This is great news for the hardworking folks at Opera. It seems that they have hit more than two milliom downloads with version 8 of the latest Web browser.

More than two million copies of Opera version 8 have been downloaded since it was launched two weeks ago, the company says.

The figures include downloads on all platforms and in all languages. English language downloads predominate, as you might expect, with 1.3m of the 2m total, while downloads of the German version of the browser totaled nearly 400,000. Opera does not split the figures by region, so we cannot tell how many of those English downloads happened in Blighty vs. the US, Australia, or elsewhere.

“Considering Opera’s last version, Opera 7, accumulated more than 60 million downloads, the successful launch of Opera 8 in April 2005 reflects that even higher download figures await for Opera,” Jon von Tetzchner, Opera software’s CEO, commented. [Read the rest]