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  1. Review - Opera for Windows

    10.10 Build 1833 Beta 1 (Oct 15, 2009)

    @bittermann

    "There you have it...Betanew's own browser tests show that Opera is getting slower and buggier."

    Huh? It shows no such thing. It says nothing about "bugs" (although it is a beta), and it actually shows a slight performance improvement if you look at the numbers. And that is despite the fact that 10.10 was never supposed to be focused on performance in the first place.

    Lastly, BetaNews's test is completely useless and filled with garbage like the irrelevant artificial JS benchmarks that are specifically optimized for Safari or Chrome.

  2. Review - Opera for Windows

    10.00 Build 1750 Final (Sep 2, 2009)

    @cltx99

    "I don't like the way it takes over bit torrents, email and images."

    Um, what? It doesn't take over anything. In fact, it specifically asks you whether you want to use Opera or a different client when you click an email or torrent link.

    Images? It doesn't set itself as the default image viewer.

  3. Comment - First public Opera 10.1 beta competes against its predecessor for performance

    10.00 Build 1750 Final (Oct 17, 2009 - 12:10 PM)

    Just because "dozens of organizations" are posting bogus data doesn't mean that the data becomes any less bogus. Inf act, one of the most widely quoted ones recently admitted that they had been lying all these years, saying that their methods were completely unreliable, and once again changed their stats completely and retroactively overnight. As if the change fixed anything.

    But keep being gullible.

  4. Comment - First public Opera 10.1 beta competes against its predecessor for performance

    10.00 Build 1750 Final (Oct 15, 2009 - 2:32 AM)

    Balderstrom:

    1/3 of Opera's revenue is from the desktop version. It's definitely something they are focusing on.

    Opera is making MANY TIMES MORE off of the desktop version now compared to when it became free of charge. Better yet, their desktop revenue is growing with something like 90-110% yearly!

  5. Comment - First public Opera 10.1 beta competes against its predecessor for performance

    10.00 Build 1750 Final (Oct 15, 2009 - 2:30 AM)

    PC_Tool: That's one HUGE rant right there.

    Market share is unknown. As knowledgeable people are aware of, measuring global market share is impossible. What we do know is the numbers Opera reports. It's not about which one matters, it's about which one can actually be measured.

    Speed matters, and Opera is fast on real sites, not just irrelevant and artificial benchmarks.

    Comparing Opera's new JS engine to either of those is idiotic to say the least. Opera never promised that it would be released by now. In fact, they clearly explained that it would NOT be in Opera 10.

  6. Comment - First public Opera 10.1 beta competes against its predecessor for performance

    10.00 Build 1750 Final (Oct 15, 2009 - 2:28 AM)

    Opera never made any claims about performance improvements in 10.10. I never made any claims about that either.

    And yet BetaNews tries to turn this into some kind of idiotic "having a difficult time delivering" despite the fact that this release evidently was never supposed to focus on performance anyway. It's the Unite release!

  7. Comment - First public Opera 10.1 beta competes against its predecessor for performance

    10.00 Build 1750 Final (Oct 14, 2009 - 5:07 PM)

    Hmm, Opera has 40-50 million desktop users, and 30-40 million Opera Mini users. Add to that all the users of Opera on the thousands of devices it's preinstalled on, and Opera probably has well over 100 million users in total. Not too bad for a tiny independent browser vendor (the only independent browser vendor).