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Opera 8.52 unofficially released

Published February 15th, 2006 1:21 PM EST By Daniel Goldman

Opera 8.52 has been unofficially released on Opera’s FTP directory.

Opera has not made any official announcement regarding this release at this time, so I’m not aware of the specific updates. Perhaps it’s nothing more than security updates; Opera is putting most of its focus on the next major release, Opera 9, at this time.

Opera 8.52 is available for the Windows, Linux/Unix, and Mac platforms.

The official changelog for Opera 8.52 (Windows) will be posted here, when it’s made official.

Important note: Download at your own risk. This release is still unofficial.

Update (2/17/06): Opera has now made this release official, which can be downloaded on its website. This release contains some Gmail loading fixes and a fix for a minor security issues.

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  1. 1 Anonymous Feb 15th, 2006 at 2:09 pm

    [Pray mode] in the hope that they took this opportunity to fix the GDI leak.

  2. 2 Anonymous Feb 15th, 2006 at 2:17 pm

    At long last…
    8.51 had a few expired SSL-certificates, which was quite annoying for normal users.

  3. 3 Anonymous Feb 15th, 2006 at 7:39 pm

    License.txt: “You may only use the Software for your private, non-commercial use” :(

  4. 4 Anonymous Feb 16th, 2006 at 6:29 am

    oops, away it is. Seems to be a unwanted released. But, Yeah I downloaded it before. If noticed no changes, so far

  5. 5 Anonymous Feb 16th, 2006 at 7:26 am

    I got it too :D

  6. 6 Jyvyn Feb 18th, 2006 at 1:23 pm

    8.52 has been officially released now. Now to wait for 9 Final…

  7. 7 Anonymous Feb 23rd, 2006 at 6:24 pm

    Comes with an old flash plugin which has a security hole.

  8. 8 Cuero Jul 12th, 2006 at 4:57 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.00 on Windows Windows XP

    1) cuando entro http://www.boomerangla.com

    se cierra y sale error

    1) in the site http://www.boomerangla.com, produce crash in the opera 9.0, why is that

    support for rss 2.0 just like i.e 7 , with mini tabs at hte left is most better rss 2.0,
    when opera support that? actually on ly show line of text is boring es rss 1.0 with tabs at the left es better

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