Firefox vs. Opera: Anti-phishing Review

The war is still burning between Opera Vs FF, and they have improved the code to secure the user’s online life. As working with security products as a daily basis task, I have the habit of testing their capabilities to approve what they are suppose to protect against. Sometimes when you put anything to the test, you’ll get surprising results and mostly disappointing. Today, I got two contenders, Opera 9 and Firefox 3. We heard some claims about their readiness to stop the bad. I’m not sure if this is the correct way to benchmark both of them. But my test was simple, as simulating a normal user who received a phishing spam which contains a link to a fake website such as, Paypal.

The Test:
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URL:hxxp://www.warning-s-on-your-boa-account.com/

OPERA: PASS

FF: FAIL

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URL: hxxp://dell.cfun.fr/

OPERA: PASS

FF: FAIL

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URL: hxxp://peppegol96.altervista.org/loader.html

OPERA: PASS

FF: FAIL

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URL: hxxp://membres.lycos.fr/p4ypal/

OPERA: PASS

FF: FAIL

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URL: hxxp://payypalll.com/

OPERA: PASS

FF: FAIL

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URL: hxxp://www.masterequipamentos.com.br/sas/explorer/paypal.com/PayPal/

OPERA: PASS

FF: FAIL


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URL: hxxp://wmserver.stcable.co.yu/~matthew/Service-Paypal.htm

OPERA: PASS

FF: FAIL

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URL:

hxxp://www.mindblade-studios.com/forum/style_images/amazon.fr/ref=ya_hp_oc_3.htm

OPERA: PASS

FF: FAIL

What makes Opera 9 better than FF in my opinion? Is the higher number of blocked websites, plus the warning notification when a fraud website is detected. While FF is not blocking any of them and there is no notification except that it's not receiving the identify information of the site.

Download both of them and try the test by yourself:

Opera 9

Firefox 3

Adios,