Yngve Nysæter Pettersen

A first look at EV in Opera

Tuesday, 19. June 2007, 14:16:03

SSL, browsers, Opera, Extended Validation, User Interface, Certificates, Security, TLS, browser

Here is a first look at Opera 9.5 ("Kestrel") with full support for Extended Validation (EV) certificates enabled.

This is the implementation in its current form, although the design may be slightly modified before release.

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Comments

WildEnte # 19. June 2007, 21:11

hmmm yahoo in the search field? does this mean that opera switches to yahoo in the "google box" too now?

ResearchWizard # 20. June 2007, 02:16

Wildente, sure they will - and I'll change it back :-)

_Grey_ # 20. June 2007, 12:04

Wildente, I'm actually happy about it... Google ignoring Opera on their projects and Opera being dependent on them still was an awful situation. At least most of yahoo's stuff works now (Opera is A-Grade browser).

ResearchWizard # 20. June 2007, 12:20

Grey, that's something I also do not really understand - maybe it's just the philosophy of Google to give the money but something completly different to develop products. Or it's politics went crazy.
Anyway, Yahoo doesn't help me as it delivers pretty bad search results.

borg # 20. June 2007, 13:19

Maybe Yngve just is a Yahoo fan

The Yahoo field doesn't signify anything, but it's always fun with some conspiracy theories...

DjiXas # 21. June 2007, 11:25

Yahoo makes some very "strange" and bad decssions in past few months... Their stocks also goes down most of the time... Time to leave yahoo and be with a big G :-)

Meneldor # 21. June 2007, 17:26

Google doesn't really deserve a place of default search in Opera. I don't use Google services just because most of them ignore my favorite brower, and I'd better switch to other services than to some silly Gecko child.

PKO # 29. June 2007, 03:33

Why does everyone have the crazy idea that the quality of a search engine is directly related to the value of the stock of the company? Yahoo, is a very accurate search engine and as someone that uses both Yahoo and Google equally, I can honestly say that it isn't that uncommon for Yahoo to actually return better results than Google.

Anyway, I am glad to see that the Opera team still has security as a top priority.

ResearchWizard # 30. June 2007, 01:40

I haven't tested Yahoo very often but I got the strong impression that results for Germany were much worse than Google's a few months ago.

_Grey_ # 1. July 2007, 10:21

@ResearchWizard: You're probably right about that. From a US- (or even english-speaking world) perspective, though, I can't see any fault with Yahoo's engine whatsoever.

falsifikator # 20. July 2007, 16:01

We are losing the point here:) Personally, I don't like Yahoo at all, but you can search with Opera's "Create search" option from any God damn input field you find on Internet, OK, from 99%. One of the best Opera things. So, it's not really important what will default search engine will be in the future Opera releases...

_Grey_ # 24. October 2007, 11:27

So, it's not really important what will default search engine will be in the future Opera releases...

Yes, it is. If it wouldn't, a constrained amount of search engines wouldn't change anything either. The default search engine is special, because that is what all new/novice users will be using (unless they bother to change, which, quite often, they don't).

You are right about one thing though: This discussion doesn't belong here

deborahwebb # 12. February 2008, 12:05

I must admitt that I truly like what I'm seeing here. Hope it will be released soon, as I find Kestrel really useful and Opera is my favourite web browser.