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Story: Opera: Firefox user figures 'inflated'
Posted by: Thorsten Roggendorf (Thursday 23 June 2005, 9:17 AM)
"Don't knock it for the ads -- they are everywhere on the web anyways (look at this very page!)"
Ads? I see no ads. Maybe you should switch to firefox and install the adblock extension. This small feature makes my internet experience considerably more pleasant. I only realised how much this constant flickering and excessive begging for attention was getting on my nerves when it was gone.
I remember a discussion on some Opera board where I advocated free software. Dozens of people were shouting me down and ridiculing me. The thought free software could never be something as slick as Opera and the notion of the revolution in the Mozilla foundation that was then just beginning only amused them. They could not imagine that steamboat Mozilla could ever become an elegant ocean liner. One more company that underestimated free software.
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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
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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
