Google Chrome & Opera Celebrates Their Birthdays
No cake for you.
If you need an excuse to start drinking on Monday mornings, then we are about to give you two.
As it turns out, Opera Software, which was founded on August 30, 1995, has recently celebrated its 18th birthday, making it one of the oldest browser makers in the world (fun fact: Internet Explorer 1 debuted on August 16, 1995).
Not only that but Google Chrome too was revealed at a similar timeframe (September 2, 2008), which today marks the five years of web browser innovation.
So here you have it, and if you wonder when Firefox saw its initial release, it was September 23, 2002.
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september, month of browsers :-)
Opera isn’t a browser anymore. It’s an addon for Chrome.
You don’t get tired of discussing this, do you?? Under every single comment I see your similar message. OK! You are not the only one that has noticed this incident.
So funny comment :)
If Opera isn’t a browser, then neither is Chrome. Chrome is just an addon for Safari (as long as it’s using webkit).
jayjarn who are you on My Opera?
An add-on for Chrome that do things no add-on for Chrome does, works faster than Chrome, doesn’t support the proprietary H.264 and the model of turning the web a closed Google platform called Chrome Web Store and NaCl.
That’s an add-on? Really?
If Google acquire Opera, we will get a new browser called Chropera.
Not Chropera.
It’s Crapera.
I spell checked it for you.
Not c.
It’s acephalous.
I spell checked your name for you.
Five years of web browser innovation? are you serious?
Five years of web browser innovation? are you serious? september, month of browsers.