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