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Opera 9.5 Beats Firefox and IE7 As Fastest Browser

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the internet-races dept.

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.'"

5 of 510 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I wonder........ by Futile+Rhetoric · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Whoever modded this Off-topic clearly cannot make the mental leap from Opera coming in first, to Pavarotti dying. Sad, really.

  2. Grammar Nazi alert! by ltrm · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You could or you couldn't care less? Make up your mind, don't get my hopes up in the subject and then dash them in the comment....

  3. Re:Different market by Antiocheian · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sorry for being off-topic but I am really interested in knowing which is the free antivirus that ``was taking whole CPU cycles trying to "scan" gigabyte level raw videos while it was asked to ignore them,,

  4. Re:Grade article: incomplete by kripkenstein · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Speaking of Digg's sucky comment system, it is one of the reasons I don't use Digg anymore (the other being their deal with Microsoft).

  5. Re:Wasn't that always the case? by SpectreBlofeld · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Yeah, and Mozilla was spawned my AOL. What's your point?

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