Opera Sings Self-Praise of 12 Million Downloads in 7 Days
Opera Sings Self-Praise of 12 Million Downloads in 7 Days
Posted 12/08/2009 at 5:33am
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Opera Software, the Norwegian-based browser maker, today announced that some 12.5 million people downloaded Opera 10.10 within a week's time, shattering previous Opera records and marking an increase of 25 percent when compared to the download rates of Opera 10 launched two months ago.
"With such remarkable download numbers, I am confident that we truly appealed to the needs of the Web-using public. Opera 10.10 is visually more compelling, and technologically speaking, it goes where no browser has gone before," said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software. "We believe that, over time, Opera Unite has the power to erase preconceptions of how we access and share information on the Web."
Including the latest downloads, Opera now resides on the desktops of 45 million active Web surfers. That doesn't include the millions of mobile Opera users surfing the Web from their handheld devices and game consoles.
Opera's most recent download numbers are pretty impressive when you consider that version 10.10 is an incremental update. But in addition to Internet Explorer and Firefox, it will also face stiff competition from Chrome, which inches ever closer to offering extensions support to the general public.
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huhhuh
December 23, 2009 at 7:19am
Poor guy. I use mouse gestures on Opera even before firefox existed (something like beta1). And only reason why FF has mouse gestures is because opera user took couple of hours to program the extension.
And talking about tabs...well let's say I am using tabs in Opera since IE4 was most dominant browser.
JohnP
December 08, 2009 at 2:09pm
This is going to be just like Chrome or Bing. Try it for 20 minutes, find out that you cannot block ads, don't like the interface, puzzle over how to control tabs, no mouse gestures, etc. Then it gets uninstalled.
Like this is going to impact IE or Firefox...
gendoikari1
December 08, 2009 at 3:55pm
There is an ad blocker. Right click the page, select Block Content, and click on the ad in question. It makes a filter, so anything from, say, scum.of.the.earth.net/ads/images/* is blocked. You can also make up a filter, or edit an existing one to get rid of anything from the advertisers' sites. Also, mouse gestures are activated simply by performing one (like, say, left click then right click to go forward a page), then saying you want to use them. And if you don't like the look of the UI, there always are skins...
Oh, and unlike Firefox, Opera actually works on 64 bit Windows.
GFC
December 08, 2009 at 5:52am
I'm using opera. If it wasn't so broken I bet more people would use it, but I still love it even with it's flaws.
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