Opera 12 (Presto) and Opera (Chrome)

[hake]

Opera 12 (Presto) and Opera (Chrome) are very different web browsers, sharing only a name.  Is MBAE able to discriminate between these two completely different web browsers and provide effective protection for each?

[pbust]

No it does not distinguish between both. It automatically applies the Chrome profile for Opera.exe.

[hake]

Thank you Pedro.  Does the assumption of Opera Chrome compromise protection for Opera Presto?  I suppose that what I am really asking is whether MBAE Google Chrome protection will also be useful with a non-Google Chrome type browser like Opera Presto, especially with mitigation of Flash plugin exploits.

 

I can always comfort myself with the thought that Opera Presto has the virtue of security through obscurity.  In its supported days, the old Opera only had less than 1% share of browser use.  By now, that must be a tiny fraction of the previous 1%.  Not much incentive for hackers.

[pbust]

The only thing that's not applied to Chrome-browsers (that's not IE specific) is the Anti-HeapSpraying.

 

If you are using an old Opera and do not use Chrome, feel free to activate that feature under Advanced Settings for the ChromeBrowser family and it should work as expected.

[hake]

Thanks Pedro.  That's good news and just what I hoped you would say.