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Opera 5.00 beta 4 for Mac changelog

This document details the changes made in Opera 5.0 for Mac Beta 4 since 5.0 beta 3.

Changelog

New features

  • Banners added
  • File upload implemented
  • Docking of bookmarks
  • Link Toolbar added
  • Balloon help
  • Preference Layout changed
  • On launch, Opera now informs you what it's doing in the splash screen

User interface

  • Added preferences for preferred ad categories
  • Updated search-input field
  • Enabled Cmd-backspace command, for going up a directory
  • Changed the names of some of the preferences to make it more consistent with the Windows version

ECMAScript

  • No changes

Plug-ins

  • Preferences moved to "Multimedia"

Bookmarks

  • Enabled possibility to drag an Opera bookmark file from finder into an open hotlist window to merge them
  • Hotlist window now accepts dragging multiple items
  • New, revised context menu for hotlist. More consistency, fewer irelevant items, fewer submenus.
  • Clicking the zoombox now resizes the hotlist window correctly
  • Up/dn-arrow and enter will now navigate search results directy
  • Match words anywhere in the URL, name, description or nickname
  • Search bookmarks now also searches the URL field. Tab can be used for switching between the hotlist and the searchfield. Fixed a bug that made the search lag a character or two.
  • Docking of bookmarks now possible

Bug fixes

  • Fixed most of the problems that arise from opening files with backslashes in the name
  • Forms popups and pushbuttons should now be more likely to display with the correct font
  • Now gets various common Unicode characters: curly quotes, angle quotes, daggers, ellipsis, trademark and others
  • Fixed some cache problems
  • Fixed missing spaces in view source
  • Personal information: switching between fields with tab now works correctly
  • Fixed bug in searching bookmarks with a wildcard

See the changelog for Opera 5 for Mac Beta 3, the previous version.

From opera.com/docs/changelogs, archived on February 28, 2013. See the original page.

Opera 5.00 beta 4 for Mac