Phishing, UNIX and plug-ins...
By Claudio Santambrogio. Tuesday, 5. December 2006, 15:42:30
...are the main fixes in this mid-weekly build.
PhishTank has been added as an additional Fraud Protection blacklist. PhishTank is a free community site where anyone can submit, verify, track and share phishing data.
Changelog:
We would like feedback specifically on any regressions you might notice with plug-ins on Linux. Note that the fixes might not fix all issues with Flash 9 yet, but you should see improvements.
A little note on where to enable smooth scrolling on UNIX: you find a checkbox to enable the feature in the advanced tab of the preferences, under "Browsing".
For our FreeBSD users that would like to experiment with Flash on FreeBSD: getting Flash to work is (unfortunately) not completely straight-forward yet, but here is a little HOWTO:
Arjan, our lead developer for Opera on FreeBSD, has posted a more detailed step-by-step description to the freebsd-questions list.
Feedback welcome
Windows MSI
Windows Classic
Macintosh
Unix
PhishTank has been added as an additional Fraud Protection blacklist. PhishTank is a free community site where anyone can submit, verify, track and share phishing data.
Changelog:
- Fixes to the Fraud Protection feature.
- Fixes to Opera freezing with Flash 9 on Linux.
- Fixed smooth scrolling on UNIX! w00t!!1!
- Flash now works on FreeBSD! OMG!!!11!1!
We would like feedback specifically on any regressions you might notice with plug-ins on Linux. Note that the fixes might not fix all issues with Flash 9 yet, but you should see improvements.
A little note on where to enable smooth scrolling on UNIX: you find a checkbox to enable the feature in the advanced tab of the preferences, under "Browsing".
For our FreeBSD users that would like to experiment with Flash on FreeBSD: getting Flash to work is (unfortunately) not completely straight-forward yet, but here is a little HOWTO:
- Copy operapluginwrapper and from the Linux static .1 archive to your local installation, overwriting the existing one
- Copy libnpp.so from your FreeBSD package to the opera binary directory
- Start Opera
Arjan, our lead developer for Opera on FreeBSD, has posted a more detailed step-by-step description to the freebsd-questions list.
Feedback welcome
Windows MSI
Windows Classic
Macintosh
Unix


