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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.'"

2 of 510 comments (clear)

  1. Milliseconds? who cares? by gilesjuk · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Surely the most important thing about your browser is that is is secure, renders pages well and doesn't crash every 5 minutes.

    I can understand why Opera is fast, they have a lot of experience in the embedded market. Doesn't make it the best choice for the desktop though.

  2. Re:I wonder........ by Futile+Rhetoric · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Oh, look, you still had mod points to waste. Good boy.