[plug] Opera wrecked

[Bret Busby]

Hello.

As a person who has been using Opera for years, as the (perceived) 
safest browser to use for Internet banking, the latest upgrade is 
apparently a wrecking of the Opera browser.

Having upgraded to 9.51, this is a warning to other Opera users who 
have not already upgraded, to be very wary about upgrading.

The browser now, after being forced to display the login screen at the 
particular bank, "times out" all of the time, so a login session can be 
forced, but then the browser prohibits any actions being performed, 
once a person is logged in to Internet banking.

I do not know whether this is a security breach, but it is a serious 
concern.

The bank has advised me that this problem has been reported to the bank 
by many Opera users, since the last upgrade.

After three days, I have not received acknowledgement of the bug report, 
from Opera. The bug report was expanded by me, to include screen dumps, 
to show the problem.

Also, having done the upgrade, and having uninstalled it, I am not able 
to install any previous version of Opera, to get a functional version of 
Opera, as 9.51 has apparently done something to my Linux installation, 
that prohibits a previous version of Opera being installed. I am using 
Debian Linux 4.0, and used dpkg -i to install, and, dpkg -r to remove.

So, if you are using Opera, be wary of upgrading to 9.51.

It is dangerous!

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
  you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
   Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
   "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
   A Trilogy In Four Parts",
   written by Douglas Adams,
   published by Pan Books, 1992

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