Opera: 50 million desktop users

April 12, 2010 · by Haavard

It has been just a little more than four years since we removed the ads from Opera, and thereby prepared it for the mass-market. In those few years, Opera has reached a desktop user base of 50 million users.

This milestone was reached in March, and it means that Opera has added more than 10 million new active users on average each year since the ads were removed.

And just like Opera's user base on the desktop has grown so far, I expect it to continue to grow in the future. Good things are on the horizon for Opera and Opera users.

Readers' comments 11

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Почтальон ПечкинMonday, April 12, 2010 8:23:59 AM
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ouzowtfMonday, April 12, 2010 8:41:20 AM
sabisanMonday, April 12, 2010 11:07:21 AM
Anton DiazMonday, April 12, 2010 11:27:09 AM
TeoMonday, April 12, 2010 12:17:02 PM
I really appreciate your hard work, guys and gals! Opera is truly one of the most amazing piece of software ever created. And it touches my everyday life in so many and important ways, that I cannot imagine my life without it. Thank you!
GroovyMonday, April 12, 2010 1:53:41 PM
How do you define "user" ?
prd3Monday, April 12, 2010 2:51:43 PM
Originally posted by Micky:

How do you define "user" ?

Someone who uses Opera, obviously.
endless loveMonday, April 12, 2010 4:10:15 PM
<:-p
d4rkn1ghtMonday, April 12, 2010 5:55:13 PM
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Cutting SpoonTuesday, April 13, 2010 12:58:27 AM
I think they still count active users with stuff like update checks and browser.js requests. Not SUPER accurate, but if anything they err toward the low side of the estimate. Good stuff.
Charles SchlossTuesday, April 13, 2010 2:23:03 AM