Changelog for Opera 9.10 for UNIX

Opera 9.10 for UNIX is available for download.

Release Notes

This release of Opera introduces Fraud Protection.

This release is a recommended security upgrade. See the Security section for additional information.

Changes Since Opera 9.02

User interface

• Fixed handling of access keys on Web pages with frames.

Mail, messaging, and newsfeeds

• Fixed an instability connected with delayed entry of the Master password.
• Deleting of newsfeeds in the panel now both unsubscribes and deletes.

Display and scripting

• Improved performance for elements with both :focus and :hover.
• Fixed an issue with opacity on links that have images nested within them.

Security

• New Fraud Protection feature (a phishing filter).
• Changed Wand data to a new format. The upgrade to this new format is not reversible.
• Fixed a vulnerability in createSVGTransformFromMatrix (JavaScript, SVG). See the advisory.
• Fixed a vulnerability due to malformed JPEG images. See the advisory.

Miscellaneous

• Multiple stability issues solved, including crashes on Gmail and Google Maps.
• Changed the Mozilla User Agent string to include Firefox identification.
• Improved handling of Web site logins on slow connections.
• Cancellation of torrent downloads now functions as expected.

UNIX-specific changes

• Fixed smooth scrolling.
• Flash 9 beta support for Unix.
• Implemented support for Linux plug-ins on FreeBSD.
• When masking as Internet Explorer, the platform is masked as Windows XP.
• Fixed an issue where floating point numbers were treated as integers on some Linux systems.