Comments on: Opera vs. Firefox

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 18:49:44 +0000

It always down to person prefrence, ive tried all and opera has been my browser for over 1 year keep up the good work

By: Kelson

Kelson — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 22:29:48 +0000

@Dan: same here. For the record (since results change over time), the results I see today for “web browser” are:

1. Opera home page
2. Opera download page
3. Firefox
4. Mozilla Foundation
5. Wikipedia entry for “Web browser”
6. IE
7. Old location for IE (which really shouldn’t be in the index, since it redirects to #6)
8. Netscape
9. Safari
10. Konqueror

Plus Google seems to randomly advertise their Firefox+Toolbar and IE7+Toolbar combos.

I tried some related searches, and was astonished to find my own site the first hit for “alternative browser.” Definitely a thrill to that! (Though it drops down to #6 if you add “web” to the phrase.) Also surprising was that 4 of the top 10 results for “opera” were related to the browser, not to music—including the top 3.

By: Dan DeVaney

Dan DeVaney — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 06:42:58 +0000

I typed “web browser” in Google and Opera came up as the first and second result.

By: M

Sun, 31 Dec 2006 09:47:52 +0000

I’m posting this here, because I can’t do it anywhere else. For some reason, the page gets cut off immediately after the YouTube video.

Anyone knows what the problem might be?

By: Philip Seyfi

Philip Seyfi — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 15:32:15 +0000

http://www.google.com/firefox%20is%20bad%20opera%20rulez

By: Rhonnysparks

Rhonnysparks — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 06:09:29 +0000

Well the stats just show that firefox is more popular and more talked about that opera – which is no surprise. In fact I’m sure internet explorer would have alot of posts and/or articles (probably about past security vulnerabilities). And in no way should anyway equate popularity with quality. I’m happy using a real alternative browser.

Opera could consider making a deal with Dell to be a potential browser to preinstall on computers, along with Firefox, maybe. Dell might just be an option…

Although that would be awesome, Dell are strongly connected with M$ and I doubt would be able to promote one of their competitors. I have a friend who works for dell and he has m$ written on the back of his t-shirt and they all use ie7 on the computers. I even asked him why they didn’t install another browser and he looked at me as if I was crazy.

Try searching for the term “browser” in Google and you’ll certainly know which browser is Google’s favourite.

“browser” is such an ambiguous term try searching “web browser” in google and see what comes first.

By: newbie user

newbie user — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 22:16:16 +0000

after trying all browsers….. i can’t use other browser beside opera its like a swiss knife

yea maybe ff got tons of useless feature but for idiot like me that browser took ages to open and render so slow

Opera ROCK

By: suribe

suribe — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 20:47:55 +0000

interesting!

By: EC

EC — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 16:02:12 +0000

I think that the proper gauge of how the browser is fairing out there in the world is how many times Opera as of late has been mentioned in the press, without the explanation ~~“another alternative to Internet Explorer, which includes tabs, rss feeds, and email right inside the browser”~~.

I think that the number of times Opera is mentioned without that tidbit of information is growing, and that means that Opera is becoming more and more recognized, at least like that of Safari and it now has a name for itself – and its work cut out for 2007.

Good luck!

By: bluee

bluee — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 12:28:19 +0000

Opera is for professionals.

By: Romain

Romain — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 12:04:58 +0000

Try searching for the term “browser” in Google and you’ll certainly know which browser is Google’s favourite.

In France, the first search result is… Avant Browser (on a download site). Followed by Firefox, Crazy Browser, and then Opera.

But it’s known that Google supports Firefox (for financial reasons?), since it’s included in the Google Pack.

By: dogdo

dogdo — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:14:21 +0000

Try searching for the term “browser” in Google and you’ll certainly know which browser is Google’s favourite

You make it sound like google is ‘rigging the search. The search is based upon popularity and relevance. I’m sure if Opera was very popular and holding a bigger market share than firefox, the search results would be different.

By: Kc4

Kc4 — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 07:40:03 +0000

Oh and we also need to do “Nintendo Wii browser”, “Nintendo Wii Internet Channel”, “Nintendo DS browser”, …

Try searching for the term “browser” in Google and you’ll certainly know which browser is Google’s favourite.

FF comes first!

By: Kc4

Kc4 — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 07:36:09 +0000

While wii are including the “wii browser”, wii should also add “DS Browser”, “Opera Mini”, “Opera Mobile”, “Opera Community”, “My Opera”, “My Opera Community”… too be fair wii could also add “Firefox Community” too.

By: Jacky

Jacky — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 03:42:49 +0000

Try searching for the term “browser” in Google and you’ll certainly know which browser is Google’s favourite.