Thats right, Opera 9.6 is soon ready for its first beta flight. We have now frozen all features and only critical fixes go in. Really soon now, the beta will be released, but we want more feedback from you guys before we do so.

Changelog

• Added Core version (currently "Presto/2.1.1") to the User-Agent header; all our products will include this feature soon
  
• Sites using HTTP Auth are now saved in typed history
  
• Added setting to prevent bookmarks from showing in the Address field auto-completion drop-down
  
• Properly stop loading pages with iframes when closing the page or pressing stop
  
• Fixed problem where dynamically added xml-stylesheet processing instructions were ignored
  
• Removed the document property from iframe objects for compatibility with Gecko, WebKit, and the Acid3 test
  
• Added support for the caller property on functions
  
• Fixed yet another case of having to press the back button twice
  
• Improvements to feed preview page
  
• Made feed preview page template location customizable
  
• Made reloading Speed Dial while offline actually reload all thumbnails
  
• Fixed Opera Link issue where notes could end up blank after being synced
  
• The Opera Link queue file is no longer created before using Link
  
• The fraud protection dialog now works when using a proxy
  
• Made it possible to remove Speed Dial search again by unchecking the "Use as default Speed Dial search"
  
• Fixed text input on Windows Tablet PC Edition 2005
  
• Fixed open/save of images in Opera Mail when using the image context menu
  
• Made all top-level access points (except All Messages) selectable
  
• Fixed a problem deleting drafts from the Drafts view
  
• UNIX: Additional fixes to flash plugin handling. Freezes when using flash should now be mostly gone.
  

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Hot on the heels of Wednesday's 9.52 release comes our first snapshot of 9.60.

Everyone here at on the Desktop Team has been working hard to add new features to your favorite browser, and here's what you can look forward to in 9.60:

Opera Link
Custom search engines and typed history* are now joining bookmarks, speed dials, personal bar, and notes in Opera Link.

Feed Preview
Now you can preview an RSS/Atom feed before subscribing.

Opera Mail: Low Bandwidth Mode
Low Bandwidth Mode is a setting on mail accounts that makes Opera Mail use as little bandwidth as possible. For IMAP, this means that Opera will only synchronise new messages and it will not fetch message attachments unless requested. For POP, Opera will not fetch more than the first 100 lines of a message unless requested.

Opera Mail: Follow/Ignore threads and contacts
Follow and Ignore are new features for users that receive a lot of messages. It makes it easier to dismiss unimportant messages and easier to recognise important messages.

Opera Mail: Go To Thread
You can now also "Go to thread" which means that you can view only the messages from that thread. Useful for those that uses flat view.

Enjoy!

_{* Typed history is only the history you explicitly type or select from the address bar}

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

• Follow/ignore thread misses some messages
  

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Hey
One more RC was needed to fix the upload regression :-)




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All right. Another snapshot for you as we're getting ever closer to version 9.52.

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.

Changelog

• Fixed problem where some IRC commands were not working
  
• Fixed problem where UI would not update after unsubscribing an IMAP folder
  
• Fixed problem where content blocker add a too general block rule when using the Details button
  
• Several improvements to the skin
  
• Embedded YouTube videos should work more often now without having to reload
  
• Windows: Fixed opening PDF files in Acrobat Reader plugin when the folder contains special characters
  
• UNIX: Made the -geometry command line argument work even when Opera was previously maximized
  

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Coming back from a two week vacation just to find the office half empty because the others have gone on vacation is a bit boring, but at the same time it is very relaxing, giving me a slow start.... The boring part is that so little happens at work when people are on vacation. While I was expecting to make a small changelog this time, I didn't expect it to be this small. Anyway, give the build a spin, we're closing in on 9.52 final now.

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.

Changelog

• Readded the Windows shell menu to the Transfer context menu
  
• Fixed an issue with lists not displaying correctly when text rendering is RTL
  
• Fixed opening of files in external applications when disk cache is off
  
• Fixed issue with low quality on YouTube video previews
  
• Fixed mail appearance when Opera is installed in a folder with a "#" character in its name
  
• Fixed RealPlayer on BBC
  
• Added work-arounds for problems with various POP servers
  
• Fixed problem updating signature when switching accounts
  
• Quite a few stability fixes
  

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