Opera 9.5 Beats Firefox and IE7 As Fastest Browser 510
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........ (Score:4, Funny)
First post thanks to OPERA!!!! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:First post thanks to OPERA!!!! (Score:5, Funny)
"Browser Not Supported" pages are fast to load too (Score:1, Funny)
these pages are fast to load too, how many of those did the other two hit?
Opera faster, really? (Score:4, Funny)
I guess I am just getting too old for these newfangled Web 2.0 stuff.
Re:Who cares? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Opera faster, really? (Score:4, Funny)
To hell with optimizations and fancy-schmancy new standard support, can you read forums and visit YouTube? Ship it!
Re:Opera faster, really? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:So how about the browser that really matters? (Score:4, Funny)
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? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Article is very misleading - JS benchmark only (Score:2, Funny)
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 (Score:5, Funny)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_Pavarotti [wikipedia.org]
What matters Opera without Pavarotti about?
Re:Article is very misleading - JS benchmark only (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Different market (Score:5, Funny)
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!