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 working for a company like Opera, please point them to our job site.

In particular, we need C++ developers for Oslo, Norway and Linköping, Sweden. We don't care if you prefer Windows, Mac, Linux or FreeBSD, you will work under the environment of your choice. For instance, if you think you're the right person to make our Mac version integrate better with OS X: We may have a job for you. If you think we should go open source: This is as close as it gets, code Opera yourself and get paid for it

We also look for strong designers, both for graphics and interaction design for our consumer products (Desktop, Widgets, Mini...).

• User interface developer
  
• Mail developer
  
• Graphic designer
  
• Interaction designer
  

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

WARNING: These are development snapshots: they contain the latest changes, but they also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, they may not work at all.

Known Issues

• [Bug 328318] Wand usually doesn't work
  
• [Bug 327180] Dragonfly does not work when JavaScript is disabled
  
• [Bug 324985] International installer on Windows is broken when using some languages
  
• [Bug 324377] Save Linked Content As fails sporadically
  
• [Bug 327333] Some SVGs do not paint on Windows
  
• [Bug 328186] Crash when using Master Password
  
• [Bug 324727] The Octoshape plug-in causes Opera to crash on start-up
  
• The tab bar on Mac may mix up favicon/text placement
  

Changelog

• Line breaks in Notes are now preserved when sync'ing data
  
• application/x-msdownload files are not always saved with an .exe extension anymore
  
• Lots of improvements on certificates UI
  
• Improvements on certificate handling and on the new certificate repository
  
• New look for the address field dropdown
  
• New cookie confirmation dialog
  
• Several stability fixes
  
• Several performance improvements to JavaScript
  
• Offline mode is improved
  

Mail

• Fixed a crash when reindexing mail
  
• Fixed problem fetching POP mail from web.de (and many other providers)
  
• Show "Password not displayed" instead of always showing six asterisks for Opera Mail passwords
  
• Improved POP performance when checking for new mail
  
• SMTP authentication will now default to Auto instead of None
  
• Fixed problem where many feed items were not downloaded
  

Platform-specific

• [Mac] New tab look (thanks lachralle!)
  
• [UNIX] Fixed some CJK issues in the UI
  

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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 Nysæter Pettersens blog

We've introduced subtle, but important UI and back-end changes is this build. In just a few words: Kestrel gets EV, the address field will change the way it displays page information, and we now have automatic certificate updates!

This latest snapshot build has support for Extended Validation (EV) certificates. This means that on EV sites you'll see a padlock on a green background. And remember: It ain't EV 'til it's EV, all EV. Opera is a more strict than other browsers, and will display an EV site with a "green padlock" only if all elements on the page are from EV sites. Read Yngve's article for more details.

There are some more changes in the address bar: the fraud protection button will now work differently. For HTTP sites you will not see the button anymore. On HTTPS sites the padlock will be on a yellow background (green for EV). If, however, you come across an HTTPS site which lowers the overall rating of the security level of the page (details on the levels are again to be found in Yngve's article), you will see a grey "?" button, which will provide you with more information on the security level. A fraudulent page will still be flagged with a red warning in the address field.

The back-end change in this snapshot affects the certificate database: we can now add new Roots to the Certificate Authority database without requiring users to update their installation. Find details about this over in Yngve's article.

WARNING: These are development snapshots: they contain the latest changes, but they also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, they may not work at all.

Known Issues

• Too many searches in the search engine list
  
• "Open With" other browsers doesn't work
  
• The progress bar does not show if it's set to "Pop-up at the bottom"
  

Changelog

New Features

• Added EV certificate support
  
• Added root certificate update
  
• Added Notes synchronization
  
• Added opera:historysearch to default list of search engines
  

Core Fixes

• Fixed problems loading Gmail
  
• Improved XHR (AJAX) performance
  
• Fixed mouse gesture crash in print preview
  
• Windowless mode for Silverlight 1.1 now works
  

Mail Fixes

• Fixes to decoding of mailto: URLs
  
• Fixed crash when listing channels/rooms on IRC server
  
• Fixed problem when fetching feeds would freeze Opera for a long time
  
• Fixed problem where Opera wouldn't start for some users with old mail directories
  
• Optimized newsfeed download when users have lots of existing feed messages
  
• Fixed problem seen when changing the status of several messages at the same time
  
• Fixed several parse errors caused by IMAP server bugs
  
• Fixed problem adding contacts to messages when the contact has multiple e-mail addresses
  

UI Fixes

• Fixed crash when opening Help
  
• Some fixes to Opera Link synchronization
  
• Fixed problem saving pages in formats other than HTML
  
• MHTML files can now only be saved as MHTML
  
• Fixed problem where Personal bar was greyed-out sometimes
  
• Viewing source doesn't put the file in the system temp folder anymore
  
• Viewing source and applying changes to local files commits the changes to the local file again
  
• Fixed the internal "Execute program" command, which caused Open in buttons to stop working
  

Platform-specific

• [Windows] Fixed opacity inversion on web pages
  
• [Windows] Fixed GDI leak related to favicons
  
• [Windows] Fixed crash when closing Opera
  
• [Windows] Fixed printing issues where some words would run into each other
  
• [OS X] Fixed problem scrolling to the bottom of the pages using scrollbars
  

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While working on the last few remaining issues we have with the Acid3 test, one of our testers discovered an easter egg in the test. Over the weekend our developers have hunted down more of them and worked around the clock to improve our score as you see in this screenshot:



One of our core developers was especially impressed with the quality of the easter eggs: "I've never seen this well obfuscated ECMAscript code, it is clear that the language now is mature enough to compete with C and Perl".

Opera's Chief Web Opener David Storey, tells us he is thrilled that the race for points has broken the psychological barrier of 100/100, crossing his fingers that even imaginary numbers might be within the reach of Opera and WebKit developers now fighting for the lead in Web standards compliance.

Mozilla Inc. was not available for comment.