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Program Information:
File Name: Opera 6.00
File Size: 3.2 MB
Date Released: 18 December, 2001System Requirements: 32-Bit versions
- Windows Vista
- Windows XP
- Windows Me
- Windows 2000
- Windows 98
64-Bit Versions
- Windows Vista x64
- Windows XP x64
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What's New in Opera 6.00: Version History of Opera 6.00
At first glance
- New start-up dialog
- SDI/MDI mode
- New default skin and button set
- Unicode Worldwide Character Standard support
- Hotclick
- Hotlist panels
- Personal bar
- New set of help files
- Enhanced image rendering, with full support for PNG alpha transparency
- Support for international URLs
Install
- Installer creates an \"opera6.ini\" file, which is used by Opera 6.0
- The default write directory has been changed from \"c:\\opera\" to the directory in which Opera is installed
- Opera only imports \"opera.ini\" settings from a previous installation of Opera if installed to the same directory
User Interface
- Support for both MDI and SDI
- Personal bar with bookmarks, search fields, and drag-and-drop support
- New in-line \"Find-in-page\" search field
- New powerful drag-and-drop Page bar in SDI mode
- Panels can be added to (and removed from) the Hotlist
- Quick preferences added, with instant access to important settings
- Improved skinning functionality
- Possible to search bookmarks
- Bookmarks icon changes color to indicate visited links
- Added \"Open\" and \"Save\" buttons to full button set
- The e-mail, instant messaging, and news clients can be turned off in \"Preferences\" (requires restart)
- \"Preferences\" has been reorganized and some dialogs changed
- (Ctrl+Tab) makes switching between document windows easier
- Fix for documents with no scrollbars
- Scrollbars added to Hotlist panels
- Added support for personalized icons in Contacts list
- View buttons added to clients
- Space saving options to show or hide details added to clients
- Fixes for moving back and forth in history
- Brand name added in \"opera:about\" for customized versions
- Improved borders when zooming
- A \"go to homepage\" command will open the \"set homepage\" dialog if no homepage is set
- Shift-clicking on a window bar will close the window
- Focus fixes
- New \"Import\" and \"Export\" menu entries under \"File\"
- It is now possible to choose not to show the validation upload warning
- \"Button bar\" is now called \"Main bar\"
Standards
- New CSS parser with Unicode support
- Full support for WML 1.2
- Full PNG support
Speed and Memory Optimization
- Improvements to Bookmark manager
- ECMAScript optimizations
- When 9x systems run low on resources, Opera will give a warning
- Enhancements to cache and cookie control
- Improved display speed
E-mail
- Option to import e-mail from a Microsoft Outlook Express account
- Transport Layer Security (TLS) support is added for POP and SMTP
- Semicolon can be used to separate recipients
Accessibility
- General improvements to zooming
- Pressing [F12] opens Quick preferences
- Active bookmark folder menu is opened when [Ctrl+Alt+A] is pressed
- Pressing [Esc] in the URL field sets focus to the document
- Backspace goes back in history
- Pressing [Shift+F7] sets focus to personal bar
- Added keyboard shortcuts to back [Alt+Z] and forward [Alt+X] drop-downs
- Added keyboard shortcut for uploading document to validator [Ctrl+Alt+V]
- Pressing [Ctrl+Alt+Shift+V] validates document in the background
- Pressing [Ctrl+Alt+Shift+H] opens \"History\" in the background
Read about keyboard navigation in Opera, or press [Ctrl+B], for a detailed list of shortcuts.
ECMAScript and JavaScript
- General improvements
- CGI arguments can be chopped off the URL returned by \"location.pathname\"
- Support for \"window.print()\" has been added
Instant Messaging
- Address field possible to change only when adding new account
- Fix to \"Always be visible to this contact\"
Documentation
- New help files
- New \"Tip of the Day\" file
- New \"Readme\" file (replaces the \"Install\" file)
- New \"Start-up\" file
Languages
- Improvements to the Web language dialog
- User defined language works better
Miscellaneous
- New start-up dialog with MDI/ SDI option, exit dialog off by default
- Possible to run more than one instance of Opera, provided the instances do not write to the same files
- Full support for LiveConnect
- Proxy settings can be automatically configured
- Improved support for \"IFrames\"
- The \"plugin-ignore.ini\" file can be used to tell Opera to not load certain plug-ins
- A search performed in one window can be redone in another window (F3)
- Minor fixes to \"copy and paste\" functionality
- Option added to open pop-up windows in the background (drop-down)
New since the beta release
- Print selection added (text only)
- Improvements to \"copy and paste\"
- Use [Ctrl+Alt+PageDown] and [Ctrl+Alt+PageUp] to switch between pages inside an SDI window
- Mouse gesture DOWN (open link in new page) works in the banner window
- Pressing [ESC] in the Personal bar sets focus back to where it came from
- The installer skips the language and country dialog if these variables are already set
- Help files are updated
- Skin images can be defined in \"buttons.ini\"
- Resource savings on Win9x, especially with maximized windows in MDI or many pages in SDI
- More speed optimization and improvements to memory and resources usage
- Fixes to some printing issues
- Fixes to some focus issues
- Fixes to other known issues
About: 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.
In addition to the web browser, the other main component in the Opera suite is the Opera Mail client, previously known as M2. Opera Mail supports regular POP and SMTP mail as well as IMAP. It also has an Address book. Opera Mail also features a newsreader and a newsfeed reader for RSS and Atom, as well as an IRC client for online chat. The forthcoming Opera 9 will also feature widgets as well as further BitTorrent functionality.
Opera Features
- Opera's advanced fraud protection protects you against web sites that try to steal your personal information. Watch the demo to learn how to enable this feature.
- You don't need a separate BitTorrent application to download large files. Simply click a torrent link and start the download.
- Right-click on the site's search field and select "Create search" from the menu.
- Want to view a site in a different way or deny certain cookies? Want to block pop-ups on certain sites only? Right click and select "Edit site preferences".
- Use advanced text editing features for today's most popular Web applications.
- It is easy to have many tabs open at once in Opera. But exactly which tab had that video you wanted? Hover your mouse on any tab to see a thumbnail preview.
- View download progress and access all your downloads from one simple transfer manager window.
- Keyboard shortcuts - like mouse gestures - make your browsing faster and more efficient. Read more about all the keyboard shortcuts in Opera.
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