Opera 9.52 Security And Stability Upgrade

Opera 9.52 was released today and includes a host of improvements most notably to the stability and security of the browser. Some other highlights are:

User Interface

• Added several improvements to the icons and skin
• Added a bookmark path to autocompleted bookmarks in the address bar to better distinguish them from visited pages

Mail, News, Chat

• Fixed an issue where Mark all as read in Opera Mail would also mark as read some mails not visible in the current view
• Fixed the creation of the POP AOL/aim.com account
• Fixed a problem connecting to online.no
• Note: Users experiencing problems with online.no should change their incoming server to use Plaintext authentication
• Fixed an issue where IRC would disconnect users without informing them

Display and Scripting

• Fixed an issue with history navigation: an iframe with document.write is not added to history anymore
• window.close() now functions after invoking a context menu - now also works in widgets
• Fixed a URL encoding issue: javascript: URLs
• Fixed an issue with lists not displaying correctly when text is rendering in RTL
• Fixed a problem where content blocker adds a generalized block rule when using the Details button

Security

• Prevented insecure pages from showing incorrect security information, as reported by Lars Kleinschmidt: see our advisory
• Feed links can no longer link to local files: see our advisory
• Feed subscription can no longer cause the wrong page address to be displayed: see our advisory

Miscellaneous

• Fixed a problem where Gmail would not load
• Fixed an issue with low quality on YouTube video previews
• Embedded YouTube videos should work more often now without having to reload
• Fixed RealPlayer on BBC