opera:hige

■ Be Forever,Opera. 15:00

The fox is everywhere! Where is Opera?(A Journal from Behind the Trenches by Haavard)。

以下，一部拝借

More people than ever before are made aware of the problems with Internet Explorer, and start looking for other browsers. When you see an article about the release of Firefox 1.0, you will often, if not usually, see that other alternatives are mentioned as well. It is obvious that different people have different needs, and while Firefox is a great browser in its own right, it is not necessarily the answer to everyone's needs. Firefox offers a basic browser which can then be added to with extensions. Opera, on the other hand, offers a complete Internet package. Rather than having to "build your own browser", so to speak, Opera offers the convenience of an integrated package, full of useful features.

The fact is that people now know that they have a choice, and many actually choose Opera. If they try Firefox and find that it doesn't really work for them, they may remember hearing about Opera too, and will try it out. In fact, in a Norwegian IT publication a while ago, a spokesperson for Opera explained that we saw increasing download numbers from opera.com.

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Opera's user base is growing, and the fact that Firefox is now available as a stable release does not mean that Opera is going to disappear. Opera has been around for nearly a decade, and free alternatives have existed for all these years. While Firefox is what's hot today, we shouldn't forget that Opera has been around the world already, and there hasn't really been much to report lately. Still, Opera gets a "free ride" because of the timing of the Firefox 1.0 release.

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要するに，OperaとFirefoxは違う路線を歩むブラウザでありどちらを選ぶかはユーザー次第である。Firefoxを使ってみて自分には合わないやって人はOperaに乗り換えればいいだけ*1。またこのFirefox1.0リリースはFirefoxにとってだけではなくOperaにとっても大きな転機になるってこと。

多くの人がIE以外のブラウザを求め始めているのは感じる。しかし，Operaに乗り換えましたって記事はあまりみない。この機会にどうOperaユーザーを増やすかが課題ですね。