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There is more information in the quarterly and annual reports and other investor information that we publish.

Opera is a public company, so you can buy and sell shares in it if you want to...

We have a few extensions (the Adblock-like content blocker is a built-in function), but we have to kill you before telling you what they are :) (Although if you look around the Web you'll probably see at least something about reddit, and Wikipedia).

Why are we doing it? Opera has always been highly customisable. At the same time we want to keep the browser secure, and it needs to perform on very low-end platforms (TVs, game consoles, and so on). So we think carefully about how to improve it - customisability inherently brings complexity. And of course there are lots of priorities and we can't work on them all at once.

If you look at the Core team blog you'll see a bit more about how they work. A particular design goal was to make it easy to port extensions and userJS/GreaseMonkey scripts. Watch that space, and labs.opera.com, for more. (You'll probably survive not checking every hour. And weekdays are more likely release times than weekends. I can't tell you when, but soon...).

The people I get to work with. (Otherwise, I try not to talk about Opera at parties...)

We hate people excluding Opera (or any other browser, for that matter) from sites. It's why we have done so much to work around it. We also work directly with the sites where possible to improve the situation, and specifically with people at Google.

HTML5 won't fix websites, the web developers have to fix them. But HTML5 will at least offer an easy way to do that...