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8.02 (build 7680) Solved download dialog spoofing issue described in Secunia Advisory SA15870 Fixed image dragging issue described in Secunia Advisory SA15756 Prevented link hijacking issue described in Secunia Advisory SA15781 Improved default handling of encodings in spelling checker Multiple stability fixes When an installed plug-in is available, use as default handler rather than display download dialog Fixed issue where search.ini could be picked up from wrong location Improved support for XMLHttpRequest Fixed download handling when closing originating page 8.01 (build 7642) The search field on the View bar should now correctly be 'Find in page' for all platforms. Please note that when upgrading from previous versions, this release will overwrite search.ini files whose version number is 5 or lower Added search suggestion using the default search engine at the end of the address field auto-complete dropdown Default start-up mode is 'Continue from last time' Corrected behavior of Home and End keys when focus is inside a form field Error messages in the JavaScript console now include the name of the document containing the error Solved issue with misplaced progress bar when page bar disables itself ('show only when needed') Multiple display fixes that improve rendering of the Acid2 test Now correctly handling anchors in URLs for PDF files Improved SVG support SVG without namespaces will now be rendered, but cause an error message to be displayed in the JavaScript console Fixed broken parsing of JavaScript URLs and bookmark buttons with escaped characters causing problems with bookmarklets Corrected handling of the 'object' tag Made handling of tables within 'center' tags consistent with other browsers Fixed faulty @include and @exclude directive checking in User JavaScript Some improvements to Fit to window width (ERA) Multiple scripting fixes Fixed spatial navigation highlighting issue for bi-directional languages Corrected display of Latin-1 characters in bookmark descriptions Fixed handling of the altKey event Improvements to XMLHttpRequest support, added support for XMLHttpRequest.setRequestHeader Corrected handling of the HTTP status code '204 no content' to be in compliance with RFC 2616. The document view will not change when the request has been sent Introduced Browser JavaScript, a JavaScript file that fixes the rendering of certain Web pages and page elements that malfunction in Opera. The feature is disabled by default, but users who wish to test it may enable download and use by setting Browser JavaScript=1 in the [User Prefs] section of opera6.ini. Opera will then check for updates weekly. Please note that enabling the feature in its current implementation may impact performance. For further information about Browser JavaScript, see: Browser JavaScript Explained. For further information about opera6.ini, see Opera6.ini Explained Let JavaScript prompt dialogs contain the name of the originating server, addressing vulnerability reported in Secunia Advisory 15488 Fixed XMLHttpRequest redirect vulnerability reported in Secunia Advisory 15008 Fixed cross-site scripting vulnerability reported in Secunia Advisory 15411 Fixed cross-site scripting vulnerability in location header when automatic redirection is disabled. Vulnerability reported in Secunia Advisory 15423 Fix for variant of window injection vulnerability reported in Secunia Advisory 13253 Fixed information disclosure weakness causing file path information to be sent when using the GET form method. Security Focus Bugtraq ID #12723 Improved accuracy of security bar and modified security icon behavior: when a certificate is accepted manually after a warning, the security level of the connection is set to 1 Fixed issue with wrong referrers being sent to sites in browsing history Fixed erroneous display of certificate names containing ampersands Solved problem with collapsed address bars for some pop-ups missing indication of security level Sent e-mail can now be imported Multiple stability improvements Fixed update notification to handle a new release installed over an older version Fixed problems with downloading and installing setups from outside the opera.com domain Fixed problem using secure NNTP connections Minor Voice-related fixes 8.00 EN (build 7561) 8.00 NL (build 7561) This release includes significant security enhancements and fixes vulnerabilities in previous Opera versions and is a recommended upgrade. Upgrading is free of charge for users who have purchased an Opera 7 license The release features whitelisting of top-level domains that have implemented anti-homographic character policies or otherwise limited the available set of characters to prevent URL spoofing through use of internationalized domain names (IDN) Registrars wishing to be added to Opera's whitelist must inform Opera Software of their policies and have these approved New and improved security features Voice support 'Fit to window width' abolishes horizontal scrolling Improved default menu and toolbar setups Support for XmlHttpRequest giving full Gmail support New Start bar gives easy access to useful features Notification of blocked pop-ups Simple retrieval of closed pages and blocked pop-ups Elegant e-mail attachment handling Improved newsfeed reader Automated weekly check for new updates New User JavaScript feature 7.54u2 (build 3929) Solved data URL issue described in Secunia Advisory SA13818 Additional fixes for frame injection issue reported in Secunia Advisory SA13253 Improvements to handling of the must-revalidate directive Solved stability issue in Japanese version 7.54u1 (build 3918) Tightened origin check for frames. A side effect of this is that documents not passing the origin check will open in a new page Fixed issue reported by Marc Schönefeld: intrusive JavaScript or Java applet could exploit Sun Java vulnerability to retrieve logged-in user's username and install directory Fixed LiveConnect class access security issue reported by Jouko Pynnonen Fixed Secunia issue SA12981, reported by Andreas Sandblad: periods in the file name and non-breaking spaces in content-type header type could obscure the file type Fixed Secunia issue SA13253: "hi-jacking" a named browser window Improved support for the "must-revalidate" cache directive 7.54 (build 3865) Denied write-access to properties on objects from scripts that fail a standard origin check, in order to block potential access by attackers to user's computer. Fixes critical vulnerability reported in GreyMagic Security Advisory GM#008-OP Fixed security issue regarding spoofing of the addressfield by loading other page contents while keeping the URL, reported in Secunia Advisory SA12162 Blocked access to file:/ URLs from documents that are not themselves loaded from file:/ URLs Fixed problem with canceling connections/downloads Cache-size limitation improved 7.52 (build 3834) Fixed a URI obfuscation weakness enabling impersonation of legitimate web sites. Illegal characters in addresses will be stripped. This addresses Security Focus Bugtraq ID #10517 Solved frame injection vulnerability that allowed for spoofing (Secunia Advisory SA11978) Solved certificate verification problem Changed search.ini to ensure correct default dictionary and encyclopedia searches. On how to protect customized files from being overwritten, see Release Note Changed main toolbar. Now includes options Open, Save, Print, Find, Home, Panels, Tile, and Cascade Various stability and rendering improvements 'Show in' submenu for messages now has nested display of nested filters Corrected message reply behavior when View > Encoding is set to autodetect Fixed SSL renegotiation problem causing login trouble on certain secure sites Solved issue concerning JavaScript method 'confirm()' Various encoding-related improvements to accommodate Japanese language version 7.51 (build 3798) Restricted image size in address bar, page bar and page/window cycler. This addresses issue reported in GreyMagic security advisory GM#007-OP: wide favicons could cover URL in the address line Various stability improvements Redirecting links correctly marked as visited Initial support for quoting selected text in messages Solved problem with duplicate addresses when using 'Reply all' 7.50 (build 3778) See the changelog. 7.23 (build 3227) Forced placement of downloaded skin-files in undesirable locations Buffer overflow when processing skins added an OpenSSL ASN.1 patch (from OpenSSL 0.9.6k, November 4, 2003) 7.22 (build 3221) Opera 7.22 includes Sun Java version 1.4.2_01 Security update specifically addressing the downloading of setup files in Opera (bug reported by S.G. Masood) Fix for completion of help-file URL shortcuts 7.21 (build 3218) See the changelog. 7.20 (build 3144) See the changelog. 7.10 (build 2840) New options in mailbox menu View > Display: Automatically mark messages as read after [x] seconds (only active in views where read messages are shown) "Suppress external embeds" (defaults to "On" like previous versions of Opera, to prevent spam-verification) When using "Mark all as read" on an access point, M2 will now only mark messages as read that are actually visible in the access point (not hidden newsgroup messages for instance) Space bar navigation. Space bar is page down. After reaching the bottom of the message, mark it as read and go to the next unread message. If there are no more unread messages, go to the next normal read message M2 remembers sorting of e-mail messages between sessions Columns in the message list can be resized Improved status indication Keyboard navigation: F7 focuses Hotlist panel, F8 focuses message list, F9 focuses message view "Inherit filter from parent" added to filters, limits filtering to messages contained in the parent view (for nested views) IMAA-support (solves problems with Unicode in incoming from addresses) Changing from "Folders" to "Views" in personal access points to avoid confusion; "Copy to" is changed to "Show in" User interface features Added a cookie manager Added a Wand manager Added Notes panel to the Hotlist, to store text snippets easily. Text on a webpage copied directly to a note (Copy to note, Ctrl+Shift+C) becomes a special web note. Double clicking the note opens the original web page. The lower pane is a text field where you can edit the selected note real-time. No saving is needed Added Page info panel to the Hotlist Improved FastForward function Everything is now defined in fastforward.ini FastForward can now be used as a "slide show" on galleries, like http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/ When spacing to the bottom of page, invoke FastForward Added .shtml as extension for HTML documents in addition to .htm and .html, since shtml is commonly used by web servers It is now possible to change view style of bookmarks, both in the Hotlist and in the Bookmark manager dialog Support for an alternative Ctrl+tab mode Export bookmarks file as HTML Enhanced tooltips for bookmarks and Page bar tabs, also status bar text shown Added Rewind button to jump back quickly. Return to manually entered addresses, a previously visited server when a link has gone off-site, or the first URL loaded, in the current window Support for downloading setup files for menus and keyboard shortcuts. If the server returns content-type "application/x-opera-configuration-menu" or "application/x-opera-configuration-keyboard" or "application/x-opera-configuration-mouse" and the file has the "ini" extension, Opera will download and install the menu, keyboard or mouse gestures setup directly The "Go to" dialog (F2) fills in the last used address Show minimized pages if the page bar is off Various fixes for floating hotlist Support for opening session files (win files) from the Hotlist and the address bar Progress Bar: Is now skinable Options for location of progress bar Option to open pages as 1) Always maximized, 2) Remember last size/position, 3) Always cascade A clock can be added to toolbars (from the Customize toolbars dialog) New mouse gestures: right+Up for FastForward and left+Down for Rewind Pressing the down arrow in a single line edit field (in forms for example) will now open a dropdown menu with personal info and all notes. Similiarly, pressing down in the To, Cc and Bcc fields in the message compose window opens the same kind of menu as pressing the To, Cc and Bcc buttons Added user controlled scaling of skin images New keyboard shortcuts: Shift+X and Shift+Z for FastForward and Rewind. Ctrl+1 to Ctrl+9 focuses the Hotlist panels in position 1 to 9 The Transfer panel now contains two columns, where the last toggles between filesize and progress Preferences dialogs improved Various improvements to the Wand (save for page or entire server) Added a "Manage contacts" dialog Improved bookmark import The new "Setup manager" offers a choice of skins and toolbars on the first run of Opera :hover and :active now only apply to links (as in, hover and/or active without any other selector) Support for actions in bookmark folders Fixed a hang on pages that use percentage height on replaced content in tables Plugins: avoid JavaScript url loading when JavaScript is switched off Made it possible to tab to the Hotlist selector Fix for @media handheld (which can be used to override SSR) Fix for accepting lowercase only tags in XHTML A number of crash fixes A number of focus fixes 7.03 (build 2670) Plug-in: Macromedia Flash Player 6 Updated to version 6.0r79 Fix for checking long file names before download as reported by Imagine/Nesumin and commented on by Secunia Stability fix for ad banner 7.02 (build 2668) Localized versions Various optimizations Opera works better with IME's for far-eastern languages Fixed issue reported by Secunia Minor updates to help documents Stability issues fixed 7.01 (build 2651) This version fixes some security and privacy issues reported by Grey Magic that were present in Opera 7.0 Security fix: Remote access to local content In a cross-domain attack, functions in one document could be replaced with functions from another document and domain. This could allow page and system content to be read Security fix: Remote access to local content In two similar cross-domain attacks, JavaScript code could be inserted into documents in the FILE domain. This could allow system content to be read Privacy fix: Part of browsing history could be accessed Insecure property on history object. This could allow the next and previous URLs in a document's window to be read by documents not authorized to see them Privacy fix: Part of browsing history could be accessed Content of JavaScript console could be read from another document. This could allow URLs that had script failures to be read Fixed some stability issues Help files updated 7.00 (build 2637) Changes: see the changelog. 6.05 (build 1140) 6.05 (Dutch) Security: Applied OpenSSL ASN.1 patch Security: Fixed an issue where HTML content could be inserted into directory listings Security: Added new certificate authority roots Miscellaneous: Not possible to invoke "meta refresh" in an e-mail Miscellaneous: Fix for Java-related slow navigation Miscellaneous: Fix for handling of initial Byte Order Mark (BOM signature) in *.ini files 6.04 (build 1135) Bookmarks file (*.adr) is automatically backed up to "*.adr.bak" on startup Bookmarks file (*.adr) is automatically backed up to "UnInst\Backup\hotlist_backup.adr" on reinstallation Added support for changing the Opera application icon Added "English to Japanese" and "Japanese to English" translation New opera6.ini setting (advanced usage); String: Application Icon=newicon.ico, Section: [User Prefs], Comment: Specifies alternative application icon Memory optimizations Opera checks for both HTTP and HTML when checking if it is default browser Uninstall key changed to "Opera", which means there will only be one uninstall item in "Add/Remove Programs" Minor updates to default bookmarks Improved handling of windows with a lot of Flash content Improved display when playing Windows Media Player files Improved handling of missing character set in e-mail attachments Fix for Japanese, Chinese, and Korean legacy encodings Fix to allow bookmarklets (generally JavaScript URLs) to be used with special buttons Fix for JavaScript URL handling Fix for Java still processing after Window with applet closed Fix for occasional loss of bookmarks (after an involuntary exit) Fix for printing of headers and footers Fix for saving pages and suggesting filenames 6.03 (build 1107) Fixes a MAJOR security hole! 6.02 (build 1101) no changes since build 1101 6.01 (build 1039) Changes (see also the changelog): News search from AllTheWeb added Support for special backward and forward buttons on Internet keyboards and mice Smooth scrolling implemented, but it is off by default and only recommended for fast systems Window size, scrollbars, and progress bar can be turned on and off directly by clicking Apply in Preferences Improved adherence to Reuse existing window Opening Opera with no windows in SDI mode, or clicking the Opera desktop icon, will open a blank page instead of the home page Some focus and tooltip fixes Keyboard shortcut combinations with AltGr disabled in edit fields A keyboard shortcut, Ctrl+Shift+A, has been added for Add Attachment in e-mail Support for Ctrl+A keyboard shortcut (select all) in the Hotlist Clear button added to Java console Updates to the "opera.jar" file fixes a Java applet loading problem ECMAScript Execution optimized ECMAScript Increased speed in certain cases Fix for proxy authentication Automatic proxy configuration works better for large scripts A few other proxy issues fixed Subfolders in e-mail client can now be added Fixes to import of e-mail The Instant messaging client is hidden by default No longer necessary to hold Alt down when dragging a bookmark to a new position Other minor fixes to bookmarks handling Bookmark file updated Improved memory handling Authenticated URLs are no longer saved in global history Better support for certain printer drivers Clear history of visited links in the Delete private data dialog will now also clear the visited date in bookmarks Updated Mozilla browser identification number to 4.78 Warning added for national domain cookies that are set for domains for which no IP address is registered Some display fixes 5.12 Changes: Enhanced pop-up window handling Java-enabled version includes the newest Runtime Environment, version 1.3.1 Bug fixes, mainly in the e-mail client Option to search Opera's knowledge base directly, import Netscape e-mail and the possibility of sending a URL to Opera's e-mail client 5.11 Changes: Startup: Fixed crashing on startup when having certain plugins, ie. GetRight and SVGView (which is installed with Adobe Acrobat 5) Languages: Fixed language preferences dialog, which would not save changes done to accept language User Interface: Fix to horizontal scrolling while in fullscreen mode Security: SSL fix where certain version 2 servers would choke on version 3 handshaking 5.10 Changes: Skins Flash enabled New progress display and stop button Work faster with improved mouse navigation Improved window system More privacy Updated E-mail client Better DOM and CSS support Bug fixes

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