2005-09-23 opera 网站因为新版8.5的发布引发大量的下载，两天之内1百多万下载。新版 opera 8.5 去掉了广告条。opera 已经成为浏览器排行第五，大约1%的浏览器总份额。

BTW:怪不得我前几天总是无法从官方站点下载成功。firefox 和 opera 都是我最喜欢的浏览器，别用垃圾IE了，每次我看到有人用IE就受不了。

下载地址：

ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/win/850

ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/opera/win/850/zh-cn/ow32zh-cnzh-cn850.exe

消息来源：

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=171200331

http://www.thewhir.com/marketwatch/dow092305.cfm

guoshuang2005-10-10+More than three million new users have downloaded the Opera browser in the two weeks since the company launched its free browser. The average daily download rate quadruples the previous rate achieved before the release of Opera 8.5.