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    • opermo
      opermo last edited by

      How often is that?

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      • A Former User
        A Former User last edited by

        LOL!
        I would guess it won't be very often, as it will only be major security vulnerabilities that will be addressed, or any major browser stability problems that are discovered.
        It certainly won't include any browsing enhancements or new browser facilities.
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        • leocg
          leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

          How often is that?

          There's no way to know at the moment. Maybe when a few ones had been released, we will be able to estimate a frequency.

          I would guess that it won't happen before a new stable version release.
          Also, it may depends on how many are the security fixes, their severity, how easy or not is to backport them and so on.

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          • wm4bama
            wm4bama last edited by

            DaveHawley post said:

            "That's what I would guess too.
            The current latest build of Opera 36 is 75, and that number will change but nothing else in future."

            Checking all sources for Opera shows that the latest release of v36 is Opera 36.0.2130.65
            Released: 12 Apr 2016 (5 weeks ago).

            That's also what I have on my Vista-32 system and I check for updates daily.

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            • leocg
              leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

              Checking all sources for Opera shows that the latest release of v36 is Opera 36.0.2130.65
              Released: 12 Apr 2016

              For XP/Vista the latest version should be 36.0.2130.75.

              That's also what I have on my Vista-32 system and I check for updates daily.

              Try running the installer.

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              • A Former User
                A Former User last edited by

                Opera 36.0.2130.75, dated 26th April 2016, is available to download here.
                I had to update to that version manually as it wasn't offered to me via the normal update process either.
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                • opermo
                  opermo last edited by

                  Now the question is, in the area of security (not features or enhancements) is using Opera 36 on Vista with the latest security updates (assuming one's receiving them) as safe as using the actual latest version of Opera (whatever number it is for the later versions of Windows)?

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                  • leocg
                    leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                    in the area of security (not features or enhancements) is using Opera 36 on Vista with the latest security updates (assuming one's receiving them) as safe as using the actual latest version of Opera (whatever number it is for the later versions of Windows)?

                    I guess it will never br as it most probably will always be a few steps behind when compared to the latest version on a supported OS.

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                    • lando242
                      lando242 last edited by

                      Asking if running Opera 36 on Vista is safe is like asking if the seatbelts in your car made of Papier-mΓ’chΓ© is safe. If you get hit by something it wont matter. Vista has been superseded not once, not twice, but three times. Its a ten year old operating system. Thats ancient in the computer world. It stopped getting priority testing and updates years ago. Whether Opera is completely up to date or not is not your most pressing concern. If updates were a major concern you should have upgraded your OS a few years ago.

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                      • sgunhouse
                        sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                        Any updates that would require major changes to Chromium will not be made by Opera. If Chrome is supporting Vista (and XP) then Opera will, but Opera simply can't backport major changes from the current version to 36. Anything that can be done with a simple patch, sure, and changes to Opera's proprietary code, but anything more is not something they could do.

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                        • A Former User
                          A Former User last edited by

                          At least Vista is still getting official security patches from Microsoft, and will for around another year IIRC.
                          XP is only being patched for those who are spoofing that it's POSReady 2009, and those updates should last until 2019!
                          It will be interesting to see just how up to date with security patches Opera can keep Opera 36 going forward.
                          As you say, any patches that involve major changes in the Chromium engine will not be possible I suspect.
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                          • sgunhouse
                            sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                            My antivirus downloads and installs Windows updates on my XP machine, no need for me to modify the registry.

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                            • A Former User
                              A Former User last edited by

                              Off topic, but that's very interesting!
                              Can you say which program that is?
                              I've never heard about that anywhere else.
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                              • sgunhouse
                                sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                                I'd have to look - I don't use that machine much. Either AVG, Avast or Avira, I have different free antivirus on each machine but forget which has which. When I do get on that machine I see it download Windows updates, so I know it (the antivirus) does. One of those "they all should" (but probably don't) things - how can they claim your machine is secure if they aren't installing updates to it?

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                                • A Former User
                                  A Former User last edited by

                                  Should we start a lounge topic on "Live Long Windows XP" or something like that? Seems pretty interesting. πŸ˜‰

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                                  • A Former User
                                    A Former User last edited by

                                    I'd have to look - I don't use that machine much. Either AVG, Avast or Avira, I have different free antivirus on each machine but forget which has which. When I do get on that machine I see it download Windows updates, so I know it (the antivirus) does. One of those "they all should" (but probably don't) things - how can they claim your machine is secure if they aren't installing updates to it?

                                    Ah, but is it actually installing Microsoft Windows updates to the machine, or is it just its own updates, virus patterns etc.?
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                                    • sgunhouse
                                      sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                                      I see it download Windows updates (with those silly KB numbers they use) along with its own.

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                                      • A Former User
                                        A Former User last edited by

                                        Well that sounds pretty conclusive!
                                        However, I have looked at the websites of AVG, Avast and Avira, and found no mention of their software doing this.
                                        I would really like to know which of them is doing it!
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                                        • sgunhouse
                                          sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                                          Finally unburied that machine (it's a netbook - slow processor, only 1 GB RAM - so I don't use it much) and it has Avast. When the antivirus program (not the definitions file, the program) updates itself it also installs the Windows updates. Of course, that means it's updating the program roughly once a month ...

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                                          • opermo
                                            opermo last edited by

                                            My Avast (which is the latest version) does not do that.

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