And where do you think FireFox’s funds comes from ? Why do you think Google is the default search engine in FireFox ? Why do you think there are tractations between FireFox and Google ?

FireFox is not less commercial than Opera is. The main difference, is that the FireFix community pretends that FireFox is not commercial (while it is, peoples are paid for the developpement of FireFox), while the Opera team does not lie about it…. a it seems peoples like lies.

Yes, in the profile folder of any Opera installation inspect the file “override_downloaded.ini” to see the downloaded site spoofs. Similarly, in the same folder there resides a file “browser.js” which contains Opera-supplied javascript fixes for many sites.

Does someone has reliable source regarding 10% in Russia?

For something like 6 months, I’m noticing a growing interest for Opera. No doubt its gratis distribution is a major cause for this, but I don’t think this is the only one; rise of alternative browsing sis help too. Considered that way, Firefox is very good for Opera (Microsoft also, since it shipped IE7 five years after IE6).

Since you are talking about per-site preference, I have to tell you about OmniWeb (Mac-only): this is what Opera should have been on Mac (interface/feature-wise; engine is WebCore): first pop-up blocker, first thumbnail preview, first browser with per-site preferences, with a ton of useful features (like remembering window size, so you can safely resize for just one site, workspaces – think upgraded sessions)… And like was originally Opera, it is shareware – 30 separate (!) days for evaluation. And you can still extend the period by downloading the previews. For now, it is using nightly builds of WebCore/WebKit as standard so, compared to vanilla Safari (2.0.4), its standard support is much better.

1. It sucks on Mac. My favourite browser by far on Windows (Firefox did not existed when I was on Windows) but not a chance on Mac (this would be OmniWeb). Opera 9 is a tad better, but still inferior
2. Opera is targeted at powerusers. The vast majority of Web users are not powerusers.
3. Opera does not have the communication/openness of Firefox or the automatic download/preinstall that IE enjoys.
4. In 1998, Opera gave up trying to compete with IE. They know their money is on embedded stuff. “Desktop” is but a loss leader for “mobile”.

For now, when I want to print a complex layout (dl.run-in dt {display:run-in}, dl.run-in.colon dt:after {content:”: “}. That is “name: definition”), I use Opera, because it is the only to render it correctly. Opera as a longstanding tradition of great standard support (sometimes, like here, better than Firefox — including latest nightly). Still, how many people needs it? A lot, for sure, but not “enough of a lot” ;-)

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Jacob Seabrook: some years ago, Jukka “Yucca” Korpela wrote an article about the different rendering in different engines. I can’t remember the page, but I do remember Opera was using the right values until 3.xx, after, it did the same as all the other browser: using its own values. So, for a while, Opera was the reference. Then the market forced it to change, I guess.

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Six months ago, I wrote a debunking about Opera being underreported. Sadly, it is in French.

http://blog.empyree.org/post/1404

(Google-translated version: http://tinyurl.com/2gaz2x)

To make it short: no, Opera is not underepresented

0. Opera? What’s that
1. Opera? 2% of marketshare
2. Opera is much more, but they indentify themselves as Internet Explorer for compatibility. That’s why they are underepresented
3. Opera substring does show the right information. And serious surveys look at this substring. No underepresentation there.
4. Opera [is] underepresented, but for another reason: a powerful cache (this is Opera’s explanation http://www.opera.com/company/chat/party/ceo/)
5. Serious surveys count only one visit by IP and day, therefore preloading is not taken into account (or so little).
6. Say one searches on Google. All the sites are audited but only one is visited. Opera: one access, Firefox: 10 accesses. Underrepresentation (well, exactly, this is Firefox’s overepresentation)
7. Level 7 anyone?

Thanks for the kind words about Opera. It is a mystery why many of your sites are showing no Opera users. In general we are seeing Opera take up increase since we went free and Opera 9 came out. There is a list of sites that we ‘mask’ as another browser, and it may be possible some of your sites are on this list. These are sites that we get sent broken code for, so identify ourselves as another browser and completely remove ‘opera’ from the UA string. It may also be that there have been issues in Opera on the pages in the past, so users haven’t came back.

Of course, if there are any issues with Opera on your sites, I’ll gladly look into them.

i will try doing this and see if i can get all the margins back to were they are for the elements concerned