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Although Opera is highly secure, in the future many people are going to be protecting against problems in the web sites themselves, such as the recent round of Google hacks and Adobe Acrobat hacks. We're no longer afraid of someone exploiting an illegitimate function within our browser. We're afraid of them using the legitimate functions of our browser to hack our accounts on the web sites themselves.

This is why NoScript for that tedious bloated open source browser, Mozilla Firefox, is so popular: it allows us to radically scale back on the willingness of the browser to run JavaScript and Flash, and then to re-introduce it as a privilege to sites we trust (although hopefully we don't pick Monster.com or a government site).

I'm not as experienced in Opera add-ons as most, since I've never used one, but I know Opera has this ability. What is the equivalent of NoScript? Remember, I'm not worried about my browser getting hacked here (that's why I run Opera and not Mozilla Firefox). I'm worried about my Google accounts and others getting hacked. Clarity appreciated.

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My summary of why the new Opera is important

Tuesday, September 4, 2007 4:29:09 PM

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We all got the message over the last two years: stop using Internet Explorer, because its ActiveX control friendliness is prone to security errors.

Most people then switched to Mozilla Firefox.

What’s amusing is that these browsers both descend from early-1990s engines. IE is a grandchild of Spyglass, and Firefox is the great-grandchild of NCSA Mosaic and the grandchild of Netscape Navigator.

There is one browser authored anew, with new standards, and the explicit goal of being small and fast and solid.

http://cybernetnews.com/2007/09/03/cybernotes-exclusive-opera-95-features-video/

Check out the new Opera 9.5. I’ve been using Opera since 8-series and have been impressed to the point where it is my preferred browser. Its userbase also does not have the fanatical, ugly, supercillious chip on its shoulder that Firefox users often do.

Impressive features:
- Search every site you’ve visited
- Faster page rendering than any other browser
- Full standards support
- Restore closed windows
- Synchronize bookmarks remotely

Quite impressive! You can download it here:
http://snapshot.opera.com/

The browser wars that raged first in the 1990s, until Internet Explorer won, and were revived when its security problems drove people to Mozilla (in the same way Microsoft’s continued inability to secure older installations of Windows XP, and the slow process of perfecting Windows Vista) are now in turn revived, because Opera has upped the ante. For the first time since 1997, the browser is substantially changing in function and becoming closer to the general information peruser and manager many of us have always thought it would be.

(Originally posted on Bolg.)

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