Opera 9.20

Posted on Thursday, April 12 2007 @ 10:17 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

User interface

Changed keyboard shortcuts Ctrl + 0-9 to call speed dial entries. Panel activation shortcuts moved to Ctrl + Shift + 0-9
Kiosk mode defaults to not displaying Speed Dial. Added new kioskmode switch kioskspeeddial to enable feature.
Added thumbnails on hover in Windows panel.
Added support for automatic search from address bar when entering more than one word.
Start bar disabled by default.
Added support for animated GIF images in skins.

Mail, messaging, and newsfeeds

Display and scripting

CSS height:inherit now inherits the computed value.
Scripts in framesets now execute onload.
Applets inserted with innerHTML can now be called by JavaScript.
Manipulating content inside about:blank will now change the address of about:blank to match that of the manipulating page.

Developer Tools

Security

Fix for character encoding inheritance issue with frames, which could enable cross-site scripting. See the advisory.
Fixed an issue regarding handling of FTP PASV response, as reported by Mark at bindshell.net
XMLHttpRequest now treats separate ports on the same server as a different server. Issue reported by Egmont Koblinger.
Fixed an issue where scripts could continue to run after leaving the page, as reported by Herrmann Manuel.
Skandiabanken.no's message about successful certificate installation is now shown.

Miscellaneous

Multiple stability fixes.
Voluntary, anonymous usage statistics reporting feature added.
Flickr Organizr now works correctly in Opera.
Fullscreen movies on YouTube now start.
Images with broken exif data now display.
Saving big images should now work more reliably.
When specifying address:port without specifying the protocol, "http://" is once again inferred.
Added support for the optional "key" in BitTorrent tracker requests.