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Opera CEO Prepares to Swim across the Atlantic

Posted by Hemos on from the stop-submitting-this-stupid-story dept.

rRogta writes "Previously reported on slashdot here, Opera CEO boldly promises to swim across the Atlantic should the new Opera browser be downloaded a million times in the first four days after it's release. Well, they reached their goal and in this press release it says he's now preparing for the long swim."

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  1. Re:How He'll Do It by zoombat · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Wow, that's lame.

    So you need Opera to view that link.. which makes it easily available to everyone that already runs Opera, but keeps it "secret" from everyone who's not using the software yet.. perhaps to add an extra incentive to those who haven't yet had enough incentives to try it out.

    To me it comes off as pretty dumb. Why would you showcase a "feature" that providess content that's only useable by 1% of the browsing population? Or is this some sort of content standard that only Opera has implemented yet, and they're just ahead of the curve??

  2. Here's how ... by scharkalvin · · Score: 1, Redundant

    He'll be in the pool on the QM2 all the way....