At first glance

• User interface redesigned
• Chat client
• RSS newsfeeds
• Fast full-text indexing of e-mail messages
• Support for spell check
• Graphical smileys in chat and e-mail

New chat client

• Uses the IRC (Internet Relay Chat) protocol.
• New chat panel lists visited chat rooms and status of on-line contacts.
• Textual smileys are automatically transformed to graphical ones.
• Supports transferring files by the DCC (Direct Client-to-Client) protocol.

Opera Mail

• Faster indexing and searching of e-mail messages
• Learning spam filter and custom filters
  • Spam filter will be set to \"learning\" on upgrade regardless of previous setting.
  • New option to \"Mark as spam\".
  • Marking message as \"Not spam\" no longer adds sender to contacts.
  • Ctrl+X removes message from any filter
• Spam filter will be set as learning when upgrading from 7.23 regardless of previous setting.
• Unseen messages will now have the \"Not visited\" link color specified in Preferences > Page style > My link style.
• Graphical smileys introduced.
• \"Organization\" e-mail header is now indexed for searching.
• Removed mailing lists from \"Active contacts\" access points.
• Fixed problem with forwarding .txt attachments
• Fixed problem entering Korean characters in search fields
• Added support for subscription to RSS newsfeeds
  • \"Newsfeeds\" added as access point in the e-mail panel.
  • RSS 0.9x, 1.0 and 2.0 are supported.
  • Clicking RSS links automatically adds newsfeed to Opera Mail.
  • Auto-detection of RSS file (link rel=\"alternate\") displayed in navigation bar.
• Improved handling of contacts with multiple addresses.
• Improved handling of invalid List-ID headers.
• Improved threading of e-mail and newsgroup messages.
• Improved handling of malformed MBOX files
• Improved handling of invalid Content-Types in plain text messages
• Unread message count shown in mail panel selector button.
• Unseen e-mail messages have same color as unvisited links.
• Open access points are remembered between sessions.
• Multipart message improvements.
• Added setting (Preferences > Programs and paths: \"Enable e-mail and chat\") to allow for disabling all e-mail, news and chat functionality

User interface

• New default skin.
• New \"Tools\" menu.
• New \"Customize toolbars\" dialog for placing and customizing all toolbars.
• Toolbar version has been updated; old toolbar customizations will no longer work.
• The Hotlist has changed names to panels.
• Panel items, such as e-mail filters, are now single-click.
• \'Links\' and \'Info\' panels and the zoom drop-down now work also for e-mail and chat.
• Made advertisement preferences consistent with first time setup dialog; clicking on Google ads turns off the main bar, selecting \"generic\" turns it on.
• Added \"Show only when needed\" option for page bar.
• Added support for Aspell spell checker (requires separate install).
• Removed hard-coded fallback text color (black) for labels.
• Allowed for more user interface text strings to be translated.
• New \"Search\" panel with multiple search fields
• Enabled favicons in bookmarks and personal bar.
• \"New page\" button added to page bar.
• \"Reuse existing page\" now includes e-mail pages.
• Newly downloaded skin will not be saved if user opts not to keep it.
• Opera6.ini
  • Added setting to make lists with alternating background colors more accessible (disabled by default):

[User Prefs]
Color List Row Mode=1

* Added setting for controlling support of the autocomplete=\"off\" attribute in FORMs \(disabled by default\):

[User Prefs]
AutocompleteOff=0

* Added setting for reverting panel\'s new single-click behaviour:

[HotListWindow]
Hotlist Single Click=0

Keyboard and Mouse

• Improved and expanded support for drag and drop
• New mouse gestures. Rewind: Shift+Gesture left, Fast Forward: Shift+Gesture right.
• \"Document Window\" added to list of sections in the shortcut editors for keyboard and mouse.
• Keyboard shortcut changes:
  • 5 now rightly toggles between maximized and restored page.
  • i toggles between split and maximized view in e-mail pages.
  • Re-introduced Ctrl+F4 for toggling panels with the panel selector.
  • Ctrl+click on image opens \"Save image\" dialog.
  • Open new page: Ctrl+N in MDI, Ctrl+Shift+N in SDI.
  • Open new window: Ctrl+Alt+N in MDI, Ctrl+N in SDI.
  • Close page: Ctrl+W. Closing last page in SDI closes Opera.
  • Close (application) window: Ctrl+Shift+W in MDI, Ctrl+W in SDI.
  • Changed keyboard shortcut for \"Duplicate page\" from Ctrl+Shift+N to Ctrl+Shift+Alt+N.
  • Changed keyboard shortcut for \"Close all\" to Ctrl+Shift+N to Ctrl+Shift+Alt+W.
• CSS \'overflow\' content can be scrolled using keyboard or mousewheel

Display and standards

• Overall stability improvements.
• Overall CSS support improvements.
• Added support for SCRIPTs in XML documents.
• Improved JavaScript support.
• Improved display of HTML entities in XML documents.
• Added support for the XMP HTML tag.
• Added support for inheritance of CSS background properties.
• Improvements of bidirectional text support.
• Added support for DOM_Runtime and DOMEnvironment.

Privacy and security

• Individual cookies can now be edited in the server manager
• Increased maximum number of cookies per server to 30
• Fixed Secunia Advisory #10760 (Download Extension Spoofing)
• Fixed Telnet URI handler file creation/truncation vulnerability in Opera as notified in personal communication by iDEFENSE.Telnet URI Handler issue.

Kiosk mode

• Allow Alt+Space menu when using /NoMinMaxButtons command line option
• Enabled Page bar when using /KioskWindows command line option
• Added /NoPanel as alias for /NoHotlist command line option
• /KioskButtons will now display address bar by default

Miscellaneous

• Fixed problem with Netscape bookmarks import where URL data could confuse parsing of titles
• Improved plug-in support
• Faster and more efficient image caching

Windows-specific changes

• New system tray icon with e-mail notification and right-click menu. Opera can be hidden to tray using Ctrl+H.
• Included latest Flash plugin.
• Improved handling of IME/East Asian text.