Download Opera 7.60 preview 2

Opera Software ASA has released the second preview of the upcoming Internet browser Opera version 7.60. It is available for the Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris platforms and for a number of different architectures. Also included with this preview is a long list of changes. Check it out for the Windows platform here and for the FreeBSD, Linux and Solaris platform here† The general changelog looks like this:

User interface:

• Simplified first start-up dialog.
• Menus have undergone a significant simplification. Note in particular:
  • The “Window” menu has been removed. Most of the options have been moved to the tab context (right-click) menu.
  • The Navigation menu is now a sub-menu of View and has been shortened. Enable the navigation bar or use toolbar shortcuts for easy site navigation using embedded links.
  • The Mail and Chat menus have been combined to form the Messages menu. IMAP folders, newsgroups and newsfeeds are found in Messages > Subscribe.
  • “Save with images as” is now an option within the Save dialog; select “HTML with images” as file type.
  • The Links page is now in the Tools menu.
  • Toolbar and panel customization is now done from within the “Customize” dialog.
  • “Create linked” has been moved to the tab context menu.
• Major changes have also been done to toolbars and button setup:
  • New pages have a start bar that replaces the personal bar as part of the default setup.
  • Added dropdown button for easy access to closed pages on the page bar. The button doubles as blocked pop-up notifier.
  • Added close icon for every tab on the page bar.
  • The eye icon on the right end of the address bar toggles a view toolbar with “Find in page”, voice icon, and view options.
  • The security icon (padlock) and RSS icon are now displayed within the address field when on a secure page or a page correctly linked to a valid RSS newsfeed.
  • Menu bar buttons for minimizing/maximizing, restoring and closing pages (MDI buttons) have been removed.
• “Block unwanted pop-ups” is now enabled by default.
• Option to simply press Enter in a http-auth dialogue to use the first stored Wand login has been restored.
• Possibility to use security password without reentering every time has been restored.
• Fixed issue with text selection for justified text.
• “Continue from last time” remembers fit-to-width setting.
• Several minor focus issues solved.
• Space + Shift when a forms button is focused should submit in the background.
• Added Alt + Backspace as shortcut for “undo”.

Mail and Messaging:

• Chat status is now set globally in Messages > Chat status.
• Added /invite as typed chat command.
• Fixed scrolling issue in chat pages.
• Improved “Add news feed?” dialog.
• Re-enabled smileys in email/news/newsfeeds.
• Several improvements to quick reply: expand automatically when typing multiple lines, handle one draft per message, and reset focus to message list after replying.
• Improved handling of file name characters when saving email attachments.
• Improved news URL handling.
• Fixed problem with email import from Outlook Express where mailboxes were assumed empty.

Display:

• Render black background again in small-screen mode to make the document width more visible.
• Borders in SSR set to “not specified” rather than zero.
• Fix for zoom not being preserved on pages containing frames.
• Changed calculated line height to be based on actual font size rather than specified font size.
• Allow mixing of background-position and keyword, in accordance with CSS2.1.
• Fix for issue with elements with negative text-indent inside floating block. “border: 0;” on input will produce a text field with no border. Improved handling of forms padding.
• Borders for radio buttons and checkboxes can not be turned off with CSS.
• Fixed problem with disabling form styling causing borders around all form elements to disappear for all open pages with forms.
• Speedier recognition or :hover.
• Improved handling of paged media.
• Solved issue with display of wrong favicon when multiple icons are located on the same server.
• Recognize “application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml” documents as handheld.

scripting:

• Multiple fixes to XMLHttpRequest support.
• Solved issue with attributes with certain names and values ​​being inaccessible when using DOM for XML documents.
• Referrers will be remembered when a script is reread from the cache.
• Added setting in opera6.ini for allowing scripts to hide the address bar in pop-ups (Preferences > Multimedia > JavaScript options. Default is “allow”.
• Let link actions and the link pop-up menu work if a link has been selected as text.

Security:

• Fix for tabbed/MDI browsing vulnerability reported in Secunia Advisory SA12713. For more information, see Opera’s security advisory: Phishing attack possible with a delayed JavaScript prompt†
• TLS 1.1 setting removed — for now.
• Sonera CA certificates added.

miscellaneous:

• Multiple improvements to printing.
• Multiple stability fixes.
• Fixed problem with frozen file uploads.
• Several improvement to spell checking feature.
• Multiple fixes for display or bi-directional text.
• Improved performance of page navigation during page loading.
• If Java is enabled, but not found, the user will be prompted and offered a download. If confirmed, go to JRE download page.
• Improved search in page.
• Improved plugin handling.
• Convert newlines to spaces and convert non-printing characters into bookmark names.
• Fix to ensure consistency in generated bookmark names.

[break]Opera 7.60 preview 2 is available in the following flavors:
Windows x86
FreeBSD x86 (static † shared†
Linux x86 (static † shared†
Linux PPC (static † shared†
Linux Sparc (static † shared†
Solaris Sparc (static † shared†