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Story: Opera: Firefox user figures 'inflated'
Posted by: Anonymous (Thursday 23 June 2005, 6:00 PM)
We're all on the same team here, aren't we? Anything that's good for Firefox is good for Opera... the more people that use standards-compliant browsers, the more websites will be forced to adhere to standards. Eventually, it reaches critical mass, and then users won't be railroaded into using IE. That will be a great day and I believe it's coming soon. Until then, it's all the little guys versus the big bad monopoly, and we all need to stick together. Competition between FF/Opera/etc. is healthy, but this is definitely a case of sour grapes and it's just bad press. They can argue that Opera is under-reported -- that's fine -- but to be so adamant that FF is overreported simply hurts the movement by saying that the alternative-browser community is smaller than it is.
I mean, the truth should be reported, but as the previous posts pointed out, this is a weak argument. Opera's going to self-destruct, and it's a shame, because more diversity is better for everyone.
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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 -
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
