Opera 7.50 for Windows Beta 1 Changelog

New in Opera 7.50 for Windows 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
  • System tray icon/e-mail notifier
  • Spell check support
  • 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

Windows specific changes

  • New system tray icon with e-mail notification and right-click menu
  • Included latest Flash plugin
  • Improved handling of IME/East Asian text

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