Comments on: Strong growth in users of Opera desktop browser; 20 million users

By: Mystified

Mystified — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:11:32 +0000

“Lets build the future together” - That’s not likely to happen because Opera is not open source! Why choose a phrase with open source connotations for a closed source browser?

By: Steve Barker

Steve Barker — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:16:37 +0000

Linux live disks?

This PC has Ubuntu and Free BSD installed (at present). However, very often I, and many others try different OSs. I am currently running Opera on a Live Granular Linux CD. When booting from a CD you appear as a first time user every time you switch on, and get the Terms and Conditions etc., then you get told there is a later version - does this process each time count as an update check?

By: Nilotpal

Nilotpal — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:30:25 +0000

Diado:
¨Opera deserves at the least 200 milions users¨
To that I agree. It IS the best browser out there.
While Firefox is good, I would put it at about fifth place in my order of preference: Opera, Konqueror, Seamonkey, K-meleon, Firefox.
And Opera deserves more than IE at least.
But the World is not perfect, not by a long run

By: Diado Niki

Diado Niki — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:40:07 +0000

There are many users that have disabled autonatic check for updates! So, the growth may be bigger Opera deserves at the least 200 milions users!

By: Nilotpal

Nilotpal — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:30:12 +0000

If updates are checked every week then one single installation of opera will check about 4 times a month. that is why I want to know what the term monthly user meant

By: hmm

hmm — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:37:59 +0000

Says who, Nilotpal? Where did you get the 5-6 million figure from?

By: Nilotpal

Nilotpal — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:13:30 +0000

What does ¨monthly user¨ mean? Is that the number of users who get checked for updates at least once a month? Or is it the total number of updates checked for? In the latter case, the number of opera users would be less than 20 million (i.e in the range of 5-6 million)

By: Pallab

Pallab — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:24:21 +0000

That pic you included is pretty cool.

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:52:29 +0000

yes. This is a desktop wallpaper by a fan. You can get them at http://my.opera.com/community/opera/wallpapers/?show=top

By: hmm

hmm — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:22:10 +0000

That pic was made by an Opera user, wasn’t it?

By: KTswami

KTswami — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:12:02 +0000

Good info, Daniel. Mentioning 20M users is better than the market share figures to get web sites thinking about the Opera user population…and not ignoring us/them.

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:49:32 +0000

Steve Barker, we get the number though the weekly automatic check for updates (discarding spam, of course).

By: Nico

Nico — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:50:02 +0000

yeah, sure - the most important thing is the most important thing …damn am I tired

By: Nico

Nico — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:48:46 +0000

lol… “too zen”

Well, it’s great that Opera’s market share is rising, but it’s still a long way to go.

The next year(s) is/are going to be interesting… it will be Opera 9.5 vs. Firefox 3 vs. IE8. But I guess the most important thing is that the latest trend seems to be improved standard compliance, which is the most important thing at the end of the day, IMO

By: Luchio

Luchio — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:35:01 +0000

Wow, that image sucks… “let’s build the future together”, that slogan is so easy it hurts my gut. And a balloon? What does that have to do with browsing the at a blazing speed? An air balloon is probably the slowest way to fly!

That is way too zen, where’s the bleeding edge, the cool factor?