|
Opera introduces the looks and the performance of an exceptional Web browser. Opera's user interface has received a major overhaul with the new start-up dialog, and new default buttons, skin and panels in a blue and white color scheme that can be changed back to classic Opera look or another design. At start-up you can select a single or multiple document interface (SDI/MDI). Opera's new looks are complemented with exciting features such as the Personal Bar and Pagebar, hotclick, improved window handling, bookmarks search, redesigned preferences, new shortcuts, extensive drag and drop, and support for Unicode and LiveConnect. Last Changes: Recommended security upgrade for users of Opera 8.0 User interface: The search field on the View bar should now correctly be "Find in page" for all platforms User interface: Added search suggestion using the default search engine at the end of the address field auto-complete dropdown User interface: Default start-up mode is "Continue from last time" User interface: Corrected behavior of Home and End keys when focus is inside a form field User interface: Error messages in the JavaScript console now include the name of the document containing the error User interface: Solved issue with misplaced progress bar when page bar disables itself Display and standards: Multiple display fixes that improve rendering of the Acid2 test Display and standards: Now correctly handling anchors in URLs for PDF files Display and standards: Improved SVG support Display and standards: SVG without namespaces will now be rendered, but cause an error message to be displayed in the JavaScript console Display and standards: Fixed broken parsing of JavaScript URLs and bookmark buttons with escaped characters causing problems with bookmarklets Display and standards: Corrected handling of the "object" tag Display and standards: Made handling of tables within 'center' tags consistent with other browsers Display and standards: Fixed faulty @include and @exclude directive checking in User JavaScript Display and standards: Some improvements to Fit to window width (ERA) Display and standards: Multiple scripting fixes Display and standards: Fixed spatial navigation highlighting issue for bi-directional languages Display and standards: Corrected display of Latin-1 characters in bookmark descriptions Display and standards: Fixed handling of the altKey event Display and standards: Improvements to XMLHttpRequest support, added support for XMLHttpRequest.setRequestHeader Display and standards: Corrected handling of the HTTP status code "204 no content" to be in compliance with RFC 2616 Display and standards: Introduced Browser JavaScript, a JavaScript file that fixes the rendering of certain Web pages and page elements that malfunction in Opera Security: Fixed XMLHttpRequest redirect vulnerability reported in Secunia Advisory 15008 Security: Fixed cross-site scripting vulnerability reported in Secunia Advisory 15411 Security: Fixed cross-site scripting vulnerability in location header when automatic redirection is disabled. Vulnerability reported in Secunia Advisory 15423 Security: Fix for variant of window injection vulnerability reported in Secunia Advisory 13253 Security: Fixed information disclosure weakness causing file path information to be sent when using the GET form method. Security Focus Bugtraq ID #12723 Security: Improved accuracy of security bar and modified security icon behavior: when a certificate is accepted manually after a warning, the security level of the connection is set to 1 Security: Fixed issue with wrong referrers being sent to sites in browsing history Security: Fixed erroneous display of certificate names containing ampersands Security: Solved problem with collapsed address bars for some pop-ups missing indication of security level Miscellaneous: Sent e-mail can now be imported Miscellaneous: Multiple stability improvements Miscellaneous: Fixed update notification to handle a new released installed over an older version Miscellaneous: Fixed problems with downloading and installing setups from outside the opera.com domain Miscellaneous: Fixed problem using secure NNTP connections Windows-specific: Minor Voice-related fixes Download
|