New Opera 9: some considerations…
When Firefox hit the market, some years ago, everyone was looking at it with unbelief. Could a small fox beat the catch-all Internet Explorer? Obviously someone thought so, reason why Firefox has been one of the best software for the last year (IMHO).
Now, when it happened Opera was in his version 6 or 7 (I don’t remember) and wasn’t free. No, if you did want to use it you had to pay.
Come on! How do you pretend me to pay for an application I already have in my OS? I can use IE, Nautilus, Netscape, whatever, so why should I have to pay to have another browser?
In my opinion this was the blindness of Opera, this is the reason why Firefox is eating every day some more users to IE, this is the reason why Opera is still an unknown software. Yes, they decided to give their software for free, but the decide it when it was too late, when the name Firefox was more than a simple name, was an Icon, was a flag against the power of IE.
Opera lost its train years ago, and for how long they will try to create a new version every six months, they will not achieve to be the winner in the browser battle.
Truth is that Opera is a good browser, fast and intuitive, but Firefox is the standard for too many users, like me, who feels perfectly with it, without feeling the need to switch. Opera can integrate a Bittorrent client, can create a lot of eye-candy “widgets” to grab some users, but…
I’m sorry Opera, it is too late, you lost your train!
Now the new Version 9 has been released, I have already installed on my Ubuntu, the fact is that every time I have to open the browser my selection does not fall on Opera, but on the beloved fox…
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