Comments on: Browsers Test: Midori vs. Firefox 3.0 vs. Opera 10 Alpha vs. Konqueror vs. Arora

By: Midori is Rockin’ Fast | Qe2eqe

Midori is Rockin’ Fast | Qe2eqe — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:56:57 +0000

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By: richard

richard — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:30:53 +0000

i just tried the latest svn version of arora built with qt 4.5 beta and it scored 100/100 on the acid3 test and 963 on theV8 Benchmark Suite

By: effzee

effzee — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:27:28 +0000

Just want to point out that Opera’s policy on type of release (snapshot, alpha, beta and release) is skewed from the others. As a result it’s not all that easy to guage the ‘quality’ or daily usability of a release from the name alone. On the plus side this means that often snapshots and other ‘newer’ releases can be more stable for most users; on the down-side, sometimes ’stable’ releases are not as good as they should be.

The Opera 10.0 alpha and snapshot released since are good cases in point. For most ‘typical’ users, these so called alphas are perfectly usable and stable, and of course incorporate many of the new browser engine features that, for the average user, will make the newer releases a better option since they better handle sites which the 9.6x releases have issues with.

The only caveat is that the user needs to be a little more aware when using prerelease versions; certain features (typically those that are new or undergoing rapid development) will be less stable, but often these are not going to be used anyway (the Mail client is a good example, in Opera 10 alphas it’s still too unstable to be dependable, but the rest of the browser seems to be just fine).

So, where Opera 10 alpha 1 / xmas snapshot is a perfectly usable stable daily browser with a fairly unstable mail client, these bleeding edge webkit browsers are comparatively unstable for browsing, and are relatively feature incomplete as well. Chrome being a fair example here: it might be fast, but it’s too unstable and feature-lean to use as my main browser.

By: Fer84

Fer84 — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:55:03 +0000

Opera 10 ALWAYS gets 100/100, and you should have used an apha firefox too

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:00:19 +0000

For me webkit based browsers are comparatively faster than others from a normal users experience. For example I can say, chrome, safari, Midori etc. I have learnt about from this article and decided to install and use it in my ubuntu.Results were again great. I think there will be some pleasant surprise in firefox’s upcoming tracemonkey.

By: Vygantas Lipskas

Vygantas Lipskas — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:47:27 +0000

I haven’t tried Midori yet and just translated this article.

And yes, Opera does score 100/100

By: Indeed Opera is faster

Indeed Opera is faster — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 03:03:05 +0000

You seem to have a positive bias towards midori. A browser untl this day I have never heard of. Like the member above me, I do get 100/100 for the acid test with opera. Can Favbrowser do some research in the manner before publishing work of other people with such bias. Midori MY FOOT!

By: FasterOPera

FasterOPera — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:21:35 +0000

I have always gotten 100/100 for Opera in the Acid test. Clearly you have no clue about what you are talking about. It looks like you are just trying to make Midori look good.

By: Grrblt

Grrblt — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:40:37 +0000

Acid3 test javascript so disabling it is not a good idea. What he should disable is user javascript.

By: Maulkin

Maulkin — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:09:32 +0000

You may need to disable Javascript on Opera 10 to get the ACID test 3 run correctly…anyway, there are better tests out here…