Opera 9.20 Beta for Windows
March 28, 2007
Opera 9.20 Beta for Windows, A full-featured Internet Browser, Beta for testing purposes. Opera includes pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, and advanced functions like Opera’s groundbreaking E-mail program, RSS Feeds and IRC chat. You can customize the look and content of your Opera browser with a few clicks of the mouse.
Release Notes:
- This release is a beta version of Opera. Use only on properly backed up computers.
- This release contains security fixes. See the Security section for details.
- Opera 9.20 beta introduces Speed Dial and Developer Tools.
- The search engine in Speed Dial can be chosen in Search preferences. This release dynamically merges a default set of searches with your custom searches.
Changes Since Opera 9.10
User interface:
- 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.
- Start bar disabled by default.
Mail, messaging, and newsfeeds:
- IRC / quit messages work properly
- Transfer status on IRC improved
Display and scripting:
- CSS height:inherit now inherits the computed value.
- Scripts in framesets now execute onload.
- Applets inserted with innerHTML can now be called by javascript.
Developer Tools:
- Introduction Developer Tools.
Security
- Fix for character encoding inheritance issue with frames (which could enable cross-site scripting).
- Skandiabanken.no’s message about successful certificate installation is now shown.
Miscellaneous
- 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 work more reliably.
- When specifying address:port without specifying the protocol, “http://” is once again inferred.
Download Opera 9.20 Beta for Windows, Build 3659 Beta for Mac or the Weekly 617 Beta for UNIX: 9.2 Beta
Homepage - http://www.opera.com/products/desktop
