Opera 9.5 Beats Firefox and IE7 As Fastest Browser

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.'"

I wonder........

[Anonymous Coward]

I wonder if they would have said this if Pavarotti hadnt just died?

First post thanks to OPERA!!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Those milliseconds really add up...

Re:First post thanks to OPERA!!!!

[PenguSven]

so i guess it really isnt that fast then?

"Browser Not Supported" pages are fast to load too

[Anonymous Coward]

405 - Browser Not Supported

these pages are fast to load too, how many of those did the other two hit?

Opera faster, really?

[semiotec]

I'd have sworn that the Youtube videos ran as fast on Firefox as they do on Opera, and I haven't really noticed myself reading slashdot articles faster on Opera than Firefox.

I guess I am just getting too old for these newfangled Web 2.0 stuff.

Re:Who cares?

[bamsebomsen]

It's the internet, of course someone cares. I've actually been in a debate about wich browser is the fastest one, I cried a little bit and a part of my soul was forever gone.

Re:Opera faster, really?

[Jugalator]

Wow, you must be a favorite at Microsoft!

To hell with optimizations and fancy-schmancy new standard support, can you read forums and visit YouTube? Ship it!

Re:Opera faster, really?

[rishistar]

I actually find the YouTube videos run faster on Opera. For example, a typical clip lasting 30 seconds in Firefox and IE will be over in 26 seconds when viewed in Opera.

Re:So how about the browser that really matters?

[gbobeck]

I can't believe they left out Konqueror!

I'm still miffed that they not only left out Lynx, but also accessing webpages using a telnet client.

Re:Wasn't that always the case?

[JustOK]

Forgive the person for not knowing, he's still waiting for the news to load in one of the slower browsers.

Re:Article is very misleading - JS benchmark only

[noidentity]

"and well, Internet Exploder is just plain terrible at everything."

Hey, it's great at being terrible at everything (else)! That's something the other guys probably won't ever catch up on.

Opera without Pavarotti

[Anonymous Coward]

Luciano Pavarotti September 6, 2007 R.I.P. yesterday.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_Pavarotti [wikipedia.org]

What matters Opera without Pavarotti about?

Re:Article is very misleading - JS benchmark only

[jamarsa]

can we assume the lack of IE7 benchmarks are due to being unfinished yet?

Re:Different market

[Atzanteol]

I just switched from FF to Opera because of its low market share numbers - which was the same reason I switched from IE to FF when the FF market was about 2%.

Pffft. I'm must more emo than you, I use Lynx which has practucally no market share!