Download Opera 6 beta 1 (Linux)

By admin On Feb 26, 2002

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Niek informs us that there is a new beta of the well-known browser Opera. This time it is a beta version for Linux. A lot of bugs have been fixed and the sites that didn’t work with the old opera are now working again. Below is the changelog.

changelog

Preliminary SDI support (start with “opera -sdi”)

Clipping of Cyrillic and other language strings in bookmark titles fixed.

The small “active folder” mainbar icon is now read from disk

Possible endless loop (hang) in Language preference dialog page fixed.

TAB order improved in the Personal toolbar.

Non latin1 window captions should now work (provided that a usable font is used)

Added a workaround for document popup menus that closed themselves at once they were shown.

Every external application launched by Opera can now be opened in a terminal using a checkbox.

Loading of images will no longer lock the progress bar is images are

already downloaded.

Improved opera show support (keyboard navigation)

Bookmark and contact files are now saved using a temporary file to avoid data loss on full disks.

Every dialog can now be opened under the mouse (option set in pref. dialog) – Alpha blending support for UI toolbar buttons

Sound support without use of NAS

Better support for non-latin1 character sets. Still some problems left.

Improved font switching (bug fixes & optimization)

Some systems come with some not-so-good-looking fonts. We now try to avoid them being used as default fonts

Got rid of annoying TAB focus problem for file upload elements

Animated GIF file fixes.

Made JavaScript key events trigger also when backspace or delete is

pressed (form elements)

Some zooming related fixes for form elements

Various stability improvements – The plug-in paths are now displayed correctly (prefs->multimedia->plug-ins)

The choice box under “show with plug-ins” should work now (as long as the names are different).

games.yahoo.com should work.

“First applet won’t run” bug fixed.

Premature deletion of files belonging to plugins fixed

Problem with some mime types getting reset to default behavior fixed.

opera:plugins gives more correct information

Stability fixes for plugin layer. – gb2312/gbk encoded fonts should work

jisx0208 encoded fonts should work

ksc5601/ksx1001 encoded fonts should work

Related encodings may work.

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Version number	6.0 beta 1
Operating systems	Linux, BSD, Linux x86, Solaris, UNIX
Website	Opera
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