Opera 10.00 Build 1589 Beta

Discover the new standard in Web browsing! Opera lets you surf the Internet in a safer, faster, and easier way. One of the most full-featured Internet power tools on the market, it includes pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, and advanced functions like Opera’s groundbreaking E-mail program, RSS Newsfeeds and IRC chat. You can customize the look and content of your browser with a few clicks of the mouse.
Opera started out as a research project in Norway’s largest telecom company, Telenor, in 1994, and branched out into an independent development company named Opera Software ASA in 1995.

Opera Software develops the Opera Web browser, a high-quality, multi-platform product for a wide range of platforms, operating systems and embedded Internet products.

Opera is known as the fastest and smallest full-featured browser, a first choice for people using older PCs and Windows 95 and a brilliant alternative to the default IE from Microsoft. Opera, first of all, is client World Wide Web, that is the program for extraction of the information from WWW as the documents created with help HyperText Markup Language (language of a marking of hypertext HTML).
Low requirements to resources of system. Opera will work even on 386 computer about 6 MB of operative memory. MDI the interface. You can open without special expenses of memory any quantity of windows inside one working window, having chosen thus a tabulared or cascade mode.

Explore our newest features
• Quick Find. Have you ever forgotten the page where you found that great article or that perfect gift? When using Opera the browser remembers not only the titles and addresses, but the actual content of the Web pages you visit.
• Opera Link. Access your favorite Web sites everywhere! Opera Link syncs your bookmarks and Speed Dial between your computers and mobile phone.
• New browser engine. We’ve made the fastest browser in the world even faster with superior support for Web standards. Opera 9.5 is quicker to start, faster at loading Web pages and better at running your favorite Web applications.
* More than 2x faster than Opera 9.2 in rendering JavaScript and HTML
* Faster handling of third party plug-ins
* Much faster start up time
* Superior support for Web standards

Simplify your life online
• Speed Dial. Typing addresses for sites you visit frequently is ineffective. Get your favorite Web page with just one click. Speed Dial is a set of visual bookmarks you see when you open a new tab, like a dashboard for your online life. To add a new page, simply click on an empty Speed Dial and Opera will make suggestions based on browsing history and bookmarks.
• Mouse Gestures. With Opera you can navigate the Web with your mouse. A mouse gesture is performed while clicking and holding the right mouse button and moving the mouse in an easy pattern. Perform movements with the mouse to access well-known features like «Back», «Forward» and «Open new tab». Like Opera’s keyboard shortcuts, mouse gestures are fully customizable, so you can tailor them any way you want.
• Download Manager with BitTorrent. Download files quicker with Opera. Opera starts downloading as soon as you’ve saved the file, so there’s no wasted time. Pause and resume downloads with the push of a button, and choose multiple files to download simultaneously without any fuss. Opera also features built-in support for the social file distribution protocol, BitTorrent, which makes it easy to download Torrent files without the need for a separate application.

Master your information
• Tabs and Sessions. Opera is very light on your computer, so it’s possible to have many tabs open at once. Drag and drop tabs around to change their order, or get a preview pausing over them with your mouse. You can even save a session of tabs for later, making it easy to pick up where you left off.
• Content blocking. Block images, pop-ups, and plug-ins you don’t want . Right-click and choose “Block content” to selectively disable annoying elements. To make Web pages load faster, or to avoid offensive content, temporarily turn off images by pressing the image button. In Opera, smart pop-up blocking is turned on by default.
• Zoom and Fit to width. Is it difficult to read the content on a page? Use Opera’s Zoom button in the lower right corner to resize Web pages. If the page is too wide for your screen, simply hit “Fit to Width” and Opera will resize the Web page so you avoid horizontal scrolling.
• Built-in e-mail and newsfeeds. Opera’s built-in e-mail client features improved responsiveness. It also retrieves and searches your mail and news feeds even faster than before. In Opera, newsfeeds are stored on your computer so you can read them later, even when you’re offline. Easily tag articles so you know which ones you want to read, which ones are important, which ones are funny, etc.

Personalize your browsing experience
• Customize your browser. Opera is easily customizable. Choose among hundreds of skins and setups, add or remove buttons, toolbars, or change the entire layout of the browser. It’s easy to do… or undo.
• Add a Widget to your life. Widgets are small Web applications (multimedia, newsfeeds, games and more) that make your desktop experience more fun and useful. Use the Widgets menu to discover new widgets and access your favorites. Visit widgets.opera.com to learn more.
• Quick and customizable Web search. Get quick access to Google, eBay, Amazon and more with the search field in the upper right corner. Or even quicker, search directly in the address bar using built-in and customizable keywords. For example, type “g Opera” in the address bar to search for “Opera” with Google. You can also create your own Web search from any search field on the Internet, simply by right clicking on a search field and choosing “Create Search”.

Make the Web a better place
• Stay safe with new Fraud Protection and EV. Not all Web pages are what they say they are. In Opera 10, Fraud Protection is enabled by default, automatically detecting and warning you about fraudulent Web sites. Fraud Protection is powered with phishing information from Netcraft and PhishTank, and Malware protection from Haute Secure. Malware is malicious software hidden throughout the Web. In addition Opera 10 support Extended Validation certificates (EV). This provides added assurance and trust for secure Web sites. Read more about Opera Security on: www.opera.com/security/
• Web developers: Meet Opera Dragonfly. Opera 10 includes a preview version of Opera Dragonfly, our upcoming developer tools. Opera Dragonfly makes web development using Opera easier than ever, both on your computer and mobile phone.

What’s new in Opera 10.0:
* Presto 2.2 Engine
* Performance boost
* 100/100 and pixel-perfect on the Acid3 test
* Auto-update
* Inline spelling checker
* Opera Mail improvements, including rich text composition and delete after X days
* Widget Improvements on Linux

Changes in Opera 10.0 Build 1589 Beta:
Highlights
* Unite: The two-way internet is here
* Lots of skin fixes and tweaks
* Easy to hide the menu bar on Windows and Unix and still have it accessible
* Welcome mail now looks prettier with HTML formatting

User Interface
* Added menu option to hide the main menu on Windows and Unix. When hidden, it is replaced by a menu button in the tab bar which is also accessible using the Alt key
* New mailto URL for the fastmail webmail service
* Additional fix to Bug DSK-255650 (Thumbnail generation called when Opera is shutting down): make sure the speed dial is not loading when the speed dials are deleted.
* Fixed potential crash when uninstalling a dictionary
* Fix a bug where the address dropdown might reappear after closing it due to incoming search results: This may also Fix Bug DSK-213883 (Opera crashes)
* Fixed Bug CORE-21253 (Can’t add a word into the dictionary containg special characters.)
* Fixed Bug DSK-180617 (Links opened in external applications closes page if page is opened from a panel or mail)
* Fixed Bug DSK-215702 (Crash on various dialogs with 3rd party mouse plugins installed)
* Fixed Bug DSK-226175 (Converted Japanese are placed outside of text-form)
* Fixed Bug DSK-237534 (Freeze when setting “Open with other application” to Opera for mailto)
* Fixed Bug DSK-244687 (”|” makes it past the webmailprovider %s percent-encoder unencoded)
* Fixed Bug DSK-247823 (Menu item ‘Edit > Check spelling’ must be updated)
* Fixed Bug DSK-252725 (crash with incomplete spellcheck dictionaries)
* Fixed Bug DSK-253258 (Back button on the dictionary installer needs work): Fixed the back and forward buttons so you can go all the way forward and backward and forward again
* Fixed Bug DSK-253386 (Crash when clicking help in startup dialog): show tooltip for ‘no windows’ option. Reinstate cancel button on dialog.
* Fixed Bug DSK-253858 (Sometimes a dictionary can’t be uninstalled)
* Fixed Bug DSK-253989 (Crashes when using Go To Page dialog in crash logger or startup dialog)
* Fixed Bug DSK-254102 (Words added to the dictionary are not really added )
* Fixed Bug DSK-204113 (Opera not default handler for supported filetypes with incorrect MIME type)
* Fixed Bug DSK-254167 (No difference between clickable and non-clickable “text only” buttons)
* Fixed Bug DSK-254387 (Incorrect label size, that displays error message when downloading new spellchecker dictionary): Rearanging the error page in the dictionary page a bit
* Fixed Bug DSK-254446 (Ctrl+tab menu looks wrong)
* Fixed Bug DSK-254733 (Double-click doesn’t reduce tab thumbnails to tabs): Only enter drag mode on single click
* Fixed Bug DSK-255232 (password manager button in prefs too small)
* Fixed Bug DSK-255502 (Use a specific browser.js file when using Opera in Chinese)
* Fixed Bug DSK-255638 (menu shortcut out of order)
* Fixed Bug DSK-241258 (if no contacts present, opera crashes)
* Fixed Bug DSK-250821 (-nomail command switch isnt working)
* Fixed Bug DSK-254901 (Opera deletes stored session files when start-up dialog is shown)
* Fixed Bug DSK-255087 (Reduce time it takes for tooltip to appear)

Skin
* Fixed spacing between search and the address field
Revised mail panel icons
* Reduce padding on Toolbar buttons, panel icon tweaks
* Small changes to Edit Skin, Toolbar Button Skin and Mac skin
* Improvements to the toolbar
* Darker color for browser borders and splitters
* Tweaks to smilies
* Revised Lock Page Icon
* Revisions to push buttons, radio buttons and checkboxes
* Updated Scrollbars
* Improvements to Mac Skin tabs
* Changes to the Lock tab icon for standard and mac skins
* Updated Panel selector buttons for other positions
* Moving tab backgrounds to their own folder to make it easier to keep track of them
* Moving tab thumbnails to the pagebar directory
* Updated Link Busy animation
* Reducing padding on Menubar buttons
* Updated radio buttons and checkboxes to use semi-transparent borders
* Fix paddings and margins on Addressbar Skin and Dropdown Search Resize Skin
* ‘[Addressbar Button Skin]‘ available to be skinned separately now
* Added window native close buttons from the standard skin
* Panel toggle button now has 2 states as it should
* Further work on Bug DSK-254363 (Panel header button stands out due to the large font size): Toolbar buttons have a new argument with 1 for using bold text
* Got rid of all inverted icons as they are not used anymore
* More tabs changes
* News group icons
* Position the extender button properly in relation to the new tab floating toolbar when the tab bar is at the bottom or at the top
* Revised Bookmark icons
* Updated Push Buttons
* Updated Smilies
* Updated button icons
* Updated toolbar.ini and skin based on new images
* Using new transfer item default icon (was opera.png)
* Fix relating to a Link hover problem
* Fixed so the enable/disable tab thumbnails is also available on inactive tabs
* Added click to play hover icon (Turbo)
* Tweaks to windows native skin
* Improvements to hover state on tabs (better contrast) and tabs on the side
* Improvements to Fix for Bug DSK-255817 (Need more contrast on access keys list): Also added a new skin section ‘[Accesskeys Cycler Item Skin]‘ and set the font size to 150% to make the access keys popup more accessibility friendly
* Use the Window color instead of a hard code white tint on the access keys dialog – to allow for using customized color schemes to override it
* Fixed Bug DSK-253115 (right border of contact image field in contacts properties dialog missing)
* Fixed Bug DSK-253734 (widgets icon in panel too big, or entries in widgets panel too close together)
* Fixed Bug DSK-253776 (panel selector buttons look good only when left-aligned)
* Fixed Bug DSK-254150 (Remove white background from Treeview Skin): use window colour for treeview skin background
* Fixed Bug DSK-254175 (New Skin: Personal Bar items have random widths): Trimmed down the margins for the Toolbar Button Skin
* Fixed Bug DSK-254348 (Button Mail view/Show filtered uses folder instead of filter icon)
* Fixed Bug DSK-254363 (Panel header button stands out due to the large font size)
* Fixed Bug DSK-254662 (Image context menu should support “Use image on Speed Dial”)
* Fixed Bug DSK-254734 (Close button barely visible when hovering inactive tabs)
* Fixed Bug DSK-254863 (”cached images” button smaller than show/no images)
* Fixed Bug DSK-254875 (Background appears when pushing Panel and Trash buttons)
* Fixed Bug DSK-254888 (Unequal horizontal margin for the search field size adjuster)
* Fixed Bug DSK-254967 (Appearance dialog, “Show thumbnails” on tab bar is not functional)
* Fixed Bug DSK-255472 (checkboxes clipped at gmail)
* Fixed Bug DSK-253878 (The Opera Mini target bookmarks folder is missing a new icon)
* Fixed Bug DSK-253883 (Mailbar background is missing)
* Fixed Bug DSK-255763 (Avoid mixing up text-shadowed labels and normal ones on toolbars)

Mail/Chat
* Format default welcome mail with HTML
* Improvements to HTML email compose support
* Clicking on a new message notification now will attempt to 1) find a window where the message is visible, 2) open unread if it’s visible there, 3) open the account view if not.
* Fixed the padding for plain text e-mail composing
* Fixed Bug DSK-239729 (List commands don’t display as toggles)
* Fixed Bug DSK-240878 (localized font-family name in the HTML mail gets garbled)
* Fixed Bug DSK-244042 (crash on going back after reading thread)
* Fixed Bug DSK-246290 (Replying to e-mail will break the compose window)
* Fixed Bug DSK-247455 (Opera hangs completely when doing “Synchronization” on POP3 mail check)
* Fixed Bug DSK-248267 (Directionality detection missing when editing an existing email)
* Fixed Bug DSK-248798 (printing mail broken, results in empty page)
* Fixed Bug DSK-250498 (Chat connection status is broken for multiple accounts)
* Fixed Bug DSK-250602 (Info field size in the signature editor is too small)
* Fixed Bug DSK-250756 (Signature doesn’t change when changing account)
* Fixed Bug DSK-253548 (Replying to a thread in Received view set to threaded and sorted by date shouldn’t update the sort position of that thread)
* Fixed Bug DSK-253737 (Opening attachments does not respect the download settings)
* Fixed Bug DSK-253836 (Headers in mail view tab only show e-mail address, not name and address, for senders not in contact list)
* Fixed Bug DSK-253998 (From field in newsfeed items is empty, crashes on copy)
* Fixed Bug DSK-254192 (Adding a large attachment to a message freezes email composing)
* Fixed Bug DSK-254304 (Superscript and subscript icons in M2 have switched places)
* Fixed Bug DSK-254408 (Freeze when upgrading POP account)

Speed Dial
* Speed Dial improvements
* Fixed a bug where selecting ‘Open with Speed Dial’ was not respected
* Added best fit (aka crop/scale/proporitonal strech) mode for speed dial background images and made that the default setting
* Set image as Speed Dial background
* Fixed Bug DSK-253075 (Speed dialog configuration dialog should be alligned to the config button and follow the window)
* Fixed Bug DSK-253271 (Crash on speeddial config)
* Fixed Bug DSK-253833 (Clicking Configure Speed Dial over and over opens unlimited amount of dialogs)
* Fixed Bug DSK-254158 (Configure speed dial button goes backgroundless for once on setting speed dial background image)
* Fixed Bug DSK-254372 (URLs for speeddials above 9 does not resolve)

Opera Turbo
* Provide functionality for switching Turbo mode off for separate image elements
* Notification shown when turbo servers are busy
* Fixed Bug TURBO-159 (A placeholder is needed for plugins that are not loaded yet)
* Fixed Bug TURBO-242 (Add hover effect to Click To Play)
* Fixed Bug TURBO-249 (Provide functionality for switching Turbo mode off for separate image elements)
* Fixed Bug DSK-255261 (Turbo: There needs to be a context menu option to reload images in high quality)

BitTorrent
* Some optimization work
* Fixed high memory use related to the disk cache on huge torrents

Core
* Fixed a crash relating to problems with certain PNGs
Fixed problems with right click menu behavior relating to plugins
* Work to prevent Flash freezes
* Plugin crash fixes
* Fixed Bug CORE-12827 (Need link on error page for cross network communication)
* Fixed Bug CORE-13116 (typeof operator in NodeLists returns object but comparison to object and function both return true)
* Fixed Bug CORE-13465 (multiplying a number and an array fails without valueOf(), facebook applications broken)
* Fixed Bug CORE-14160 (DSE crashes Opera when something is document.writed into a table.)
* Fixed Bug CORE-14977 (Doesn’t fire DOMContentLoaded when a script is added with document.write)
* Fixed Bug CORE-15397 (Pipelining should be a site-specific preference)
* Fixed Bug CORE-15945 (Problem in certain scopes when defining getter for HTMLElement’s document prototype)
* Fixed Bug CORE-17807 (Should not allow linebreaks in input names)
* Fixed Bug CORE-18102 (Wrong context menu for windowless silverlight)
* Fixed Bug CORE-20274 (Should add remote updatable preference to disable MD5/MD2 in certificates)
* Fixed Bug CORE-20475 (Iframe deletion breaks link interaction in other frames (Can’t download attachments in gmail))
* Fixed Bug CORE-20578 (Function defined on appended iframe not available (Map isn’t loaded at www.xici.net))
* Fixed Bug CORE-20755 (Adobe Flash Support Center, images are empty)
* Fixed Bug CORE-20870 (SSL failure if CRL and/or OCSP requests are redirected)
* Fixed Bug CORE-20993 (flash causes page to hang on loading and disrupts left-click on asus.com)
* Fixed Bug CORE-21077 (class cache holding stale string pointers after changing the class attribute to its current value (crash on google video))
* Fixed Bug CORE-21139 (ccc.de resolves to to 0.0.0.0)
* Fixed Bug CORE-21240 (offsetTop handling broken for inline-block child of overflow:scroll parent)
* Fixed Bug CORE-21277 (DOMContentLoaded doesn’t always fire when traversing history)
* Fixed Bug CORE-21394 (Script environment locks up when script interacts with blocked plugin)
* Fixed Bug CORE-21429 (*.com accepted as wildcard match in SSL/TLS name matching)
* Fixed Bug CORE-21625 (Support for getting localized strings from javascript)
* Fixed Bug CORE-21630 (Opera crashes when importing certificates (II))
* Fixed Bug CORE-21644 (javascript files containing html comments are not interpretted)
* Fixed Bug CORE-21690 (Make execCommand(’formatblock’) behave more like IE.)
* Fixed Bug CORE-21731 (Crash related to DSE and document.write and walking in history)
* Fixed Bug CORE-21790 (Potential fix for top-crasher at gmail when editing mails)
* Fixed Bug DSK-241178 (Feed preview doesn’t finish loading)
* Fixed Bug DSK-247269 (video does not load and page becomes unusable)
* Fixed Bug DSK-248618 (Links opened from mail and newsfeeds stop loading when you focus another mail/feed entry)
* Fixed Bug DSK-250837 (Flash content misplaced after scrolling)
* Fixed Bug DSK-252146 (Crash in LayoutProperties::CreateLayoutBox)
* Fixed Bug DSK-253167 (Right-clicking on flash object breaks Opera big time)
* Fixed Bug DSK-255557 (Opera crashes when printing page)

Windows
* Images to be used as desktop background are only saved in the user’s profile pictures folder
* Fixed Bug DSK-222287 (Opera crashes at random)
* Fixed Bug DSK-241262 (Error message when opening HTML files if Opera is not already running): removed spurious registry entries
* Fixed Bug DSK-245202 (Crash on nytimes.com page while closing Opera)
* Fixed Bug DSK-245455 (Two entries in Add/Remove Programs after updating from classic installer using autoupdate)
* Fixed Bug DSK-253393 (Opera should add itself to exception in Windows firewall automatically)
* Fixed Bug DSK-253893 (ShellExecuteEx error dialog when cancelling UAC/User Access Control dialog)
* Fixed Bug DSK-253919 (IME is diabled at Flash based text input field)
* Fixed Bug DSK-254084 (Two entries in Add/Remove Programs after upgrading with MSI installer (as admin on vista, or limited user on XP and Vista)): fixed permision issues when querying the registry
* Fixed Bug DSK-255279 (Successfully installed widget crashes during launch on windows): Only refer to HotlistManager if it exists

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