Technical Writing

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.