++ OPERA lies about being named PC World best browser 2005? ++
 

Opera Software seems to have decided that it's easier lie that to win. Here's the chain of events as best as I can tell.

PC World announced their 100 Best Products of 2005.

Firefox not only won the coveted Product of the Year award, sweeping all 99 other products in the list, but it beat out two other browsers, Maxthon at number 12 and Opera way down at number 88.

Opera puts out a press release claiming "A Winning Streak: Opera once again wins PC World's World Class Award for best Web browser". Opera.com then places this same thing on their front page (see the third checkbox with the claim that they've won best browser in '05.)

Conclusion: Opera is simply lying. They were one of 100 products to be labeled as "World Class" but they did not win any "best Web browser" anything. They were last in the ranking of three web browsers. They got beat by both Maxthon and Firefox.

excerpts from: http://channels.lockergnome.com/web/..._browser.phtml
related article: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5740879.html

PC World's best products of 2005 award is available at:
http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/artic...3,pg,12,00.asp

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Screenshot of Opera.com taken June 8, 2005

OWNED :1orglaugh

http://img291.echo.cx/img291/3953/opera0xw.jpg

Opera sucks

Maybe they were hoping that by the time Opera actually started up on people computers they'd have the problem fixed... :1orglaugh

Hey, what firefox skin is that? It's pretty sweet.

Sooooooo owned

hahahahaha

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Opera is a company, they hire marketing people, marketing people lie. I don't think this is necessarily reflective of the company as a whole, but rather they just hire stupid marketing people.

ive checked FF site themes but can't find. ended up installing Modern PinBall 1.0.6.. highly recommended :thumbsup

++ Why do you "decorate" all of your thread titles? ++

dunno, started this a couple of months.
something that isolates me from useless threads
just wanted to be different

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I can appreciate wanting to be different. :thumbsup

"best browser award" and "the best or #1 browser" is different. They probably did receive a best browser award but not the #1 browser. Marketing.. clean and clear.

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It clearly says received best browser award in 05 on the Opera homepage. If its a mistake on their part its a pretty big, and stupid, one. If its deliberate, then shame on them. I'm a Firefox user but still respected Opera as a browser and a company.

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Opera is the bomb - dont diss on the browser because of its name.

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I think that's Opera?

Lie or no lie - I still love my Opera

FireFox rocks

ROFL! dude looks like a power ranger btw for you firefox lovers like myself... http://quirk.co.za/searchstatus/ its a alexa and googlepage rank addon

Well if Opera is number 1 then we have to get started writing exploits for it.
spyware/adware/trojans/virus/ and more.
can't let a good thing like this go by.
exploiting number 1 is where it is at.

nice find and thanks for sharing
im sure lots of webmasters here would find it very much useful

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Well, it IS easier to lie than to win!