed lists in OPML format, using File > Import and export.
• External embeds are now always allowed in newsfeeds, and are not disabled when the "Block external elements" preference is set.
• New e-mail header toolbar.
• Added smiley menu to chat and mail toolbars.
• Up/down arrows no longer select next/previous messages in e-mail and news views when the message view has focus.
• Default mail views can no longer be renamed through the mail interface. They can be renamed using language packs.
• Added a warning when sending mail without a subject.
• User stylesheets are no longer applied to mail, news, and chat.
• Added CTCP flood protection to IRC chat.
• DCC file transfers now displayed as a link in a private chat window.
• Fix to prevent chat windows going blank when redrawing from cache.
• DCC file transfer now respects the nosave and nodownload switches in kiosk mode.

HTML

• Removed support for XML namespaces in HTML documents.
• Added support for xml:id.
• Added option to re-parse invalid XML documents as HTML after XML parsing has failed.
• Fix to prevent minimized boolean attributes from being ignored if they are followed immediately by a / character.
• Allowed self closing SCRIPT tags in HTML documents.

HTTP

• Changed default UserAgent string to identify as Opera.
• Added support for the HTTP Link header.
• Removed support for the Content-Location HTTP header as a base HREF.

Display

• Fixed several Acid 2 bugs. Opera now passes the Acid 2 test.
• Added support for CSS 3 opacity.
• Media queries now understand several CSS length units, and can check additional media features.
• Added support for CSS 3 attribute and UI selectors.
• Allowed positioned elements to appear in front of iframes and objects.
• Object iframes now accept transparent backgrounds.
• Removed box model quirk (box-sizing:border-box;) in quirks mode.
• Improved CSS error handling.
• Printing now uses backgrounds from print media instead of screen.
• Attribute selectors now use the specified value of URIs, instead of resolved values.
• Fixed handling of alternate stylesheets in XML.
• Multiple fixes for the position style.
• Improved handling of align attributes and styles.
• Multiple fixes for CSS 2.1 selectors and pseudo elements.
• Updated display:inline handling on tables according to upcoming CSS2.1 specification update.
• Multiple box model and table model fixes.
• Added support for -o-text-overflow:ellipsis, synonymous to text-overflow:ellipsis in the current CSS 3 working draft.
• Multiple fixes for lists, text decoration, forms and paged media.
• @import is now supported in user stylesheets.
• Support media queries in @import rules.
• Several BIDI fixes.
• Improved handling of tables, iframes, and BIDI in ERA.

Defaults

• Body element now uses margin instead of padding by default.
• UL/OL elements now use padding instead of margin by default.
• DD elements now have a smaller indent.
• Use default handheld font size for handheld stylesheets.
• Form default margin-top is now 0, and margin-bottom now 1em.
• Several changes to the default margin and padding of legends and fieldsets.

Script

• Added support for XSLT 1.0 and the XSLTProcessor constructor.
• Added support for XPath 1.0.
• Implemented designMode for rich text editing.
• Implemented support for canvas, as described in the Web Applications 1.0 draft, as well as the opera-2dgame context.
• Added support for Audio, as described in the Web Applications 1.0 draft.
• getAttribute and related methods now retrieve the specified value of URIs, instead of resolved values.
• getAttribute now returns null for unspecified attributes that do not have a default value.
• Improved handling of the load event when navigating back and forward through history. See the knowledge base article for more details.
• Added window.getSelection, and associated methods.
• Added Node.text, Node.textContent, HTMLTableElement.cells, Element.currentStyle, and Element.cssText properties.
• Fixed support for LSSerializer.writeToURI.
• Improved handling of offsetTop, offsetLeft, and offsetParent.
• Added support for onreadystatechange events, and the readyState property.
• Added support for onmousewheel events.
• Allowed mouse events to pass through clipped or overflowed (or otherwise transparent) regions of an element.
• Script events now report correct keyCode for insert, delete, home, end, pause/break, scroll lock and num lock keys.
• Fix to allow scripts to override a CSS #double #id selector.
• Enabled getElementById to retrieve elements based on attributes set to the ID type, by the DTD.
• XMLHttpRequest returns the status code for the cached page if the request returns the cached page.
• Added support for PUT method in XMLHttpRequest.
• <xml> elements are no longer removed from the HTML DOM.
• Removed support for "javascript:" URLs in CSS.

Forms

• Added support for Web Forms 2.0.
• XHTML forms are no longer submitted if they do not have an action attribute.

Images

• SVG support increased to SVG 1.1 basic.
• Added support for YCCK and CMYK formats in JPEG images.

Plug-ins

• Flash is no longer bundled in the installer. The first time you visit a page that uses Flash, you will be prompted to download the Flash installer.
• Added Netscape Plug-in API extensions developed by browser and plug-in vendors.
• Fix to allow object tags with an empty or missing data attribute to load plug-ins.
• Fixed an issue when printing from Java.

Security

• Security bar is now grayed for sites using an encrypted connection, that have a low security rating.
• TLS 1.1 and TLS Extensions enabled by default.
• Upgraded crypto library to OpenSSL 0.9.8.
• Upgrading will automatically disable 40 and 56 bit SSL/TLS ciphers.
• Updated expired TrustCenter root certificates.

Miscellaneous

• Site patching can now download certain site specific preferences as well as Browser JavaScript and user agent overrides.
• The [Adv User Prefs] section of opera6.ini has been renamed to [Network].
• Multiple stability fixes.

Unix-specific changes

• New dapper_i386.deb package for Ubuntu Dapper Drake users.
• Full widget user interface available only if KDE or Gnome are detected. It can be overridden with the command line option "-overlay yes" to enable it in different environments, or "-overlay no" to force disable it.
• Changes to plug-ins:
  • Removed the Motif dependency. Motif is no longer required to use plug-ins.
  • Improved plug-in detection.
  • Libdragonegg will not be loaded as a plug-in.
  • Correct Flash version is now reported to the server.
  • Improved handling of plug-ins that fail to respond to Opera.
  • Fixed mouse focus when performing gestures on pages containing plug-ins.
  • Modified pluginwrapper so that plug-ins see a Composite widget. This improves support for some versions of the Real plug-in.
  • LD_PRELOAD is now reset at startup. This change removes Java dependency for printing.
• Improved handling of Verdana font on Linux.
• Added automatic detection of libcups.so.2 to allow printing from systems that do not have cups development package installed.
• Opening downloaded and attached files now uses the system defined application, falling back to kfmclient in KDE and gnome-open in Gnome.
• Qt/KDE menu styles are enabled by default.
• $HOME is now set to /root if running Opera as root user, to prevent problems when running Opera through su.
• Files saved locally now use the default permissions of "-rw-r--r--".
• Improved window manager session management.
• Cleanup and fixed problems with parsing of remote commands, allowing filenames containing spaces.