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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. First post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No way.

    1. Re:first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      YOU FAIL IT!! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.... *cough*

    2. Re:First post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      No. No way.

      You fail it, loser.

  2. first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i own you

  3. Re:FP!!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wow, a first post by someone other than TripMasterMonkey. What's the world coming to?

  4. Re:he may be right, but by DoorFrame · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Brilliant! Just announce how you want to be modded and BLAM, there you go (mod me off-topic)!

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  5. Re:FP!!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    TMM's busy with his mom's dick in his ass.

  6. Re:he may be right, but by wtarreau · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's interesting to note that some moderators are be easily influenced by whatever text is addressed to themselves. It's the same as when you were at school and wrote a few kind words for the corrector of your copy to get a few bonus points because you should him that he really existed through as a human being and not as one robot build for this work. Maybe I'll be modded interesting for this :-/

  7. Re:he may be right, but by TERdON · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Sorry, didn't work, it seems. But remember, hell has now officially frozen over (mac on x86, debian released, etc). Only thing missing is Duke Nukem Forever, but we do have to save something for when pigs fly too, don't we? :)

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  8. Re:Sour grapes by bonch · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    When Firefox starts shipping with Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe GoLive, and other products the way Opera does now, then I'll start saying Firefox is kicking Opera's ass. But right now, those pretty websites you're previewing in every copy of Dreamweaver MX are using Opera's rendering engine.

    Not to mention Opera is the originator of tabs, gestures, auto-fill, and a host of other features that the slow and resource-intensive Firefox gets praised for. When Firefox stops pointlessly reimplementing its own buttons, menus, and even string classes, I'll start praising that mess of a codebase (that layout manager makes my head spin)! Gecko has to be one of the most overrated engines out there, mostly thanks to years of hype on Slashdot and people who don't question it and just run out to download it.

    Just my opinion.