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Opera CEO sits down with PC Magazine

Published January 10th, 2008 5:56 PM EST By Daniel Goldman

Jon von Tetzchner, the co-founder and CEO of Opera, was in New York this week. He had a chance to sit down and speak with PC Magazine.

Here are some snippets from PC Magazine’s write-up of his visit:

“According to von Tetzchner, the company’s mobile Web browsing platform, Opera Mini, has 30 million users worldwide with around 100,000 new downloads a day.”

“On the desktop side, the company has been working on the next update of its Web browser, which will be Opera 9.5. The goal is to make app faster and more efficient.”

“According to von Tetzchner, Opera 9.5 will also show a significant speed boost, thanks to greatly improved JavaScript optimization, among other under-the-hood improvements. Some tests show it will be twice as fast [as the previous version]” von Tetzchner claimed. “Some tests even show it’s as much as 10 times faster than Internet Explorer.”

(Read the complete PC Magazine article)

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(Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner)

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  1. 1 csulok Jan 10th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Linux Linux

    “The company plans to release a beta version of Opera 9.5 in the next two months. The final version should be available by this summer.”

    I find this hard to believe, for one the beta has been out for at least 2 months and the snapshots are almost ready..

  2. 2 rseiler Jan 10th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows Vista

    The testing process is historically glacial, and so many issues get carried over from week to week that it’s truly head-turning, but this is incredible if true, particularly considering the original intention (and expectation) was to have it out by the end of 2007. Testers realized by last November or so that that was never going to happen, but summer?!

  3. 3 Pallab Jan 11th, 2008 at 1:08 am
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    Come on summer is too late! Release Kestrel. The weekly builds are working quite well.

    I wanna see what inside Peregrine :D

  4. 4 w2 Jan 11th, 2008 at 2:13 am
    using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 3.0b2 on Windows Windows XP

    i’m stunned, that ‘goals of kester are speed and efficiency’.

    what with ‘compatibility’, that was one of the reasons to make a interim browser before peregrine?

  5. 5 x3 Jan 11th, 2008 at 3:53 am
    using Opera Opera 9.25 on Windows Windows Vista

    Yes, compatibility too, as should be obvious from the changelogs. Why are you asking? Because PC Magazine chooses to focus on somethings over other things?

  6. 6 Xyborg Jan 11th, 2008 at 4:49 am
    using Opera Opera 9.25 on Windows Windows XP

    I use Opera 95% of my surfing time, and I can’t wait to see Kestrel installed on my desktop.

  7. 7 Olli Jan 11th, 2008 at 6:04 am
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Linux Linux

    w2: Compability is one of the reason why rewrote the js engine….

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