Opera has updated its browser to correct a cross-platform vulnerability that created a possible mechanism for hackers to inject malicious code into vulnerable systems. The critical security bug stemmed from flaws in handling large form inputs, as explained in an advisory by the Norwegian software developer here. Version 11.01 …

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Friday 28th January 2011 13:51 GMT Robert Carnegie

Worth knowing.

I was using Opera last night and it didn't tell me there was an update 11.01, I think it usually does but I'm not sure... VLC does, if you're online when you launch it, but I already noticed there was a version 1.1.6.

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1. Friday 28th January 2011 16:00 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  A Title Is Required.
  
  Opera will autoupdate.
  
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  1. Friday 28th January 2011 21:39 GMT Anonymous Coward
    
    Autoupdating
    
    Unless, of course, you have switched it off and set it to just notify you when updates are available.
    
    Which is a particular annoyance to me - every single time I update Opera, it ticks the box "Automatically install updates without notification from now on" and I have to remember to untick it. Fine, give me an option to switch on auto-updating at that stage, but don't turn it on every single time...
    
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Friday 28th January 2011 14:12 GMT Wensleydale Cheese

Odd - I don't see an update available for my Mac

Still on 10.63, on my Mac, and doing a check for updates says I'm already using the latest version,

(OS X 10.5.8, PPC architecture)

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1. Friday 28th January 2011 23:07 GMT Rasczak
  
  Opera 11 on PPC
  
  Doesn't appear to be available
  
  http://www.opera.com/browser/download/requirements/?platform=mac
  
  Opera 11
  
  Intel-based systems. Note that it does not work with PPC-based systems, OS X 10.4 or below.
  
  Opera 10
  
  OS X Tiger (10.4) or higher on an Intel- or PowerPC-based system.
  
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2. Monday 31st January 2011 09:33 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Not that odd.
  
  PPC support was dropped.
  
  http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2010/08/30/tea
  
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Friday 28th January 2011 16:52 GMT Robert Carnegie

Mac version apparently here,

http://www.opera.com/browser/download/?os=mac&list=all

11.01 is listed.

I don't remember if they exclude major version increments from auto-notification. I have an HTML file, anyway, of software title home pages to check now and again - it's portable between browsers, obviously.

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Monday 31st January 2011 10:51 GMT mhenriday

For some strange reason,

the earlier version of Opera disappeared from the list of installed applications, the top panel, and the list of programmes in Synaptic on my 64-bit Ubuntu 10.10 setup after the new version was released. Is this an example of what Einstein referred to as «spukhafte Fernwirkung» ? In any event, I downloaded and installed the new version, and so far everything is working well, but I'm keeping a lookout for ghosts....

Henri

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