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New content blocker -- "Block content" option is available from the page context menu
New Opera Widgets feature. Widgets are small Web applications that live outside the Opera window. Use the new Widgets menu or panel to add and manage the widgets of your choice. Learn more about using and creating widgets at widgets.opera.com
Added support for peer-assisted file distribution using BitTorrent
New search engine editor -- "Create search" option is available from the search form field context menu
Updated search.ini -- the file version number is now 8. All files with lower version numbers will be overwritten on upgrade
New keyword a for searching with answers.com
New keyword b for BitTorrent search
Added site preferences feature, available from page context menu, Quick preferences, and collectively from Tools > Preferences > Advanced > Content
Terminology update: user interface and help now refer to "tabs" instead of "pages"
Web page thumbnails are now shown when hovering tabs
Keyboard shortcut changes:
Ctrl+T opens new tab
Ctrl+N opens new window
Ctrl+D saves bookmark for current page
Ctrl+B does "Paste and go"
Added keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Enter to auto-complete address when used in the address field. Relies on server name completion setting, by default adds "www." and ".com"
Added shortcut Esc to deselect text
Available HTML accesskeys are now listed when entering accesskey mode with Shift+Esc
Spatial navigation now requires pressing Enter to change a form field
Special local Web page opera:config allows for tweaking advanced settings while Opera is running. See Opera6.ini explained for settings documentation
'Find in page' feature now highlights all matches when searching for text on the page
Updated preference dialog. Main changes:
New Advanced > Tabs with more tab and Multiple Document Interface options
Improved and simplified cookie preferences
JavaScript console is now Error console and can display messages, warnings, and errors for JavaScript, Java, XML, HTML, CSS, XSLT, SVG, BitTorrent, widgets, network, and mail/chat
Added support for saving and opening Web archives (.mht files)
"Save as HTML file with images" now gathers external files in one folder
Major improvements to pop-up blocker
Grouping by date and site to the History panel and manager
New styles for opera:about, opera:cache, opera:history, opera:plugins, file: view, error pages, and Info panel
Default mode for "Cycle without showing list" is now visible tab order, and minimized tabs are included
User CSS is now enabled by default in Author mode
Bookmarks exported to HTML are now in the Netscape Bookmark File Format, making them compatible with Yahoo bookmarks, Scuttle, MyBookmarks, etc
Added option to re-parse invalid XML documents as HTML when XML parsing has failed
Removed "Hide certain-sized elements" stylesheet
Improved IMAP backend
IMAP messages are removed from local store when removing account
New customizable mail header display
"View all message headers" replaced by "View all headers and message" in message context
Added smiley menu to chat and mail toolbars
Added warning when sending mail without a subject
Up/down arrows no longer select next/previous messages in e-mail and news views when the message view has focus
Fix for format=flowed sending incorrectly formatted content
Fix for sending mail with iso-2022-jp encoding
Added support for Atom 1.0
Added support for importing and exporting feed lists in OPML format, using File > Import and export
Improved handling of photo newsfeeds -- external embeds are now allowed in newsfeeds when selecting "Display > Prefer HTML", and are not disabled when the "Block external elements" preference is set
Added CTCP flood protection
DCC file transfers and chat room invites now displayed as links in a private chat window
Multiple rendering fixes. Opera now passes the Acid2 test
SVG support increased to 1.1 basic
Support for keyboard navigation in SVG
CSS 3: Added support for attribute and UI selectors and for opacity. Added support for -o-text-overflow:ellipsis, synonymous to text-overflow:ellipsis
CSS 2.1: Multiple fixes for selectors and pseudo elements. Updated display:inline handling on tables according to upcoming specification update
Added support for Web Forms 2.0
Removed support for XML namespaces in HTML documents
Added support for xml:id
Allowed positioned elements to appear in front of iframes and objects
Improved CSS error handling
Printed pages will now use background from print stylesheets rather than screen stylesheets
Several fixes for bi-directional text
Several improvements to ERA/fit to width
Fixed handling of backgrounds in fieldsets
@import now supported in user stylesheets
Support for media queries in @import rules
Removed box model quirk (box-sizing:border-box;) in quirks mode
HREF attributes no longer converted to absolute URLs in DOM and CSS
Body element now uses margin instead of padding by default
UL/OL elements now use padding instead of margin by default
DD elements now have a smaller indent
Use default handheld font size for handheld stylesheets
Form default margin-top is now 0, and margin-bottom now 1em
Several changes to the default margin and padding of legends and fieldsets
Extended support for displaying EXIF image data. Select "Image properties" from image context menu
Added support for YCCK and CMYK formats in JPEG images
Added support for XSLT 1.0 and the XSLTProcessor constructor
Added support for XPath 1.0
Added support for DOM level 2 Style Sheets and associated parts of DOM level 2 CSS
Implemented designMode for rich text editing
Added support for the CONTENTEDITABLE attribute and contentEditable property
Implemented support for canvas, as described in the Web Applications 1.0 draft, as well as the opera-2dgame context
Added support for Audio, as described in the Web Applications 1.0 draft
Multiple improvements to XMLHttpRequest support
Added support for onmousewheel events
Added support for document.load and document.adoptNode
Added window.getSelection and associated methods
Improved handling of offsetTop, offsetLeft, and offsetParent
Removed support for "javascript:" URLs in CSS
Pages using certain JavaScript events will reload when visited in history. A knowledge base article is available
TLS 1.1 and TLS Extensions are enabled by default
The security bar is now grayed for sites using an encrypted connection, that have a low security rating
Upgrading will automatically disable 40 and 56 bit SSL/TLS ciphers
Fixed SSL negotiation problem for servers that do not tolerate TLS 1.0 version in the record protocol of the client hello
Added Netscape Plug-in API extensions developed by browser and plug-in vendors
Some plug-in content will now require you to click before you can interact with it
Changed default user agent string to identify as Opera
Moved "Identify as" settings to site preferences and added options to mask user agent string as Mozilla or Internet Explorer
Site patching can now download certain site preferences as well as Browser JavaScript and user agent overrides
The [Adv User Prefs] section of opera6.ini has been renamed to [Network]
New MSI installer
Simplifies network installations
30 languages in one package: The international MSI package contains US English, Japanese, German, Polish, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Latin-American and European Spanish, Canadian and European French, Italian, Norwegian bokmål and nynorsk, Swedish
Note: Norwegian nynorsk, Punjabi, Canadian French, Frisian, Georgian, and Lithuanian are not supported during installation. On first startup, go to Tools > Preferences > General and use the drop-down to switch to one of these languages
Flash is no longer bundled in the Windows installer
When first run, Opera will attempt to import bookmarks from the default browser. Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera are supported
Initial support for NTLM authentication
Added new startup arguments: "Opera /ScreenWidth 800 /ScreenHeight 600" will change the screen resolution to 800 by 600 until Opera quits, then it is reset to the previous values
Font selection now works correctly when more than 1024 fonts are installed