Opera Screeches at Mozilla Over Security Disclosure

The Register is reporting that Mozilla's handling of a recent security exploit that affected both browsers has drawn an unhappy response from the Opera team. "Claudio Santambrogio, an Opera desktop developer, said the Mozilla team notified it of a security issue only a day before publishing an advisory. This gave the Norwegian software developers insufficient time to make an evaluation. [...] Santambrogio goes on to attack Mozilla's handling of the issue, arguing that it places Opera users at unnecessary risk."

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Re:I must be missing something here...

[rapidweather]

I think it's been a while since Opera updated their browser. I'm running Opera version 9.25 now in my Knoppix remaster.
I like Opera when running on older computers, it does seem faster. Not so much on my remaster, but if I run Ubuntu 7.10 on this same box, a HP Pavilion 8250, Firefox seems very slow, and Opera is a welcome relief. I actually had to install Opera in Ubuntu for that reason, really. It's the 2.6 kernel, I have a 2.4 kernel in my remaster, and that runs much better on older boxes. Here is a screenshot of Ubuntu on that box, and here is a screenshot of my remaster running on that box.
(I put these in here just to make this post more interesting)
But, neither screenshot shows the current topic, Opera vs Firefox, performance on older boxes... (sorry).

I do wish Opera would take this update opportunity to fix their toolbar so it looks similar to IE and Firefox, in that the blank space, where Opera used to have their advertisement bar, is removed, and filled with browser controls like the others have. To me, the greatest thing is Firefox having the toolbar editor, so the user can set it up like they want.