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Opera 2007: A look back

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 Published December 31st, 2007 2:06 PM EST By Daniel Goldman

As the final hours and minutes of 2007 tick down, let’s take a look back at what happened in the Opera world over the past year.

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  1. 1 Idan Jan 1st, 2008 at 12:15 am
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    What?! Opera Software didn’t open yet an office in Israel?! LAME. BAD YEAR.
    Kidding!

    Opera Software has accomplished A LOT in 2007 in all fronts, and even opened new ones.
    I expect that 2008 will be an even better year for Opera, and on the Mozilla front, ASA will continue to write rubbish blog posts and entertain us all. :-)

  2. 2 Brian R Jan 19th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.25 on Windows Windows XP

    Hi, Daniel. Belated thanks for this info. I’m a looong time user, but in the last year or so, I’ve increasingly felt that Opera wasn’t “mine” any more – there’s lots you’ve listed that was news to me but that I would have known in the past.

    Any chance of you/Opera continuing your good work and showing a weekly/monthly updated highlight of the year-to-date?

    Thanks again,
    Brian R.

  3. 3 Daniel Goldman Jan 22nd, 2008 at 1:02 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    Brian, sure. :)

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