Voting is Serious Business

April 15, 2011 · by .ed

Did we ever mention that the Internet is serious business? No? Well, Fox Business thinks it is, and we tend to agree.

They've got a poll going right now about what your favorite browser is, and we think you should have a say!

The article is about differentiating features, but there's no mention of Opera Turbo, Tab Stacking, or our attractive employees.

Show Fox Business what's up, vote Opera in their poll so they get the details right next time!

Readers' comments 50

Left under the original article, as archived.

UtkarshFriday, April 15, 2011 9:01:38 PM
Awesome Opera is awesome!

P.S:Beat Tamil to 1st comment, lol sorry.
Robert JacobsenFriday, April 15, 2011 9:14:54 PM
Srs bsns is voted for.
d4rkn1ghtFriday, April 15, 2011 9:19:05 PM
Done!
Zdenko TimulakFriday, April 15, 2011 9:19:33 PM
Voted for Opera, of course.
Originally posted by Utkarsh1:

Beat Tamil to 1st comment, lol sorry.

me too Tamil is sleeping i thing.
abdur92Friday, April 15, 2011 9:38:59 PM
Tamil? Asleep? Man, must be the first time in decades.

Not to worry this banana ought to wake him up! http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs39/f/2008/326/4/0/Free_For_Use_Banana_Icon_by_AnEmberMoon.gif -

PS Voted for Opera!
CarolFriday, April 15, 2011 10:10:42 PM
Hates Fox News and their right wing agenda
D1sasterp1eceFriday, April 15, 2011 10:31:43 PM
I already voted (guess what I chose )
Opera is growing strong in this poll, it had way less votes when I first opened that page.
Cutting SpoonFriday, April 15, 2011 10:36:16 PM
Fox Business News knows what Serious Business is. Serious like the Bagger. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dImzkEA7yQs You can't tell me that's not Serious Business.

Maybe we can make them report on Opera Space Edition?
Samed AyanFriday, April 15, 2011 10:36:27 PM
slackwrdaveFriday, April 15, 2011 10:48:54 PM
I'm sorry, but you cannot go any lower than a Fox "Business" poll. This one's not worth it. Something else please.

TamilSaturday, April 16, 2011 1:11:16 AM

VOted.

+--------------------+--------+
|       Browser      |  Votes |
+--------------------+--------+
| Opera              | 41.82% |
| Firefox            | 39.87% |
| Chrome             |  9.12% |
| Internet Explorer  |  7.04% |
| Safari             |  2.15% |
+--------------------+--------+

Cutting SpoonSaturday, April 16, 2011 2:17:15 AM
Tamil! Where were you?!
rsanchez1Saturday, April 16, 2011 3:42:14 AM
Nice to see the sheeple preprogrammed to bash Fox News haven't taken the day off...
JoelSaturday, April 16, 2011 4:01:16 AM
voted
XP1Saturday, April 16, 2011 7:58:40 AM
Opera is winning!
TamilSaturday, April 16, 2011 8:14:23 AM
Originally posted by hellspork:

Where were you?!
Artur „Jurgi” JurgawkaSaturday, April 16, 2011 8:50:26 AM
Done
NimeshSaturday, April 16, 2011 9:04:55 AM
Voted Opera
PeterSaturday, April 16, 2011 11:44:05 AM
Done
SuntanaSaturday, April 16, 2011 1:27:42 PM
My vote doesn't seem to register or at least I can't see the results when I vote and click on the link to view the results. I'll try again later.
EricJHSaturday, April 16, 2011 1:46:30 PM
Thank you for voting!
Firefox 33.48%

Internet Explorer 5.87%

Chrome 8.1%

Safari 1.85%

Opera 50.69%
Charles SchlossSaturday, April 16, 2011 3:32:58 PM
Voted yesterday

Originally posted by Tamil:
praetor87Saturday, April 16, 2011 5:34:08 PM
You guys should just forget these polls... Why don't you can just sleep well without winning every polls about browsers?
SuntanaSaturday, April 16, 2011 7:46:57 PM
Alright! My vote finally went through.
And just like Charlie Sheen, Opera is WINNING!
HenrySaturday, April 16, 2011 9:14:10 PM
Peeps in my opera community run browser polls. Association to
Fox 'Serious BS! Whatever.............
Rafael LuikSaturday, April 16, 2011 9:24:13 PM
Attractive employees!
Barry SimSunday, April 17, 2011 7:22:54 AM
VOTED Opera wins , haha
yousafSunday, April 17, 2011 9:25:00 AM
"attractive employees" ! Never seen that before
ChrisSunday, April 17, 2011 10:23:12 AM
Originally posted by praetor87:

You guys should just forget these polls... Why don't you can just sleep well without winning every polls about browsers?

Because this is a type of marketing activity which helps raise awareness about Opera. Other people voting in these polls will go "WTF is this Opera thing? It gets a lot of votes, so maybe I should try it out!"
KlausHollSunday, April 17, 2011 12:06:41 PM
Opera is a leader for now)
Vote and help Opera to win!)
RobertSunday, April 17, 2011 5:27:12 PM
Voted Opera!
Sn3ipenSunday, April 17, 2011 8:04:34 PM
Done!

Opera
53.97%

Firefox
31.15%

Internet Explorer
5.45%

Chrome
7.73%

Safari
1.7%
praetor87Sunday, April 17, 2011 8:29:03 PM
Originally posted by Slamdex:

Because this is a type of marketing activity which helps raise awareness about Opera.

Poll as marketing. I don't believe in this.
.edSunday, April 17, 2011 8:39:34 PM
I CAN NOT EVEN.

I love you guys!
Zdenko TimulakSunday, April 17, 2011 8:47:25 PM
Originally posted by DotEd:

I CAN NOT EVEN.

I love you guys!

and we Opera
Rafael LuikSunday, April 17, 2011 8:53:25 PM
Originally posted by DotEd:

I CAN NOT EVEN.
Hahaha!
chimasia okwemba jacktoneSunday, April 17, 2011 9:21:29 PM
congrats opera, a voted 4 u 2.
.edMonday, April 18, 2011 2:25:23 AM
Originally posted by praetor87:

You guys should just forget these polls...

It's difficult to see major news companies get the details wrong about Opera, or skip over our features in a post about key features like this one. By sharing their post with our users, encouraging them to coment or vote to show support for their favorite browser as they put it, I hope they will do their part and research our browser before posting the most basic features next time. If we win their poll, they might say "hey, what the heck? We should look into Opera a bit more..."
Cutting SpoonMonday, April 18, 2011 2:39:02 AM
Maybe there should be a "Hundred Thousand Fists" blog...? For dealing with the major mistakes in reporting.
Charles SchlossMonday, April 18, 2011 3:18:59 AM
They missed a lot about Opera
Cutting SpoonMonday, April 18, 2011 3:27:34 AM
Actually they missed pretty much everything. Just stole a couple lines from someone's regurgitation of an older Opera Press Release (ca 10.50...?). And stated them with "opera says"...

To add insult to injury.
JimTuesday, April 19, 2011 6:28:28 AM
Opera: 57.85%
Firefox: 28.27%
Chrome: 7.51%
Internet Explorer: 4.8%
Safari: 1.57%

It's interesting how we are all motivated to jump on these polls, it reminds me of 4chan.
UtkarshTuesday, April 19, 2011 9:34:53 AM
OMGFact: Those 1.57% of the votes belonging to Safari were done by Steve Jobs using Opera by switching UserAgent. lol
mubaidrTuesday, April 19, 2011 11:52:36 AM
^^^

Opera rocks
ArturFriday, April 22, 2011 8:26:29 PM
RemcoFriday, April 22, 2011 9:35:15 PM
This poll has obviously been influenced but I don't care; after using & testing Opera under Windows OS & Linux OS for 1,5 years I can't think of any better browser...
iyke duruSunday, April 24, 2011 2:12:09 PM
it just cool.lol
EricJHSunday, April 24, 2011 5:06:52 PM
Originally posted by HigQ:

This poll has obviously been influenced
They always are....

It makes them good fun though....
CynthiaMonday, April 25, 2011 8:06:33 PM
Opera, of course!
Charles SchlossWednesday, May 11, 2011 1:47:22 PM
Strange the poll is still open, almost a month later