The Opera development team is working on the next major revisions of the Webkit-based version of the browser, which we will eventually see in the form of Opera 18 and Opera 19. The current stable version is 17, meaning that Opera 17 is not undergoing active development. However, the developers are fixing bugs in Opera 17, and that’s the reason for this update. Version 17.0.1241.53 includes fixes for several crashing problems in the previous release.