Comments on: Opera Mini makes a dent in desktop browser world; 0.13% of browser market share

By: jojojo

jojojo — Thu, 17 May 2007 12:35:43 +0000

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??

By: Kelson

Kelson — Wed, 09 May 2007 16:47:20 +0000

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.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 09 May 2007 13:57:17 +0000

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!

By: sick-of-All-idiot-trolls

sick-of-All-idiot-trolls — Wed, 09 May 2007 10:48:54 +0000

go back to your mama, troll!! just how big are your nappies???

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Wed, 09 May 2007 01:44:14 +0000

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?

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 09 May 2007 00:45:55 +0000

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.

By: el_esponjoso

el_esponjoso — Tue, 08 May 2007 23:15:28 +0000

AntiOpera troll
firefox not needed in the mobile area,
Opera is great and
u are a troll – fanboy, go away!

By: AntiOpera

AntiOpera — Tue, 08 May 2007 23:03:54 +0000

no way. Opera go to hell. you are the outsider, not needed in this world.

By: William

William — Tue, 08 May 2007 22:56:01 +0000

Daniel, Opera is free.

By: Kelson

Kelson — Tue, 08 May 2007 22:47:50 +0000

@Daniel: Since when is a vendor’s choice of license a “bug?”

By: illiad

illiad — Tue, 08 May 2007 22:45:11 +0000

***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…

By: EC

EC — Tue, 08 May 2007 21:41:46 +0000

It’ll pass the desktop browser soon….

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 08 May 2007 21:09:15 +0000

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?

By: el_esponjoso

el_esponjoso — Tue, 08 May 2007 19:03:31 +0000

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: