Opera is an alternative internet web browser that is very fast, small, easy to use, and complies with all of the web browser standards.
What’s new:
Version 9.60:
Changes since Opera 9.6 Beta 1
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
• Fixed sorting by progress in Transfers
• Fixed copying of multiple entries from the history manager
• Fixed a bug that could cause notes to be lost when using certain characters
• Fixed dataloss situation when note folders had more than one line in their name
• Fixed spurious highlighting when using the space character in inline find
• Fixed an issue that would prevent links in frames from being opened by the keyboard
• Fixed error pages when entering an unknown protocol
• Fixed an issue where custom search engines would not get a favicon
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
• Text strings on the feed preview page can now be localized
• Added a fallback feed title for feeds without titles and added a handheld style sheet to the feeds preview
• Feeds are now detected even when served as text/html
• Fixed the synchronization of removed labels for IMAP accounts
• Fixed an issue where the signatures wouldn’t change if the default account signature ended with a space
• Fixed an issue where sent message bodies could disappear under certain circumstances
• Fixed a problem where messages would be reported as incomplete when the server reports the wrong message size
• Fixed importing of files with LF line endings only
• Fixed an issue where followed contacts would not be properly unfollowed
• Fixed an issue where only the first followed contact would be shown in the Followed Contacts access point
• Fixed an issue where the Followed Thread icon would be lost after restart
• Fixed Quick Find in feeds
• Fixed an issue where feed titles were truncated before “:” characters
• Fixed an issue where feed status could get stuck on fetching
• Fixed an issue where only a few feed itmes would be fetched
• Fixed DCC transfers in IRC
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: see Yngve’s blog post
• Fixed an issue where specially crafted addresses could execute arbitrary code, as reported by Chris of Matasano Security; see our advisory
• Java applets can no longer be used to read sensitive information, as reported by Nate McFeters; see our advisory
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
Mac-specific changes
• Made form buttons with zero padding prettier on Mac
• Fixed an issue where opening the Java Console would freeze Opera on Mac
