Opera 6.02 Preview 1 for Linux build 177 -- Changelog

For the first time, Opera released a public preview of Opera for Linux and a full changelog. This preview has not been tested as much as it would have been if it had been an official release. It has only been announced to some Opera newsgroups and mailing lists. Don't forget Backing up important files before you install any update.

• Opera 6.02 Preview 1 (Build 177) for Linux (Executables)
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• Opera 6.02 Preview 1 (Build 177) for Linux (What package to choose)

CHANGELOG

[Document]

• A security fix (file upload) that will be available in 6.0.1 as well.
• Fixed line break problems involving <pre> tags and fontswitching.
• Javascript can now be activated in panel windows.
• Display full URLs (including the part after the '#' (if any)) in statusbar and tooltip when using keyboard navigation
• Support for fontswitching in ordered lists. Useful when CSS property "list-style-type" is "georgian" and so on.
• Fixed display problem that occured when CSS property "overflow" was set to "hidden"
• Fixed crash in frames with CSS settings "visibility:hidden" + "position:absolute".

[UI]

• Removed a printf in the 6.0 code (urrg)
• "Follow Symbolic Link" is activated by default in bookmark and contact file reading.
• Nicknames will now work when "a", "ab", "abc" etc are defined when used from the nickname selector.
• Fixed a problem that could cause importing new bookmarks into the search-results folder.
• Fixes a problem where an inline search with no matches removed the parent access node as well. Nasty when not displaying the folder tree
• Support for restoring search toolbar visibility when returning from fullscreen.
• Do not show Dictionary/Encyclopedia/Currency/Translation entries in search pref dialog box and hotclick search menu.
• Nano/Pico fix: Made the drop downlist long enough to show 16 pixmaps at the same time in the contact property dialog box.
• Fixed in the font selector dialog box and the font lists in the preference box so that we display the same pointsize both places. It could be misaligned by 1 under certain circumstances.
• Do not move focus to the document window when loading completes if focus is in the (linux specific) searchbar
• Added support for Ctrl+W (delete word) when UNIX keyboard shortcuts has been enabled from pref. dialog.
• Fixed a problem with displaying the active frame in print preview when doing so from the "File->Print Preview" menu. The problem was that a "feedback loop" would cancel the request so the user could never activate this mode.
• Esc-Esc for leaving fullscreen has now been replaced with a single Escape press as on windows.
• Fixed some SDI related problems. It was not possible to send remote commands (from the commandline) to the second, third, etc mainwindow. Fixed the same problem for session management save requests. The main problem with this was in SDI mode after the first window had been closed.
• "Center Mousebutton Action" now takes the following values:
  Center Mousebutton Action=0,1(x),2,3,4
  • 0=Open link (SDI and MDI)
  • 1=Open link in new window (SDI and MDI)
  • 2=Open link in background (SDI and MDI)
  • 3=Open link in new window (MDI), Open link in new page (SDI)
  • 4=Open link in background (MDI), Open link in new page in background (SDI)
  Example:
  [User prefs]
  Center Mousebutton Action=3
  
• Improved the windows MDI button style layout and look in the mdi manager which can be activated by a setting in opera6.ini in the [Workspace] section
  Button Style=0(x),1,2
  • 0=KDE2 (new Qt style)
  • 1=Windows
  • 2=KDE1 (old Qt style)
  Example:
  [Workspace]
  Button Style=1
• Added a plugin toggle button on the address toolbar. The button can be hidden from pref dialog box. This button was added as a requirement for an custom version.
• Activated the "restore to defaults" actions in the preference dialog box so that factory default settings can be restored on a per page basis in the pref dialog box.
• Implemented a "compact toolbar" mode that is activated from opera6.ini We will save some vertical space (12 pixels) using this mode.
  Compact Toolbars=0(x)|1
  • 0: Show normal toolbars
  • 1: Show toolbars with minimal height. Saves some space for document window.
  Example:
  [User prefs]
  Compact Toolbars=1
• Synchronized the active search menu (hotclick) entry with the search type in the search combobox (address toolbar)
• Do not open a local page search started from the hotclick menu in a new window even when "resuse window" is not checked.
• Fixed broken Escape handling in form lineedit widgets. The bug was introduced in 6.0.1 candidate 1 as a result of a code cleanup that was not 100% completed.
• Do not accept more than 31 search engines. We can not store the hide/show state for more that this number of engines and the number of search engines can be higher with a modified search.ini
• Replace %i with the preferred match number in POST search arguments.
• Added some tests to make parsing of search.ini more robust. A missing Key entry could for instance crash Opera.
• Improved the html export code so that the hotlist tree layout is better preserved in the html file.
• An empty opera6.ini would crash Opera. The cause was unprotected use of uni_strni_eq() which do not accept a null pointer argument.
• Implemented proper display of tooltips for links with a TITLE attribute The TITLE text was not shown when link tooltip display was turned off.
• Fixed a daylight saving problem that causes the time-stamps to drift one hour when saving bookmarks.
• Made it possible to disable keyboard debugging. Keyboard debugging is enabled by a Ctrl+Shift+LeftMouseButton on a button on the mainbar.
• Added a pref value for configurable workspace window border width (accessibility feature).
  Window Border Width=[1..15]
  • 1=Default value
  Example:
  [Workspace]
  Window Border Width=3
• Some fixes to the "-remote" command line argument parsing. We failed to raise the target window in some situations. Added a new command 'addBookmark(url)' as well
• Corrected a Daylight savings problem when displaying the cookie timestamps.
• Support for "Do not show dialog again" in JavaScript Alert message boxes.
• Support for "Do not show dialog again" in message boxes for passwords in urls and JavaScript reading password from forms.

[Misc]

• Some illegal reg. codes disabled.
• Support for url filtering (filter.ini) Nice howto here:
  http://www.schrode.net/opera/url_filtering/

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