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Opera Says It Can Compete In Browser Battle
Even as Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer 7 rolls out to users and Mozilla Corp.'s Firefox 2.0 nears completion, rival Opera Software remains convinced it can compete, a company executive said Thursday.
Chief Technology officer, Hakon Wium Lie was particularly critical of Microsoft's IE 7, which he said was "disappointing." The IE development team, said Lie, had been given the short end of the stick by Microsoft. "They haven't taken things seriously, and haven't given the necessary resources to IE 7. They could have built a new rendering engine, but instead they used [the engine that debuted with] IE 4. "That's like taking an old car and giving it a new paint job," said Lie.
Read the article HERE.
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Opera 9.1 will include Fraud Protection
As presented at the Opera Backstage event in London today, Opera 9.1 will include enhanced fraud protection. Today we display the name of the certificate owner in the right end of the address field when you're on a secure site. In 9.1 we will reuse that field to display more information about the trust level of the site you visit.
Read the article HERE.
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Opera browser patches buffer overflow
The patch is a relative rarity for Opera, which consistently has the lowest vulnerability count every year, but also has the lowest market share among the major Internet browser for the Windows operating system.
Read the article HERE.
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Opera for me
No web browser is ever going to be 100% secure; that's just the nature of the beast. Do a search for Firefox vulnerabilities and you'll see that they also have their share of problems.
This is best for people used to Internet Explorer and want a nice, simple, small browser. It's got an excelent GUI and some great features. It's also now free.
Surfing the net with Opera, as a limited user - not as an Admimistrator - is still [IMHO] the safest way to be online.
Even as Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer 7 rolls out to users and Mozilla Corp.'s Firefox 2.0 nears completion, rival Opera Software remains convinced it can compete, a company executive said Thursday.
Chief Technology officer, Hakon Wium Lie was particularly critical of Microsoft's IE 7, which he said was "disappointing." The IE development team, said Lie, had been given the short end of the stick by Microsoft. "They haven't taken things seriously, and haven't given the necessary resources to IE 7. They could have built a new rendering engine, but instead they used [the engine that debuted with] IE 4. "That's like taking an old car and giving it a new paint job," said Lie.
Read the article HERE.
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Opera 9.1 will include Fraud Protection
As presented at the Opera Backstage event in London today, Opera 9.1 will include enhanced fraud protection. Today we display the name of the certificate owner in the right end of the address field when you're on a secure site. In 9.1 we will reuse that field to display more information about the trust level of the site you visit.
Read the article HERE.
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Opera browser patches buffer overflow
The patch is a relative rarity for Opera, which consistently has the lowest vulnerability count every year, but also has the lowest market share among the major Internet browser for the Windows operating system.
Read the article HERE.
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Opera for me
No web browser is ever going to be 100% secure; that's just the nature of the beast. Do a search for Firefox vulnerabilities and you'll see that they also have their share of problems.
This is best for people used to Internet Explorer and want a nice, simple, small browser. It's got an excelent GUI and some great features. It's also now free.
Surfing the net with Opera, as a limited user - not as an Admimistrator - is still [IMHO] the safest way to be online.
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