Opera 9.5 with anti-malware protection
On Friday Opera announced that version 9.5 of the browser (download Opera 9.5 beta for Windows or Mac) will include built-in anti-malware protection from Haute Secure. This is, of course, to counter the anti-malware protection built into Firefox 3, currently available as a final release candidate . Firefox uses data from Google and StopBadware to block a site before it loads on your browser. Haute Secure counters that its offering is better because it relies upon a community of dedicated users to inform the product when to block and when not. In testing at CNET, the latest version of Haute Secure still misses some recently published phishing sites, while Firefox 3 RC2 blocked them immediately.
How did that happen? Haute Secure explains that the APIs provided by anti-phishing sites such as PhishTank won’t update until the site is confirmed to be bad, whereas Google can make that determination on its own. Still, Haute Secure prevents malicious sites (as opposed to mere phishing sites) from loading, and provides more information about those sites than does Firefox 3. Haute Secure was founded by a group of former Microsoft employees, and its flagship product came out of beta in March.
Source: Cnet
Comments(71)
I’ve been using Opera 9.5 beta for a little while now and it’s not all cookies and milk. In fact I’ve had loading problems with this site with it. Firefox 3 loads faster and their are fewer bugs.
Oh, and first!
not a bad browser, but nothing on firefox in terms of compatibility and ease of use. makes a good secret porn browser tho ;P
Make sure you’ve downloaded the LATEST SNAPSHOT BETA, found at http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/
Opera also has a new skin.. Which in my opinion, .. sucks. Changed it back to the old one. The latest snapshot uses even less memory, especially when you minimize it. Blows FF3 away in my opinion.
Been using opera for years and love it, however as said 9.5 is beta and is absolutely riddled with bugs so avoid that version. I do like the new sync feature though
@3 , there are much better skins and setups available for it if you go to tools and appearence and click get more skins, expedition slim is a nice one . + you dont need to restart operra after changing the skin
Opera R0X,
It is the best browser overall… it is not used enough and the defacto standards of MS IE do not follow official protocols. But with opera you can selectively block banners!!!!
That rox.. and saves time on slow PC’s and slow internetconnections. LOVE IT!
Beta should be fixed so it can be the final version.
Opera FTW !!!
Opera is 100th times better than Firefox but never use beta versions. I have both on my PC becuase my brother uses Firefox for some thing, but Opera rocks.
Opera FTW !!!
Opera is 100th times better than Firefox but never use beta versions. I have both on my PC becuase my brother uses Firefox for some thing, but Opera rocks.
Go Opera!
@8
FireFox never was all that fast until the latest version, 3.0. Now it’s blazing fast.
Either Opera or FF is a great option. Anything is better then Safari/IE.
i’ve been using Opera for a long while now (i think ever since it went free or adless or whatnot) and I’ve been liking it. Nevertheless I’m open for new stuff, tried firefox here and there but it couldn’t please me. I will however still try out FF3 when it comes out (not beta) and then compare it to this new Opera (havent tried it out yet either) and take what works best. This new malware blocking feature sounds interesting in both. Hopefully it doesn’t add to system load.
So I guess opera will block rlslog with all the s.hi.tt.y virus infested releases recently?
Oh yeah! Opera rocks! Opera browser is the best browser in the internet world! It gives 10-0 to Firefox.
I’m in love with the content blocking in Opera.
If you know basics of HTML then you can easly block nearly all ads (even the intellitxt and other word-popups)
Adblock Plus works awesome in Firefox……..
Firefox is for girls. Opera is for the real men.
@17
Sure, fanboy!
i like both the browser ff3 for the plugins and opera for the sleekiness and the rss /icq/email/widgets and mouse gestures features plus the sweet blank page with 9 shortcuts its so fun to use
but yeah ff3 seems to be faster and with people with more ram its a gr8 browser
i use opera for surfing and ff for downloading stuff as the IDM plugin works amazingly with firefox
specially downloading embeded videos and songs
looking forward to the opera 9.5 vs ff3 fight
cheers
RS links anyone ?
Using a modified hosts file protects you from everything using ANY browser.
But down part is certain legit sites won’t load unless you remove them from the hosts file, but that’s no biggie.
I’d rather have a secure browser which has no exploits and I can rely on instead of equiping it with some bullsh!t software which you can’t rely on.
@2,
you live in a bad relationship if you have to hide your porn watching habit.
@ 20 http://fileforum.betanews.com/download/Opera_for_Windows/945720329/1
build 10051 – most stable one so far, and the new skin was tweaked slightly , it actually looks quite nice to me ive always changed it from the default skin as it and firefoxes default skin where quite ugly but ill keep this one for a while i think
im on firefox 3 rc 2 as we speak and id have to say that is fast. way faster then ff2
Been using Opera for a long time..find it brill & the add blocking is spot on
I think nothink beats opera in terms of speed and its memory footprint.
try “the blue button” skin for opera. i think its great.
Opera sucks! Firefox is the best browser!
Non-open software (like Opera) can’t compete with OpenSource:)
Does the new version of FF 3 RC 2 support addon like Ad Block Plus? Wanted to try it out but didn’t want to have to reinstall all the addons I have with FF 2 if I didn’t like it
If it wasn’t for Opera, FF would have noone to copy from…
I ‘ve been using Opera exclusively for 3 years, and if you know what you’re doing, the weekly beta builds are unsurpassed (if you dont mind a few bugs of course).
http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/
http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/features/
http://www.opera.com/press/reviews/
http://operawiki.info/WhyOpera
http://userjs.org/scripts/
Opera is da bomb. I just hope version 9.5 fixes the scroll bars for this site
@28 It’s not about ‘does this version support addons’ but about ‘does addons support this version of FF’. Most of addons support FF3 RC2, including AdBlock Plus:)
oh, and to clear things up, Opera had an anti-phising feature since v9.10. The new feature is anti-malware protection.
http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/show.dml/2177624
I love Opera. The sync feature is truly awesome. Laptop – Pc – Mobile – 10 sec.
<3
@29 FF copied from Opera???
D Haha..
)
Who has got anti-malware protection first? (because that’s the theme of this article where you can find the answer…
Forever. Always. Better. Stronger. Faster.
Opera.
@34 you have a short memory , opera was the 1st tabbed browser how many others copied that ???? how many would use ff3 etc if they didnt have tabbeed browsing
Why would anyone need protection from anti-malware?
Damn, if they only had opera for linux, then I could be a real uber fanboy geek!
@ 38 be a fan boy xD http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Opera_for_Linux/945720329/4
nice change of pace http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wibyuDKw3aU
why is opera best i know
FF is realy close but…
1. install and almost all is done, no need to find addons and stuff.
2. gestures
3. The best feature i know in opera is its “back to previous page”, I mean back button or gesture back, its absolutly instant! no need to load the page again or anything like that… thats what keept me on opera on start.
4. pop up blocker
5. email client – nothing sophisticated but for me its enough
6. overal that left side menu with notes and stuff is awesome!
7. start page with 9 quick starts is awesome idea and save me lot of time.
8. Fit to wight feature. I use opera sometime on my old PC 14″ CRT 800×600 – pain in ass but with opera its less painfull.
9. cheap on memmory
10. dunno if other browsers got it too, but u can configure your own searches, i mean going to imdb click on search window with right click and create search then “i” as the key and then whenever I wrote in address bar “i jack black” i got instant resaults
If only we had enough sites following proper standards so that browsers could be judged based on their features and usability rather that on which sites work with them – I’m so sick of getting “your browser is not supported” messages.
In any case, I hope this doesn’t turn into a Opera Vs Firefox debate. As long as the two gain support over IE and push for better standards following (btw, Opera and Safari are the only ones that pass Acid3, hehe) then the web world will be a better place overall, especially with the anti-malware stuff.
@30
Yes, Opera 9.5 fixes the scrollbars thing for this site. That’s why I’m using the beta – otherwise I’d stick with the stable rls.
@41
Nothing special…
1):) That’s funny. This can be said in many ways… For example: With FF, you don’t mess up you comp with stuff that you don’t need. You have just light, small and quick browser. If you need more, you can choose from many addons and take only what you need…..
2) FireGestures, or Mouse Gestures, or All-in-One Gestures…
3) Eh… That’s something special? BTW – Firefox has much more useful ‘Back’ button.
4) No comment:DD Do you live in medieval times?
5) There are much better choices (like Thundebird). see answer no1
6)For me unuseful, but you can have better panels with addons…
7)see no6
9) Try Firefox 3 and you’ll see what is cheap in memory!
10) Hm, that seems interesting.. I go to find some addon where from Opera took it:))
@41 And what about blocking reklams (AdBlock Plus), activating links on websites (Linkification), superbly modified Google (CustomizeGoogle) and GMail (Better Gmail), user scripts (Greasemonkey)… and much more ?
*blocking advertisemens
Opera blows donkey balls.
@44
1. Just because Opera does include everything (and more) 97% of web users need, it doesn’t mean it fills computer with junk. If you use something on Opera, you just use it. It’s there. If you don’t need something, it’s out of sight.
2. Which one to choose? Which is best? So many coises, I can’t choose!
5. How is Thunderbird superior to Opera? What Thunderbird has what Opera doesn’t has?
Only thing Opera lacks is people who would code addons. Yes, you can get addons on Opera. In format called javascript. See http://userjs.org/ and this http://operawiki.info/UserJS
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Hey Lou, is your real name Opera by any chance?
Hey emhm, I wish your argument made sense, so I could refute it. Maybe next time.
Maxthon FTW!
Opera FTW its so much faster then firefox and opera beta is amazingly fast rating 77 on acid3 test
@10, Safari is much faster to load pages than FF3.
On my Mac, I always come back to Safari after giving Firefox a fair go- never lives up to the standards I get from Safari.
@44
i never sad that FF dont have stuff i named, I just dont like to spend time making FF in opera
(and ofc 4. was suppose to be “AD blocker” not popup blocker)
and i must say i just tryed firefox 3 RC2 and they made real improvment with speed and all, so its realy good browsing now.. i just installed that firegestures and that line it draw is cool…
It was some time i last tryed firefox vs2 i think it was so i gona hang on FF3 RC2 for some time now to see if i can turn it in opera and way beyond ^^
RAM
btw so far opera 6 tabs –> 24MB
FF3 RC2 one tab –> 58MB 6 tabs –>64MB
its improvement but still more
but lets say who cares about ram when u can get 4GB for 80€
and that 10. thing work in FF3 too…
damn fu*cking sh9t 75% addons dont work on new version
Opera is great… if you have a slow PC. Otherwise time has proven again and again that overall Firefox is the best browser you can use. To help you understand what I mean, it’s like a domestic car. No one cares when a good one is made, because history has given them all a bad name. So in terms of my browser, why would I switch if my browser does everything I need it to do (and believe me it’s loaded in plugins) and it does it damn well? Just so I can be different and be in that small percentage of people not using IE and FF?
People need to learn that not all products that become mainstream are bad. Who knows what the future holds for FF but for now I’m really happy with FF, and if your happy with your Safari, good for you.
working with FF few minutes and my point 3 is starting to rise up…
take a look at my opera: http://bayimg.com/GAJAHaABO
how come no one mentioned the build in IRC!!!!!!
there are extentions for opera
flashblocker, spellchecker are my favs but ther are many more
opera is great
Opera = Speed
Firefox = Compatibility
It’s almost always been like this. (Javascript speed goes up & down depending on the Opera snapshot version). Opera has always been faster than Firefox, it’s not even close.
But as you know, Opera is ‘unstable’. It still has problems with alot of websites. That’s why you keep a secondary browser around (Firefox).
My browsing style is pretty weird, I keep around 25-50 tabs open… Whenever I see something interesting, I click. Firefox can’t handle so many tabs open, it will slow down to a crawl, it gets very sluggish.
Also, Opera has fast history navigation, meaning you can press back/forward and the page instatly loads. Built-in- don’t need a plugin unlike Firefox. Infact, alot of the stuff you might want are already built in, you just need some time to check out all the goodies.
Right now I’m using the 64bit beta version of Opera in a 64bit Debian OS. But, you know what, as far as I’m concerned Firefox and Opera are about even since FF3 fixed most of its speed issues. The only reason I use Opera is preference. I’ve been using it since the first public release, back when you had to crack the banner adds off the top of it.
It’s what I’m used to and it’s still good.
IE7Pro + Vista64 is the most stable/compatible browser!
BTW: About the speed: Yeah with Opera you can display a page 20ms faster! LOL! Such a great achievement!
There are so many reasons to use Opera but I will only list one:
It works on Pentium I @ 133Mhz with only 64MB and it works well… I use it as my torrent/download PC. Eat that Firefox
Opera is for real men? Firefox is for girls?!
Man is ugly, girl is sexy ^^
try K-meleon, and you will soar to the HEaven
Firefox FTW!
i think opera is really great, but the only reason i’m not using it is that it won’t let me download .torrent files on my hard drive. it automatically opens them in it’s internal bittorrent client. i’ve tried several times to find where to shut it off, but have had no luck..
any help?
@66
I also dislike opera bittorrent client but ather than that opera is great browser.
To turn it off:
1. in the url type “opera:config” (no quotes)
2. Select BitTorrent
3. Uncheck “Enable” box.
Or right click on torrent file and “save target as”.
Opera is the Best
HAVE BEEN USING THESE BROWSERS FOR YEARS NOW
1. INTERNET EXPLORER (VER 5 UNTIL LATEST VER 8 BETA)
2. FIREFOX (VER 1.5 – LATEST 3.1)
3. OPERA (VER 7 – LATEST 9.5)
INTERNET EXPLORER IS BEST FOR ITS COMPATABILITY AND INTEGRATION.
FIREFOX IS BEST FOR ITS CUSTOMIZABILITY.
OPERA IS BEST FOR ITS SPEED.
And the WINNER is OPERA..nuff said
download:
http://rapidshare.com/files/131330214/Opera_951_en_Setup.exe