• IgorP
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Topic: Opera 10

I've just tested Opera 10 both on Windows and Linux.
For my big disappointment Opera 10 acts slower than 9.64 in both platforms and eats too much of RAM.
??!!?? sad

I've  tested firefox, firefox 3-5, arora and opera 10 on memory usage.
On cold start:
firefox3-5      39.8 MB
firefox           36.7 MB
arora            33.3 MB
opera 10      26.9 MB

After 4 web pages in 4 tabs (on each browser same):
opera 10     70.2 MB
arora           61.5 MB
firefox          60.2 MB
firefox3-5     50.2 MB

Testing pages are:
http://crunchbanglinux.org/
http://www.net.hr/
http://www.index.hr/
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/

I first use Firefox and when starts to act slow and eats too much of RAM, I've started to use K-Meleon.
When K-Meleon starts to act buggy, I found Opera and spend many happy time with Opera.

Now I'm sad because this slow down of Opera (on my machines).
On the other hand, Opera 10 has very poor print engine. Firefox 3-5 has much better one.
Fox apparently improves memory usage handling too. That's good.

Seems it comes the time for me to browse under the flag of "Fox in flame" again smile

Regards!

Last edited by IgorP (2009-09-05 10:31:28)

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Re: Opera 10

Opera 10 is still a beta...

Did you restart your computer everytime you changed your tested browser?

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Re: Opera 10

^ Actually Opera 10 is final now.

@IgorP - can you be more specific about the slowdown? As for memory usage, 70MB isn't very bad.

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Re: Opera 10

anonymous wrote:

^ Actually Opera 10 is final now.

oh neutral
i'm not up-to-date... wink

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just updated Opera (9.64->10) ... looks nice smile

Last edited by klanger (2009-09-03 06:04:29)

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Re: Opera 10

smile:|thanks so much for useful info
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  • IgorP
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Re: Opera 10

@klanger,
yes, I restarted comp.

@Anonymous,
Well, IMO and subjective feel, Opera 10 acts slower in opening pages, scrolling up&down on web pages.
Simply, acts slower.. In 9.64 I can see smoother and faster scrolling. In O10 not.

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Re: Opera 10

anonymous,

70 MB is epic disaster smile J
But I've noticed big jump in last tab on mem. usage. Opera runs well 'till 4th tab..
Plus, after closing tabs in O10, memory usage remains the same amount.
Plus, Opera works without flash player plugin so O10 didn't load flash..

Maybe some good settings could set things up. That would be great.

Maybe my test isn't deep enough.. who knows.. But, on first and second sight I don't like how O10 acts.

regards!

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Re: Opera 10

I found useful link to test your browser(s) on your system(s).

http://service.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/index.action

This is mine:
http://service.futuremark.com/peacekeep … n?key=26ZU

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Re: Opera 10

For flash player, just copy 'libflashplayer.so' (the same one you download from adobe's site as tar.gz) from ~/.mozilla/plugins to /usr/lib/opera/plugins .

Opera has some very useful features to speed browsing:

  • Turbo: loads thinned versions of pages.

  • Enable/disable images or 'fit to screen' feature (which resizes those huge images some people post on forums).

  • Block flash content (right-click on any blank area, choose 'block content', choose what to block and be happy).

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Re: Opera 10

I'm running on a P3-600/320mb laptop, and began testing browsers.  I'd open the browser, 4 tabs (2 easy static, 2 complex e.g. cnn.com yahoo.com).  After about 10 minutes of browsing articles, I'd close the browser and calculate the reduction in memory used.

firefox 3.0.16: 70-85 mb
chrome 3: 65-70 mb
opera: 70-80 mb

Start up time:  I exited the browser with 4 tabs, waited a minute then restarted.  All browsers would reload their tabs.
Firefox was easily the slowest, the menus and buttons weren't available until all tabs reloaded from the internet.  Opera was the quickest to restart, pulling most from cache and it was responsive almost immediately.

Adding tabs - memory usage in chrome increased more rapidly with each new tab than the other browsers.

Closing tabs - looking at memory usage with conky, the quickest to release memory and thus freeing it for other uses, was opera.  Chrome and Firefox were slower to release memory when a tab was closed.

Redrawing - chrome seemed the slowest to redraw when I dragged the scrollbar, opera the quickest.

I'll try firefox 3.5, but for now I'm going to stick with opera and uninstall chrome.

Last edited by 73ChargerFan (2010-01-05 21:09:47)