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Opera 9 receives grade A+ from eWeek Magazine

Published August 3rd, 2006 11:45 PM EDT By Daniel Goldman

eWeek Magazine Labs Director Jim Rapoza, in a report card on the three major Windows browser, gave Opera 9 an A+ grade.

When eWeek reviewed Opera 9, it gave it the eWEEK Labs Analyst’s Choice award. “It’s a good bet that if you want to see the features that other Web browsers will be adding in a year or two, you should download Opera 9″, said eWeek.

“In our tests, we found Opera 9 to be one of the best Web browsing tools we’ve used in a long time, which is why we are giving Opera 9 an eWEEK Labs Analyst’s Choice award.”

I spoke with Jim Rapoza shortly after his review, read the transcript.

From the browser report card:

It’s time for teacher to hand out the grades, and some final words.

Opera 9.0:You’re doing fantastic work—it’s good to see you back in form. Grade: A+.

Firefox 2.0 Beta 1: You’re not working up to your usual level. You’re still looking good, but I would like to see you try harder. Grade: B+.

IE 7 Beta 3: Great job. It’s good to see you applying yourself, finally. I knew you had it in you. Grade: B.

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  1. 1 kyleabaker Aug 3rd, 2006 at 11:48 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.01 on Windows Windows XP

    Alright! Go Opera Team! Congratz!

  2. 2 treego Aug 4th, 2006 at 12:59 am
    using Opera Opera 9.01 on Windows Windows XP

    Ah, good to see an objective review! Go Opera Go! :-)

  3. 3 babumuchhala Aug 4th, 2006 at 1:10 am
    using Opera Opera 9.01 on Windows Windows XP

    Finally Opera is receiving is due credit :D

  4. 4 Mufaa Aug 4th, 2006 at 12:38 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.01 on Windows Windows XP

    About time!! A+ is good…GUUD!

  5. 5 Sohil Aug 4th, 2006 at 4:58 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.00 on Windows Windows XP

    It’s great to see Alternate Browsers besides Firefox are recieving some good press.

  6. 6 Sohil Aug 4th, 2006 at 5:00 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.00 on Windows Windows XP

    Wait. IE7 should be disqualified by turning in assignments late and copying off Firefox and Opera.

  7. 7 Yehudah Goldstein Aug 5th, 2006 at 1:17 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.01 on Mac OS Mac OS X

    What’s the point comparing betas to released applications.

  8. 8 Sohil Aug 6th, 2006 at 10:08 am
    using Opera Opera 9.00 on Windows Windows XP

    Betas are supposed to be Feature Complete.

  9. 9 Svetlana Nov 11th, 2006 at 11:27 pm
    using Internet Explorer Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows Windows XP

    Wonderful pages! Keep up the grat work.

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