Arora Changelog

What's new in Arora 0.9.0

Aug 31, 2009
  • Drop support for Qt 4.4.
  • FEATURES:
  • Add support for search keywords in the location bar.
  • POST support for OpenSearch suggestion requests.
  • Add WebKit version to the About dialog [WebKit trunk only].
  • Use HTTP pipelining for all network requests [Qt 4.6 only].
  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Remember last used save directory.
  • Added file dialog to download location settings.
  • Restrict drag and drop to the same page unless a QWebView accepts it.
  • Open an URL dropped on the tab bar as new tab or replace existing tab.
  • Allow url to be dropped on the tab bar from other applications.
  • Add a Select All action.
  • Rather than not allowing setting or getting of any cookies in private mode create a blank cookie jar.
  • Significantly speed up the cookie dialog by keeping a cached copy of all the cookies.
  • Enhance the language manager to fallback to the country file if the country_language file doesn't exists.
  • Add drag support for downloaded item in the download manager.
  • Add Planet Qt to the default set of bookmarks.
  • Remove the text wrapping option from the source viewer's menu and instead enable it by default.
  • BUGFIXES:
  • Avoid duplicated and contradictory rules on the cookie rule list.
  • Change the shortcut for showing the bookmark toolbar as it was conflicting with the show bookmark dialog shortcut.
  • Encode the user input before inserting it into an URL template.
  • Fix a crash when cloning a blank tab.
  • When the widget losses focus hide the access keys.
  • Fix detection of flash on various websites when ClickToFlash is used.
  • Avoid an infinite recursion when asking the desktop to open an URL.
  • When the download manager prevents the application from closing add a new tab when there are none.
  • Only show the url completer if the user is typing a url.
  • Always add the Inspect Element Action to the context menu when the developer extra tools are enabled.
  • Bookmarklets were not working properly.
  • Work around for a segfault in Qt 4.5.2 where you go into privacy mode while a QNetworkReply is still working.
  • Clarify the networkdisk cache behavior in the messagebox.
  • Start page: Reduce the top margin to 100px from so it fits on a netbook screen.
  • Hide the bookmarks toolbar by default.
  • Turn off cookie tracking filtering by default because it breaks sites like StackOverflow.com.
  • Before clearing the cookie jar, load it so the exceptions and other settings are loaded.
  • When removing cookies from the cookie jar via the cookie dialog notify the autosaver.
  • When receiving a drop event on a bookmark folder, make sure that we don't drop a child bookmark.
  • Avoid overwriting the user agent string in the WebPage autotest.
  • Fix non-ASCII characters displayed garbled for Authors.
  • Behind the scenes:
  • Merge two blocks of code that deals with oneCloseButton policy.
  • Make parentWindow() prettier.
  • Simplify updates of actions in view menu.
  • Save the window state when toggling the menu bar.
  • Save UI changes in the active window before creating a new one.
  • Move all network related files into one directory.