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Opera 8 Beta 2 Released

Toxicfume   on 25 February 2005 - 14:39 · 39 comments & 9345 views

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After a long while, Opera 8's second beta has been unofficially released. No changelog has been posted yet, but will appear once it is officially released, which should be soon.

There are a few apparent changes such as the new Appearance settings and a new option to 'Report a site problem'.

Gmail and Google Maps works flawlessly in this version, and Hotmail supposedly works better. Here is a small changelog posted by an Opera Employee:

Improved Security
  • Fix for IDN spoofing, by introducing a whitelist for safe top-level domains - curently :no:jp:de:se:kr:tw:cn:at:dk:ch:li:. Sites not in the whitelist will show the encoded domain in the URL field. The list is updated automatically when Opera checks for a new version.
  • The padlock icon is now always visible for HTTPS servers, and the name of the organization owning the certificate is displayed in the URL field.
  • Support for the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) - real-time requests for certificate status.
  • Other smaller fixes and changes.
  • and more...
The Final version of Opera 8 is expected to be released very soon by the end of this month.

Update: Opera 8 Beta 2 is now official. Full Changelog now available. At this point only the Windows version is available.

Download: Opera 8 Beta 2 (For Windows)
View: Complete Changelog
News source: Neowin BPN(thanks mohan_168)

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(1 reply) #1 on 01 Jan 1970 - 00:00
#1.1 vetToxicfume on 25 Feb 2005 - 15:19
Yeah, opera is being slammed left and right, even their mainpage is very slow. I'll try to update with mirrors as soon as possible.

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