Opera 7.20 beta 3 for Windows changelog: 

This is Opera 7.20 beta 3, another limited newsgroup/forum beta. A Linux version of beta 3 will also be available. 
As usual, discuss the new version in opera.beta and on the my.opera.com forums. If you install over pre-beta 2 installations, it will not yet re-index your messages for use with separate accounts. Only mail received after installing beta 2 or beta 3 will be available if you choose to show separate accounts. 

Download from: 
http://snapshot.opera.com/windows/ow32enen720b3.exe (build 3038) 
Notable changes since the last newsgroup beta: 

General 
- Crash fixes 
- Fixed several crashes when closing pages 
- Fixed problem where saving pages or images occasionally crashes Opera 
- Fixed crash at http://seb.mozdev.org/firebird/ 
- Fixed several general web site crashes 
- Several BiDi fixes 
- Arabic Shadda breaks joining 
- Two consecutive unicode control codes should be two separate words 
- Bugfix for two consecutive BIDI_ES characters 
- Several display fixes 
- Numerous fixes for run-ins and absolute positioned boxes 
- Fixed that background sometimes disappeared when turning print preview on and off 
- Fix for max-width not wrapping float text 
- Fixed display of MAP elements 
- Several DOM/ECMAscript fixes 
- Fixes to get XML Events working again 
- Scripts with language="" are no longer ignored 
- Fixed several problems with getComputedStyle 
- Fixed a style.backgroundColor problem 
- Adjusted security password policy: Minimum 6 characters and either 
1. At least one alphabetic character and one non-alphabetic character, or 
2. At least one character from a non-western european character set (specifically: not Latin-1) 
- Autologin with wand even if there is no username 
- Added experimental support for IPv6. See INI settings section of changelog for related preference 
- Added ability to delay initial document paint. See INI settings section of changelog for related preference 
- Dialup should work again 
- Fixed use of OperaDEF6.adr for bookmarks and missing default bookmarks 
- New URL scheme supported: data (RFC 2397) 
- Fix for sending form data written in Japanese/Russian/etc. Should fix many form related issues (CNN QuickVote, banking sites, etc.) 
- Fix for AltGr+z, AltGr+n opening page/window instead of typing a Polish character on Win9x systems 
- Reintroduced Kioskmode 

User Interface 
- Always change text in address dropdown when switching pages when address dropdown control is located outside the address toolbar 
- Show an archive icon for files with extension 'gz' in hotlist/links view 
- Append addresses that are entered from the "Go to" dialog box (F2) to the typed history list 
- Pressing Enter/Return will now activate the selected page entry in the window view of the hotlist 
- Tooltips and drag'n'drop in mails and panels should now work 
- Support for opening a new page at the location a url was dropped in the pagebar + rightclick menu support in hotlist/window list 
- Fix a delete problem in the keyboard config dialog and let "Default" in the same box work properly 
- Do not place a copy of a bookmark/contact in trash when CUT'ing it 
- Fixed regression bug: Rightclick-select disabled in some menus 
- Show image name (not path) in image property dialog caption 
- Added support for confirmation when closing all pages or closing all but active page 
- Fix for sending window to back, when using classic MDI window cycle 
- Try not to steal focus from other apps 
- Fix for starting opera with minimized pages 
- Many small fixes to make opera mdi (when pagebar is off) work a bit more like classic windows mdi 
- Allow bookmark drop inbetween other bookmarks even though we are in sorted mode so that the bookmark will "jump" to sorted position when dropping it 
- Move keyboard focus to document when pressing escape in search dropdown, zoom dropdown and search edit fields 
- Fix for address field not being set right away when opening a bookmark or similiar 
- Fixed a problem that caused the "reuse window" setting to be ignored from the F2 dialog box 

M2 
- Initial support for mail export to mbox format added for accesspoints/views 
- Crash fix, renaming view without e-mail account set up. May also fix some filter related crashes 
- Fix for account selector not updating properly 

INI Settings 
- [Adv User Prefs] 
Force Winsock2 API=1 
to force Opera to use the Winsock 2 API when available, even if the presence of dialups would normally have prevented it 
- [User Prefs] 
First update delay= 
to delay first paint of a loading page/window for the specified number of seconds (default 2 seconds)