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 http://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

Download

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