Dinsdag is de final release van versie 10.63 van webbrowser Opera uitgebracht. Het gelijknamige Noorse bedrijf heeft browsers voor alle belangrijke computerplatforms en voor een groot aantal mobiele platforms. De browser biedt tabs, kan worden aangestuurd met mouse gestures, heeft een ingebakken downloadmanager en biedt bescherming tegen phishing en malware. Er kan met Opera niet alleen worden gesurfd, maar ook gemaild, er is een ingebouwde bittorrentclient en er kan worden gechat via irc of met het door Opera zelf ontwikkelde sociale netwerk Unite. Versie 10.60 maakt gebruik van versie 2.6 van de rendering engine Presto, wat de snelheid en stabiliteit ten goede moet komen. Bovendien opent deze engine de deur naar nieuwe mogelijkheden zoals geolocation en offline-webapplicaties. Versie 10.63 is een maintenance release en bevat voornamelijk bugfixes.
User interface
Fixed
- Crash when removing custom settings folders
- Start Bar being blanked out after opening a background tab
- Opera Unite Messenger application not loading
- Crash when saving a file while the page redirects
- Crash after leaving a page containing Flash with
wmode="transparent"
- Using Opera Link, bookmarks dragged out of the Opera Mini folder are recreated when sent as added in the Opera Mini folder again
- Opera Link freezing on startup
- Fallback to a second address being very slow
- Reloading pages give multiple unclosable download dialogs
Display and scripting
ImprovedFixed
- Handling of
Content-Disposition
extended parameters
- Opera Dragonfly menu entry being disabled
- Memory corruption when using SVG in an
<img>
element- Several JavaScript-related issues, including one with Yahoo! Mail Classic
- A mouse focus problem related to plug-ins
- Incorrect compilation to native code leads to wrong arithmetic results
- Crash when assigning
data
orsrc
attribute on a focused and highlighted<input>
element with dirty layout- JavaScript alerts opening shortly after a page loads close instantly
Miscellaneous
ImprovedFixed
- Added search suggestions from Baidu
- 100% CPU usage occurring when starting Opera
- Crash when opening a file with Content-Disposition: attachment directly in Opera
Security
Fixes
- Fixed an issue that allowed cross-domain checks to be bypassed, allowing limited data theft using CSS, as reported by Isaac Dawson; see our advisory.
- Fixed an issue where manipulating the window could be used to spoof the page address; see our advisory.
- Fixed an issue with reloads and redirects that could allow spoofing and cross-site scripting; see our advisory.
- Fixed an issue that allowed private video streams to be intercepted, as reported by Nirankush Panchbhai of Microsoft Vulnerability Research; see our advisory.
- Fixed an issue that caused JavaScript to run in the wrong security context after manual interaction; see our advisory.
Opera 10.63 build 3516 screenshot, klik op de afbeelding voor een grotere versie.