Vulnerability In Opera

[dougeeebear]

Secunia has reported a vulnerability which affect all web browsers, including Opera.

I am running Opera 7.55 on SL-5500 using standard Sharp Rom 3.13 and it works perfectly.

Exactly what is this vulnerability you are talking about?

Doug

[technojunkie]

The vulnerability allows someone to spoof a dialog box that opens in a new tab. Personally I see the risk as being a bit negligible. As long as you are aware of it It shouldn't be too difficult to avoid.

[grog]

This Opera installs all the packages to /home/QtPalmtop/bin but OZ looks in the /opt/QtPalmtop/bin.  You have to symlink it all by hand,

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ln -s /home/QtPalmtop/bin/opera /opt/QtPalmtop/bin/opera
ln -s ...

I still wanted to try 7.55 & I finally got some time, so after I installed the package I ran this:

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ipkg files opera | while read file; do case $file in *home*) ln -s $file /opt/${file#*home/};; esac; doneThen I ran makecompat & now I have Opera 7.55 running. Hope that helps somebody else. havefun!!

[grog]

... now I have Opera 7.55 running.

And after a while now I've gone back to opera6. I guess I just had to see for myself, but yes 6 is a lot faster than the 7's, and the 7's seem to crash an awful lot. FYI

[Flandry]

I guess that answers my question regarding why cacko 1.22 included an older version of the browser.  It sure seems to me that there's enough to fix that it should be easy to make an improvement from 7.25 to 7.55.  Unfortunate.

Does anyone know how to adjust the cache of opera so that it doesn't leak memory until it has to be closed and restarted?  I assume that's where all the memroy is going, anyway.  The blank page loading thing is annoying, too.  At least it makes much better use out of a small screen than netfront.

[dougeeebear]

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