http://www.osnews.com/story/16216/Opera_9_1_Will_Include_Fraud_Protection Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:57:31 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?172798 http://osnews.com/thread?172798 Still waiting.... Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (robojerk) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?172804 http://osnews.com/thread?172804 ATM I use opera 9.0 on linux, everything is working fine with gmail... Both the web interface (yes, with autocompletion of email adresses and such) and the built-in opera mail client. Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jaboua) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?172807 http://osnews.com/thread?172807 very good! excellent! Wed, 18 Oct 2006 19:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SK8T) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?172821 http://osnews.com/thread?172821 Works for me too, though Gmail still initially drops me into the Basic HTML interface... Only once has clicking on the 'go to standard view' produced errors or timeouts. Wed, 18 Oct 2006 20:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (DigitalAxis) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?172833 http://osnews.com/thread?172833 "We don't store information on our servers that let us track individual users. IP addresses are discarded and we don't use cookies or other session information. No information goes directly to third parties, all communication goes through our own servers. Our servers get the trust information from a database supplied by GeoTrust, who have a long experience with anti-fraud solutions."

Neither Google(Firefox realtime phishing protection depends on Google) nor Microsoft(IE7 phishing realtime filter), do not offer any sort of privacy protection, and Opera has a big advantage here. Wed, 18 Oct 2006 20:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Yogurth) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?172834 http://osnews.com/thread?172834 Gmail works pretty well with Opera 9.x.

Note that the problem, as usual, is/was on Google's side. There's nary a company out there that's nearly as deadset against web standards and alternate browsers as is Google -- for months they'd purposely block Opera from Gmail, Google Maps, and so forth (identifying as Firefox would allow passage). Even Microsoft wasn't so draconian with Hotmail (they tried to block Opera, but only for a week or two).Edited 2006-10-18 20:38 Wed, 18 Oct 2006 20:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (eMagius) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?172837 http://osnews.com/thread?172837 Gmail with its Ajax interface works very well here on Opera 9 in PC-BSD. Wed, 18 Oct 2006 21:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Joe User) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?172838 http://osnews.com/thread?172838 Good to see more useful features in Opera. It is my browser or choice when using Windows, and has been since they fixed the popup-windows-demaximize-all-other-MDI-windows problem (around 5.* IIRC). Of course outright blocking popups was even nicer So additional fraud protection fits nicely into their continuing improvements.

Google -- for months they'd purposely block Opera from Gmail

Yeah I really don't understand it. They do the same to Konqueror, which works fine when identifying as Firefox.

*edit: fixed typoEdited 2006-10-18 21:24 Wed, 18 Oct 2006 21:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (MamiyaOtaru) Comments