That's right. But two points:
To end user it does not make any difference. As long as visiting a website can allow webmasters to install anything on your PC. It is Opera's fault to ship 7.x version of flash even though 8.x has been around for quite some time. All it takes a hacker who is willing to pay some ad service to place a flash ad and any Opera user is at risk (if they are careless enough to run browser with admin privileges). Of course people on this forum should not be on that category?
I had say, its macromedia who should make flash plugins upgrade themselves.
And if Opera guys are really so quick an providing patches then why take that much time. Firefox and Even IE had this (Flash) update last month.
I doubt Firefox and IE can update flash plugins on their own. I really dont remember Firefox or IE telling me to upgrade my Flash plugin.
Overall, it just a chance that is is vulnerable at this point of time and default installs of IE/Firefox are not affected by same vulnerability, situation could have been reverse as well.
From what I see, the existing bugs in Firefox are pretty scarier than Opera's bug which are really bugs with third party plugins 😛
Sushubh,
Seems that you have been using it for quite some time. Do you have any tips on sandboxing Opera? I would like to give it a try, but I am too afraid to run any browser unless I know for sure that it can not run code on my system even if someone is able to exploit vulnerability.
I know a couple of really smart people working in Opera. I trust them pretty much. If they tell me that Opera is secure enough... I had believe them! You just have to keep track of the latest versions and keep upgrading to them.
And have you used voice features of Opera, just read on the site about it. Is it good enough to take care of crappy html pages? From what I read it seems that it might be able to read aloud arbitrary pages. Is that the case?
Absolutely no idea.
To end user it does not make any difference. As long as visiting a website can allow webmasters to install anything on your PC. It is Opera's fault to ship 7.x version of flash even though 8.x has been around for quite some time. All it takes a hacker who is willing to pay some ad service to place a flash ad and any Opera user is at risk (if they are careless enough to run browser with admin privileges). Of course people on this forum should not be on that category?
I had say, its macromedia who should make flash plugins upgrade themselves.
And if Opera guys are really so quick an providing patches then why take that much time. Firefox and Even IE had this (Flash) update last month.
I doubt Firefox and IE can update flash plugins on their own. I really dont remember Firefox or IE telling me to upgrade my Flash plugin.
Overall, it just a chance that is is vulnerable at this point of time and default installs of IE/Firefox are not affected by same vulnerability, situation could have been reverse as well.
From what I see, the existing bugs in Firefox are pretty scarier than Opera's bug which are really bugs with third party plugins 😛
Sushubh,
Seems that you have been using it for quite some time. Do you have any tips on sandboxing Opera? I would like to give it a try, but I am too afraid to run any browser unless I know for sure that it can not run code on my system even if someone is able to exploit vulnerability.
I know a couple of really smart people working in Opera. I trust them pretty much. If they tell me that Opera is secure enough... I had believe them! You just have to keep track of the latest versions and keep upgrading to them.
And have you used voice features of Opera, just read on the site about it. Is it good enough to take care of crappy html pages? From what I read it seems that it might be able to read aloud arbitrary pages. Is that the case?
Absolutely no idea.
