Chrome Helping Other Browsers Out, Says Opera CEO

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday October 30, 2008 @02:14AM from the chrome-outnumbers-opera-on-slashdot dept.

Pablo Martinez-Almeida writes "Opera CEO Jon S. von Tetzchner confirms that new entrants in the browser market are raising awareness on the mainstream Internet community about the availability of alternatives to the ubiquitous Internet Explorer. 'How has the emergence of WebKit and Chrome changed the market for you? JvT: The effect of Chrome so far has been 20 percent more downloads every day. It's fairly logical when you think about it, because the biggest hurdle we have is all those people that don't realize there's an alternative in the market. Now, with the launch of Chrome there's focus on the choice of browsers in the market.'

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Opera Mozilla by BladeMelbourne · 2008-10-30 02:22 · Score: 4, Interesting

I used Mozilla/SeaMonkey/Phoenix/Firefox for 9 years. I switched to Opera a few months ago and never looked back.
The 'advertisement banner' was a stigma for me, although now I realise Opera Software are THE innovators.
I realise it's not "open", but I look forward to any JS or rendering optimisations they may do to counter Chrome/FF3.1.
Options are beginning to look like a good thing. Striving to match a rival will only be good for the world (and those of us who develop for the web ftl or ftw).