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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)."
oPERA sUCKS!
Using Opera 7
...just use Safari (rumored to be driving Opera out the market?). You are using OS x, right? :)
Thank god I'm using IE!
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One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying
Seems like that list would be shorter.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
There is no law that says web browsers have to have lots of security flaws that can remain published for several weeks before patches are issued on an obscure web page? Pshh, next thing I'll see will say my MS servers are poorly secured.
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It's nice to see that there's a speedy 24 hour turnaround on the fixes... even so I think I'll stick to my tried and true v6.03 :)
There is no Opera 7 for Mac OS X. is it becuase the safari browser? See This article (slashdot.org)
The package said "Windows XP or better. Pentium Class Processor or better"... So I got a Mac with OS X
Great I just downloaded this 2 days ago and already it's full of security holes. WTF, I waited until they said Opera 7 was no longer a beta program. Those lying fuckers, this is obviously still in a beta stage. That said, I like the program better than 6.05, however, I would prefer to use the SECURE 6.05 release rather than this unsecure 7 release.
The aprt I like is where the "experts" say that Opera is still better than IE from a security stand point. Just give it time.....
Opera 7 is nice but I am disinclined to put any new version of a browser on a critical computer. Other cautious types won't have been inconveienced greatly either.
I like mouse gestures, but I don't know what to make of the new spatial navigation feature. yet.
Last time there was a serious browser security problem KDE got Konqueror fixed by evening,Opera had fixes on one platform after a day and another platform after a couple of days, and Mozilla was about a sgood.
Many of my colleagues were still using the only major browser that took a week before anyone admitted they owned a problem, when the fix eventually came out.
Sorry, opera software, you're about to go bankrupt.
To the developers at opera soft. - you're going to be laid off soon!
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.
Would BUY a web browser? These things are commodity now in the terms of operating systems. We have IE and Mozilla for Windows, KHTML and Mozilla for Linux, and IE and Mozilla and KHTML for Mac.
We have Mouse gestures for Moz by plugin, Tabbed bowsing for Moz and Konq, and any other feature deemed ok can easily be added in to Mozilla (either by source adds or plugins).
Can somebody answer me why someone would buy a web bowser these days?
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Google community when IDC confirmed that Google market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all web searches. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Google has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Google is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by Yahoo's failure to renew its exclusive deal with Google.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Google's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Google faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Google because Google is dying. Things are looking very bad for Google. As many of us are already aware, Google continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Google search is the most endangered of them all, having lost most of its core affiliates. The sudden and unpleasant departures of Yahoo and AOL only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Google is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Google.com founder Sergey Brin states that there are 7000 users of Google. How many users of Verity are there? Let's see. The number of Google versus Verity posts on USENET is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Verity users. AskJeeves posts on USENET are about half of the volume of Verity posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Inktomi. A recent article put Teoma at about 80 percent of the search engine market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Google users. This is consistent with the number of Google USENET posts.
Due to the troubles of Google News, abysmal sales and so on, Google is going out of business and will probably be taken over by idealab! who operate another troubled search engine. Now Inktomi is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Google has steadily declined in market share. Google is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Google is to survive at all it will be among search engine dilettante dabblers. Google continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Google is dead.
Fact: Google is dying
It seems. With the barrage of security flaws in IE, Mozilla, Netcape, and Opera, it seems it doesn't matter if you pay or not!
Or it could be that others are coming up with increasingly more ingenious ways to get around existing security and everyone is making sure they don't get caught with their pants down.
Of course, you can always go with uncle steve on his safari and just believe the software is perfect as apple pie. I'd rather update and though it's a pain in the ass, at least know some holes are plugged from time to time (as new ways to subvert security are created) than lull myself into believing that security is ever Perfect from the get go.
Conclusion: Updates good... Ignorance bad
-Joe
If we're all god's children, what's so special about Jesus? - Jimmy Carr
Furthermore, in an application - the problem of cohesion and coupling will forever rise. Unfortunately, many applications have modules that are heavily linked so when you ask "What isn't affected?", you aren't considering how many applications are programmed. Frankly, if module A is broken, in many, many cases where the design team was on the project for two weeks and the coding team never even talked to the design team, this would mean that B - F are also broken. I'm not saying this is a problem with Opera but some security flaws in a given module will often result in flaws being found in others.
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Mozilla is slow as molasses on anything less than a Ghz+ machine.
IE is so full of holes, and no feasible way to kill popups short of crippling the browser.
Your point again was?
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
Those are the main reasons. It's well worth the small price to get a browser with so many good features. I find it amazing that anyone chooses to use IE!!!!
"Would it kill you to put down the toilet seat?" -- Maya Angelou
but opera surely does rock!! I have tried Mozilla, Pheonix, and IE, and also Konqueror and some other browser on linux which I tested a while ago, and well.. sorry, but opera is by far the best browser I've ever used.. I would mourn if it suddenly went bankrupt or whatever, as non of the other browsers are good enough for me after having used opera. Of course, things are looking fairly good for opera and their future, even though they're competing in the deadliest of markets - this hold true especially for the portable market. When discussing opera and browsers, someone always comes on and says why not use pheonix instead?? I will tell you something.. to me, pheonix feels almost as bloated as mozilla.. it's just something with the.. interface.. difficult to describe.. even the renderer feels slower, or in some other way inferior to the one of opera, but.. the show stops already with the user interface.. there's just something not completely right about it.. opera has nothing too fancy in the way of interface design, but it just works and feels very good. So some seem to think us opera users just make stupid claims.. tell me this.. why the hell would i bother to pay for opera if pheonix is just as good or even better as many claim? For me, it simply isn't.. besides, opera has some functionality moz/pheonix cannot offer me yet.
You shouldn't put any browser on a Critical Computer.
"Would it kill you to put down the toilet seat?" -- Maya Angelou
News for nerds, stuff that matters
More news and stuff that matters please.
I know it might not help much, but all Opera user should give Phoenix a shot.
:)
:) (yeah, kudos to Phoenix developers!)
I used Opera and I really like it very much as its efficiency and functionalities can really beat any other alternatives. However, I failed to get Java and flash work properly on Linux, it always has some glitches here and there. Opera works fine in this regard in Windows, though.
Then I gave Phoenix a try. To my surprise, not only java and flash works flawlessly, its performance is even comparable to Opera! Although it doesn't have the same functionalities I'd find in Opera, but I can install extensions to enhance its usabilities. Above all, it wouldn't give you annoying banner ad(yes I didnt pay for Opera
I just tell from my experience, and I've no association with Phoenix development team.
Opera comes up with security problems, and they're fixed in short order.
IE has one big security problem (script support) and a whole bunch of little ones, and the patches come, well, when they get around to it.
Conclusion: Well, you decide for yourself...
This Post Made From Within Opera (6.0)
I use mozilla, so I really can't speak for opera. What I can say is this: I'll be sticking to my free 'bloatware' until A) It's no longer developed B) I am forced at gunpoint to run a piece of shitty software that I have to pay for.
According to this forum thread, it said "Grey Magic looking at the alert said they informed Opera in Nov. of the problems in beta 1 of version 7. In beta 2 Opera thought they had fixed it but instead had only fixed part and not all. On Jan. 31 Grey Magic informed Opera of these problems in version 7 final , Opera asked for the to wait till Feb. 6 before announcing so that they could have it fixed , Grey Magic chose not to wait just 2 more days."
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
...that full disclosure of security issues is not in the publics interest. Opera has aggressively been working on the problems, and has released 7.01 which (AFAIK) fixes said problems. However, they did not have reasonable time to address each issue once found.
It's one thing when a company sits on an exploit for a month without even aknowledging it. It's another when a company acknowledges it, and requests a reasonable amount of time to make a fix, and regression test that fix. Sheeshe, give these guys a break - they patched very quickly and from what it looks like it's a stable patch.
There is no longer anything that can be done with computers that is nontrivial and clearly legal. -- Paul Phillips
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*
I submitted many times to slashdot about the great new release of Opera 7.0. They continued to reject my story. Now I see this story warning users of Opera 7 of insignificant security holes that aren't even a threat.
Seems to me the Slashdot editors are too fucking good to post anything about anything closed source unless its bad fucking news for the inferior closed source software companies.
Take a fucking clue you fucking homo CmdrShithead and stop with your fucking bad stories on everything you don't like.
That fucking story titled "Microsoft Home of the Future has no Bathroom" pissed me off just as much. But since I actually use Opera and think its good software this story takes the motherfucking cake.
Fuck you Slashdot
It can be downloaded with Java (12.9Mb) or without (3.3Mb)."
Oooh shite!!! Java cross-platform failure alert! Pass me my lawyer...
(offtopic: feck me, Java is bloatware! 9.6MB!?)
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that has to be some sort of record for a big fix. anyone know if these were discovered after the 7.0 release or if it was something known before that were saved till after the release to polish up?
I'm supposed to believe that a patch could be issued this quickly for a security issue?!!! No way, it must be fake!! If MS can't do it, nobody can, they are the bomb!! :)
Note: The above is meant to be funny, not trollish
It chaps my butt just a bit that Opera did not have the courtesy to send me an email letting me know that a new version was available. I registered my Windows and Linux versions. Maybe their email server is buggy too.
Because it's fast and relatively small. No, it's not accurate like Mozilla/Netscape6+. No, it's not "integrated" like Konqui and IE. It's not pretty (except to those who've grown used to it). It's not standards-compliant (even IE does most things better these days). But it is FAST.
You run it. You surf. You close it. You're done. Simple. It's the KISS browser, if you will. And it's the only decent browser that can run in an ultra-low RAM environment (various mobile devices).
Those who'd care to disagree please have the decency to prove it. Thank you.
But, with an Athlon under your desk, you'll be able to light those cigars from the fire that starts as soon as the processor gets up to operating temp. No need to waste the bills...you might as well get that Apple you know you want :)
By the way, I run OS X and Mandrake...on an Athlon. The Athlon was in a used box I picked up, and was running at 68 deg. C. I replaced the fan and heat sink and it's down to 48 deg. C now. My G4 runs at 38, as I recall.
Wrote 'em an email complaining about their security-through-obscurity model, and had a reply back from a developer within ten minutes, pointing me to the FTP site with the fixed version...
:)
That's not a bad response at all, IMHO.
And no, I don't work for 'em - are they hiring at the moment?
It's just hit their FTP servers. If you've signed up for their announcement newsletter (which you get the option to do during your purchase as I recall) then you'll know as soon as they announce it no doubt.
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Yes, I know the parent was sarcastic.
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Programmer2: Nah... lets just post it on slashdot.
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Maybe 24 hours since it's been reported here, but look at the error reports, the latest report is dated January 29th, the earliest is from November (a variant of the hole in question).
It's not like anyone else's security holes are important. Actually, it's not like MS's security holes are important, either, since everyone's running to Open Source like a bunch of lemmings on crack.
Right? Right.
And Dolly Parton is a crossdresser, too. Just thought that needed to be settled.
For the alpha previews of their unix versions, go here.
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I guess this security finding shows -- Opera is shit. If you don't want to pay for this Opera shit... try these. w-EeiCL-QyJFS-3mYfc-rFzFh-NMFWk w-ChPii-dvunr-wmiwC-tLcMs-WahwF w-X5eKx-neJUc-3EMTP-ABLJv-KEDiV w-iJ8Xe-VP3my-LTheH-w4DUQ-zyhEw
Just because a developer "fixes" the code, doesn't automatically push it out to users. Software should auto-update.
I look on slashdot and see that my current browser had security holes, and an update saying that it's already fixed and where to get the fixed version. I love Opera. It makes me happy. If only other *coughmicrosoftcough* companies would learn from this!
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The difference between KHTML 3.1 (used in KDE 3.1) and KHTML 3.2 (used in Safari and KDE 3.2) is more like the difference between Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 (used in Microsoft Windows 2000) and Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5.2 (used in Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 3). In other words, not much significant has changed.
Will I retire or break 10K?
Opera knew earlier about them. From a Bugtraq post:
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For the five advisories posted today concerning Opera 7, I have not seen and information on when and how Opera Software was notified of the problems, and if they were/when planning for a fixed release.
Alright, after reading:
http://my.opera.com/forums/showthread.php?s=903
and:
http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/29177.html
It looks like Opera Software was notified 1/31, and asked for the announcement to be delayed until 1/6.
Was there a good reason to post the vulnerabilities today rather than thursday?
Apple ... is producing a browser that is causing people to migrate away from Opera on no less than 8 operating systems.
That's at least half right. I can think of at least four operating systems where Apple's contribution to the KHTML component may cause Opera's market share to decrease: Mac OS X Jaguar, Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris operating environments. The X11 based version of Safari is called "Konqueror" and comes packaged with the forthcoming KDE 3.2 desktop environment.
Will I retire or break 10K?
Opera has over 10 million users of their browsers, keeping in mind that some still use version 6 and even 5. Your comment was inaccurate, immature, and stupid. Please put your bottom lip over your head and swallow. In other words, what me and the rest of everyone here are saying to you is SHUT THE FUCK UP!
I just fired up IE to about:blank, typed in www.slashdot.org, and it took it 7 seconds to load.
I did the exact same thing in Opera, and it took 3 seconds. Sure, it's not scientific, but it's very typical of the response times I see using the two browsers. And yes, I do use both because there are a number of asstards out there who make their sites IE only, and I must view them for work.
As for an example, I have a minor css thing on http://www.mzla.com/bible that doesn't appear at all in IE (highlighted text). I've seen plenty other examples, but am too lazy to find them now. The things I listed are well worth the money, in my book. If you don't find them worth the money, don't buy it, don't use it. It's your choice.
"Would it kill you to put down the toilet seat?" -- Maya Angelou
Has moderated this guys all troll posts with huge points so he has +2 karma bonus? ;)
Cheez u must know who this is lets use suse 8.1 for that IBM box.
If a post is pro-M$ and not obviously sarcastic we begin to wonder about your sanity.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
you pulled that straight out of your ass.
why opera ? wow, either your running a p200 (or slower) or just dont have a clue.
I can load opera and be browsing 3 sites before the moz even loads. I love moz, using it now. but damn, opera just rocks the house.
That sounds more like it...I don't want hear 'burning down the house' on my way home some evening :)
This is a 1010 Athlon...what is the 'normal' temp for these things?
hehehe...okokok...
...and Mandrake on an Athlon -
...or...
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OS x.
I run OS X and Mandrake. Mandrake on an Athlon... No Opera.
Now watch someone start talking about OS X for ix86 all over again
I use IE for everything and set my own security levels and keep up to date with patches. Add a little shareware app called pop up stopper and its perfect. Tell me again why I need opera? I use what works for me, not what other people think is right.
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tabbed browsing
There's one flashing at me right now. But it's very non-intrusive and most of them (they change periodically) don't flash. Only once in the last year was there a flashing ad there that got on my nerves. Once in a while they show some funny toons there too (very clever). Also, going full-screen makes the little add window disappear. But it is an exceptionally small price to pay for such a great browser. Still, once I recover from the unscheduled free time that the dot-bomb delivered me and get some $ coming in, I'm going to buy a copy. They deserve the money.
Overall, Opera is such a damned well thought-out and implemented browser, I have no intention of going back to the "majors" - they are bush-league in comparison.
And I've converted 5/5 people who were fed up with IE in the last year, which is pure bonus satisfaction.
Then you must be one fucking dumb person. Holy shit, even Bush could figure it out.
And I mean that in the nicest way.
Yes, security through obscurity and all but shouldnt they have contacted Opera first to let them know and let them fix it before announcing them to the public? This isnt some 3 months-waiting-ms-bug, Opera 7 has been out for a month.
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Dammit i PAID for opera and now i cant even download it.
6 is no where near as buggy as 7 & has much more mature features.
Afterall 7 is a beta.
The bookmarking folder setup is much more flexible too
A windows user using IE has had tabbed browsing for years... The only difference being that the tabs were in the start bar
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Everyone that has a legal copy of Windows has in effect "paid" for Internet Explorer. The cost to license it is "bundled" together with Windows so you don't know how much you spent. Believe it or not there was a very public case about this in federal courts. For the love of God, stop saying that IE is free.
All unix versions on their download page (save Solaris) are newer than the ones on the alpha page.
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whay is java support 9.6 MB, or nearly triple the size of the browser!
What about huge the memory leaks that were in the beta 2? Did they fix those as well? Just curious.
It can be downloaded with Java (12.9Mb) or without (3.3Mb).
And we bitch at Microsoft for putting out bloatware? Yikes...
I love Opera, I just fell in love with it a week ago. the mouse gestures, the overall feel or the gui. I have a few problems with it though. One being that when I highlight text that is on a url, I cant save the actual text, I just have the option to save the URL . Also, the scroll feature in Opera is very buggy, I cant scroll while a page is loading or I have to have the mouse "inside" the area I am wanting to scroll, instead of just putting the cursor to the right and scrolling. It just wont let me! I found a serial # to get rid of the ads, so that I could try it out without the Ads ( I HATE ADS ) That way I could see how it REALLY looks like and feels like. I am putt off by these security holes Big time right now, I have patched the browser, and am still loving the experiance. I would be willing to pay for this Browser once a few bugs and really obvious funtions are added. Another side affect of using Opera, is you start to do mouse gestures in other applications lol LMOA I mean It really is a wonderful thing, I wouldnt go back to IE or Mozilla ( shudder ) again.
If Opera was compatiable with all sites then would it be set as a default browser?
IE would have no use and Opera would take over! Surely Opera is more Superior to IE if it was compatiable with all sites.
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 :)
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Lust is what you could decribe my facination with the usability of this browser lol
Let me explain: Opera have shown their willingness to innovate and add new features to their browser. And they're good at it. Many of their ideas are very useful, *and* they're designed to benefit the user rather than create new "standards" to try and lock in developers.
Opera promoted the ideas of tabbed browsing and mouse gestures, ideas that were taken up by many Gecko-based browsers. The new release adds and intelligent "forward" button, understanding of navigational META tags, and small screen rendering.
If you watch Moz and Phoenix, you will see the influence of Opera - for example, the demand for Opera-style "rocker" gestures (using mouse button combos rather than movement) to be added to the gesture extensions.
Now, I'm not saying that Open Source projects should only clone and never innovate - and in fact, there are many innovations in Mozilla (pie menu navigation and type ahead find, for example). But Opera is a useful source of good interface ideas, and the company is not taking out bogus patents to "protect" them.
I'm a medical doctor.
My desktop computer is critical.
I need to look up stuff from our internal and external knowledge stores like the Dermatology advice (no URL offered by me!), and national electronic library for health GP Notebook and the US NIH, University of Iowa virtual hospital, that sort of stuff, while I'm dealing with patients.
In due course I may need to order (we say request) tests or further opinions which are accessed via a browser.
I think I need a browser on my critical computer.
I can do it by using the VNC session I maintain to the Linux machine on the network, and running the browser on that, but that makes cut and paste, and triggering a browser from a database noticeably more difficult.
While the turnaround for a new release was only 24 hours, 90% of the users will still be vulnerable in a week. Full disclosure is bullshit, even if they fix it fast that doesn't mean the fix is deployed. Plenty of time for exploits to cause trouble.
Looked at GreyMagic's web site with Opera cookie notification on?
http://www.greymagic.com/This page wishes to set the cookie
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Replaced with Xs to protect the innocent. Not only www but also "security". It's brave of them to be the lab rats for their own research-- or something.
Did anybody see 'The Recruit'?
I'm pretty sure that at one point Colin Farrel was using a browser that said "Opera" in huge text across the top. I thought it was an interesting choice, given that more than half the audience has probably never heard of it.
Can anyone tell me why Opera Software doesn't release incremental upgrade patches? I know it's only a 3 meg download, but that's still considerable over my dial-up connection, and shouldn't be necessary for a .01 upgrade/security fix.
I need a browser that will run on 486s and low-end Pentiums with less than 64 megs of RAM. Opera is the only graphical choice on Windows for those old beasts.
Not only that, but there were workarounds for all 5 holes immediately. Four could be taken care of by turning off javascript, and the other could be fixed by modifying a line in one local html file. So I go without javascript for a couple of days until the fixed version comes out, boo-hoo. I am really glad that they implemented better pop-up blocking this time around (ala Moz), but am sad that I can't background skin my browser. Now I am just waiting for the the Linux version...
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I am using Opera 7.0, and the banner ad displaying right now in it is: Surf Safely - Opera 7.01s Now Available
So I guess that makes it official. I think I am about to click my first banner ad ever. :-)
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Prince George, it's not real. They're just acting.
D'oh! Here is what I got when I clicked the banner ad:
Dear Internet User,
You are receiving this error page due to a problem with the configuration of the advertisement javascript or html coding. This error is isolated to a specific site or site subsection. We apologize for any inconvience caused.
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So this is how the Open Source world can always come up with fixes so fast: Friday to Wednesday is "less than 24 hours".
"According to Opera, GreyMagic only notified it of problems with Opera 7 on Friday afternoon (January 31)."
First of all, let me make it clear that I would rather not pay for something if I can get it for free. Having said that the reasons I paid for Opera are:
1.Tabs
Say what you may about Knoq, phoenix having tabbed browsing. But Opera what the first and does now has even more tabbed features with ability to save tab sessions.
2. Gestures:
This is first to market and most elegant and intuitive gestures than the Moz plugin which caused me unpredicatable or inintentional behaviors with the gestures.
3. Kickass Download manager
The best download integration with browser. Stop start resume, etc,, With the new version you can download all the links in a page in just one operation.
4. Memory and Speed:
My normal usage takes only 20MB(I have 12 tabs open usually mostly java documentation that I can easily access) on minimizing it takes only 7MB.
5. Search integration
Believe it the searching google, amazon or ebay or your custom configuration is far superior to any browser out there.
Only negative I have is the rendering of pages. For example Yahoo! Mail had pull down menu. But I can't get it to work in Opera given that Yahoo! is a megaplex on the web.
So give it a try and you'll never turn back just I did.
If it makes your life better thank Opera team and you'll be better for it.
Sigh, Dang thing still crashes everytime I go to a yahoo news site.
At least it has the decency to restart back in the last known good state. I really hope they get that on fixed soon. I love the browser just a few bugs left to fix.
Just like checking your oil/coolant in a vehicle on a regular basis, keeping an eye on security vulns in software you use is part of the responsibility of owning a computer and using it on a network.
Failure to do any of the above results in job security for auto mechanics and "IT technicians", such as myself.
Opera 6 is the most responsive browser on NetBSD, that Ive ever used with 64mb ram (old laptop). I say, port to: FreeBSD and NetBSD. I currently use the Linux binary, however it sometimes aborts (like when checking yahoo mail). I am looking into using the FreeBSD binary, however a native port would be very handy, towards your cross platform availability also!