Changes in Opera 10.0 Build 1589 Beta:
Highlights
* Unite: The two-way internet is here
* Lots of skin fixes and tweaks
* Easy to hide the menu bar on Windows and Unix and still have it accessible
* Welcome mail now looks prettier with HTML formatting
User Interface
* Added menu option to hide the main menu on Windows and Unix. When hidden, it is replaced by a menu button in the tab bar which is also accessible using the Alt key
* New mailto URL for the fastmail webmail service
* Additional fix to Bug DSK-255650 (Thumbnail generation called when Opera is shutting down): make sure the speed dial is not loading when the speed dials are deleted.
* Fixed potential crash when uninstalling a dictionary
* Fix a bug where the address dropdown might reappear after closing it due to incoming search results: This may also Fix Bug DSK-213883 (Opera crashes)
* Fixed Bug CORE-21253 (Can't add a word into the dictionary containg special characters.)
* Fixed Bug DSK-180617 (Links opened in external applications closes page if page is opened from a panel or mail)
* Fixed Bug DSK-215702 (Crash on various dialogs with 3rd party mouse plugins installed)
* Fixed Bug DSK-226175 (Converted Japanese are placed outside of text-form)
* Fixed Bug DSK-237534 (Freeze when setting "Open with other application" to Opera for mailto)
* Fixed Bug DSK-244687 ("|" makes it past the webmailprovider %s percent-encoder unencoded)
* Fixed Bug DSK-247823 (Menu item 'Edit > Check spelling' must be updated)
* Fixed Bug DSK-252725 (crash with incomplete spellcheck dictionaries)
* Fixed Bug DSK-253258 (Back button on the dictionary installer needs work): Fixed the back and forward buttons so you can go all the way forward and backward and forward again
* Fixed Bug DSK-253386 (Crash when clicking help in startup dialog): show tooltip for 'no windows' option. Reinstate cancel button on dialog.
* Fixed Bug DSK-253858 (Sometimes a dictionary can't be uninstalled)
* Fixed Bug DSK-253989 (Crashes when using Go To Page dialog in crash logger or startup dialog)
* Fixed Bug DSK-254102 (Words added to the dictionary are not really added )
* Fixed Bug DSK-204113 (Opera not default handler for supported filetypes with incorrect MIME type)
* Fixed Bug DSK-254167 (No difference between clickable and non-clickable "text only" buttons)
* Fixed Bug DSK-254387 (Incorrect label size, that displays error message when downloading new spellchecker dictionary): Rearanging the error page in the dictionary page a bit
* Fixed Bug DSK-254446 (Ctrl+tab menu looks wrong)
* Fixed Bug DSK-254733 (Double-click doesn't reduce tab thumbnails to tabs): Only enter drag mode on single click
* Fixed Bug DSK-255232 (password manager button in prefs too small)
* Fixed Bug DSK-255502 (Use a specific browser.js file when using Opera in Chinese)
* Fixed Bug DSK-255638 (menu shortcut out of order)
* Fixed Bug DSK-241258 (if no contacts present, opera crashes)
* Fixed Bug DSK-250821 (-nomail command switch isnt working)
* Fixed Bug DSK-254901 (Opera deletes stored session files when start-up dialog is shown)
* Fixed Bug DSK-255087 (Reduce time it takes for tooltip to appear)
Skin
* Fixed spacing between search and the address field
Revised mail panel icons
* Reduce padding on Toolbar buttons, panel icon tweaks
* Small changes to Edit Skin, Toolbar Button Skin and Mac skin
* Improvements to the toolbar
* Darker color for browser borders and splitters
* Tweaks to smilies
* Revised Lock Page Icon
* Revisions to push buttons, radio buttons and checkboxes
* Updated Scrollbars
* Improvements to Mac Skin tabs
* Changes to the Lock tab icon for standard and mac skins
* Updated Panel selector buttons for other positions
* Moving tab backgrounds to their own folder to make it easier to keep track of them
* Moving tab thumbnails to the pagebar directory
* Updated Link Busy animation
* Reducing padding on Menubar buttons
* Updated radio buttons and checkboxes to use semi-transparent borders
* Fix paddings and margins on Addressbar Skin and Dropdown Search Resize Skin
* '[Addressbar Button Skin]' available to be skinned separately now
* Added window native close buttons from the standard skin
* Panel toggle button now has 2 states as it should
* Further work on Bug DSK-254363 (Panel header button stands out due to the large font size): Toolbar buttons have a new argument with 1 for using bold text
* Got rid of all inverted icons as they are not used anymore
* More tabs changes
* News group icons
* Position the extender button properly in relation to the new tab floating toolbar when the tab bar is at the bottom or at the top
* Revised Bookmark icons
* Updated Push Buttons
* Updated Smilies
* Updated button icons
* Updated toolbar.ini and skin based on new images
* Using new transfer item default icon (was opera.png)
* Fix relating to a Link hover problem
* Fixed so the enable/disable tab thumbnails is also available on inactive tabs
* Added click to play hover icon (Turbo)
* Tweaks to windows native skin
* Improvements to hover state on tabs (better contrast) and tabs on the side
* Improvements to Fix for Bug DSK-255817 (Need more contrast on access keys list): Also added a new skin section '[Accesskeys Cycler Item Skin]' and set the font size to 150% to make the access keys popup more accessibility friendly
* Use the Window color instead of a hard code white tint on the access keys dialog - to allow for using customized color schemes to override it
* Fixed Bug DSK-253115 (right border of contact image field in contacts properties dialog missing)
* Fixed Bug DSK-253734 (widgets icon in panel too big, or entries in widgets panel too close together)
* Fixed Bug DSK-253776 (panel selector buttons look good only when left-aligned)
* Fixed Bug DSK-254150 (Remove white background from Treeview Skin): use window colour for treeview skin background
* Fixed Bug DSK-254175 (New Skin: Personal Bar items have random widths): Trimmed down the margins for the Toolbar Button Skin
* Fixed Bug DSK-254348 (Button Mail view/Show filtered uses folder instead of filter icon)
* Fixed Bug DSK-254363 (Panel header button stands out due to the large font size)
* Fixed Bug DSK-254662 (Image context menu should support "Use image on Speed Dial")
* Fixed Bug DSK-254734 (Close button barely visible when hovering inactive tabs)
* Fixed Bug DSK-254863 ("cached images" button smaller than show/no images)
* Fixed Bug DSK-254875 (Background appears when pushing Panel and Trash buttons)
* Fixed Bug DSK-254888 (Unequal horizontal margin for the search field size adjuster)
* Fixed Bug DSK-254967 (Appearance dialog, "Show thumbnails" on tab bar is not functional)
* Fixed Bug DSK-255472 (checkboxes clipped at gmail)
* Fixed Bug DSK-253878 (The Opera Mini target bookmarks folder is missing a new icon)
* Fixed Bug DSK-253883 (Mailbar background is missing)
* Fixed Bug DSK-255763 (Avoid mixing up text-shadowed labels and normal ones on toolbars)
Mail/Chat
* Format default welcome mail with HTML
* Improvements to HTML email compose support
* Clicking on a new message notification now will attempt to 1) find a window where the message is visible, 2) open unread if it's visible there, 3) open the account view if not.
* Fixed the padding for plain text e-mail composing
* Fixed Bug DSK-239729 (List commands don't display as toggles)
* Fixed Bug DSK-240878 (localized font-family name in the HTML mail gets garbled)
* Fixed Bug DSK-244042 (crash on going back after reading thread)
* Fixed Bug DSK-246290 (Replying to e-mail will break the compose window)
* Fixed Bug DSK-247455 (Opera hangs completely when doing "Synchronization" on POP3 mail check)
* Fixed Bug DSK-248267 (Directionality detection missing when editing an existing email)
* Fixed Bug DSK-248798 (printing mail broken, results in empty page)
* Fixed Bug DSK-250498 (Chat connection status is broken for multiple accounts)
* Fixed Bug DSK-250602 (Info field size in the signature editor is too small)
* Fixed Bug DSK-250756 (Signature doesn't change when changing account)
* Fixed Bug DSK-253548 (Replying to a thread in Received view set to threaded and sorted by date shouldn't update the sort position of that thread)
* Fixed Bug DSK-253737 (Opening attachments does not respect the download settings)
* Fixed Bug DSK-253836 (Headers in mail view tab only show e-mail address, not name and address, for senders not in contact list)
* Fixed Bug DSK-253998 (From field in newsfeed items is empty, crashes on copy)
* Fixed Bug DSK-254192 (Adding a large attachment to a message freezes email composing)
* Fixed Bug DSK-254304 (Superscript and subscript icons in M2 have switched places)
* Fixed Bug DSK-254408 (Freeze when upgrading POP account)
Speed Dial
* Speed Dial improvements
* Fixed a bug where selecting 'Open with Speed Dial' was not respected
* Added best fit (aka crop/scale/proporitonal strech) mode for speed dial background images and made that the default setting
* Set image as Speed Dial background
* Fixed Bug DSK-253075 (Speed dialog configuration dialog should be alligned to the config button and follow the window)
* Fixed Bug DSK-253271 (Crash on speeddial config)
* Fixed Bug DSK-253833 (Clicking Configure Speed Dial over and over opens unlimited amount of dialogs)
* Fixed Bug DSK-254158 (Configure speed dial button goes backgroundless for once on setting speed dial background image)
* Fixed Bug DSK-254372 (URLs for speeddials above 9 does not resolve)
Opera Turbo
* Provide functionality for switching Turbo mode off for separate image elements
* Notification shown when turbo servers are busy
* Fixed Bug TURBO-159 (A placeholder is needed for plugins that are not loaded yet)
* Fixed Bug TURBO-242 (Add hover effect to Click To Play)
* Fixed Bug TURBO-249 (Provide functionality for switching Turbo mode off for separate image elements)
* Fixed Bug DSK-255261 (Turbo: There needs to be a context menu option to reload images in high quality)
BitTorrent
* Some optimization work
* Fixed high memory use related to the disk cache on huge torrents
Core
* Fixed a crash relating to problems with certain PNGs
Fixed problems with right click menu behavior relating to plugins
* Work to prevent Flash freezes
* Plugin crash fixes
* Fixed Bug CORE-12827 (Need link on error page for cross network communication)
* Fixed Bug CORE-13116 (typeof operator in NodeLists returns object but comparison to object and function both return true)
* Fixed Bug CORE-13465 (multiplying a number and an array fails without valueOf(), facebook applications broken)
* Fixed Bug CORE-14160 (DSE crashes Opera when something is document.writed into a table.)
* Fixed Bug CORE-14977 (Doesn't fire DOMContentLoaded when a script is added with document.write)
* Fixed Bug CORE-15397 (Pipelining should be a site-specific preference)
* Fixed Bug CORE-15945 (Problem in certain scopes when defining getter for HTMLElement's document prototype)
* Fixed Bug CORE-17807 (Should not allow linebreaks in input names)
* Fixed Bug CORE-18102 (Wrong context menu for windowless silverlight)
* Fixed Bug CORE-20274 (Should add remote updatable preference to disable MD5/MD2 in certificates)
* Fixed Bug CORE-20475 (Iframe deletion breaks link interaction in other frames (Can't download attachments in gmail))
* Fixed Bug CORE-20578 (Function defined on appended iframe not available (Map isn't loaded at
www.xici.net))
* Fixed Bug CORE-20755 (Adobe Flash Support Center, images are empty)
* Fixed Bug CORE-20870 (SSL failure if CRL and/or OCSP requests are redirected)
* Fixed Bug CORE-20993 (flash causes page to hang on loading and disrupts left-click on asus.com)
* Fixed Bug CORE-21077 (class cache holding stale string pointers after changing the class attribute to its current value (crash on google video))
* Fixed Bug CORE-21139 (ccc.de resolves to to 0.0.0.0)
* Fixed Bug CORE-21240 (offsetTop handling broken for inline-block child of overflow:scroll parent)
* Fixed Bug CORE-21277 (DOMContentLoaded doesn't always fire when traversing history)
* Fixed Bug CORE-21394 (Script environment locks up when script interacts with blocked plugin)
* Fixed Bug CORE-21429 (*.com accepted as wildcard match in SSL/TLS name matching)
* Fixed Bug CORE-21625 (Support for getting localized strings from javascript)
* Fixed Bug CORE-21630 (Opera crashes when importing certificates (II))
* Fixed Bug CORE-21644 (javascript files containing html comments are not interpretted)
* Fixed Bug CORE-21690 (Make execCommand('formatblock') behave more like IE.)
* Fixed Bug CORE-21731 (Crash related to DSE and document.write and walking in history)
* Fixed Bug CORE-21790 (Potential fix for top-crasher at gmail when editing mails)
* Fixed Bug DSK-241178 (Feed preview doesn't finish loading)
* Fixed Bug DSK-247269 (video does not load and page becomes unusable)
* Fixed Bug DSK-248618 (Links opened from mail and newsfeeds stop loading when you focus another mail/feed entry)
* Fixed Bug DSK-250837 (Flash content misplaced after scrolling)
* Fixed Bug DSK-252146 (Crash in LayoutProperties::CreateLayoutBox)
* Fixed Bug DSK-253167 (Right-clicking on flash object breaks Opera big time)
* Fixed Bug DSK-255557 (Opera crashes when printing page)
Windows
* Images to be used as desktop background are only saved in the user's profile pictures folder
* Fixed Bug DSK-222287 (Opera crashes at random)
* Fixed Bug DSK-241262 (Error message when opening HTML files if Opera is not already running): removed spurious registry entries
* Fixed Bug DSK-245202 (Crash on nytimes.com page while closing Opera)
* Fixed Bug DSK-245455 (Two entries in Add/Remove Programs after updating from classic installer using autoupdate)
* Fixed Bug DSK-253393 (Opera should add itself to exception in Windows firewall automatically)
* Fixed Bug DSK-253893 (ShellExecuteEx error dialog when cancelling UAC/User Access Control dialog)
* Fixed Bug DSK-253919 (IME is diabled at Flash based text input field)
* Fixed Bug DSK-254084 (Two entries in Add/Remove Programs after upgrading with MSI installer (as admin on vista, or limited user on XP and Vista)): fixed permision issues when querying the registry
* Fixed Bug DSK-255279 (Successfully installed widget crashes during launch on windows): Only refer to HotlistManager if it exists
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