Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera or Firefox

[sneaker]

I see. Let's see how long it takes for the final to be released.

[Renegade334]

Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 Build 9.0.8112.16421 Release to Web (RTW) goes live.

Spoiler for brief changelog:

# Performance Improvements
* Improved JavaScript Engine Performance
* Dynamic GPU Usage
* Industry Leading Power Consumption Levels

# Even cleaner interface
* Improved Usability
* Tabs
* Pinned Sites

# Increased Privacy and Protection
* Tracking Protection Lists
* ActiveX Filtering
* Pinned Sites InPrivate

# Additional Standards Support
* CSS2D Transforms
* HTML5 Semantic Tag
* Geolocation
* WebM Support

Microsoft-y browser comparison chart: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/i...mpare-browsers

Benchmarks, samples and other examples are available at the IE9 showcase site, http://www.beautyoftheweb.com, but a good rundown of IE9's features can be found here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/i.../ie-9/features.

IE Addons are available at http://ieaddons.com/en/

Regardless of what people will say about IE like security (it took no less than three security holes to hack through IE8 at the Pwn2Own 2011 - gotta love the name, it sounds so serious - software security convention, whereas it only took one and a couple seconds to totally rip Safari a new aperture), one thing is certain - it has won the edge in terms of hardware acceleration. It comes at a price, though - it has fully embraced the NT 6.1+ kernel and has left XP behind, being only compatible with Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 operating systems. More than 40 million betas and release candidates have been downloaded, bearing testimony to how popular it is, since it became obvious that MS is now taking a more than active side in embracing Web standards, HTML5 and other forerunner technologies like tracking list protection, hardware acceleration, etc.

It is MS' most standards-compliant version of IE yet, with a 95% score on the ACID3 test (support for the 5% remaining percent was deliberately withheld, since they concern technology that is either still in R&D or has been asked by the developers themselves, to be withdrawn from the ACID3 test battery).


Other browser news: Opera 11.10 is still in alpha stage, though it appears the latest build was...particularly unstable (should be normal for an alpha, though I hoped they would actually concentrate on stability...but I guess it will only happen when the browser will go beta). This version will include a smart speed dial. I'm still getting crashes every once in a while, but after some consideration, I'm not totally sure I can chalk all of them up to Flash not playing nice. The Bug Report system remains as unhelpful as ever - seems it has documentation about the issues at all.

Spoiler for changelog for Build 2033 Alpha:

Core:
· CORE-37160 (Fix for crash when extensions need HTTP Auth after restart)
· CORE-34650 (Memory leaks caused by missing call to deallocate() on the scriptable object)
· CORE-37136 (Enable Cookies DNS Check is default true, should be false)
· CORE-37060 (Deleting a Wand Password crashes Opera)
· CORE-36823 (100% cpu usage when installing application cache on developers.whatwg.org)
· CORE-36808 (developers.whatwg.org crashes opera)
· CORE-36805 ("work offline" conflicts with "application cache")
· CORE-36243 (IFRAME with scrolling=no interferes with scrollwheel/keyboard scrolling of parent document)
· CORE-34738 (Some sites flicker when loading plugins)
· CORE-27392 (Windowed plugin position not updated when moved in overflowed container)
· CORE-36871 (Application cache not detected for explicit cache entries when loaded outside of the application cache)

Desktop (general):
· Improved strings and translations
· DSK-328884 (Content blocker crashes when Opera Link is enabled)
· DSK-313944 ("Ctrl+Shift+V" opens in a new background tab)
· DSK-326198 (Enter when composing HTML mails sometimes has large line spacing)

Desktop (Speed Dial):
· DSK-330681 (Crash related to the new logo finder)
· DSK-330693 (Entering addresses that start with a number opens the corresponding Speed Dial instead)
· DSK-329199 (Added Speed Dial entry is not focused)
· DSK-329522 (Opera hangs or crashes when editing/deleting Speed Dial cells in multiple windows at the same time)
· DSK-329877 (OK button should be focused in add speed dialog when text has been entered in the urlfield)
· DSK-330030 (It should be possible to set Speed Dial to use 6-7 columns)
· DSK-330319 (Page title is shown on top of thumbnail when hovering background tabs with thumbnail previews enabled)
· DSK-330339 (Clicking on the "100% Zoom" button in zoom dropdown doesn't update the Speed Dial thumbnail)
· DSK-330363 (When adding a speed dial, a fuzzy plus icon appears inside in the thumbnail)
· DSK-330443 (Crash on removing an entry being edited)
· DSK-330472 (Opera crashes if a lot of speeddials are added [and background image is changed])
· DSK-330520 (Make add-new-dial separately skinable)
· DSK-330530 (Zooming with + or - with focus on the Speed Dial page zooms any page opened from that Speed Dial tab)
· DSK-330555 (Opera crashes on exit after drag/dropping a Speed Dial thumbnail onto desktop)
· DSK-330624 (Opera crashes after deleting thumbnail that was dragged onto status bar)
· DSK-330362 (Configure speed dial dialogue - align the 'OK' and 'cancel' to the right of the dialog box)
· DSK-330361 (Configure speed dial dialogue - remove the cross button (close) top right)
· DSK-330360 (Change 'Configure Speed Dial' button to use custom skin element)
· DSK-329976 (Speed dial zoom level button displays wrong value if going back from webpage)
· DSK-330327 (Dragging a speed dial outside the tab changes speed dial positions)
· DSK-330520 (Correct Speed Dial background color on Mac)
· DSK-330629 (Update Speed Dial styling on Mac)

Windows:
· DSK-330717 (Broken animations on Windows)
· DSK-330721 (Cannot create characters that require dead keys on Windows)

Smart Dial screenshot

Aside from that, it seems that the Mozilla guys have decided that one Release Candidate is enough for v4.0 and there is no need to compile another new version. Which means that the final version will be available at the end of the month.

[Dist]

The question remains .. Why use IE when you can use Firefox/Opera/Chrome ? Even with new builds and whatever, it's still inferior.

[Kotohono]

Originally Posted by Dist

The question remains .. Why use IE when you can use Firefox/Opera/Chrome ? Even with new builds and whatever, it's still inferior.

The improvements are obivously just done to help the silly some 50~60% of people whom only ever used IE as a web browser .

[monster]

If you feel that you really need a feature or two that the latest IE for your version of Windows does not provide, then you can always download another browser that meets your needs. Otherwise, there's nothing silly about using something that just works for you.

For my browsing needs on Windows, IE is not inferior in any significant way to other browsers. And I've used Firefox, Opera, Safari, and Chrome.

[Kotohono]

Originally Posted by monster

If you feel that you really need a feature or two that the latest IE for your version of Windows does not provide, then you can always download another browser that meets your needs. Otherwise, there's nothing silly about using something that just works for you.

Aside from the fact that IE takes an average of 60 days to fix security flaws, while Mozilla takes average of 8 days to fix security flaws with Firefox. IE still fails to offer support of NoScript or an equivalent feature, and it's a near must have for browsing the internet in my opinion.

If IE actually handles fixing flaws in a more timely manner and supported noscript then it could be a decent browser.

[monster]

Originally Posted by Konakaga

... in my opinion.

Exactly so.

[felix]

Konakaga, have you tried playing with the settings. I don't use IE, but as I recall you can just set the security level to paranoid and it will basically do the same thing noscript does.

[Kotohono]

Originally Posted by felix

Konakaga, have you tried playing with the settings. I don't use IE, but as I recall you can just set the security level to paranoid and it will basically do the same thing noscript does.

I haven't personally used IE at home at all for a quite sometime because my laptop won't allow me to install IE 9 [or even 8 for that matter] for some reason or another and not really interested in using IE 7 at all . So no, I haven't tried to use those settings to see if it does offer more security or not, since on the school computers settings are much more restricted I can't really try the setting on them.

[Nihokon]

Originally Posted by felix

but as I recall you can just set the security level to paranoid and it will basically do the same thing noscript does.

I don't use IE too so I'm not sure, but does it really do the same thing like noscript? I mean, with blocking specific scripts and all?

[demonix]

Originally Posted by Konakaga

The improvements are obivously just done to help the silly some 50~60% of people whom only ever used IE as a web browser .

Well those numbers may drop for those still using windows XP since IE9 is only available for those using vista and 7 (unless those people are dumb enough to keep using IE7 or 8 ).

[felix]

Originally Posted by demonix

(unless those people are dumb enough to keep using IE7 or 8).

Yeah, like that's very unlikely…

[monster]

Usage of IE6 and IE7 is on the decline regardless of whether or not IE9 is available on XP. Meanwhile, IE8 is still very much usable with the web today and in the near future.

[demonix]

Originally Posted by monster

Usage of IE6 and IE7 is on the decline regardless of whether or not IE9 is available on XP. Meanwhile, IE8 is still very much usable with the web today and in the near future.

Well there are some sites that have stopped supporting IE6 so there would be a decline in that anyway.

Well I installed IE9 on my laptop and thus far I'm not too impressed since the java system that the 64-bit version is useless (log into yahoo mail and you'll find that the web messenger doesn't work) and the interface is absolutely hopeless.

[monster]

Originally Posted by demonix

Well I installed IE9 on my laptop and thus far I'm not too impressed since the java system that the 64-bit version is useless (log into yahoo mail and you'll find that the web messenger doesn't work)

So you're not impressed with IE9 because 64-bit Java and/or Yahoo web messenger doesn't work? Then perhaps the problem isn't really with IE9. And it's probably better to use the default 32-bit version anyway.

and the interface is absolutely hopeless.

In what way?

[Dist]

Originally Posted by monster

Exactly so.

It's a fact that IE has security flaws though. You're putting your computer on constant risk by using that piece of crap :x

[aeriolewinters]

It's a fact that IE has security flaws though. You're putting your computer on constant risk by using that piece of crap :x

Actually, IE9 Runs faster than Chrome right now; looking at a fresh build on chrome and the RTM IE9, I'm picking IE right now because it's light right now, and meshes well with Windows 7's superbar. Also those who are afraid to use IE, especially 9 are either misinformed or often relying on heresay, IE9 has been a good browser ever since beta.

[Renegade334]

Originally Posted by Dist

It's a fact that IE has security flaws though. You're putting your computer on constant risk by using that piece of crap :x

*Cough* Have you even actually tried it or are you just parroting outdated techno-gossip?

If you're talking about ActiveX then any browser that makes allowances for this form of technology is a virtual deathtrap, especially if they were deliberately designed with a malicious mindset. Furthermore, it is easy to adjust security settings and prevent them from becoming digital ratholes on your machine. IE9 even introduced ActiveX Filtering, which disables those objects every time a page tries to declare them - but that also means you can't watch Flash videos either, because the Adobe plugin comes in the form of an ActiveX. The security interface is, I concede, dinkier and less user-friendly than on Opera or FF, but it IS there. People are just too lazy or ignorant to take a look at it.

As for security flaws, you might actually be surprised. A lot of security firms (even Alwil - the guys who created Avast) actually consider IE8 as one of the safest browsers there is out there. It actually catches more social engineering malware than other brands and uses a sandboxing feature known as 'Protected Mode' - which denies write access to the rest of the operating system. Opera, who doesn't use any sandboxing (unlike Chrome and IE7/8/9), is actually more likely to let something pass than IE or Chrome.

At the Pwn2Own 2011 convention, where software security companies attempt to crack browsers in order to take control of a laptop (the winner receives the cracked laptop and a financial reward) within a specific timeframe, it took several hours and no less than three different security holes to take over IE8 on W7 x64. In contrast, Safari got hacked in just a few minutes by a French firm with a single drive-by attack using an intentionally badly coded webpage. As for Chrome...nobody bothered about it (two firms are signed up for the attempt to hack it, but neither showed up at the designated hour, leaving the browser unhacked...but also unproven)(Google nevertheless had to patch Chrome afterwards when a WebKit-using Blackberry got hacked, which means that they probably shared the same vulnerability). It is unsure as to whether IE9 would fall prey to the same trick, since they added additional security layers such as DEP/NX (Data Execution Prevention / No eXecute), ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) and SafeSEH (Safe Structured Exception Handling).


My reasons for using more of IE9 are motivated by practicality - my main browser is Opera but unfortunately ever since v10.54 it's been plagued with stability bugs and every once in a while, it crashes on me, sometimes leading to frustrating data loss or interruption of ongoing activities. And while I first believed Flash to be the infuriating little culprit behind those mishaps, there have been crashes on pages that were not Flash-intensive or didn't even feature such animations...and I very much doubt the other plugins are to blame either. Which means that every once in a while, I use IE9. It also helps that the rendering is very snappy and at times it appears to graphically outperform other browsers thanks to hardware acceleration.

As for Firefox, the only reason I use it is for the add-ons (Embedded Objects, NoScript, AdBlock Plus). Not for the browser itself - it doesn't have any game-changing feature that would make me jump ships.



On a different topic, Opera 11.10 Build 2048 just entered beta stage. Here's the massive changelog:

Spoiler for changelog:

# User interface
* Improvements
- Added Speed Dial animations
- Improvements made to the Speed Dial flow layout
- Added button to configure Speed Dial
- Added ability to set the number of Speed Dial columns (automatic by default)
- Speed Dial can now be zoomed
- Added a new dialog when adding/editing Speed Dials
- Now possible to add a custom title to Speed Dials, through the new add/edit dialog
- Added feature discoverability improvements
- Improved the bookmarks bar skin
- Use black underline for IME candidates
- Added the UAC shield to the auto-update install button
- "Save file" dialog is now using the new style dialog in Windows Vista/7
- Updated styling for internal pages, and search suggestions on error pages
- Removed "Yes/No" choice from the intranet toolbar; made the suggested url clickable
- Prevent third party applications from hijacking searches and other customizations in Opera
- Windows installer now having an option to remove a profile when uninstalling
- Improved strings and translations
- Configure Speed Dial dialogue: remove the cross button (close) at top right
* Fixes
- Wand corruption occurring when changing master password with specific wand data
- Auto-complete not remembering https protocol
- Crash when changing to an alternate stylesheet via a keyboard shortcut
- Tab becoming unpinned after opening the Save As dialog
- Generated feeds page still using -o-text-overflow:ellipsis
- Wrong background and border color occurring for dropdowns for high contrast operating system themes
- Overlaid page information window being incorrectly displayed on blank pages
- Opera using the latest session for startup instead of the one it is supposed to use
- A ghost window is created when restarting with a floating Panel
- Edit functions not working from the Opera menu button
- Floating panels with the Info panel being activated are covered with a white box on restart
- Go back to Speed Dial using right click-left click loads the start page
- Check marks being inconsistent in View > Encoding
- Potential crash occurring when deleting private data
- Address field misbehaving when changing focus
- Ctrl + Shift + V opening in a new background tab
- New Home url not upgrading when the old url is written in preferences
- Paste&go into an empty tab bar only opens a new empty tab
- History being lost for Speed Dial tabs
- In auto-update, a pending auto-update should not start if the user has manually upgraded Opera in the meantime
- Opera does not get an updated browser.js or override_downloaded.ini for the new version of Opera immediately after auto-updating
- When auto-updating, do not install old updates
- Crash when saving a bookmarks file
- Not being able to connect directly to an Opera Unite instance
- Bookmarks in the bookmarks menu not being able to be right-clicked
- In auto-update, ask before installing an update
- Prevent Opera from opening an infinite number of tabs when a MIME type is set to use Opera's executable as an external application
- Menu button being misplaced in a restored window when Tab bar is set to wrap to multiple lines
- Opera's tooltip appearing in front of another application's tooltip, when a hovered element has a mouse event listener
- Multiple lines getting selected in Advanced Preferences - Storage
- A cut string in the startup dialog in some languages
- Search engines with non-ASCII characters in the address not working
- Rocker gesture actions being displayed in the mouse gesture UI
- www.http// added to urls when urls are opened from auto complete dropdown in the url field
- Crash when pressing Save in the internal source viewer
- In Image Properties, exposure time being sometimes slightly off
- Pasting copied cells from Excel into body of text/html compose body inserts table markup without opening and closing table tags (StartFragment and EndFragment)
- Picasa not starting properly when called by Opera
- Opera's submenus not appearing on hover
- NPAPI plug-ins not being detected
- Windows Classic native skin uses black text on dark progress bar in the address field
- Mouse panning stops working
- Drag and drop to the Attachments field opening files in Opera on Windows
- Transfers disappearing when closing a private tab
- Zoom in shortcut (Ctrl + Plus) not working on keyboard locales where you need a shift modifier to type a plus
- Crash with changing icon extension on extender menu
- Missing privacy checkboxes for extension being opened in dev mode
- Allow cancelling onkeydown for all keys (not just arrow keys, backspace, etc.)
- Plug-ins causing Opera to not shut down
- Overlay dialogs having broken alpha transparency on close animation
- Speed Dial fixes:
> Speed Dial background image becomes enabled after every Opera upgrade
> Zooming when typing + or - in the Speed Dial search field
> Make the Add Speed Dial dialog skinnable
> Let sites reload Speed Dials using the "Preview-refresh: seconds" HTTP, or <meta http-equiv="preview-refresh" content="seconds">
> Using thumbnail friendly content when available
> Opera hanging or crashing when editing/deleting Speed Dial cells in multiple windows at the same time
> Page title being shown on top of thumbnail when hovering background tabs with thumbnail previews enabled
> Duplicate dials occurring on upgrade
- Wininstaller fixes:
> Failure to modify the registry named Software\Classes\Opera.HTML\FriendlyTypeName; error code: 39 or 40
> When the installer cannot find a shortcut for a second Opera install, the installer bails out
> Error code 14 occurring on installing/upgrading
> Respecting the language choice made in the installer and change Opera's language
> Error on installing Opera; error code 89
> Error 76 when upgrading from Opera 11.00 to Opera 11.01
> Error code 17 when upgrading from MSI
> Installer fails if it cannot check if a shortcut exists or not; error 68
> Crash when upgrading to Opera 11.01
> Wrong language being used after autoupdate to Opera 11.01
> Uninstaller randomly freezing
> Cancel button being active in autoupdate dialog when upgrading from MSI to new installer
> Uninstaller not asking for reason for uninstalling
> Pixelated installer icon occurring on Windows 7 taskbar
> Back button missing from the Options page
> Opera sometimes failing to set itself as default when installing for current user
> Size of checkbox field being too small for a translation of the remove profile option

# Display and scripting
* Improvements
- Added support for image naturalWidth naturalHeight
- Moved the accesskey attribute to HTMLElement (HTML5)
- Implemented the W3C Web Open Font Format (WOFF)
- Added support for the BeforeCSS/AfterCSS events
- Added audio/x-midi to the list of MIDI MIME types
- Implemented mouseenter and mouseleave events from DOM3 Events
- Implemented onfocusin/onfocusout events
- Implemented the W3C CSS Viewports specification
- Added support to Opera extensions for debugging of isolated userjs
- Improved Opera spatial navigation on complex sites (like Facebook)
- Improved the image viewer
- Various improvements to Opera Turbo
- Updated strings and translations
* Fixes
- Cancelling onkeydown not also cancelling keypress
- onBlur attribute of an HTML form input field not triggering when focus moves to a different frame
- Opera not supporting multiple rels for LINK
- event.offsetX for mouse events returning "distance from previous whitespace" rather than "distance for target box origin"
- nbsp entity in form element value being submitted as space
- Mouse or keyboard scrolling should be allowed when scrolling=no is set on frame / iframe
- Empty selection must not have any ranges
- tBodies DOM 1 method returning nested tBodies
- Being unable to place the cursor in an empty selection
- .start returning 0 instead of 1 for <ol start="bogus">
- Plug-in object with display block not initializing until paint is triggered
- The input event being dispatched on cut
- xpath engine allowing only 100 predicates in xpath expressions
- prototype must be DontEnum for exposed DOM interfaces
- Incorrect scrolling in "find" when there are inline elements in preformatted text
- type set to the empty string does not load the style sheet
- window.CanvasPixelArray being undefined
- window.ImageData not being prototypable
- Inability to type @ in a transparent Flash text field
- body.background not being able to return full URL of the background image
- Accesskey clicking disabled buttons
- XMLHttpRequest specification being violated when calling send() from a non-opened state does not throw
- Applying vertical-align on an inline-block misplaces it if there is a positioned sibling
- Missing new-script event when scripts are in HTML attributes while working in Opera Dragonfly
- Bold fonts not being properly rendered when there is no bold font file available
- HTMLScriptElement.text shows source of external script, not element contents
- Selecting being broken when used in an upward direction
- self.location (in Web Workers) not taking redirects into account
- Skip collapsed text when extracting selected text and in document edit mode
- Inability to type in Flash text fields
- Thai word wrap not working
- Login problems with Java occurring when in www.sparebank1.no
- Default to "ask user" instead of doing nothing if a plug-in for a filetype is not available
- Seeking in a paused <video> should remove poster frame
- Entities thinsp, ensp, and emsp not being displayed correctly
- DOCTYPE not being generated correctly
- Streaming multiple, identical plug-in streams randomly fails
- <applet> ends up with type parameter after parsing
- scroll event not being fired on document
- Wrong value returned from offsetWidth, offsetHeight in DOMContentLoaded event
- Collapsed range not collapsing after being added to a selection
- Rule with no declarations missing in Opera Dragonfly
- Scrolling a block scrolls the plugin content
- Previous scroll position being restored after interacting with the page while reloading (after having gone back in history)
- Nested ternary operator failing during JIT
- Not waiting for layout if a script tries to read computed height and an external CSS is still loading
- Not being able to post comments or login to reuters.com
- Google virtual keyboard being broken; moving a position:fixed element up or left leaves artifacts
- Crash during a shutdown procedure
- onhashchange event property being on document instead of window
- browser.js failing if a User JavaScript file path does not exist
- Not being able to delete a list, only its contents, in a contentEditable / designMode document
- The player on libre.fm not working in Opera
- ce-html mime type not being handled by Opera (so the page is downloaded)
- Page being loaded from the cache after changing from a lower protocol to higher protocol
- eBuddy.com not working; script cannot read value correctly from a previously hidden textarea
- Document.onload not being fired when loading with async=false (Citibank Singapore Credit Cards Application Forms not visible)
- Opera not parsing WML files when content-type is missing
- Opera displaying the content of files that are served as application/octect-stream
- Using an anchor to determine correct position during mouse dragging
- usairways.com log-in not working if script assigns javascript: URLs to window.location; run them after current thread
- No change event occurring on hidden file input; photo upload broken on xanga.com
- Positioned child with top and bottom set not adjusting to a container's height
- Inability to remove contenteditable="false" content from inside a contenteditable="true" element
- Hash not being updated after a redirect
- Canvas shadowBlur with clipping causes artifacts and a crash
- A CSS string tokenization issue
- -o-transform does not recognize functions with whitespace occurring before arguments
- :active state being dropped if mouse is moved away from an element with the button being pressed
- Unchanged location.hash triggering onhashchange (location.hash = location.hash)
- Classes in content added via importNode not being recognized
- Operator '=' of XPath behaving incorrectly (case insensitive)
- Multiple files from one input not being handled by PHP due to multipart/mixed MIME with sub-parts for each file
- Crash on closing a tab with a plug-in
- Problem selecting origin and destination in the left combo menus; extending SELECT with select.length+=1 fails
- First scroll event being sent to the window instead of the scrollable area
- In Opera Dragonfly, sending the file name of user scripts through scope in OnNewScript
- Find in page not scrolling to show search hits in frames
- link.focus() not removing focus from the rich text editor
- Calling body.focus() on an editable body from a button onclick event fails
- Removing a widget cache folder just after widget uninstall
- 24sevenoffice.com webpage missing menues in Opera; element.children exists in XML documents, but is broken
- Landsend.de not allowing Opera to show its subordinate contents
- <video> containing poster not resizing
- <video> with broken poster not reverting to show the video
- Clicking a <button> fires a focus event and a blur event
- Opera spatial navigation on elements with overlapping rectangles and event handlers not descending in the tree
- Zooming in Opera Show mode causes incorrect scroll position
- Geolocation notifier not being shown again, once a window with a notifier is closed without answering
- hasProperty/hasMethod check not occurring before setting property/method on NPObject
- <video poster> not reappearing after calling load()
- In Opera Dragonfly, opera.scopeCreateClient(): onconnected callback never gets called when connected to a remote host
- Incorrect computed style for text-overflow
- Parsing of empty Geolocation reponse from Gelocation server (over IPv6)
- Double clicking on a content window while a HTTPS site is loading, loads the home page
- In Opera User preferences, "Allow Autofocus Form Element=0" should additionally disable handling focus sent on synthetic events
- Crash when handling a plugin event when a plug-in fails
- Server highlighting for urls containing ":" in a fragment
- Quirks mode parsing of color values on setting property
- Opera returning data for width and height attributes on <canvas> using getAttribute when they are unset or empty
- Admit cloning of object DAGs involving host objects
- input[type=color] accepting any input unlike date, datetime-local, number, week, month
- RegularExpressionLiterals not being re-evaluated to create new objects within a loop
- Text not being base-aligned in text areas
- When scrolling inside a scrollable container, enable the scrolled-to element to be outside of view
- Crash when clearing the undo/redo stack after typing in Hebrew
- Slowdown on hovering a document with positioned iframes with visibility: hidden
- Eval having an unnecessary hard limit of 64 imported variables
- Date header from server later being sent in an If-Range header
- relative position on a link or its parent disables clickability
- console.log not printing to the Error Console
- HTMLElement getting garbage collected, causing a custom property to cease existing on erlang.org
- Incorrect value being computed if there is a space character before a hash in a color definition
- Value being lost on setting the indexed property of an external plug-in object; vod.onet.pl player not loading
- Overflow hidden container being scrolled when clicking button
- Malware check not ignoring intranet URIs
- Several memory usage errors
- Opera freezing on some Turkish websites
- "Execute program" concluding a line of parameters in quotes
- Incorrect redrawing of a page when displaying the tooltip and scrolling
- Geolocation module initialisation taking too long to startup
- Failed repaint when removing fixed positioned element that overlaps body padding/margin
- Fixed positioned elements not invalidated properly when being removed
- Incorrect parsing of a JavaScript array literal
- Content with position: fixed and top placement not being hidden
- Top menu sometimes disappears when clicking buttons on Google docs
- Dynamically setting display:none not properly repainting a fixed-position descendant
- Setting ancestor to visibility:hidden not redrawing a position:fixed element (redrawing error on twitter.com)
- Cookies on localhost 127.0.0.1 not being returned by GetCookie (Cookie-Manager service)
- Pasting from right-click menu creates unformatted text inside formatted blocks with CKEditor
- Opera crashing while using spatial navigation on a rapidshare.com page
- HTML5 video crashes when files are being hosted on an FTP server
- document.write from a timed script clearing the page
- Doing location.replace on iframe and reading out iframe's document before load, fails on orkut.com
- Adding a command to get a resource id with an URL in the resource service for Opera DragonFly
- Many CSS3 cursors not displaying on Windows
- Crash when extensions need HTTP Auth after a restart
- Enable Cookies DNS Check default is set to true, should be false
- 100% cpu usage occurring when installing application cache on developers.whatwg.org
- Crash when loading developers.whatwg.org
- "work offline" conflicting with "application cache"
- Some sites flicker when loading plug-ins
- Application cache not being detected for explicit cache entries when loaded outside of the application cache
- UserJS code not running in extensions if page does not include a script tag
- Links in extension pages not working when trying to open extension-internal urls in new windows
- The extension background process reloading correctly and without crashing
- Extension pages being allowed to navigate to other extension-internal pages via the location object
- Extension-related windows with scriptless documents not being closed when the extension is disabled
- Widget Interface not being exposed on the UserJS side of extensions
- The console object in Web Workers not logging anything to the error console
- Tab urls exposed from extensions not including the url's fragment identifier
- Caret placement at line ends being broken in contentEditable <pre> tags; wrapped lines case that caused problems in M2
- The background process being allowed to navigate away from the extension's index.html
- Ease-in transition goes out of range when second transition overrides it near the end
- Crash when getting color from -o-skin

# Mail, news, chat
* Improvements
- Added support for phrase searching
- Improved CJK searches
- Improvements made to the panel, including a setting to disable automatic toggling
* Fixes
- Running javascript url even though it is being replaced by a form submit; an issue with Yandex Mail
- While surfing in a private window, Opera Mail links open in a non-private tab
- Not being able to change mail signature from HTML to plain text
- POP3 causing a crash on exit
- Mail label being created from "save search" also shows non-matching messages that are received after the label is created
- Sorting message list by label not working
- "Label As" submenu from the mail body context menu showing an empty label list
- Crash after opening the mail window in a separate tab
- "Sent" view under POP access point showing sent messages for all accounts that use the same SMTP server
- POP "Inbox" view not being updated after a restart
- Crash occurring on exit, with either POP or mailing list/feed folders
- "Saved search" labels being removed after a second restart
- IPv6 connection failures occurring on Mac, Linux, and FreeBSD
- Progress bar percentage going haywire when importing a large mbox
- Rounded corners on the "No message selected" Mail/Feeds page
- Opening a feed tab also opens the Mail panel
- Moving mouse in the new mail panel while in drag state not scrolling the super scrollbar
- Hovering over collapsed access point in new mail panel while in drag state should expand the access point, so you can continue dragging to a view
- Crash when entering a feed, deleting the feed, and clicking a column header
- Feed labels not showing in message list after a restart
- Log files being stored in the wrong location
- Double quotes should search for the whole phrase in Mail
- Pressing Enter when composing HTML mails sometimes has large line spacing
- Zooming in/out of print preview crashed Opera
- Crash on saving label for search in all messages

# Miscellaneous
* Improvements
- Improved (cold) startup performance on machines with slower disks

# Network
* Improvements
- Improved HTTPS-Proxy-CONNECT requests (as in other browsers)
- Improved SSL and TLS
- Illegal URLs are now treated in a user-friendly way
- Improved our content-type detention algorithm (implemented ideas from Media Type Sniffing draft-abarth-mime-sniff-05
- Moved Accept to compose-request and enabled it using */* on a second request
- Removed the Accept-Charset header from HTTP requests
- Improved pipelining
- Improved pubsuffix
- Improved Cookie handling
- Improved traversal in terms of elements/objects in the document and their location searching
* Fixes
- http refresh causing internal communication error
- Connection being closed by remote server on ftp.opera.com with corrupted application_cache

And FF4 will go RTW on the 22nd of this month, apparently. And since Mozilla wants to go all Google-y with the release pace, there are rumors that FF5 will come 16 weeks after FF4.

[demonix]

Originally Posted by monster

In what way?

It just looks ugly like they've tried to copy google chrome and did a pretty bad job of it.

[felix]

Originally Posted by Renegade334

On a different topic, Opera 11.10 Build 2048 just entered beta stage. Here's the massive changelog:

Spoiler for changelog:

# User interface
* Improvements
- Added Speed Dial animations
- Improvements made to the Speed Dial flow layout
- Added button to configure Speed Dial
- Added ability to set the number of Speed Dial columns (automatic by default)
- Speed Dial can now be zoomed
- Added a new dialog when adding/editing Speed Dials
- Now possible to add a custom title to Speed Dials, through the new add/edit dialog
- Added feature discoverability improvements
- Improved the bookmarks bar skin
- Use black underline for IME candidates
- Added the UAC shield to the auto-update install button
- "Save file" dialog is now using the new style dialog in Windows Vista/7
- Updated styling for internal pages, and search suggestions on error pages
- Removed "Yes/No" choice from the intranet toolbar; made the suggested url clickable
- Prevent third party applications from hijacking searches and other customizations in Opera
- Windows installer now having an option to remove a profile when uninstalling
- Improved strings and translations
- Configure Speed Dial dialogue: remove the cross button (close) at top right
* Fixes
- Wand corruption occurring when changing master password with specific wand data
- Auto-complete not remembering https protocol
- Crash when changing to an alternate stylesheet via a keyboard shortcut
- Tab becoming unpinned after opening the Save As dialog
- Generated feeds page still using -o-text-overflow:ellipsis
- Wrong background and border color occurring for dropdowns for high contrast operating system themes
- Overlaid page information window being incorrectly displayed on blank pages
- Opera using the latest session for startup instead of the one it is supposed to use
- A ghost window is created when restarting with a floating Panel
- Edit functions not working from the Opera menu button
- Floating panels with the Info panel being activated are covered with a white box on restart
- Go back to Speed Dial using right click-left click loads the start page
- Check marks being inconsistent in View > Encoding
- Potential crash occurring when deleting private data
- Address field misbehaving when changing focus
- Ctrl + Shift + V opening in a new background tab
- New Home url not upgrading when the old url is written in preferences
- Paste&go into an empty tab bar only opens a new empty tab
- History being lost for Speed Dial tabs
- In auto-update, a pending auto-update should not start if the user has manually upgraded Opera in the meantime
- Opera does not get an updated browser.js or override_downloaded.ini for the new version of Opera immediately after auto-updating
- When auto-updating, do not install old updates
- Crash when saving a bookmarks file
- Not being able to connect directly to an Opera Unite instance
- Bookmarks in the bookmarks menu not being able to be right-clicked
- In auto-update, ask before installing an update
- Prevent Opera from opening an infinite number of tabs when a MIME type is set to use Opera's executable as an external application
- Menu button being misplaced in a restored window when Tab bar is set to wrap to multiple lines
- Opera's tooltip appearing in front of another application's tooltip, when a hovered element has a mouse event listener
- Multiple lines getting selected in Advanced Preferences - Storage
- A cut string in the startup dialog in some languages
- Search engines with non-ASCII characters in the address not working
- Rocker gesture actions being displayed in the mouse gesture UI
- www.http// added to urls when urls are opened from auto complete dropdown in the url field
- Crash when pressing Save in the internal source viewer
- In Image Properties, exposure time being sometimes slightly off
- Pasting copied cells from Excel into body of text/html compose body inserts table markup without opening and closing table tags (StartFragment and EndFragment)
- Picasa not starting properly when called by Opera
- Opera's submenus not appearing on hover
- NPAPI plug-ins not being detected
- Windows Classic native skin uses black text on dark progress bar in the address field
- Mouse panning stops working
- Drag and drop to the Attachments field opening files in Opera on Windows
- Transfers disappearing when closing a private tab
- Zoom in shortcut (Ctrl + Plus) not working on keyboard locales where you need a shift modifier to type a plus
- Crash with changing icon extension on extender menu
- Missing privacy checkboxes for extension being opened in dev mode
- Allow cancelling onkeydown for all keys (not just arrow keys, backspace, etc.)
- Plug-ins causing Opera to not shut down
- Overlay dialogs having broken alpha transparency on close animation
- Speed Dial fixes:
> Speed Dial background image becomes enabled after every Opera upgrade
> Zooming when typing + or - in the Speed Dial search field
> Make the Add Speed Dial dialog skinnable
> Let sites reload Speed Dials using the "Preview-refresh: seconds" HTTP, or <meta http-equiv="preview-refresh" content="seconds">
> Using thumbnail friendly content when available
> Opera hanging or crashing when editing/deleting Speed Dial cells in multiple windows at the same time
> Page title being shown on top of thumbnail when hovering background tabs with thumbnail previews enabled
> Duplicate dials occurring on upgrade
- Wininstaller fixes:
> Failure to modify the registry named Software\Classes\Opera.HTML\FriendlyTypeName; error code: 39 or 40
> When the installer cannot find a shortcut for a second Opera install, the installer bails out
> Error code 14 occurring on installing/upgrading
> Respecting the language choice made in the installer and change Opera's language
> Error on installing Opera; error code 89
> Error 76 when upgrading from Opera 11.00 to Opera 11.01
> Error code 17 when upgrading from MSI
> Installer fails if it cannot check if a shortcut exists or not; error 68
> Crash when upgrading to Opera 11.01
> Wrong language being used after autoupdate to Opera 11.01
> Uninstaller randomly freezing
> Cancel button being active in autoupdate dialog when upgrading from MSI to new installer
> Uninstaller not asking for reason for uninstalling
> Pixelated installer icon occurring on Windows 7 taskbar
> Back button missing from the Options page
> Opera sometimes failing to set itself as default when installing for current user
> Size of checkbox field being too small for a translation of the remove profile option

# Display and scripting
* Improvements
- Added support for image naturalWidth naturalHeight
- Moved the accesskey attribute to HTMLElement (HTML5)
- Implemented the W3C Web Open Font Format (WOFF)
- Added support for the BeforeCSS/AfterCSS events
- Added audio/x-midi to the list of MIDI MIME types
- Implemented mouseenter and mouseleave events from DOM3 Events
- Implemented onfocusin/onfocusout events
- Implemented the W3C CSS Viewports specification
- Added support to Opera extensions for debugging of isolated userjs
- Improved Opera spatial navigation on complex sites (like Facebook)
- Improved the image viewer
- Various improvements to Opera Turbo
- Updated strings and translations
* Fixes
- Cancelling onkeydown not also cancelling keypress
- onBlur attribute of an HTML form input field not triggering when focus moves to a different frame
- Opera not supporting multiple rels for LINK
- event.offsetX for mouse events returning "distance from previous whitespace" rather than "distance for target box origin"
- nbsp entity in form element value being submitted as space
- Mouse or keyboard scrolling should be allowed when scrolling=no is set on frame / iframe
- Empty selection must not have any ranges
- tBodies DOM 1 method returning nested tBodies
- Being unable to place the cursor in an empty selection
- .start returning 0 instead of 1 for <ol start="bogus">
- Plug-in object with display block not initializing until paint is triggered
- The input event being dispatched on cut
- xpath engine allowing only 100 predicates in xpath expressions
- prototype must be DontEnum for exposed DOM interfaces
- Incorrect scrolling in "find" when there are inline elements in preformatted text
- type set to the empty string does not load the style sheet
- window.CanvasPixelArray being undefined
- window.ImageData not being prototypable
- Inability to type @ in a transparent Flash text field
- body.background not being able to return full URL of the background image
- Accesskey clicking disabled buttons
- XMLHttpRequest specification being violated when calling send() from a non-opened state does not throw
- Applying vertical-align on an inline-block misplaces it if there is a positioned sibling
- Missing new-script event when scripts are in HTML attributes while working in Opera Dragonfly
- Bold fonts not being properly rendered when there is no bold font file available
- HTMLScriptElement.text shows source of external script, not element contents
- Selecting being broken when used in an upward direction
- self.location (in Web Workers) not taking redirects into account
- Skip collapsed text when extracting selected text and in document edit mode
- Inability to type in Flash text fields
- Thai word wrap not working
- Login problems with Java occurring when in www.sparebank1.no
- Default to "ask user" instead of doing nothing if a plug-in for a filetype is not available
- Seeking in a paused <video> should remove poster frame
- Entities thinsp, ensp, and emsp not being displayed correctly
- DOCTYPE not being generated correctly
- Streaming multiple, identical plug-in streams randomly fails
- <applet> ends up with type parameter after parsing
- scroll event not being fired on document
- Wrong value returned from offsetWidth, offsetHeight in DOMContentLoaded event
- Collapsed range not collapsing after being added to a selection
- Rule with no declarations missing in Opera Dragonfly
- Scrolling a block scrolls the plugin content
- Previous scroll position being restored after interacting with the page while reloading (after having gone back in history)
- Nested ternary operator failing during JIT
- Not waiting for layout if a script tries to read computed height and an external CSS is still loading
- Not being able to post comments or login to reuters.com
- Google virtual keyboard being broken; moving a position:fixed element up or left leaves artifacts
- Crash during a shutdown procedure
- onhashchange event property being on document instead of window
- browser.js failing if a User JavaScript file path does not exist
- Not being able to delete a list, only its contents, in a contentEditable / designMode document
- The player on libre.fm not working in Opera
- ce-html mime type not being handled by Opera (so the page is downloaded)
- Page being loaded from the cache after changing from a lower protocol to higher protocol
- eBuddy.com not working; script cannot read value correctly from a previously hidden textarea
- Document.onload not being fired when loading with async=false (Citibank Singapore Credit Cards Application Forms not visible)
- Opera not parsing WML files when content-type is missing
- Opera displaying the content of files that are served as application/octect-stream
- Using an anchor to determine correct position during mouse dragging
- usairways.com log-in not working if script assigns javascript: URLs to window.location; run them after current thread
- No change event occurring on hidden file input; photo upload broken on xanga.com
- Positioned child with top and bottom set not adjusting to a container's height
- Inability to remove contenteditable="false" content from inside a contenteditable="true" element
- Hash not being updated after a redirect
- Canvas shadowBlur with clipping causes artifacts and a crash
- A CSS string tokenization issue
- -o-transform does not recognize functions with whitespace occurring before arguments
- :active state being dropped if mouse is moved away from an element with the button being pressed
- Unchanged location.hash triggering onhashchange (location.hash = location.hash)
- Classes in content added via importNode not being recognized
- Operator '=' of XPath behaving incorrectly (case insensitive)
- Multiple files from one input not being handled by PHP due to multipart/mixed MIME with sub-parts for each file
- Crash on closing a tab with a plug-in
- Problem selecting origin and destination in the left combo menus; extending SELECT with select.length+=1 fails
- First scroll event being sent to the window instead of the scrollable area
- In Opera Dragonfly, sending the file name of user scripts through scope in OnNewScript
- Find in page not scrolling to show search hits in frames
- link.focus() not removing focus from the rich text editor
- Calling body.focus() on an editable body from a button onclick event fails
- Removing a widget cache folder just after widget uninstall
- 24sevenoffice.com webpage missing menues in Opera; element.children exists in XML documents, but is broken
- Landsend.de not allowing Opera to show its subordinate contents
- <video> containing poster not resizing
- <video> with broken poster not reverting to show the video
- Clicking a <button> fires a focus event and a blur event
- Opera spatial navigation on elements with overlapping rectangles and event handlers not descending in the tree
- Zooming in Opera Show mode causes incorrect scroll position
- Geolocation notifier not being shown again, once a window with a notifier is closed without answering
- hasProperty/hasMethod check not occurring before setting property/method on NPObject
- <video poster> not reappearing after calling load()
- In Opera Dragonfly, opera.scopeCreateClient(): onconnected callback never gets called when connected to a remote host
- Incorrect computed style for text-overflow
- Parsing of empty Geolocation reponse from Gelocation server (over IPv6)
- Double clicking on a content window while a HTTPS site is loading, loads the home page
- In Opera User preferences, "Allow Autofocus Form Element=0" should additionally disable handling focus sent on synthetic events
- Crash when handling a plugin event when a plug-in fails
- Server highlighting for urls containing ":" in a fragment
- Quirks mode parsing of color values on setting property
- Opera returning data for width and height attributes on <canvas> using getAttribute when they are unset or empty
- Admit cloning of object DAGs involving host objects
- input[type=color] accepting any input unlike date, datetime-local, number, week, month
- RegularExpressionLiterals not being re-evaluated to create new objects within a loop
- Text not being base-aligned in text areas
- When scrolling inside a scrollable container, enable the scrolled-to element to be outside of view
- Crash when clearing the undo/redo stack after typing in Hebrew
- Slowdown on hovering a document with positioned iframes with visibility: hidden
- Eval having an unnecessary hard limit of 64 imported variables
- Date header from server later being sent in an If-Range header
- relative position on a link or its parent disables clickability
- console.log not printing to the Error Console
- HTMLElement getting garbage collected, causing a custom property to cease existing on erlang.org
- Incorrect value being computed if there is a space character before a hash in a color definition
- Value being lost on setting the indexed property of an external plug-in object; vod.onet.pl player not loading
- Overflow hidden container being scrolled when clicking button
- Malware check not ignoring intranet URIs
- Several memory usage errors
- Opera freezing on some Turkish websites
- "Execute program" concluding a line of parameters in quotes
- Incorrect redrawing of a page when displaying the tooltip and scrolling
- Geolocation module initialisation taking too long to startup
- Failed repaint when removing fixed positioned element that overlaps body padding/margin
- Fixed positioned elements not invalidated properly when being removed
- Incorrect parsing of a JavaScript array literal
- Content with position: fixed and top placement not being hidden
- Top menu sometimes disappears when clicking buttons on Google docs
- Dynamically setting display:none not properly repainting a fixed-position descendant
- Setting ancestor to visibility:hidden not redrawing a position:fixed element (redrawing error on twitter.com)
- Cookies on localhost 127.0.0.1 not being returned by GetCookie (Cookie-Manager service)
- Pasting from right-click menu creates unformatted text inside formatted blocks with CKEditor
- Opera crashing while using spatial navigation on a rapidshare.com page
- HTML5 video crashes when files are being hosted on an FTP server
- document.write from a timed script clearing the page
- Doing location.replace on iframe and reading out iframe's document before load, fails on orkut.com
- Adding a command to get a resource id with an URL in the resource service for Opera DragonFly
- Many CSS3 cursors not displaying on Windows
- Crash when extensions need HTTP Auth after a restart
- Enable Cookies DNS Check default is set to true, should be false
- 100% cpu usage occurring when installing application cache on developers.whatwg.org
- Crash when loading developers.whatwg.org
- "work offline" conflicting with "application cache"
- Some sites flicker when loading plug-ins
- Application cache not being detected for explicit cache entries when loaded outside of the application cache
- UserJS code not running in extensions if page does not include a script tag
- Links in extension pages not working when trying to open extension-internal urls in new windows
- The extension background process reloading correctly and without crashing
- Extension pages being allowed to navigate to other extension-internal pages via the location object
- Extension-related windows with scriptless documents not being closed when the extension is disabled
- Widget Interface not being exposed on the UserJS side of extensions
- The console object in Web Workers not logging anything to the error console
- Tab urls exposed from extensions not including the url's fragment identifier
- Caret placement at line ends being broken in contentEditable <pre> tags; wrapped lines case that caused problems in M2
- The background process being allowed to navigate away from the extension's index.html
- Ease-in transition goes out of range when second transition overrides it near the end
- Crash when getting color from -o-skin

# Mail, news, chat
* Improvements
- Added support for phrase searching
- Improved CJK searches
- Improvements made to the panel, including a setting to disable automatic toggling
* Fixes
- Running javascript url even though it is being replaced by a form submit; an issue with Yandex Mail
- While surfing in a private window, Opera Mail links open in a non-private tab
- Not being able to change mail signature from HTML to plain text
- POP3 causing a crash on exit
- Mail label being created from "save search" also shows non-matching messages that are received after the label is created
- Sorting message list by label not working
- "Label As" submenu from the mail body context menu showing an empty label list
- Crash after opening the mail window in a separate tab
- "Sent" view under POP access point showing sent messages for all accounts that use the same SMTP server
- POP "Inbox" view not being updated after a restart
- Crash occurring on exit, with either POP or mailing list/feed folders
- "Saved search" labels being removed after a second restart
- IPv6 connection failures occurring on Mac, Linux, and FreeBSD
- Progress bar percentage going haywire when importing a large mbox
- Rounded corners on the "No message selected" Mail/Feeds page
- Opening a feed tab also opens the Mail panel
- Moving mouse in the new mail panel while in drag state not scrolling the super scrollbar
- Hovering over collapsed access point in new mail panel while in drag state should expand the access point, so you can continue dragging to a view
- Crash when entering a feed, deleting the feed, and clicking a column header
- Feed labels not showing in message list after a restart
- Log files being stored in the wrong location
- Double quotes should search for the whole phrase in Mail
- Pressing Enter when composing HTML mails sometimes has large line spacing
- Zooming in/out of print preview crashed Opera
- Crash on saving label for search in all messages

# Miscellaneous
* Improvements
- Improved (cold) startup performance on machines with slower disks

# Network
* Improvements
- Improved HTTPS-Proxy-CONNECT requests (as in other browsers)
- Improved SSL and TLS
- Illegal URLs are now treated in a user-friendly way
- Improved our content-type detention algorithm (implemented ideas from Media Type Sniffing draft-abarth-mime-sniff-05
- Moved Accept to compose-request and enabled it using */* on a second request
- Removed the Accept-Charset header from HTTP requests
- Improved pipelining
- Improved pubsuffix
- Improved Cookie handling
- Improved traversal in terms of elements/objects in the document and their location searching
* Fixes
- http refresh causing internal communication error
- Connection being closed by remote server on ftp.opera.com with corrupted application_cache

Is it usable? What I mean is what are the known issues with it.