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Changelog for Opera 6.04 for Windows

What's new?

We recommend that you download and install this upgrade.

This version fixes some issues, mostly related to bookmarks, bookmarklets, and localized versions.

Version 6.04 has the following changelog:

New features

• Bookmarks file (*.adr) is automatically backed up
  • To *.adr.bak on startup
  • To UnInst\Backup\hotlist_backup.adr on reinstallation
• Added support for changing the Opera application icon
• Added "English to Japanese" and "Japanese to English" translation

New opera6.ini settings (advanced usage)

String	Section	Comment
Application Icon=newicon.ico	[User Prefs]	Specifies alternative application icon

Miscellaneous

• Memory optimizations
• Opera checks for both HTTP and HTML when checking if it is default browser
• Uninstall key changed to "Opera", which means there will only be one uninstall item in "Add/Remove Programs"
• Minor updates to default bookmarks
• Improved handling of windows with a lot of Flash content
• Improved display when playing Windows Media Player files
• Improved handling of missing character set in e-mail attachments
• Fix for Japanese, Chinese, and Korean legacy encodings
• Fix to allow bookmarklets (generally JavaScript URLs) to be used with special buttons
• Fix for JavaScript URL handling
• Fix for Java still processing after Window with applet closed
• Fix for occasional loss of bookmarks (after an involuntary exit)
• Fix for printing of headers and footers
• Fix for saving pages and suggesting filenames

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