Opera 9.6 released

Download Opera 9.6

Opera 9.6 adds synchronization of custom searches and typed history with Opera Link, several new features in Opera Mail, a nice preview page for feeds and last but not least: improved stability and performance.

New and improved features in Opera 9.6

Opera Link

Opera Mail

Feed Preview

Follow/Ignore threads and contacts

• Activate this feature by selecting Follow/Ignore in the email context menu (or click the message subject header), then select either Follow Thread or Ignore Thread.
• Also, you can click the names in the From or To headers to enable the following or ignoring of contacts.

Go To Thread

Low Bandwidth Mode

• For IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol): Opera will only synchronise new messages and it will not fetch message attachments unless requested
• For POP (Post Office Protocol): Opera will not fetch more than the first 100 lines of a message unless requested

Opera Scroll Marker

• Check the box to enable Opera Scroll Marker
• Leave the box unchecked (default) to keep it disabled

• 0 — off
• 1 — show when reaching the bottom or top of the page
• 2 — always show when scrolling

Changes since Opera 9.52

User Interface

• Opera now remembers the bookmark panel position after restart
• Sites using HTTP Auth are now saved in typed history
• Opera now stops loading pages with iframes when closing the page or pressing stop
• Page encoding in site preferences can now be reset to automatic
• Browsing Intranet sites now works after changing proxies in a running session
• Improvements to Opera Link include the synchronization of search engines and typed history
• Changed the default global history to 1000
• Added a new default speedial.ini
• Fixed sorting by progress in Transfers
• Fixed copying of multiple entries from the history manager
• Fixed a bug that could cause notes to be lost when using certain characters
• Fixed dataloss situation when note folders had more than one line in their name
• Fixed spurious highlighting when using the space character in inline find
• Fixed an issue that would prevent links in frames from being opened by the keyboard

Mail, News, Chat

• Added popular Chinese providers in mailproviders.xml
• Made all top-level access points (except All Messages) selectable
• Now copes better with broken POP servers that send empty UIDLs
• The “Large font” setting is now respected for subjects
• Cache files from feeds no longer show up in Transfers
• Feeds are now detected even when served as text/html
• Fixed the synchronization of removed labels for IMAP accounts
• Fixed an issue where the signatures wouldn’t change if the default account signature ended with a space
• Fixed an issue where sent message bodies could disappear under certain circumstances
• Fixed DCC transfers in IRC

Security

• Verisign and Comodo are now formally EV-enabled: see Yngve’s blog post
• Fixed an issue where specially crafted addresses could execute arbitrary code, as reported by Chris of Matasano Security; see our advisory
• Java applets can no longer be used to read sensitive information, as reported by Nate McFeters; see our advisory

Miscellaneous

• Added the Opera Core version (currently “Presto/2.1.1″) to the User Agent header
• Improved performance with large wand.dat files
• Fixed Fast Forward on Google search results pages

Windows-specific changes

• Fixed a bug where network paths that start with would not work, which in particular caused issues with sent mail when storing profiles on network drives
• Fixed installation problems on Windows NT 4.0