Changelog for Opera 6.0 for Linux

This document details the changes made in Opera 6.0 for Linux since Beta 2.

Changelog

User interface

• Fixes in the findialog. Save and restore the last used search term.
• Modified the ad window code so that when clicking on it the new document window is positioned with respect to mainwindow where the banner is located (SDI mode)
• Made the "New page" pagetoolbar button some pixels wider. The old one did not look good.
• The first string ("Unspecified") in the country list can now be translated in the ad. pref. dialog box.
• Do not close browser in MDI mode if there is only one doc. window left and we are about to close it (bug in beta2)
• Crash fix when deleting cookies twice: delete - install new cookies - delete could cause a crash.
• Show scrollbar in "About Opera" window.
• Improved language environment parsing so that we more accurately can use the LANG environment variable to determine the translation to use.
• Crash fix when wrapping a search with a hidden search toolbar
• Fixed a crash problem when pasting (mouse middle click) a link into a print-preview document
• Better disabling of image document menu entries if the image has not been loaded.
• i18n support for startup.txt and tipofday.txt That is: Read file from a localized sub-folder depending on the country code of the current active translation.
• Support for UP_LEFT gesture (Go to parent directory)
• Fix for the fact that Open active window in background would minimize it.
• Give a reasonable width to the dropdown list when the address toolbar is hidden.
• Made window placement (in SDI mode) optional. Some people prefer to let the window manager do this job.
• Added code for checking mouse shape (setting the handcursor when required) on document load completion.
• Searching is now possible again from the Alt+Space activated search entry.
• Support for restoring a popup window without toolbars etc when restoring a window set in SDI mode.
• DnD support in windowbar and pagetoolbar: Pages can be moved from one browser to another and the order can be changed.
• Reload all menu fix. Do not gray it out if there is at least one non-empty document.
• First time startup: Show address bar on default page.
• Proper pathnames (without double path separators) in opera:about
• Added commandline argument "-windowmode <SDI|MDI>"
• URLs with a password will not be modified when pasted into the address field.
• Small fix in the cookie editor: Clear displayed data when the last cookie/domain is removed.
• Append ".local" to a server filter that does not contains a "." in the same when adding a filter.
• Window close fix. Do not close last window in SDI mode until exit. Has been confirmed when closing the window from the window toolbar.
• Some fixes to the file association:
• To make it possible to remember an association when we specify it from the download dialog box for the first time.
• Close the download dialog box when clicking on the "Advanced" button.
• Correct shortcut in contact popup menu: Ctrl+Enter > Alt+Enter.
• Fixed a problem that caused the fileselector to refuse to accept Shift+character when entering text.
• Got Netscape/IE bookmark import working properly again.
• Made sure the autoproxy file string is saved with a "file:/" in front. Otherwise it will not be accepted when accessed by core.
• Added "Serbia" to the ad. pref. country list.
• Avoid leaving fullscreen if one have a dialog open and close it by pressing Escape.
• Show workspace context menu when Ctrl+M is pressed when no other widget than the workspace is visible or when the focuswidget is not visible and is a child of the mainwindow.
• Remove whitespaces in front and in the end of a link name that can be dragged and/or saved to Hotlist from the operaview. A newline in front of the name would prevent proper saving in the Hotlist.
• Bookmark View: The "Save page" / "Save all" menu entries were not properly disabled and activated when the Hotlist window was floating.
• Focus fix: Pressing Escape (abort loading) while loading a document that we activated from the address bar will now move focus back to the address bar entry field.
• Keyboard shortcuts: Alt+Z and Alt+X works again in fullscreen as they did before beta2.
• Keyboard and selection fixes in fileselector: Ctrl+U (erase text), Ctrl+Ins, Shift+Ins and Ctrl+M (show local popup menu) did not work in the entry field of the fileselector. Selection of the default filename when the dialog box opened has also been added.
• Support for disabling focus move to menubar when Alt keyboard button is released. We use Alt+Left and Alt+Right for navigating in the window history and we have over time received bug reports and remarks that Alt+Left and Alt+Right often move the fucus to the menubar. This may be a bigger problem on slower machines.
• Crash fix: Delete private data in SDI mode with the "Confirm Exit" dialog box option enabled would result in a crash. The "Confirm Exit" dialog will no longer become visible when windows are closed from the "Delete private data" dialog box.
• Let network translation/currency/search obey the "reuse window" setting.
• Correct password replacement for URLs.
• Using Proper font and style for disabled text in toolbar buttons so that it matches the disabled text style in other parts of Opera.
• Fix for search case problem. We could not match for "Oystein" in a document that contained "oystein".
• Disabled "Print last page first" No support in core yet.
• Added a print-progress dialog box. The dialog shows what page is printed with the ability for the user to cancel the printing.
• Support for EBay and Download.com in the search-engine-list.
• Fix for transfer window shown in front the first time the window was opened even when "show in background" mode was enabled. The fix will only affect how/when the transfer window becomes visible.
• Fix for a bug that would make the Address bar visible on Shift+clicked Windows even when addressbar was set to be hidden in pref. dialog.
• Unix keyboard shotcurt support in address toolbar: Added support for Ctrl+B and Ctrl+F.
• Proper localized help depending on the current selected UI translation.
• When exporting Opera bookmarks (from File > Export) the filename of the bookmark file Opera reads on startup will not be changed. The name change will still occur if one select "Save as" from the bookmark popup menu.
• The search toolbar (activate by selecting Edit > Embed search tool and press Ctrl+F)will now be hidden when going to fullscreen like the rest of the toolbars in Opera.
• Remove flicker in the Personal toolbar on startup. The search fields would resize a number of times, while they now will not become visible until the bookmarks have been installed.
• An ampersand in the page title (caption) could be transformed into a shortcut when shown in the windowtoolbar, pagetoolbar and the personal toolbar.
• Bookmark and contact files will respect a symbolic link. Earlier versions of Opera would overwrite the link name when saving data and not the file the link was referring to thereby destroying the link. The feature is optional for 6.0 and is by default disabled (we keep old behavior). It can only be enabled by editing opera6.ini

Document handling

• Support for changing generic CSS font families (in prefs). It had been broken for a while.
• Fixed buffer overflow that occurred when using URLs with extremely long hostnames (-200 chars). This resolves buffer overrun crash bug.
• Fix for crash bug.
• Support for copying images to clipboard.
• Focus fix: Move focus to document area of the new window when opening a link in a new window. It was placed in the address field before.
• Fix for bug Print Preview crash problem. We now leave Print Preview when toggling Fullscreen <-> Normal view.
• Fix for a crash bug related with forms in WML.
• Close open lists in dropdown boxes (form element) before deleting them. Failing to do so would generate a focusrequest to an invalidated/destroyed form element
• Fixed bug that prevented form submission failure after JavaScript alert()
• Fixed a crash when zoom in print preview (using the zoom dropdown box)
• Fixed a Private key (PEM -file) import crash.
• Fixed crash in proxy autoconfiguration

See the changelogs for Opera 6.0 beta 2.