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Opera 7.50 for Mac changelog

Opera version 7.50 is now available for download.

Release Notes

Opera 7.50 (Beta 1 and final release both) fixes a Telnet URI handler vulnerability as reported in iDEFENSE Security Advisory 05.12.04. Users of earlier Opera versions are adviced to upgrade.

Please also note the following concerning Opera 7.50 for Mac:

  • Mac OS X 10.1 or newer is required.
  • Although import from Address Book to Opera's contacts is supported, changes made in Opera's contacts are at this stage not written back to Address Book.
  • Some problems with switching fonts for Asian languages may occur, and inline Input Method Editors (IMEs) are not supported.
  • Coming releases will continue to improve on the Mac OS X integration and Macintosh look and feel of the user interface.
  • Users may experience some problems with the current Java implementation, which will also be improved on in coming releases.
  • LiveConnect is not supported at this point.

If you would like to see a (more detailed) listing of changes since Beta 1 only, there is a separate changelog.

Changelog

Changes since Opera 6.03:

At first glance

  • Opera Mail - revolutionary e-mail, Usenet news and newsfeed client
  • Chat client
  • Faster rendering engine
  • Redesigned user interface
  • "Fast Forward" button
  • Panels
  • Support for bi-directional text
  • Web Unicode keyboard layout support

Presto, Opera's rendering engine

  • 100% ECMAScript support. New JavaScript console
  • Partial support for bi-directional languages
  • Support for page/document reflow
  • Support for DOM (Document Object Model) level 2
  • Support for dynamic HTML
  • Extended CSS2 support, including e.g. styling of form elements
  • Improved HTML 4.01 support
  • Added support for SCRIPT in XML
  • DOCTYPE switching enabled (see separate document for details)

Operating system integration

  • Support for OS X Services. Full support requires that Opera be installed in "Applications" folder
  • Dynamic updating from Addressbook
  • Wand passwords are also stored to Keychain

Opera Mail

  • Supports import from Apple Mail.
  • Perfectly integrated with the Opera browser.
  • Automatically generated access points, including auto-detection and threaded display of mailing lists.
  • Support for Usenet news servers with password authentication.
  • Support for SMTP authentication.
  • Learning spam filter and custom filters.
  • Filters support regular expressions.
  • Messages can be labeled by importance, status, etc.
  • Support for POP3, IMAP, and ESMTP.
  • Quick reply - send your reply without opening a compose window.
  • Support for RSS newsfeeds:
    • RSS 0.9x, 1.0 and 2.0 are supported.
    • "Newsfeeds" added as access point in the e-mail panel.
    • Clicking RSS link automatically adds newsfeed to Opera Mail.
  • Context-sensitive automatic filling of to-headers.
  • Choose timespan for visible e-mail messsages - one day, last week, last month, last 3 months, last year, or forever.
  • Personal information or the content of any Opera note can be added to messages from the context menu.

New chat client

  • Uses IRC (Internet Relay Chat) protocol.
  • New chat panel lists visited chat rooms and status of on-line contacts.
  • Support for sending and receiving files using DCC.
  • Graphical smileys are generated from textual equivalents.

User interface

  • New Panels feature
    • Notes panel -- write reminders or annotate web sites
    • Links panel -- lists all the links on the current page and allows you to quickly download groups of files in just a couple of clicks
    • Transfers panel -- lists all your downloads and file transfers from chat
    • Search panel -- multiple search options gathered in one place
  • Introduced "Fast Forward" for quick navigation by auto-detection of "next"-type links ("Forward" button changes automatically when available)
  • Session manager -- choose between multiple saved sessions from the start-up dialog
  • The Wand is Opera's password and form manager, integrated with Keychain.
  • New "Tools" menu gathers handling of preferences, private data, etc.
  • Extended drag-and-drop support, notably in toolbars, bookmarks and e-mail panel
  • Help key now works like Cmd+?. For a complete overview of keyboard shortcuts, press Cmd+B while running Opera.
  • Middle-click support is now fully enabled.
  • Support for embedded favicons
  • Support for one-click download-and-install skinning -- skin is applied directly, but deleted from disk if user opts not to keep the skin
  • Color schemes can be selected from the "View" menu
  • "Show only when needed" option for page bar.
  • The "Opera Preferences" file
    • Added setting to make lists with alternating background colors more accessible (disabled by default): 
      [User Prefs]
Color List Row Mode=1
    • Added setting for controlling support of the autocomplete="off" attribute in FORMs (disabled by default): 
      [User Prefs]
AutocompleteOff=0
  • Added setting for reverting single-click behavior for panel items: 
    [HotListWindow]
Hotlist Single Click=0

Accessibility and Usability

  • Support for alternate style sheets
  • Built-in accessibility user style sheet
  • Support for multiple user style sheets, including 100% CSS-made text browser, that can be applied to any Web page
  • User mode address-bar icon has a drop-down menu that lets you choose alternative ways to view a Web page
  • Press Alt+Shift+F11 to enable Small-Screen Rendering (SSR), which emulates a handheld (small-screen) device running Opera
  • Move focus to page elements with Shift+arrow keys
  • Multiple new keyboard shortcuts increase accessibility. For a full listing of existing shortcuts, press Cmd+B while using the latest Opera version. Keyboard shortcuts for all actions can also be customized in Mouse and keyboard Preferences
  • New navigation bar supports page/document navigation defined using link tags
  • Dynamic on-the-fly generation of access keys in menus
  • Paste and go - pressing Cmd+D will use clipboard URL to go to new Web page (replaces the sequence of focusing address field, pasting address and hitting Return

Miscellaneous

  • Web and e-mail Unicode keyboard layout support
  • Choose between Google relevant ads and a generic selection of banner ads in the ad-sponsored version of Opera. Read more about Opera Browser Google Ads.
  • Support for accepting requested pop-ups only
  • Built-in help files open as ordinary browser pages

Changes since the beta

Opera version 7.50 is available for download.

Release Notes

Opera 7.50 (Beta 1 and final release both) fixes a Telnet URI handler vulnerability as reported in iDEFENSE Security Advisory 05.12.04. Users of earlier Opera versions are adviced to upgrade.

Please also note the following concerning Opera 7.50 for Mac:

  • Mac OS X 10.1 or newer is required.
  • Although import from Address Book to Opera's contacts is supported, changes made in Opera's contacts are at this stage not written back to Address Book.
  • Some problems with switching fonts for Asian languages may occur, and inline Input Method Editors (IMEs) are not supported.
  • Coming releases will continue to improve on the Mac OS X integration and Macintosh look and feel of the user interface.
  • Users may experience some problems with the current Java implementation, which will also be improved on in coming releases.
  • LiveConnect is not supported at this point.

For a more complete overview of changes since 7.23, please also refer to the changelog for Opera 7.50 Beta 1.

Changes since Beta 1:

User Interface

  • New default skin finalized.
  • Made advertisement preferences consistent with first time setup dialog; clicking on Google ads turn off main bar, clicking generic turns it on.
  • Added "Show only when needed" option for page bar.
  • Removed hard-coded fallback text color (black) for labels.
  • Fixed several focus issues.
  • Fixed problem updating progress bar fields if moved to the main toolbar
  • Disabled keyboard shortcuts for graphics on/off and author/user style sheet in e-mail and chat.
  • Re-enabled separate manage page for links (Ctrl+Alt+L)
  • 'Links' and 'Info' panels and the zoom drop-down now work also for e-mail and chat.
  • "8)" and "8D" no longer generate smileys, as these combinations are frequently used for other purposes.
  • Fix for panel reordering being forgotten on restart.
  • Fixed transfers window not being displayed if transfers panel was disabled.
  • Allowed for more user interface text strings to be translated.
  • The "Opera Preferences" file
    • Added setting to make lists with alternating background colors more accessible (disabled by default):
         
   [User Prefs]
   Color List Row Mode=1
    • Added setting for controlling support of the autocomplete="off" attribute in FORMs (disabled by default): 
         [User Prefs]
   AutocompleteOff=0
  • Shift+F4 toggles the panels with the panel selector.
  • "Document Window" added to list of sections in the shortcut editors for keyboard and mouse.

Opera Mail

  • Unseen messages will now have the "Not visited" link color specified in Preferences > Page style > My link style.
  • Improved threading of messages.
  • 'Organization' e-mail header is now indexed for searching.
  • Removed mailing lists from "Active contacts" access points.
  • Fixed problem with forwarding .txt attachments
  • Fixed problem entering Korean characters in search fields
  • Improved handling of malformed MBOX files
  • Improved handling of invalid Content-Types in plain text messages
  • RSS newsfeeds
    • Fixed multiple update issues with RSS newsfeeds.
    • RSS 2.x: Added support for using guid elements to determine a feed item's uniqueness. Also, if guid is a permalink, that link element will be preferred for display.
    • Newsfeed creator's e-mail address is no longer appended to the feed name.
    • Fixed parsing problem with new feed items without description.

Chat client

  • Stability fixes.
  • Fixed file transfer by DCC.
  • Increased number of predefined servers when creating a new chat account.
  • Added support for comma separated IRC servers in the "server" input field in account properties.

Display, scripting and standards support

  • Stability fixes
  • Added support for DOM_Runtime and DOMEnvironment.
  • Fixed a problem with string.prototype.replace
  • Fixed multiple scripting issues.
  • Fixed an encoding problem when submitting FORM data
  • Fixed problems with vertical-align: top, font-style: inherit, and font-style: italic.

Customization

  • Toolbar version has been updated; old toolbar customizations will no longer work.
  • "Large images" setting no longer displayed in Customize toolbars > Properties if a skin has no support for large images. Add the following to skin.ini to disable large image support: 
    [Options]
Large images=0
  • Made it possible to also make large fields.
  • Improved support for "opera:button"; clicking a custom button will open the "Customize toolbars" dialog and add the button to the "My buttons" section.

Mac-specific changes

  • Apple Mail import is now supported.
  • Added X button for closing page at the right side of the pagebar.
  • Help key now works like Cmd+?.
  • Middle-click support fully enabled.
  • Main window now closes when last page is closed when using MDI.
  • Fix for Keychain import to Wand
  • Multiple entries in Keychain on a page should now show the Wand "Select user" log-in dialog.
  • "Determine action by MIME type" is no longer enabled by default.

From opera.com/docs/changelogs, archived on June 17, 2013. See the original page.

Opera 7.50 for Mac

Newer: 7.51
Older: 7.50 beta 1

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