Submitted by “As presented at the Opera Backstage event in London today, Opera 9.1 will include enhanced fraud protection. Today we display the name of the certificate owner in the right end of the address field when you’re on a secure site. In 9.1 we will reuse that field to display more information about the trust level of the site you visit.”
Still waiting….
ATM I use opera 9.0 on linux, everything is working fine with gmail… Both the web interface (yes, with autocompletion of email adresses and such) and the built-in opera mail client.
Works for me too, though Gmail still initially drops me into the Basic HTML interface… Only once has clicking on the ‘go to standard view’ produced errors or timeouts.
Gmail works pretty well with Opera 9.x.
Note that the problem, as usual, is/was on Google’s side. There’s nary a company out there that’s nearly as deadset against web standards and alternate browsers as is Google — for months they’d purposely block Opera from Gmail, Google Maps, and so forth (identifying as Firefox would allow passage). Even Microsoft wasn’t so draconian with Hotmail (they tried to block Opera, but only for a week or two).
Edited 2006-10-18 20:38
Good to see more useful features in Opera. It is my browser or choice when using Windows, and has been since they fixed the popup-windows-demaximize-all-other-MDI-windows problem (around 5.* IIRC). Of course outright blocking popups was even nicer
So additional fraud protection fits nicely into their continuing improvements.
Google — for months they’d purposely block Opera from Gmail
Yeah I really don’t understand it. They do the same to Konqueror, which works fine when identifying as Firefox.
*edit: fixed typo
Edited 2006-10-18 21:24
Gmail with its Ajax interface works very well here on Opera 9 in PC-BSD.
very good! excellent!
“We don’t store information on our servers that let us track individual users. IP addresses are discarded and we don’t use cookies or other session information. No information goes directly to third parties, all communication goes through our own servers. Our servers get the trust information from a database supplied by GeoTrust, who have a long experience with anti-fraud solutions.”
Neither Google(Firefox realtime phishing protection depends on Google) nor Microsoft(IE7 phishing realtime filter), do not offer any sort of privacy protection, and Opera has a big advantage here.