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Greetings from 2005. Rebekah and I celebrated the beginning of the new year looking out our sky light windows at fireworks throughout the city. Neighbors a rooftop away shot fireworks seemingly through their skylight, cheering and laughing for each. Hundreds of fireworks brightened the midnight sky with whites, greens, and reds.

Unlike what Rebekah and I are familiar with from the States, there didn't seem to be one central firework display. Rather, there were dozens of displays, filling the air with cracks and pops for nearly half an hour. We had originally planned on attending a party on a hill east of the city where we would have had a great view of the entire city. Alas, we decided to have a quiet evening alone. We shall have to have a better look at the fireworks from above the city next year.

In any case, Happy New Year!

As previously reported, the IMAP back-end is being rewritten to correct several known limitations in the IMAP implementation. We had surmised that this rewrite would become available in Opera 8.0, but that will not be the case. There has been no change in the priority or schedule of this rewrite, Opera 8.0 simply came earlier than expected. The rewrite is almost complete and we expect to begin testing it internally at the beginning of next year. The IMAP rewrite will most likely accompany server-side message manipulation for POP. We will not be releasing any further details about the rewrite at this time.

Many people have asked for a way to do address completion using Ctrl+Enter a la IE. Well, thanks to the investigative work of Lee Harvey, Steven V. Gunhouse, and Lauri Raittila from the Opera newsgroups, we now have a good way to do this.

In the keyboard editor, go to the Document window section and add a new shortcut for "enter ctrl". Then, enter the command 'Search, "http://www.%s.com/"'. Now, this shouldn't interfere with Wand, as long as focus is in the address bar.

You can also add commands for other address endings, like .net, .org, .co.uk, etc. Enjoy!

Opera 7.60 Preview 2 for Windows Mobile has been released. Check out the changelog, press release, or just go download it. Enjoy. :)

Some users are running into a rather unfortunate situation of Opera 7.60 Preview 4 crashing on startup or when manually initiating a check for new releases. This only happens when Opera Mail is disabled. Add the following to your opera6.ini file while Opera is closed to disable the check:

[User prefs]
Check For New Opera=0

If that setting already exists (there's a good chance), change the value to 0. The value indicates the "unix time" in seconds since the last check (I think ;)).

Oh, and remember to remove that setting, should you do an upgrade install in the future. :)