Software update: Opera 7.11 final
Opera has an upgrade got to final version 7.11. As usual, this new release is available for download in two variants: of and without Java. The changelog indicates the following changes:
User interface features
- Added “Redo” to edit menus; “Load image” and “Open image” added to image context menu
- Closing with active downloads triggers a confirmation dialog
- Session file always saved after opening and closing windows
- Skinable progress also in transfers panel
- Made center/end ellipsis configurable ([User Prefs] Ellipsis In Center=0|1, 0 is default)
- Toolbars:
- Personal bar appears beside banner if there is enough room
- New “Identify as” widget (drag from “Customize toolbars” dialog)
- Drag and drop on locked toolbars not allowed
- SDI (open pages in new windows) mode:
- Bookmarks do not open in new window when “Reuse pages” is checked
- Automatic offset or windows in SDI mode
- Fix for issues with Ask cookie dialog
- Bookmarking improvements
- Use link text instead of document title for “add link to bookmarks”
- Include #fragment in URL when bookmarking a link
- Fixed a Netscape bookmarks import issue
- Fixed potential problem when adding bookmarks with very large description
Preferences
- Improved automatic selection of international fonts
- New “Show Web Search” and “Delete to end of line” actions
- Improvements to Cookie/Wand manager dialog
- Fixed issue with keyboard selection when saving mouse and keyboard settings
- Made changing action from filetype box via download dialog stick
usability and accessibility
- Added Alt+Home shortcut for Homepage
- Press Ctrl+L to show link pop-up menu (after selecting a link with the keyboard)
- The GoTo dialog and search boxes support Shift and Ctrl+Shift when pressing Enter and when clicking the “Ok” button
- A middle-mouse-button click opens a document in a new page when clicking on an entry in the Links, History, and Bookmark panels, or on the Personal bar
- Ctrl+Shift+middle-mouse-button click on pagebar will open new page in background
M2, Opera’s new email and news client
- Improved readability of email filters
- Fixed issue with spam filter when you are in your own contacts list
- Remove temporary account when import is finished
- SMTP: CRAM-MD5 support; always use HELO as EHLO fallback
- Allow quote character in incoming email addresses
- Bcc is never sent in SMTP and NNTP
Privacy and security
- Mask password in URLs in various places
- Support for “Clear bookmark visited time”
- Fixed possible buffer overruns for (illegal) long filenames, as reported by secunia
- Fixed JavaScript issue reported by Nesumin and commented on by secunia
More features
- Added support for the ALINK attribute
- Various improvements to DOM support
- Increased wait-for-styles timeout from 0.5 to 2.0 seconds (FOUC)
- Replace non-breaking spaces with a regular space in text copied to clipboard as some editors cannot properly handle the non-breaking space character
- Keystrokes are ignored when plugins have focus
- This makes typing into Flash fields behave normally
- Impossible to use Opera keyboard shortcuts as long as Flash has focus
miscellaneous
- Stability fixes
- Plugin fixes
- All strings translatable for localized versions
- Fixed spelling errors
Version number | 7.11 final |
Operating systems | Windows 9x, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP |
Website | Opera |
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file size |
3.19MB |
License type | Spy/Adware |