starway - 10:25 am on Jun 25, 2002 (gmt 0)

I'd like to point you to some other thing:
Many people (if not most part of users) just don't bother themselves trying new things (browsers in our case). They are conservatives and quite satisfied with what they got. And what they got is default software installed on their systems. Opera will never become as famous as IE until it will have the equal chances of distribution (and it doesn't concern Opera only).

I'm dediacted Opera user for about 2 years already, starting from v.3. It's my primary browser since I discovered it's brilliant features that are missing in competiting products. But when I talk to others about it, I often get a reply like this: "Well, it's fine, but I don't really need/care/bother myself to try it, what I have is enough".

It also seems to me that Opera promotion is the key of it's not so bright growth. I understand that a small company doesn't have enough resources to do it. But it seems the most important thing for now (after fixing all small but sometimes annoying bugs that exist in current version).
Here's an example of lack of promotion: many features implemented in new Mozilla were advertized loudly, but not so many people know that these things were implemented in Opera a long time ago.

What can we do to change this?