Opera Screeches at Mozilla Over Security Disclosure 208
The Register is reporting that Mozilla's handling of a recent security exploit that affected both browsers has drawn an unhappy response from the Opera team. "Claudio Santambrogio, an Opera desktop developer, said the Mozilla team notified it of a security issue only a day before publishing an advisory. This gave the Norwegian software developers insufficient time to make an evaluation. [...] Santambrogio goes on to attack Mozilla's handling of the issue, arguing that it places Opera users at unnecessary risk."
Re:Sheesh... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:I must be missing something here... (Score:2, Informative)
You just right click on the toolbar, click Customize, then drag and drop to your heart's content. Couldnt be easier.
I'm not sure what blank space you're talking about. My Opera (on windows) have no blank space. And even if it did, you just re-organize the toolbars to eliminate it.
Heck, you can even put the tabs (or any toolbar or menu bar) on the side of the screen or the bottom (where I prefer) if you want.
In my opinion, Opera has a much cleaner toolbar than either Firefox (very amateur, blocky) or IE (schizophrenic, why are half the buttons on one side, half on the other?).
Firefox's GUI in particular always looks very amateurish. Like it was done by 'this guy' that someone knew who 'is good with graphics'. Whereas the other browsers actually hired professionals.
Re:insightful?? (Score:4, Informative)
From TFA:
Opera was notified the day before the February 7 release - that would be February 6. Today is February 18. Is that not 12 days?
Re:insightful?? (Score:3, Informative)
The whole point of this entire debacle is that Opera themselves disclosed this and, by complaining about full disclosure, showed their true colours when it comes to vulnerabilities in their flagship browser. Mozilla reported the vulnerability in a professional manner to a competitor to whom they owe nothing but felt ethically it was the right thing to do, then fixed their own product. Opera's actions in this matter show me quite clearly what they would have preferred to do but perhaps I'm just a raving zealot or a tin-foil hatter seeing conspiracies where none exist. There again, perhaps not. Feeling lucky? I hope you are, since you're betting, with apparently very little information, that Opera fixes the bugs in its software instead of simply sitting on reports from security experts trying to do the right thing. Security experts and competitors who may just think twice before submitting findings to Opera in the future.
[1] 94% of statistics are pulled from someone's behind. Suffice to say a significant portion of the web browsing public use Fx. My analog shows it to be much, much higher but my web server hosts predominantly open source software, so that's to be expected.
Re:Sheesh... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Was there an obigation? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:All Things Considered... (Score:3, Informative)