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Filed under: Internet, Features, Windows, Macintosh, Browser Tips, Beta

Opera 9.5 alpha coming Tuesday

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

Opera browser 9.22 launched with security updates

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

Filed under: Internet, Browser Tips

Opera Browser 9.10 adds fraud protection

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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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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