Opera Desktop Team

9.63

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Hei! We released 9.63 today, which addresses quite some security issues. This release is a recommended security upgrade for all those running the latest stable releases.

Changelogs are available:
Windows
Mac
Linux/UNIX

Go download it - and browse the web securely! wizard

Peregrine takes flight... Opera 10.0 Alpha 1 is here!The Christmas Edition

Comments

DoubleT Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:20:10 AM

Thank you!

Hope you noticed this test.

ThArGos Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:29:48 AM

Thanks! Is this security update against this hack :
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32323
?

PaiTrakt Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:30:56 AM

Is the Peregrine alpha vulnerable, and if yes, can we expect an update in the nearest future?

K Y Nghoneydew Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:36:15 AM

No Opera 9.63 for Fedora 10?

knockout

Ravindran NavaneethanRavindran Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:37:49 AM

Thanks.

Harish Lakshminarayanaharish-l Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:48:34 AM

Opera 10 scores a 10 on that test DoubleT!

Ahmed GhanemAhmedGhanem Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:55:53 AM

Oh, I saw there's a new RSS from the desktop team and I said well it's definitely a new Alpha bigsmile but it's not, anyway thanks for your effort guys ( I use alpha 1 as my default now yes )

Ar1Pear1pe Tuesday, December 16, 2008 11:09:48 AM

yes

xoed Tuesday, December 16, 2008 11:10:57 AM

What about 10.0. Is it Vulnerable?

Christian HuffPedric Tuesday, December 16, 2008 11:14:39 AM

You're not supposed to use an alpha (nor beta) version for everyday browsing, anyway. So Opera 10 may be affected and not patched as timely as Opera 9.

pcavalcanti2008 Tuesday, December 16, 2008 11:29:50 AM

Nothing to do about the update - but i don´t know if this has ever been suggested before - but Opera´s customization possibilities makes it extremely easy to surf the web and keep everything under control, the way you want it to be. That´s the reason i love Opera, and it´s my main browser.

And there´s a lot of features in Opera(like the ´start bar´) that i really miss on my file managers.
Couldn´t you turn opera into a file manager as well? bigsmile with its plugins the manager could preview all your files, and there could be also support for previewing pdf and other Adobe files, fonts, etc. It would be the best file manager ever!

What do you think?


arcy Tuesday, December 16, 2008 12:09:48 PM

After I install 9.63 does not open page with Speed Dial sad
When I close all the cards automatically displays not Speed Dial only a completely blank page sad
Also after running browser does not show up the speed dial only a completely blank page.
In preferences run I did not change anything.
After I run new tabs manual speed dial displays ok.
In 9.62 everything was ok - speed dial run automatically after I start the browser and closed all tabs.

P.S. Sorry for my poor english knockout

smallfox Tuesday, December 16, 2008 12:37:08 PM


nice.. thanks!

tomba4 Tuesday, December 16, 2008 12:47:43 PM

Is there no Linux Qt4 version in official releases? I'm still using last RC of 9.60 because of this.

Petko VasilevAlpha-Toxic Tuesday, December 16, 2008 1:00:38 PM

@DoubleT: I think that test is crap.
for example
Autocomplete=Off Prevents Form Fills FAILED
and Opera doesn't even _have_ autocomplete... (and turning off the wand does prevent form fills) AFAICS

Dennismcd Tuesday, December 16, 2008 1:01:19 PM

>> Couldn´t you turn opera into a file manager as well?

"file://localhost/" works perfect

sebt Tuesday, December 16, 2008 1:11:18 PM

As usual, it's nice to see Opera on the leading edge with regard to security, especially in light of yet another major IE security scare doing the rounds at the moment.

bigsmile

KurtChrisDavey Tuesday, December 16, 2008 1:56:05 PM

@sebt

+1

Charlescalande Tuesday, December 16, 2008 2:23:56 PM

How could I live without Opera? party

Charles SchlossChas4 Tuesday, December 16, 2008 2:25:55 PM

Opera 9.63 is secure cool

fastestlan Tuesday, December 16, 2008 2:37:43 PM

Off-topic comment removed.

secutor Tuesday, December 16, 2008 2:52:12 PM

Is there no Linux Qt4 version in official releases? I'm still using last RC of 9.60 because of this.


@tomba4: check the download location:
ie:
http://ftp.tiscali.nl/opera/linux/963/final/en/i386/

Miladin MiladinoskiEagleMKD Tuesday, December 16, 2008 3:19:47 PM

Congrats smile

QuHno Tuesday, December 16, 2008 3:27:10 PM

0 (zero, null, nada) open issues at
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/10615/?task=statistics_2008
today, better than the rest. Thanks smile

EricJH Tuesday, December 16, 2008 3:37:01 PM

Thanks for the update..sherlock

vlevi Tuesday, December 16, 2008 3:54:19 PM

I have installed it, and I noticed, that the watch thread/ignore thread option disappeared from the mail part!
I still can see my watched threads, but I can no longer mark a new thread to watch, and I cannot remove a thread from the list of wathced threads.
sad

PatttyMetalgirlPattty Tuesday, December 16, 2008 4:53:36 PM

Dowloaded and updated! yes

MetalRaise Tuesday, December 16, 2008 4:58:09 PM

Originally posted by harish.l:

Opera 10 scores a 10 on that test DoubleT!


Only passing 9 out of 21 tests here.

hobe Tuesday, December 16, 2008 5:01:36 PM

Originally posted by vlevi:

I have installed it, and I noticed, that the watch thread/ignore thread option disappeared from the mail part!
I still can see my watched threads, but I can no longer mark a new thread to watch, and I cannot remove a thread from the list of wathced threads.



Cannot confirm. For me Follow/Ignore works as it should (running under Windows XP). Which system do you use?

Scam Tuesday, December 16, 2008 5:04:42 PM

I wanna next Opera 10 alpha/beta. smile It is so stable that I set it as default browser! Waiting for the next snapshot.

A.RuzanovLex1 Tuesday, December 16, 2008 6:10:27 PM

And you have again broken transfer of a command line sad .
If parameter in command line contains spaces you _must_ use quotes for it.

illiad Tuesday, December 16, 2008 6:21:39 PM

Guys, PLEASE!!

This part of the blog is about Kestrel, Opera 9.63.. NOT 10!!!

If you want to talk about V10 peregrine then please go to these links!

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2008/12/03/peregrine-takes-flight-opera-10-0-alpha-is-here

Beta testing (including snapshots and previews)

sa666666 Tuesday, December 16, 2008 6:30:26 PM

There's still the issue of the UNIX Web Search dialog box (Alt-Space activates it) where searches don't work unless you specifically select the search engine each time. For example, if you've selected Google, the string 'Google' will appear in the dialog box title, but the Google engine won't actually be selected in the dropdown box (it won't show the Google icon, but something else instead). Sort of defeats the purpose of a fast shortcut key if you have to reach for the mouse each time.

I've reported this in the 9.6 RC's, and the 9.60 and 9.61 releases. And it's still there in 9.62 and 10.0a. Bug reported as DSK-238382 near the end of October.

Please, for the love of all that is holy, can someone look into this (either to fix it, or at least confirm that it's an issue)?

lamarca lamarca Tuesday, December 16, 2008 6:42:35 PM

nice one.

funkspock Tuesday, December 16, 2008 6:46:56 PM

Could you please look at all the security issues mentioned here:

http://www.info-svc.com/news/2008/12-12/

Thanks.

illiad Tuesday, December 16, 2008 6:53:26 PM

Its happening in ALL browsers...
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2305

So if you are using that 'password management feature' - they can see your passwords! Only safe place for those is in your head.. p

Kyle Bakerkyleabaker Tuesday, December 16, 2008 7:48:59 PM

@illiad
+1

Barraco Mármol Jerónimojerobarraco Wednesday, December 17, 2008 1:49:09 AM

thanks a lot,
i'm just sad it doesn't use qt4 sad

tomba4 Wednesday, December 17, 2008 7:31:27 AM

@secutor: thank you for the link, it's great!

phoonkah Wednesday, December 17, 2008 8:49:23 AM

Off-topic comment removed by moderator.

miki69 Wednesday, December 17, 2008 10:40:52 AM

Thanks for the update!

www.nissan.de doesn't work again (I guess it's browser incompatiblity)

Also Opera Desktop team is messed up:

http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/4404/95534851tc7.jpg

(I have zoom set to 80% just to capture more space to show you this)

Any idea?

Haavardhaavard Wednesday, December 17, 2008 12:28:36 PM

miki69: It would be nice if you could try to provide at least a few details about what you mean by "doesn't work". It seems that it shows some error page, and spoofing as Firefox fixes that. In other words, it's browser sniffing again.

miki69 Wednesday, December 17, 2008 12:39:25 PM

@haavard: that's what I said. I get error page with Opera, but when I identify as FF, it works ok

miki69 Wednesday, December 17, 2008 9:28:35 PM

What about my Opera Desktop Team problem with links overlayed? I have posted image few posts above?

Is it related to some settings?

hobe Wednesday, December 17, 2008 9:36:27 PM

Do you have the blog-enhancement userJs installed? I've the same problem on another computer with this userJS.

miki69 Wednesday, December 17, 2008 9:44:27 PM

@HOBE: that was the problem. Thanks mate smile, I use this enhancement for quick quote.

Tim AltmanJunyor Wednesday, December 17, 2008 11:02:12 PM

@vlevi: Use the new Thread button on the mail toolbar, one of the new keyboard shortcuts, or the mail or message list context menu. Check the changelog for complete details.

kaitum Thursday, December 18, 2008 2:32:55 AM

All my bookmarks and RSS feeds disappeared... and syncing with opera link is on.

z@h3kZAHEK Thursday, December 18, 2008 6:36:47 AM

Thanks for update.Did you try uninstall 9.63 from your system.I have tried and took this message(error 1721) two time.(see below)

http://triton.imageshack.us/Himg136/scaled.php?server=136&filename=orcj9.png&xsize=578&ysize=480

maybe I think the problem is regarding Wİndows installer but ir is update now.

And also my ram consumption is now 50% cpu and 150 mb when two tabs are open.
Is it normal?

g4qb Thursday, December 18, 2008 10:21:47 AM

odd rendering of this page.
http://www.keytronicems.com/home/keyboards/keyboards.html

both opera 9 & 10.

page probably not written for Opera.

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