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 (: "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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