A Talk With Opera CEO

With several new areas of expansion for Opera The Register took a few minutes to talk to Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner. The interview addresses several of the most recent news items on the Opera front including, the adoption to Nintendo's Wii console, several advocates switching to Firefox, and others. "We just try to focus on our side. We've always focused on a somewhat richer interface. We've had a lot of negative comments ourselves over the years; for example, when we introduced tabbed browsing a lot of people said it doesn't make sense. We've introduced things like zooming, mouse gestures and the like - and we find they find their way into other browsers; tabs found their way into IE7. We are being copied, but we would like to focus on features and giving users a good experience."

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Translation: Theenking ooootseede-a zee Oopera bux

[Anonymous Coward]

Interfeeoo Sume-a ooff Oopere's lung-term bets ere-a begeenning tu pey ooffff. Zee Nurvegeeun veb peeuneer hes infested in TF und mubeele-a fur yeers, und noo Neentendu's heet Veei cunsule-a hes poot Oopera intu mure-a thun ieeght meelliun leefing ruums. Um gesh dee bork, bork! Meeni hes mede-a zee veb useble-a oon meelliuns mure-a phunes. Um gesh dee bork, bork! Und zee must recent mejur releese-a ooff FureFux hes beee met veet pooshbeck oon its perffurmunce-a, usebeelity, und secooreety. Bork bork bork!

Thees veek ve-a cooght up veet Oopera fuoonder und CEO Jun fun Tetzchner tu deescooss thees, und sume-a ooff zee thurneeer chellenges feceeng zee cumpuny. Bork bork bork!

[rinkworks.com]

Su ve-a sterted veet a beeggie-a - ves zee veb leefeeng Oopera beheend?

Isn't it joost getteeng herder tu keep up veet zee veb, ispeceeelly oon mubeele-a?

Sufftvere-a ingeeneers veell elveys feend veys tu meke-a a defeece-a seem sloo. I'm a sufftvere-a ingeeneer - I knoo I deed. Bork bork bork! Veet Oopera Meeni zeere-a ere-a sume-a theengs thet mey nut vurk, boot must theengs vurk fery qooeeckly. Bork bork bork! Ve-a deed feesooel cumpereesuns ooff Oopera Meeni in zee lebs, useeng zee seme-a vebseetes Stefe-a Jubs used et zee loonch ooff zee iPhune-a demunstreteeng hoo qooeeckly it roons oon GPRS egeeens zee iPhune-a oon Vee-Fee. Oon GPRS, Meeni is fester. Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp! Ve-a deed it fur foon. Bork bork bork!

Oopera Meeni is nut zee seme-a es zee brooser yuoo hefe-a oon iPhune-a, oor desktup Oopera - zeere-a ere-a theengs Oopera cun du thet Meeni cun't du, boot fur must generel uses Meeni dues zee jub.

Undroo Broon, a beeg fun ooff Oopera, vrute-a thet he-a chuse-a tu mufe-a tu FureFux [rinkworks.com] (http://vvv.gooerdeeun.cu.uk/technulugy/2007/mer/2 2/medeea.cumment) becoose-a it ves mure-a cumpeteeble-a veet noo vebseetes, pertly ceeting Fleeckr cumpeteebility. Bork bork bork! Du yuoo feel yuoo're-a felleeng beheend?

Ve'fe-a elveys beee mufeeng in a spece-a vhere-a peuple-a cume-a up veet zeeur oovn idees ell zee teeme-a. Noo Netscepe-a 4 is oooot ooff zee merket, su cumpeteebility veet thet isn't su impurtunt; IE6 is fedeeng, vheele-a IE7 hes mure-a cumpeteebility - dues thet meun prublem hes gune-a? Es peuple-a meke-a mure-a und mure-a eppleeceshuns ve-a see-a mure-a und mure-a stunderds. Um gesh dee bork, bork! IE in perteecooler hes its oovn stooffff, boot thet's pert ooff zee reesun us, Epple-a, und Muzeella vurk oon soobmeetting noo stunderds tu zee V3C, und getteeng zeem edupted. Bork bork bork! Su ve're-a qooeete-a oopteemistic.

Oopera CEO Jun Fun Tetzchner

It's a cheeckee und igg seetooeshun, vheech meuns ve-a need tu get mure-a users. Um gesh dee bork, bork! Und ve-a ere-a. Ve-a hefe-a by fer zee must used mubeele-a veb brooser. Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp! Net Eppleeceshuns' soorfey is shooeeng Meeni es zee feefft must used brooser in zee vurld und in sume-a cuoontreees it's beeteeng Sefferee, und oozeers it's beeteeng Muzeella. Zee Neentendu Veei is elsu helpeeng und ve're-a vurkeeng oon noo ferseeun cumeeng oooot. Um de hur de hur de hur.

Ve're-a elsu spendeeng teeme-a veet zee serfeeces, veet Guugle-a und Yehuu! deescoossing cumpeteebility. Bork bork bork!

Tu be-a frunk, it's nut deefffficoolt fur zeem tu meke-a thees vurk. Zeere's oone-a gooy vhu feexed boogs in Guugle-a und he-a used a JefeScreept theeng fur Oopera vheech feexed Meps und Meeel. Ve-a ere-a elsu ecteefely dueeng vhet ve-a cun - chungeeng hoo Oopera identeeffies itselff is oofftee inuoogh tu feex

Firefox tabs

[WK2]

We've introduced things like [tabs] - and we find they find their way into other browsers; tabs found their way into IE7. We are being copied...

Translation: We did tabs, damnit! Not Firefox! I repeat: Firefox did not do tabs first! It was us!!

Re:Firefox tabs

[Anonymous Coward]

you know it's just as annoying to copy someone by doing everything right before they do, right?

Re:Firefox tabs

[Lord Kano]

Everything is easy once someone else does it.

That's what I say about female college Freshmen.

LK

maybe it's a naming problem

[Anonymous Coward]

In Russia, Ukraine and in Northern and East European countries we have between five per cent and 10 per cent, and some above 10 per cent share; Japan similar.

Trouble is, in America most people think that going to the opera is for losers. Maybe they should call it "Rock 'n Roll Browser" in the US.

Re:maybe it's a naming problem

[Anonymous Coward]

I think a lot of the hatred for Opera stems from the fact that they messed up the cool naming scheme for major browsers. First you discover somewhere, then you explore it, then you conquer it, then you go there for fun. Navigator -> Explorer -> Konqueror -> Safari. I think it bodes well for the browser I'm developing right now, OverdevelopedHolidayResort.

Re:Translation: Theenking ooootseede-a zee Oopera

[chuckymonkey]

Holy huge wall of unintelligible text. You must be a Perl coder.

Re:FFS

[sootman]

Welcome to Slashdot, where even FA submitters don't RTFA. :-)