September 01, 2009

Since the release candidate for Opera 10 was announced last week, I've been testing the browser to see if it could live up to my standards (which, since I basically live and work on the Web, are pretty high) and if I'd be tempted to switch to it completely.

As I mentioned in my earlier article, Opera hasn't exactly made any dents in the desktop browser dominion of Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox in its thirteen years of existence, but as I've noticed Opera fans will even attack you for simply stating that fact. Well now that Opera 10 has been let loose and I've had the chance to put it to the test for a week, at least I can understand why it has fans in the first place.

First of all, Opera 10 feels fast. Super-fast, even, close to the speed sensation I had when I started trying out Google Chrome for the first time. It could be nothing more than a feeling of course.

we're looking into ways to do a massive browser speed test - but Opera did say this version would be about 40% faster than its predecessor Opera 9.6, specifically on resource-intensive pages. If you care about speed, check it out, because it's zooming alright.

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