Download Opera 12.12 build 1707

The second update for version 12.10 of Opera has been released. This web browser is available for all major computing platforms and for a variety of mobile operating systems. In version 12.10, the browser has become faster, support for the latest versions of Windows and OS X has been added and the program looks better on screens with a very high resolution. In version 12.12, the following improvements have also been made:

General and User Interface

• Several general fixes and stability improvements
• New option ‘Delete settings and data for all extensions’ option (off by default) in the Delete Private Data dialog
• Corrected an issue where using the ‘Delete Private Data’ dialog could delete extension and settings data
• Redesigned the ‘Delete Private Data’ dialog to be more usable with small screens
• Fixed an issue where quitting Opera while in fullscreen mode could cripple the interface on the next start-up

Security

• Fixed an issue where malformed GIF images could allow execution of arbitrary code; see our advisory
• Fixed an issue where repeated attempts to access a target site could trigger address field spoofing, as reported by Masato Kinugawa; see our advisory

UNIX-only

• Fixed an issue where private data could be disclosed to other computer users, or be modified by them, as reported by Jann Horn; see our advisory