Op My Opera Forums in inmiddels alweer de derde preview beschikbaar gekomen van versie 7.60 van de gelijknamige browser. Deze release is alleen voor Windows uitgekomen, terwijl er bij de tweede preview nog voor versies voor Windows, Linux, BSD én Solaris waren. Het changelog laat in ieder geval zien dat er weer flink aan de software gesleuteld is:
User interfaceDisplay
- Removed Internet suite/Browser only selection from start-up procedure and made messaging client integration dynamic:
- E-mail, newsfeeds, and chat may now be activated independently of each other.
- Individual menus and panels for Mail and Chat will be displayed as accounts are added under Tools > Chat and mail accounts.
- The contacts panel is displayed when an e-mail and/or chat account is added.
- Removed Enable mail and chat option from preferences.
- Added a choice between Prefer pages inside window (tabs), Separate windows (SDI), and Advanced MDI in Preferences > Windows
- Prefer pages inside window enables an interface similar to 7.60 Preview 2, with close buttons on each tab, no MDI controls (minimize, maximize, and restore), and click-to-minimize disabled.
- Separate windows enables SDI.
- Advanced MDI enables MDI.
- The Start bar for blank pages now drops down from the URL field.
- Start bar is fully customizable and can be disabled in Customize
- The Top 10 list contains the 10 sites you visit most
- Favicons for bookmarks work again.
- Notification tooltips will now appear where the System tray is, usually in the bottom right of the screen.
- Fixed a problem preventing toolbars from being enabled if their placement had been set to off
- Fixed a crash that occurred when opening a new window if the Page bar placement wasn't set to top
- Added Ctrl + F12 and Shift + F12 as keyboard shortcuts for the Preferences and Customize dialogs, respectively.
- Moved Customize to View > Toolbars menu.
- Q focuses quick reply if focus was on message list.
- Added Use current button for home page preference in Preferences > Start and exit.
- Improvements to scrolling.
Voice
- Activated ERA (Extensible Rendering Architecture), enabled by selecting Fit to width from the View menu. ERA formats the viewed page differently according to the available width.
- Printing now defaults to Fit to width (disable in File > Print options).
- Multiple rendering fixes.
- Trigger quirks mode to render pages using the IBM doctype correctly.
- Made < button > look more like < input type=button >
Messaging
- The prefix browser is now mandatory for all commands directed at the Opera interface, to avoid problems with pages written in X+V.
- Unchecking Enable sound in Web pages in Preferences > Multimedia/Quick preferences will now disable Voice.
Miscellaneous
- Made sure that the newsfeed name is not left empty when clicking on a feed and subscribing to it.
- Fix to avoid duplicate newsfeed items.
- Preliminary support for links/URLs using irc://. Only the server/room parts of the URLs are supported.
- Fixed preview 2 problem where clicking the CC button would add input to the "To:" field.
- Reenabled saving of chats
- Made threading toggle into a single button
- Multiple stability fixes.
- Multiple scripting improvements and fixes.
- Fixed several cursor issues.
- Preview 2 Wand auto-login regression fixed.
- Improved handling of DDE URLs.
- Added support for INI files with escapes (similar to LNG files).
- Added support for the FTP command EPSV.
- Fixed problem where local URLs containing "con" could not be opened