Photo shows Opera 3.60 running fine on @Macarlo's Warp 4.0 New Opera 3.60 Released

By @Macarlo, Team OS/2 registered

Opera Software announced today May 6 the release of new Opera Beta 3.60 for 32 bits platform (Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000) and for 16 bits (Windows 3.11 and WinOS2). Several improvements was made in this new release of this famous alternative browser.

These new additions make Opera 3.6 an even better choice for many thousands of users:

Scaling on nested frames documents optimized Linked style sheets duplicate window feature added Image memory optimized Added stripping of leading spaces on Option values for forms Vertical positioning added when walking in History Added support for APPLET when a PARAM element had a missing name attribute Added linked CSS files for "Save Page and Images as ..." Added relative names usagae for links on "Save Page and Images as ..." Added checking for duplicate images for "Save Page and Images as ..." Changed file name handling for "Save Page and Images as ..." Optimized downloads Added history handling of frame documents Added support for the javascript "onClick" even handler for the SHIFT click keyboard shortcut to open link windows. Added support for the opening a new window for the SHIFT click on a link with the javascript "onClick" event handler Layout: Added overlapping text handlers Optimized page breaks when printing table content Added vertical positioning of the marker for ordered lists when line-height is specified Changed default values for rows and cols in TEXTAREA element (previous 1 and 1 - now 2 and 20) Added support for euro symbol (?). Added support for FRAMEMARGINHEIGHT Removed default spacing above first block level element (H1, H2, ...) in document and table cells. Also the default spacing below the last block level element. CSS "height" property now use containing block height and not containing block width. Treat as space when capitalizing text Support "media-type" on STYLE element.Support linked stylesheets through the META element Not allow pseudo-class if not not last in selector. Use 'transparent' value of "background-color" property. Added parsing for "font" property Changed how the value 'auto' is treated for "width" and "margin" properties Added support for 'list-image' specified for a list inside a table. Added support for 'text-align' in CSS and 'align' in HTML so they will not conflict. OTHER: Optimised GIF decoding Optimised handling of transparent images Added support for JS: String.Split() with an empty delimiter Minor general optimisations Optimised JPEG images for 16 color Windows plugin optimization (notably for Shockwave 7) GetURL added support for base url for frame documents GetURL added support for # from plugins in urls relaxed protection against javascript access between windows a bit numerous minor javascript updates Unsecure login forms added more user privacy enabled history to save full url Protected user against "Cookie Monster"-bug Support for Name completetion by proxy added. - Users of Intranet servers must enable Preferences->Advanced->Name Completion->"Look for local network machine" Completion-> manually on new installations of Opera (or when upgrading from pre v3.50) Certificate Request pages support added. Added support for port numbers to be entered separately in the Proxy preferences Tool bar buttons updating optimized Changed the hotlist last visited update logic. Added support for form checkbox and radiobutton background updating. Removed delete warning when using hotlist copy Changed the header in the ftp listing from H1 to H3 and reworked a couple of bitmaps used by the ftp listing. Changed 16-bits - Default Browser dialog layout. Added support for IntelliMouse panning in frames documents and win98. Minor cosmetic changes to the hotlist properties dialogs. Changed: The 16-bits version defaults to the same font as the one used by "File Manager" with fallback to system default. Added: New option in "prefs->Button and status bar" [x] Use System Default When checked (the default) the custom options below will disabled and instead picked from the current system settings. Added time field formatting support on the 16 bit version. Added: Mini toolbar and caption for the hotlist window. Changed: Added warning when deleting a single folder. Added: hotlist: support for userorder - when exiting - sorting Added: support for doc. containing no real title Optimized: Window positioning for "saved windows" between sessions. Change: Netscape bookmarks without an URL are not appended during import. Optimized: Fullscreen mode between sessions. Changed: /NoExit argument is no longer default for kiosk mode and will have to appended manually. E.g. Opera /KioskMode /NoExit Added support for the "Stop" menu item in the right-click context-menu. Increased the max. length of an URL (<~4K) Added: Relative location (I.e doc#rel) is now included (if present) when adding links to the hotlist Changed Ctrl+Home shortcut. Now goes to top of doc. (Ctrl+Space shortcut goes to home page) Added an entry for the png file type in the "Default Browser" dialog. Added "combo auto-complete" (CAC) to the direct addressing dialog and couple of other combos. To disable this feature add the following setting to opera.ini [USER PREFS] EnableComboAutoComplete = 0 - To go to the end of the selection during CAC press Ctrl+Space. - To temp. disable CAC in a combo enter a space as the first character. Tip: If you drop down the list first (Alt+Down) CAC will track the item found. For the "Direct URL addressing" dialog this dropdown will happen automatically if the flag below is present and CAC is enabled [USER PREFS] DirectURLDialogAutoDropdown = 1 Added IntelliMouse features. The following shortcuts have been added: Ctrl + Wheel forward/backward = zoom in/out Shift + Wheel forward/backward = forward/back in history Added a "Show Links In Frame" dialog. Primary intended for people with low vision. Keyboard shortcut is Ctrl+J. (Dialog settings is preserved in the [ShowLinksDialog] section) Changed: Trailing and leading whitespace is stripped from the URL when entering URL's directly.

Opera is not for free. You may evaluate it for 30 user days, as opposed to calendar days, but after this, you will need to register Opera for US$35 (normal single licence price). The registration code you then receive will remove the time lock from Opera. For the test period, don't fill in any fields, but click on 'Evaluate' right away. After Opera expired, you can no longer access sites other than Opera Software's own. To test Opera jump Opera web site and download it:

http://www.opera.com/index.html

Same people use browsers to surf on the Net for hobby but I use browsers only for works and I need extremelly efficiency and high speed. In my work in @Macarlo, Inc. Internet Services I need to check at same time 15 sites.

I tested Netscape Communicator 4.04, is a very good browser, but I see now that Opera 3.51 and Opera 3.60b3 outpaces it. Netscape don't load 15 home pages at the same time and that job for Opera is easy, simple, effortless.

Last month I worked exclusivelly on Windows NT4 SP4 and I tested Opera 3.60. I tested also the Internet Explorer 5.0 and, now, the Neoplanet 2.1. IE5 runs rather than Netscape on Windows but Opera 3.60 runs rather than IE5.

Today, just running Opera 3.51 and Opera 3.60 on my OS/2 Warp (running seamless, as a native OS/2 application) I verified that Opera is really the fastest browser currently available.

About Opera

What makes Opera so different is the combination of small size, speed of loading both Internet and local HTML documents, versatility in loading and displaying webpages, its many customization option and its sheer functionality.

Through its unique features, Opera can help you save precious online time and avoid frustration, particularly when you are on the road.

Features you don't want to miss

Opera is the only commercial browser that supports the highest level of security: 128bit SSL 2 and 3, as well as TLS 1.0. No need to compromise your security with only 40bits or 56bits. 128bit encryption is considered impossible to hack, making for a secure online shopping, banking and soon also email communication experience.

Opera can open multiple windows (SHIFT-Left mouse button Click) rather than multiple browsers, which saves memory and time and provides you with a lot of power when it comes to document navigation and management.

Another unique feature to open a new document window in the background, without overlapping the one you are currently reading (SHIFT-CTRL-Left mouse button Click). A real boon and timesaver when you surf through large search engine listings or links pages.

You can toggle the graphics display in realtime (G), and not just via your general preferences. This means that if a document loads slowly because of too many graphics or large image sizes, one click speeds up the loading process dramatically.

Many web documents are not nice to look at. So if you come across a document that has a light text colour on a dark background, you can toggle between the document settings and the user settings with one click (CTRL-G).

If the font size of a document is too small, you can zoom in and out + and - -- from 20% to 1000%!

Opera supports a large number of Netscape-compatible plugins, including the 32bit Java plugin from Sun. A number of supported plugins can be found here.

Opera can also be used to retrieve information using FTP, Gopher and WAIS, and for reading newsgroups. The same simple user interface is used for all these services. You can also send electronic mail using Opera or link to an external mail program.

Furthermore Opera can play MID and WAV sound files (utilizing a plugin), display GIF and JPG images, play AVI videos (provided you have Video for Windows installed). With the use of plugins, Opera can also display a large number of multimedia files.

Opera has been written for Microsoft Windows, and uses the standard Windows program design philosophy. Users will therefore recognize most of the functions from other programs, such as text editing, etc.

Opera cannot connect to the web. What's wrong?

If Opera doesn't connect to the web right away...

If you are using Opera on a local network, and you have Name Completion enabled (it is enabled by default), go to Opera's 'Preferences/Advanced', and click the ôName Completionö button. Enable the setting ôLook for a local network machineö.

Windows uses a communications module (winsock) to accomplish Internet connections. This file is either called winsock.dll (16bit) or wsock32.dll (32bit). You should have only one file with this name on your computer. If you use Win 3.1x, make sure you only have this one copy of winsock.dll on your disk (usually the one that came with the dialer) and make sure it is in the path statement of your AUTOEXEC.BAT. Rename or delete all other winsock.dll copies from your computer.

Once you have followed these steps, you should not have any more problems, because a) Windows knows where to find the module, and there are no conflicts with other winsock.dll's on your disk.

There are several other things that can potentially hinder Opera from loading websites or displaying them properly. These include:

Cookies and Referrer Logging -- many sites require them

Offline Browser Mode -- make sure it's not ticked (File Menu)

URL Redirections (Cache Preferences) -- make sure they are not ticked

Proxy Settings -- untick them or fill in the proper proxy name servers

Synchronous DNS -- If you use the new Microsoft Winsock 2.x (comes with Windows 98), you may have to ENABLE this in order to make Opera load documents properly .

 

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