Following up on our Christmas gift we are pleased to offer an updated release of the out of process plug-in and 64-bit Labs builds of Opera. If you just can't wait, head over to the Opera Labs blog, and grab the builds right now!

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WARNING: This is an Opera Labs build: It contains work in progress, which may also have severe known issues, including crashes, and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all. Opera Labs builds are not based on current Wahoo snapshot releases.

Hei All
We just released 11.51 (b1087) with one security issue fixed and with several stability fixes.

We have also added Mac Lion fullscreen support :-)



See changelog here:

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This security update comes right after the Diginotar certificate breach, but Opera does not require a fix for this issue. Opera always verifies that certificates are not revoked, and unlike other browsers Opera does not display sites as secure if access to revocation servers has been blocked by an attacker. Read more about this issue on the Security Group blog.


We wish to thank you all for contributing with testing of 11.51 and will soon be back with more Opera 12 builds for you to play with.

Whilst we continue work towards Opera 12.00 (Wahoo), there are some important bugs we need to fix in the 11.50 (Swordfish) line. Hence there will be an 11.51 maintenance/stability release between 11.50 and 12.00. Here is the first release candidate for 11.51.

We won't be releasing "Opera Next" packages of this build as it is an update to the stable browser and should not be installed over Opera Next Wahoo packages, since that would effectively be a downgrade (which is never supported).

Try this out as an improved stable Opera, whilst you continue to test our latest features and improvements in the continuing Wahoo Opera Next snapshot series!

Note: Remember as this is a maintenance update we are only interested in regressions since 11.50! Please do not report anything else here.

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Here is our second snapshot of the day and we are still focussing quite heavily on improving stability. Though we also have a few other interesting improvements for you.

This build introduces better support for using the Opera Mail client with your Gmail IMAP account. More specifically:

• Opera now recognizes the special IMAP folders 'Sent items', Spam', 'Trash', and treats them as equivalents of the native Sent, Spam and Trash views in Opera Mail. This also works for other IMAP servers that support the XLIST or SPECIAL-USE extensions for the IMAP specification, including the Fastmail IMAP service.
• Opera now recognizes the special way in which Gmail duplicates messages that appear in the 'All Mail' IMAP folder and the various folders created by Gmail's own 'labels' (including Inbox). To make the best use of this, it is recommended that you subscribe to the all the Gmail IMAP folders (this is a change from earlier advice to suggested users to unsubscribe from the [Gmail]\* folders).
• Opera Mail will then make sure that messages don't show up twice in its Unread and Recieved views. As for other views like Mailing lists, Contacts, Labels and Attachments, duplication can still occur there. You can improve on this for now by unchecking 'Show hidden' for such views (use the View button in the mail view, then Show > Show hidden).

This new support is a first step, solving the remaining 'duplicates' issues, some edge cases, and optimizations are planned for the second step. But we are confident that the current level of support is already a big improvement for those who want to read their Gmail messages in Opera Mail.

Another big change is the return of SOCKS. However, please be aware that our SOCKS implementation is still work in progress and as such is not feature complete.

On the Core side of things we have also added partial support for the HTML5 File API, specifically:

• FileReader
• Files in HTMLInputElement
• FileReaderSync in WebWorkers
• Blob interface
• File interface
• FileException in WebWorkers
• FileError
• Blob.slice()

Keep an eye on this, we'll add further support in the future.

Ok, with the highlights out of the way you can get on with testing. Let us know if you see any new issues, that you have not yet reported.

SOCKS support Known Issues

• It must be configured via opera:config
• The SOCKS server must be entered as an IP address
• It uses local DNS information

WARNING: This is a development snapshot: It contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes, and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all.

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Speed Dial has gotten a lot of attention lately, but we haven't forgotten about stability. The focus of this snapshot is fixing crashes, which should help as we move towards the final.

As always we need your help in finding crashes and reporting them to us. Please add as much information as possible in the comment section when you report a crash, it might make the difference between a quick crash fix and a slower fix.

This build should contain the fix for the crash you have been getting after blocking content on a page.

WARNING: This is a development snapshot: It contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes, and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all.

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• Mac
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