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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

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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%

Certainly. Processor, OS, RAM, etc will matter a lot.

FWIW I ran in a Core 2 Duo P9500 with W7 64, 4gb of ram.

Re: Opera 10.5 Alpha Released, New Javascript & Rendering engine, 7x faster

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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%

On a Mac book pro and Opera 10.10, I got: 5260.6ms +/- 0.7% I'll try with the new version and report back.

Re: Opera 10.5 Alpha Released, New Javascript & Rendering engine, 7x faster

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If there was some sort of adblockplus for Opera I'd jump ship from Firefox in a heartbeat.

I'm not sure Privoxy is as smooth as Adblock, but it might be worth a try: http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/quickstart.html#QUICKSTAR...

so sad that this is the case, but it is :( adblock seems to have a record (for my personal use at least) as almost never having a false positive. privoxy on the other hand seems to block all sorts during actual use that aren't really ads, especially flash.

Re: Opera 10.5 Alpha Released, New Javascript & Rendering engine, 7x faster

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I'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…

> Opera is and was the fastest browser on limited memory/cpu machines

I used Opera 5 on my 50 MHz 486 when no other browser was truly up to the task. Continued using it on other machines until Safari 2 hit on the Mac.

I've always thought that Opera was by far the best browser out there, but Safari integrates so well with Mac OS X and ends up being quite good with SafariStand and Saft (now using Glims). I might go back to Opera someday though.

Re: Opera 10.5 Alpha Released, New Javascript & Rendering engine, 7x faster

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If there was some sort of adblockplus for Opera I'd jump ship from Firefox in a heartbeat.

I've used the same reason for avoiding Google Chrome. However, there is hope! I found an excellent "urlfilter.ini" list for Opera this morning.

http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/

I'm happily using Opera instead of FireFox now. It's FAST and I have more screen space available.

Re: Opera 10.5 Alpha Released, New Javascript & Rendering engine, 7x faster

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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

Exactly! It was so tough for me to change from Opera to chrome. But chrome is much more minimal and the faster load time was enough of a killer feature for me to switch. But this version is pretty impressive.

Re: Opera 10.5 Alpha Released, New Javascript & Rendering engine, 7x faster

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I'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.

On windows. It makes a lot of sense to specify an OS in these cases.
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