14 DAY TRIAL // Opera Software has released version 11.11 of its feature-packed web browser, touting the update as a “recommended” one as it offers security and stability enhancements.
Opera 11.11 first of all fixes crashes when opening a folder selector in a widget and then closing the widget, and a bug that caused the Opera installer to crash as soon as the installation wizard started.
Display and scripting patches target crashes when opening www.falk.de, when reloading page after opening a popup of easy-sticky-note extension, and when destroying Silverlight instance on vod.onet.pl.
Crashes aside, there are also some enhancements for Google calendar previewing of month view, mouse wheel not scrolling an outer page when over iframe, Opera freezing on Wikipedia with column-count producing infinite repaints, HTTPS urls being incorrectly unloaded for application cache urls, and a broken fast forward function on google.com.
For users of the built-in Opera mail client, the bugs marking a mail message in Trash as unread causing it to disappear have been fixed. The inability to disable Spam filter in mail is also addressed.
A single Network fix is mentioned for crashes on sites using http://www.multicert.com/ca/multicert-ca-02.crl.
Last, but equally important, Opera 11.11 fixes an issue with framesets that could allow execution of arbitrary code, according to the Norwegian software company.
As reported to Opera by an anonymous contributor working with the SecuriTeam Secure Disclosure program, “framesets allow web pages to hold other pages inside them. Certain frameset constructs are not handled correctly when the page is unloaded, causing a memory corruption. To inject code, additional techniques will have to be employed.”
This issue is fixed in Opera 11.11 for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. The Mac version of the web browser is immediately available from the link below.