The NT Shop » Browsers http://ntshop.net Cloggin' the net since 1996 Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:03:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Opera Offers Free Licenses For One Day Only http://ntshop.net/2005/08/30/opera-offers-free-licenses-for-one-day-only/ http://ntshop.net/2005/08/30/opera-offers-free-licenses-for-one-day-only/#comments Tue, 30 Aug 2005 06:10:29 +0000 admin http://ntshop.net/2007/02/06/opera-offers-free-licenses-for-one-day-only/ In celebration of its 10th anniversary Opera Software is offering free license keys to its Opera Web browser. You can only obtain a free license on August 30 . At the risk of sounding like a late night infomercial, if you’re interested then ”act now!”

As a result of the free offer the site is busy, but it is still responding.

I’ve been testing the upcoming Opera 8.1 (Preview 2 release for Windows) over the last three weeks and I can safely say that I am very impressed. It’s faster than Firefox, has a built-in BitTorrent client, mail client, contact manager, note taking system, and RSS feed reader, and has a highly customizeable user interface. During my tests I’ve been able to configure the interface to mirror the uncluttered layout I use in my Firefox browser so I feel right at home using Opera now.

Opera also has lots of great security features and a lot of bells and whistles, such as the ability to read Web pages out loud, the ability to quickly enable or disable Javascript, Java, plugins, pop-up windows, and much more. All of that in a relatively small download of only 3.7MB — which by the way is smaller than Firefox! OK, the voice capabilities are an extra 10MB download, but the rest of the features are included in the base package.

If you think Firefox is a great browser then you might want to have a close look at Opera, particular Opera 8.1 Preview 2.

]]> http://ntshop.net/2005/08/30/opera-offers-free-licenses-for-one-day-only/feed/ 1 Another IE Flaw Surfaces http://ntshop.net/2005/08/30/another-ie-flaw-surfaces/ http://ntshop.net/2005/08/30/another-ie-flaw-surfaces/#comments Tue, 30 Aug 2005 04:00:00 +0000 admin http://ntshop.net/1999/11/30/another-ie-flaw-surfaces/ Tom Ferris reported a new flaw in Internet Explorer on fully patched Windows XP SP2 systems. While Ferris offered few details about the problem on his Web site, the vulnerability reportedly could allow a remote intruder to install remote code and completely take over an affected system.

French security research organization FrSIRT issued a bulletin stating that the problem relates to processing of malformed HTML which can lead to memory corruption that might allow a remote intruder to run arbitrary commands on an affected system.

With widespread use of Windows XP the problem could potentially affect millions of computers. However no patch is available at this time and no workaround information is known at this time. Ferris said he notified Microsoft of his findings and the company is researching his report. Ferris won’t disclose any more information about the flaw until Microsoft releases a patch.

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