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"Fastest Browser On Earth" Cuts Crud

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the better-faster-go-faster-go dept.

gabec writes "The guys at Opera have been rewriting their rendering engine over the past 18 months, tossing out legacy code and making the browser more DOM compliant with the intention of making the self-proclaimed "fastest browser on earth" even faster. They claim to have succeeded, according to this article on ZDNet.. Fun stuff.. ;)"

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  1. Re:Is rendering speed the problem? by FFFish · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Ah, but Opera is far more than a browser for Windows. It's also a browser for cell phones, terminals, PDAs and more. Some of these *are* double-digit MHz machines.

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  2. Re:This is a bit silly by Idarubicin · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Between Opera, IE, and Mozilla, the speed difference is small enough for your average user not to know the difference.

    True enough for the mythical 'average user' whose desktop machine is less than two years old. As a university student who is working on a four-year-old PII-300 at home, and a PI-133 with 64 MB of RAM at work (age unknown), every last cycle is precious. Particularly since I'm usually multitasking.

    The footprint--in memory, in terms of clock cycles eaten, on my tiny hard drive--of my browser actually a very important consideration for me, and probably for others. The F12 for quick menus (to kill popups, mostly), the clean file transfer monitoring box, and the tabbed browsing (fewer windows on my task bar) are worth their weight in gold.

    Opera has also been quick to respond to bugs and make critical fixes--something that some companies are loathe to do. (Ahem. Microsoft. Certificates. Ahem.)

    And it really is the fastest (of IE, Moz, and Opera) browser on earth.

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