submitted by
bchick
on 22-12-2008
Opera lets you surf the Internet in a safer, faster, and easier way. One of the most full-featured Internet power tools on the market, it includes pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, and advanced functions like Opera's groundbreaking E-mail program, RSS Newsfeeds and IRC chat. You can customize the look and content of your browser with a few clicks of the mouse.
Latest changes:
- Several backend improvements to autoupdate
- Made content filter rules with a whitespace at the end work
- All languages are now included but not all are completed. Please do not file bugs on English text in the UI when using another language for your interface
- Made spellchecking work on contenteditable elements
- Switching between html and plain text mail composition works better now
- Added option to doubleclick a tab to close it opera:config#UserPrefs|DoubleclicktoCloseTab
- Fixed crash when undeleting and running a widget
- Improved stability in the search engine which indexes webpages and mail
- Plus tons of behind the scenes changes, the low level changelog is more than 1000 lines
- Mac: Fixed startup crash on Mac OS X 10.3/Panther
- Mac: Fixed the mail/chat counter background
- Mac: Fixed low framerate on fullscreen YouTube videos
Other available editions: