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Opera 10.5 Pre-Alpha Is Out, and It's Fast

Posted by kdawson on from the fat-lady-has-not-sung dept.

sgunhouse writes to let us know that, following a leaked internal build over the weekend, Opera Software has now released their official 10.5 pre-alpha. There are no Linux versions yet. And an anonymous reader adds, "Opera's 10.5 pre-alpha includes the Carakan JavaScript Engine. Benchmarks now show that Opera is competitive with Chrome, beating it in Sunspider and other tests. Safari, Firefox, and IE are all behind. This is still pre-alpha, so further speed gains should be expected."

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  1. Does it have Adblock? by MrMista_B · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I hate to keep harping on this, because I hate Firefox, but I hate intrusive ads even more.

    And by 'Adblock' I don't mean 'sorta like Adblock but not really', but something that straight-out duplicates the functionality, allowing be to block any element of any website anywhere, with nothing more than a right-click and perhaps a wildcard.

    Please, someone save me from RAM slaying bloat of Firefox!

  2. Re:Carakan is cross-platform by nschubach · · Score: 3, Interesting

    With all these improvements to Javascript bytecode, how long will it be until it replaces conventional VMs? Should I even worry about learning Clojure (which I just started on) if Javascript bytecode is becoming fast enough to develop on?

    </hypothetical hat>

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