Psylocke schreef als eerste dat er weer een update uit is van Opera 5. Deze browser verraste veel mensen prettig toen hij voor het eerst uitkwam en met deze update naar versie 5.02 zijn er weer heel wat dingen verbeterd, waarvan hieronder een lijstje. De niet-java versie van 2MB is hier te downloaden, onderstaande link wijst naar de grotere complete versie:
Memory Optmization- Memory Usage: enhanced memory/resource handling for transfer window
- Memory Usage: optimized memory/resource handling in IM client
General Additions
- Mail: timezone support
- Mail: optimized filter configuration
- Mail: updates to saving of mail windows
- Mail: added variable mail root directory
- Mail: column header click action
- Mail: delete from server optimized
- Mail: signature inserted in compose window
- Mail: do not insert signature when Sending Again
- Mail: other minor modifications and enhancements
Keyboard Shortcuts
- Addition: javascript security model
- Addition: updates to opera.jar
- Addition: winbar attention color entry to prefs
- Addition: support for navigator.cookieEnabled in MSIE mode
- Addition: sound dialog optimizations
- Addition: display of the name of the plugin associated with type
- Addition: resolve to system settings when Trust Server to return correct type is not active
- Addition: file extensions for word, postscript, wp51, video, sgml
- Addition: mime types for microsoft excel and powerpoint
- Addition: mime types for Real-types
- Addition: miscellaneous minor additions
Instant Messaging
- Keyboard shortcut: "backspace" to "previous window in history"
- Keyboard shortcut: ctrl+backspace or backspace to browse parent directory. E.g http://www.opera.com/download/windows/ becomes http://www.opera.com/download/
- Keyboard shortcut: ctrl-f keyboard shortcut in help window brings up the find dialog
- IM: optmiziation of message search contact addition (manual)
- IM: window handling enhancements
- IM: other Minor additions and optmizations
Forms
- Print Preview: help context
- Print Preview: sizing of window in print preview mode
- Print preview: enhanced form element handling
- Print Preview: general minor optmizations and fixes
- Print: modified header and footer printing
File Transfer
- Forms: radio and check box checking selection via keyboard optimized
- Forms: additions for form mailto submissions
Miscellaneous
- File Upload: a wider button in the file upload object
- Transfer Window: optimal columns
- Transfer Window: only shows hours if needed
- Transfer Window: shows time left in caption, and thus also in windowbar
- Transfer Window: horizontal scrollbar
- Transfer Window: size (display)
- Transfer Window: support for high speed download
- Help: links in the help window
- News: enhanced printing for news
- Hotlist toolbars optimized
- Tooltip optimized
- Optmized viewer support
- Optimized table cell spacing
- Many general optmizations, fixes and additions too small to mention