Opera 10.61 for Windows 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 Windows
User interface
Changed
- "Fraud Protection" renamed to "Fraud and Malware Protection"
Fixed
- Relative paths not working in the Filename setting for Speed Dial background
- Opera closing when using vBulletin's WYSIWYG editor
- Loading an animated png causes high CPU usage with no response from the browser
- yahoo.cn mailproviders SMTP entry not using a submission port
- Changing the default cookie preference to "Accept all cookies"
- Installing Opera 10.60 windows overwrites saved search preferences
Display and Scripting
Fixed
- Google Calendar compatibility
- Unite listening on UDP 1900 even if UPnP service discovery is off
- 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
- "Accept cookies" and "only from the site I visit" settings being incorrect in Preferences dialog
- Opera closing on startup of Opera under Windows 98
- 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.