Firefox? Who’s that? Opera says 4.7 million have downloaded version 9.5
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Are the oldschool browser wars starting up again? It sure seems care about it.
Flock has a preview of their version 2 out, Firefox launched version 3 this day, and Opera launched version 9.5 on June 12th.
Who’s missing from this uber release celebration? Oh, that would be Microsoft’s World wide web Explorer…the browser with the #1 market share. After their less than stellar (and way less than standards compliant) version 7, Microsoft better come up with some EPIC for World wide web Explorer 8.
Opera as you know is focused on security, speed, and mobile.
The sometimes over the top Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner stressed that Opera 9.5’s most innovative and most important feature is the cross-link between your desktop and mobile devices. A feature that other browsers haven’t even bothered to start playing with yet.
Will Opera’s mobile first, desktop second strategy work? We shall see.
4.7 million downloads in 5 days is impressive, but can Firefox surpass that in a single day? Not if they can’t keep their own site online.
Stay tuned!
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