"Opera browser beats the stuffing out of Firefox"

Opera's CEO Jon S. von Tetzchner seems delighted with the fact that million's of Internet users have switched to the Firebox web browser. According to von Tezchner, Firefox's rapid snap up of 5% of the browser market is proof in the pudding that the dominance of Microsoft's archaic Internet Explorer ought not be taken for granted.

For folks interested in speech technology, the recent release of Opera 8 is of particular interest, in that it is the first commercial speech-enabled multimodal web browser on the market. As we have blogged earlier, Opera 8 implements the XHTML+Voice specification. While you might not fully appreciate the utility of equipping your web browser with a speech modality on your desktop, spkydog predicts once you experience it on your UI-constrained mobile device, you'll be barking to a different tune!