Opera

Changelog for Opera 9.20 for Mac

Opera 9.20 for Mac is available for download.

Release Notes

• 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.

Changes Since Opera 9.10

User interface

• Introduced keyboard shortcuts ⌘ + 0-9 to call speed dial entries.
• 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.

Mail, messaging, and newsfeeds

• IRC /quit messages now work properly.
• Transfer status on IRC improved.

Display and scripting

• 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.

Developer Tools

• Introduction of developer tools.

Security

• Fix for character encoding inheritance issue with frames, which could enable cross-site scripting. See the advisory.
• 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.

Miscellaneous

• 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.

Mac-specific changes

• Native OS X UI elements can now be used in skins.
• Opera now supports the AppleAntiAliasingThreshold property which allows you to turn off antialiasing (font smoothing) separately from the system setting.