About Browsers and Improvements

Interesting news about two browsers that you might want to check out. Mozilla's Deer Park and Opera. Both are available for Linux and windows; amd Deer Park is also available for Mac's OSX.
In the first place, please take a look at Mozilla's Deer Park announcement. Deer Park offers some new and interesting functionality, like the ability to download and install security patches to the browser without having to re-download and re-install the browser itself. This feature was, perhaps, among the most requested ones by Firefox and the Mozilla suite users. It's really nice to have this functionality at last. Kudos to the Mozilla development team. =)
(download link from ftp)
I think I'll be playing with it later today or maybe tomorrow and I'll write a more thourough report about it.
Deer Park also includes improvements to the pop-up blocking feature as well as security enhancements.

The second browser-related news I mentioned has to do with Opera. Apparently it's official that the new release of Opera browser will support bit torrent. (Whee!) In spite of the FUD campaign against bit torrent that we've seen lately (by those who want to associate the technology behind bit torrent with piracy... don't make me name names...) the feature is very interesting, since it would allow Opera users to manage software downloads in a fast and reasonably secure way from the browser. (I've always loved their download manager, and quite especially its "resume" feature).
As per the whole FUD campaign I mentioned before, remember that you can't blame technology for the use people give to it.
If you could do that, then if a driver ran over someone crossing the street it wouldn't be the driver's fault, it'd be the car's and the car maker's.
If you stuck your fingers in the electricity outlet and you got electrocuted, it wouldn't be your fault for being stupid; it'd be electricity's fault.
This kind of faulty reasoning is what those who try to blame bit torrent for piracy are trying to impose on us. Bit torrent can be used (and in fact, is used) for legal downloads of software (ex. Linux, and several applications), documentation, etc. Bit torrent doesn't "hypnotize" you or subliminally convince you to download illegal copies of movies, warez or music; and using bit torrent doesn't mean that you are doing something illegal per se, in the same way that driving a car doesn't mean that you are a criminal.
As usual, the question is how people use technology, and that does not depend on technology but rather on the users' moral.

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