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What a day

By Espen André ØverdahlEspenAO. Friday, December 17, 2010 12:06:06 PM

Bacon proves to be most important viral marketing tool.

A little more than a year ago, we launched Opera 10.10. We were stunned to see an average of 1,7 million downloads per day the first week. In fact in our own words: "this download rate shatters previous Opera records."

What a difference a year makes. Yesterday, Opera 11 was downloaded a total of 6.7 million times with 1,1 millions coming from download partners around the globe.

What about auto-update, you say? There's no question that auto-update does help download numbers, as it should. We want people using the newest version and we want to make it easy for them to get it. Still, not every single person using Opera's desktop version received the auto-update message. 50 million downloads all at once might, at worst, rip a hole in the fabric of space-time, sending our offices hurtling into a parallel universe where toasters fly and everyone uses MS Bob. Or it might just make the downloads really slow. Either way, we aren't taking chances.

A survey of people downloading Opera for the first time had 53% of its respondents coming from Firefox, and 43% coming from IE.

We didn't do this alone. It took a lot of help from all of you to make it happen. That's the way it's always been at Opera. So thank you. Thank you for downloading Opera. Thank you for sharing it with your friends. Thank you for believing that an independent browser fighting to make the Web a better place is an idea worth supporting.

Or was it the bacon?

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Maciej DudaMadDud # Friday, December 17, 2010 12:12:53 PM

Congratulations on great result. I like the way you promote Opera on Reddit!

Sami Serolaserola # Friday, December 17, 2010 12:13:18 PM

It's always a pleasure to download new version of Opera

Tamil # Friday, December 17, 2010 12:14:00 PM

Daniel15daniel15 # Friday, December 17, 2010 12:16:34 PM

Congratulations! The new version is great

NicoHellbillyDeluxe # Friday, December 17, 2010 12:18:19 PM

MS Bob

I remember it just too well.

Congratulations on this new record!

Like the Duke would say: "Makin' Bacon!"

Lucalucaviozzi # Friday, December 17, 2010 12:20:00 PM

I'll do all i can to help my favourite browser

Robbiemoirob # Friday, December 17, 2010 12:24:20 PM

Well done guys and gals. You all deserve recognition for the hard work. I mean espenao had to go and photograph bacon without the rest of the team eating it. That must of been difficult?

Savageman # Friday, December 17, 2010 12:26:41 PM

That's cool. 2 years and a half ago, Firefox 3 world record was just above 8M in 1 day and 28M in 2 weeks.

Beware, Opera is catching up!

Newtootwen # Friday, December 17, 2010 12:38:08 PM

my support to you guys, keep it up the good work.

Joeljgm21 # Friday, December 17, 2010 12:43:32 PM

Congratulations Opera, don't give up!

dżekdzek69 # Friday, December 17, 2010 12:43:47 PM

i downloaded it twice

Kai OckendorfOckendorf # Friday, December 17, 2010 12:46:17 PM

Originally posted by lucaviozzi:

I'll do all i can to help my favourite browser

+1

Opera is like a Jedi, using the force

...the best browser ideas come from Norway & it´s a great honor for us to use it!!!!

Morphdreamer # Friday, December 17, 2010 12:48:47 PM

ZlateZlateWay # Friday, December 17, 2010 12:52:08 PM

Great browser

<3 from Macedonia

JaredpieRr0Ur # Friday, December 17, 2010 12:53:31 PM

Opera & Bacon!

Ahmed GhanemAhmedGhanem # Friday, December 17, 2010 12:56:14 PM

I know that I contributed to at least 10 of these downloads as I installed it on my laptop, 2 computers at my house and 7 others at campus

Luxor # Friday, December 17, 2010 1:01:31 PM

RachelRachelJuleiane # Friday, December 17, 2010 1:03:11 PM

techlawsam # Friday, December 17, 2010 1:04:45 PM

Eyal2010 # Friday, December 17, 2010 1:19:49 PM

I Enjoy & Happy With OPERA 11

orsomannaro # Friday, December 17, 2010 1:35:29 PM

GDR!gdr # Friday, December 17, 2010 1:50:45 PM

Not very surprising, since you have enabled auto-updates by default

CB Developmentcbdev # Friday, December 17, 2010 1:51:02 PM

I'm kind of proud to have convinced at least 4 people of using Opera

Yair Mohrmusichunter85 # Friday, December 17, 2010 1:52:13 PM

Great to hear Opera is doing great...
11 is another milestone that shows how much ahead of Mozilla, Google, Microsoft etc. you guys really are.

Alexodius PrimeAleksOD # Friday, December 17, 2010 1:52:13 PM

Bacon - best marketing tool ever!

Congrats, Opera!

Uncle MickMickeyjoe-Irl # Friday, December 17, 2010 2:01:15 PM

Originally posted by EspenAO:

... everyone uses MS Bob.

lucideer # Friday, December 17, 2010 2:25:04 PM

Originally posted by chooseopera:

the bacon

Andile63 # Friday, December 17, 2010 2:40:13 PM

congratulations. Great product=great followers behind it.

Keep it up!

Arun Prabu - Arun's Operaarunsopera # Friday, December 17, 2010 2:47:52 PM

Great... Opera should not let the users go away from the browser..
here's the review
http://uiavenue.com/2010/12/browsers/opera-11-review/

wilkxorandor # Friday, December 17, 2010 2:50:43 PM

Congrats Opera! Thanks for the best web browser.

Artur „Jurgi” JurgawkaJurgi # Friday, December 17, 2010 2:58:24 PM

Keep it up.

GrantTLC # Friday, December 17, 2010 3:17:29 PM

One word: Extensions. Having Lastpass alone makes this a much more attractive proposition for legions of people who've tried the browser but weren't happy with the default options. I've been reading comments decrying the lack of 3rd-party extensibility for YEARS, and it seems to be most people's 'deal-breaker'.

Hopefully this means an end to the dark years of less than 2% market share? (when Google chrome's launch saw it pick up more share than Opera had ever had...) I sincerely hope so because I love love LOVE this browser.

Rafael Luikrafaelluik # Friday, December 17, 2010 3:34:14 PM

Originally posted by GrantTLC:

Hopefully this means an end to the dark years of less than 2% market share? (when Google chrome's launch saw it pick up more share than Opera had ever had...)

http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/2009/11/03/browser-stats

Now Chrome has more users than Opera of course, I'm just showing there's something wrong with these statistics.

.edDotEd # Friday, December 17, 2010 5:10:17 PM

Matt Durkinbigmattyd # Friday, December 17, 2010 5:13:14 PM

I love Opera!!

Rezaul islamRazib21 # Friday, December 17, 2010 5:33:44 PM

More better than others.

Mimdala # Friday, December 17, 2010 5:40:19 PM

I promote Oper everywhere I go!!!!

abdur92 # Friday, December 17, 2010 5:43:46 PM

Love Opera!
Convinced 5 friends to use it.

AmaZinger # Friday, December 17, 2010 5:51:09 PM

Forward, Opera!!!

Dark FurieFurie # Friday, December 17, 2010 6:24:38 PM

A survey of people downloading Opera for the first time had 53% of its respondents coming from Firefox, and 43% coming from IE.

More people are happy with IE than Firefox? Isn't that a sign of the apocalypse?

Siupermen # Friday, December 17, 2010 6:37:03 PM

Opera is the best.

ManuBluetoth # Friday, December 17, 2010 6:44:50 PM

We congratulate and thank you guys for the hard work you put into our favorite browser (or for some the future favorite browser), and making everything work smoothly, not to mention the great contests that you make, and so forth.
The road you guys took in the last couple of year is a good one, a more open one, and I hope to see Opera to be as known, or more known than FF or Chrome.
Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to everyone around here!