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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.'"

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  1. Who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    How the fuck cares? Has anyone in the history of the world ever really been bottle necked by the speed of thier browser?

  2. Re:Article is very misleading - JS benchmark only by stephanruby · · Score: 1, Troll

    Well, they didn't test it against WebKit/Safari/Konq, which blazes through Javascript tests.
    Testing javascript with Safari is like testing javascript with NoScript -- of course it's going to be faster since it doesn't really work.
  3. 100% faster? by Trestop · · Score: 0, Troll

    So, if for example IE7 on Vista takes 10 seconds to do some test, so Opera is 100% faster - taking 0 seconds to do the same test ?!??!

  4. Re:Different market by mgblst · · Score: 0, Troll

    As a Quad G5 (4x 2500) Mac owner with lots of RAM, I really don't want a browser choking up an entire CPU and flooding my memory.


    Why? You have all that hardware, why not use it? I mean unless it starts to intefere with your real work, and there is no evidence that it is doing that, then you are fine.
  5. Re:I use Firefox(XP) at home, Opera(Redhat) at wor by mritunjai · · Score: 0, Troll

    Tools -> Preferences -> Tabs -> Resuse current tab : Unchecked

    Please take sometime to explore the options menu before trolling.

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  6. For the fanboy mods by Vexorian · · Score: 0, Troll

    Dear opera fans:

    Speed is not enough, speed was never enough. Nobody but you actually cares about speed, make Opera a better "web browser", make it friging open source and then I might try to consider it as an option, seriously, I will not use a defective piece of proprietary software only because it saves me 100 milliseconds , heck I would consider myself the most pathetic person in earth if I really cared about rendering speed, got better things to do than counting milliseconds a page takes to render...

    Note to the fanboy mods that modded my previous post down: Now do that again! Let's see how many points can you waste trying to censor the truth

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    Copyright infringement is "piracy" in the same way DRM is "consumer rape"
  7. Re:I'm fed up with the anti-Opera crap here... by Michael+Wardle · · Score: 0, Troll

    The Opera developer tools are so inferior to Firebug, it's not funny.