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Download Opera today to get the fastest and most powerful Web browser available and make the most of your time online.

Making you faster: 1) Speed Dial: Your favorite sites are just one click away at all times. 2) Search Shortcuts:
Faster search – type your queries directly into the address bar. 3) Trash Can: Instantly reopen recently closed tabs.

New and improved features in Opera 9.6

Opera Link

Custom search engines and typed history (typed history is only the history you explicitly type or select from the address bar) are now joining bookmarks, notes, personal bar and Speed Dial in Opera Link.
Opera Mail

Feed Preview

Now you can preview an RSS/Atom feed before subscribing.
Follow/Ignore threads and contacts

Follow and Ignore are new features for users that receive numerous messages. It makes it easier to dismiss unimportant messages and easier to recognise important messages.

* Activate this feature by selecting Follow/Ignore in the email context menu (or click the message subject header), then select either Follow Thread or Ignore Thread.
* Also, you can click the names in the From or To headers to enable the following or ignoring of contacts.

Go To Thread

You can now also use "Go to thread" which means that you can view only the messages from that thread. This is useful for those that employ flat view.
Low Bandwidth Mode

Low Bandwidth Mode is a setting on mail accounts that makes Opera Mail use as little bandwidth as possible.

* For IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol): Opera will only synchronise new messages and it will not fetch message attachments unless requested
* For POP (Post Office Protocol): Opera will not fetch more than the first 100 lines of a message unless requested

Opera Scroll Marker

The new Opera Scroll Marker makes it easier to continue reading when you scroll through a Web page. At the end of the page it will indicate the previous position of the bottom of the screen so you can easily see where to continue reading.

Enable Opera Scroll Marker in the Preferences dialog box. Navigate to Tools > Preferences > Advanced > Browsing > Show scroll marker (check box).

* Check the box to enable Opera Scroll Marker
* Leave the box unchecked (default) to keep it disabled

Using the opera:config Preferences Editor opera:config#UserPrefs|EnableScrollMarker, you can also set Opera Scroll Marker to show every time you scroll less than a full page down or up. The options in the drop-down menu are:

* 0 — off
* 1 — show when reaching the bottom or top of the page
* 2 — always show when scrolling

What's New:

Release Notes

Opera 9.63 is a recommended security and stability upgrade.

Opera 9.63 incorporates the Opera Presto 2.1.1 user agent engine.
Changes and improvements since Opera 9.62
User Interface

* Added opera:config > UserPrefs > DoubleclicktoCloseTab to close tabs by double-clicking on them

Mail, News, Chat

* Added a thread button in the mail toolbar
* Removed Label button from mail toolbar
* Reverted the Subject field back to its previous behavior where it is a text field and not a button
* Added shortcuts for follow (Ctrl/Cmd-D), ignore (Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-D) and go to thread (D)

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 <img> tags can no longer execute Java or plugin content, suggested by Chris Evans.
* Opera now imports .p12 private certificates