Opera 9.64 / 10.00 Beta 1

Major Features:

1. Pop-up Blocking:
   • No more annoying pop-up advertisements. Opera lets you control whether Web sites can use pop-ups. Select to block them all, or let the browser open only pop-ups that you have requested.
2. Integrated Search:
   • Search your favorite sites, for example Google, eBay, or Amazon without having to go to their Web pages. Use the integrated search window or shortcuts (e.g. "g" for Google) in the address field.
3. Skins:
   • Give your browser the look you want with Operas skins. Make the browser your own by giving it the colors, icons, and buttons of your choice.
4. E-mail with RSS Newsfeed:
   • Operas built-in POP/IMAP E-mail client is a combined e-mail program, news reader, mailing list organizer and RSS newsfeed reader. A safer, faster, and more intelligent way of handling your e-mails, Operas e-mail client is database driven, enabling you to organize and find your e-mails in a matter of seconds through easy searches, labeling, and filtering rather than traditional folder storage.
5. Tabbed Browsing:
   • Surf the Web easier and faster by opening multiple Web pages within the same application window. Save a collection of pages as a session and open them all with one click - every time.
6. Advanced Security:
   • Protect yourself from ad-ware, spy-ware, viruses, and other third-party malicious software applications that silently attack your computer while you are surfing the Web.
7. IRC Chat:
   • Communicate with people all over the world using Operas IRC chat client. Use Opera to connect to IRC servers to chat privately or in rooms, or share files and photos with your friends and family.
   • Opera is from now 100% FREE and with NO ADS !

Enhancements:

• Unix support:
  • On the Linux/Unix front, we are discontinuing support for builds made with gcc 2.95. Also, Sparc Solaris builds are now made on Solaris 10 (with gcc 3) - they should run on Solaris 9 as well. If these changes affect you, wed love to hear your feedback.
• Skinning improvements:
  • [DSK-253666] "new tab" button is too tall in multi-line setup
  • Partial [DSK-253753] Closed tabs icon on the right: When set to "text only", the text is nearly unreadable (partially black on black), and touches the right part of the screen)
  • [DSK-253759] Cancel button in mail panel way to unobtrusive
  • [DSK-253818] Locked tabs change size when being hovered
  • Fix for highlight of head and tail bar images
  • Fixes for the head and tail gaps in Windows Native skin
  • Fixes for pagebar head and tail icons in Windows Native skin
  • Opacity changes to Speed Dial on standard skin
  • New skin sections: "Pagebar Thumbnail Head Skin", "Pagebar Thumbnail Tail Skin", "Pagebar Thumbnail Floating Skin", "Pagebar Thumbnail Head Button Skin", "Pagebar Thumbnail Tail Button Skin", "Pagebar Thumbnail Floating Button Skin"
  • Fix for attention states on tabs
  • Updated smilies. They are now more smiley.
  • Tweaks to borders on addressbar and splitter to be consistent color
  • Tweaks to dialogs
  • Revised panel icons and buttons
  • Revised icons for mail toolbar
• User Interface:
  • [DSK-194184] Cant find show Speed Dial at startup option)
  • [DSK-253774] Crash in action handling
  • [DSK-226623] Ctrl+Ins doesnt copy outside of edit fields
  • [DSK-253386] Crash when clicking help in startup dialog
  • [DSK-253202] Replace Language with Dictionary in dictionary download wizard
  • [DSK-253550] Turbo notification is cropped if the turbo icon is placed on the right of the window
  • Removing obsolete ini-entry "view hotlist"
• Mail:
  • [DSK-253731] Opens broken Compose Message view when creating new account
  • Core:
  • [CORE-21309] Full language names in spell check context menu
  • [CORE-21052] XSLT: Using keys in match expressions causes crash
  • [DSK-253743] Operator cache deleted when Opera starts
  • [DSK-251805] Hang when doubleclicking text while flash is running
  • [DSK-253773] Plug-in crash
• Core:
  • [CORE-21309] Full language names in spell check context menu
  • [CORE-21052] XSLT: Using keys in match expressions causes crash
  • [DSK-253743] Operator cache deleted when Opera starts
  • [DSK-251805] Hang when doubleclicking text while flash is running
  • [DSK-253773] Plug-in crash
• Unix:
• • [DSK-253761] Crash in Plug-in manager
  • [DSK-253567] Crashes on Solaris