You work a decade to build a trendsetting browser, even the first with tabs, and what happens? In two days you're kicked aside for a Johnny-come-lately that doesn't even have a sidebar, let alone one with more options than any other browser.
I'm talking about the much-loved but little-used Opera, which already has taken a backseat to Google's mere 2-day-old infant of a browser, Chrome. At least according to one source, Market Share from NetApplications.com. The new browser topped out today with 1.57 percent of browser share, but then sunk back down after the initial excitement to 1.06 percent--still ahead of Opera's .74 percent.
That's just according to one source though; for all Ziff Davis sites, the numbers are even more jarring, with Chrome getting 1.7 percent and Opera 9.x getting less than 0.1 percent. And that's for all four days of September so far, during nearly a half of which Chrome didn't even exist!
I'm talking about the much-loved but little-used Opera, which already has taken a backseat to Google's mere 2-day-old infant of a browser, Chrome. At least according to one source, Market Share from NetApplications.com. The new browser topped out today with 1.57 percent of browser share, but then sunk back down after the initial excitement to 1.06 percent--still ahead of Opera's .74 percent.
That's just according to one source though; for all Ziff Davis sites, the numbers are even more jarring, with Chrome getting 1.7 percent and Opera 9.x getting less than 0.1 percent. And that's for all four days of September so far, during nearly a half of which Chrome didn't even exist!
