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As preparations to the upcoming beta of Opera 11 we are exclusively giving you two new features and several mail enhancements today.

The address field in the browser is an extremely important feature. It's the key to how you navigate, search and to keep you safe on the web. For Opera 11, we want to bring it the next level, making it less crowded and helping you be more focused on the most important tasks. Before looking at it, please first note that the new address field is intended as a help for the vast majority of users who think they are on Google when on google.com.spoof.com, and others who don't automatically parse URL strings without conscious effort. The technical audience of Opera might understand query strings, but, in most cases, they are just gibberish to the user.
While a server might do it another way, the solution attempted is to show the parts which are most likely to tell users where they are.

What's changed:
A safer address field - Opera's new address field features

• All web pages gets a badge to the left of the address field. The badge replaces protocols like HTTP, HTTPS and opera:, which are shown only when focusing on the address field.
• Clicking on the badge provides a easy overview of the potentially more complex security state of the current web page.
• Parameters at the end of web addresses are visually hidden when the address field is not focused. (You can disable this with opera:config#UserPrefs|HideURLParameter if you still want to see the whole address all the time.)
• And lastly, there is a badge for browsing with Opera Turbo on. Clicking on this gives, for example, information about estimated data savings for the Opera Turbo session.

Opera Desktop Team has the details HERE!