Opera heeft zojuist versie 9.20 van zijn gelijknamige programma uitgebracht. Opera is een gratis te gebruiken internetbrowser met features zoals tabbed browsing, pop-up blocker en een e-mailprogramma met spamfilter. Downloads zijn beschikbaar in 31 verschillende talen, voor onder andere Windows, Mac OS X, Linux en Solaris. Nieuw in deze release is iets wat Opera 'Speed Dial' genoemd heeft, waarmee het mogelijk is om negen websites als tumbnails op te slaan en waar snel naar toe kan worden gegaan door middel van een sneltoetscombinatie. De volledige lijst met veranderingen die sinds versie 9.10 zijn aangebracht ziet er als volgt uit:
User interfaceMail, messaging, and newsfeeds
- 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.
- Added support for automatic search from address bar when entering more than one word.
- Start bar disabled by default.
- Added support for animated GIF images in skins.
Display and scripting
- IRC /quit messages now work properly.
- Transfer status on IRC improved.
Developer Tools
- CSS height:inherit now inherits the computed value.
- Scripts in framesets now execute onload.
- Applets inserted with innerHTML can now be called by JavaScript.
- Manipulating content inside about:blank will now change the address of about:blank to match that of the manipulating page.
Security
- Introduction of developer tools.
Miscellaneous
- 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
- XMLHttpRequest now treats separate ports on the same server as a different server. Issue reported by Egmont Koblinger.
- Fixed an issue where scripts could continue to run after leaving the page, as reported by Herrmann Manuel.
- Skandiabanken.no's message about successful certificate installation is now shown.
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- 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.
- Added support for the optional "key" in BitTorrent tracker requests.
Speed Dial in Opera. Klik op de afbeelding voor een grotere versie.