Opera Software released today the version 7.52 of Opera browser with added security (Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and MS-Windows):
- Fixed a URI obfuscation weakness enabling impersonation of legitimate web sites. Illegal characters in addresses will be stripped. This addresses Security Focus Bugtraq ID #10517.
- Solved frame injection vulnerability that allowed for spoofing (Secunia Advisory SA11978).
- Solved certificate verification problem.
Of course there are others improvments not related with security issues which can be viewed in the respectives changelogs, here.
You can obtain the most recent Opera’s version at My Opera Community.
I haven’t test on Windows and FreeBSD versions yet, but it seems like Linux version’s plugins is broke on me. I don’t have any of problem with 7.51 and things are unchange in my system for the months.
Yes, I also confirm this behavior and I reported to Opera Software yesterday, but nothing until now.
Follow the link next: http://my.opera.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=60473
nice of you to take the pain to turn the security issues ID into URLs (they were not URLs on Opera web site)
now thats smart and real added-value. I love you !
You are welcome..:-)
I just fired up my test box (Linux/SkyOS/BeOS) and installed the update on Linux (the update wasnt for Be as far as I can tell, and there is no Opera for SkyOS yet).
I didn’t see any major improvements, though I dont use Opera anyway. On Windows/Linux/Be I use anything Mozilla. I could always use a browser on SkyOS though
(I figured out how to get the network daemon on with a little hacking.. I was irc’ing through telnet for a few minutes.. now I just need a browser)
Hummm.. I think you are alright, this new release seems to focus basically two importants security issues, despite that, looking at changelogs, there are only some fixes but nothing visible, except about “main toolbar”.
On MAC OSX it should be called ‘Crashamatic’ when you have a many tabs running at eBay. Its a regular problem if you want to do ‘Internet Banking’ as many financial instutitations will lock you out at logon. Many normal sites will render poorly.
Sadly all the Opera people can do is complain that many sites don’t follow standards. Well excuse me but well over 90% of the browsers out there are IE and as such the webmasters are going to gear themselves to cater to the vast majority of web users that are going to visit their sites and not a minature bunch of whiners.
This is still adware linked to that spyware operation known as googlesyndication. When you have the ‘wand’ unchecked the damn browser still collects your passwords !!
On the Windows machine it still has major problems at eBay downloading an item’s extra pics. If you have an older machine with a slower cpu you are far better of with the Opera 6.x than anything from Opera 7.x when it comes to speed. This is a real standout problem if you are still stuck with dialup.
All the latest versions are becoming bloated with chat and other rubbish. Somewhere back in the early days of Opera 7.x they split-up their coders to start adding bloat and looks instead of continuing with the browser’s core abilities so the whole browser has suffered.
From a pure reliability stand point Netscape 7.1 leaves Opera 7.x out in the weeds.
D. I. D.
too bad… wait for another release
we have seen lots of security fixes for opera lately (7.0 to 7.23) v7.5 have gon in two updates already! so I am starting to wonder whether opera is having problems or something like that……
This issue seems to be related with specifics systems or configurations, please access the link next: http://my.opera.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=60473
Finally! Somebody besides me is admitting 6.x is better than 7.x!!!
You said:
“Sadly all the Opera people can do is complain that many sites don’t follow standards. Well excuse me but well over 90% of the browsers out there are IE and as such the webmasters are going to gear themselves to cater to the vast majority of web users that are going to visit their sites and not a minature bunch of whiners.”
I’ve personally switched people to Opera from IE simply by having them download and try it, for example an online student on a brand new computer who’s IE kept actively fetching commercial popups while she was trying to turn in her lessons. There’s another side to this compatibility issue, alot of sites suddenly stopped working under Opera, sites that Continue to work under much older 5.x IE and Netscape variants. There’s something sneaky about this, like everyone’s switching to a coding tool that trojans HTML against Opera and no one else.
“When you have the ‘wand’ unchecked the damn browser still collects your passwords !!”
I’d like to hear the explanation for that as well.
“On the Windows machine it still has major problems at eBay downloading an item’s extra pics. If you have an older machine with a slower cpu you are far better of with the Opera 6.x than anything from Opera 7.x when it comes to speed. This is a real standout problem if you are still stuck with dialup.”
YES YES YES YES YES YES ABSOLUTELY. Freakin’ Opera programmers, if you follow this forum I want you to take two older PC’s, espescially with low resolution, and actually LOOK AT the clumsy, crappy differences between 7.x and 6.x.
What’s that you say, get a ‘real’ computer?
Then there’s no advantage to running Opera 7 over a browser that works if you’re going to rely on raw processor speed to mask all your failings with 7.x, is there.
I have to agree – v 7.0x was a miss (speed issues), 7.2x was rather ok but I felt 6.0x was more my cup of tea.
7.5x is rather back on tracks, except for features that I’m not using and make it bloated, like IM, notes, the Wand, and even newsgroups.
as a result I’m using FireFox for quickies, and Opera for longer reads, that I may want to stop and resume later, or to “keep” in Opera tabs for days.
For god sake, This is the first time in computer history that people complain about a package that is the smaller on its cathegory (3.6mb) having too much functionality.
People come on, you can disconnect those features if you do not want them, and if you are really picky you can even delete the dll files from the HD and the poor thing won’t even complain!!!
What I’ve found so far is that people dislike opera because they feel intimidated when seeing how many things the software can do, and thus they never bother learning it.
I’ve found as well that most of the people who do not like opera doesn’t do anything else than surf in a very basic way. I do not know what is the problem admitting that the package doesn’t suit your needs as well as another one, but saying it is bloated is plain nonsense, and in most occasions it is just plain trolling.
“People come on, you can disconnect those features if you do not want them, and if you are really picky you can even delete the dll files from the HD and the poor thing won’t even complain!!!”
Then why do I have to install them at all? If they don’t even have to be there, why can’t I have the choice to not put them in at all?
“What I’ve found so far is that people dislike opera because they feel intimidated when seeing how many things the software can do, and thus they never bother learning it.”
I’ve learned tonnes about Opera. I’ve tried the mail client for 3 – 4 month straight. Worst experience with a mail client yet. I spent hours trying to find out where Opera set my mail, trying to set my mail to go where I want it.
I haven’t learned Opera’s IRC client, because IRC is usually and unnecessary to me. If I wanted IRC, I’d use mIRC.
I’d also like to say, I’m sure all the extra software added into Opera has attributed to it’s $40USD (over $60CAD) price tag. $60 for a web browser is ridiculous.
I’ll use Opera, hoping and waiting, for the Firefox of Opera.
“This is still adware linked to that spyware operation known as googlesyndication.”
Google adverts are optional even if you don’t pay for the browser. But if you can come up with another way for Opera to make money from their browser I’m sure they would love to hear it.
“When you have the ‘wand’ unchecked the damn browser still collects your passwords !!”
Please provide some evidence of that.
“If you have an older machine with a slower cpu you are far better of with the Opera 6.x than anything from Opera 7.x when it comes to speed. This is a real standout problem if you are still stuck with dialup.”
On my 466Mhz Celeron with 256Mb RAM Opera 7.5 has a noticable speed *advantage* over any version of Opera 6. Opera 7 uses almost exactly the same amount of RAM despite all it’s new features and it’s significantly more stable. Actually I don’t think I’ve had a single crash since upgrading to 7.5.
“All the latest versions are becoming bloated with chat and other rubbish.”
Yet Opera is faster and more stable than ever, without significantly increasing in size. Not my definition of bloat.
“On my 466Mhz Celeron with 256Mb RAM…”
Well, on my 266Mhz with 64MB RAM, Opera is a resource pig and has to be shut down every few hours just so it wont attempt to use too much memory and crash.
MyIE2 (Yes, I know it’s just MSIE prettied up) runs much more smooth than Opera, but I use Opera for the security that MSIE cannot provide.
On MAC OSX it should be called ‘Crashamatic’ when you have a many tabs running at eBay.>>>
Really? I use Opera 7.51 (PC & OSX) have opened up a few tabs at evilBay (by accident) and found it stable. In fact, I find Opera for OS X as crash free as Safari.
<<Its a regular problem if you want to do ‘Internet Banking’ as many financial instutitations will lock you out at logon. Many normal sites will render poorly.>>
With Opera set to identify as IE 6, I’ve yet to have a problem logging in to my 2 banks, my online stock site, or the site where my 403b is.
And when a site renders poorly, 99% of the time I take a look at the html and see several Mordorsoft IE only tags, or page otherwise coded on IE software full of craptags designed to make the page look like crap in anything but IE.
As someone who builds webpages for my job, I support the real HTML 4 standards, not the MS HTML pseudo-standards.
>>Then why do I have to install them at all? If they don’t
>>even have to be there, why can’t I have the choice to not
>>put them in at all?
This is a good logic, you should report this on the opera forums or report it as a suggestion.
However, this will mean that not all opera installs will be the same, I do not know about the implications of it.
>>I’ve learned tonnes about Opera. I’ve tried the mail
>>client for 3 – 4 month straight. Worst experience with a
>>mail client yet. I spent hours trying to find out where
>>Opera set my mail, trying to set my mail to go where I
>>want it.
I do not like it either, I feel that the way groups, mouse and keyboard work is just plain wrong, I do not like having to go through the clasification opera does by default, I found silly they had to re-invent the wheel again, just don’t understand why they don’t do something like Outlook 200x. regarding the mailbox structure, it is so much more intuitive than opera’s.
I feel the whole thing is just awkward and just do not use it, however I appreciate the new RSS capabilities.
>>I haven’t learned Opera’s IRC client, because IRC is
>>usually and unnecessary to me. If I wanted IRC, I’d use
>>mIRC.
I do use IRC only occasionally, so for me at least is fine, it is true is not as mature as mIRC which is a full featured IRC client with several years of heavy development.
The idea of having an IM client built-in the browser makes more sense once the Opera people releases a Jabber chat plugin.
Yes, opera is a true resource hog on my C64 too.
Hmm, if you prefer having to go through two programs to do what you can do in exactly the same way with one (e.g., Firefox and Thunderbird), then check out Rijk van Geijtenbeek’s Hugin and Munin.
http://people.opera.com/rijk/opera/huginmunin.html
“On MAC OSX it should be called ‘Crashamatic’ when you have a many tabs running at eBay.>>>
Really? I use Opera 7.51 (PC & OSX) have opened up a few tabs at evilBay (by accident) and found it stable. In fact, I find Opera for OS X as crash free as Safari. ”
I’ve got to agree with the Sabreman on this, Opera 7.5.x was a very crashy program on Mac OS.
7.52, mind, is yet to crash for me and my default browser.
For a list of security problems go to this link….
http://secunia.com/product/761/
On the moderated column for this thread is the source code for an attempted login.
The lady of the house spends much time at eBay on her beloved G4. Opera on that machine constantly crashes for no apparent reason or pattern. When she wants to do sniper bidding you will find her on Netscape. She prefers the look of Opera 6.x on the Mac. The crashing is not that bad on Windows.
Opera’s new M2 email client is just plain awful to try and use. On the windows machine the email app for 6.x is clean and simple !
As for an IM I personally do not know anyone who uses any IM and is clearly worthless to me. At least with Netscape you can chose not to install chat…AIM I think it was.
I have spent the last couple of hours at Opera’s forums and find most all of my complaints seemingly well known with long histories. I also note there are numerious bugs that have been reported in many versions of 7.x Betas that remain unfixed.
In reality standards are set by the marketplace and no amout of whining by midget groups is going to alter that fact. The fact that ‘standards groups’ cannot get their ‘standards’ accepted in the market place is due to either the groups themselves or the ‘standard’. And just because you cannot get your product/standard into widespread accepctance does not mean you have to resort to cout action.
Clearly Opera is not interested in many of their product’s shortcomings yet they want to charge a bunch of money for it ???? Well excuse me NO WAY JOSE.
Good grief……..
I upgraded from 6.02 and love it! The ability to turn javascript on and off quickly is great as is right clicking on a link and opening it in a background or forground tab. Therse operations take many clicks in other browsers.
It opens much faster than Netscape 7 (mozilla) on my machine, a dual G-4,
On OS X 10.2.1 I find it necessary to set memory cachd to a fixed amount instead of automatic. As soon as I did this, it became very stable.
Doug
“Yet Opera is faster and more stable than ever…”
Says who?
I’ve got almost 3x the ram the guy on the 266hz pc said he had, and if I open around a dozen tabs opera 7 locks up my whole pc, and I don’t even have sounds and stuff enabled. The guy that made the crack about his C64 has no concept of how much power is really being squandered here just to surf the web. reminds me of those shoppers guides for ignorant newbies that used to tell you a Pentium III was enough “if all you were going to do is type text documents”.
And to all the Firefox people, how fast a page is loaded is only a part of the battle. If i click a link and then change my mind, Opera let’s me click it shut before it loads, mozilla variants sit there and diddle themselves before they respond. Even the “set as default browser?” panel is slow to respond to click shut. They should pay more attention to real-world responsiveness under actual use than how fast a page loads under ideal conditions with nothing else going on.
On a dialup I have to go down to around 120mhz pc before the speed differences between browsers are very apparent. Children who’s first pc was a pentium 3 on a cable modem and now are on a P4 should really just shut up about their speed claims for firefox or opera 7 because at those speeds they couldn’t possibly tell.
>>The guy that made the crack about his C64 has no concept
>>of how much power is really being squandered here just to
>>surf the web.
The guy that made the comment about the C64 was just being ironic. And by the way, he knows very well that any browser nowadays is a resource hog, there are good reasons for it, when I get sick of those good reasons I telnet onto a Unix box and surf the net using elinks.
It is also true that Opera along with Firefox runs very fast on slow machines, except of course on those that are really filled up with crap, old installations, dodgy computers, etc.