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Opera 10.01 is a recommended security and stability upgrade. Opera highly recommends all users to upgrade to Opera 10.01 to take advantage of these improvements. Opera for UNIX changelogs incorporate changes for FreeBSD, Linux, and Solaris operating systems.

New and improved features in Opera 10

Opera Turbo for fast browsing on slow connections

Opera Turbo uses compression technology that provides significant improvements in browsing speeds over limited-bandwidth connections, for example, when using a crowded Wi-Fi in a cafe or browsing through your mobile phone while commuting.

New visual tabs and sleek design

Opera has always been the pioneer for how to deal with tabs in your browser. In Opera 10, we introduce a resizable tab bar. Drag the handle underneath the tabs to reveal thumbnails of your open Web pages. And, because great features should come in beautiful packages, designer Jon Hicks has created a whole new look for Opera 10.

Speed Dial your way

You asked for it! Customize your Speed Dial to fit your own needs. Click the Configure Speed Dial button and choose from 4 to 25 favorite Web sites for quick access every time you open a new tab. You can also add a custom background so that you feel right at home.

Web integration

If you use a Web mail service as your default mail client, you can tell Opera 10 to do the same. Clicking on e-mail addresses or “Send by Mail” in Opera will open the compose page from your Web mail service provider. The same is true with the Feed reader — you can now also add any RSS/atom feed into your favorite online feed reader from within Opera 10.

Resizable search field

Have a clearer view of what you are about to search by simply expanding the size of the search field — because many of life’s questions require more than two words of space.

40% faster engine and cutting-edge Web standards support

We optimized the new Opera Presto 2.2 engine in Opera 10 to be much faster on resource-intensive pages such as Gmail and Facebook. In addition, with an Acid3 100/100 score, Web Fonts support, RGBA/HSLA color and SVG improvements, Opera 10 is ready for the next generation of Web applications.

Inline spell checker

Write freely in your Facebook wall, blog, or Web mail. Opera 10 underlines any misspelled words, so you can express yourself without reservation. By using the popular Hunspell dictionary format, you will always have the most complete and updated list of all languages.

Auto-update

Opera 10 makes it easier than ever to stay up-to-date with the latest version. With auto-update you can choose to have completely automatic updates or to be notified when an update is ready for you install. As always with Opera, it is your choice.

E-mail your way

Opera Mail can now send rich text messages including inline images, styled text, links, and/or custom HTML. You can also choose to have messages deleted from your POP server after a preset number of days, so you can keep your Web space under control.

Automated Crash Reporting

Opera is designed to restart and recover all your tabs if a crash occurs. But now you can easily send us a crash report to help us continue to make Opera the most stable browser around.

Opera Dragonfly evolved

Our Web developer tools are now even better, allowing you to edit the DOM and inspect HTTP headers.

What's New:

Changes and improvements since Opera 10.00

User Interface
Added

* Opera Link button with dropdown menu on the status bar; access to Opera Link in the main menu moved to Tools

Improvements

* Updated the Opera Debian repository signing key in the .deb packages

Fixed

* Issue with Opera Turbo and plug-in placeholders
* Enabling Opera Turbo for the first time not showing the Opera Turbo information page
* Opera not synchronizing more than 9 Speed Dials
* Open instance of Opera not running when a laptop enters its wakeup stage
* Downloaded files with spaces not being opened
* Random instances of downloads not starting
* Problem when clicking the Accesskey menu
* Downloads sometimes not starting but just showing a progress bar

Mail, news, chat
Fixed

* Problem creating a new mail account
* Drafts sometimes missing after upgrading to Opera 10.00
* Follow/Ignore contact not working from the message header toolbar

Security
Fixed

* Fixed an issue where certain domain names could allow execution of arbitrary code, as reported by Chris Weber of Casaba Security ; see our advisory
* Fixed an issue where scripts can run on the feed subscription page, as reported by Inferno ; see our advisory

Miscellaneous
Fixed

* Custom changes to operaprefs not appearing when upgrading from a version older than Opera 10.00
* Issue of 100% CPU usage fixed by preventing and avoiding the filling up of message loop