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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. he may be right, but by oni · · Score: 5, Funny

    Opera is configured by default to identify itself as Internet Explorer

    who's fault is that?

    1. Re:he may be right, but by mahdi13 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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    2. Re:he may be right, but by pintomp3 · · Score: 5, Funny

      depends, is your name frank?

    3. Re:he may be right, but by Doctor+Memory · · Score: 4, Funny

      If so....PUSH THE BUTTON!

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    4. Re:he may be right, but by slavemowgli · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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    5. Re:he may be right, but by mscdex · · Score: 5, Funny

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

      Yes, if you're at Cheers.

    6. Re:he may be right, but by cmeans · · Score: 4, Funny

      Thanks for being Frank with us. *ducks*

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  2. Hey by kevin_conaway · · Score: 5, Funny

    Aren't you supposed to be swimming somewhere?

  3. Re:Someone's jealous, methinks by AtariAmarok · · Score: 5, Funny
    "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.

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  4. This is wholly inaccurate by suitepotato · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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  5. Re:This is Interesting by Excelsior · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  6. Re:This is Interesting by snorklewacker · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  7. Re:This is Interesting by GMFTatsujin · · Score: 4, Funny

    Spoken like an Opera user, you insensitive clod!

    F1R3F0X 4EV4R LOLOLOLZY