A new version of the Opera web browser was announced today. Version 12.02 includes some security fixes, as well as some other minor changes.

The Opera blog post announcing version 12.02 also describes a way to avoid potential problems with the recently-announced Java security hole. It involves changing an Opera setting that forces the user to ‘click to play’ for any content provided by a plugin (including Java). With this setting enabled, if you visit a site infected with a Java exploit, the exploit code won’t run unless you specifically allow it. While possibly overkill, this is as good a workaround as we can expect, at least until Oracle issues a fix for the Java hole.