Opera 10 Benchmarked and Evaluated

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"

Comments

Re:Ugly.

[Anonymous Coward]

Too many features, and it's not pretty enough.

Typical Mac user.

Re:Nobody gives a shit

[tyrione]

Stop beating your chest for a Browser that is playing catch up with standards and upcoming standards. It's a good browser. Everything else added to it is often overkill, just like the massive loads of plugin options on Firefox. Browsers should first actually be standards complete and secure, then they should fixate on extending its ability to interact with your desktop environment.

Re:Ugly.

[Ant P.]

The latest Opera has a bittorrent client, an email client, an IRC client, an instant messenger, a spell checker, web developer tools such as UserJS and Dragonfly, RSS reader, voice recognition, mouse gestures, history search, content blocking, and on and on and on...

It's a shame Opera can not do any of those things well.

Re:Firefox just has too many useful addons

[93 Escort Wagon]

I guess the main problem of Opera is that people assume, because of beeing used to other apps, that there's now way it can pack so much in so little executable, so properly/speedy implemented.

I love these occasional Opera stories on Slashdot because it gives the Opera fans a chance to make all sorts of these somewhat absurd little statements. Well, at least no one has dragged out the "it's so much more standards compliant than any other browser" line... yet.

I'm glad you like your browser. The more browsers we have to choose from, the better. But I've tried Opera on a number of occasions, and I just never found it at all compelling. To each his own.