Opera 9.20 for UNIX Changelog

Changelog for Opera 9.20 for UNIX

Opera 9.20 for UNIX is available for download.

Opera 9.20 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.

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

A separate changelog listing changes since Beta 1 is available.

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.
Added support for automatic search from address bar when entering more than one word.
Start bar disabled by default.
Added support for animated GIF images in skins.

CSS height:inherit now inherits the computed value.
Scripts in framesets now execute onload.
Applets inserted with innerHTML can now be called by JavaScript.
Manipulating content inside about:blank will now change the address of about:blank to match that of the manipulating page.

Fix for character encoding inheritance issue with frames, which could enable cross-site scripting. See the advisory.
Avoided a vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player. Details will be disclosed at a later date. See the advisory. Issue reported to Opera by Mark Hills.
Fixed an issue regarding handling of FTP PASV response, as reported by Mark at bindshell.net
XMLHttpRequest now treats separate ports on the same server as a different server. Issue reported by Egmont Koblinger.
Fixed an issue where scripts could continue to run after leaving the page, as reported by Herrmann Manuel.
Skandiabanken.no's message about successful certificate installation is now shown.

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 now work more reliably.
When specifying address:port without specifying the protocol, "http://" is once again inferred.
Added support for the optional "key" in BitTorrent tracker requests.

Fixed an issue where the libX11 patch for CVE-2007-1667 causes Opera to crash on startup.
Introduced shared memory handling on Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris. Set the environment variable OPERA_NUM_XSHM to 0 to disable shared memory.
Deadkeys now work in GMail compose.
An invalid system locale no longer causes missing text.
Fixed spellchecker on FreeBSD.
Improved plug-in detection.
.6 PPC Linux builds now also work on Sony PS3 with Linux installed.
Fixed issue with transparent areas in some widgets.
Improvements to plug-in communication with JavaScript, using NSAPI.