First Look at Opera 10: Can it Make a Dent in the Desktop?

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Article Source Linux Magazine
June 10, 2009, 1:11 pm
 
Last week, Opera released the first beta of Opera 10 with a visual refresh and a number of enhancements and new features. The question is, can Opera make a dent in the desktop or is Opera on the desktop just a Quixotic effort in the face of Firefox and Internet Explorer?

It’d be silly to say that Opera isn’t doing well — the Opera mobile browser is one of the most popular around. But Opera on the desktop has less market share than Chrome or Safari according to some measures, consistently around 2.2% in the reports from W3Schools.com.

Can 10 change that? Let’s have a look…