Changes:
User Interface
- Speed Dial thumbnails no longer disappear when deleting private data
- Page encoding in site preferences can now be reset to automatic
- Changed the default global history to 1000
- Added a new default speedial.ini
- Improvements to Opera Link include the synchronization of search engines and typed history
- Fixed sorting by progress in Transfers
- Fixed copying of multiple entries from the history manager
- Fixed a bug that could cause notes to be lost when using certain characters
- Fixed dataloss situation when note folders had more than one line in their name
- Fixed spurious highlighting when using the space character in inline find
- Fixed an issue that would prevent links in frames from being opened by the keyboard
- Fixed error pages when entering an unknown protocol
- Fixed an issue where custom search engines would not get a favicon
Mail, News, Chat
- Added popular Chinese providers in mailproviders.xml
- Now copes better with broken POP servers that send empty UIDLs
- The “Large font” setting is now respected for subjects
- Cache files from feeds no longer show up in Transfers
- Feed preview pages now load properly when reopened from trash
- Text strings on the feed preview page can now be localized
- Added a fallback feed title for feeds without titles and added a handheld style sheet to the feeds preview
- Feeds are now detected even when served as text/html
- Fixed the synchronization of removed labels for IMAP accounts
- Fixed an issue where the signatures wouldn’t change if the default account signature ended with a space
- Fixed an issue where sent message bodies could disappear under certain circumstances
- Fixed a problem where messages would be reported as incomplete when the server reports the wrong message size
- Fixed importing of files with LF line endings only
- Fixed an issue where followed contacts would not be properly unfollowed
- Fixed an issue where only the first followed contact would be shown in the Followed Contacts access point
- Fixed an issue where the Followed Thread icon would be lost after restart
- Fixed Quick Find in feeds
- Fixed an issue where feed titles were truncated before “:” characters
- Fixed an issue where feed status could get stuck on fetching
- Fixed an issue where only a few feed itmes would be fetched
- Fixed DCC transfers in IRC
Display and Scripting
- Special characters are now displayed properly in the Address bar drop-down
- Opera Dragonfly element highlighting no longer stays on the page after closing the developer tools window
- Script focused elements are no longer highlighted
- Fixed saving of SVG when right clicking
Security
- Verisign and Comodo are now formally EV-enabled: see Yngve’s blog post
- Fixed an issue where specially crafted addresses could execute arbitrary code, as reported by Chris of Matasano Security; see our advisory
- Java applets can no longer be used to read sensitive information, as reported by Nate McFeters; see our advisory
Miscellaneous
- Browsing Intranet sites now works after changing proxies in a running session
- Improved performance with large wand.dat files
- Fixed Fast Forward on Google search results pages
Windows-specific changes
- Fixed a bug where network paths that start with \ would not work, which in particular caused issues with sent mail when storing profiles on network drives
- Fixed installation problems on Windows NT 4.0
Josh