{"id":193,"date":"2010-03-03T12:16:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T23:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chillingsilence.wordpress.com\/?p=193"},"modified":"2010-03-03T12:16:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T23:16:07","slug":"opera-10-5-vs-chrome-5-0-dev-fastest-browser-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/opera-10-5-vs-chrome-5-0-dev-fastest-browser-on-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Opera 10.5 vs Chrome-5.0 Dev &#8211; Fastest browser on earth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"f017841d9cf6ca47c03c911bc3197fe6\" data-index=\"3\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-6411751809866006\";\r\n\/* BlogHorizontalSlim *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"6442664612\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>So Opera 10.5 is out. Naturally I can&#8217;t just take somebodies word that it&#8217;s faster than Chrome, which I&#8217;ve been happily using for around a year now, so I&#8217;m giving it a good run for its money and posting right now from it.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;ve long since left Internet Explorer, way back probably almost a decade ago (Wow I feel real old now) when Firefox was called Phoenix. Browsing was &#8220;fast&#8221;, and these flashy new things called Tabs were cool. I&#8217;ve bounced around a little bit over the years, mostly sticking with Firefox until Chrome came out. Again, it was love at first sight (or click?).<\/p>\n<p>So, what do I think of Opera?<\/p>\n<p>Well initial impressions are nice. It reminds me of Chrome in many ways, and I&#8217;m not about to go getting into who stole what from which browser, I really couldn&#8217;t care less. I want a browser thats fast, reliable, and renders pages well. So naturally, the first thing I do is load up Facebook!<!--more--> Facebook loaded up surprisingly quickly, even compared with Chrome-5.0. Now I&#8217;ve been using Chrome for a while so I grabbed a fresh profile added under another user account. I dunno why but for some reason Chrome semi-regularly &#8220;freezes&#8221;, even when I&#8217;m typing text like an Email in Gmail, scrolling up and down halts for a few seconds, and I have absolutely no idea why?! It even seemed to do that in Chromium OS?<\/p>\n<p>In terms of &#8220;rendering&#8221; a page once it&#8217;s found it, Chrome seems marginally faster, same for time taken to finish loading the page, but for some reason Opera &#8220;feels&#8221; better, as it shows the pictures loading and doesn&#8217;t try and show the whole page at once. I&#8217;m not sure what&#8217;s going on, but to be honest (And I&#8217;m scared to admit it) I think I actually like the &#8220;speed \/ feel&#8221; of Opera better.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a fan of having to Ctrl + Shift for a background tab by default in Opera, that annoys me. Why not make Ctrl + Shift the shortcut for saving a photo instead and just Ctrl + Click to open in a new background tab? Makes more sense to me?<\/p>\n<p>I could swear that Ctrl + W closed the whole browser at one point for me too, but it appears I may have been mistaken.<\/p>\n<p>I do like how you can hover your mouse over a tab and it renders a preview, similar to the Windows 7 \/ Vista Taskbar. If you double-click just above the address bar (below the tabs) it&#8217;ll pop out and make the tabs larger so you can view the pictures permanently. A nifty little feature, if a screen-hog.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also found that aside from Facebook pages seeming to fire up quicker, Google Mail (I use GAFYD for all my domains) also shows the new emails a lot faster than Chrome does. I&#8217;m not sure if that&#8217;s because Chrome is caching more but yeah, I was impressed at how snappy Opera was.<br \/>\nI wasn&#8217;t however impressed with the Copy \/ Paste. My sig includes a picture, so I have to copy it out of a saved Starred email each time and paste it into a new one. When I copy it in Opera, I lose the formatting and it comes out as plaintext. However if I copy it from Chrome and paste it into Opera, it comes out with the colors and picture as it should. Disappointing Opera.<\/p>\n<p>Opera also uses a similar style &#8220;omnibar&#8221; to Chrome (Again, !caring who had it first), which is nice. Search results come up faster in a full Google Search in Opera compared with using Chrome. Again unsure why but they do.<\/p>\n<p>Website layouts seem pretty standard across the two. I noticed that in Chrome, the Acid3 test takes long, and also displays these couple of small squares for a split-second up the top-right. Opera doesn&#8217;t do that, and both get 100% for a final layout look.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason, when you open a new Tab, you get Speed Dial. Cool, I like that feature and use it in Chrome (When it loads before I can type the URL that is). However they&#8217;ve used Ask.com in the Speed Dial in Opera, while they use Google as the search engine from the address bar. Why not pick one and stick to it?<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a fair few widgets, which seem to run as standalone applications. I don&#8217;t like the idea of them clogging up my taskbar, but whatever. I wanted a Google Mail checker, like I have in Chrome which checks 3 of my GAFYD accounts. Nothing like that in Opera. Bummer.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of overall look and feel, both are now surprisingly similar. The tab scheme up the top is practically identical in terms of size, just some very minor differences.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/chrome-vs-opera-toolbar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-196\" title=\"Chrome vs Opera toolbar\" src=\"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/chrome-vs-opera-toolbar.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"63\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/chrome-vs-opera-toolbar.jpg 1231w, https:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/chrome-vs-opera-toolbar-300x63.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/chrome-vs-opera-toolbar-1024x215.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>It makes me feel almost naughty saying this, but I think I actually like Opera more than Chrome right now. 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