Browser speed comparison
Published July 24th, 2006 5:14 PM EDT By Daniel GoldmanMany browsers claim to be the fastest. Opera claims it is “The Fastest Browser on Earth!”, Mozilla claims “Firefox empowers you to browse faster”, and Apple’s Safari claims”Safari loads pages more quickly than any other Mac web browser”.
But how fast are they really?
I’ve mentioned this site before on Opera Watch, but it has been a while, plus Opera 9 was added to the test.
The HowToCreate site ran various speed tests on browsers for the Linux, Mac, and Windows platforms. The results are quite impressive for Opera.
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I’d love to have seen Firefox with Fasterfox tweaks on and 1.0 version of Camino.
Quite an interesting read.
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speed is important, but so is compatibility and rendering, some sites still fail in opera horribly.
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I’ve always liked their speed tests…
I think Opera 9 scored higher than it should have, though. Unless the latest weekly build was being tested. Opera lost a bit of speed between 8.5 and 9.0 (should be seeing most of it back in 9.01).
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They used Opera 9 preview 1 and apparently during the tests OS X Tiger was still a preview release.
/me runs Opera 9 final on OS X Tiger final.
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For me all browsers (especially Opera) have reasonable speed on daily use pages and applications. I only need improved compatibility.
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Opera rocks with latest weeklies builds. Same speed under Windows and Linux.
Nice test comparaison!
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Correction: Some sites still discriminate against Opera. Opera is plenty compatible enough.
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If some or many websites fail on Opera, it means that they aren’t done the standards way.
And that should in no way be Opera’s problem.
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in Opera gmail gmal chat is not working
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Gmail chat isn’t working because of Opera, but because of Google…
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Currently i use Opera 9.10
It has fixed Yahoo mail button compatibily such as mark as read/ unread button.
I also like faster view of back/forward button, integrated download accelarator and IRC chat menu.
Keep rocking, Opera !
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Opera is simply the best