Ars Technica Gives First Blush Props to Opera 9.5
By Giania • Sep 7th, 2007 at 11:36 am • Category: Articles of Interest, Browsershttp://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070905-first-look-opera-9-5-alpha.html
Some interesting tidbits from the article:
Opera claims that the latest version is faster than ever before, and our experience bears this out. When running various JavaScript speed tests, 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. (In all versions, the speed of the test depends on how many tabs are open, so your results may vary. In our experience, Opera always came out on top.)
Fascinating! The article contains other goodies regarding this up-and-coming browser, like improvements to the UI, the mobile synchronization option, and the fact that it ran without crashing in Vista for the testers!
I wouldn’t recommend getting the Alpha if you’re looking to actually switch primary browsers, but if you’re looking to play around and see what Opera is capable of, now is a good time. With 9.5 being in Alpha stage, those of you willing to test it out now with no prior Opera experience can give unbiased feedback to the dev team. It will help improve the user experience for everyone!
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