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I have no idea what happened to the Sophos link in the comment above. (The shortened form survived the comment process.)

Wae Has Opera patched that God awful security hole? I heard S. Gibson say to just avoid it until they have.Opera is a very lightweight browser, I use it on an old Toughbook running Win 2K and it works great. I have to wonder about some of these third party browsers based on IE or Firefox. Do they patch them as frequently as browsers they're based on? By offering all these "off brand" browsers I wonder if the EU hasn't opened up its victims to even more security issues than the normal browsers offer. Thing are bad enough as they are without adding to the problem.

I'm a fan for Safari for Windows so I tend to bounce between that and IE. I guess the reason why I like Safari is because I prefer the UI over most other browsers. I just wish it would allow me to set Bing as my seach provider.

@whip: I dunno. It's Opera 10.51 now though. Dunno if that means the hole that you mentioned is patched, but Secunia says there are no unpatched vulnerabilities, so I guess it's okay now. I was just looking at screenshots. If I was in the market for a different web browser, Opera would probably be it. As such, I'm not, so it isn't. "I like Safari is because I prefer the UI over most other browsers. I just wish it would allow me to set Bing as my seach provider." I make the same complaint about Opera Mobile on my phone. On one hand, you have a company that says that choice is good and that you shouldn't have to use a monopoly holders product (in this case, Microsoft's web browser), but on the other hand, the company making the argument is simultaneously shoving another monopoly holders product down your throat (Google). So why doesn't Microsoft make a cross-licensing deal to make Opera (and other web browsers) to offer a choice at initial start that doesn't prefer one search engine over another, such as Google over Bing? Have they thought of this yet? Perhaps Opera would think twice about crying to the EU about the web browser issue if Microsoft threatened to force them to offer different choices in search engines, thereby pulling Google's funding to offer Google as the default engine.

@whiplash 55 Security issue fixed with release of Opera 10.51. http://www.lockergnome.com/theoracle/2010/03/22/opera-10-51-arrives-plug...

No comment on being pointed out on being such a hypocrite this week, regarding the copy/paste comments you made some time ago? No, of course not. Not when Microsoft is paying the bills.