Opera 9.5 Beats Firefox and IE7 As Fastest Browser

Abhinav Peddada writes "Ars Technica takes Opera 9.5, the latest from Opera's stable, for a test run and finds some interesting results, including it being a 'solid improvement to an already very strong browser.' On the performance front, Ars Technica reports 'Opera 9.5 scored slightly higher (281ms) than the previous released version, 9.23 (546ms). And Opera 9.x, let it be known, smacks silly the likes of Firefox and Internet Explorer, which tend to have results in the 900-1500ms range on this test machine (a 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo with 2GB RAM). Opera was 50 percent faster on average than Firefox, and 100 percent faster than IE7 on Windows Vista, for instance.'"

Comments

I wonder........

[Anonymous Coward]

I wonder if they would have said this if Pavarotti hadnt just died?

First post thanks to OPERA!!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Those milliseconds really add up...

Re:First post thanks to OPERA!!!!

[PenguSven]

so i guess it really isnt that fast then?

Re:Wasn't that always the case?

[JustOK]

Forgive the person for not knowing, he's still waiting for the news to load in one of the slower browsers.

Opera without Pavarotti

[Anonymous Coward]

Luciano Pavarotti September 6, 2007 R.I.P. yesterday.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_Pavarotti

What matters Opera without Pavarotti about?

Re:Article is very misleading - JS benchmark only

[jamarsa]

can we assume the lack of IE7 benchmarks are due to being unfinished yet?

Re:Different market

[Atzanteol]

I just switched from FF to Opera because of its low market share numbers - which was the same reason I switched from IE to FF when the FF market was about 2%.

Pffft. I'm must more emo than you, I use Lynx which has practucally no market share!