 Permalink for comment 368158 Member since:   I think as much of
the issue is that most users haven't heard of Opera.  Firefox,
wasn't a total unknown when it was released as users of Netscape
would have heard of Mozilla. Plus Firefox reached that critical
mass where enough people knew about it to tell enough other
people about it (thus the user base snow balls).  Chrome, had
quite a public launch. It was talked about on news sites that
wouldn't normally delve that deeply into geek technology. (I
imagine this was largely to it being a Google product).  Safari,
is the OS X default as well as being Apple (aka "the coolest
company on earth") product - so it's no surprise that it has a
measurable install base.  Opera, however, isn't backed by a huge
super cool mega-company. It's not so popular that novices and
non-geeks would have seen their fellow non-geek mates using it.
It's not had a hugely publicized launch. It's just there,
lurking in the back ground somewhere and largely unheard of by
the majority of compu