Known issues: JIT doesn't work on CPU's without SSE2
Wow a JIT working with SSE2! No wonder it's 20 percent faster than chrome
Opera 10.5 Alpha Released, New Javascript & Rendering engine, 7x faster
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Re: Opera 10.5 Alpha Released, New Javascript & Rendering engine, 7x faster
#12I'm a long time user of Opera. Always surprised why it is very underrated. Just for the record : * Opera is and was the fastest browser on limited memory/cpu machines * Opera is the most user friendly browser, it has always been so. (tabs, sync, speed dials, quick preferences, full zoom, email client, irc, skins, notes, downloader (btw, opera has the best "builtin" browser downloader ever, you can actually open files…
Chrome comes very close. Its interface is actually cleaner than Opera's. I used to use Opera, but now I'm using Chrome. This new Opera has a better interface that leaves most screen space for the actual website, much like Chrome. Maybe I'll switch back to Opera.
Re: Opera 10.5 Alpha Released, New Javascript & Rendering engine, 7x faster
#13If there was some sort of adblockplus for Opera I'd jump ship from Firefox in a heartbeat.
Actually, Opera has already the ad blocker, named "content blocker", for some versions already. Find more details at this address: http://my.opera.com/Tamil/blog/ad-block
Re: Opera 10.5 Alpha Released, New Javascript & Rendering engine, 7x faster
#14The versioning nomenclature seems somewhat chaotic... here it says 10.5 and their current version is 10.10 and on the linked page they refer to 10.1 and also talk about 10.50. I guess that 10.10 == 10.1 and 10.5 == 10.50 but it is a bit confusing... Oh, and the download crashes with SIGBUS on my MacPro running 10.6 :(
Actually, the 10.10 is because of the Unite component. When they released the official new version, 10, they didn't have Unite ready yet, it was on another branch, the 10.10 (they reserved a few numbers for hotfixes for the version without Unite).
Re: Opera 10.5 Alpha Released, New Javascript & Rendering engine, 7x faster
#15Known issues: JIT doesn't work on CPU's without SSE2 Wow a JIT working with SSE2! No wonder it's 20 percent faster than chrome
Is it? I just downloaded this alpha and ran SunSpider. Chrome 4.0.266.0 got 506.8ms +/- 6.6%, Opera got 763.4ms +/- 4.4%.
Re: Opera 10.5 Alpha Released, New Javascript & Rendering engine, 7x faster
#16I'm a long time user of Opera. Always surprised why it is very underrated. Just for the record : * Opera is and was the fastest browser on limited memory/cpu machines * Opera is the most user friendly browser, it has always been so. (tabs, sync, speed dials, quick preferences, full zoom, email client, irc, skins, notes, downloader (btw, opera has the best "builtin" browser downloader ever, you can actually open files…
Chrome comes very close. Its interface is actually cleaner than Opera's. I used to use Opera, but now I'm using Chrome. This new Opera has a better interface that leaves most screen space for the actual website, much like Chrome. Maybe I'll switch back to Opera.
chrome is taking the good path
but its hard to stop some of the opera habits, including F4, F12, "/", past&go, direct search in Wikipedia/ebay
Re: Opera 10.5 Alpha Released, New Javascript & Rendering engine, 7x faster
#17Known issues: JIT doesn't work on CPU's without SSE2 Wow a JIT working with SSE2! No wonder it's 20 percent faster than chrome
Is it? I just downloaded this alpha and ran SunSpider. Chrome 4.0.266.0 got 506.8ms +/- 6.6%, Opera got 763.4ms +/- 4.4%.
Phew maybe you're right I admit I just saw a comment on the opera desktop team blog and haven't tested it myself. However browser benchmarks are tricky - people can get quite different results on different machines...
Re: Opera 10.5 Alpha Released, New Javascript & Rendering engine, 7x faster
#18Known issues: JIT doesn't work on CPU's without SSE2 Wow a JIT working with SSE2! No wonder it's 20 percent faster than chrome
Is it? I just downloaded this alpha and ran SunSpider. Chrome 4.0.266.0 got 506.8ms +/- 6.6%, Opera got 763.4ms +/- 4.4%.
It might be machine dependent. For me on an AMD Semperon:
Opera 10.5 alpha: 700.8ms +/- 0.8%
Chrome 4.0.266.0: 840.4ms +/- 4.2%
Re: Opera 10.5 Alpha Released, New Javascript & Rendering engine, 7x faster
#19Thought I'd give this a try since I never gave Opera much of a chance, and I'm usually very tolerant of alpha/betas as long as they mostly work.
Lasted about half an hour - Google Reader doesn't seem to work right, and GMail also stopped responding after a while.
Re: Opera 10.5 Alpha Released, New Javascript & Rendering engine, 7x faster
#20I'm a long time user of Opera. Always surprised why it is very underrated. Just for the record : * Opera is and was the fastest browser on limited memory/cpu machines * Opera is the most user friendly browser, it has always been so. (tabs, sync, speed dials, quick preferences, full zoom, email client, irc, skins, notes, downloader (btw, opera has the best "builtin" browser downloader ever, you can actually open files…
Not only that, according to this: http://www.geektechnica.com/2009/12/move-over-chrome-opera-n...
Opera even beats the webkit nightly in sunspider benchmark.