Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Opera 9.20 - Full Featured Internet Browser

Opera 9.20 (Windows, Freeware, 4.69MB) [download via Filehippo] is a full-featured Internet browser that includes pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, and advanced functions like Opera's groundbreaking E-mail program, RSS Newsfeeds and IRC chat.

Also available for Mac OS X and Linux.

Changes:

  • User interface
    • Changed keyboard shortcuts Ctrl + 0-9 to call speed dial entries. Panel activation shortcuts moved to Ctrl + Shift + 0-9
    • Kiosk mode defaults to not displaying Speed Dial. Added new kioskmode switch kioskspeeddial to enable feature.
    • Added thumbnails on hover in Windows panel.
    • Start bar disabled by default.
  • Mail, messaging, and newsfeeds
    • IRC /quit messages now work properly
    • Transfer status on IRC improved
  • Display and scripting
    • CSS height:inherit now inherits the computed value.
    • Scripts in framesets now execute onload.
    • Applets inserted with innerHTML can now be called by JavaScript.
  • Security
    • Fix for character encoding inheritance issue with frames, which could enable cross-site scripting. See the advisory.
    • Fixed an issue regarding handling of FTP PASV response, as reported by Mark at bindshell.net
    • Skandiabanken.no's message about successful certificate installation is now shown.
  • Miscellaneous
    • Multiple stability fixes.
    • Voluntary, anonymous usage statistics reporting feature added.
    • Flickr Organizr now works correctly in Opera.
    • Fullscreen movies on YouTube now start.
    • Images with broken exif data now display.
    • Saving big images should now work more reliably.
    • When specifying address:port without specifying the protocol, "http://" is once again inferred.

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