Opera stomps on 'extremely severe' security holes
But won't say what they are
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Opera has unleashed a minor point upgrades for the Windows and Mac versions of its web browser - so minor it didn't merit a press release. But the 10.54 release fixes five security holes, four of which Opera won't fully disclose, but are rated "extremely severe", "highly severe", "moderately severe" and… "less severe".
This sounds very scary. But what are they? Go on, Opera - give us a clue.
Opera 10.54 with a transparent skin
In addition the Mac version receives a number of stability and UI issues, including the annoying "not releasing a mouse click when making selection from drop-down", problems with pop-ups grabbing the focus, and MacBook trackpad on speed.
Opera 10.53 for the Mac wasn't the company's finest hour. While the Windows cut seems stable, your reporter reverted back to 10.10 on the Mac, as it was bombing so often. Opera says what it calls "premature shutdowns" invoked by closing a window, loading system frameworks, and other causes have been fixed.
Mac 10.6 seems much better, although if you're a Mail user, it won't play nicely with your old mail store. ®
COMMENTS
so quick to blame....
No, FF success is mainly due to MS forgetting its users, and IE being full of holes!!! Before safari & google chrome appeared, there were only THREE browsers for windows!!!
FF is historically related to Netscape, so that helped as well as them being very extrovert, stopping at NOTHING to publicize it...
The early FF was very basic, but has much more security, and is updated regularly, unlike IE that is only updated every few years!!
Opera is more for the advanced person, that load 100's of different pages daily... and has a lots of utilities that need an addon in FF....
The problem with the company though, it seems to be very introverted, saying the web advertising and exhibitions are all the publicity it needs....
So most have NEVER HEARD about opera.... and those that have, see the paranoia about very old versions....
Re: Normal people
"A lot of people have given up waiting for opera to get websites working! that is why FF gets more and more popular"
I never realised that Firefox's success was purely off the back of ex-Opera users.
There was me mistakenly thinking IE's share had declined and the two were somehow (largely) connected...
geek jokes, huh, Fraser???
Normal people:
If you are still starting up google to make a search, it is like driving to work, even though it is 2 minutes walk from your house!!! It would take twice as long to find parking!!! :P
delete your 'google' bookmark!!! In firefox and opera, just type your search into the addressbar!! in opera 1010, if it is one word, it looks for a website- if it is two words, it does google (or your selected search engine)
If you think '10.5 / 10.60 works ok' , you have NO CLUE - Just suppose your work gives you a big, comfortable, fast car...
then they 'upgrade' it... much faster yes, BUT NO comfortable seats, only 2 seats instead of four, no CD player, just bad radio.. I am sure you will be as p****d as us due to many missing features!!
A lot of people have given up waiting for opera to get websites working! that is why FF gets more and more popular...
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