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Opera 7.0 Security Holes ... Fixed
An anonymous reader writes "GreyMagic has issued five new security advisories for the recently-released Opera 7.0. They affect the security model, the javascript console, images, the history and the error log (allowing access to the history). A new version will be released within 24 hours to fix the holes, according to an article at The Register." Update: 02/05 02:01 GMT by T : An anonymous reader writes "Opera Software have just released Opera 7.01 for Windows. This version fixes the recently discovered security holes less than 24 hours after they were discovered - a very impressive turnaround! The release is currently only available on Opera's FTP site. It can be downloaded with Java (12.9Mb) or without (3.3Mb)."
Thank god I'm using IE!
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Seems like that list would be shorter.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
I think this is long overdue. The last time I checked out opera, several people were murdered (including one by a barber - terrorists with nail clippers indeed!). On a previous excursion there was an actual war, culminating in the death of a cigarette girl. This kind of thing just has to stop, so the prospect of increased security is a welcome one. In the past the only evidence of surveillance has been a few people in fancy dress with cheap, tiny binoculars. That's just a recipe for anarchy.
Some ear protection would be nice too.
Erm, last time I checked, 'Free as in Beer' means that it doesn't require monetary payment.
TODO: Something witty here...
Programmer1: Ouch! Somebody just discovered some security holes in our browser!
Programmer2: Yeah, I saw that too. I was working on it all morning, but I believe I've fixed all the outstanding issues in our code. Now we just need to notify our user base.
Programmer1: Yup. You gonna call him, or should I?
*RIMSHOT*
Did you take into consideration the duplicate posts ;-)
Programmer2: Nah... lets just post it on slashdot.
Interactive Visual Medical Dictionary
Um. Why not?
The ads in Opera are not:
- Popups
- Spyware
- Intrusive
And the way the Web is nowadays, they just blend into the background!
Well, I have, and I'm plenty happy with Gecko-based browsers, thanks.
Opera's UI is like a trip into some magical fairy land, where every little UI-related feature request that any user ever made has been granted! The result?
FUCKING BEDLAM.
Opera is practically unusable, thanks to its fantastically confusing and inconsistant UI. This is a shame, since its actual HTML engine is no slouch. It's no Gecko when it comes to standards compliance, but it's pretty good in 7.0. A shame that they can't make a Galeon/K-meleon simple interface to the damn thing. Opera-lite, anyone? I might actually be interested in such a thing, especially for lower end machines.
The Free desktop that Just Works
I love Opera, I just fell in love with it a week ago
Let me tell you something that all of us geeks should remember for future encounters with women: it's not love after a week, it's lust :)
It all goes downhill from first post