Changelog for Opera 9.0 Beta 2 for Unix

Opera 9 Beta 2 for Unix is available for download.

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.
• The widget.setPreferenceForKey method is not able to store widget preferences in this release.

Changes Since Opera 9.0 Beta 1

User Interface

• User CSS is enabled by default in Author mode.
• Allowed custom headers to be displayed in the quick mail headers toolbar.
• Temporary downloads are now cleared when deleting cache.
• Fixed tab selection when exiting full screen mode.
• Display a warning when local messages are going to be deleted, when removing IMAP or news accounts.
• Improved handling of "Stop executing scripts on this page" checkbox on script dialogs.
• Fixed site preferences for styling forms and scrollbars.

Widgets

• Widgets are no longer displayed on a faded screen.
• New widgets menu, providing options to add, open, and manage widgets.
• New widget management window and panel.
• Widget context menu now has option to keep always below other applications.
• Added automatic detection of widgets, with a widget button shown in the address field if a page uses this:
  <link rel="alternate" type="application/x-opera-widgets" href="http://example.com/widget">
• Cache is not shared between widgets and pages opened from widgets.
• Fixed session handling for widgets.

Messaging and Newsfeeds

• Improved deleting of single messages from trash in IMAP accounts.
• Fix for duplicated messages in IMAP.
• IMAP messages are removed from local store when removing account.
• Fix to prevent incorrect warnings being displayed when opening IMAP account views.
• Fix for format=flowed sending incorrectly formatted content.
• Fix for sending mail with iso-2022-jp encoding.
• Fix to stop re-downloading old feeds.

Display

• Allowed shrink-to-fit containers to have scrollbars.
• Fix for overflow:hidden on positioned elements causing unwanted scrollbars.
• Several fixes for overflow.
• Fixed handling of backgrounds in fieldsets.
• Fixed bug with illegal nested tables.
• Fix for incorrect display of large images.
• Refuse invalid namespace declaration attributes.

Script

• Added support for document.load.
• Added support for document.adoptNode.
• Added support for range.createContextualFragment.
• Fixed behavior of range.compareBoundaryPoints.
• Content-Encoding is now respected by XMLHttpRequest for unknown content types.
• document.compatMode now gives 'BackCompat' for documents being rendered in quirks mode.
• Fixed handling of multiple changes to document.body.style.backgroundColor.
• Improved XSLT error reporting.
• Support copying attribute nodes in XSLT with copy-of.

Security

• Fixed SSL negotiation problem for servers that do not tolerate TLS 1.0 version in the record protocol of the client hello.

BitTorrent

• Added multi-tracker support to BitTorrent.
• BT file hash check saved in meta data file to reduce the need for checking files on resume.

Miscellaneous

• Fixed issue where having installed a large number of fonts could confuse opera.
• Several fixes for Web archives, including saving of XHTML documents.
• Multiple stability fixes.

Unix-specific changes

• Added system tray icon.
• Fixed deadkeys in input.
• Fixed installation with X.org 7.
• Stability fixes with Java applets.
• Exported mail can now be imported by Mutt.