Product positioning opportunity

Here's my (maybe unwanted as my previous posts sometimes seem to get deleted?) opinion on the Opera web-browser:

Opera can choose to try to catch up with giants like Google, Opera and the whole legion of open source programmers of Firefox, often trailing because of limited resources compared to them, or specialise is certain areas for which opera is 'distinctively better' and stay ahead of the curve by focussing resources on those areas:
You already cover some areas like 'maximum browsing productivity' by offering the fastest interface/renderer and features like tab stacking, near-fully customizable keyboard/mouse, etc.

Another area you could focus on is security. Opera already seem to be reasonably secure (generally less exploits are reported than for other browsers), but it's not clear how much this is the result of the reduced user-base (potential pay-off per time invested for exploit writers compared to IE/Chrome/Firefox is much smaller because of this). I don't think it'll take much effort to reduce this to near zero by some modifications:

Additions of the following settings in the security tab of advanced preferences:
- A check-box to disable WebGL (exposing OpenGL API = asking for trouble)
- A check-box to Enable On Demand Plug-in (with place-holder)

Privacy settings tab:
- A check-box to make all tabs behave as private tabs
- A (simple) way to make opera link work with a user defined server (for retaining ownership and control over private data)

Running Opera in reduced privileges mode (like IE and Chrome). There's no reason why an exploit in Opera should allow access to all my private data that is stored with the same user credentials as I run Opera as!

A 'paranoia mode' check-box in the security tab that will enable all privacy-enhancing and security-increasing options in opera all at once (clearing the check-box will revert to previously used settings).

Originally posted by dZeus:

A check-box to disable WebGL

Could be there +1, though the setting in opera:config does the work for now.

Originally posted by dZeus:

A check-box to Enable On Demand Plug-in (with place-holder)

Already there, Alt + P > Advanced Tab > Content > Enable 'Enable plug-ins only on demand' option checkbox

Originally posted by dZeus:

A check-box to make all tabs behave as private tabs

Why not open a private window then?

Originally posted by dZeus:

A 'paranoia mode' check-box in the security tab that will enable all privacy-enhancing and security-increasing options in opera all at once

Might be huge trouble for newbies. Because if they accidentally trigger that mode then they would not know why WebGL, Geolocation and other things do not work in Opera.

re: private window: this would impede with the workflow too much imo. I wouldn't want to lose tabs. Maybe a compromise would be to make private tab processes more isolated from each other, e.g. like in google chrome (at the expense of more memory usage).

re: paranoia newbies: You can get a popup stating what functionality will be disabled when you press the 'paranoia mode' button. The entire idea behind it is to allow newbies to have safe and secure browsing without needing to know which individual settings all need to be changed.