Software Flash: Opera 9.02 final

Thursday, September 21, 2006

Opera 9.02 final

The developers of Opera has finished the 9.02-version. Opera 9 has a lot of features.

User interface

Fixed quick find field in Windows panel

Mail, messaging, and newsfeeds

Fixed high CPU usage while downloading big emails.
Properties can now be accessed within the contacts and bookmarks panel
after deleting items.
Image attachments can now be saved using the context menu.
Accessing a news link when no news server is configured will now prompt to
configure a server.

Display and scripting

Fixed a DOMParser bug affecting some menu scripts.
Click events are now correctly received in designMode.
Implemented support for Node.selectNodes, Node.selectSingleNode, and
Attr.text.
Improved rendering efficiency for repositioned elements, as in Flickr's
updated "organizr".
Allow large integers to be used in object declaration property names, as
on the comments form on Slashdot beta.

Plug-ins and Java

Fix for playing sound clips on Amazon.

Security

Fixed an OpenSSL RSA signature verification flaw. See the advisory.

Miscellaneous

Multiple stability improvements, including a stability issue on
my.yahoo.com.
Improved handling of downloads when the disk is full.
Improved handling of Web site logins on slow connections.
Improved handling of WAP text inputs.

Windows-specific changes

Fix to allow opera to be set as default browser using the prompt at
startup.
Fix for attaching read-only files in mail.
Support for the Windows XP Media Center Edition remote control.
Added new settings in the Java section of opera:config to allow you to
override the system defined JRE.

Mac-specific changes

Schubert PDF plugin now works again.
Enabled Web archive filenames with more than 28 characters.

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