Opera 9.5 Built in Firewall

Gary

These are the only security enhancements that I can see. But that's no
reason to pounce on the OP. I guess this is Usenet after all...


Security

* Improved back-end for Fraud Protection, now enabled by default.
* Added support for Extended Validation (EV) certificates.
* Added automatic updates of root certificates.
* Introduced a new security notification scheme in the address field:
o gold lock on green field for secure sites with Extended Validation
o silver lock on yellow field for regular secure sites
o question mark on gray field for HTTPS sites with problems
o no notification for normal sites
o fraud warning on red field for blacklisted sites
* Opera now distinguishes between local servers on localhost, intranet
servers, and remote servers on the Internet. Local servers can use remote
resources, but not vice versa.

http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/windows/950b2

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Gary wrote:
>These are the only security enhancements that I can see. But that's no
>reason to pounce on the OP. I guess this is Usenet after all...

The vehement attack over semantic distinctions of what a firewall
involves, suggests a woefully vacuous level of immaturity. Reminds me of
a know it all that once posted here under the name Duane Arnold of Elgin
Illinois, seems he worked at some retail outlet pushing hardware routers
and swore up and down that nothing was better.