Actually, Opera already has about 50 million desktop users, and another 50 million Opera Mini users. Compare that to Firefox's reported 300 million users, and you'll get the idea. The blatant lie that Opera has a tiny user base is still being spread by ignoramuses like yourself.
Clearly you are deeply ignorant. The Wii is not made by Opera. The Wii does not have a monopoly. Opera has not been found guilty of anti-competitive practices. On the other hand, Microsoft broke the law with their own IE by abusing their monopoly.
Turbo is supposed to be used when you are on a slow connection. Sure it goes through Opera's servers, but Opera is well known for not violating people's privacy.
Sounds like FUD to me. My standards compliant pages work fine in Opera. I'm guessing that you are designing specifically for bugs in other browsers, and then blaming Opera for your own incompetence when it doesn't have the exact same bugs.
Why Opera 10.10? It's old! Opera 10.50 supports rounded corners and all that. Why are you using the latest Firefox, but an old and outdated Opera version?
Actually, the numbers are specifically for ballot screen downloads. They are not just normal downloads. It's trivially easy to keep track of where downloads are coming from.
Opera already has about 50 million desktop users, and another 50 million Opera Mini users. Compare that to Firefox's reported 300 million users, and you'll get the idea. The blatant lie that Opera has a tiny user base is still being spread by ignoramuses like yourself.
What dosen't make sense are the people who bitch and moan about what a hassle Linux is to set up and get figured out, while they waste hours and hours of their time and money cleaning out their Windows installs, setting up anti-malware programs that waste even more time in the form of annoying pop-up reminders and eaten CPU cycles, and even reinstalling their O.S.
Actually, most people don't bother. A friend of mine installed some spyware toolbar, and I told him it was spyware and he should remove it. He didn't care. He wanted some stuff it came bundled with, and he didn't mind if they could see his entire browsing history. He didn't care if it was in the way.
Wow. Did you really just champion Opera - king of bloat, with built-in email, web server, P2P, and quite possibly a kitchen sink - as a "lightweight alternative"?
Yes, it is. Opera might have more features, but it's still smaller and snappier than Firefox by far. It isn't bloat unless those features make it big and slow. They are in fact completely out of your way by default.
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Actually, Opera already has about 50 million desktop users, and another 50 million Opera Mini users. Compare that to Firefox's reported 300 million users, and you'll get the idea. The blatant lie that Opera has a tiny user base is still being spread by ignoramuses like yourself.
Actually, that was Microsoft's first proposal. It was rejected. So they came up with the ballot idea, which was accepted.
Actually, Opera 10.50 is faster than Chrome. Opera is back at the top.
FUD fail.
Clearly you are deeply ignorant. The Wii is not made by Opera. The Wii does not have a monopoly. Opera has not been found guilty of anti-competitive practices. On the other hand, Microsoft broke the law with their own IE by abusing their monopoly.
Actually, Opera's CEO has stated that he doesn't want any browser to be completely dominant, and that includes his own browser.
Selective data? They are listing the rate of ballot screen downloads compared to normal downloads.
Turbo is supposed to be used when you are on a slow connection. Sure it goes through Opera's servers, but Opera is well known for not violating people's privacy.
Oh no! A company needs to make money to survive! Evil capitalist pigs!
Sounds like FUD to me. My standards compliant pages work fine in Opera. I'm guessing that you are designing specifically for bugs in other browsers, and then blaming Opera for your own incompetence when it doesn't have the exact same bugs.
Correction - the ballot screen still uses IE.
Why Opera 10.10? It's old! Opera 10.50 supports rounded corners and all that. Why are you using the latest Firefox, but an old and outdated Opera version?
All Opera did was to report Microsoft's crimes to the authorities. They didn't "blame" Microsoft for anything, except for breaking the law.
Also, the ballot screen was Microsoft's proposal. Opera is in no position to demand anything.
How much is Microsoft paying you to spread misinformation?
Actually, the numbers are specifically for ballot screen downloads. They are not just normal downloads. It's trivially easy to keep track of where downloads are coming from.
The numbers mean that, being made aware that they have choice, more people will exercise it. They mean that the ballot screen seems to be a success.
Uh, do you have any idea how huge and diverse Europe is? Your comment just reeks og ignorance and bigotry.
Opera already has about 50 million desktop users, and another 50 million Opera Mini users. Compare that to Firefox's reported 300 million users, and you'll get the idea. The blatant lie that Opera has a tiny user base is still being spread by ignoramuses like yourself.
Opera has 50 million desktop users, and another 50 million users of Opera Mini. Firefox is claimed to have 300 million users or so.
The fact still remains: Microsoft broke the law, and proposed the ballot screen themselves.
I would have thought that the sound of that would be more of a soft, limp, squishy one...
Actually, most people don't bother. A friend of mine installed some spyware toolbar, and I told him it was spyware and he should remove it. He didn't care. He wanted some stuff it came bundled with, and he didn't mind if they could see his entire browsing history. He didn't care if it was in the way.
Actually, it doesn't. Yet. They haven't enabled hardware acceleration yet(!).
Yes, it is. Opera might have more features, but it's still smaller and snappier than Firefox by far. It isn't bloat unless those features make it big and slow. They are in fact completely out of your way by default.
How does the W3C fund its activities?
It's the foundation of the fucking web!