Opera

Changelog for Opera 7.11 for Windows

We recommend that you download and install this upgrade.

Changelog

User interface features

• Added "Redo" to edit menus; "Load image" and "Open image" added to image context menu
• Closing with active downloads triggers a confirmation dialog
• Session file always saved after opening and closing windows
• Skinable progress also in transfers panel
• Made center/end ellipsis configurable ([User Prefs] Ellipsis In Center=0|1 , 0 is default)
• Toolbars:
  • Personal bar appears beside banner if there is enough room
  • New "Identify as" widget (drag from "Customize toolbars" dialog)
  • Drag and drop on locked toolbars not allowed
• SDI (open pages in new windows) mode:
  • Bookmarks do not open in new window when "Reuse pages" is checked
  • Automatic offset of windows in SDI mode
• Fix for issues with Ask cookie dialog
• Bookmarking improvements
  • Use link text instead of document title for "add link to bookmarks"
  • Include #fragment in URL when bookmarking a link
  • Fixed a Netscape bookmarks import issue
  • Fixed potential problem when adding bookmarks with very large description

Preferences

• Improved automatic selection of international fonts
• New "Show Web Search" and "Delete to end of line" actions
• Improvements to Cookie/Wand manager dialog
• Fixed issue with keyboard selection when saving mouse and keyboard settings
• Made changing action from filetype box via download dialog stick

Usability and accessibility

• Added Alt+Home shortcut for Homepage
• Press Ctrl+L to show link pop-up menu (after selecting a link with the keyboard)
• The GoTo dialog and search boxes support Shift and Ctrl+Shift when pressing Enter and when clicking the "Ok" button
• A middle-mouse-button click opens a document in a new page when clicking on an entry in the Links, History, and Bookmark panels, or on the Personal bar
• Ctrl+Shift+middle-mouse-button click on pagebar will open new page in background

M2, Opera's new e-mail and news client

• Improved readability of e-mail filters
• Fixed issue with spam filter when you are in your own contacts list
• Remove temporary account when import is finished
• SMTP: CRAM-MD5-support; always use HELO as EHLO-fallback
• Allow quote character in incoming e-mail adresses
• Bcc is never sent in SMTP and NNTP

Privacy and security

• Mask password in URLs in various places
• Support for "Clear bookmark visited time"
• Fixed possible buffer overruns for (illegal) long filenames, as reported by Secunia
• Fixed JavaScript issue reported by Nesumin and commented on by Secunia

More features

• Added support for the ALINK attribute
• Various improvements to DOM support
• Increased wait-for-styles timeout from 0.5 to 2.0 seconds (FOUC)
• Replace non-breaking spaces with a regular space in text copied to clipboard as some editors cannot properly handle the non-breaking space character
• Keystrokes are ignored when plug-ins have focus
  • This makes typing into Flash fields behave normally
  • Impossible to use Opera keyboard shortcuts as long as Flash has focus

Miscellaneous

• Stability fixes
• Plug-in fixes
• All strings translatable for localized versions
• Fixed spelling errors

More information

• 7.10 changelog
• 7.03 changelog
• 7.02 changelog
• 7.01 changelog
• 7.0 changelog
• Opera specifications
• Opera features