Opera 9.6 Released : Security, Stability, Low Bandwidth Mode And More

Today saw the launch of Opera 9.6 final. This is a security and stability upgrade and recommended by Opera. Other then this Opera 9.6 brings with it some new features such as:

Opera Mail

Low Bandwidth Mode is a setting on mail accounts that makes Opera Mail use as little bandwidth as possible.

• For IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol): Opera will only synchronise new messages and it will not fetch message attachments unless requested
• For POP (Post Office Protocol): Opera will not fetch more than the first 100 lines of a message unless requested

The new Opera Scroll Marker makes it easier to continue reading when you scroll through a Web page. At the end of the page it will indicate the previous position of the bottom of the screen so you can easily see where to continue reading.

Some of the changes that has been introduced since Opera 9.52 are:

Display and Scripting

• Improved Acid3 support: The document property has been removed from iframe objects for compatibility with Gecko, WebKit, and the Acid3 test
• Added support for the caller property on functions: http://developer.mozilla.org/En/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference:Global_Objects:Function:caller
• Special characters are now displayed properly in the Address bar drop-down
• Opera Dragonfly element highlighting no longer stays on the page after closing the developer tools window
• Script focused elements are no longer highlighted
• Fixed saving of SVG when right clicking
• Fixed an issue where custom search engines would not get a favicon

Security

• Verisign and Comodo are now formally EV-enabled: see Yngve's blog post
• Fixed an issue where specially crafted addresses could execute arbitrary code, as reported by Chris of Matasano Security; see our advisory
• Java applets can no longer be used to read sensitive information, as reported by Nate McFeters; see our advisory