Opera 10.61 for UNIX changelog
Release notes
Release date: August 12, 2010
Opera 10.61 is a recommended security and stability upgrade. Opera highly recommends all users to upgrade to this version
to take advantage of these improvements.
Changes since Opera 10.60 for UNIX
User interface
Implemented
Changed
- "Fraud Protection" renamed to "Fraud and Malware Protection"
Fixed
- Not being able to type in Gnome/Metacity (or xmonad) after the F2 URL dialog has displayed
- Checkmarks and Radio buttons (Option marks) in menus looking different from native
- Flash not receiving mouse release events when run under Openbox/Awesome (or KDE-kwin with "focus follows mouse")
- Relative paths not working in the Filename setting for Speed Dial background
- yahoo.cn mailproviders SMTP entry not using a submission port
- Changing the default cookie preference to "Accept all cookies"
- Linux special web keys not working: XF86Back and XF86Forward
- Double-click pop-up menu not closing
- Poor styling of pop-up menus in KDE
- Checkmarks and radio buttons (option marks) in menus looking different from native
- Not being able to right-click in the Bookmarks menu under UNIX
- Menu seperators being the wrong color
- Widget installed globally not appearring in the widgets panel
- Lines being painted on top of scrolled area
- Page scrolling up when moving scrollbar knob, and styles consisting of double arrows (plastique, polyester, oxygen, qtcurve)
- Tab cycler being too high when the Menu bar is enabled
- Not being able to type in Cyrillic with a Ukranian or Bulgarian keyboard layout, and ru_UA.utf8 or bg_BG.utf8 locale on Ubuntu
- Incorrect package installer description
- Keyboard shortcuts with Dvorak layout using a qwerty layout
- Multiple preference dialogs being opened for a widget on Linux
- Menus and submenus being opened and closed too quickly
- Scrollbar not reaching all the way to the top and bottom in certain GTK styles
- Difficulties creating new lines with scim
- IME characters not being highlighted during conversion
- With compositing enabled and using a skin with transparency, the Speed Dial will look unattractive
- Translation missing in the widget installer
- Opera closing when trying to chose an application in a download dialog to open a downloaded file
- Check mark in a check box not being centered in x11 mode
- Opera closing when saving certain files or starting a torrent
- Status bar not appearing
- Opera closing when draging/dropping a link
- Scrollbar having the wrong background color for some GTK themes
- Scrollbar button corners not being rounded for some GTK themes
- "Accept cookies" and "only from the site I visit" settings being incorrect in Preferences dialog
Display and Scripting
Fixed
- Yahoo search causing random closing of Opera
- Pages failing to load after a DNS update/change
- Opera closing when using vBulletin's WYSIWYG editor
- Loading an animated png causes high CPU usage with no response from the browser
- Google Calendar compatibility
- Unite listening on UDP 1900 even if UPnP service discovery is off
- Opera closing when in the POSIX host resolver
- Several cases where widgets will not run
- Opera closing when loading qq.com
- Setting the
onload property of XMLHttpRequest blocks document memory from being garbage collected
- Opera treating binary files as plain text (opening it in the browser instead of showing a download dialog)
- Opera closing when loading the Canvas demo
- Printing from print preview results in either a freeze or corrupted page
- Widgets not having access to a network after restart
- Opera closing with common plug-ins
- Disk cache not working correctly in turbo mode
Security
Fixes
- Fixed an issue where heap buffer overflow in HTML5 canvas could be used to execute arbitrary code, as reported by Kuzzcc;
see our advisory.
- Fixed an issue where unexpected changes in tab focus could be used to run programs from the Internet, as reported by Jakob Balle and Sven Krewitt of Secunia;
see our advisory.
- Fixed an issue where news feed preview could subscribe to feeds without interaction, as reported by Alexios Fakos;
see our advisory.