Opera

Changelog for Opera 6.0 for Mac beta 1

This document details the changes made in Opera 6.0 for Mac Beta 1 since 5.0.

Changelog

New features

• Unicode support
• Added support Access Keys, uses shift+character for now
• Hebrew and Arabic fonts implemented

User interface

• Changed bookmark list layout
• Address bar have appearance style on text fields
• Full screen view
• Page bar
• Opera ini button sets implemented
• Personal bar
• Skins enabled
• Inline search

ECMAScript

• ECMAscript events works on dropdowns

Plug-ins

• Enabled in OS X

Bug fixes

• Fixed problem with printing under OS X
• Fixed problem with http authentication dialogs
• Added pull-down menu for buttons that are hidden behind the banner
• Fixed problem connected to servers sending application/octet-stream as MIME type for downloads
• Fixed problem with Ctrl+Click in OS 9
• Fixed problem with bookmarks when using both Opera 5 and 6. Bookmarks with Unicode characters will be corrupted if opened in Opera 5
• Fixed problem with banners displaying from day one. Banner delay will be the same in Opera 5 and 6
• Fixed problem with text display using Quartz text rendering
• Fixed problem with language defaulting to fallback after one run of Opera
• Fixed too small pop-up menus in forms
• Fixed problem connected with banner-ad update
• Moved ACPO files inside Preferences
• Fixed problem with 'New page' tab and docking
• Fixed problem with search bar
• Fixed problem with unknown protocol types
• Fixed problem with Opera startup under Mac OS 8.6
• Fixed problem with old button set preferences that caused problems on Mac OS 9.1
• Fixed problems with search fields in personal bar
• Enabled 'Search again' with inline search
• Fixed problem with store/get from keychain
• Fixed strange characters at startup
• Zoom slider updates when using keyboard zoom
• Fixed problem with collapsing folders in personal bar folder
• Fixed problem with proxy settings
• Fixed problem with negative numbers in font size
• Fixed problem with Cmd+Tab and bookmark window
• Added and changed keyboard shortcuts for open new window/page
• Fixed problem with fast page scrolling on OS 9
• Fixed problem with update of status bar
• Fixed problem with keyboard input in dialog boxes
• Fixed problem with download of files with unknown MIME type
• Added contextual menu on zoom when clicking on percent
• Added double click on zoom slider goes to 100% display
• Fixed browser layout preferences
• Fixed wrong buttons in store/get from keychain
• Fixed problem with visited links
• Fixed problem with cache
• Fixed crash bugs on font and color preferences
• Changed the logic for the banner free period across new builds
• Several bug fixes for Unicode
• Enabled cookies and moved them to preferences folder
• Enabled contextual menus on mouse down
• Fixed problem in 'Go to Page'
• Fixed bookmark window that did not redraw after importing IE bookmarks
• Enabled save window setup
• Fixed problem with saved windows at startup
• Fixed problem with window history
• Fixed problem with bookmark window and contextual menu
• Added slider for zooming
• Fixed resize of windows when opened
• Fixed problem with Opera 5 bookmarks
• Fixed UTF-8 problems in bookmarks
• Fixed problem with bookmark search and favorite bar
• Fixed problem with search fields in personal bar
• Enabled history pulldown in address bar
• Fixed history in 'Go to Page'
• Fixed problem with Winsock error
• Fixed problem with return in forms
• Improved Unicode support for Asian languages
• Fixed line break table
• Enabled history on forward and back buttons; uses contextual menu
• Enabled history in 'Go to Page'
• Fixed problem with misencoded forms data in Unicode
• Fixed problem with blank bookmark window after import
• Fixed problem with empty bookmarks
• Fixed problem with Save as
• Updated bookmark file and search.ini
• Fixed problems with Unicode encoding in forms
• Fixed problem with opening Opera 5.0 bookmarks
• Fixed problem with importing bookmarks. Opera will import even when creator is not set
• Enabled beta warning dialog
• Enabled open with empty window
• Reading home page from Internet Control Panel (not first run)
• Added start-up pages to first start
• Changed keyboard shortcut for cycling active windows to < and >
• Fixed problem with resize of windows after using 'Go to Page'
• Enabled duplicate window
• Enabled Unicode support in multi-line forms
• Fixed context menu problems
• Fixed some translation errors in Preferences
• Fixed problem with dialogs
• Enabled bullets for passwords under Unicode
• Fixed problem with size changes on reload/stop button
• Enabled scroll wheel support
• Fixed problem with Japanese text input and return
• Fixed problem with numbers in forms
• Fixed problem with incomplete user agent strings
• Enabled Unicode text input in single line forms
• Bug fixes for user agent strings
• Several bug fixes on file type configuration in Preferences
• Right-to-left text bug fix
• Fixed default search fields in personal bar
• Fixes to search fields in personal bar
• Fixed problem with multiple ad banners visible; ad banner mix between active and inactive window
• Updated folder name on install image
• Fixed problem with removing ad-banner window clips wrong ad rectangle
• Only resizes active tab. Speeds up resizing and bookmark docking in windows with many tab panes
• Force more text to be drawn in Unicode, using quartz if possible
• Fixed problem with navigation in bookmark lists.