Comments on: Opera Fights Back: Announces Next Gen JavaScript Engine

By: omnicity

omnicity — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:07:31 +0000

To be honest, I have never understood what Opera brings to the party.
IE, Gecko and WebKit hold the top three spots in terms of usage, so Opera needs to have a nice big ‘unique selling point’ if it is ever going to make it big, and neither WebKit nor Gecko are ever going to allow it to claim to be the best at anything for long, and it has no chance of ever beating them both in more than one area at a time. Since all of the top browsers are free to desktop users, Opera is never going to be a commercial success except on mobiles, and even there I don’t see them surviving long against a free browser.

By: HappyNightmares

HappyNightmares — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:42:14 +0000

I thought the title said… “Oprah fights back…”

LOL :)

By: mikefarrow

mikefarrow — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:00:23 +0000

If people are serious about standards they would use Opera, there would not be so much bad HTML if coders tested their pages on Opera.

Having the following of the standard bearers will pay dividends after the fallout from the next browser wars.

But as someone mentioned above, Opera’s best chance is in the Mobile Browser market, there are potentially 10 times the number of mobile Web users as desktop users.

10 billion is a lot of people, can Opera get it right?

Warm regards, Mike

By: skunkbad

skunkbad — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:28:15 +0000

Just as graphicmist suggests, it doesn’t matter how awesome Opera is, unless they market their browser better, it will never gain a significant share of users.

By: chris ward

chris ward — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:51:57 +0000

As a business, they should just focus on what makes them money – embedding a browser into non-pc devices, like mobile or the Wii.

The battle for third-place browser is lost, because of the arrival of chrome.

I agree with above Anonymous’ post regarding Opera to being an innovator and a laggard.

Maybe the next time they show-off, they should look to protecting their IP.

By: picohax

picohax — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:09:37 +0000

Opera is a browser – client side, no server side
Aptana jaxer is a cloud app – server side, no client side

just wondering … any possibilities?

By: Michael Larsson

Michael Larsson — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:05:18 +0000

Opera should also maybe just concentrate on the Mobile Browser market and not repeat their past mistakes from the desktop days like attempting to charge for a browser. That action alone probably would have led to a similar market share that firefox enjoys in many markets.

By: graphicmist

graphicmist — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:56:16 +0000

Either only Opera users are commenting on this post or there are more Opera users than I thought :P

I don’t think so. i m a big Firefox fan. i have used opera only once but either i didn’t discover it properly or there was nothing special about it which can make me switch to it from Firefox.

I recently heard about opera’s campus representative programme. this means opera is putting it efforts in right direction. where Firefox seems to be more close to open source community opera stands where in front of it. Opera seems to be lacking a proper market strategy.

But i can say that in mid and low range mobiles opera mini browser rocks.

By: lotrgamemast

lotrgamemast — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:35:44 +0000

Either only Opera users are commenting on this post or there are more Opera users than I thought :P

By: nachenko

nachenko — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 12:42:24 +0000

I don’t think Opera is so “out” of the market. What about the Nintendo – Opera agreement? These consoles having a standards compliant browser such as Opera that also exists in computers is good news to me.