Google's Chrome Already Tops Opera

Iria · Sep 5, 2008, 02:44 PM

Opera is much-loved, but it's more of a cult browser. Its users swear by it, but it's never been able to make inroads into browser market share. And the star of the week, Google's Chrome, which stole the headlines away from IE8, has already topped Opera in market share.
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Source: Tech-Ex

Vikingod · Sep 5, 2008, 03:32 PM

Thats too bad. I still think Opera's biggest problem is marketing. The name sucks and doesn't really grab any attention and non-users only hear about it from other users. Too bad, people are really missing out.

YAYitsAndrew · Sep 5, 2008, 05:33 PM

I think everyone's just playing with google chrome. I'm an opera user and I've been trying out chrome, but lack of mouse gestures will send me back home to opera very soon.

Robert McClelland · Sep 5, 2008, 05:54 PM

I found one issue with opera it hates sony forums. Yes it's truth evertime I try edited my messege there it doesn't let me do it. I have used firefox to fix my messege there.

Necrosis · Sep 6, 2008, 12:44 AM

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Originally Posted by YAYitsAndrew

I think everyone's just playing with google chrome. I'm an opera user and I've been trying out chrome, but lack of mouse gestures will send me back home to opera very soon.

I've never like mouse gestures, good old keyboard shortcuts for me. I hated feeling like I was trying to cast a spell or trying a combination to complete a finishing move.

**dj_stick** · Sep 6, 2008, 12:53 AM

i quite like opera's mouse gestures, so i'll stick with it, however there are a few sites that don't quite like opera (such as facebook and my bank's website) so i usually use safari/ie7 as a backup in those cases - might take a look at crhome next week when i have some free time

Zardon · Sep 6, 2008, 09:16 AM

I tend to use every browser out there on pc and mac for testing purposes (otherwise you end up with a site that doesnt work on several of them!).

I still think as an overall package that opera is the best of all the browsers however quite a few of them are good.

Chrome has a lot of potential as well imo, i know its still bug ridden and has a plethora of issues, however the minimialist interface and some nice design ideas (as well as google as an advertising platform) will probably help it to do well.

BlueMak · Sep 6, 2008, 11:39 AM

Chrome has potential, but I see no reason to even think replacing my Opera.

Sep 5, 2008, 02:44 PM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 89	Google's Chrome Already Tops Opera Opera is much-loved, but it's more of a cult browser. Its users swear by it, but it's never been able to make inroads into browser market share. And the star of the week, Google's Chrome, which stole the headlines away from IE8, has already topped Opera in market share. ____________ Source: Tech-Ex

Sep 5, 2008, 05:33 PM	#3
YAYitsAndrew Anti-Piracy Poster Boy Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: NJ Posts: 2,605 Rep Power: 79 System Specs	I think everyone's just playing with google chrome. I'm an opera user and I've been trying out chrome, but lack of mouse gestures will send me back home to opera very soon. __________________ "It is because the resistance to paying for copyrighted material, although often characterized as arising from a supposed technical burden or principled concern for the public interest, arises rather from exactly the same segment of the brain that is dominant in shoplifters." - Mark Helprin, Digital Barbarism In other words, it's never okay to steal even if you think you have a good reason! www.yayitsandrew.com

Sep 5, 2008, 05:54 PM	#4
Robert McClelland PAX Tweaker, PAX Expert. Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Somewhere in Wood County Ohio Same Town :) Posts: 10,661 Rep Power: 196 System Specs	I found one issue with opera it hates sony forums. Yes it's truth evertime I try edited my messege there it doesn't let me do it. I have used firefox to fix my messege there. __________________ "XTREME AUDIO IS CRAP!" "There no support for it. It's crapist card on face of the earth it should be throw into the sun" http://www.speedtest.net/result/1949536385.png correct the correct one now

Sep 6, 2008, 11:39 AM	#8
BlueMak HH's Asteroids' Dominator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hellas->Macedonia->Thessaloniki Posts: 13,467 Rep Power: 349 System Specs	Chrome has potential, but I see no reason to even think replacing my Opera. __________________ The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm *Sic semper tyrannis.*

Sep 5, 2008, 03:32 PM	#2
Vikingod Int'l Fish Liaison Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: By the light of lamp I sit and type... Posts: 16,197 Rep Power: 112 System Specs	Thats too bad. I still think Opera's biggest problem is marketing. The name sucks and doesn't really grab any attention and non-users only hear about it from other users. Too bad, people are really missing out.

Sep 6, 2008, 09:16 AM	#7
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	I tend to use every browser out there on pc and mac for testing purposes (otherwise you end up with a site that doesnt work on several of them!). I still think as an overall package that opera is the best of all the browsers however quite a few of them are good. Chrome has a lot of potential as well imo, i know its still bug ridden and has a plethora of issues, however the minimialist interface and some nice design ideas (as well as google as an advertising platform) will probably help it to do well.