Did Opera bootles triple thanks to the selection screen in Windows?

As you know, since March 1, European Windows users were able to select and install the default web browser — when IE8 first loads the browser or if Internet Explorer is installed by default, the page www.browserchoice.eu opens (obviously, if the system already comes with this feature or is pre-made by Windows Update). True, there were some complaints with the correctness of sorting, but, judging by the discussion, it was quickly corrected . They were not slow to go on the news of a supposedly positive positive effect: Opera’s downloads tripled , reports Opera’s chief of strategic planning. This, of course, is most likely due to the fact that on March 2, the day after the launch of the screen, the company announced the release of Opera 10.50, a new version of the browser. Therefore, it is better not to hurry with conclusions and statistics.


It is worth mentioning that it was Opera Software that initiated the issue of providing a browser choice more than 2 years ago.

As of the end of February 2010, according to StatCounter , the share of browsers correlate as {IE: 55.2, Firefox: 30.8, Chrome 6.8, Safari: 4.4, Opera: 1.9} percent (according to netmarketshare, the tracker has similar global statistics). For Russia : {IE: 29.6, Firefox: 30.5, Chrome 5.6, Safari: 1.4, Opera: 31.6}, for geeks ( Habr, by Google Analytics at the end of 2008, I did not find more recent) {IE: 9.5, Firefox: 48.6, Chrome 9.7, Safari: 4.5, Opera: 26.3}.