Opera 7.50 Preview 1 for Linux and FreeBSD available

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Opera now has a preview download of their new version, 7.50 available. Here are the details:

New main features:
- RSS Newsfeeds
- Opera Chat
- Many improvements to the mail client
- Spell checker (not yet working on systems not using the lastest version of aspell)
- Menu and toolbar clean-up. New toolbar configuration dialog.
- Detailed information: http://people.opera.com/espen/chang...log-7.50p1.html

Page layout:
- Numerous document and layout fixes.

Privacy:
- Clear most recent typed address in go-to dialog box when "Clear
history of typed-in addresses" is selected in clear private data dialog
box.
- Added an 'Edit Cookie' dialog box. We can now change name, value
and some timestamps in a stored cookie.

Images:
- Substantial speed-optimization for image handling for certian
(most common) configurations on X11
- Crash fix: Fixed several crashes related to GIF images
- Fixed problem where interlaced PNGs were rendered blocky
- Fixed problem where images were only partially loaded on specific pages
- Fixed problem where some images didn't display

Plug-ins:
- [UNIX only] Block mouse1, mouse2 and mouse3 press/release instead of just mouse3
from being sent from the plug-in to opera itself.
- Fixed a plug-in (flash) related crash on http://www.stephenking.com/
- Individual plug-in paths can now be disabled and it is simpler to remove paths
completely without manual editing of /usr/bin/opera
- Added extra monitoring code of the plug-in process. In some cases
it has been observed that a faulty plug-in will exit the plug-in
process whitout properly telling Opera. Opera could as a result
of this enter a blocking state that lasted approximately 20 seconds
on every page that needed this particular plug-in.

Keyboard, mouse and actions:
- Let Ctrl+Shift+S (Save target as) with friends work again. The current clicked
url was not updated when navigating to a link using the keyboard.
- Ctrl+MouseClick on an image will now open the save-image dialog box.
- Added support for selecting list items by pressing the first
letter. Activated in all lists except for the mail header list.
- Improved support for window and page re-ordering using drag-n-drop in the
window panel of the hotlist.
- Fixed a minor problem that caused the shortcut Ctrl+F4 to be shown in the
"Close page" menu entry on the page bar even when clicking on non active
buttons.
- Let mouseclick (double and tripple) selection toggling work properly in
edit widgets. It would stop working if mouse was not moved when clicking.
- Fixed a cursor problem (Qt bug) using runtime testing. Qt
versions 3.2.1 to Qt 3.2.3 have reverted the meaning of horizontal
and vertical splitter cursor shape.
- Let zoom dropdown only accept '0..9' and '%' so that is does not eat other
actions. Makes it possible to press '+' and '-' when focus is in the field
and change the zoom factor.

Drag-n-drop:
- Improved support for dragging text (link titles) to external programs.
- Let text drops (drag-n-drop) in text fields happen at the mouse location,
not where the text cursor is located. The cursor is also made visible
and moved under the mouse pointer before the drop occurs.
- Allow drops (drag-n-drop) on the pagebar to occur on a tab. The url will be
opened in the associated page.
- Fix for dragged separators. Show reject sign everywhere except in the
hotlist area.
- Show reject sign when attempting to drop a toplevel browser window on
the page bar

Dialogs and menus:
- Let bookmark properties dialog behave better after entering illegal nickname
values.
- Avoid showing the selected text menu in the document when there is no
selected text
- Avoid crash in bookmark property dialog box if bookmark is deleted
while box is open.
- Fix for context menus that are activated by the keyboard. Some hotlist menu
entries could not be activated depending on the mouse position.
- Fixed a focus problem that could occur when a dialog was opened
using a double click in the parent dialog.

Skinning:
- [UNIX only] Update menubar on the fly when menu ini file has changed.

Download:
- Let the a change of download folder path in preference dialog box be available
without a restart.
- Do not user the download folder path when saving a url (link) from the file
selector dialog box. The last directory we have saved to will be used instead.

Hotlist:
- Save bookmarks to the active folder if such a folder exists. This did
not work when saving a link or a frame.
- Adding a contact to the contact list will now put the contact into the active
folder if any.
- Do not include deleted contacts when doing auto complete matching in
mail compose window.
- Protected against possibility for crash when turning off hotlist window
pressing F4 while scrolling with the mouse wheel.
- Fixed a problem that caused contact address autocompletion to contain
illegally formatted entries. It could happend when a contact had more
than one e-mail address.

Window management:
- Fixed a problem with wrong title bar text being displayed when closing a page
with only minimized pages left.
- [UNIX only] Do not activate minimized window in workspace when closing the active
window. This could happen when closing a window from the workspace controls.
- Fixed a layout problem with toplevel document windows (outside workspace)

Startup and command line arguments:
- [UNIX only] Improved startup detection. The following case will now work:
1 Opera A starts with "opera1" directory
2 Opera B starts with "opera2" directory
3 Opera X starts with "operaX" directory
3 One session crashes
4 The crashed session be re-started instead of activating a running session.
- The 'nowin' startup argument will now prevent the startup dialog from being
shown on startup.
- Fixed a focus/active window problem that could activate one window
while a page was opened in another when the address was given to opera
through a remote command (from commandline).
- Fixed a problem that made it difficult to specify language files from the
command line.
- Added support for OPERA_PERSONALDIR environment setting. Will be used during setup.
- Added support for named windows. A toplevel window can be assigned a name
when it is opened from the command line. This means commands like these are
possible and will open page in separate windows:
"opera -windowname mailbrowser -newpage <url>"
"opera -windowname general -newpage <url>"

Misc:
- Fixed a url escaping problem that broke sending link addresses in mail.
- Update and load (if present) localized search.ini and web-language (country code)
files when UI language is changed from preferences.
- The preference setting "Save Password Protected Pages" is now TRUE by default.
This setting can only be cleared by editing the opera6.ini file
- Support for multiple registration files in a single ~/.opera directory.
This means one ~/.opera directory can hold registration information
for more than one OS.
- Fixed Loading a non-readable directory would never end download state.
- Update web-panel contents if we have changed the address to be displayed.
- Remove skin file from disk when user says "No" when being asked about
keeping the skin.
- Fix for too bright disabled color in Qt palette (KDE issue)

Source:
http://my.opera.com/forums/showthre...&threadid=39521

and here's a link directly to the download area:

http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/7.50...tel-freebsd/en/