Opera just got a shot in the arm with its new service

Opera 'Unite' launched today:

http://unite.opera.com/

It transforms your browser into a client/server, instead of simply a client. What does that mean exactly? It means that anyone with Opera can quickly, easily and according to Opera - safely, share any file from their computer to anyone with ANY browser on the client end.

This brings peer to peer to the common folk essentially.

But it's so much more than that. This is going to be a great productivity tool. Imagine you need to get someone to a file asap. Share it out through the Opera browser and simply send them the link. I also tried out the mp3 service which was pretty nifty -- just pointed to my music collection and now I can share it with anyone and they can simply click and play through my music with ease.

 

i don't know if its just me but doesn't this just increases the security risks of an already insecure piece of software. i'll assume that one of the most insecure components of a computer these days is the browsers and placing more surfaces that can be exploited simply increases the insecurities already inherant of the component.

 

I can't speak to the security yet. That's the 800 pound gorilla in the room though. They say it's 'sandboxed' and secure...time will tell.

 

Sounds fascinating. I'll have to give this a try, but that security question would be the first thing to cross my mind.

 

Ooh, that sounds like a really ugly can of worms that just got opened. All it takes is some little slip in preventing malicious requests from being processed, and you might suddenly find that your browser has just served up all of your bank records as a side-dish to your music collection.

 

I agree. I think everyone (including myself) who's using the service is cautiously optimistic at this point.

 

everyone who starts to use cloud-stuff with their own privat edate is optimistic..

i try to not to, but one can't hide from it completely..

while i understand the move from operas side, i don't agree with it..

 

After using the new Opera 10 for 2 days, I'm impressed with it. I agree with the thread title that "Opera just got shot in the arm with its new service." I'm hesitant on using it as a web server at this point, until it gets out of beta at the very least.

 

Thanks for your contribution.

 

thats for sure having second thoughts as well but its well worth a try IMO

 

Interesting read on the subject.

 

I lost all respect for Opera and it makers since all they do is whine to the EU about how unfair Microsoft is and get the EU to slap fines on MS.

Opera can go crawl into a hole and die.

 

LOL...
Pretty cool feature inside opera. At least those less technical people can now start hosting files on thier computer.

And there's 1 major flaw with the music player feature,... it doesn't support WMA 10 Pro...

 

I can see this having big legal issues if it becomes popular.