Security
Fixed a JavaScript problem that made it possible to show one URL in the address bar, but load a different URL in the page (Secunia Advisory SA12028)
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Release Notes
Please note that voice support in clean installs now needs to be manually enabled in Preferences > Voice. Enabling voice will prompt the user to download and install voice libraries.
Opera's help files have not been fully synchronized with this preview release.
Changes Since Technical Preview 1:
User interface
Simplified first start-up dialog.
Menus have undergone a significant simplification. Note in particular:
The "Window" menu has been removed. Most of the options have been moved to the tab context (right-click) menu.
The Navigation menu is now a sub-menu of View and has been shortened. Enable the navigation bar or use toolbar shortcuts for easy site navigation using embedded links.
The Mail and Chat menus have been combined to form the Messages menu. IMAP folders, newsgroups and newsfeeds are found in Messages > Subscribe.
"Save with images as" is now an option within the Save dialog; select "HTML with images" as file type.
The Links page is now in the Tools menu.
Toolbar and panel customization is now done from within the "Customize" dialog.
"Create linked" has been moved to the tab context menu.
Major changes have also been done to toolbars and button setup:
New pages have a start bar that replaces the personal bar as part of the default setup.
Added dropdown button for easy access to closed pages on the page bar. The button doubles as blocked pop-up notifier.
Added close icon for every tab on the page bar.
The eye icon on the right end of the address bar toggles a view toolbar with "Find in page", voice icon, and view options.
The security icon (padlock) and RSS icon are now displayed within the address field when on a secure page or a page correctly linked to a valid RSS newsfeed.
Menu bar buttons for minimizing/maximizing, restoring and closing pages (MDI buttons) have been removed.
"Block unwanted pop-ups" is now enabled by default.
Option to simply press Enter in a http-auth dialogue to use the first stored Wand login has been restored.
Possibility to use security password without reentering every time has been restored.
Fixed issue with text selection for justified text.
"Continue from last time" remembers fit-to-width setting.
Several minor focus issues solved.
Space + Shift when a forms button is focused should submit in the background.
Added Alt + Backspace as shortcut for "undo".
Mail and messaging
Chat status is now set globally in Messages > Chat status.
Added /invite as typed chat command.
Fixed scrolling issue in chat pages.
Improved "Add newsfeed?" dialog.
Re-enabled smileys in e-mail/news/newsfeeds.
Several improvements to quick reply: expand automatically when typing multiple lines, handle one draft per message, and reset focus to message list after replying.
Improved handling of file name characters when saving e-mail attachments.
Improved news URL handling.
Fixed problem with e-mail import from Outlook Express where mailboxes were assumed empty.
Display
Render black background again in small-screen mode to make the document width more visible.
Borders in SSR set to "not specified" rather than zero.
Fix for zoom not being preserved on pages containing frames.
Changed calculated line height to be based on actual font size rather than specified font size.
Allow mixing of background-position and keyword, in accordance with CSS2.1.
Fix for issue with elements with negative text-indent inside floating block.
"border: 0;" on input will produce a text field with no border.
Improved handling of forms padding.
Borders for radio buttons and checkboxes can not be turned off with CSS.
Fixed problem with disabling form styling causing borders around all form elements to disappear for all open pages with forms.
Speedier recognition of :hover.
Improved handling of paged media.
Solved issue with display of wrong favicon when multiple icons are located on the same server.
Recognize "application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml" documents as handheld.
Scripting
Multiple fixes to XMLHttpRequest support.
Solved issue with attributes with certain names and values being inaccessible when using DOM for XML documents.
Referrers will be remembered when a script is reread from the cache.
Added setting in opera6.ini for allowing scripts to hide the address bar in pop-ups (Preferences > Multimedia > JavaScript options. Default is "allow".
Let link actions and the link pop-up menu work if a link has been selected as text.
Security
Fix for tabbed/MDI browsing vulnerability reported in Secunia Advisory SA12713. For more information, see Opera's security advisory: Phishing attack possible with a delayed JavaScript prompt
TLS 1.1 setting removed — for now.
Sonera CA certificates added.
Miscellaneous
Multiple improvements to printing.
Multiple stability fixes.
Fixed problem with frozen file uploads.
Several improvement to spell-checking feature.
Multiple fixes for display of bi-directional text.
Improved performance of page navigation during page loading.
If Java is enabled, but not found, the user will be prompted and offered a download. If confirmed, go to JRE download page.
Improved search in page.
Improved plug-in handling.
Convert newlines to spaces and convert non-printing characters in bookmark names.
Fix to ensure consistency in generated bookmark names.
Windows-specific
Fix to restore previous default file settings after uninstalling Opera.
Voice
Voice libraries are now in a separate download. Voice must be enabled in Tools > Preferences > Voice, which will prompt the user to download voice libraries.
Optional "no key required to talk" mode is now fully implemented.
Voice button is now located on the View toolbar.
Enabled bargein for browser control. This allows users to issue a new command before the execution of the previous command has been completed.
Added "Speak" to the right-click menu for selected text. Keyboard shortcut: V.
Added several other new commands; see standard_voice.ini (in the "Defaults" directory) for a complete overview of the default voice commands.
Preferences for speech now also apply to speech generated from Web pages.
"Cancel voice prompt" keyboard shortcut has been changed to Esc.
Voice-enabled the panels for mail, links, and bookmarks, as well as all lists of messages in Opera Mail, and all overview pages from the Tools menu.
Bookmark nicknames can be used for navigation, the syntax is "Go to bookmark".
Opera can now auto-install downloaded voice configuration files that use the MIME type "application/x-opera-configuration-voice".
Release Note
Use of the prefix "browser" is now mandatory for all voice commands.
Changes since Technical Preview 2
User interface
Removed Internet suite/Browser only selection from start-up procedure and made messaging client integration dynamic:
E-mail, newsfeeds, and chat may now be activated independently of each other.
Individual menus and panels for Mail and Chat will be displayed as accounts are added under Tools > Chat and mail accounts.
The contacts panel is displayed when an e-mail and/or chat account is added.
Removed "Enable mail and chat" option from preferences.
Added a choice between "Prefer pages inside window" (tabs), "Separate windows" (SDI), and "Advanced MDI" in Preferences > Windows
"Prefer pages inside window" enables an interface similar to 7.60 Preview 2, with close buttons on each tab, no MDI controls (minimize, maximize, and restore), and click-to-minimize disabled.
"Separate windows" enables SDI.
"Advanced MDI" enables MDI.
The Start bar for blank pages now drops down from the URL field.
Start bar is fully customizable and can be disabled in Customize
The Top 10 list contains the 10 sites you visit most
Favicons for bookmarks work again.
Notification tooltips will now appear where the System tray is, usually in the bottom right of the screen.
Fixed a problem preventing toolbars from being enabled if their placement had been set to "off"
Fixed a crash that occurred when opening a new window if the Page bar placement wasn't set to "top"
Added Ctrl + F12 and Shift + F12 as keyboard shortcuts for the Preferences and Customize dialogs, respectively.
Moved Customize to View > Toolbars menu.
Q focuses quick reply if focus was on message list.
Added "Use current" button for home page preference in Preferences > Start and exit.
Improvements to scrolling.
Display
Activated ERA (Extensible Rendering Architecture), enabled by selecting Fit to width from the View menu. ERA formats the viewed page differently according to the available width.
Printing now defaults to Fit to width (disable in File > Print options).
Multiple rendering fixes.
Trigger quirks mode to render pages using the IBM doctype correctly.
Made
User interface
Added "Check for new release" to Help menu.
Changed default start-up setting to "Continue from last time".
Trying out on-line help files using Operator Cache, which leaves all previously visited help files in local storage.
Improved notification pop-ups for downloads and messages.
Inline find checkbox added to Search preferences (was found in Edit menu pre-7.60).
Simplification of "Delete private data" dialog.
"Frame" and "Background" sub-menus are now only visible in document context menus if the document actually contains frames or has a background.
Made Ctrl + E work correctly in Notes and Bookmarks panel.
Bookmark page now defaults to opening on top level unless a specific folder is selected from the menu, or from right-click in panel.
Add link to active bookmarks folder is now Ctrl + Shift + T.
Skin menu cleaned up and added to the View menu below Toolbars.
If setting is "always maximize", this is now also applied to pop-ups too large for the workspace.
Enhancements to search in server manager dialog.
Focus fix when double-clicking an empty page to go to the home page.
Display
Numerous improvements to favicon support. Favicons are now available in search fields, global history, address drop-down lists, and Top 10 visited listing. Favicons are cleared when deleting private data.
Made textareas printable.
Improvements to Fit-to-width for printing, which is now on by default.
Solved several encoding issues.
Multiple rendering fixes.
Messaging and newsfeeds
Chat, e-mail, and newsfeed views now have proper, fully customizable toolbars that can be turned off. "Quick show" for e-mail has been removed.
Display drop down menu newsfeed icon in URL field and newsfeed button on navigation bar when more than one RSS feed is linked from the page.
Status display for newsfeeds changed from "Fetching messages" to "Updating newsfeeds".
New mailing list views now default to threaded sorting.
Changed URL in default e-mail signature.
Added mark thread as read and go to next unread commands and keyboard shortcuts.
Mark thread as read: M
Mark thread as read and go to next unread: N
Avoid losing non-submitted chat input when using up/down arrows to cycle input history.
Several minor chat enhancements and fixes to DCC transfers.
Added command /quote that behaves like /raw (sends the rest of the line as-is to the IRC server).
Security
Tightened frame origin check. Side effect: documents not passing the check will open in a new page.
Fixed LiveConnect class access security issue reported by Jouko Pynnonen.
Miscellaneous
Corrected regression from 7.54 on JavaScript raising of windows.
Content-encoded downloads marked as "non-resumable", as resuming would corrupt the downloaded file (does not affect tar.gz).
Windows-specific
Smooth scrolling enabled by default.
Build: 7401
Released: December 23, 2004
Changes Since Technical Preview 4
User Interface
Re-added window handling preference to first run start-up dialog.
Improved on the pop-up block notification. Click notifier to open the pop-up, page trash switches to attention state if the current page has a blocked pop-up, and items blocked from the current page are displayed in bold.
Added support for dynamic relayout of dialogs, including expanding dialogs. Changing skins, fonts, and so forth while dialogs are open will now relayout correctly.
Changes to "Windows" preferences; moved some options to an "Advanced" section, renamed Advanced MDI to Advanced Opera workspace.
Made "Delete private data" dialog expanding.
Simplified bookmark and bookmark folder properties dialogs.
Solved issue with saving of redirected images.
Voice
Default browser command prefix has changed from "browser" to "Opera".
The Voice button and "Speak" in hotclick/context menu now prompt Windows 2000 and XP users to download and install voice libraries if voice is not enabled.
Improved handling of URLs in bookmarks.
Messaging and newsfeeds
Avoid newsfeed update check getting stuck if server is down.
Improved handling of redirected newsfeeds.
List of chat servers updated and expanded.
Miscellaneous
The closed padlock icon for secure sites now appears inside the address field. Click to display security information concerning the site.
More information on non-errors will be presented in the JavaScript console when available.
Made sure links inside the JavaScript console launch in source viewer again.
Fixed authentication issue: pages can now be authenticated in any sequence.
Multiple fixes and enhancements related to ERA.
Fixed issue with non-US locales in the xml:lang attribute.
Fixed several rendering issues.