Opera 7.20 beta 3

This is Opera 7.20 beta 3 (build 3038), another limited newsgroup/forum beta. A Linux version of beta 3 will also be available! Click on the 7 to start your download.

As usual, discuss the new version in opera.beta and on the my.opera.com forums. If you install over pre-beta 2 installations, it will not yet re-index your messages for use with separate accounts. Only mail received after installing beta 2 or beta 3 will be available if you choose to show separate accounts.

Notable changes since the last newsgroup beta:

Genera

Crash fixes
Fixed several crashes when closing pages
Fixed problem where saving pages or images occasionally crashes Opera
Fixed crash at https://seb.mozdev.org/firebird/
Several BiDi fixes
Arabic Shadda breaks joining
Two consecutive unicode control codes should be two separate words
Bugfix for two consecutive BIDI_ES characters
Several display fixes
Numerous fixes for run-ins and absolute positioned boxes
Fixed that background sometimes disappeared when turning print preview on and off
Fix for max-width not wrapping float text
Fixed display of MAP elements
Several DOM/ECMAscript fixes
Fixes to get XML Events working again - Scripts with language="" are no longer ignored
Fixed several problems with getComputedStyle
Fixed a style.backgroundColor problem
Adjusted security password policy: Minimum 6 characters and either 1. At least one alphabetic character and one non-alphabetic character, or 2. At least one character from a non-western european character set (specifically: not Latin-1)
Autologin with wand evn if there is no username
Added experimental support for IPv6. See INI settings section of changelog for related preference
Added ability to delay initial document paint. See INI settings section of changelog for related preference
Dialup should work again
Fixed use of OperaDEF6.adr for bookmarks and missing default bookmarks
New URL scheme supported: data (RFC 2397)
Fix for sending form data written in Japanese/Russian/etc. Should fix many form related issues (CNN QuickVote, banking sites, etc.)
Fix for AltGr+z, AltGr+n opening page/window instead of typing a Polish character on Win9x systems
Reintroduced Kioskmode