Comment by bigbugbag | Hacker News Reader

Comment by bigbugbag | Hacker News Reader

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They have an incredible team but their browser is a skin for chromium compared to what it was before they dropped their engine (shortly after the founder left due to a board "too quarterly oriented".

A couple years later the new opera is till far beyond what it was and it seems they're not even trying to fix this while vivaldi on the other hand is driven by a vision and has made much more progress in a more timely manner.

I've been using opera as my main browser since they removed ads in 2005, today I'm still using presto based opera with no plan to switch to the blink based version of opera because many of the features that made opera are missing and are not coming back which make the "chromium skin" designation a reality.

so how badly does your presto opera fail the ssl client test?

It fails not at all.

Result of https://www.howsmytls.com/

    Version: Good
    Ephemeral Key Support: Good
    Session Ticket Support: Improvable
    TLS Compression: Good
    BEAST Vulnerability: Good
    Insecure Cipher Suites: Good

Result of https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/viewMyClient.html

    Protocol Support: Your user agent has good protocol support.
    Logjam Vulnerability (Experimental): Your user agent is not vulnerable.
    FREAK Vulnerability: Your user agent is not vulnerable.
    POODLE Vulnerability: Your user agent is not vulnerable.
    Cipher Suites (in order of preference): TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256 (0x6b)   Forward Secrecy ←←←←← listed first, other ciphers elided
    Protocol Details: Session tickets   No ←←←←← feature is labelled in yellow, all other details are labelled in black or green, elided

If outdated TLS ever becomes a pressing concern, it's easy to put a proxy in front of the browser.

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