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Opera 7.20 Beta 13

Posted by malebolgia on 21 September 2003 - 21:59 · 9 comments & 361 views

Opera has been hailed as the fastest browser on earth by users and press worldwide. Opera uses less memory and less space on your hard drive than competing browser applications, making you more productive on the Web. The current changelog is still quite long and includes various fixes such as several page stalling/never loading issues, several issues where scrollbars wouldn't appear and loads of others.

Changelog since beta 12

Display:

Fix for images that sometimes didn't repaint when animation was disabled.
Fixed PRE text wrapping.
Missing scrollbar on b-zone.de fixed.
Fix for crash on print preview of invalid document.
Fix crash/freese on Print preview on http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...kb;en-us;250297
Fix for blinking on news.walla.co.il

ECMAScript:
Fix for to many onclick events when doubleclicking.
Fix for ONBLUR events in forms.
Focus and alert fix.

Plugins:
WMP9 cached movie only displayed when reloaded.
Fix for some QuickTime movies not playing in Opera.

Download: Opera 7.20 Beta 13 (build 3139)

News source: Warp2Search

Rep. Christopher Cox, R-Calif., described the original moratorium as "something of an experiment" and declared it a success. Keeping Internet access tax-free will give more people access, he said.

"It's just a little bit too expensive for a lot of people," Cox said. "A nick here, and a little bit of nickels and dimes here, would add up to a serious amount of taxation for most people."

The House on Wednesday also passed a bill that would cut taxes $12.7 billion over the next decade. It aims at encouraging more charitable giving. The nine states who impose a communications tax on Internet connections stand to lose $80 million to $120 million a year, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Several Texas Democrats opposed the bill, including Rep. Gene Green, who said Texas would lose $45 million a year in tax revenue.

"I don't need to remind my colleagues of the fiscal crisis that our states are currently finding ourselves in, including the state of Texas," Green said.

A similar Senate bill, approved by a committee and awaiting floor debate, would give states that tax Internet connections three years to phase them out and find new sources of revenue. NCSL spokesman Neal Osten said states also worry that a permanent moratorium will lead to confusion when telecommunications companies develop new technologies never contemplated by the law. When the first moratorium was introduced in 1998, he noted, cell phones were a novelty and DSL service had no consumer market.

New technologies might have to fight their way into the tax exemption.

"It's going to be a battle then to get Congress to focus," he said.

The bill does not affect sales taxes on goods purchased over the Internet. An organization of state governments plans to propose a plan next week to streamline state sales tax collections on Internet commerce.

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#1 Posted by naap51stang on 21 Sep 2003 - 22:24: What is this.....a beta a day? LOL
Seriously......I'm glad to see that the release of betas (even if not sactioned by Opera) are coming at a quick pace. It means they are fixing bugs reported by US,
the users.

#2 Posted by akassebaum on 21 Sep 2003 - 22:51: they haven't fixed my problem from launch.com

(1 reply) #3 Posted by Soleen on 22 Sep 2003 - 02:59: there is not problems at launch.com
it works perfectly for me all the movies etc
so try to install opera in a different folder and a plugin for wmp9
you will see it works

#4 Posted by Sushubh on 22 Sep 2003 - 04:36: they are reaching the final version i suppose. its been pretty long...
and i have tried 8 of these 13 betas. earlier were messy. but the new ones are way way better than 7.11 final...

(3 replies) #5 Posted by Toxicfume on 22 Sep 2003 - 09:01: I don't understand the concept of fixing bugs that are on certain particular webpages, I mean, they always say something like: "fixed ....... at xyz.com" how the hell does that work? shouldn't these bugs be related to the way their browser engine handles things? It's really not possible to fix bugs for all sites on the internet if you know what i mean

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