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by grafio

V1.77 Jul 2, 2006 0:03:55 AM

Keep your eye on the security of Web browsers.

This widget shows the security status of the latest versions of IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Konqueror 3. The bars represent how dangerous is the worst unfixed hole (not the number of holes) - the lower a bar, the better security. The data about the vulnerabilities is loaded from Secunia site. It's refreshed once per hour.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The widget DOES NOT make you more secure by itself. This is a general information accurate only for the latest versions of the browsers. Always use the most current version of your browser and install security patches!

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Still not loading. I am using Opera 9.27

By trmang, # May 24, 2008 3:09:04 PM

1.78 - fixed: widget didn't load any information

By grafio, # May 24, 2008 8:28:40 AM

I feel more secure with this widget already right after I got. It's really sweet just
like the Analog Clock widgets.opera.com/widget/3529/

By waterfan, # May 23, 2008 8:42:06 PM

It might be quite difficult to track the IE (And Firefox's) vulnerabilities due to the following reasons:
1.AFAIK, There's no official statistic for IE8 Beta 1 and Firefox 3 Beta 5.
2.Certain vulnerabilities doesn't affect IE7 when it's running under the Windows Vista's protected mode. (The default mode in Vista.)
So it's not 100% accurate.
But still, Nice widget!

By justme133, # May 12, 2008 7:28:06 PM

I think it's a bug in Opera so there won't be any fix before final version of 9.50
edit: actually it's another problem, I fixed it

By grafio, # May 11, 2008 10:33:45 AM

Hi Grafio,

I am using as of Yesterday Opera 9.50b2 and was surprised your widget does not work anymore in that version. Will there be an fix for it soon? I find it a great widget! Neat, small and comprihensive.

Greetz,

Tahar.

Btw, It was always clear for me that your widget is retrieving its information out of an external database and that it does not scan the local machine.

By djthproductions, # May 5, 2008 6:19:42 PM

apumedia, it doesn't work this way. It shows security status of latest versions of browsers as reported by secunia.com site. It shows the security of browsers in general, not the security of your installed software.

By grafio, # Mar 13, 2008 9:32:51 AM

this does not work proberly i uninstalled the secuity updates of the ie and still gives same details. even with the new updates installed it was still the same details, and with not having firefox installed its still reading the same details as well. No other browser is installed but gives details.

By apumedia, # Mar 12, 2008 6:11:22 PM

I don't see indicators bar.
My Opera is 9.50 build 9807

By VSB, # Feb 23, 2008 7:59:28 PM

Maybe this stuff protects us..! ;-)

By FSzabolcs, # Feb 13, 2008 9:43:13 AM

0939934760

By Anhkotinz, # Dec 26, 2007 6:14:56 AM

Very nice! I'll never to use the IE7 eny more!

By Bond0079, # Nov 25, 2007 8:09:11 AM

HighFrictionZone> Actually, I'm checking this wigdet quite regularly. It's awful to having to check Secunia for the different security issues in different browsers. The links to the corresponding Secunia page makes this small widget really usefull.

By hobe, # Oct 25, 2007 1:34:43 PM

LOL stedawa, did you know that Maxthon is nothing more than a pimped up version of IE?
Yeah.. Maxthon = IE. They only built a new interface with lots of features (that IE doesn't have) around the IE engine. It uses the IE engine to render the pages, this means that it suffers from the same incompatibility problems, shitty CSS support and it's also subject to all security issues that the IE engine might have.

By danielcs, # Oct 15, 2007 4:26:15 PM

Why is Maxthon not in the running?

What about Maxthon browser ( http://www.maxthon.com/ )? Almost 114,000,000 have downloaded it. It has some good features, such as built-in notepad.

By stedawa, # Oct 10, 2007 0:07:14 AM

Offtopic but:

Well, I'm torn. I like Firefox. I simply need to use Opera. Simple as that. I would only use Firefox, but Firefox on Linux is just god-awful lag. I don't know perhaps it is because I just copied over my Firefox Windows profile? Oddly enough, Opera on Windows doesn't run within any tolerable constraints for me (lag!), yet firefox works. Firefox on linux is nothing but lagging and crashes. So on my linux install I use opera. I wouldn't mind this so much were it not for the fact that I can't seem to find something similar to NoScript for Opera. I know, disable globally in preferences than enable it on a site-by-site basis, but this doesn't quite give me the ease of use/control that I seek. Meh, I'll have to survive.

A bit more ontopic:

This widget doesn't actually seem useful. Perhaps as an example of how to make a widget that can scrape data off of a website, but the actual usefulness is limited. Since it is an opera widget, the only people who would use it are opera users. And nobody who is not a security research is really going to care all too much about the security of other browsers. And security researchers probably already reference Secunia.

By HighFrictionZone, # Sep 18, 2007 0:31:13 AM

chaosblade77, you might want to look at the dates of Secunia advosories. I doubt Firefox hadn't time to fix security holes exposed in 2006-06-06, 2006-11-22, 2007-02-19, ... etc. because it's open source. There were new releases of both the browsers (Firefox and IE) with holes remaining unpatched.

By dimituri, # Sep 13, 2007 6:21:22 PM

1.77 update: fixed data loading

chaosblade77, I don't think Secunia is biased. AFAIK Secunia releases vulnerability info to the public only if it was released by someone already (so it doesn't make sense to keep it secret). I think it's up to browser makers to have good relations with people who are looking for holes (and to ask them to wait until it's fixed).

By grafio, # Sep 8, 2007 1:48:21 PM

I agree that your source is definitely one of the most reliable, that does not mean it is not biased. Secunia updates their site after Opera has had time to fix any issues that they have found. Firefox and IE both get informed, but because one is virtually never updated and the other is open source and it has to go through a few more steps to get a full release out the door for the update, Opera has a clear advantage when it comes to Secunia and this widgit.

Basically what it comes down to is that this is accurate, but not unbiased. If Secunia were to release it's updates before Opera was updated rather than after, I am sure everyone's results would be different.

Edit: I don't mean that Opera wouldn't be the most secure, but it would definitely have some holes that don't show up now.

By chaosblade77, # Sep 6, 2007 4:33:28 PM

Grafio, that would be cool, but it would be even better if you could check which version the user is running and have your widget report on the security of that version.

By CaptainFunky, # Sep 3, 2007 0:51:22 AM