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Thanks boobless for posting this on our forum.

A quiet 6.01 beta build 1022 for windows has been released.

here's what's fixed:

[core]
* Clear visited links in the Delete private data dialog will now also clear the visited date in bookmarks.
* Merged in HTML-banner support changes from main-branch.
* fixed crasher in ouniansi.dll initialization
* Fixed find in page, now searches backwards and finds multiple matches in the same textblock.
* Tuned the behavior of the font switcher. Fixes numerous bugs, among other the TM formatting bug, and also that for example chinese characters overlapped western ones. bug #54859 and #55642 and lots of others.
* Block printing from banners.
* Made fontswitching for forms (listbox and combobox) so javascript inserted text will display properly.
* Status check on files was wrong for several storage files, opera.ini setting for global history wasn't useable.
* fixed bug 63865 and friends
* Fixed bug #57254:

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[UNICODE]
* Non-latin characters in the page names" now storing doc title as UTF8
* optimized javascript execution, same fix as in the build 1010 Jon sent out.
* changed distributioncode from Win_600 to Win_601
* 62424 - PathSeparatorChar was added to wrong string.
* bug #55188 revisited, now fixed the proper way
* Fixed file download resume
* fixed bug # 59526, crash on certain printer drivers
* Automatic Proxy configuration fixes, especially for large configuration scripts.
* Authentication, especially Proxy and Digest authentication. Please test on all kinds of authenticating server. I hope the repeated proxy-authentication problem is now fixed.
* HTTPS proxy fixed.
* Proxy fixes: Please check that the problems on Proxomitron about half-loaded images has disappeared.
* Authenticated URLs no longer inserted in global history.
* #56164 fixed gunzip problem with Save As and Load to file (transfer). Moved datadescriptor construction into cache storage. Download cache now strips content-encoding (gzip) before storage Made download cache URL unique and inaccessible to links (Like POST forms)
* Updated opera.jar, with the sync-fixes


[ui]
* Update show window size, scrollbars, progress bar after clicking OK or Apply in prefs.
* Bugfix, when reuse windows is off, search field used to open results in a new window, even when the search was performed in a selected window.
* fix for 60377 and friends
* 57195 fixed.. sort of.. if a panel view is active and you press F8, then try to activate topmost browser window again and put focus to addressbar...
* fix for 59866 and friends
* fix for 61521
* fix for 61204 and friends
* OnMouseLeftDown was also called for dbl click events.. this is wrong.. caused too many gesture click history jumps etc. Fixed.
* doc context menu correctly aligned when clicking over forms that do not have their own context menu (non edit forms) also avoid showing context menu for forms if inside a back/forward clicking sequence
* Force url's opened from plugins to be opened in new windows when opened from the ad-banner window.
* Incremental search (inline find field) now works almost like it should again in documents.
* Hotlist now updates also when frame documents are loaded, not just the content frame (which you didn't bookmark..)
* Bugfix 60849 Ampersand in title displayed wrong in back/forw dropdown
* added support for new WM_APPMESSAGE commands. This should make special back- buttons on internet keyboard and mice work. Needs testing.
* reenabled some Win95 scrollwheel support. Needs testing.
* implemented simple "smooth scrolling" stuff. Default On. Needs testing. (option [User Prefs] Smooth Scrolling = 0/1
* Opera now respects the "number of lines" per notch setting for mouse wheels.
* cleanups and avoid catching some global keypresses aimed for plugin hwnds...
* Refresh document windows after change in document style preferences
* Fixing bug in statusbar: First ampersand in highlighted URLs was
* fixed bug 58763
* fixed bug 58720
* Fixed bug #58149:"[WIN95] [GPF] Using Ctrl-Tab causes GPF in Opera" Win95 is not happy about NULL pointer as second parameter, causes crash in GDI.EXE
* AltGr shortcuts shouldn't work in edit fields, they may mask important letters, like @ in Poland and Hungary. Same thing with Ctrl+Backspace that should erase last word in edit fields.
* 1,2,4 and 5 shortcuts now also available through numeric keypad. Gives single-key access with czech or french keyboard layouts.
* Open bookmarks in separate windows when opening the contents of a Hotlist folder (bug when reuse windows is on).
* Selecting Set as active folder in the bookmarks menu now also updates the hotlist window selected folder.
* changed default "Splash Text Position" value, fixes bug 63259
* Fixed bug #60517:"[IPF] Creating custom bookmarks file causes Invalid Page Fault" + fixed crasher when trying to show an empty bookmarks list on the personal bar
* Fixed bug#55188: "Opening blank windows, closing all of them and open new crashes Opera" The actual crash was in USER.EXE (win9x/ME). Removed a menu cleanup loop.

[mail]
* Fixed bug #61682: "Importing Outlook Express mail crashes on far eastern Windows"

[script]
* Avoid event loops on microsoft.com and many other sites.

[misc]
* upgraded ASPack to 2.12