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A Talk With Opera CEO

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the making-new-boxes-to-think-outside-of dept.

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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  1. Firefox tabs by WK2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!!

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    1. Re:Firefox tabs by Lord+Kano · · Score: 5, Funny

      Everything is easy once someone else does it.

      That's what I say about female college Freshmen.

      LK

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  2. maybe it's a naming problem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:maybe it's a naming problem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      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.

  3. Re:Translation: Theenking ooootseede-a zee Oopera by chuckymonkey · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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