-=PCTechTalk=- Re: New Version of Opera Available
- From: The Keyboard Cowboy <KBCowboy@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "David F. Wooledge" <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 08:01:50 -0400
I read where Fred Langa believes that Opera and FireFox actually have
more vulnerabilities now than IE has! He bases the comment on several
recent tests/reports.
Regards from
Bob -- the "Keyboard Cowboy",
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On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 00:44:44 -0700 (PDT), David F. Wooledge wrote:
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| Norway's Opera Ups Security in New Web Browser
| 2 hours, 30 minutes ago
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| By Alister Doyle
| OSLO (Reuters) - Norway's Opera Software (OPERA.OL) added
tighter
| security against Internet fraud and new voice technology to a
| browser unveiled on Tuesday in a struggle to win users away from
| market leader Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT - news).
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| Listed on the Oslo bourse since March 2004, Opera hopes the
| upgraded browser will lift its market share, now 1 percent to 7
| percent according to the national market and a fraction of the
90
| percent grip by Microsoft's Internet Explorer in the United
| States.
|
| "Security is very important because that's the thing that makes
| people switch" to a new browser, Opera's chief executive and co-
| founder Jon von Tetzchner told Reuters.
|
| "We hope people will switch because of security and stay because
| of the other features," he said. The security feature for
Opera's
| new version 8 desktop computer browser gives extra information
on
| the identity of suspicious sites.
|
| Opera's upgraded browser also includes technology in which a
| computer-generated voice can be used to read out highlighted
text
| from web pages. It is also faster and has more ability to save
| and search pages.
|
| Opera says it has 10 million users of its previous browsers, but
| only 100,000 have paid 34 euros ($44.08) for a version excluding
| advertisements. Most others use a free version.
|
| Opera is often portrayed as a David against a Microsoft Goliath
| but also faces fast-growing rivals like Firefox, developed by a
| network of computer programers, which has gained about five
| percent of the U.S. market since its 2004 launch.
|
| "It's a little bit surprising that Opera hasn't grown more when
| Firefox increased their market share so much," said Ole Andre
| Hagen, an analyst at ABG Sundal Collier.
|
| He said security vulnerabilities for Microsoft had spurred
growth
| for Firefox, despite recent fixes by Microsoft.
|
| GONE PHISHING
|
| Opera's extra security seeks to dampen "phishing" -- jargon for
| when a hoaxer's Website tricks users into typing out their bank
| account number or passwords by masquerading as a trusted site,
| perhaps saying "account update needed."
|
| Opera's solution is for the browser to display the underlying
| security certificate of each site -- an icon of a yellow padlock
| on trustworthy sites -- to help users judge reliability. It will
| also show where pop-ups come from.
|
| "If the site says one name and the security certificate another
| you might get suspicious," von Tetzchner said. No other browser
| had the feature, he said.
|
| The new browser also includes new voice recognition software. If
| a user highlights text, for instance of a news story, a
computer-
| generated voice can read it out.
|
| "We're trying to make the Internet more available for everyone,"
| von Tetzchner said, adding it could aid people with poor sight.
|
| Opera also supplies browsers for mobile phones from Nokia
| (NOK1V.HE) to Motorola (NYSE:MOT - news). The browser squeezes
| web pages into a thin stack to give, Opera says, easier and
| fuller viewing than on a Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)
| phone.
|
| In turn, the mobile phone technology is in the new desktop
| browser to give flexibility in arranging slim web pages.
|
| "We've shipped on more than 10 million (mobile phone) units,"
von
| Tetzchner said, adding the browser was installed on at least 2
| million phones in the first quarter and last quarter of 2004.
| "The trend is upwards," he said.
| Opera had 2004 pre-tax profits of 85.6 million Norwegian crowns
| ($13.51 million), up from 1.8 million the year before. ($1=6.334
| Norwegian Crown) ($1=.7712 Euro)
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