The next, 9.1, release of Opera browser will feature enhanced frad protection, but as with nearly all things Opera, thinking differently is apparently important.
Unlike Firefox 2 you won’t need to activate real-time protection, and depend on a 3rd party like Google, nor will it make use of Microsoft’s database. Instead Opera decided to create their own database out of privacy concerns of their users and allows them to easily activate and deactive the feature to send no information at all.
Opera already warns of hinky site certs and “display[s] the name of the certificate owner in the right end of the address field when you’re on a secure site.” With Opera 9.1, however, what you will see when you try to nav to a suspect site will be this:
Again, it’s designed to just plain work. WITHOUT depending on MessySoft or Google. It’s in a near-release beta, today, and I expect a weekly release will be out tomorrow.
Internet Exploder 7 is an improvement over past Internet Exploders. In fact, from what I have seen, it almost catches up to modern browsers in many respects. Still a second-class browser, though.
Firefox is a scrappy lil competitor, but it still has far, far too many rough edges for me. And when exactly are we going to see a stable Firefox 2? And while some may find the “managing information channels” paradigm the Firefox 2 roadmap points toward, I’m not too sure what the buzzwords will result in. And it seems it’ll still retain the bug-inducing extensions concept. I know, I know, lotsa folks like all the
Yeh, I think I’ve found A Better Way in Opera. Extensions? We don’t need no stinking extensions!
*heh*
BTW, Click the link in the para above the graphic for info directly from the Opera Desktop Team.