WIndows and IE

Opera continues to expand and we need more people on the Desktop team to make even better products in shorter time. If you already live in Scandinavia or if you'd like to try to work here, please check out our open positions. This is the right time to apply! If you know someone that should be workin ...

Today's snapshot is significantly faster on Windows thanks to a technique called profile-guided optimization (PGO). Compiler optimizers sometimes make tweaks that are controversial: they improve performance in what it perceives as the most common case, but make it worse in the perceived least commo ...

Here's a new snapshot with a nice mix of bugfixes, enhancements and new bugs. Oh, and be sure to keep an eye on the Dragonfly blog later today :cool: WARNING: These are development snapshots: they contain the latest changes, but they also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss s ...

Opera 9.5 Beta 2 is available now! :jester: Beta 2 introduces Notes syncing support using Opera Link , EV certificate support, improved Fraud protection, many performance and usability improvements in Quick Find (also known as history search), improvements in website rendering and performance, plu ...

In the previous snapshot we introduced EV and automatic updates of certificates. Last Friday, we updated the certificate repository, so if you've been running one of the two latest snapshots during the weekend, the new certificates should already have been installed. More details over at Yngve Nys ...

Bulletin Severity Rating:Moderate - This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine. An attacker could exploit either of the vulnerabilities by constructing a specially crafted file that could allow denial of service when received by t ...

Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves a security vulnerability in the Microsoft Jet Database Engine (Jet) in Windows. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view ...

Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Publisher that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Publisher file. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control ...

Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves several privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Word file. An attacker who successfully exploited these vulnerabilities could take complete contro ...

Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This important security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in the Windows kernel. A local attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, chan ...