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One Million Downloads (and counting)

Thursday, 22. September 2005, 12:37:18

Apparently the word got out about the new version of Opera. Version 8.5 has been downloaded over One million times so far. But this is only the beginning! We are depending on our community to help others Choose Opera.
Have you already helped people make the switch to the world's best browser? Blog about your experiences so we can all work together to bring a better browsing experience to the masses.
UPDATE (9/27/2005): There has now been over 2.4 million downloads of Opera 8.5!

Comments

haavard # 22. September 2005, 13:23

More than one million downloads in less than two days is not bad at all

sgunhouse # 23. September 2005, 00:43

And we still have a forum, and you a server to boot.

If we hit 5 million in a week, will Jon swim to the moon?

saito # 23. September 2005, 13:47

I feel safe and happy to read "a dry and landlocked Jon".

Next swim? Please postpone till Opera gets second largest browser share, in the near future

Rapier # 23. September 2005, 14:41

Opera should have a download counter or some sort !

jakob # 23. September 2005, 15:15

Can we get a counter on my.opera.com logins at least?

paavor # 23. September 2005, 19:08

So, no one is swimming?

Congratulations anyway!

haavard # 23. September 2005, 20:22

Have a look at www.opera.com, goffer.

Northgrove # 23. September 2005, 21:02

I must admit 2 million downloads over 2 days was better than I had expected.

I hope the download rates keep holding up for a while longer.

A browser of this quality really deserves it.

toughthrone # 24. September 2005, 04:02

it's about time opera becomes popular. with all its features i really wonder why firefox is number 2. soon opera will become the top browser.

skenz # 24. September 2005, 13:35

Thank you!!!

Rapier # 24. September 2005, 14:35

how often do u update this thing..
its been 1.6 million since a long time now :|

mimo63 # 24. September 2005, 17:01

good browser easy to use

porneL # 24. September 2005, 17:37

Don't make Jon swim again! He's doing good job and deserves to live!

steno # 24. September 2005, 18:36

Congratulations, i love you Opera

*g*

Ramunas # 24. September 2005, 18:41

Come on lets set a new reccord

Most downloads per day.

wildbill1326 # 24. September 2005, 19:58

I CAN'T GET THE WAND TO WORK

SuSE UsER # 24. September 2005, 20:06

3 x Great = Great Job, Great Browser, Great Community

Congrats

Nikos Alexiou # 24. September 2005, 22:34

So,if we reach 2 million in a week,should we expect Jon to swim to the US ?

Skippermark # 25. September 2005, 04:31

I was always curious about Opera but never tried it because of the price. Now that it's free, I had to get it and am more amazed at it's power each day. I only wish I'd tried it earlier.

SuSE UsER # 26. September 2005, 08:28

2.1 Million Downloads (and counting)

WildEnte # 26. September 2005, 09:54

2.1 million only from the opera servers or are download.com et al. included in this figure?

d3bruts1d # 26. September 2005, 10:25

Not bad at all.

I know I managed to get a few people to download it and try it out. Being free has really helped.

tmaioli # 26. September 2005, 18:02

2.2 Million Downloads and just 22 comments? Well, I used opera in the past but became a Firefox user, the ads no matter how small is just too much. Now that the ads are gone and I gave it a second chance, NOT BAD at all..... Looks like a lot of improvements since way back when. Nice job. I like what I see so far. I'm sure there is a model for you to make money, ads in the browser - not it, involve the community, make it a movement, a quality product, the money will come. Focus on the product and the customer needs and you will be profitable, just focus on money and you will be the next Enron.

hsaito # 27. September 2005, 00:42

Opera is really catching on for visitor of my webpages.
On one site, it is now getting around 28% of share.

(Visitors of my website is quite biased, that usually IE is around 50% and then it used to be Firefox that dominated the rest.)

In one website where most audiences are from Japan, is now getting 1.8%, which is about twice as it used to be.