Sunday, 4. May 2008, 04:38:07
security, browsers, opera
Interesting work by Alex on handling
cookie security issues in Opera and other browsers.
He talks about cookie setting limits and how that may be exploitable given you can force an overflow of cookie writes by taking advantage of Opera's (and Firefox) cookie limit. Also, makes an
interesting point about Opera's speed:
The question is; can we win this race?
In Firefox, it takes approximately 100 miliseconds on my machine to set 1000 cookies over 20 hostnames, with 1 hostname per iframe. So we can win any race.
In my testing Opera is much faster at navigating between pages and setting cookies, however I'm still unsure if we can win this race in Opera.
Maybe one of the Opera devs can take a look at this and see if Opera needs to be tweaked to lessen any possible security risk. Not sure if he was using the current release or Opera v9.5 beta 2.
Saturday, 19. April 2008, 20:44:09
browsers, opera, CEO
I've noticed some more debate about "why/why not" to have extensions in Opera, on various fora. Many people seem to have not seen Jon von Tetzchner's (Opera's CEO) comments about this topic, so I thought I'd post it and maybe put it to bed, already.It's something [extensions] that we have evaluated many times. We'll probably do something in the 
future. Our focus has been more on widgets – making applications that run outside the browser and are able to build on web technology. On the extensions side, traditionally our focus has been 'let's try to build as much into the browser as possible so people have a choice'. So we do it in a way that's tightly integrated and works out of the box. We've done so much – you mention extensions through user JavaScript, we've done it through CSS and we continue to find new ways to do it. It's clear that Firefox has a more extensible way of doing that. It will not be soon but we may provide some easier ways in the future to add more functionality to Opera.
So, there you have it. In my experience, with or without extensions, Opera has been the most productive, most innovative browser out there for years, YEARS; along with the fastest. Yes, there's all kinds of speed tests that everybody shouts about how their browser is faster. Everyone can make their own decision, so just try Opera on your own PC or Mac or phone or set-top device, with your own favorite sites and decide for yourself.
There's a list a mile long about the useful features in Opera that most of Internet Explorer or Safari users have never heard of, like Speed Dial or Fast Forward. (There's even some, that Firefox users haven't seen, like Rewind and Fast Forward or using your desktop bookmarks on your phone with Opera LINK.) 
You won't go back after trying it for a few days. (By the way, if you miss how your old browser looks while trying Opera, just go and get a new skin to pretend Opera is IE, or Safari or Firefox. You may even find a cool, new favorite skin that you love, like the Neanderthal skin!)
Monday, 19. February 2007, 08:42:42
apple, browsers
Some
interesting advances seem to be planned for Safari 3 when it comes out (bundled with
Leopard in a few months from Apple).
- better tab mgmt
- lightbox searches
- resizable TEXTAREA
Not sure if Opera's
upcoming CSS3 support will allow TEXTAREA resizing...
Monday, 19. February 2007, 08:03:56
nature, opera, video, browsers
Given the Opera Desktop team's announcement about their aggressive roadmp for
desktop browser development having a raptor theme, you might be wondering what a stoop, while hunting, actually looks like (wherein the Peregrine Falcon experiences the largest
g-forces of any large animal in the natural world -- 25 g).
Wow, scary for a poor rabbit or pigeon, but very cool for browser users...!
Saturday, 17. February 2007, 17:43:38
ajar, opera, browsers
Hopefully this sort of free-thinking web development sentiment at
PBS may be growing to avoid the pain of tweaking for various non-standard issues and idiosyncracies in various browsers...
We test our site in every browser we can get our hands on...
Of course,
openmindedness, resources available, cost issues, development tools, thoughtful team leadership, general awareness (
Isn't Apple going out of business? -- somebody actually asked me that about a year ago -- or
What's Opera and Firefox?) all come into play here.
Friday, 16. February 2007, 17:20:35
opera, tech, browsers
Johan over at the Opera Desktop Team blog just posted an
Apple-like teaser about v9.2 (aka Merlin) being released with
a feature never before seen in a desktop browser. Given Opera's history of innovation, I'm sure Mozilla, Webkit (Safari's engine) and the IE7 teams just stopped breathing.
(It also appears that the Opera Desktop Team are Rolls-Royce aficionadoes.)
Friday, 16. February 2007, 06:42:15
tech, opera, browsers
Wow,
Jon von Tetzchner, Opera's esteemed CEO and co-founder, says that Opera Mobile™ will be
BUNDLED with Windows Mobile 6 on various mobile phones. Looks like Safari/
iPhone isn't (ergo "won't be") the only fully-functional mobile browser capability, eh?
(
Infoworld)
Of course, you can still download Opera Mobile™ now, if you can't wait.
