Opera reach 20% market share!

May 14, 2009 · by Espen André Øverdahl

Good news, everyone!

Opera has hit a milestone today with an amazing result of 17.39% market share in... ANTARCTICA!

Today's statistics are a proof that maybe 1 out of 5 scientists has Opera as their preferred browser.

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Andrew Nguyen14. May 2009, 12:57
I should become a scientist. 2 out of 5!
Espen André Øverdahl14. May 2009, 12:58
Daniel14. May 2009, 13:25
Perhaps Opera could reach a deal with NASA for a future Mars landing and get 100% market share for a whole planet
Esteban Manchado Velázquez14. May 2009, 13:40
1 out of 5 MAD scientists use Opera...

MWAHAHAHA!!
Angeliki14. May 2009, 13:50

If Scientists are happy with Opera,
imagine how happy the rest of us are!!!
Congrats to all the share holders!!
Charles Schloss14. May 2009, 13:53

NASA lists Opera http://www.nasa.gov/help/multimedia/downloads.html
Malek Damaj14. May 2009, 16:26
nice! now wait for other ppl to notice our beloved browser
Robert Jacobsen14. May 2009, 17:15
zoso, I knew that you were a scientist at heart. That explains your madness. Muahahah! *evil laughter while thunderbolts strike around*
ruaman14. May 2009, 17:46
Words14. May 2009, 18:07
Beware global warming
serious14. May 2009, 19:12
hey, we have at least 1/4 opera users in class (min 3-4 of 12; teachers about the same). where are OUR roses?
derspecht14. May 2009, 19:34
Robert Jacobsen14. May 2009, 19:37
Demonon, then you have your work cut out for you!
Ankur Srivastava14. May 2009, 20:05
Hello everyone, I was the one who made the Opera 10 video and now I've made a video for Opera turbo, please watch and enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnwSbZn2zRg
d4rkn1ght14. May 2009, 21:37
Carol14. May 2009, 23:29
Very impressive data
Kyle Baker15. May 2009, 04:28
He must also be the only one still using Windows XP (17.39%) while the others are using Windows 2003 (82.61%).
Robert Jacobsen15. May 2009, 06:37
Or that could mean that those that run Windows 2003 (which is a (terminal) server) uses Firefox on it, while those that are blessed with own workstations are using Opera!
starcatcher6615. May 2009, 10:57
I thought Antarctica was 100% Firefox?
http://mashable.com/2009/03/06/firefox-antarctica/
Either that or someone has switched...
Ivan15. May 2009, 11:10
I know why scientists choose Opera. In Antarctica is so cold like in Norwey, where is situated Headquarters of Opera Software. It is solidarity!
Charles Schloss15. May 2009, 13:31
starcatcher66 that was in March of 2009, and this is April 2009
NibO15. May 2009, 16:52
I HAD TO sign up to the board JUST to thank the OPERA team.

I was using IE with WM6 and it was terrible. Then I happened to think about Opera
because I was on my Mac (running opera) and I'm glad I got opera beta for wm6. It
is such an awesome browsing experience. The rendering, the ease of use, the touch functions
I love this thing....
Dexter M16. May 2009, 21:10
The phrase 'Opera is cool' just got a whole new meaning!
lilmoder16. May 2009, 23:13
In my opinion it is good and kinda sad at the same time.
Taufiq Ahmed17. May 2009, 16:59
in Bangladesh is 15% man
nice
Ankur Srivastava18. May 2009, 14:43
Hello everyone, I was the one who made the Opera 10 video and now I've made a video for Opera turbo, please watch and enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnwSbZn2zRg
Eugenio D Angelo19. May 2009, 21:37

On a Pc with no Hard Disk, (Yes ! Diskless !) with just an ethernet card, running kubuntu 3.0, 256 Mb RAM, Celeron D processor, the OPERA web browser is unbeatable today,

In such environmet, OPERA have no competitors ! It is 100 % of the Market, until the day, Google Chrome, Firefox, decides to do a version to a PC Diskless, I believe, OPERA is ahead everybody !

So ! NASA's staff have made a very good choose,

So ! The REST, ( 80 % needs discover the OPERA power )

OPERA web Browser is reaaallyyyy THE BEST today !
Eugenio D Angelo19. May 2009, 21:48
Remarks !

If you want to test the above described, configuration, I suggest you to put two (2) ethernet card, instead just 1 ethernet card, catch a good Hard Disk of 7200 RPM, a 1 ethernet card, your use the blue cable, to the hard disk server and the 2 ethernet card, you use the yellow cable, to the ADSL router, or to a LINUX web server, note: Is important to not put just 1 server, but 2 servers, 1 to serve the hard disk sharing, and the 2 to share the web, from the telephone CO,

With these PCs, you could share Hard Disk and ADSL WEB connection with until 16 others DISKLESS PCS - It works well, but put 512 MB RAM in each one of each PC as today pages at the Web are HEAVY, with Photos and FLASH a lot...

Don't Forget the ROOT password of the servers, or will you have a headache !

Be Happy ! The Browser Is OPERA of course !
K Y Ng20. May 2009, 15:42
Nobody uses IE in Antartica?

booo.....
Charles Schloss20. May 2009, 16:01
honeydew in Antarctica they don't have to worry about all the holes in IE
James22. May 2009, 01:07
I have used IE exclusively for a long time. I gave up on Firefox the second
time it lost all my bookmarks. I tried a lot of different browsers,
none of them beat Opera.
I have installed on my XP and Slackware 12 installs.

Java and Flash support are great
Pipelining on by default

Thanks
jhw
Tamil22. May 2009, 07:18
Originally posted by zoso:

1 out of 5 MAD scientists use Opera...
Daniel Hendrycks24. May 2009, 18:01
Good job, within the last week Opera global market share has risen 1% according to statcounter. And in the US It has risen alot. I now see Opera instead of AOL explorer on the US market share. Also yesterday I looked and Opera's market share in the world was 3.76 and today it is 4.20. It increased .44% in one day!

In the USA yesterday it was .53 and today it is .57 thats and increase of .04! Hopefully it will continue to increase!
praetor8727. May 2009, 06:49
Because the penguins prefer the linux.