May 23 2006

Opera 9.0 beta 2

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Opera BrowserThe second public beta of the latest incarnation of the Opera browser has been released. Get yours if you’re interested. Platform-agnostic (I think!) changelog below the fold.

User Interface
  • User CSS is enabled by default in Author mode.
  • Allowed custom headers to be displayed in the quick mail headers toolbar.
  • Temporary downloads are now cleared when deleting cache.
  • Fixed tab selection when exiting full screen mode.
  • Display a warning when local messages are going to be deleted, when removing IMAP or news accounts.
  • Improved handling of “Stop executing scripts on this page” checkbox on script dialogs.
  • Fixed site preferences for styling forms and scrollbars.
Widgets
  • Widgets are no longer displayed on a faded screen.
  • New widgets menu, providing options to add, open, and manage widgets.
  • New widget management window and panel.
  • Widget context menu now has option to keep always below other applications.
  • Added automatic detection of widgets, with a widget button shown in the address field if a page uses this: <link rel="alternate" type="application/x-opera-widgets" href="http://example.com/widget">
  • Cache is not shared between widgets and pages opened from widgets.
  • Fixed session handling for widgets.
Messaging and Newsfeeds
  • Improved deleting of single messages from trash in IMAP accounts.
  • Fix for duplicated messages in IMAP.
  • IMAP messages are removed from local store when removing account.
  • Fix to prevent incorrect warnings being displayed when opening IMAP account views.
  • Fix for format=flowed sending incorrectly formatted content.
  • Fix for sending mail with iso-2022-jp encoding.
  • Fix to stop re-downloading old feeds.
Display
  • Allowed shrink-to-fit containers to have scrollbars.
  • Fix for overflow:hidden on positioned elements causing unwanted scrollbars.
  • Several fixes for overflow.
  • Fixed handling of backgrounds in fieldsets.
  • Fixed bug with illegal nested tables.
  • Fix for incorrect display of large images.
  • Refuse invalid namespace declaration attributes.
Script
  • Added support for document.load.
  • Added support for document.adoptNode.
  • Added support for range.createContextualFragment.
  • Fixed behavior of range.compareBoundaryPoints.
  • Content-Encoding is now respected by XMLHttpRequest for unknown content types.
  • document.compatMode now gives ‘BackCompat’ for documents being rendered in quirks mode.
  • Fixed handling of multiple changes to document.body.style.backgroundColor.
  • Improved XSLT error reporting.
  • Support copying attribute nodes in XSLT with copy-of.
Security
  • Fixed SSL negotiation problem for servers that do not tolerate TLS 1.0 version in the record protocol of the client hello.
BitTorrent
  • Added multi-tracker support to BitTorrent.
  • BT file hash check saved in meta data file to reduce the need for checking files on resume.
Miscellaneous
  • Fixed issue where having installed a large number of fonts could confuse opera.
  • Several fixes for Web archives, including saving of XHTML documents.
  • Multiple stability fixes.

One Response to “Opera 9.0 beta 2”

  1. Rustyon 23 May 2006 at 5:36 pm

    “Widgets are no longer displayed on a faded screen.”
    Thank the Lord.

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