2) Upgrade to Opera 9.50 Alpha 1 ("Kestrel"). Some enhancements include:
* Faster and less-memory intensive ECMAscript engine
* A greatly improved layout algorithm
* The font-rendering speed is improved significantly, along with the
tiling of bitmaps
* More responsive user interface
XXX Not tested under FreeBSD, please test and update PLIST.freebsd-i386.
XXX There are no binaries for Solaris/sparc, but there are for Solaris/i386.
www/opera).
Changes since Opera 9.0 Preview 2:
User Interface
* Fixed Proxy On/Off toggle in Quick Preferences.
* Script dialogs now have the option to stop the current script running, in
order to prevent further dialogs from appearing.
* Added support for saving and opening Web archives.
* opera:config now uses file choosers for file paths.
* Quick find in opera:config now searches section names as well as
preference names.
* Sections can now be expanded in opera:config even while searching.
* The [Adv User Prefs] section of opera6.ini and opera:config has been
renamed to [Network].
* Changed feed notification icon.
* Removing buttons on one toolbar now removes from all open tabs not just
active one.
* Added ability to save to disk from source viewer.
* Default mode for "Cycle without showing list" is now visible tab order.
* "Cycle without showing list" now includes also minimized pages.
Changes to preferences dialog
* Site and Web page content preferences moved into Preferences > Advanced >
Content.
* Tabbed browsing preferences have been moved to Preferences > Advanced >
Tabs.
* Reorganized Network and Browsing preferences.
* Re-added Preferences > Advanced > Cookies, for managing cookie
preferences.
* Re-added gender setting to voice preferences.
Widgets
* A dragable widget tab is shown at the top of the screen, providing quick
access to widgets. This can be removed using the settings button when
viewing widgets, or using Preferences > General > Show widgets tab.
* Widgets are now displayed on a faded background - click on the background
to exit widget viewing mode.
* Pinned widgets will now appear in the operating system's window lists,
and can be activated with Alt+Tab as with normal application windows.
* Pinned widgets can be kept on top using the right-click menu.
* Links from widgets now respect the "Open windows instead of tabs" setting.
* Dragging a scrollbar in a widget no longer drags the widget.
* Added widget error reporting to the error console.
Content blocker
* In content blocking mode, clicking an image or plug-in shows all other
content that matches the filter.
* Content blocker shows previously blocked content when entering content
blocking mode.
* Content blocker filters are no longer case sensitive.
* Shift+click on images and plug-ins while in content blocking mode blocks
the exact path instead of using a wild card.
* Leaving content blocking mode removes all content that matches the new
filters, including pages in inline frames.
* Improved blocking of plug-in content when an object tag is used without
an embed tag.
* Improved display of content blocker toolbar.
Messaging and Newsfeeds
* Fixed timestamp bug in Mail.
* New welcome mail to replace dialog when first creating a mail account.
* Up/down arrows no longer select next/previous messages in e-mail and news
views when the message view has focus.
* Corrected encoding when redirecting e-mails.
* DCC file transfers now displayed as a link in a private chat window.
* DCC file transfer now respects the nosave and nodownload switches in
kiosk mode.
Torrent
* Added disk caching for BitTorrent to improve speed.
* Fixed so upload in BitTorrent doesn't send corrupt data.
Display
* Improved handing of image changes through CSS :hover effects.
* Fixed float and inline box stacking order, as required by the Acid 2
test. This completes Opera's support for Acid 2.
* Removed support for SGML comments in HTML. Comment parsing is now based
on the Web Applications 1.0 draft.
* Several fixes for the position style.
* Fixed :required :optional :read-only :read-write and :default
pseudo-class selectors.
Script
* Added support for PUT method in XMLHttpRequest.
* Fixed support for LSSerializer.writeToURI.
* Improved support for HTML output in XSLT.
* Allowed mouse events to pass through clipped or overflowed (or otherwise
transparent) regions of an element.
* Added class constructors for CanvasGradient, CanvasPattern, and
CanvasRenderingContext2D.
* Added support for HTMLTableElement.cells collection.
* <xml> elements are no longer removed from the HTML DOM.
* Improved handling of offsetTop, offsetLeft, and offsetParent.
* Added support for Selection.removeAllRanges and Selection.addRange.
* Added support for Audio, as described in the Web Applications 1.0 draft.
* Several designMode improvements, including handling of
queryCommandEnabled and queryCommandState, and converting multiple
paragraphs into list items.
* Added support for onmousewheel events.
* Fix for canvas gradients and blur.
* Script events now report correct keyCode for insert, delete, home, end,
pause/break, scroll lock and num lock keys.
* Added support for element.cssText.
* Allowed self closing SCRIPT tags in HTML documents.
* Removed support for "javascript:" URLs in CSS.
Forms
* Implemented stepUp and stepDown for Web Forms 2.0 date and time inputs.
* Improved handling of the a are detected. It can be overridden with the
command line option "-overlay yes" to enable it in different
environments, or "-overlay no" to force disable it.
* Netscape Plug-in API 0.16 enabled on Linux/Unix.
* New dapper_i386.deb package for Ubuntu Dapper Drake users.
* Improved window manager session management.
* Modified pluginwrapper so that plug-ins see a Composite widget. This
improves support for some versions of the Real plug-in.
* Fixed problems with resizing content in detached windows.
* Cleanup and fixed problems with parsing of remote commands, allowing
filenames containing spaces.
* Quicktime movies may crash the mplayer-plugin.
be distinct from 9.0-Final.
New features in Opera 9.0-Preview-2:
* Opera Widgets
* BitTorrent support
* customizable search box
* improved content blocker
* improved pop-up blocker
* site specific preferences
* thumbnail preview
For a detailed list of changes, see http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/u90p2.html
