Download Opera 9.6 rc1

On the weblog, the developers of Opera have published the first release candidate of Opera 9.6 announced. Opera’s 9 series has a large number of features, including support for Bittorrent, a content and popup blocker and the use of so-called widgets inside and outside the browser. In addition, Opera also comes with the usual features, such as mouse gestures, a password manager and tabbed browsing. Opera 9.6 is the successor to the 9.52 series and contains mostly bug fixes and a handful of minor improvements. For example, three bugs were removed from Opera’s Mail client and two bugs were removed from the Windows and Linux builds. Below is the changelog compared to the previous test build. An overview of all changes since Opera 9.52 can be found on this page to be found:

changelog

• Fixed error pages when entering unknown protocol.
• Fixed an issue where custom search engines would not get a favicon.
• Fixed an issue that would prevent links in frames *from* being opened by keyboard
• Fixed Fast Forward on Google search results pages.
• Fixed an issue where only a few feed items would be fetched.
• Text strings on the feed preview page are now localizable.
• Added a fallback feed title for feeds without titles, and added handheld style sheet to the feeds preview.
• Changed default global history to 1000.
• Added new default speedial.ini.

  Mail:

• Fixed an issue where followed contacts would not be properly unfollowed.
• Fixed an issue where only the first followed contact would be shown in the Followed Contacts access point.
• Fixed an issue where the Followed Thread icon would be lost after restart.

  Windows:

• Fixed a bug where network paths that start with \\ would not work, which in particular caused issues with sent mail when storing profiles on network drives
• Fixed installation problems on Windows NT 4.0

  UNIX:

• Fixed an issue where text with specified size suddenly disappears on Qt4 builds.
• Qt4 builds are static – for now.

Download

• Windows
• Windows Classic
• Macintosh
• Macintosh (Intel only)
• UNIX