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Opera is already seeing fruit from the Wii browser in other areas

Published April 13th, 2007 1:32 PM EDT By Daniel Goldman

With the much anticipated launch of the Opera-powered Wii browser yesterday, Opera is seeing a positive effect in other areas too, namely with desktop browser downloads and the Opera Community site.

Through Opera’s new Wii browser portal, Wii gamers could easily access the My Opera community site, which resulted yesterday in an all time record high of new account signups for a single day. The MyOpera community site is a place where users can host (for free) blogs, photos, and forums, making the Wii a good place for them to showcase their work.

Another new record for Opera yesterday was with downloads of the desktop browser. According to internal figures I’ve seen, a new record was set yesterday for the number of downloads of the desktop browser on the My Opera community site. There’s a small section on the My Opera site which encourages users to download Opera.

That makes two records in one day. Go Opera!

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  1. 1 andol Apr 13th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.20 on Windows Windows XP

    You forgot about the launch of Opera 9.20 for desktops. This was the real reason for such a high level of the desktop browser downloads.

    I’m pretty sure Wii had nothing to do with this. :)

  2. 2 andol Apr 13th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.20 on Windows Windows XP

    Oh, and I forgot about something too… I think that most of the new account signups were also triggered by the launch of Opera 9.20.

  3. 3 Jezetha Apr 13th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.20 on Windows Windows XP

    Good news!

    Might this whole Wii venture be the tipping point? Let’s hope Opera finally gets the user base it deserves!

  4. 4 Pallab Apr 13th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.20 on Windows Windows XP

    According to internal figures I’ve seen, a new record was set yesterday for the number of downloads of the desktop browser on the My Opera community site.

    Come on. Its only a number. Reveal the download count.

  5. 5 Daniel Goldman Apr 13th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.20 on Windows Windows XP

    andol, the downloads came from my.opera.com, not opera.com — which is what leads me to belive it came as a result of the Wii.

  6. 6 James Cassell Apr 13th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.20 on Windows Windows XP

    Anything to get more people using Opera is probably a good thing. I’d like to see the market share go up.

  7. 7 FataL Apr 13th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.20 on Windows Windows XP

    Really good news!

  8. 8 des Apr 14th, 2007 at 12:09 am
    using Opera Opera 9.20 on Windows Windows XP

    Is there a reason that “small section” in my.opera.com is offering 9.1 and not 9.2?

  9. 9 Tamil Apr 14th, 2007 at 1:54 am
    using Opera Opera 9.20 on Linux Linux

    All time record of 4789 new signups on August 30, 2005. Only 2370 new signups on yesterday.

    See http://my.opera.com/community/forums/findpost.pl?id=1177532

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A: Absolutely not. In fact, many of the features that are popular in other browsers today were invented and pioneered by Opera a long time ago. Opera invented the precursor to tabs (in 1994), Page Zoom (1994), was the first browser to block pop-up ads (2000), first to add a Search field in the browser toolbar (2000), Sessions (1996), deleting private data (2000), Mouse Gestures (2000), User JavaScript (2005), BitTorrent support (2005), Widgets (2006), Speed Dial (2007), and much more.

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