Version history for Opera for Mac OS X

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Changes for v12.00 b1417 snapshot - v12.00 b1424 snapshot

Scrolling performance improvements

Changes for Next v12.00 b1413 snapshot - v12.00 b1417 snapshot

Desktop
DSK-360564 Hardware acceleration bugfixing
DSK-361802 Out-of-process plugins bugfixing
DSK-362676 Java stopped working in Opera
DSK-360071 Flash repaint problems on scrolling
DSK-361116 Animation stops when you open context menu
DSK-361808 Flash crashes and Opera freezes or crashes on opening the file upload dialog invoked by
flash
DSK-361130 Content positioned ontop of opaque Flash appears below (SW) and clicks sent to underlaying flash (HWA)
DSK-361898 Opera seems to crash when playing vids in fullscreen for a little while
DSK-360054 Freeze on page with hardware acceleration enabled
DSK-356695 Address field dropdown overlaps address field when old menu bar is enabled
DSK-361536 Wrong placement of cursor and characters in password fields in DirectX
Core
CORE-46032 Crash in >PluginHandler::HandleMessage
CORE-45910 Ajax formData break russian text.
CORE-43927 happyfuncoding.com - webworker importing already loaded script
CORE-45881 Drag in drop of file from OS to element with dropzone attribute fails

Changes for Next v12.00 b1359 Snapshot - Next v12.00 b1413 snapshot

DSK-363187 Add custom useragent user pref in opera:config
DSK-359785 Fixed Chinese mail alert string
DSK-360901 UI artifacts in viewport when scrolling a page containing a fixed element with 100% height
DSK-341552 Tab Bar switches from Show extender menu to No wrapping with tabs on the sides on restart
DSK-362425 No default search engine in search field
DSK-362258 Tab close behavior customization is broken
DSK-362855 [Mac] Configured color scheme not removed on upgrade
DSK-362459 [Mac] Missing mailto: nntp: news: and snews: url schemes in Info.plist
DSK-316224 [Mac] Opera doesn't know the title of websites under "Save as PDF"
DSK-362041 [Mac] Crash when loading PDF.js demo web fonts
DSK-351672 [Mac] Crash when trying to remove Labels from the panel
DSK-363436 [Mac] Opera crashes when trying to delete search engine
DSK-357214 [Unix] Unknown bar with Opera button and a set of mdi buttons is unremoveable
DSK-362196 [Unix] Broken window decorations with tabs on left side
DSK-362274 [Unix] Tab bar is 100% transparent with standard skin
Address bar
CORE-45480 Title of secure pages stored in global_history.dat lost when starting Opera
DSK-363177 Freeze when using a keyword search more than once
DSK-360078 Show History/Bookmarks In Addressfield Dropdown preferences don't work
DSK-109894 Address bar not updated when cursor is placed in address bar (and the user clicks the page to unfocus)
DSK-361109 Address dropdown not populated when searching page content with multiple words
DSK-363055 Opera should utilize maximum horizontal space in address bar dropdown for address or title
DSK-351224 Search suggestion latency can give you wrong suggestions if you type too fast in the address field
DSK-349823 Cancelling address field dropdown should revert it to its previous state
DSK-361483 Crash when typing in address bar
DSK-359224 Search suggestion does not respect private mode
DSK-350933 No history of local files
DSK-358541 Highlighted position in address field dropdown list lost when search suggestions arrive late
DSK-357363 Part of address that happens to match page content should not be bolded if it is not an actual match
DSK-361476 Previous searches in the address drop down bogus
DSK-361471 Display search suggestions when there is search keyword provided
Core
Several crash fixes (SVG, CSS animations, XHR, Vega, JavaScript, cache...)
CORE-36329 XMLHttpRequest.status becomes 0 instead of 401 or 407 on cached response (Eclipse Orion)
CORE-39435 Artifacts in WebM videos
CORE-44948 Scripts saturating setInterval() runs continuously
CORE-43990 Fix the Canvas clearRect properly
CORE-42078 Base URLs and history don't play nicely together
CORE-40321 Can't add invitees to Google Calendar invitations (change events sent even if the user changes the value back to the original text)
CORE-32333 responseXML should only be non-null when MIME type is bogus or XML
CORE-45567 Thumbnail generation crashes on shutdown
CORE-45894 tab.update should support focused:true
CORE-45967 Add BrowserTab.focused as an alias for BrowserTab.selected
CORE-43976 window.close should be able to close windows opened with _blank target from a user-initiated event
CORE-44828 Function Calls on named same domain frames not allowed via crossdomain parent under SSL (breaks Facebook third-party login / OAuth)
CORE-45395 Speed Dial extensions stop loading images when idle for a while
CORE-46154 Freeze due to inline with opacity (docs.google.com freeze)
CORE-44683 Crash at some pages (livedoor.jp)
CORE-44058 XSLT crash on predicates using system-property('xsl:version')
CORE-45190 Incorrect bounding box for path causes repainting artifacts/makes content disappear
CORE-44742 Crash on loading text/plain content
CORE-44708 clearTimeout() doesn't always remove the timeout
CORE-44625 Improve pipelining, JavaScript, and Turbo
CORE-44328 HTTPS connections stucks when using proxies with limited connections
CORE-44312 Incorrect clipping when combining CSS transforms and opacity
CORE-44065 Crash with a huge file
CORE-44038 docs.google.com editor crash
CORE-41772 Painting freeze (or 100% CPU use) with positioned inline CoreView + wide content inside inline stacking context root
CORE-46312 Drag'n'drop image too large - almost freezes and windows warns about low resources

Changes for v11.62 - Next v12.00 b1359 Snapshot

All fixes from 11.62 included
Multiple crash fixes
Fixed several memory leaks
CT-1778 [HWA] SVG radial gradients are rendered incorrectly
CT-1327 [HWA] SVG mask transparency doesn't work
CT-1287 [HWA] Partially repeating patterns don't work on canvas
CT-1749 [HWA] Clipping text is broken in canvas
CT-1760 [HWA] Box-shadow fails with hardware accerlation if blur distance covers entire box
CT-1762 [HWA] Some SVG color filters in combination with gradients do not work correctly
CT-1772 [HWA] SVG with clipPathUnits="userSpaceOnUse" is clipped incorrectly
CT-1816 [HWA] Background image rendering errors on body background (dilbert.com)
CT-1933 [HWA] SVG masking doesn't work correctly
CT-1677 [HWA] Black antialiasing with hardware back end
CT-2082 [HWA] Garbage is painted when radial gradient is used as background-image
CT-1827 [HWA] Non-repeating background image bleeding when zoom > 100% on Linux/FreeBSD
CT-1929 [HWA] Radial gradient animation flickers
CT-2004 [HWA] Transformed border-image is clipped incorrectly
CT-2092 [HWA] -o-crisp-edges broken
CT-2104 [HWA] SVG masking can fail on graphic cards with low multisampling quality
CT-2283 [HWA] Plugins with wmode="opaque" or wmode="transparent" are not displayed
CT-1878 [HWA] SVG polyline with stroke-width="0.1" is not displayed
CT-1753 [HWA] Blending issues when using gradient stroke in SVG
CORE-42033 [HWA] Wrong wrap mode on Webgl textures for OpenGL ES
CORE-44337 [HWA] WebGL GLSL function "all()" is not supported
CORE-43701 yahoo.com - photo images show partially
CORE-44189 SVG drag not started when dragging horizontally
CORE-43996 A way to see which tab is making Opera slow or unresponsive opera:cpu
CORE-44377 Zoom in/out in image viewer only for left mouse button with no modifier keys
CORE-41547 Include "detected language/writing system" in Info panel
CORE-44342 Support Uint8ClampedArray
CORE-44223 Add support for paged overflow and GCPM floats (column/page-attached floats)
CORE-24450 Changes to how Password Manager stores passwords: watch out for regressions!

Changes for v11.60 - v11.61

User interface
Fixed
New web handlers tab in the Site Preferences dialog cut off, dialog not wide enough
Crash when clicking "Use master password to protect saved passwords" checkbox
Occasional crash when clicking a link or opening a new tab
Opera crashes when closing a tab that has the Star Menu opened
Can't close Star Menu after opening Folders
Opera crashes while closing feeds tab while dialog is open
Opera loses advanced download settings after restart
Opera Turbo Tooltip repeated multiple times
Wrong new reload icon
Zoom factor lost after selecting another message
Bookmark star icon is not refreshed when the page is removed from the bookmarks
Drop support for Fallback Background = 0 and Fallback Foreground = 0 in skins, fixes layout in mail window with some 3rd party skins
Ampersands on main menu in WinXP with Zune Theme
Titlebar remains when entering fullscreen mode (XP)
Display and scripting
Fixed
thepokerbay.org user profile crashes onload
Crash in Carakan on WebGL benchmark
Crash on applying 3025 background images
Out of range memory access when using subpixel rendering
Secure IFrame with URL to image lowers security level to "Unsecure" (breaks Paypal checkout)
Opera freezes when loading a big session with the Tab vault extension
NFL.com crashes with admuncher installed
Overwritten document.selectSingleNode not called if invoked by helper function
load events fire on LINK elements pointing to existing local resources (link rel="stylesheet" href="file://...")
Do not cache invalid UserJS source files ("blacklisting" user javascript files on parse error)
Cannot scroll down with mouse wheel over IFRAME with scrolling=no if smooth scrolling is enabled
stylesheet not applied due to malformed gzip content
Userjs confirmation on secure pages pops up on every load of the page
Incorrect value of elements in ArrayBufferView created with byteOffset to an ArrayBuffer
Captcha Images is not refreshing automatically after site refresh
Mail, news, chat
Fixed
Opera crashes on updating mail from version 9.27
Crashes if you unpin the last message in the "Pinned" view
After few seconds locked attachments disappear from a mail
Check/Send (Ctrl+K) does not activate all mail accounts
Sorting problem with ungrouped mail list
Mail unread count is wrong
Users not receiving new mails because of QRESYNC. Added a way to disable QRESYNC in incomingN.txt and automatically disable it if fails to sync with QRESYNC enabled
Network
Fixed
Crash in host resolver when closing browser after loading large number of tabs simultaneously
IPv6 IP literal URLs "Invalid"
Security
Fixed
Fixed an issue where manipulation of framed content can allow cross-site scripting, as reported by Michal Zalewski; see our advisory
Fixed an issue here script events could be used to reveal the presence of local files; see our advisory

Changes for v11.60 Beta 1 - v11.60

http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/mac/1160/

Changes for v11.52 - v11.60 Beta 1

Core
CORE-41959 print preview broken for multipart/* documents (breaks mail printing)
CORE-42479 Crash on installing extension
CORE-42024 Stack exhaustion due to deeply recursive compilation of RE construct
CORE-42088 Avoid blowing the stack when compiling regexp loop sequences
Desktop
DSK-349634 Search engines are with no icons
DSK-349628 Opera should not crash on exit after checking for mail/RSS
Mail
Two-lined message list
New message display window
Message grouping
Support for Pinning, mapped to IMAP \Flagged
Quick Reply redesign
New overlay dialogs for the mail view settings
Ctrl-Enter to send quick reply
Update mailproviders.xml for iCloud
DSK-201988 Message displayed even though no message selected
DSK-222658 Show image enclosures inline in feeds
DSK-260891 Paste with mouse in Mail Compose window is mouse position dependant
DSK-277400 Message formatting is slow
DSK-309380 Enable Fit to Width for Opera Mail
DSK-311982 Show account connection status in mail panel
DSK-319023 Unread in Mail panel returns after a restart
DSK-340859 Messages in INBOX are not fetched before the folder is selected on Gmail accounts
DSK-342882 Mail data is corrupted, all mail redownloads
DSK-343439 after deleting a block of mail, selected message is not next to the selected block
DSK-343444 Cannot Rename Folders for RSS Feeds
DSK-344164 Remove '[x] from loading database progress bar
DSK-344565 Need to mark message as read twice before it is read
DSK-345346 Expunged messages in other clients are not expunged in Opera Mail
DSK-348639 Broken progress bar skin with windows native skin

Changes for v11.51 - v11.52

Display and scripting
Fixed
Adjusting volume on a YouTube HTML5 Video causes freeze
Fixed a non-exploitable bug which allowed injection of untrusted markup into the X-Frame-Options error page, as reported by Masato Kinugawa.
Network
Fixed
Crashes when downloading via BitTorrent
Security
Fixed
Fixed an issue where manipulating fonts in SVG could allow execution of arbitrary code; see our advisory

Changes for v11.50 - v11.51

Opera 11.51 is a recommended upgrade offering security and stability enhancements.

Changes for v11.50 Beta 1 - v11.50

http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/mac/1150/

Changes for v11.00 Build 1156 - v11.01

Web specifications
Implemented
Support for window.DOMStringList object of the W3C DOM3 DOMStringList Interface
User interface
Improved
Translation updates added throughout the UI
Fixed
Various mouse gesture sensitivity and recognition issues
Crashes occurring with Opera Dragonfly reload, file download, extension autoupdate, search suggestions
Crash occurring when clicking a link twice
An issue with feed preview
Opera installer fixes:
Crash when installing or uninstalling Opera
No File Lock window on upgrade when Opera is running on Windows 2000
Several processes when upgrading on a limited Windows Vista/7 account
Opera creating a file called desktop.ini and places it on the desktop
Switching languages in the installer does not changing the language in the help tooltip
Error code 76 occurring if the MSI uninstallation fails to find the source package
Crash occuring when closing a tab
Crash occuring when opening a downloaded file
Default size of the search field unintentionally changing
Crash occuring on page load for some sites, for example vkontakte.ru
Repaint issues occuring when in Facebook
Disk cache in Turbo mode being prematurely emptied after bringing up a context menu
Deactivated auto-reload in speed dials when the address changes
Removed the close button on tabs that are not selected
Display and scripting
Improved
Exposed the widget object to extension scripts
Fixed
script element being re-executed if child text changes
HTMLElement.toString() throwing an exception for all HTMLElement prototypes
Touch event attributes being misnamed in SVG
Dynamically added style sheet fails to apply if rel attribute is set after a href attribute
DocumentType not being prototypable
Empty script elements still have an empty text node child
Iframe with document.domain is not being allowed to open parent's document
Not being able to submit forms with input[type="search"] or with when pressing Enter
Deeply nested (5+ levels) iframe not loading in Analytix
Crash when clicking in a dropdown on a WAP page
Crash when downloading to a non-accessible target
Opera installer crash when upgrading a running copy of Opera
Crash prevention for spell checking
URI fragment identifier not being exposed in all URIs
Mail, news, chat
Improved
Updated the HushMail mailproviders entry
Added MobileMe Mail-me.com-to mail providers
Now possible to open the mail panel as a tab when only using feeds
The appearance of the signature editor
HTML replying and forwarding format
Fixed
Crash occurring with the mail account dropdown
Mail bodies sometimes not loading in single message view
Settings being lost for POP views after a restart
Unread count in the Mail panel button not being updated
Crash occurring when changing an M2 account in mail compose
The default font for HTML mail composition
Simultaneouly fixed an issue with dir=rtl that was inserted in the wrong place in the HTML
Mail Toolbar instead of Feed Toolbar being shown when searching in a 'feeds only' installation
Right-click context menu in Mail panel section headers being misplaced when the section is expanded
Incorrect right-click context menu being in the Mail Toolbar search field
Crash occurring when trying to edit two links in mail compose at once
Crash occurring while creating folders when no item is selected in the feed section
Index sizes above 2 GB that have negative values in the mail panel window
Issues with the mail panel context menu when only using feeds
Account does not loading on startup if the signature is wrong
Showing feeds when showing a mail account (show messages from)
Security
Fixed
Removed support for "javascript:" URLs in CSS -o-link values, to make it easier for sites to filter untrusted CSS.
Fixed an issue where large form inputs could allow execution of arbitrary code, as reported by Jordi Chancel; see our advisory.
Fixed an issue which made it possible to carry out clickjacking attacks against internal opera: URLs; see our advisory.
Fixed issues which allowed web pages to gain limited access to files on the user's computer; see our advisory.
Fixed an issue where email passwords were not immediately deleted when deleting private data; see our advisory.
Fixed an issue which could cause the wrong executable to be used to display a downloaded file in its folder, as reported by Makoto Shiotsuki; see our advisory.

Changes for v10.63 - v11.00 Build 1156

New features in Opera 11
Extensions allow you to add new functionality to Opera easily.
Tab stacking helps you keep your tabs organized.
Pinned tabs now take up less space and are neatly grouped to the left of your tabs.
Visual mouse gestures help you learn how to control Opera with mouse movements.
An enhanced address field makes it easy to stay safe on the Web.
Mail panel upgrades give you greater control over your email in Opera.
Search predictions from Google harness the power of Opera's integrated search.
A new bookmarks bar gives you easy access to your bookmarks and replaces the personal bar.
Speed improvements bring Opera ahead of other browsers in many benchmarks.
HTML5 server-sent events and Web Sockets enhance Opera's support for new web standards.
Auto-update now makes sure you have the latest extensions and Opera Unite apps.
You can now set plug-ins to load only on demand to significantly speed up browsing.
Opera's installer is smaller and streamlined for a faster, easier installation.

Changes for v10.62 - v10.63

User interface
Fixed
Crash when removing custom settings folders
Start Bar being blanked out after opening a background tab
Opera Unite Messenger application not loading
Crash when saving a file while the page redirects
Crash after leaving a page containing Flash with wmode="transparent"
Using Opera Link, bookmarks dragged out of the Opera Mini folder are recreated when sent as added in the Opera Mini folder again
Opera Link freezing on startup
Fallback to a second address being very slow
Reloading pages give multiple unclosable download dialogs
Display and scripting
Improved
Handling of Content-Disposition extended parameters
Fixed
Memory corruption when using SVG in an element
Several JavaScript-related issues, including one with Yahoo! Mail Classic
A mouse focus problem related to plug-ins
Incorrect compilation to native code leads to wrong arithmetic results
Crash when assigning data or src attribute on a focused and highlighted element with dirty layout
JavaScript alerts opening shortly after a page loads close instantly
Miscellaneous
Improved
Added search suggestions from Baidu
Fixed
100% CPU usage occurring when starting Opera
Crash when opening a file with Content-Disposition: attachment directly in Opera
Security
Fixes
Fixed an issue that allowed cross-domain checks to be bypassed, allowing limited data theft using CSS, as reported by Isaac Dawson; see our advisory.
Fixed an issue where manipulating the window could be used to spoof the page address; see our advisory.
Fixed an issue with reloads and redirects that could allow spoofing and cross-site scripting; see our advisory.
Fixed an issue that allowed private video streams to be intercepted, as reported by Nirankush Panchbhai of Microsoft Vulnerability Research; see our advisory.
Fixed an issue that caused JavaScript to run in the wrong security context after manual interaction; see our advisory.

Changes for v10.61 - v10.62

Our further-optimized JavaScript engine is over 50% faster than in Opera 10.50.
Search suggestions for selected providers help you find results more easily.
Enhanced support for advanced web standards such as HTML5 and WebM video is now included.
Opera can prompt you to share your location, making geolocation-supporting websites more useful.

Changes for v10.60 - v10.61

User interface
Changed
"Fraud Protection" renamed to "Fraud and Malware Protection"
Fixed
Relative paths not working in the Filename setting for Speed Dial background
Premature shutdown when using vBulletin's WYSIWYG editor
Loading an animated png causes high CPU usage with no response from the browser
yahoo.cn mailproviders SMTP entry not using a submission port
Changing the default cookie preference to "Accept all cookies"
Installing Opera 10.60 windows overwrites saved search preferences
Display and Scripting
Fixed
Google Calendar compatibility
Unite listening on UDP 1900 even if UPnP service discovery is off
Several cases where widgets will not run
Premature shutdown when loading qq.com
Setting the onload property of XMLHttpRequest blocks document memory from being garbage collected
Opera treating binary files as plain text (opening it in the browser instead of showing a download dialog)
Premature shutdown when loading the Canvas demo
Printing from print preview results in either a freeze or corrupted page
Widgets not having access to a network after restart
"Accept cookies" and "only from the site I visit" settings being incorrect in Preferences dialog
Premature shutdown occurring on startup of Opera under Windows 98
Disk cache not working correctly in turbo mode
Security
Fixes
Fixed an issue where heap buffer overflow in HTML5 canvas could be used to execute arbitrary code, as reported by Kuzzcc; see our advisory.
Fixed an issue where unexpected changes in tab focus could be used to run programs from the Internet, as reported by Jakob Balle and Sven Krewitt of Secunia; see our advisory.
Fixed an issue where news feed preview could subscribe to feeds without interaction, as reported by Alexios Fakos; see our advisory.

Changes for v10.53 - v10.60 Beta 1

New in Opera 10.60 beta
Even faster browsing
The JavaScript engine introduced in Opera 10.50 is being fine tuned, giving more than a 75% speed improvement in some benchmark tests.
Windows, Mac and Linux in sync
Versions for Windows, Mac and Linux will be made available at the same time.
Wide-screen Speed Dial
Now, Speed Dial fits most monitors better with wide-screen thumbnails for your favorite webpages, giving a clearer preview view of websites.
Improved tab previews
The visual "peek" effect when hovering over tabs looks more refined with smoothly rounded corners and a clear display of page titles.
A more visible menu button
The Opera menu button for Windows, Linux and FreeBSD users is now clearly labeled so that it is easier to find and use.
Linux/FreeBSD versions
Opera 10.5x final has been skipped, but all its new features will be included in Opera 10.60. This includes private browsing, improved KDE and Gnome skinning, and much more.
Smarter searching
New search suggestions for selected providers help you enter queries more easily to find more of the results you seek.
Location awareness
Opera can now prompt you to share your location, allowing websites to provide more relevant and useful information. Read more on our privacy page.
Attractive feature icons
Tab previews and visual tabs now show specific icons for Opera features such as bookmarks, the download manager and history.
Exciting new features for developers
Geolocation
You can add location awareness to your web applications to expand the possibilities of what you can offer.
Appcache
Web applications can be designed to continue working without Internet access.
WebM
Opera now supports WebM in HTML5 video: a high quality, free and open video format.

Changes for v10.53 - v10.54

Fixed an issue where Data URIs could be used to allow cross-site scripting; see our advisory (http://www.opera.com/support/search/view/955/).
Prevented Opera from being used as a vector for a font issue in the underlying operating system, as reported by Microsoft's security team; see our advisory (http://www.opera.com/support/search/view/954/).
Fixed an extremely severe issue; details will be disclosed at a later date.
Fixed a moderately severe issue; details will be disclosed at a later date.
Fixed a less severe issue; details will be disclosed at a later date.

Changes for v10.52 - v10.53

Enjoy unprecedented speed with our new Carakan JavaScript engine, Vega graphics library, and Opera Presto 2.5 browser engine.
Opera includes industry leading support for Web standards such as HTML 5, SVG and JavaScript.
Enhanced platform integration on Windows and Mac means that Opera looks and works better than ever on your operating system.
A beautiful, new design looks great on Windows, maximizing your view of the Web and fully utilizing Aero transparency on Windows 7 and Windows Vista.
Our improved dialogs will not get in your way or interrupt you. You can now switch between different pages without having to clear prompts first.
Searching is easier than ever, with Web search integrated right in the address field. You can also find pages from your history and bookmarks, as you type.
Displaying pages in the size you want is smoother than ever, with a new zoom slider in the status bar.
Rest assured that browsing stays personal with private browsing. Once you close a private tab or window, the data from that session is removed from the browser without a trace.

Changes for v10.52 Beta 2 - v10.52

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