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Opera 9.5 alpha coming Tuesday

WindowsMacby Brad Linder Sep 3rd 2007

Opera 9.5 alpha
The first public alpha of Opera 9.5 is due out tomorrow. Opera might not get as much attention as Internet Explorer or Firefox, but the company deserves a lot of credit for innovation in the web browser market.

Opera Mini and Opera Mobile offer blazing fast page rendering on mobile phones and PDAs. And the Opera browser for the Nintendo Wii makes web browsing on a standard television set bearable thanks to a nifty zooming feature.

So what's new with the flagship desktop web browser? Well, there's a new rendering engine, a bunch of bug fixes, and generally faster program start times. But let's look at the juicier features first.

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Tags: full history search, FullHistorySearch, opera, opera browser, OperaBrowser, web browser, WebBrowser

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Filed under: Security, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Freeware

Opera browser 9.22 launched with security updates

WindowsMacLinuxby Brad Linder Jul 19th 2007

Opera 9.22Opera has released version 9.22 of the Opera browser for Mac, Linux, and Windows.

There aren't a ton of new features in this release. You can drag tabs between windows, and there are a bunch of bug fixes affecting stability, Silverlight, and BitTorrent.

But the primary reason to upgrade is because Opera 9.22 features several security enhancements:
  • Prevented an issue where data URLs could be used to display the wrong address in the address bar
  • Improved the display of long domain names in authentication dialogs
  • Added Trustcenter class 3 G2 roo certificate
  • Fixed an issue that could occur when removing a specially prepared torrent transfer

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Filed under: Internet, Browser Tips

Opera Browser 9.10 adds fraud protection

by Brad Linder Dec 18th 2006

Opera 9.10
Opera Browser 9.10 is out today, now with fraud protection features built in. If you enable fraud protection, every time you request a web page Opera contacts a server to check for phishing. Opera's partnered with GeoTrust, which provides a whitelist and a blacklist, and Phishtank, which provides a blacklist. Opera downloads the blacklist from Phishtank and sends queries to GeoTrust.

Sites on your local intranet will not be checked. In order to protect users privacy, Opera leaves fraud protection disabled by default. When it is enabled, information about the sites you are visiting goes to an Opera server, but is not shared with any third parties. And while Opera does save a list of sites you visit, it does not save your IP or any other identifying information.

Most of the other changes since Opera 9.02 appear to be minor bug fixes.

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Featured Time Waster

Build the highest tower with 99 Bricks - Time Waster

Wrapping your mind around a simple game like 99 Bricks is harder than you might imagine. The object of the game is to build the highest possible tower using only 99 pieces. Sounds easy enough, but you're playing with Tetris pieces and distinctly non-Tetris physics. If you screw up, you don't just leave gaps that you could have used to score points, you cause your whole tower to wobble and collapse.

Pieces also don't lock to a grid in 99 Bricks, the way they do in Tetris. You can wind up with pieces slanted diagonally, and there's an edge of the board that your toppled bricks can fall off of. 99 Bricks is kind of like Jenga, in that it's almost as satisfying to watch your tower crumble as it is to play seriously. Once you get the hang of the way the pieces behave, it's an addictive little game.

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