For those who can't wait until September 1st for the final (RTM) Opera 10, the Opera Software Desktop Team has released a second Release Candidate of its latest browser. The RC2 includes the following changes:

User Interface

- Native skin fixes
- Several fixes to strings that don't fit
- Fixed Bug DSK-210876 (Reload Image is ignored after unfinished image load)
- Fixed Bug DSK-262341 (Deleting Speed Dials aren't synced)
- Fixed Bug DSK-262356 (Crash on exit after deleting private data)
- Fixed Bug DSK-262389 (Crash in address bar dropdown)
- Fixed Bug DSK-262523 ("Sychronize Opera" button in Speed Dial is not working)
- Fixed Bug DSK-262622 (Crash when downloading spelling checker languages)

Core

- Fixed high CPU on HTML5 spec page
- Fixed Bug CORE-21052 (Using keys in match expressions causes crash)
- Fixed Bug CORE-23155 (Blocking content that is added as an iframe src using JavaScript causes page to never stop loading)
- Fixed Bug CORE-23169 (Opera claims collapsed selection isn't collapsed - causes emoticon deletion in Gmail): Bad selection values in scripts when selection is the caret in documentedit
- Fixed Bug DSK-248214 (Crash when saving a picture that has not been fully downloaded)
- Fixed Bug DSK-258402 (Several images redirected to same URL can cause NSL)
- Fixed Bug DSK-261860 (Upgrading Opera from 9.64 to 10, widgets connecting to the Internet get network problems on first run, works after reload)

Windows

- Improved 8-bit icons, added 4-bit icons, PNG compressed bigger icons, lower quality icons for mail and chat
- Fixed Bug DSK-262674 (Context menu height calculations off, causing "more items..." to show)

Unix

- New/updated icons
- Fixed Bug DSK-238564 (Icon files are not installed with install.sh)
- Fixed Bug DSK-262492 (Old icon shows when dragging text)
- Fixed Bug DSK-262757 (Qt3: Do not use XPM files to draw icon in system tray, use images from skin instead)
- Fixed Bug DSK-252305 (Can not easily focus a widget on major Linux desktop environments)

... and (as expected) is available for Windows, Mac OS and Linux.