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Opera 7 for Windows Changelogs

New in Opera 7.0 Beta 2

Opera version 7.0 beta 2 is now available for download.

Opera 7 is faster and smaller than Opera 6, yet adds many new features! Again, Opera has proven that less is more. Opera has a completely new rendering engine, a revolutionary e-mail client, and can combine SDI, MDI, and tabbed browsing.

Changelog

Opera 7.0 beta 2 for Windows has the following changelog:

See the Opera 7 specifications for more details.

M2, Opera's new e-mail and news client

• E-mail import from Netscape, versions 6/7
• Added being able to choose an external mailer
• Generic mbox import fully functional
• Replying to HTML-mails now works
• Added stop sending mail
• Pressing compose when in a newsgroup will automatically fill in the Newsgroups header, in a mailing list fill in the mailing list as To header, in a contact view the contact address.
• It is now possible to rename any accesspoint, also rename e.g. Unread to Today
• Added option to see mail from last 3 months
• Allow shift+tab to get out of compose window

For more information about M2, please refer to the M2 tutorial.

User interface features

• Introduced the brand new Fast Forward

Hotlist features

• New links panel
  • Shows links for active window
  • Panel can be "locked" to keep the links
  • Drag'n'drop and quick download
  • Quick-find filter
  • Detect images/music, etc and give them distinct icon
• New Contacts panel
• Rearrange, show, or hide panels at will

More features

• Added a 15-day banner free period
• Startup dialog may only be disabled when registered.
• Startup speed optimization
• Added support for "opera:/help/"
• Entirely re-structured table layout to accommodate THEAD and TBODY being ordered correctly
• Added support for printing during print preview
• Added simple skin download-and-install, if the server returns content-type "application/x-opera-skin" and the file has "zip" extension the user can download and install the skin directly
• Added support for the HTTP Content-Location header
• Added a preference setting to control whether the JS console is auto-created on encountering the first error
• Added quick download to normal link menus
• Added "Copy file information" to the transfer pop-up
• Added back the Advertising preferences

Documentation

• Local help files are included in this beta

Miscellaneous

• Added support for the following:
  • RIGHTMARGIN
  • BOTTOMMARGIN
  • FRAMESPACING
  • styleFloat keyword for DOM CSS
  • onscroll event attribute
• Removed "Enable embedded video" from Preferences

See the changelog for Opera 7, beta 1.

And the Opera 7 specifications.