Opera 9.6 Beta 1 for Windows Changelog
Release Notes
This is a beta version of Opera. Please use it only on properly backed up computers.
New and improved features
Opera Link
Custom search engines and typed history (typed history is only the history you explicitly type or select from the address bar) are now joining bookmarks, speed dial, personal bar, and notes in Opera Link.
Feed Preview
Now you can preview an RSS/Atom feed before subscribing.
Opera Mail
Low Bandwidth Mode
Low Bandwidth Mode is a setting on mail accounts that makes Opera Mail use as little bandwidth as possible.
For IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol), this means that Opera will only synchronise new messages and it will not fetch message attachments unless requested
For POP (Post Office Protocol), Opera will not fetch more than the first 100 lines of a message unless requested
Follow/Ignore threads and contacts
Follow and Ignore are new features for users that receive numerous messages. It makes it easier to dismiss unimportant messages and easier to recognise important messages.
Activate this feature by selecting Follow/Ignore in the email context menu (or click the message subject header), then select either Follow Thread or Ignore Thread. Also, you can click the names in the From or To headers to enable the following or ignoring of contacts.
Go To Thread
You can now also use "Go to thread" which means that you can view only the messages from that thread. This is useful for those that employ flat view.
Changes since Opera 9.52
User Interface
Opera now remembers the bookmark panel position after restart
Added a setting opera:config#UserPrefs|
ShowBookmarksInAddressfieldAutocompletion to prevent bookmarks from showing in the Address field auto-completion drop-down
When setting opera:config#TransferWindow|KeepEntriesDays to 0, Opera now removes the transfer history when restarting
The new Opera Scrollmaker will indicate the previous position of the bottom or top of the page after a scroll action, and needs to be enabled with opera:config#UserPrefs|EnableScrollMarker
Value 0 means: off
Value 1 means: show when reaching the bottom or top of the page, and when the last scroll action scrolls less than a full page's amount
Value 2 means: always show when scrolling
Once enabled, it will indicate the position of the bottom or top of the page before a scroll action is initiated
Sites using HTTP Auth are now saved in typed history
Opera now stops loading pages with iframes when closing the page or pressing stop
The document property has been removed from iframe objects for compatibility with Gecko, WebKit, and the Acid3 test
The fraud protection dialog now works when using a proxy
Mail, News, Chat
The account settings dialog can now be configured to prevent IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) accounts from downloading attachments until requested by a user
Fixed open/save of images in Opera Mail when using the image context menu
Made all top-level access points (except All Messages) selectable
Display and Scripting
Fixed a problem where dynamically added xml-stylesheet processing instructions were ignored
Added support for the caller property on functions:
caller - MDC
Miscellaneous
Added Core version (currently "Presto/2.1.1") to the User Agent header
Windows-specific changes
Fixed text input on Windows Tablet PC Edition 2005
Changelog of the RC2:
SSL error pages now display again
Fixed an issue where RSS 1.0 feeds sent as text/html would not be recognized
Fixed an issue where opening links with the keyboard after an inline find would open the link twice
Some stability fixes (proxy crasher should be fixed, please test those that reproduced it before)
Bookmarks