Publisher's Review:
The most full-featured Internet power tool on the market,
Opera web browser includes pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, and advanced functions like Opera's groundbreaking E-mail program, RSS Newsfeeds and IRC chat. And because we know that our users have different needs, you can customize the look and content of your Opera 9.6 browser with a few clicks of the mouse.
New features in Opera 9 include
BitTorrent
You don't need a separate BitTorrent application to download large files. Simply click a torrent link and start the download.
Content blocker
Remove ads or images- it's up to you. Right-click (CTRL-click on the Mac) on the Web page and choose "Block content".
Add your favorite search engines
Right-click on the site's search field and select "Create search" from the menu.
Thumbnail preview
It is easy to have many tabs open at once in Opera 9.64 or Opera mini. But exactly which tab had that video you wanted? Hover your mouse on any tab to see a thumbnail preview.
Site preferences
Want to view a site in a different way or deny certain cookies? Want to block pop-ups on certain sites only? Right click and select "Edit site preferences".
Widgets
Small Web applications (multimedia, newsfeeds, games and more) that make your desktop experience more fun. Use the Widgets menu to discover new widgets and access your favorites. Visit widgets.opera.com to learn more.
Improved rich text editing
Use advanced text editing features for today's most popular Web applications.
Changelog:
(Opera version 10.0 build 1589 beta 1)
- Set Large Images=0 for native skin
- Fixed the Pagebar Skin so that it does not have a negative padding left
- Fixed Bug DSK-232501 (Crash when activating message from mail notification while cert approve dialog is open)
- Fixed Bug DSK-249063 (unremovable English entry in Spelling > Language should be grayed out): The preinstalled dictionaries will now have full name in the choose default language page in the wizard
- Fixed Bug DSK-250617 (Text overlaps in UI)
- Fixed Bug DSK-255452 (New initial BitTorrent dialog leaves unnecesary short space for checkbox label): Also fixed so it is an Ok/Cancel dialog
- Fixed Bug DSK-255971 (Session not saved when closing Opera)
- Fixed Bug DSK-256929 (Bookmarks visited/unvisited icons hardly distinguishable)
- Fixed Bug DSK-257266 (Missing padding on hover in main menu)
- Fixed Bug DSK-257336 (First pixel at the left side of the menu button doesn't activate the menu button)
- Fixed Bug DSK-257343 (Progress indicator height inconsistency)
- Fixed Bug DSK-257346 (Pages in Window menu no longer reachable by their number)
- Fixed Bug DSK-257349 ("new tab" button too high up in tab bar wrapped to multiple lines)
- Fixed Bug DSK-257355 (Panel buttons overlap search field's focus ring)
- Fixed Bug DSK-257378 (Dragging produces text-only buttons): by Reverting Fix to Bug DSK-257195 (Panel header text becomes unbolded when customised)
- Fixed Bug DSK-257439 (Disabled UI buttons should probably have dimmed text color)
- Fixed Bug DSK-257593 (Adjust memory/cache changes)
Core
- Fixed a memory leak
- Fixed Bug CORE-20064 (Event.origin on message events returns origin of current window and not the origin of the message)
- Fixed Bug CORE-21557 (Move media player plug-in doesn't paint until window resize)
- Fixed Bug CORE-22049 (Certificate with HTTPS CRL URL to site with same CRL and certificate warning trigger run-amok dialog opening)
- Fixed Bug CORE-22293 (moveTo inconsistencies on some platforms)
- Fixed Bug DSK-252565 (Click on link at TV2 crashes Silverlight in Opera)
- Fixed Bug DSK-257534 (Disabling spell checker in multiline edit boxes crashes Opera)
Opera Unite
- robots.txt now added, with search engines disallowed by default
- Fixed Bug CORE-19330 (Possible to embed unite:// on http:// pages): also made sure that unite services can not manage each other
- Fixed Bug CORE-21620 (Webserver crash)
- Fixed Bug CORE-21680 (Incorrect escaping/unescaping of characters in WebserverRequest.uri)
- Fixed Bug DSK-247847 (Wrong handling of "username too short" error from auth server)
Windows
- Set max values for the automatic memory cache
- Fixed Bug DSK-249688 (Systemwide settings are not read)
- Fixed Bug DSK-254706 (/settings command-line flag is not functional)
- Partial Fix of Bug DSK-257293 (Opera fails to find any mails after 9.64 to 10 upgrade)
