14 DAY TRIAL // Opera Mac Developer Adam Minchinton has just confirmed through his blog that Opera 11.01 Final is now available for download for all supported platforms, including Mac OS X. The release focuses on security and stability, according to Minchinton.
“We have just released Opera 11.01,” Minchinton writes, using his My Opera profile.
“This new release adds security fixes and stability improvements, along with some mouse gesture tweaking,” the Mac-savvy dev confirms.
A lengthy changelog is then provided on the official Opera web site.
The Norwegian software vendor has tweaked multiple core components of its popular web browser, starting with the interface, display and scripting, and ending with the social functions (mail, news, chat) alongside security.
Numerous fixes are listed in the release notes, which pretty much confirms the Final status of Opera 11.01.
Highlighted below are some of the noteworthy changes in this new version of Opera.
Web specifications
Implemented - Support for window.DOMStringList object of the W3C DOM3 DOMStringList Interface
User interface
Improved - Translation updates added throughout the UI - Added Opera Portable/USB for Mac and single profile - See the Opera Desktop Team article: Opera Portable for Mac (USB)
Display and scripting
Improved - Exposed the widget object to extension scripts
Mail, news, chat
Improved - Updated the HushMail mailproviders entry - Added MobileMe Mail-me.com-to mail providers - Now possible to open the mail panel as a tab when only using feeds - The appearance of the signature editor - HTML replying and forwarding format
Security-wise, Opera devs have enabled the "Mac OS File Quarantine," according to the documentation for Opera 11.01.
Fixes include: removed support for "javascript:" URLs in CSS -o-link values, to make it easier for sites to filter untrusted CSS; fixed issue where large form inputs could allow execution of arbitrary code, as reported by Jordi Chancel; fixed issue which made it possible to carry out clickjacking attacks against internal opera: URLs; fixed issues which allowed web pages to gain limited access to files on the user's computer; fixed issue where email passwords were not immediately deleted when deleting private data.