Opera was a trendsetter. You could tell that people worked on it very hard for a very long time, and in just a couple of days it was essentially kicked to the curb.

Google’s Chrome captured more market share than Opera ever had. How sad for Opera; how great for Google. Opera had a ton of features and a sidebar that offered so much to the user.

Chrome doesn’t even have that. It’s very minimalist and simplistic. It seems that a lot of people like that, however, because it became wildly popular in the space of about ten minutes. It doesn’t seem like it will take over from Firefox or IE, but it looks like it’s here to stay and like it will keep other, smaller browsers from making much headway in the market.