Opera 7.20 beta 3

This is Opera 7.20 beta 3 (build 3038), another limited newsgroup/forum beta. A Linux version of beta 3 will also be available! Click on the 7 to start your download.

As usual, discuss the new version in opera.beta and on the my.opera.com forums. If you install over pre-beta 2 installations, it will not yet re-index your messages for use with separate accounts. Only mail received after installing beta 2 or beta 3 will be available if you choose to show separate accounts.

Notable changes since the last newsgroup beta:

    General

  • Crash fixes
  • Fixed several crashes when closing pages
  • Fixed problem where saving pages or images occasionally crashes Opera
  • Fixed crash at https://seb.mozdev.org/firebird/
  • Several BiDi fixes
  • Arabic Shadda breaks joining
  • Two consecutive unicode control codes should be two separate words
  • Bugfix for two consecutive BIDI_ES characters
  • Several display fixes
  • Numerous fixes for run-ins and absolute positioned boxes
  • Fixed that background sometimes disappeared when turning print preview on and off
  • Fix for max-width not wrapping float text
  • Fixed display of MAP elements
  • Several DOM/ECMAscript fixes
  • Fixes to get XML Events working again - Scripts with language="" are no longer ignored
  • Fixed several problems with getComputedStyle
  • Fixed a style.backgroundColor problem
  • Adjusted security password policy: Minimum 6 characters and either 1. At least one alphabetic character and one non-alphabetic character, or 2. At least one character from a non-western european character set (specifically: not Latin-1)
  • Autologin with wand evn if there is no username
  • Added experimental support for IPv6. See INI settings section of changelog for related preference
  • Added ability to delay initial document paint. See INI settings section of changelog for related preference
  • Dialup should work again
  • Fixed use of OperaDEF6.adr for bookmarks and missing default bookmarks
  • New URL scheme supported: data (RFC 2397)
  • Fix for sending form data written in Japanese/Russian/etc. Should fix many form related issues (CNN QuickVote, banking sites, etc.)
  • Fix for AltGr+z, AltGr+n opening page/window instead of typing a Polish character on Win9x systems
  • Reintroduced Kioskmode
News source: Warp2Searach
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