Opera Software - (Freeware)
Opera is a strong competitor for the major web browser which have many useful features that makes it a good choice.
Opera Web browser offers an alternative to the large market of browser for Internet Explorer, Firefox or Chrome. Opera Web browser use a new rendering engine used in Chromium that offers increased speed.
Opera also includes the Speed ​​Dial feature that allows to combine the most visited pages and go directly to the opening of a new tab.
The famous browser adds an "all terrain" mode that accelerates the loading of pages on small connections through proxy servers Opera Foundation. Opera now centralizes catches web pages in one easy to access place for the easily find. Finally, the software suggests Web sites based on visited web pages.
In addition, the Quick Find feature allows you to quickly find a previously visited web page and it just by typing one or more keywords in the address bar. In addition, a built against malware and phishing system is provided and you can see improvements in the speed of email clients and RSS.
# User interface
- Improved
* The design of the "Fraud Warning" dialog
* Allowing file choosers to be editable in the native UI
* Adding support for enabling/disabling nettype, leaving it enabled by default
- Fixed
* Premature shutdown when using the Mozilla Web Workers demo
* An Application Cache issue when enabling "Work Offline"
* Advanced menu in download tab not appearing for files downloaded to a non-ASCII folder
* End key putting the cursor at beginning of next line instead of end of the current line
* Opera reloading images when going back with History Navigation Mode 3
* Gmail checkboxes looking odd
* Block level elements not creating new lines in pasted text
* Premature shutdown using spatial navigation when two scrollable containers are positioned near each other
* Cache-related premature shutdown when reloading pages
* Incorrect font being used for CJK contents within a page of other language
* File handling when dealing with zip archives
* Search suggestions fixes:
> Search suggestions not working in the address bar when using search keywords
> Default Speed Dial search not being present in many locals
> Search drop-down getting mixed up when deleting a previous search
> Clicking on search suggestions in the Go To dialog dismissing the dialog
* Start bar looking unstyled and text labels not being visible with Windows Native skin
* Premature shutdown on exit after using the download context menu
* HTML5 video and gif animations stop playing when context menu is open
* Not being able to type in file input fields in the user interface
* Text being cut off in the browser identification dropdown in Polish version
* QuAVlive Webm Adaptive HTTP Streaming Demo prematurely shutting down Opera
* Premature shutdown when trying to use Opera Voice
* Opera Unite Messenger application not loading
# Display and scripting
- Fixed
* Serif fonts being used as default in form elements (input, text fields, and buttons)
* Documents (where documentedit has been enabled) stay in memory along with every later document in the tab
* No load event occurring for not-yet-visible images (hp.com slideshow: Main content on hp.com not displaying when "slideshow" starts running)
* IMG x/y not being supported (date picker in wrong location)
* innerHTML not stripping quotes on attributes, and innerHTML not being lowercase
* Image upload to blogger.com appearing to fail
* Page load producing a blank page
* Premature shutdown when rich text editing a page
* Meta refresh without a URL reloading the page
* Premature shudown when performing a normal shutdown procedure
* An issue when printing and print previewing emails
* Large images only rendering up to 5-10%, then nothing until fully loaded
* Yahoo! Mail chat truncating output sent from Opera
* Premature shutdown after inspecting an element with a background attribute
* Background being corrupted when scrolling (large negative text-indent)
* Not all param values being displayed
* Scrolling a page by dragging the scrollbar in print preview stops scrolling when halfway through the document
* Range header not being sent for a redirected (301) URL
* Premature shutdown occurring in the cookie dialog
* Large amount of overflow (in the vertical direction) disabling scrollbars
* XHR (XMLHttpRequest) custom headers not being resent when redirected
* An unclosed, absolutely positioned span freezing Opera if ancestors are relatively positioned, with one of them being an inline-block
* Authentication information not being propagated to Java
* MHTML file with "Content-Encoding:gzip" header causing a premature shutdown
* Popup blocker being circumvented when using JS URL and fake click
* IFRAME height property being ignored in MSR mode if scrolling=no
* Setting the same JS URL as the src of a script element halts its loading
* An active-window event not being sent after a dialog is closed, with focus then switching back to the opener
* A premature shutdown when using inline search
* Incorrect reporting of the offline cache size
* Application cache list not containing unvisited caches after shutdown/restart
* Plug-in fixes:
> New Java plug-in not finding the applet on local pages
> A problem with the Quake Live (and friends) plug-in
> Voddler plug-in scripting issues
> Swedish BankID causing Opera to prematurely shut down (pensionsmyndigheten.se)
> Not being able to click links at dramaten.se: script resumes after inserting a non-plugin object
> Flash not always painting until being forced (YouTube channels)
> Modifying OuterHTML on nested objects with document.onmouseover disables page interaction
> DivX Webplayer plug-in crashing, and then showing a plug-in failed dialog
> An issue with Netflix streaming video
> Premature shutdown when hosting the Microsoft Silverlight plug-in
> Premature shutdown occurring with the unsigned_npgoogletalk.dll
* Application cache quota strategy not working properly
* Not being able to revisit a cached URL
* Page cache deleting application cache URLs
* Hangup being caused by img/float/iframe in a width-restricted element
* Unicode freezing (Wikipedia)
* Form input fields with border-radius and no border being invisible
* Premature shutdown when attempting to load mountpoint URL of file inside a zip file
* Opera freezing when changing src attribute of audio element in event handler for "ended"
* Fast history navigation stops working when document cache reaches half the size of previous problem level
* Premature shutdown when closing a tab with mouse gesture over Flash
* HTML5 video not working without a DirectSound driver
* Premature shutdown when using Web Storage
* Canvas 2D context's font attribute forcing a premature shutdown
* Disabling the Opera Speed Dial search provider is not remembered
* A document being served with an incorrect MIME breaks multistyle/font switch-writing system
* An inline element breaking the layout of inline-blocks (deviantart.com)
* JavaScript/plug-in shutdown on sites like Google Maps
* A premature shutdown occuring with WebM
* Transparent Opera Speed Dial dialogs not rendering correctly
# Mail, news, chat
- Improved
* Prevention of broken searches in mail
# Miscellaneous
- Offline Web Applications fixes
* The list of application caches not containing unvisited domains after a shutdown/restart
* Offline application cache size being incorrectly reported
* Offline application cache being unavailable for panels
* Offline application cache being unavailable for the special Opera Dragonfly window
* Offline "application_cache" not being stored in a temporary location
- Geolocation services fixes
* Adding a mechanism to clear Geolocation preferences
* Corrected several erroneous Geolocation settings
* Checkbox labels in Geolocation Terms and Conditions not being clickable
* "Do you want to share your location" toolbar being displayed even if "remember my choice" was previously selected
* Show the domain rather than URL in the Geolocation toolbar
- Widgets fixes
* Widgets not showing tooltips
* Inconsistent context menu item name; should be "View" instead of "Position"
* Updating the structure of widgets menu
* Wrong ordering of context menus for widgets with image, and for widgets with link
# Security
- Improved
* Implemented validation of certificates used in widget signature using OCSP
- Fixed
* Fixed an issue where double-clicking a link can unexpectedly run a program from the Internet; see our advisory (http://www.opera.com/support/search/view/957/).
* Fixed an issue which could be used to trick users into uploading unexpected files