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Story: Opera: Firefox user figures 'inflated'
Posted by: Franki (Tuesday 21 June 2005, 4:51 PM)
What a bunch of sour grapes from Opera.
I wrote my own counter in Perl to get a real indication of browser statistics, and one of the things I did in that counter was record the IP addresses of visitors and only count and IP address once in a 24 hour period.
(My counter ignores my IP's completely so I am not messing up the figures.)
Firefox still shows massively higher marketshare then Opera. Also my counter searchs for \Opera x\ where X is the version number and it detects just fine regardless of whether it's set to pretent to be IE or not.
Also I don't know that there are all that many people who have downloaded the firefox google bar, but I'll bet that not even 1/4 of Firefox users have.
I don't mind Opera, it's not a bad browser and certainly better then IE, but it can't hope to compete with Firefox for several reasons.
1. They don't offer anything you can't get with a Firefox extension.
2. You get Ads, or you get to pay.
3. They have not garnered anything remotely like the Firefox community where the users end up installing it on every computer they come across.
To each their own, as long as people are not using IE then I don't care what they use.
Full Talkback thread
Story: Opera: Firefox user figures 'inflated'
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Souinds sorta like sour grapes, if you ask me. p!ss artiste -
ahahahahaha ... let'me laughing ...
The guys... jimich -
Most stats providers count 'users' not 'hits' or a... Gids Goldberg
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95% of these 'counters' work by Javascript, n... Cian Duffy
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What a bunch of sour grapes from Opera.
I wrote my... Franki -
Opera Rocks...its fast and doesn't crash or d... Anonymous
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"Don't knock it for the ads -- they are... Thorsten Roggendorf -
Opera is a lame piece of junk, and the whining fro... Mike
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I do use Firefox, a few reasons to that : speed, n... nw
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Opera has excellent features, like mouse gest... howard devore
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Opera and Firefox are neck-and-neck. FIrefox does... Jeff
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Well, I have seen all browsers, like news, BB... Anonymous
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I find it ironic, since I'm reading this through m... spaceghoti
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This shoulds like a load of FUD to me -- more like... Chris Smith
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I feel that the author has put it in the wrong way... Pallab De
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This is something I have suspected for some time.... Al Johnson
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This is a low blow. IE fall guilty of far more mi... Anonymous
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Opera Rules. They invented "tabbed" browsing... Jack
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We're all on the same team here, aren't we? Anythi... Anonymous
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As long as you arn't using IE what's the big... Wade Harper
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Fact: Firefox is downloaded ~250,000 times every d... Amir
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So Opera has some commercials. I don't notice... Anonymous
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Not sure why all of you are knocking IE.... Bob
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With Opera I can restart with all t... Anonymous
