Software update: Opera 6.0 TP3

Thanks to DusHmaniac, we know that a new version of Opera has been released. This version is suitable for Linux and has been given version number 6.0 TP3. A lot has changed since TP2, so here’s the complete changelog.

changelog

User interface

* Opera show display mode should work properly

* “opera:plugins” now lists the installed plugins

* Plugin path components can be set in separate dialog box.

* Added and to form autocompletion

* Server filter list can now be sorted.

* Framed pages can be opened in 1) new window and 2) background

* Page reload timer was not correct (too slow)

* Support for telnet addresses with a port specification.

* A number of major and minor UI bug fixes.

Document and display

* Break lines at the correct positions for TEXTAREA elements that have the WRAP attribute set to HARD. It used to be quite a bit off.

* If the font settings for generic fonts (Serif, Sans-serif, etc.) in the preferences (opera5.ini) contained font families that didn’t exist on the system, it would crash. This could happen if the QT_XFT environment variable (for anti-aliased fonts) was changed. It should be fixed now.

* Ability to find the right font even if the family requested is provided by different foundries.

* Support for CSS property letter spacing.

* Various display bug fixes

* Site license support. The site-license file must be put in /usr/share/opera/ in order to work.

* Improved print preview – looks better, more stable

* Fixed linebreaking issues when submitting TEXTAREA elements (didn’t work properly when WRAP attribute was “HARD”)

* Fixed some socket leakage. Still some problems left, though.

* Fixed display problems on pages with fixed elements or fixed background.

* “Save as text” should be more stable now

* http downloads of tar.gz (zipped) files should work again

Plugins

* Minor stability improvements

* Improved “Find Plugins” (it may even work…)

* Better handling of plugin name/description (Java is still wrong, though)

* Better handling of some Java parameters