Opera 11.0 Alpha out

[stve]

I am at a crossroads now, because after the yesterday's reinstall of Win7, I decided to stick with IE9, which works faster and better than ever.
However, the situation with Flash usage in Opera I was "complaining" about ended in an unexpected way: The game I've been playing for over a year is no longer free, so I don't play anymore, which means that I might just as well install Opera11. But now I like IE9 and got used to it, lol. A fresh install of Windows means that, at least for a while, I have no need to poke around the registry and Ccleaner and all that stuff...
Unless I install Revo uninstaller, which can do the work for me when uninstalling apps, even if I decide to install Opera...

Bah, I am babbling, don't mind me xD

Very easy to check out Opera now there is a portable option built into the installer, everything is contained inside the install folder no registry entries so just delete the folder to uninstal plus it makes it very easy to backup or take with you on a USB stick.

Get it at Opera Desktop Team - Desktop Team only 6.8MB
When you run the installer click on Options.
Change the Install path to another folder & change All users to External drive.

To open Help F1
Anyone new to Opera should check out.
The Appearance floating panel Alt a or Shift F12 tons of option's.
The Preferences floating panel Alt i p or Ctrl F12
I've a blog on My opera & i have made a page on how I customize Opera visit
Stephen Turrell - Opera Tips on customizing

Click on the blog button top of page to see the rest of the blog.
It might be worth installing Opera just to be able to use the free blog I started mine in April this year , its the first blog I've had & its a lot easier than I expected it to be.
You get 2 GB free space for files & photos & Opera have optimised the blogs to appear high in the rankings so search for my blog steves snaps on Google & it is near the top of the page.

The number of extensions is now up to 81 & this Build 1045 seems more stable with extensions but install several & you will probably have more crashes.
Personally I'm only going to use one or two at a time to check them out.

 

[Gornot]

+REP!

Thank you for the tips, Steve, I noticed the availability of the portable version, just never thought of using it for testing xD As far as Appearance goes, I know exactly how I want Opera to look like for me, I also tried a few extensions in Alpha 1, so it's just a matter of optimizing it a bit for Flash.

 

[A Guy]

There is an Opera users group here you guys

http://www.sevenforums.com/group.php?groupid=41

A Guy

 

[Gornot]

Totally weird, but the portable instal of the Alpha build handled Flash almost perfectly. It's still almost as bad as Firefox, but definitely not horrible like before xD

 

[stve]

+REP!

Thank you for the tips, Steve, I noticed the availability of the portable version, just never thought of using it for testing xD As far as Appearance goes, I know exactly how I want Opera to look like for me, I also tried a few extensions in Alpha 1, so it's just a matter of optimizing it a bit for Flash.

Flash is good for me what plugin are u using? check under

preferences / Advanced / Downloads
I have application/x-shockwave for flash
Theres a download link on this page & also a link to check what version you already have.
Adobe - Products : Adobe Shockwave Player

 

[yowanvista]

Third build 1055 released
link

 

[Maxxwire]

Opera 11 Alpha b1055 is supposed to fix the DSK-317389 (Insecure Third Party Module warning when starting Opera (DEP/Data Execution Prevention).

~Maxx~

 

[stve]

Opera 11 Alpha b1055 is supposed to fix the DSK-317389 (Insecure Third Party Module warning when starting Opera (DEP/Data Execution Prevention).
~Maxx~

Never saw that myself either with upgrading or installing to External drive.

I'm guessing you upgraded & its one of your extensions producing the warning.
I think Opera are aiming for a auto update of extensions in the future.

 

[Gornot]

Yup, same issue here.

 

[yowanvista]

Never got that issue, a fresh opera profile might fix it

 

[Maxxwire]

Opera 11 Alpha b1055 is supposed to fix the DSK-317389 (Insecure Third Party Module warning when starting Opera (DEP/Data Execution Prevention).
~Maxx~

I'm guessing you upgraded & its one of your extensions producing the warning.
I think Opera are aiming for a auto update of extensions in the future.

Stve- Although I run no extensions I occasionally saw this warning with Opera 11 Alpha b1035 running the .exe and then in b1045 with it installed. I have not seen it since I installed the b1055 snapshot. It appears as though the Opera development team has solved the problem in this latest release. If I wasn't running Opera 11 Alpha in the virtual space of Sandboxie with Comodo Defense+ HIPS on the desktop I probably would have been more concerned when I first saw the warning, but its great that the Opera Devs have fixed the problem so quickly!

~Maxx~

 

[stve]

with Comodo Defense+ HIPS

Hi Max is Comodo defense still supported I don't see it at their site for download.
Unsupported security software is not a good idea.
Comodo's Internet security Suite is a lot more user friendly with the latest version.

Opera have moved into top gear this year its all the little things they do that impress me like the little Installer.
Installing Opera is a breeze compared to the other browsers.

 

[Maxxwire]

with Comodo Defense+ HIPS

Hi Max is Comodo defense still supported I don't see it at their site for download.
Unsupported security software is not a good idea.
Comodo's Internet security Suite is a lot more user friendly with the latest version.

Comodo Proactive Defense+ HIPS is not only supported, but it is the main tool which Comodo has used to remain at the top of the Matousec Proactive Secutity Challenge with a 100% 148/148 rating for so long and remains a main component of CIS.

I used to run the CIS Suite, but when I started running Opera in the virtual space of Sandboxie the definitions dependent Antivirus was replaced by Virus Total and several on demand scanners to scan items downloaded from the Internet and moved from the virtual space to the real computer and since then I have just been running The Comodo Firewall and Proactive Defense+ with HIPS with not a single detection of Malware on either of my computers thanks mainly to the ~42 different scanners at Virus Total which offer an accurate group opinion that no single Antivirus could match in accuracy.

~Maxx~

 

[stve]

As my PC has all the important stuff backed up & its just used for leisure I don't use sandboxie only for high risk situations.
3 or 4 virus's get by every month but whenever they try to launch they always get caught by Comodo ,
at least I assume they always get caught ?
To the best of my knowledge my PC is clean its been running extremely well for nearly a year & my friends never complain about spam emails from my PC.
Life used to be more interesting on Vista & Windows XP .
Why I use Comodo IT'S FREE & pretty good as well

http://stevessnaps.fotopic.net/p68043282.html

 

[Maxxwire]

As my PC has all the important stuff backed up & its just used for leisure I don't use sandboxie only for high risk situations.

In addition to Windows 7 System Images I also keep incremental Macruim Reflect Disk Images as you can see they include Image backups for Comodo v3.14, v4.1 and v5.0 as I went back to v3.14 several times during the transition where v4.1 would not let the Sandboxie kernel load, but everything is fine in v5.0 as I'm sure you know.

I used to only use Sandboxie for high risk situation, but one day I got a driveby Malware download at Tom's Hardware and the Comodo AV wanted to know if I wanted it to quarantine the Trojan Downloader and suddenly it occurred to me that all the AV was doing was telling me the name of the Malware. Not caring what the name of the Malware was and not wanting the Malware on my computer at all even in quarantine I simply exited Opera and overwrote the Sandbox with 7 passes of the Schneier Algorithm in Eraser and it was so long Malware! I then reinstalled CIS with the Firewall and Defense+ only which is why I have Opera forced to run in Sandboxie so that Comodo doesn't even have to be bothered with any Malware getting through and since I have never received a Defense + alert for any kind of Malware on the desktop Sandboxie must be doing its job.

~Maxx~

 

[stve]

Hey Max ever thought you might be paranoid ?
Either you have very important data & sensitive materials or you enjoy the security side as a hobby
My backups are just data , info i need to set my PC up properly drivers for my motherboard a lot of it is also in Opera notes so a fresh install of windows, install Comodo Internet security then download & synchronize Opera & i have all the info i need at hand.
I have other stuff backed up to the cloud Dropbox & Evernote & online photo sites & to external hard drives.
I don't bother with Windows system restore or backing up Window.
Have you tried Comodo Time Machine it sounds good . When it first came out there were lots of complaints in Comodo forums but i expect they have ironed out the bugs by now.

http://www.comodo.com/home/data-storage-encryption/data-recovery.php

Opera extensions count = 103 & rising

 

[Maxxwire]

stve- In the past I have been forced to rebuild both Vista and Win 7 from the OEM factory image with up to 6 GB of crapware to unintall and 65 programs to restore and each manual restore took about 100 hours of my time which has now been reduced to 4 minutes and 40 seconds restoring a compressed 8 GB Macrium Reflect Image.

Reflect Image Restoration is so efficient that I find it quicker and less hassle restoring an Image which has the particular version of Comodo that I want with all the Firewall and Defense+ rules in place that I use Reflect rather than uninstalling and reinstalling a different version of Comodo which I did many times over the many conflicts that occured while they were refining v4.1.

You can call me paranoid if you like for keeping such a complete set of Image Backups, but for me the Reflect Image backups represent the difference between a 100 hour manual recovery when Windows Recovery fails and a 4 minute and 40 second Reflect Image Recovery which my calculator tells me is over 12,000 times faster and I know that you have a perfect understanding of the need for speed.

~Maxx~

 

[stve]

Believe me no offense intended,
If you browse these forums you are not normal as in the average Internet user who thinks their browser is called Google.
I'm retired with plenty of spare time & enjoy messing with computers so spending a couple of hours reinstalling Windows is not a problem for me.

 

[yowanvista]

Forth build(1060) released
link

 

[swarfega]

Thanks. Opera 11 is turning out to be pretty good, unlike Firefox 4.