Opera: Firefox User Figures 'Inflated'

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' "

Comments

This is Interesting

[ndansmith]

To see folks from Opera trying to denegrate Firefox. You have to stick together to beat IE, then you can duke it out amongst yourselves!

Re:This is Interesting

[Anonymous Coward]

I haven't seen a real use for the pocket pc (a must if they want to remain relevant)

Re:This is Interesting

[Excelsior]

It's okay. I have my Firefox browser set to report itself as Opera. So, this cancels out and indeed the figure of 3 active users is accurate.

Re:This is Interesting

[snorklewacker]

Hey Sun Tzu, I'd just like a browser that doesn't suck. If Mozilla chases Microsoft into making a browser that doesn't suck, I'll be fine with it. I'd really like, however, to be spared the posturing, politics, and ideology that comes with a war mentality. Especially for something as silly as a damn web browser.

Re:This is Interesting

[GMFTatsujin]

Spoken like an Opera user, you insensitive clod!

F1R3F0X 4EV4R LOLOLOLZY

Re:This is Interesting

[BlowChunx]

Hey, we all know The Flash is faster...(sorry, couldn't resist).

Re:This is Interesting

[Mad_Rain]

You sound just like a little kid arguing with the neighbor kid over who's faster, Superman or The Flash.

[comic book guy]
Clearly, despite several ties and the interference of other Galactic Super Beings the Flash was faster.

Worst... argument... ever...
[/comic book guy]

(ps, I thought your argument was spot on)

Re:This is Interesting

[Bellum Aeternus]

Tab over blown there - but I see your point and I have to agree.

And Nightscrawler is the fastest... he teleports. X distance / 0 time = infinite speed. ^_^

Re:This is Interesting

[Teckla]

You sound just like a little kid arguing with the neighbor kid over who's faster, Superman or The Flash.

Superman has more bandwidth, and The Flash has lower latency.

Duh....

he may be right, but

[oni]

Opera is configured by default to identify itself as Internet Explorer

who's fault is that?

Re:he may be right, but

[mahdi13]

If I ran around telling everyone my name is Frank, would it be a suprise to find out that nobody knows my name?

Re:he may be right, but

[pintomp3]

depends, is your name frank?

Re:he may be right, but

[Doctor Memory]

If so....PUSH THE BUTTON!

Re:he may be right, but

[slavemowgli]

Damn, I never would've thought that *that* kind of karma whoring worked - I need to try that, too (mod me funny)!

Re:he may be right, but

[mscdex]

would it be a suprise to find out that nobody knows my name?

Yes, if you're at Cheers.

Re:he may be right, but

[lcsjk]

That seemed to work for him. I'll try it. Mod me funny!

Re:he may be right, but

[cmeans]

Thanks for being Frank with us. *ducks*

Re:he may be right, but

[Cecil]

Joke's on you. You don't get karma for funny mods.

Re:he may be right, but

[shic]

Or... do you just enjoy being frank with your friends?

Hey

[kevin_conaway]

Aren't you supposed to be swimming somewhere?

If that's true

[LandownEyes]

I'll swim across the ocean!

WHAT!?

[Leiterfluid]

The open source community inventing information!
Ce n'est possible!

consequently..

[PopeAlien]

..the next version of Opera will identify itself as Opera, prefetch all links, reload pages every 5 seconds, and randomly email links to the Opera download page to present a more balanced picture of market share.

Re:Someone's jealous, methinks

[AtariAmarok]

"Online penis envy, perhaps?"

I got something in my email inbox this morning which might help with this situation. Perhaps I should forward it to you.

This is wholly inaccurate

[suitepotato]

With suitable proxies, you can make Lynx look like Internet Explorer. Of course the wrong service pack will make Internet Explorer behave like Lynx.

The results:

[game kid]

Opera, Opera, Opera, Opera,
Opera, Opera, Opera, Opera,
Opera, Opera, Opera, Opera,
Firefox! Firefox!
Opera, Opera, Opera, Opera,
Opera, Opera, Opera, Opera,
Opera, Opera, Opera, Opera,
Firefox! Firefox!
Opera, Opera, Opera, Opera,
Opera, Opera, Opera, Opera,
Opera, Opera, Opera, Opera,
Firefox Firefox!
Opera, Opera, Opera, Opera,
Opera, Opera, Opera, Opera,
Opera, Opera, Opera, Opera--AAH, its I-E!
IIIEEE, III...oooh, its IEE!!!
its an Opera, Opera, Opera, Opera,
Opera, Opera, Opera, Opera,
Opera, Opera, Opera, Opera,
Firefox! Firefox!

(repeat about 4 or so times in every web server log...)