Opera 10.6, The World's Fastest Stable Browser, Tested vs. IE 9

From DailyTech: With the wealth of browsers out there, it's hard to pick. There are, of course, five major competitors -- Google Chrome, Opera, Mozilla's Firefox, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and Apple's Safari. Some time ago we compared those browsers in a four part series [1] [2] [3] [4]. More recently we benchmarked Safari 5 and Opera 10.5, both of which claimed to be the world's fastest browser, but came up lacking.

This time around we took Opera 10.6, the latest from the Norwegian web firm, out for a spin. And we can first say that of the recent "fastest" browser claims -- including some of Opera's own -- this one seems the most legitimate.

To test its claims we ran three popular web test suites -- Sunspider (Javascript, only), Celtic Kane's JSBenchmark (Javascript, only), and Futuremark's Peacekeeper browser benchmark (all around performance).

However, this time we took things a step further. We decided to retest Internet Explorer 8 -- the most used browser -- and also take the third test build of Microsoft's upcoming Internet Explorer 9 (found here) for a spin. We also tried to install Mozilla's Firefox 4.0 beta (which appears to be found here) to install, but had some issues -- our version number stayed at 3.6.6 despite repeated installations. It also appears that Mozilla has pulled the official Firefox 4.0 beta page (see here) -- so this may have something to do with that.

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