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One Million Downloads (and counting)

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

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.
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UPDATE (9/27/2005): There has now been over 2.4 million downloads of Opera 8.5!

Comments

Haavardhaavard # Thursday, September 22, 2005 1:23:56 PM

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

Stevesgunhouse # Friday, September 23, 2005 12:43:06 AM

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 # Friday, September 23, 2005 1:47:21 PM

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 # Friday, September 23, 2005 2:41:44 PM

Opera should have a download counter or some sort !

Jakobjakob # Friday, September 23, 2005 3:15:02 PM

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

Paavo Rissanenpaavor # Friday, September 23, 2005 7:08:42 PM

So, no one is swimming?

Congratulations anyway!

Haavardhaavard # Friday, September 23, 2005 8:22:33 PM

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

Northgrove # Friday, September 23, 2005 9:02:19 PM

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.

Toughthronetoughthrone # Saturday, September 24, 2005 4:02:02 AM

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.

Riccardoskenz # Saturday, September 24, 2005 1:35:10 PM

Thank you!!!

Rapier # Saturday, September 24, 2005 2:35:33 PM

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

mimo63 # Saturday, September 24, 2005 5:01:34 PM

good browser easy to use

porneL # Saturday, September 24, 2005 5:37:44 PM

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

stenosissteno # Saturday, September 24, 2005 6:36:44 PM

Congratulations, i love you Opera

*g*

RamūnasRamunas # Saturday, September 24, 2005 6:41:10 PM

Come on lets set a new reccord

Most downloads per day.

wildbill1326 # Saturday, September 24, 2005 7:58:30 PM

I CAN'T GET THE WAND TO WORK

SuSE UsER # Saturday, September 24, 2005 8:06:07 PM

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

Congrats

Nikos Alexiounikoscbr # Saturday, September 24, 2005 10:34:17 PM

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

Skippermark # Sunday, September 25, 2005 4:31:01 AM

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 # Monday, September 26, 2005 8:28:35 AM

2.1 Million Downloads (and counting)

WildEnte # Monday, September 26, 2005 9:54:13 AM

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

Bryand3bruts1d # Monday, September 26, 2005 10:25:51 AM

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 # Monday, September 26, 2005 6:02:56 PM

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.

Hideki Saitohsaito # Tuesday, September 27, 2005 12:42:41 AM

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.