Pocket-Lint: Opera 11 has gone live, bringing a wealth of new features to the browser.
In terms of browser market share, Opera has dropped down to fifth place since Google's Chrome went on the rampage, but its 1.93 per cent share includes a dedicated core following who will be excited by the update.
The March launches of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) and Firefox 4 failed to stop Microsoft's and Mozilla's decline in browser share, new Web usage data published Sunday showed.
I think IE has become a Enterprise only browser. That's why we have seen limited increases in the newer versions on IE. Enterprise rejected Vista and is slow to accept Windows 7. Both of which require a newer IE. This may slowly change as people start using IE 9 at work and may find it something they may want to use at home. But I think Microsoft made a mistake by not updating IE more frequently.
Unfortunately Chrome seems to be increasingly bloated compared to what it was a year ago so I'm not surprised its increase has slowed. It says a lot about the current state of the market that many people now have to use multiple browsers to satisfy their needs.
My thoughts exactly. i dont understand how come everybody doesnt use multiple browsers i say it on a daily basis. each browser is made for something and thats what we should use it for. Firefox and opera are great for downloading. I downloaded something once at school and the comp was administrator locked down all i could use was ie. i went to download and 10 popups came up but on firefox i never seen 1 ad when i used that site.
Firefox 'till I die, son.
Chrome's cool, but I didn't like how it always opens new processes for everything. I also just like Mozilla more than Google.
The Norwegian company Opera Software released Opera 11.10 today, previously code-named Barracuda. One of the biggest new features in the new version is an improvement of the Opera Turbo service that speeds up surfing by compressing webpages.
According to Opera, images on websites will, in average, be 54 percent smaller than the original image. This makes the loading time of webpages almost 40 percent faster with Opera Turbo than other browsers.
Tom's Hardware: "With highly-anticipated Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 now available, along with recently released Google Chrome 10, superb Opera 11, newly updated Apple Safari 5.04, and rock-steady Mozilla Firefox 3.6, this is going to be quite an interesting race."
WOah woah woah
these numbers are scary.
Startups Ie9 is beating everyone now. on single and multiple tabs.
opera is now second.
Google chrome loads google.com the slowest
and yahoo.com the fastest... lol
overall very good benchmarking session.
ha ha I don't think that everybody will suddenly switch back to IE (9)from Chrome or Firefox, by the way - why they use Firefox 3.6, when there is the new version available LOL
yes i will not be swtiching back but i will do a test to see if all the hype is true.
