Opera is beyond being marginal, beyond being an underdog in the browser race. When your presence is much less than even very old versions of the better-known browsers, you do what you can to get an edge. Recently I praised Opera for doing what would seem to be the technically right thing with respect to EV-SSL: They only turned on the green bar when *all* elements on the page were signed by an EV certificate. The more lenient standard enforced by IE and Firefox is to make it green when the top-level document is signed by an EV certificate, but other elements (like graphics) could be signed by lesser certificates. In either case, all elements need to be protected by modern SSL standards, basically TLS. Of course it wasn't an easy decision; if it were, Microsoft and Mozilla would have done it too. I demonstrated in my column that many EV sites, most famously PayPal itself, don't show the green bar in Opera. In then end, it was too much for Opera. They have announced that they will join with the consensus policy for EV, and PayPal will have a green bar in Opera. The complaints must have been serious, and it's not like I can blame them, but it's not like this makes Opera something special for which you should ditch browsers that 98% of humanity is using.