Download Opera 12.01 build 1532 final

Less than six hours after the release of the second release candidate for version 12.01 of Opera, the final release has appeared with the same build number. This Norwegian-made cross-platform web browser offers tabs, can be controlled with mouse gestures, has a built-in download manager and offers protection against phishing and malware. Not only can you surf with Opera, but you can also send e-mails; there is a built-in bittorrent client and chat via irc. Compared to version 12.00, the following improvements have been made:

General and User Interface

• Several general fixes and stability improvements
• Website thumbnail memory usage improvements
• Address bar inline auto-completion no longer prefers shortest domain
• Corrected an error that could occur after removing the plugin wrapper
• Resolved an issue where favicons were squeezed too much when many tabs were open

Display and Scripting

• Resolved an error with XHR transfers where content-type was incorrectly determined
• Improved handling of object literals with numeric duplicate properties
• Changed behavior of nested/chained comma expressions: now expressing and compiling them as a list rather than a tree
• Aligned behavior of the #caller property on function code objects in ECMAScript 5 strict mode with the specification
• Fixed an issue where input type=month would return an incorrect value in its valueAsDate property
• Resolved an issue with JSON.stringify() that could occur on cached number conversion
• Fixed a problem with redefining special properties using Object.defineProperty()

Network and Site-Specific

• Fixed an issue where loading would stop at “Document 100%” but the page would still be loading
• tuenti.com: Corrected behavior when long content was displayed
• Fixed an issue with secure transaction errors
• Fixed an issue with Google Maps Labs that occured when compiling top-level loops inside strict evals
• Corrected a problem that could occur with DISQUS
• Fixed a crash occurring on Lenovo’s “Shop now” page
• Corrected issues when calling window.console.log via a variable at watch4you
• Resolved an issue with Yahoo! chat

Mail, News, Chat

• Fixed a bug with both inline images in HTML mail and inserted images in email compose windows
• Resolved an issue where under certain conditions the mail panel would continuously scroll up
• Fixed a crash occurring when loading mail databases on startup

Security

• Re-fixed an issue where certain URL constructs could allow arbitrary code execution, as reported by Andrey Stroganov; see our advisory
• Fixed an issue where certain characters in HTML could be incorrectly ignored, which could facilitate XSS attacks; see our advisory
• Fixed another issue where small windows could be used to trick users into executing downloads as reported by Jordi Chancel; see our advisory
• Fixed an issue where an element’s HTML content could be incorrectly returned without escaping, bypassing some HTML sanitizers; see our advisory
• Fixed a low severity issue, details will be disclosed at a later date