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Opera and WebKit: a personal perspective

brucelawson.co.uk

47 pointsdaleharvey5 comments

A good quote from the article:

  One rendering engine will go. Some lament that. Some of  
  those who lament it seemed never to test in it, excluded
  it from their demos, or actively blocked it.

what i will probably miss most about opera are the features that will vanish for several versions until they (ever?) catch-up.

"Opera has 300 million active users"

I call bullshit. If Opera wants to make a claim like that they're going to have to aggressively defend their counting strategy.

Firefox: "According to Mozilla, Firefox counts with over 450 million users around the world." [1]

Chrome: "At the 2012 Google I/O developers' conference, Google claimed that there were 310 million active users of Chrome, almost double the number in 2011, which was stated as 160 million active users." [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome

opera is very strong on Mobile phones (incl. old Symbian Nokias). 300 million is a lot, but within the possible. this comment was written in opera.

also, their mini browser directs stuff through their servers.. which means it's very possible for them to have a pretty accurate view of how many users they have.

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