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Opera history, what would you change?

By Jon S. von Tetzchner. Tuesday, 28. April 2009, 13:46:48

If you get the chance to change anything in the Opera history, what would you change?

This is a tough one. Sometimes you do not have a choice. Personally I would have liked to provide Opera for free even earlier. We couldn't. However, we are seeing very significant growth in Opera users on desktop now, with 67% last year and 55% in 2007. We have also learned our lesson, which is why Opera Mini is provided for free. Enjoy!

What are you expecting from us (Opera fans)?Opera 10 is supposed to have at least on secret feature?

Comments

dapxin # 28. April 2009, 13:48

Haha. well putted

Glad you made it through...

DjiXas # 28. April 2009, 13:50

What about Opera Mobile?

thobi # 28. April 2009, 15:49

Originally posted by Jon:

This is a tough one.

well, thanks for that

Originally posted by Jon:

Sometimes you do not have a choice. Personally I would have liked to provide Opera for free even earlier.

that's what i thought. thanks for sharing. thanks for 'our' OPERA! and congrats again!

abacha # 4. May 2009, 18:32

Being a greedy jew doesn't help anyone. I'm glad the Opera team has learned that lesson. Rock on.

0x29a # 5. May 2009, 00:04

Originally posted by abacha

Being a greedy jew doesn't help anyone.

What the hell is that supposed to mean? I'm not jewish, but that's offensive.

Personally, I'd still be buying Opera, even if it weren't free because it's worth paying for.

msematman # 7. May 2009, 13:49

I would've never bought it because I really liked the: "Buy Opera today, and make this banner go away!" It was really pretty. I'm sad there are no more adds. They weren't intrusive, but the press used this as excuse to hack at opera and promote firefox.