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Opera: Firefox User Figures 'Inflated'

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the soem-valid-points dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "ZDNet notes, 'The chief executive of Opera Software claimed on Monday that the market share figures for Mozilla Firefox are inflated, due to its support for link prefetching" In addition, "Opera has a better caching mechanism so it doesn't access Web sites as often as other browsers" and "Opera is configured by default to identify itself as Internet Explorer' "

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  1. Re:In related news.... by ajayvb · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Mod parent over-rated. Buggy-whip? Opera is a darn good browser. Because it's not open-source and you have to *gasp* pay for it, FF fanboys seem to think it is cool to denigrate it.Grow up.

  2. Re:Quick survey by kurokaze · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    WTF, stupid mods.. parent has no data to back up his claims and you mod him interesting.. sheesh.

    Even worse, the last line saying "I don't need any hard stats and figures to know that Firefox has made a more profound impact on people and the internet than many other things in a long time."

    Well without hard stats and figures, WTF do you have??

  3. Figaro! by Sir_Eptishous · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I always thought Opera users were weenies anyways.

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  4. Re:This is Interesting by Trollstoi · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And that Opera identifies itself as IE is a valid concern, but that's Opera's fault, and nothing that would inflate Firefox's version numbers, just IE's.

    That's what you do when you have weak arguments: you sum them and hope they are enough.

  5. Re:he may be right, but by Alsee · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'll take a -1 Flamebait please. Thank you sir! May I have another!

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