Opera beats chrome speed tests

[thecoolest]

Opera beats chrome speed tests

Potatoes shooting out of tubes... A browser racing against boiled spuds... It's all good for a lighthearted laugh, but you're probably more interested in how a browser performs against non-tuber.

A while back, Opera 10.5 briefly snatched away the speed crown from Google Chrome on my system. Chrome's been comfortably in the lead for quite some time now when it comes to performance, but that may be about to change with the arrival of Opera 10.6.

I put the newly-released Opera 10.6 snapshot build up against both the Chrome 5 beta and Chrome 6 dev channel builds, and the results were pretty astounding: Opera 10.6 posted a Peacekeeper benchmark almost 25% higher than Google Chrome 6.0.408.1 (my results here). Sebastian's numbers were a bit closer, but Opera 10.6 still won (+14%).

That's pretty substantial, and the difference is noticeable while browsing web sites and tackling my usual daily tasks in apps like Gmail, Google Reader, and Seesmic Web. Opera 10.6 appears ready to reaffirm the fact that Opera has every intention of competing with the big boys.

Maybe Opera was poking fun at more than the original Google ad. Perhaps they were dropping a not-so-subtle hint about 10.6 turning up the heat on Chrome, so to speak...

More Info here
Forget the potato, Opera 10.6 speeds past Google Chrome 6
Opera strikes back at Chrome speed tests with a potato benchmark

[hellman]

i think i should switch to opera 10.6 as i'm using 10.4
this version is really slower than chrome ... i want see how much true is this article ... let see

it's hard to believe that opera became faster

[crystal]

Opera for the majority of 4-5 years has always been the fastest browser in the market . all the new innovations , speed dial etc were first done by Opera but it never got its due . the problem with Opera is that long time ago it used to be a Shareware product or else by now it would be a much popular browser or probably where firefox is right now if it was freeware from the start .