Thats right, Opera 9.6 is soon ready for its first beta flight. We have now frozen all features and only critical fixes go in. Really soon now, the beta will be released, but we want more feedback from you guys before we do so.

Changelog

* Added Core version (currently "Presto/2.1.1") to the User-Agent header; all our products will include this feature soon
* Sites using HTTP Auth are now saved in typed history
* Added setting to prevent bookmarks from showing in the Address field auto-completion drop-down
* Properly stop loading pages with iframes when closing the page or pressing stop
* Fixed problem where dynamically added xml-stylesheet processing instructions were ignored

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