Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names

Re:Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names by imiric on Thursday April 29, 2021 @06:32PM (#26987622)

Opera in the late 90s / early 00s was such a great browser though. It was one of the first to adopt tabs, had a very responsive and slick UI compared to the competition, and the rendering engine was fast and fluid, though sadly not well supported or compatible. Even the built-in email client was decent, and much better than the one in Netscape Communicator from what I remember. Being share/adware was always a problem, but it was my main browser for a couple of years back then. Opera Mini was also excellent on pre-iPhone devices.

Nowadays I wouldn't come near it, mostly because it's proprietary software owned by a company with shady business practices.

Still, this is great news and should be applauded FWIW.

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Re:Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names by forgotmypw17 on Thursday April 29, 2021 @08:33PM (#26988583)

Opera 3.62 and 12.14-12.16 are still great browsers and I still use them sometimes.

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Re:Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names by uncoder0 on Thursday April 29, 2021 @09:23PM (#26988890)

Maybe I'm being naive but why would you use such an old browser? There seem to be many vulnerabilities.

https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2012-6470/

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Re:Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names by forgotmypw17 on Thursday April 29, 2021 @10:51PM (#26989418)

I would use them because they are nice and a pleasure to use.

I don't care about the vulns when I'm only browsing my own or trusted websites or localhost.

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Re:Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names by f15h on Thursday April 29, 2021 @11:10PM (#26989509)

CVE-2012-6470 should have been patched (in some of the last Presto builds) if I remember correctly.

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