iPhones come with Safari and few people ever install another browser. Android phones come with a stock browser and few people install another browser. Opera has little potential to help Facebook crack the smart phone marketing problem.

That's a silly statement. Opera got 8 million new active users in March alone. The number of smartphone users in Opera's mobile user base is approaching 50%. Remember, people do install other browsers (obviously), and Opera has deals with most major carriers to distribute it on their phones.

If they had offered a Firefox-like Add-on system and done a similar marketing (think: Firefox logo), they would be the most popular browser instead today.

The marketing Firefox got was, among other things, Google paying webmasters to distribute it. So basically, Google helped make Firefox big. Not the logo.

Those are video and image decoders. They've got nothing whatsoever to do with reporting anything to Google.

You can even look at the source code.

Did you actually check the facts before posting your comment?

Opera is no longer, no matter what their home page says, the fastest browser in the business.

I disagree.

There's more to speed than browser benchmarks. JavaScript speed between browsers is indistinguishable to the user. What makes Opera much faster than anyone else is the way you can get stuff done.

I regularly have more than 100 tabs open in Opera. Other browsers can't handle even half of that before they grind to a halt. I move around using Opera's extensive keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures. Sure, you can download various half-assed extensions for other browsers that emulate this, but nothing beats native, full-speed features.

And if I do have a lot of tabs open, I use the Windows panel to give me real-time filtering of tabs, making it extremely easy to find what I'm looking for.

And those are just a few examples of why Opera is faster in actual usage than other browsers. The fact that it doesn't die when you open more than a few tabs sets it apart from other browsers.

Also, Facebook could need Opera's mobile expertise, and of course Opera's huge market share in emerging markets where Facebook is struggling to get in.

I'm not the one making excuses. You are the one who made claims about what the IPCC reports allegedly said, and failed to provide any sources.

Your BBC article (which is irrelevant since you actually claimed that "they" was referring to Hansen, Jones and Mann (even though you originally referred to the IPCC when I asked you for sources). Well, you have failed to come up with any sources for either of these. All you had was a BBC article that mentioned ice-free summers as a possibility by 2013, and that comment had been criticized by other scientists.

You need to stop asking for sources until you have provided yours.

Put up or shut up.

Fail? When I asked you for sources, you replied: "no, citations aren't needed douchebag. It's all there in the various IPCC reports."

In other words, you claimed it was all in the IPCC reports. So now you need to show exactly where.

Put up or shut up.

Exactly. You claimed that the IPCC had made specific predictions, and failed to produce a source for that claim. It is not my job to try to dig through tousands of pages of IPCC reports to support your claim.

You posted an article which did not even support your claim. But your original claim was about the IPCC predicting an ice-free arctic.

If "they" made predictions, where are the sources showing that Hansen, Mann and Jones predicted an ice-free arctic by 2013? Al Gore is irrelevant because he is not scientist. But now you have made a specific claim about specific scientists (even though you originally referred to the IPCC).

Why do you expect me to provide you with citations when you refuse to give me yours? I'm not going to spend time digging up citations for you if you refuse to provide yours.