Opera used to market itself almost exclusively on how it was faster than any other comparable browser. I just had a look on the Opera website and now it says "Faster & Safer internet" yet it performed worst on this test. As the underdog in the browser market, despite being what has always seemed to me as a pretty nice piece of software, I feel a bit sorry for them. I hope they can do whatever it takes to catch up with Chrome on the performance front.
I use Opera on my netbook (Atom 1.6Ghz, very slow). Chrome is actually faster at rendering or interacting with pages - which is what benchmarks generally measure. What they don't measure is how responsive the browser is. For me, Opera is far faster than Chrome at switching tabs, opening new tabs, having lots of tabs open in the background, having more than one tab loading at once, and eats less of my system resources than Chrome to achieve them.
>a look on the Opera website and now it says "Faster & Safer internet" yet it performed worst on this test. //
Which page were you on, the front page of the website doesn't say that to me?
My first instinct would be that they're referring to their "turbo" implementation and their large mobile install base, cf http://www.opera.com/browser/turbo/.
> Which page were you on, the front page of the website doesn't say that to me?
It's the contents of the <title> tag so it displays on the title bar of the browser you are using to read it with and in the tab if you are using a browser with tabs.
Lol, I don't normally have a title bar (turned off for main FF window) and the relevant part was most likely hidden by having a dozen or so tags open. Thanks answering.
