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Opera Breathes Down Firefox's and Chrome's Necks With Unite

Opera Unite

Though the Opera browser isn't open source, it's free and its new server-in-a-browser feature, Unite, is really making significant inroads toward online collaboration. If Chrome and Firefox are to keep their edge over Opera, their development teams had better sit up and take notice.

Opera's Unite technology lets users run chat rooms, host Web sites, and share files that even people not using Opera can access. The interaction is all done via a central Opera Unite server ? Opera Unite uses a proxy between the server and its clients (found at operaunite.com) to avoid the need for any special firewall configuration, writes the development team. Unite launched today with six features but is calling on the Opera community to design and create any new services they'd like to see available.

Read on to have a look at what Opera unite can already do and why Google and Mozilla haven't cornered the market on browsers just yet.



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The Browser Competition Heats Up: Notes from this Week

Few corners of the software world are witnessing as much fierce competition as the browser market. Microsoft's Internet Explorer is continuing to drop in market share, ?and although the company's new version 8 of IE has many improvements, Walt Mossberg and others are finding that it's not as fast as Firefox, Chrome or Safari. I remain loyal to Firefox because of the incredible extensions that I can use with it, but I'm actually using all the major browsers, including Opera. Amidst all the competition, here are some findings I took note of this week, regarding Chrome, IE, Firefox and Opera.


Google's Chrome Browser isn't Going Unnoticed

Even though it's only available in a Windows version so far, Google's open source Chrome browser is reaching a lot of people, according to data from Nielsen Online. Nielsen reports that between Sep. 1st and Sep. 7th, more than 1.9 million unique visitors in the U.S. visited the Thank You page for the Chrome browser. The data lines up with similar findings from NetApplications, which has found that Chrome has about one percent of browser share--ahead of Opera. Which browser does Chrome not appear to be taking share from, though? That would be Safari.


Chrome: Already Topping Opera in Market Share

There have been positive and negative things said about Google's new Chrome open source browser but, just as Apple can do no wrong in the eyes of many consumers, never underestimate the sway that Google has. PC Magazine is reporting that Chrome already tops Opera in market share after just four days in the wild, citing data from Net Applications. Meanwhile, our sister blog JKOntheRun ran a quick analysis of which browsers were accessing their site on the first day of Chrome's release and found that more than 10 percent of visitors were using Chrome. Go figure. Check out JKOntheRun's thoughts.