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We have been very strict on our EV implementation - the rationale behind our strict “It ain’t EV ’til it’s EV, all EV” has been extensively documented by Yngve in a few articles.

However, we are now moving towards a less strict implementation - a consistent user experience is important throughout the wide palette of browsers that implemented EV. At the recent face-to-face meeting with the Web Security Context Working Group, we have agreed with other vendors on this behaviour as an industry standard. You will now get the green padlock, signalling the presence of an EV certificate, if the top level document is served with strong TLS and EV, and all included elements are served at least with strong TLS. For details, please head over to Yngve’s article.

In other news, Dragonfly guys have started making snapshots as well, with their first one released yesterday. On the desktop side we have started persistently caching the Dragonfly application so that it loads much faster, and can be used offline, after restarting Opera.

Also, our Core team has started a blog - head over to the new Core Team blog to follow the cool news and latest development at Opera’s heart.

WARNING: These are development snapshots: they contain the latest changes, but they also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, they may not work at all.

Known issues:

• [Bug 327180] Dragonfly does not work when JavaScript is disabled.
• [Bug 324377] Save Linked Content As fails sporadically.
• [Bug 332406] The drop-downs in the various dialogs open behind the dialog on Mac.
• Netvibes.com fails to load in this Windows build.

Changelog:

• New EV status policy.
• Fixed a crash when quitting with master password dialog open.
• Fixed a history navigation crash.
• Fixed a crash related to Dragonfly.
• Fixed handling of local resource files when installing Opera in a location with special characters in the path.
• Fixed an issue where Wand shortcuts stopped working after history navigation.
• Fixed filtering of messages in the error console - the filter will also apply to future events.
• Fixed initial focus in dialogs.

Mac-specific:

• Fixed plugin focus issues on rtl.de.
• Fixed an issue where the window doesn’t activate completely when clicked.
• Fixed repaint issues when pages are made shorter.
• Fixed an issue where text gets cut off in SELECT element.

UNIX-specific:

• Fixed some font selection issues.
• Fixed some mouse panning issues.
• Fixed listing of files in the GTK filechooser.

Windows-specific:

• Fixed default Save and Open location.
• Fixed a registry corruption of values used when other applications open Opera, caused by the classic installer.
• Fixed listing of files in the Open dialog.
• Saving web pages now correctly adds the extension.

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