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Opera 9.5 Beta, Weekly Build
Written by Vygantas Lipskas on November 20, 2007
Everyone is working on their web browsers (weapons) in order to win web browsers war. Opera team is doing that as well… Recently they have updated us with one more weekly release. By the way, this version supports MathML (read more about it). Let’s go straight to the changelog and check what’s new in it.
New features
Added MathML support
Added support for the XSLT document() function
New and improved mail authentication dialog
New nice icon for mail whose body isn’t downloaded
Bugs fixed
Fixed a bad crasher that occurred on a lot of sites when closing a tab
Again possible to open directories directly without file://localhost/ in front
Fixes to pre and code font sizes
Fixed top links in gmail
Fit to width now works even if the window is larger than 1600px
getters and setters are now prototypable in node interfaces
getSeconds() no longer returns -1
Hovering input/radio buttons on websites now shows the normal cursor again
Several Opera Link bugs squashed
A bunch of XPATH fixes
A bunch of XSLT fixes
Mac specific
Moved close button on tabs to the left hand side
UNIX specific
It is now possible to choose what open/save dialog type to use. Configure here 0=auto, 1=QT, 2=GTK.
Known issues
UNIX: Speed dial config dialog has an ugly shadow
UNIX: Dragging images turns them grey
UNIX: Can’t connect to IRC
UNIX: Downloading torrents can exhaust memory and uses 100% CPU
Sometimes crashes on exit
Some images don’t load fully
Download Opera 9.5 for Windows (Build 9656)
Download Opera 9.5 for Windows (Classic Installer) (Build 9656)
Download Opera 9.5 for Macintosh (Build 4544)
Download Opera 9.5 for UNIX (Build 1669)
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