Recently, Opera released the new version of web browser. Opera 11.01 comes with additional features and mitigates five vulnerabilities including a recently disclosed critical vulnerability. The critical vulnerability was caused by integer truncation error and allowed remote attackers to execute malicious code. The new version also mitigates vulnerabilities, which allowed clickjacking attacks, allowed high privileges to remote web pages and allowed access to email accounts even after deleting private data. A vulnerability in browser configuration allowed attackers to bypass restrictions and initiate clickjacking attacks. The high risk vulnerability allowed attackers to manipulate users to click on a seemingly legitimate but fake links to gain control of their computers or gain unauthorized access to privileged information.
The latest version also mitigates another high risk vulnerability, which caused the browser to erroneously provide escalated privileges to remote web pages. The vulnerability allowed attackers to gain unauthorized privileges and upload files from the affected systems as web resources and extract confidential information.
Opera 11.01 mitigates fixes a moderate vulnerability associated with the 'delete private data' tool of the browser. The clear all email account passwords option under the tool does not clear all the data immediately and allows access to an e-mail account until the browser is restarted. Usually, professionals who have undergone certified ethical hacker training help developers to identify security flaws in products and applications. In this case, the vulnerabilities were identified by various security researchers.
Unpatched web browsers are vulnerable to security breaches. Users must apply appropriate security patches to web browsers and associated plug-in to reduce instances of attacks and security breaches. Internet users may benefit from the online computer training programs and update themselves on cyber security tips and precautions.
The new version does not support javascript - URLs in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) o-link values and enables websites to filter untrusted CSS.
The updated version also enables the Mac OS file quarantine. The quarantine places a flag on downloaded files and alerts users opening one such file.
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Being the underdog of the Internet browser war, Opera still haven't given up it's effort of becoming top 2 or maybe top 3 browser. For you info, IE currently dominates the browser market, occupying 70% of the browser market while Mozilla Firefox occupies 20%, Safari 6% and Opera 0.8%. That 0.8% is really really low. Even Google Chrome beat it by 0.1% since it's release a few months ago.
I have been using Opera since version 8, thanks to the recommendation of a friend. This version 10, codenamed Peregrine, retains the same visual interface as the version 9.5 Opera and up.
That visual not really bad, nor it is attractive. I just feels that that big black bar is taking too much space for tabs. I know the appearance can be changed, but still, why do Opera want that bar to become so BIG?
The Opera 10 boasts about it's ability so scored 100/100 in acid3 test. But, in my case, I only get 98/100. No matter how many times I refreshed, it still remain 98. Perhaps my download got a bit corrupted?
Since it's only an alpha version, I expected it to run into many problems, such as missing objects in browser or crash unexpectedly. Here, I must say that I'm pretty impressed with this alpha version, as it display correctly on websites that I frequently surf, expect for 1. It's the Blogger 'Create Post' section. It won't display all of the options such as font type, font size, alignment and etc. When I'm typing this post, I don't even know whether I'm in "Edit Html" or "Compose" mode.
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Opera is a proprietary software provider who has created a variety of tools for online users. The Internet browser is much like Internet Explorer, and serves the same purpose. But there are some significant differences that convinces a small number of Internet users to adopt this new browser in place of IE.
Opera has a great reputation for well-built products and their browser download is much smaller than Internet Explorer. Even on a dial-up connection, the Opera installation file can be downloaded in less than half an hour.
Opera beats Internet Explorer in a few areas where features are concerned:
* Visual tabs-you can drag the bottom of the row of tabs in your browsing window to change them to thumbnails of webpages. Also, when you hover over tabs with your mouse, a preview of the site appears under the tab.
* Tab bar placement. You can now move your row of tabs (or thumbnails of sites) the the left, right, or bottom of the browsing window.
* Speed dial-Opera was one of the first browsers to offer a page of thumbnails that function as a shortcuts to websites. You can now customize the number of thumbnails to 24 and change the background image on the page.
* Turbo mode-ideal for dial-up and low-speed wifi connections, this handy feature compresses images on the webpages for faster loading times! The turbo mode can be set to automatically turn on when the connection speed slows, or to stay on constantly.
* Mouse gestures-these shortcuts can be performed with your mouse to open links in new pages, go back, forward, or close windows with presets clicks and movements of your mouse.
* Image loading options-simply click a small button at the bottom of the window to switch from loading all images or only cached images to help with page loading. Or, if you prefer a more secure and even faster load time, images can be turned off completely. Also, right click on images that have been hidden or compressed, and you'll have the option of reloading that image normally.
You can find many other features that are similar to other browsers. Other simple preferences are available, like changing the colors and layout of your browser or adding your name and location information for fast form entry. The features page on the Opera website has more information.
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There are a bunch of really great browsers out there. Although I personally use Google Chrome as my default browser, I think that Opera 10 is one of the browsers worth trying out ultimately. You might find yourself making it your default browser. As a chrome user myself I don't feel all that alien to Opera 10 because some of its features are pretty similar. Chrome users might find the transition between browsers easy. The first similarity that you'll find is the speed dial page. It should look like Chrome's thumbnail page except that it doesn't show the recently and frequently visited web pages.
Speed dial is actually a more appropriate term for it because it works like a phone's speed dial. There are nine boxes that you can set to link directly to your favorite site. All you have to do is click on a box that isn't assigned to link to a website yet and then type in the site that you want to set it to. If you've already been visiting sites on the browser, it will automatically sites that you've been frequenting and then you can click on the one you want to assign the link to. One of my favorite features on Opera's speed dial is that you can set it up just like you desktop.
You have a choice in how you want to arrange the dial pad. It might be limited, but at least you have the freedom to move it around. If you're a minimalist freak like me, you might throw a fit because the boxes can't be moved from the center of the screen to make the background of the page visible. This leads me to my other favorite fact about it, the speed dial page can be set to have a background, which may not exactly be great for some, but it's one of the things that attract me to it.
Pretty soon, background images will be drawn up just to make that page look likable. It kinda works like Stylish works for the Mozzila Firefox. Speaking of Firefox, this reminds me of how much lighter Opera 10 is compared to Firefox. While Firefox eats up memory at 180mb, Opera follows with a measly 100mb of memory usage. However, both of them are trumped by Google Chrome, which leads by eating up just 15mb of your computer's memory. So whether you're editing photos, playing a game or running some other application that needs a lot of memory, it's better if you leave your Opera browser running in the background rather than Firefox.
I like the tab features on Opera 10 because hovering your cursor over the tab will show you a thumbnail of the image of the page. This makes it easier since you don't need to move from your current tab and try to look at the page that you can't remember. Despite that little convenience, I just don't see how useful that is. It looks pretty, but that's all there is to it. Turbo mode is also one of the better features on the new Opera browser, but I just can't seem to see the big difference in loading speed.
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Browser cache is a place where all the browsing records are restored, so that next time you browse the same site, it will spare you a lot of time by directly finding the records from the cache.
Internet Explorer cache is not malicious, but every time you browse a new website, a new cache is produced. With the accumulation of Internet Explorer cache, many useless or unnecessary files are produced. Thus the space of hard disk will be less and less, then it will take you a lot of time to browse a website.
In order to avoid this, you should clear browser cache regularly. However, you can not thoroughly clear browser cache manually. Do not worry! I will tell you the best and most efficient way to fulfill this task.
What is the best and most efficient way to clear cache?
I suggest you free download Registry Winner, an Internet Explorer manager, to clear browser cache. Choose the function of "Internet Options" in the column of "Internet Explorer Tools", then choose "Delete". With these easy clicks will all the browser caches be cleaned up. Then you will have no trouble surfing the Internet.
Apart from the above function, Registry Winner can also perform a quick scan of your computer. Then it will delete all the unnecessary files and repair all the PC and Windows errors in several minutes. After the all-round scan, you will surprisingly find your PC run as a new one!
Unlike other products, Registry Winner can scan your computer comprehensively and quickly, and it can repair 100% errors. Just one click will make you enjoy a fantastic speed which you have never experienced before.
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Recently, Opera released the new version of web browser. Opera 11.01 comes with additional features and mitigates five vulnerabilities including a recently disclosed critical vulnerability. The critical vulnerability was caused by integer truncation error and allowed remote attackers to execute malicious code. The new version also mitigates vulnerabilities, which allowed clickjacking attacks, allowed high privileges to remote web pages and allowed access to email accounts even after deleting private data. A vulnerability in browser configuration allowed attackers to bypass restrictions and initiate clickjacking attacks. The high risk vulnerability allowed attackers to manipulate users to click on a seemingly legitimate but fake links to gain control of their computers or gain unauthorized access to privileged information.
The latest version also mitigates another high risk vulnerability, which caused the browser to erroneously provide escalated privileges to remote web pages. The vulnerability allowed attackers to gain unauthorized privileges and upload files from the affected systems as web resources and extract confidential information.
Opera 11.01 mitigates fixes a moderate vulnerability associated with the 'delete private data' tool of the browser. The clear all email account passwords option under the tool does not clear all the data immediately and allows access to an e-mail account until the browser is restarted. Usually, professionals who have undergone certified ethical hacker training help developers to identify security flaws in products and applications. In this case, the vulnerabilities were identified by various security researchers.
Unpatched web browsers are vulnerable to security breaches. Users must apply appropriate security patches to web browsers and associated plug-in to reduce instances of attacks and security breaches. Internet users may benefit from the online computer training programs and update themselves on cyber security tips and precautions.
The new version does not support javascript - URLs in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) o-link values and enables websites to filter untrusted CSS.
The updated version also enables the Mac OS file quarantine. The quarantine places a flag on downloaded files and alerts users opening one such file.
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While writing and designing your website you need to keep in mind the various web browsers which one can find out there. Simply because you use, say, Internet Explorer version 7 that does not mean that your visitors will also be using IE7. Countless web users are still using Internet Explorer 6 (still roughly 26% at the point in time I am writing this).
Actually, the top 10 browsers by market share (according to Net Applications) are:
IE6 - 26.2%
Firefox - 23.7%
IE7 - 19.9%
IE8 - 19.9%
Safari - 4.2%
Chrome -3.2%
Opera - 2.4%
Netscape -.3%
Mozilla -.1%
Konqueror and
IE5 -.04%
Okay, I know the percentages do not add up to 100%, but that is due to rounding. It is still close enough to give you an idea.
As you can see you are going to need to test your site on a number of different browsers to make sure that at least the majority of visitors can see what you have to offer. What is the point of limiting your market to just IE7 (just because that is what you use). You could potentially be restricting your market to 20% of internet users, which is just not enough.
One option is to install multiple browsers on your computer, this will work for some of the but not others. For example, I believe that you can only install Internet Explorer once on each windows machine. If you have more than one Windows machine around (like say a laptop or netbook) then you can have each one with a different version.
One other problem is testing Mac browsers on a Windows machine and vice versa. There are online solutions to that issue and I will go into them later.
As for the other browsers, it is easy to install each one on your computer, just do a web search to find out where to download each one and install it. You may decide to skip the last few on the list as they account for such a tiny amount of internet users, I will leave that decision up to you.
Now when you update or write a new page for your website, or when you are starting with a new design, check how it looks and handles on each of the different browsers you have installed. Watch for anything that just doesn't look right. One of the biggest problems is with your CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) especially with IE8.
Fixing all the bugs you find during your test will save you a lot of frustration in the future. Doing this test before you have 100's of pages online which only work in IE7 will save you so much time in later repairs.
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