Opera 7.20 Beta 12
Posted by malebolgia on 18 September 2003 - 23:40 · 16 comments & 500 views
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#1 Posted by caerma on 19 Sep 2003 - 00:45
- wait for the final...
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#2 Posted by akassebaum on 19 Sep 2003 - 02:38
- One beta a week.. Suhweet
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#3 Posted by akassebaum on 19 Sep 2003 - 02:40
- Still a little buggy.. can't get it to work right at LAUNCH.com, when viewing video. It just stops trying to connect to stream...
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#4 Posted by Admiral50 on 19 Sep 2003 - 02:56
- More stable (than the second last beta I was using) already. Great browser.
Oh, maybe I am wrong because I don't visit LAUNCH.com or know about Opera's plugins, but I saw the other day at file forum they had an Opera plugin to view streaming WMV (9 I think) video's properly...
Cheers
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#6 Posted by akassebaum on 19 Sep 2003 - 03:01
- Well, WM 9 works when i am at techtv, but when at launch.com, it does nothing...I know for a while the site did not recognize WM9, but recently, the site addes support.. will investigate the problem with plugin
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#7 Posted by akassebaum on 19 Sep 2003 - 03:05
- the plugin did not fix the problem at the site, but perhaps, it will help other sites
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#8 Posted by Sushubh on 19 Sep 2003 - 03:19
- Brilliant browser. Period.
The guy in the beta thread requested for the thread link to be posted not a direct URL to the download. Maybe you can make that change!
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#9 Posted by 123_kid on 19 Sep 2003 - 03:58
- I've really fallen for Opera 7.11 and hopefully 7.20 can even improve upon it. This may be a dumb question but is anything going to be added to 7.20 besides bug fixes?
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#10 Posted by Soleen on 19 Sep 2003 - 04:09
- 7.20 is mostely bug fixin
lunch.com streaming works perfectly for me there
So i do not know what you are talking about akassebaum
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#11 Posted by akassebaum on 19 Sep 2003 - 05:15
- Soleen,
Well, when i go to watch videos, it would say connecting to media, then it would say stopped.. so i really am mystified on how it worked for you and not me...
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#12 Posted by Galley_SimRacer on 19 Sep 2003 - 05:35
- I wouldn't exactly call many of them bugs. It seems to me that Opera Inc. is making their browser more compatible with "(IE-specific) crap code".
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#12.1 Posted by Digital_Angel on 19 Sep 2003 - 10:17
- I was gonna say da same thing....Ppl shud even keep deir ID's as Opera so thr webmasterz know dat more people r using opera and mayb they might learn to write a good code
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#12.2 Posted by Dark Warhawk on 19 Sep 2003 - 14:02
- sorry but its the other way around. opera is the one with the crap code. Mozilla/firebird works fine with those sites so the problem is opera
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#13 Posted by plasticparadox on 19 Sep 2003 - 12:37
- Middle-clicking since 7.20 beta 11...
There have been some recent changes to file extension handling when downloading files as noted in the Transfers section of the changelog. One side effect of this change is some cache files getting incorrect .tmp extensions. Please be on the lookout for other issues in this area.
Changes since Beta 11:
- Fixed crash at http://www.conjur.com.br/
- Fixed crash at http://www.nettavisen.no/
- Fixed crash when using Windows Media Player
- Fixed crash at http://www.literarymoose.info/=/destroy/object.html due to generated content in OBJECT
- Fixed freeze at http://forum.oc-forums.com/
- Fixed some display issues with 'text-align: justify' text
- Fixed a problem with percentage values on absolutely positioned block level elements
- Fixed several "page never finishes loading" problems
- Fixed a long-standing problem where using a same-page anchor link would stop page loading
- Fixed an image border issue (seen at http://www.xpunt.info/ and http://www.blizzard.com/)
- Fixed a sticky pull-down menus issue at http://www.e-sim.com/home/index-h.htm
- Fixed a problem at http://www.sas.no/ with ordering tickets
- Fixed an image distortion issue when resizing windows
- Fixed an image decode issue at since1968.com
- Fixed a problem with content display when OBJECT/EMBED had both SRC and HREF attributes
- Fixed a fixed positioning issue in OperaShow
- Stability improvements:
- Standards support improvements:
VeriSign's Site Finder, launched on Monday, has drawn heated criticism for hijacking mistyped Web addresses. Instead of getting an error message, Web surfers who mistype ".com" and ".net" Web addresses are redirected to the Site Finder service, which then offers a list of likely alternatives, some of which are paid-placement links. Critics complain the new service gives VeriSign too much control over online traffic and allows it to profit from an essential monopoly over ".com" and ".net" names. VeriSign is charged by the U.S. government with running the ".com" and ".net" domains, and directs much of the traffic on the Internet.
However, the ISC is about to undercut the Site Finder service with a patch to its BIND software.
BIND runs on about 80 percent of the Internet's domain name servers -- the machines that translate human-readable Web addresses like www.wired.com into machine-readable Internet addresses used by the Internet's vast network of computers."
The patch will be released by the end of Tuesday, said Paul Vixie, ISC's president.
"The phone has been ringing off the hook with deeply unhappy customers," he said. "We don't have a political ax to grind. Whether VeriSign should or should not have done this is not for us to decide. But we have to respond to our customers who are demanding it."
Vixie said that ISC's customers -- typically ISPs and large enterprises -- needed a fix because VeriSign's Site Finder broke their spam filters.
Vixie said a lot of spam spoofs the "from" domain, and that many ISP-level spam filters check whether incoming e-mail is from a valid domain or not. Instead of generating errors, the spam filter checks are instead being rerouted to the Site Finder service, and therefore appear to originate from a legitimate domain.
Vixie said the ISC's customers aren't too concerned with advertising. "They don't want to help spammers. It's the lack of a viable spam-detection mechanism they're worried about. They are concerned about spam, not advertising," Vixie said.
VeriSign did not respond requests for comment.