Opera was doing very well years ago because it was a much better desktop browser than IE or Netscape. It didn't do Turbo than and it declined as Mozilla got it'

Opera was doing very well years ago because it was a much better desktop browser than IE or Netscape. It didn't do Turbo than and it declined as Mozilla got it's act together and chrome appeared. Opera is popular in the developing world for an entirely different reason - the Turbo/mini compression - it may lose that market if other browsers also do compression.