| Opera 9.1 adds phishing filter |
Dec. 18, 2006
 Opera Software today released an update to its popular, eponymous, freely-available web browser. Opera 9.1 adds a phishing filter, an improved ad blocker, and a built-in BitTorrent link for speedier downloads, according to the company.
Opera's addition of phishing protection follows in the footsteps of Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer, both of which provide phishing filters in their latest releases.
Like Firefox and IE, Opera 9.1 browser displays a warning when users visit a site that may trick them into revealing passwords and other sensitive information.
For its list of suspect sites, Opera uses the PhishTank project from OpenDNS LLC. Users relay to PhishTank.com the messages they believe are scams; members of the PhishTank community examine the message and the site to which it links, and vote on whether it is or isn't a scam. The result of this unique "social networking" technology is a live, hands-on anti-phishing system.
This is the first upgrade since Oslo-based Opera released its major revision, Opera 9, last June.
Opera currently has a small slice -- less than 1 percent -- of the web browsing market. OneStat.com, meanwhile, reported that the global usage share of IE has grown to 85.85 percent -- a jump of 2.8 percent since July, by their counting. Firefox, on the other hand, is at 11.49 percent, a decrease of 1.44 percent since the web analytics specialist reported its July data.
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