Opera Responds to Challenges from Open Source Browsers
Recently, when I’ve written about the performance leapfrogging going on between the Firefox and Chrome open source browsers, many people have written in in the comments about how all the benchmark results going on around the web tend to leave Opera out. Opera has always had its own fiercely loyal set of fans, but there actually have been some recent benchmark face-offs including it, and it was starting to look like Opera is falling behind.
For example, the alpha version of Opera 10 is much slower than other browsers in ZDNet Australia’s recent benchmarks. However, I just got an e-mail from the folks at Opera, and it’s clear that a big performance boost is squarely on their radar. Meanwhile, Google Chrome is currently undergoing a major under-the-hood overhaul. Here are the details.
The folks at Opera saw my recent post here on WWD about how the open source browsers are pulling so far ahead in benchnmark tests, and e-mailed me with details on what they have in the works:
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