Opera scrambles to quash zero-day bug in freshly-patched browser

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Anonymous Coward

Hehe #

Posted Monday 27th October 2008 19:32 GMT

I'm sure that all the Opera users who post that their poo is a special kind of brown every time a Mozilla or IE bug is announced will dutifully post that they, too, are running buggy software in this space.

Or probably not.

Simpson

evil browsers #

Posted Monday 27th October 2008 20:06 GMT

Why is it that nobody can build a browser?

WTF?

It's not just browsers. It's any email client, any office productivity app, anything adobe has ever come in contact with, any software that apple designed themselves, anything from microsoft except (maybe) notepad. It's everything!!

If Elvis were alive today, he would have a basement full of computers with bullet holes in them.

Stupid fucking time wasting computers!!

I am looking forward to RoTM, as it will be the first computer system that works.

Anonymous Coward

This a damn lie #

Posted Monday 27th October 2008 20:06 GMT

Every one know that opera has no flaws. It simple cant. If does then why do people say see you need oprea when a bug is found in fire fox or IE.

Steve P

I'd like to point out... #

Posted Monday 27th October 2008 20:47 GMT

that both Internet Explorer and Firefox are planning to incorporate this bug into their next versions.

David Beeston

And on Safari... #

Posted Tuesday 28th October 2008 00:38 GMT

Just thought I would give it a go on my mac and noticed that my mac mail gets opened?! Seems like everyone's browser is pants!

David

heh #

Posted Tuesday 28th October 2008 10:53 GMT

cuz opera is better, bugs and all it. For a start i dont have to build its features with 3rd party code. Who knows what crap could get installed.

Anonymous Coward

Antisocial networking? #

Posted Tuesday 28th October 2008 10:53 GMT

"It's not just browsers. It's any email client, any office productivity app, anything adobe has ever come in contact with"

It's anything that relies on content from the outside world to trigger effects on other things.

Interaction's a bitch.

Yes, I'm an Opera user. Yes, I'm aware I'm currently running a browser with a security issue. But at least it's a bug, rather than a completely broken security model.

The Mighty Biff

IE7 rules ! Oh wait... #

Posted Tuesday 28th October 2008 10:53 GMT

Hmm. Click me eh ?

IE proudly announces that it's blocked a popup ! Then raises a javascript permissions error (sounds good doesn't it ?). Acknowledging the JS error then activates my mail client (Eudora).

So that's a FAIL then.

Pete

@ Steve P #

Posted Tuesday 28th October 2008 10:53 GMT

So true, they've copied everything else from Opera, one way or the other, firefox has most of the cool features as extensions though, which makes it a real hassle when you upgrade and find the extensions fail.

And first poster, at least Opera tries to fix bugs as soon as possible, unlike Microsoft who bury their head in the sand and pretend it doesn't matter.

Codge