MOLINIER Etienne Life is too short…

Opera wins again

For a long time, Opera was the fastest browser, with the fastest rendering engine, and the fastest javascript engine. But a few years ago, other browsers began to optimise toward faster rendering/JS-engines...

So opera fighted back and always stayed first with the rendering engine. But the JS-engine was getting oooold... Powerfull enought for any web usage, but still, Opera decided to give some developpment effort and strike back.

And they did ! The latest JS-engine is again the fastest engine, here some test results on my Unix Platform :
Opera, Firefox, and Chrome. Note (as the url of the test suggest) that chrome have been heavily optimized for this specific test, and still doesn't achieve any significant speed difference to opera, and is beated on lots of  others tests.

This just repeats that Opera have the best core-components, but still, what's important is the User Interface, and the browser's functionality... And here, once again, Opera is first with heavy Desktop integration on Windows, Linux and Mac, the only browser to natively support all functionnality needed to surf the web : non exhaustive list : SpeedDial, intelligent SearchBar, OperaLink : Bookmarks,  Notes, Personalized SearchEngines and much more, all sync online and aviable with a single clic on each Opera instance, even mobile ones ! Mouse gestures and lots of other features !

I have been Testing (with a great 'T')all browsers avbiable for my platform, and by testing, I mean using them for over 2 weeks and longer, untill I cannot bear it anymore to miss some critical features that were sadly implemented through buggy extensions. So stop listening to poor experienced people claiming they have "tested" opera and still preffer Firefox when all they did was install Opera and run it twice. Opera is THE browser, and the only thing that you could miss is the multi-threads-downloads from DownThemAll, which let say it clear, is not worth staying with Firefox.