Opera News

Opera 10.51 released, making the fastest browser even faster

By Joseph D. Lienjdlien. Monday, March 22, 2010 10:10:09 AM

opera 10.51, peacekeeper, speed, sunspider, v8, fastest browser, benchmark

Opera 10.50 made major improvements in the speed of the browser, putting it right up there with the fastest performing browsers in the world and earning it the title of "The fastest browser on Earth". But Opera 10.50 is no longer the world's fastest browser.

Today Opera releases version 10.51 that has many fixes and improvements, and makes exciting improvements to the impressive performance introduced in the previous version. In Futuremark's Peacekeeper benchmark, Opera 10.51 is an impressive 27% faster than before.

Improvements in the Sunspider JavaScript benchmark are also seen, reducing the time in the benchmark from 439.6 seconds to only 412.2 seconds, soundly beating all other browsers once again.

Opera 10.51 improves performance in Google's V8 benchmark as well, increasing performance another 10% in our tests.

In addition to having the fastest JavaScript performance, Opera 10.51 continues to lead the way in ECMAScript 3 conformance, achieving the best score of all major browsers, as seen in a recent post of Sputnik test results to The Chromium Blog. This is testament to Opera's commitment to paving the way in standards compliance.