Friday, October 10, 2008

Opera 9.60 – Full-Featured Web Browser

Opera 9.60 (Windows, Freeware, 5.4MB) [alt DL] 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 Linux.

Changes:

  • User Interface:
    • Speed Dial thumbnails no longer disappear when deleting private data
    • Page encoding in site preferences can now be reset to automatic
    • Changed the default global history to 1000
    • Added a new default speedial.ini
    • Improvements to Opera Link include the synchronization of search engines and typed history
    • And more.
  • Mail, News, Chat:
    • Added popular Chinese providers in mailproviders.xml
    • Now copes better with broken POP servers that send empty UIDLs
    • The "Large font" setting is now respected for subjects
    • Cache files from feeds no longer show up in Transfers
    • Feed preview pages now load properly when reopened from trash
    • And more.
  • Display and Scripting:
    • Special characters are now displayed properly in the Address bar drop-down
    • Opera Dragonfly element highlighting no longer stays on the page after closing the developer tools window
    • Script focused elements are no longer highlighted
    • Fixed saving of SVG when right clicking
  • Security:
    • Verisign and Comodo are now formally EV-enabled
    • Fixed an issue where specially crafted addresses could execute arbitrary code
    • Java applets can no longer be used to read sensitive information
  • Miscellaneous:
    • Browsing Intranet sites now works after changing proxies in a running session
    • Improved performance with large wand.dat files
    • Fixed Fast Forward on Google search results pages

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