news.cnet.com — Which is the world's fastest browser? According to Zimbra, Safari runs fastest, though it didn't beat out Firefox by much. Both Safari and Firefox were roughly twice as fast as Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7. Of course, Zimbra was testing for how these browsers perform with the Zimbra Web application. Your mileage may vary with other applications.
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unjustendJun 21, 2008
Everyone knows smoking makes you cool.DUH/ex-smoker
mal1964Jun 21, 2008
I cant blame you for that.
redsaintJun 21, 2008
Install FF as well, and then install VLC - with its browser plugin you can watch pretty much anything, including Quicktime movies. And if something doesn't work in Opera, then just right click anywhere on the page and use the menu "Open with" which will allow you to open that very page in any of the installed browsers.It shouldn't be necessary to open web pages in other browsers than your default, but since Opera develops its own engine unlike so many others, it's bound to run into sites which doesn't play by the rules.What would be awesome though, was if Opera and Mozilla started a hybrid project with Mozilla's Gecko engine (Is it called Gecko?) and with Opera's interface (Gestures, tabs, Opera Link, everything except the engine). I'm sorry if this sounds a little out there, but that would probably be one of my wettest fantasies come true :)But it probably won't happen though 'cause of license conflicts and company interests or something.
karmavsJun 22, 2008
Firefox works better on my eeePC than on my iMac. The Mac port of Firefox is awful.
gigaJun 22, 2008
Apple "borrowed" code from KDE's KHTML and made some tweaks and kept it private, spawning Webkit. It wasn't until the community revolted against Apple regarding the GPL violations that Apple reluctantly released the modifications.
dabreakaJun 22, 2008
strange.. a friend of mine thinks the same, and i just tried but it doesnt seem to be rendering the pages fasterthe startup time is better though
Closed AccountJun 23, 2008
Still setting the overall connections to 128 and per server to 16. 20 or 32, would dramatically increase most test scores, in which they load multiple tabs. last test had opera loosing by 2.0 on 8 tabs, i'm pretty sure this would accelerate the result notably.also you should set the redraw instatly option unless you are in a slow connection this will surely increase the perceived speed.
slechtvalkJun 24, 2008
Or banning Ferrari...
secretsamadhiJun 25, 2008
Opera 9.5 has gotten alot better with the rendering of most pages, however its really not opera's fault more so the outdated website code.
banckleApr 14, 2011
I think it depends on the ability of the browser to run the application.
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