Opera Mini makes a dent in desktop browser world; 0.13% of browser market share
Published May 8th, 2007 2:10 PM EDT By Daniel Goldman
According to HitLink, Opera Mini had 0.13% of the browser market share last month.
This is an amazing feat for Opera Mini, a mobile browser. Though the percentage is small, it’s great to see this browser, which was released only 16 months ago, show up in the browser standings next to the big boys.
A couple weeks ago I blogged about Opera Mini beating Mozilla, Safari and Netscape combined in some countries.
Opera Mini is definitely the browser to have on your mobile phone. Just the other day, The Daily Telegraph said that Opera Mini “is the best phone web browser by far.”
Way to go Opera Mini!
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Good news.
I hope this increment in Opera Mini’s usage, animates to the people who is using it to what they also use Opera desktop browser
:up: :up: :up:
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I’ve tried Opera and it’s pretty nice. It’s a shame it’s not Free Software or I’d probably be using it right now. Any plans on fixing this bug in the near future?
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It’ll pass the desktop browser soon….
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***Daniel***
Opera has been totally free for a very long time now…..
more than that, I have ***never*** paid any cash at all to the company…. I started at version 7.0..
Click my username, and actually try it…
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@Daniel: Since when is a vendor’s choice of license a “bug?”
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Daniel, Opera is free.
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no way. Opera go to hell. you are the outsider, not needed in this world.
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AntiOpera troll
firefox not needed in the mobile area,
Opera is great and
u are a troll - fanboy, go away!
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I’m very glad to have Opera Mini as an alternative to the lousy built in browser on my Sony-Ericsson T610 (US T-Mobile firmware), however unfortunately the application quits 75% of the time whenever the application requests a text input (which invokes the phone’s text-input window). Combined with the 20 second startup time, as you can imagine, this makes it frustrating.
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Jon, can you reproduce your error with the text input? I see someone submitted such a bug to the Opera Mini team with your model phone.
Can you provide more info?
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go back to your mama, troll!! just how big are your nappies???
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Free software is a different term than freeware.
Free software refers to open-source software, like Firefox, while Opera is just freeware.
Think that’s what Daniel meant!
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Joe is undoubtedly correct. You may have noticed that Daniel capitalized the term Free Software. That implies that he chose the phrase specifically. As the phrase is used in context, the software is free as in free speech, rather than free as in free beer. Unfortunately, English uses the same word for both concepts, making it confusing. Here’s an essay explaining the term (though they use it in normal case most of the time).
There are people for whom that’s a serious philosophical choice.
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i used opera for a few months.Is is nice..but im gonna go with firfox for a while, it is user friendly and the “foxt tunes” thing is a cool additive. Now OPERA MINI i want! but application problems are not worth the hassle ..ill let people pay opera so they can develop it better. when it does become free and 90% effectice then its opera moblie all the way! sad though..should be free anyway…they can take the revenues from nintendo’s wii to perfect opera’s moblie browser..right??