Ramblings of an old Doc
Published on June 28, 2011 By DrJBHL In Personal Computing

 

Opera 11.50, codenamed "Swordfish,"  is now RTM and is going like hotcakes (they put a download counter on the page).

The most visible change is an update to the default browser skin. Now the skin is brighter and less “cluttered”.

“The "Featherweight" skin sports a newly styled toolbar with borderless buttons, a new icon set, four default navigation buttons (Back, Forward, Reload/Stop, Wand) in the default toolbar, and a more accessible zoom slider. This new initiative to improve the UI of the browser is not complete yet, with further phases to be realized in upcoming releases.”

- Denis Wong, Neowin.net

 

The next major addition is in the Speed Dial extensions. Now you can have RSS feed, stock ticker, weather, clock or a photo slideshow. These extensions are accessible through the improved "Add Speed Dial" dialog.  Other important changes include: Synchronized ‘Wand’ passwords, freely arrangible dial tiles, updates to its Presto engine, along with more HTML5 support and some security (like CSS scripting).

Thanks, Denis!

 

Download link:  http://www.opera.com/browser/download/

Source:  http://www.neowin.net/news/opera-1150-swordfish-released


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on Aug 13, 2011

I have been using opera, and then the tailored version of opera called 'pale moon,' for about six months now.  I have not experienced the text scramble you describe.  OS is Xp, and that may be the reason?

on Aug 13, 2011

ElanaAhova
I have been using opera, and then the tailored version of opera called 'pale moon,' for about six months now.  I have not experienced the text scramble you describe.  OS is Xp, and that may be the reason?

Pale Moon is a Firefox derivative, Elana...

Could be the problem we're seeing is W7 Cleartype related... I don't know. The XP/Opera info is interesting, though. It could also be WB/Opera related, though. Hard to tell except that it doesn't exist in Aero, so I don't think it's Cleartype related, and it didn't happen with earlier versions of OPera and WB7.

Makes me think it has something to do with the Presto engine. 

on Aug 14, 2011

Pale Moon is a Firefox derivative, Elana...  opps my bad.   Good thing is this derivative is safer than the ones on Wall street.

on Aug 14, 2011

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Very good!

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