INSTALLATION_DIRS, as well as all occurrences of ${PREFIX}/man with
${PREFIX}/${PKGMANDIR}.
Fixes PR 35265, although I did not use the patch provided therein.
Changes:
This release of Opera introduces Fraud Protection.
Changes Since Opera 9.02
User interface
* Fixed handling of access keys on Web pages with frames.
* Mail, messaging, and newsfeeds
* Fixed an instability connected with delayed entry of the Master password.
* Deleting of newsfeeds in the panel now both unsubscribes and deletes.
Display and scripting
* Improved performance for elements with both :focus and :hover.
* Fixed an issue with opacity on links that have images nested within them.
Security
* New Fraud Protection feature (a phishing filter).
* Changed Wand data to a new format. The upgrade to this new format
is not reversible.
Miscellaneous
* Multiple stability issues solved, including crashes on Gmail and Google Maps.
* Changed the Mozilla User Agent string to include Firefox identification.
* Improved handling of Web site logins on slow connections.
* Cancellation of torrent downloads now functions as expected.
UNIX-specific changes
* Fixed smooth scrolling.
* Flash 9 beta support for Linux.
* Implemented support for Linux plug-ins on FreeBSD.
* When masking as Internet Explorer, the platform is masked as Windows XP.
* Fixed an issue where floating point numbers were treated as integers
on some Linux systems.
- fix badly out of date PLIST for solaris
- add missing response of 'n' to the install.sh script to avoid installing
some xpm's in /usr/share/....
Opera seems to build, install, package, and run ok on solaris 9/sparc now.
This release is a recommended security upgrade.
Changes since 8.51:
Display
* Fixed drop-down list problem affecting Bloglines subscription sorting.
Security
* Replaced expired certificates from TrustCenter.
* Solved status bar issue described in Secunia Advisory 17571.
* Implemented stricter handling of the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP).
Miscellaneous
* Fixed problem with missing keypresses when switching between applications.
* Fixed GDI leak issue with favicons causing slowdowns and crashes.
* Fixed Gmail loading problem.
Changes since 8.01:
Security
* Solved download dialog spoofing issue described in Secunia Advisory SA15870
* Fixed image dragging issue described in Secunia Advisory SA15756
Miscellaneous
* Improved default handling of encodings in spelling checker.
* Multiple stability fixes.
* When an installed plug-in is available, use as default handler rather
than display download dialog.
* Improved support for XMLHttpRequest.
* Fixed download handling when closing originating page.
based on version 8.0. Major changes since version 7.54u2:
- New and improved security features
- "Fit to window width" abolishes horizontal scrolling
- Improved default menu and toolbar setups
- Support for XmlHttpRequest giving full Gmail support
- New Start bar gives easy access to useful features
- Notification of blocked pop-ups
- Simple retrieval of closed pages and blocked pop-ups.
- Elegant e-mail attachment handling
- Improved newsfeed reader
- Automated weekly check for new updates
- New User JavaScript feature
- Font fix. The standard monospace font is now detected on startup even
if not set in the opera.ini file
- Fixed a font problem that could cause the same font to be displayd
several times in the font selector
- Improved button bar layout (less wasted space) when the ad banner
is visible
- Several fixes regarding keyboard focus handling when loading a page.
- Focus could get lost or moved to another window what a framed page
was reloaded. This could also happen when entering print preview
- Transfer window will now always be activated the first time
(even when "activate window on new transfer" is not selected)
- The transfer window will be raised when activated even when
iconified outside the Opera workspace
- The autocompletion dropdown list is now wider than the address
entry field of the document window when necessary
- Fixed a cookie filter problem that could reverse the filter action
- Decorations of the workspace windows can now be chosen from
the opera.ini file. There are three options: Qt-2 style, ms-win
style and the old Opera style. The Qt-2 style is default
- The menu bar can be made visible (if hidden) from the doument
and workspace popup menus
Changes since 5.0b7
- Minor improvements for zooming (underlined links etc.)
- Improved stability a lot (especially "random" crashes)
- Minor CSS cascading rule fix
- Fix for inaccessible links (and other elements) on certain websites
- Horizontal scrolling is now working in fullscreen mode
- Nested folders now works again on the bookmark popup menu
- Dropdown auto completion has been improved. It will now
expand upwards if the toolbars is placed at the bottom. A
number of other fixes as well.
- Keyboard activated Copy/Cut/Paste should now be compatible with
Gtk based applications.
- A HotList Copy/Cut/Paste problem that could occur after Up/Down
arrows had been used is solved.
- Triple click support in edit fields
- Improved "Do not show me again" functionality is various dialog boxes
- The "Cookie Server Filter" dialog box is now operational
- Initial sound support. This includes action sounds, but not
document background sound. The sound support depends on NAS
is running in the system.
- The window save file is now better protected against data
corruption. A corrupted window file could cause missing scrollbars
and other problems with saved windows
- Popup windows can now be opened in the background so that they
will not interfere the current maximzed window.
- Improved session management support. Opera will now save the
state if the window manager tells it to do so (this is what
happens if Opera is running while the window mananger shuts down)
- Window toolbars buttons will now use pixmaps and colors to
tell the document state better than before.
- Context sensitive help for all dialogs
- "Sans-Serif" element of the "CSS Generic Font Family"
is now read properly from opera.ini
- The transfer window has been upgraded. It can now be made a
tear-off window that lives outside the opera workspace.
- Support for configurable toolbar buttons and special button support.
This is still only available editing the button.ini file.
- A page can now be saved as text as well as in HTML
- The SpaceBar behavior is extended. If a link is active by keyboard
navigation, then the link will be activated when SpaceBar is pressed,
otherwise is does a PageDown action.
- The find toolbar is now functional.
- Ad banner support
- CTRL+Backspace will replace the text in the url entry
field with the current selected text
- A link will always be opened in a new window when
activated by the Middle Mouse Button
- Toolbar positions and layout are now saved through
sessions
- The selected Qt widget style is now saved through
sessions
- Resize animation can now be disabled and saved through
sessions
- The size of New normalized windows is larger
- Activating fullscreen will now automatically hide
toolbars and other elements
- The Home button of the button toolbar has got DnD
capabilites
- Added support for "Linked Window"
- A Copy operation in the HotList will now save the urls
to the system clipboard buffer as well
- First letter navigation in the HotList can be enabled
or disabled
- The Hotlist will now be saved to disk once contents is
modified
- Remote operation from the commandline. You can open a
page in an already running instance of Opera (use the
"-help" option on the commandline for more information)
- Toolbar pixmaps are now changed on the fly (no need to
restart Opera) when changed from the preference dialog
box
- The progress toolbar is more configurable. Each element
except for the url input field can be hidden. The state
is saved through sessions
- Printing works better
- Print preview mode
- Support for more javascript events in form controls
- Better font handling
- Fixed some problems with inline frames (IFRAME)
- Fixed asynchronous resolver bug (it failed to look up
addresses in /etc/hosts)
- Fixed the transparent background bug
- and much more...
Changes are:
* Search facility of the URL toolbar
* Improved the password dialog
* File type association works better
* Improved windows settings file
* UI improvements
* Printing support - still a bit unstable (no print preview yet, but
you can print to file)
* Transfer window works better
* 3D borders on tables fixed
* JavaScript confirm dialog fixed
PNG is now supported, asynchronous DNS is claimed to be more stable,
couple of SSL crashes were fixed; otherwise the changes are primarily
UI fixes.
However, Asynchronous DNS seems to ignore stuff in /etc/hosts now.
