A week of Opera: Week 38, 2010

September 27, 2010 · by Haavard

Last week was a slow one compared to other weeks, but there were some important and interesting things that happened.

We found that more than 1 in 10 Opera desktop users are using Opera Turbo. We also released a new snapshot with startup and shutdown profiling, which will be of help when troubleshooting unusually long startup or shutdown times.

Jon did an interview with Memeburn on the future of mobile computing, where he also reveals that there are 500,000 downloads of Opera every single day.

Opera reached a respectable 16% of the votes in Lifehacker's browser poll (who also fixed the Opera icon they were using, and replaced the old one with the new Opera O).

Our ever-busy Dev Relations team held various talks, such as one on HTML5 audio and video in London. They also published a list of upcoming talks, so take a look in case they are somewhere near you in the coming months!

The (work) week ended with a mysterious new page on opera.com about something called "Up North Web", which tells you to prepare for an avalanche on October 14 this year. No one seems to know what this means exactly, so I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

Readers' comments 17

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IKokeMonday, September 27, 2010 10:07:50 AM

The "Up North Web" is only a notice to Oslo?
Artur „Jurgi” JurgawkaMonday, September 27, 2010 10:36:53 AM
Avalanche? A new p2p web?
Gousti FruitMonday, September 27, 2010 12:02:05 PM
New website design ? :-\
OperaDrBruceMonday, September 27, 2010 12:04:37 PM
New website, 100%.
Mağruf ÇolakoğluMonday, September 27, 2010 12:46:27 PM
We waits it should be new technology ?
Maybe new internet protocol over WI-FI , independent from ISS
Charles SchlossMonday, September 27, 2010 2:09:56 PM
Said libeleleMonday, September 27, 2010 2:19:15 PM
We will wait and see what it wil be nov is not far
Artur „Jurgi” JurgawkaMonday, September 27, 2010 2:49:18 PM
Free fibre for each Opera user?
rseilerMonday, September 27, 2010 4:53:59 PM
Please don't leave us hanging. All I can see in the feed for this post is "Last week was a slow one compared to other weeks, but there were some important and interesting things that happened. ..."
random414Monday, September 27, 2010 5:33:30 PM
Originally posted by Haavard:

Opera reached a respectable 16% of the votes in Lifehacker's browser poll (who also fixed the Opera icon they were using, and replaced the old one with the new Opera O).
That's nice of them!
I send them several messages telling about the new logo.
d4rkn1ghtMonday, September 27, 2010 7:18:30 PM
Originally posted by GoustiFruit:

New website design ?

I don't know if it is that, but a new MyOpera design will be nice.
DillonTuesday, September 28, 2010 9:32:04 AM
Pretty sure it's webmail updates
ouzowtfTuesday, September 28, 2010 9:44:50 AM
Originally posted by Astrophizz:

Pretty sure it's webmail updates

Think so too.
Cutting SpoonTuesday, September 28, 2010 10:25:20 PM
More platform development announcements?
Stephen TurrellWednesday, September 29, 2010 2:10:24 PM
Hardware Acceleration ?
AsiresWednesday, September 29, 2010 6:10:27 PM
Merge of the Opera with another company.
Adding h264 video support.
Rebranding of Opera browser series (with maybe site redesign).
Cutting SpoonSaturday, October 2, 2010 7:30:04 PM
Opera uses giant anti-laser to re-freeze the polar icecaps.