New Opera Version 9.63

Change Log:

Opera 9.63 is a recommended security upgrade. Please see the Security section.

Opera 9.63 incorporates the Opera Presto 2.1.1 user agent engine.
Changes since Opera 9.62
Security

* Manipulating text input contents can allow execution of arbitrary code, as reported by Red XIII. See our advisory.
* HTML parsing flaw can cause Opera to execute arbitrary code, as reported by Alexios Fakos. See our advisory.
* Long hostnames in file: URLs can cause execution of arbitrary code, as reported by Vitaly McLain. see our advisory.
* Script injection in feed preview can reveal contents of unrelated news feeds, as reported by David Bloom. See our advisory.
* Built-in XSLT templates can allow cross-site scripting, as reported by Robert Swiecki of the Google Security Team. See our advisory.
* Fixed an issue that could reveal random data, as reported by Matthew of Hispasec Sistemas. Details will be disclosed at a later date.
* SVG images embedded using tags can no longer execute Java or plugin content, suggested by Chris Evans.

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http://www.opera.com/download/get.pl?id=31941&thanks=true&sub=true

 

Is it just me? I find this particular release of Opera to be blindingly fast. Nothing else has changed in my setup. Net speed is the same. OS (which is XP SP3) is the same. The machine (Acer 5920; T5550; 2 Gigs RAM; 1.83 Ghz) is the same. The user (me, that is) is the same.

In fact I would venture to say that this version of Opera is as fast as what I experienced Chrome to be when the latter first was released.

Anyone else experience this? Or, am I just imagining things here?

Cheers!

 

updated thx

 

Yeah.. meybe a bit faster

 

I think it's using its latest Rendering engine from Opera Alpha 10

 

still no spell check engine?

 

Right. I read that on the site. At least it hasn't broken anything yet!

 

man i may have to install this to try it if its really that fast and i personally dont like opera. but i am finding each release of ff to be a bit slower than before.. chrome is smoking ff speed wise imo.. i guess i may have to try this, does it still have the (imo) choppy scrolling to it.. ive never liked the way opera scrolls just curious

 

I'd say 9.63 is the same as 9.62 in terms of speed.

I'm a "reconvert" to Opera. The older versions had some issues... (ate up all my CPU downloading, ate a lot of RAM too...)

The current release seems very well programmed.

Quite fast - also easy to use.

 

Just updated Opera, but haven't really used it yet.. In light of Chrome recently coming out of beta and this update to Opera that I'll use each browser exclusively for a month to determine which one I want to use (Firefox, Opera, or Chrome).

 

Opera has the smoothest scrolling of any browser.

 

i just could never get into opera.. but imo the iron version of chrome is pretty smooth

 

i aGree. If chrome can incorporate that, i could use another browser.
second to opera

 

have you tried the iron version of chrome...

 

not yet. does it now have smooth scrolling option?

 

no but imo it scrolls much better than chrome does..

 

Greetings!
I have a question, I have the tendency to double click, but when I do that in this particular browser the copy and paste (search, translate, etc) box comes up... it can be a little annoying after awhile.

Is there anyway to get around this? :wub:

 

^^^ same thing that def was annoying now that you mention it

 

Firefox can get on Opera lvl scrolling if you use the addon, "not another smooth scrolling"

iron is not very smooth scrolling...

 

really for me is def is.. ??

 

You must not know what SMOOTH SCROLLING is then

 

as i said its not the same as opera but its far better imo than ff was.

 

i used opera before about a year ago, and i loved it.

however, does it still have compatibility problems with many websites? i know for most of my school websites for online homework, opera is not compatible.

 

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Lol!!!! That's not exactly accurate. Opera 9.63 DOES have incompatibilities with sites, only not as much as earlier. I really wish such compatibility problems would not exist in so far as Opera is concerned as it is my browser of choice. Regardless, there is no point in wishing away this reality. Hopefully, things will change. But then again, as a relatively longtime Opera user, I am not holding my breath!

 

www.timesonline.co.uk still doesn't render corecctly - however, the articles do...

 

I'm pretty sure one can find a website for each major browser that doesn't render correctly so to hope/wish for 100% compatibility is unrealistic. However, once can hope that it works fine for all the websites that one uses on a regular basis, and in that respect, Opera (as well as FF and Chrome) works just fine for me

 

I think there was one website that didn't even open in IE for me...
I could open it in FireFox though...

Never went back with Opera.

It was about Moore's Law (I think its called )

 

True...the only problem is that Opera seems to have problems with sites like Google Docs and a number of banking sites - a visit and perusal of the Opera Forums is instructive. But please don't let this degenerate into a fanboi thread and/ or a flame thread!

Users of Opera should - optimally - accept that while there are still some (in some cases, serious) deficiencies in terms of page rendering by Opera, it is still the browser of choice to a small but dedicated minority.

 

i just could never get "into" opera. and i like chrome but i have to say opera is far better with many more pages than chrome ive seen way more not rendered right in chrome than i ever did in opera ff is the best in this area imo

 

Hmmm I have never tried Opera...maybe I should check it, and see how it works for me!


Cin

 

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You yourself stated that this thread should not "degenerate" into a flame thread but in your paragraph i personally think your'e starting the flame here.

Every browser suffer cases of poor page rendering. There's not such thing as an ultimate browser that can display ANYTHING you can click on the web, One browser can handle a certain page while others can't. BEST browser=people's OWN preference. We Opera users can accept the fact that our little browser ain't perfect in a matter of different criteria, but the fact you specified "OPERA users" does the opera browser the only one who suffers poor page rendering? Can't accept that. Maybe first you have to accept your OWN browser's flaws as well, correct?

Whatever it may sounded, fanboy or not, its just annoying to think of others pointing the whole flaw on one browser, not even accepting the flaws of their own. Sorry if I offended anybody.

Cheers.

 

I accept your qualification that you do not wish to offend anybody. However, I find your post garbled - rather I should say, not very clear. Merely highlighting portions of your post in colour does not MAKE a point. Clarity and reasoned thought and expression does.

Regardless, let me restate what I have mentioned thus far in this thread to clear the air:

1. Opera is my browser of choice
2. I think this latest release of Opera (to me) seems faster than what I thought Chrome on its initial release to be.
3. Opera has problems rendering some pages - but the problems are getting lesser and lesser. In case you are in doubt about this a quick visit to the Opera forums should help. One of the frequent problems - as per the Opera forums - is using Opera on Banking sites. My own experience has been in using Opera in tandem with Google Gears and to an extent with Google Docs, where Opera's performance has been less than optimal. Despite this, Opera remains my browser of choice. (This is the second time I mention this!)

None of the above suggests or is meant to suggest that other browsers do not have problems. They all do. I am not familiar with IE (aside from Win Updates). I use FF very infrequently. I have used Chrome in its early days and it did have a lot of problems.

Does this help?