Comments on: Opera Mini now more popular than Mozilla browser, statistics show

By: Nutter

Nutter — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:26:32 +0000

minghong, the point is that a mobile browser has overtaken Mozilla. It’s a nice milestone and bodes well for Opera Mini’s future.

By: Kelson

Kelson — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 06:51:30 +0000

It’s of historical interest, at least. You can probably find some old articles on MozillaZine about Firefox overtaking Mozilla or Netscape. And I was seriously shocked when I saw Safari overtake Opera.

These days, I see more traffic from Opera than from Netscape (though I suspect AWStats lumps Opera Mini into the Opera stats, since I don’t see it listed separately).

By: Rachid Finge

Rachid Finge — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 02:20:45 +0000

To be honest with you, I can’t see any reason why this is significant. It probably makes a nice headline, but it really doesn’t mean anything. Mozilla Firefox is the real competition; Mozilla browser as a product is dead, so it kind of makes sense that the very much alive Opera Mini browser exceeds Mozilla usage.

By: minghong

minghong — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 01:32:18 +0000

Typo, I mean “Mozilla Suite is NOT for mobile surfing”

By: minghong

minghong — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 01:27:13 +0000

Hey… that’s a comparison of apple and orange… Mozilla Suite is a for mobile surfing.

By: Jonny Axelsson

Jonny Axelsson — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:05:27 +0000

Just curious if you register Mini use yourself…

By: Kelson

Kelson — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 22:55:39 +0000

I meant to add, this is still an impressive milestone for Opera Mini. It reminds me of the time a few years ago that I first noticed that Safari had overtaken IE for Mac.

By: Kelson

Kelson — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 22:40:16 +0000

So mobile browsing is more popular than open source?

Only if you ignore the 14.54% on Firefox.

The Mozilla browser, or more precisely the Mozilla Suite, is a different application. It was originally an open-source testbed for Netscape, but when Netscape ripped out its major selling points (like pop-up blocking), and issued buggy, unstable releases, Mozilla proved to be more stable, more useful, and ultimately more popular than the supposed end-user product.

Eventually a group split off the code to build what became Firefox, and of course that has become far more popular than the suite. Most users of the Mozilla suite have switched to Firefox, though some have switched to Opera and other browsers, and some continue to use SeaMonkey (which is essentially the same project renamed).

By: Daniel Aleksandersen

Daniel Aleksandersen — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:06:08 +0000

So mobile browsing is more popular than open source? That is indeed an impressing result by Opera.