Browsers...

[Kevin Hodle]

If any of you follow bugtraq, you will know that opera has had a
terrible track record of security in its recent releases.  I have seen
exploits with win32 shellcode, but it would be trivial to port those
shellcodes to linux.  Also, since opera has been VERY sluggish to fix
these vulnerabilities, I would say you are using this browser at your
own risk.
 
Kevin Hodle
CCNA, Network+, A+
Alexander Open Systems
Network Operations Center
(913)-307-2367
kevinh at aos5.com

-----Original Message-----
From: numa at thenuma.com [mailto:numa at thenuma.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 9:06 AM
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: Browsers...

I am noticing a lot of recommendations for browsers to use in Linux.  We
all have to first agree that netscape is, well, dated.  A lot of us use
Mozilla, however, according to the new roadmap, moz is dead.  Phoenix,
it appears, will supercede the old netscape core.  Great, Phoenix is a
rocket.  HOWEVER, IE, has become quite entrenched, and there are some
sites that really suck with phoenix/moz.

You all might consider giving opera a spin once again, it is fast,
standards compliant, and, runs sites that are IE specific like a bat out
of hell.

Just my thoughts.  Kris Bodenheimer