Opera Widgets - Facts and Figures

Question: who remembers without a cheat sheet when widgets appeared in Opera? I think a few. For reference, the first widgets in Opera were presented already in 2006. But on the other hand, many probably remember the first comments about the appearance of these widgets, and even on the desktop. For censorship reasons, we will not quote them literally, but limit ourselves to a politically correct generalizing phrase: “And why is this here? o_O. Today it is already clear why, and also why the widgets were perceived somewhat cool: once again, Opera introduced a technology that has overtaken its time. Yes, it is now possible to find widgets on almost any mobile device , whose belonging to the desktop, tablet or smartphone can sometimes be impossible to determine by sight. Something electronic, with a screen on which they flaunt ... the launch icons of those widgets. Not to mention the set-top boxes, the interface of which is sometimes built exclusively on widgets .



And here are some current results. To date, users have downloaded opera widgets from our portal just over 4.65 million times, and that’s not counting the fact that they are pre-installed on thousands and thousands of different devices around the world. In total, after the recent “purge”, more than 1,700 widgets are on the list of available ones, and a dozen of the most popular are as follows:

1. Analog clock
2. SimAquarium
3. Weather forecast
4. Google translator
5. Unite Media Player
6. Planetwers
7. eBook Reader
8. Flash video downloader
9. Biolab Disaster
10. Seesu

Well, and finally - a list of countries leading in the activity of using widgets:

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1. Russia
2. Ukraine
3. Germany
4. United States
5. Poland
6. Belarus
7. India
8. China
9. Kazakhstan
10. United kingdom

Read more about opera widgets here .