"Opera lets you surf the Internet in a safer, faster, and easier way. One of the most full-featured Internet power tools on the market, it includes pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, and advanced functions like Opera's groundbreaking E-mail program, RSS Newsfeeds and IRC chat. You can customize the look and content of your browser with a few clicks of the mouse."
Changes in 9.02:
User interface
- Fixed quick find field in Windows panel.
Mail, messaging, and newsfeeds
- Fixed high CPU usage while downloading big emails.
- Properties can now be accessed within the contacts and bookmarks panel after deleting items.
- Image attachments can now be saved using the context menu.
- Accessing a news link when no news server is configured will now prompt to configure a server.
Display and scripting
- Fixed a DOMParser bug affecting some menu scripts.
- Click events are now correctly received in designMode.
- Implemented support for Node.selectNodes, Node.selectSingleNode, and Attr.text.
- Improved rendering efficiency for repositioned elements, as in Flickr's updated "organizr".
- Allow large integers to be used in object declaration property names, as on the comments form on Slashdot beta.
Plug-ins and Java
- Fix for playing sound clips on Amazon.
Security
- Fixed an OpenSSL RSA signature verification flaw. See the advisory.
Miscellaneous
- Multiple stability improvements, including a stability issue on my.yahoo.com.
- Improved handling of downloads when the disk is full.
- Improved handling of Web site logins on slow connections.
- Improved handling of WAP text inputs.
Windows-specific changes
- Fix to allow opera to be set as default browser using the prompt at startup.
- Fix for attaching read-only files in mail.
- Support for the Windows XP Media Center Edition remote control.
- Added new settings in the Java section of opera:config to allow you to override the system defined JRE.