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Opera 9.1

(this one is easy as there are already weekly builds close to RC1)

• fraud protection
  
• custom find in page colors
  

time: early 2006 Christmas present (middle of December)

• The single highlight of this release is fraud protection - see press release
  
• The second feature I named - custom colors for find in page - is not even mentioned in Opera9.1 change-log, although it is there: opera:config#Colors|HighlightedBackground
  
• There is another feature under the hood regarding a precautionary security enhancement - so it may be called a security fix: the wand was changed because of the possibility in other browsers to catch the login-data on community sites (article on heise-news, German article) which was published short time after my roadmap prediction.
  
• Besides that there are quite a few things mentioned in Opera9.1 change-log - as predicted:
  

  In every version will be bugfixes and enhanced support of web standards.

  note: The planned fix for the horizintal scroll bar on Adobe's pages was removed in final Opera due to some bad side effects.
  
  
• Furthermore there are some preperations in Opera's ini-files for future use, at least partly already working if manually activated (see Saitos blog) - I've updated my Opera 9.5 roadmap prediction.
  

Opera 9.1 was released on 18th of December which I consider to be an early 2006 X-mas present and pretty much the predicted middle of December.


Well, it will be much harder for my prediction to match the 9.5 and 10 features, as I suppose not even Opera has decided yet about the final releases. Well, I'll keep you up to date ;-)