Posted on 12/26/2009 12:57:40 PM PST by JoeProBono
If you go by conventional thinking Internet Explorer 8 is the slowest of the current web browsers, followed by Opera, with Firefox in third place, Safari taking the silver and Google Chrome leaping ahead in first. Time for a rethink.
Opera has announced v10.5 of its browser this week in an ‘alpha’ format (read: this isn’t even beta yet, casual users stay away). Despite this, however, it represents a potential game changing update for the company.
According to the respected benchmark of suites run by specialist site betanews.com Opera 10.5 not only boosts the speed of its web browsing performance, but jet propels it to speeds in excess of anything we’ve even seen from the beta and developer versions of Chrome.
To put this into some context Betanews uses a benchmark whereby the speed of Internet Explorer 7 is classed as 1.0 using Windows 7 making all other browsers results relative to this. Consequently, IE8 scores 1.55, Opera 10.2 5.85, Firefox 3.5 11.12 (3.7 alpha 13.29), Safari 4 20.83, Chrome 22.5 and Opera 10.5 24.5.
This is a monstrous turnaround and is also backed up by a stylish redesign of the interface which makes us think why oh why has Opera not classified this v11.0. Where more stable versions of Opera 10.5 can go from here, nobody knows!
So Opera 10.5 represents a real twist in the tale. How will other browser developers respond? Well, can only rub our hands with glee at the prospect of finding out…
So says the fandom of the Opera...
Take a peek..............
Idunno. That may be an option if my Firefox gets hinky on me again. For now, I am living large.
Does Opera allow ad-ons such as Firefox’s Dowload Helper?
Speed is nice, but stability is usually more important.
Thanks!
What is the unit of measure?
To put this into some context Betanews uses a benchmark whereby the speed of Internet Explorer 7 is classed as 1.0 using Windows 7 making all other browsers results relative to this. Consequently, IE8 scores 1.55, Opera 10.2 5.85, Firefox 3.5 11.12 (3.7 alpha 13.29), Safari 4 20.83, Chrome 22.5 and Opera 10.5 24.5.
It's says all speeds are relative to IE7 speed.
I’ll give it a go when it comes out in Beta form. But for now, I’m rockin the web with Chrome and lovin it — fast, user friendly, and efficient.
You invite us to download an alpha test version? What did we do to you to deserve this?
So if, for example, I was going to download a 30 MB file, would this Opera 10.5 download that file 24.5 times faster than IE-7? I’m guessing no. I guess that they’re measuring some other aspect of browser performance.
Personally, I find download times to be, by far, the largest factor in speed and that aspect of browsing is dependent on the speed of the internet connection, not the browser.
Using it now.
It is fast and I have experienced no problems .. yet!
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