Best Major Desktop Browser 2010 – Opera 10
Opera 10 was nominated as the Best Major Desktop Browser category in the Reader’s Choice Awards Winner conducted by the well-known About.com at the start of the year 2010. In this reader’s choice, readers were asked to nominate their favorite browsers and browser-related software in various categories including Best Major Desktop Browser, Best Mobile Browser, Best Overall Add-On (Non Security), Best Privacy/Security Add-On, Best Independent Browser, Best Browser Theme, and Best User Script.
About.com stated -
As expected, the Best Major Desktop Browser category turned out to be our most active; racking up over 25,000 votes. The winner may surprise a few people, as it doesn’t boast a lion’s share of the browser market. However, it does offer a fast and powerful browser which explains the exuberance of its followers.
This year’s winner got off to a quick start as the voting period commenced, and held on throughout the weeks despite a formidable push from Firefox Nation. The people have spoken, and Opera 10.x is the winner of this year’s Best Major Desktop Browser category!
Final Voting Totals
- Opera 10.x – 51% (13,234 votes)
- Firefox 3.5/3.6 – 41% (10,710 votes)
- Chrome – 4% (1,266 votes)
- Internet Explorer 8 – 1% (447 votes)
- Safari 4.x – 0% (234 votes)
Even more surprising is that Microsoft is drastically losing its market. IE 8 with 1% votes is quite a bad number especially for the desktop browser as it released the more web standards friendly Internet Explorer 8, approximately a year ago. Well, congratulations to Opera 10!
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March 4th, 2010 at 11:44 am
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March 4th, 2010 at 12:09 pm
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March 11th, 2010 at 12:57 am
I love Opera Mini on Nokia mobile phones but I’ve never tried the desktop version. I’m too addicted to Mozilla Firefox. Is it really thaaat much better? Firefox is just too awesome.
.-= Maxwell´s last blog ..Apple vs HTC over iPhone patents =-.
March 11th, 2010 at 6:28 am
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January 9th, 2012 at 8:24 pm
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