Chrome continues surge as IE drops below 60% market share

Re:Chrome continues surge as IE drops below 60% market share by houseabsolute on Monday May 03, 2010 @11:55PM (#1316996)

I think Opera has historically focused on features that power users find interesting, maybe because most of their user-base is power users. But that has negative implications for mainstream adoption.

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Re:Chrome continues surge as IE drops below 60% market share by megablast on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @01:21AM (#1317163)

I disagree. Opera was also the browser than could fit on a 1.44mb floppy, it was always had the smallest footprint of browsers, as well as memory. The problem was the in the wild west of the web, a lot of pages didn't work quite right on Opera. So you always had to have IE or Netscape handy.

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Re:Chrome continues surge as IE drops below 60% market share by houseabsolute on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @02:12AM (#1317255)

> it was always had the smallest footprint of browsers, as well as memory

So . . . features for power users, right?

> didn't work quite right on Opera

Sounds like something power users put up with more readily than most other people.

> have IE or Netscape handy.

Using more than one browser is something power users do.

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Re:Chrome continues surge as IE drops below 60% market share by elblanco on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @04:34AM (#1317486)

>So you always had to have IE or Netscape handy.

That's a very interesting point. I guess when Opera first came out, it didn't quite work right, IE and Netscape were the 800 pound gorillas fighting it out, and Firefox simply inherited the mindshare of Netscape. Opera was simply a third dancer in a waltz.

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