An idea to promote Opera

Have you ever happened to need to transfer a large file over the net to a particular person? I have and I must admit it is not such an easy task as it seems. Especially if your connection tends to stop from time to time...

Skype, ICQ and other IM clients do not have a function to continue a transfer from where it stopped. You may be sending a 1GB file, the end of the transfer may be approaching, but then then your are suddenly disconnected and oh, s*it! Popular file storage servers are not a solution for the same reason. File sharing applications such as DC++ or eMule support pausing of transfers but they require complicated changes of settings to work as a file transfer application between two users only.

Firefox once had a beautiful extension for this called AllPeers. It is defunct now, which is really pity because it was a very promising and well designed piece of software. Anyway, the point is, this tiny extension made me use FF quite often even though I was (and still am) an Opera follower. Moreover, it made IE users take a look at FF, willy-nilly. "You wanna see that great video I made last holiday, with us on it - well, the only reliable way to send it over is Allpeers. Allpeers is an extension for FF, so get FF". Pure viral marketing, isn't it! And mind you, those were users who wouldn't otherwise care to switch to something better than IE.

It's a great chance for Opera to make more people see and pay attention to its advantages, don't you think? After all Microsoft has a large market share for IE because it's bundled with Windows; why not use the same tactic and bundle a file transfer application into Opera? In the first case you have a crappy product bundled with an awful operating system, in the second case you'd have a terrific application bundled with an excellent browser.