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Opera 10 Benchmarked and Evaluated

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

CNETNate writes "Dial-up connections and flaky Wi-Fi are made significantly more tolerable with Opera 10, it seems. After yesterdays news that Opera 10's first beta had landed, some testing was in order. One major new feature is Opera Turbo — server-side compression — which shrinks pages before sending them down your browser. With a 100Mbps connection throttled to a laughable 50Kbps, Opera 10 proved itself to outperform every other desktop browser on the planet, and there are graphs to prove it. Javascript benchmarks put the new browser in fourth place overall, after Chrome 2, Safari 4 and Firefox, but it indeed passes the Acid3 test with a perfect score. If you ever use a laptop on public Wi-Fi, to not have Opera 10 installed could be a big mistake"

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  1. Nobody gives a shit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    About Opera. Seriously.

    1. Re:Nobody gives a shit by TitusC3v5 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Really? That build of FireFox you're using today would be barely recognizable if Opera had never come into being.

      Because obviously if Opera hadn't thought of some of the ideas implemented, then it would have been nigh impossible for somebody else to, right?

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      And the masses cried out, "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0!"
  2. That's wonderful... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...and as soon as Opera has anything that compares to NoScript, I'll be all over it!

    Unfortunately, their solution of "F12 then allow certain types of content" isn't NEARLY as good, because you can't allow scripts granularly -by origin- for each page. The F12 solution is "all or nothing" in comparison, which I am not willing to live with having used NoScript for years.