Opera 10.51 released, making the fastest browser even faster

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

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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.

  • Opera 10.51: 78 failures
  • Safari 4: 159 failures
  • Chrome 4: 218 failures
  • Firefox 3.6: 259 failures
  • Internet Explorer 8: 463 failures

Opera Software has yet again achieved a new milestone in browser performance. Download Opera 10.51 today at http://www.opera.com/browser/.

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Comments

Piet-Jan pjd123 Monday, March 22, 2010 8:22:48 PM

yes i did and my score is not so different from the score above (3180 vs 3421 in v8 en 5200 vs my 5246 in peacekeeper)
I just think the beta version and final of chrome 5 is going to destroy 10.51 (unfortunately, because i don't like the UI of chrome and i do like the UI and glass skin of Opera)

Caroloperainchicago Monday, March 22, 2010 8:25:41 PM

good work Opera up

Piet-Jan pjd123 Monday, March 22, 2010 8:48:16 PM

In sunspider there is little difference
opera 10.51 479.6
chrome 5 beta 468.4

d4rkn1ght Monday, March 22, 2010 9:13:59 PM

yes

Piet-Jan pjd123 Monday, March 22, 2010 9:56:20 PM

try the 5.0.356 chrome beta (50% faster than this one, i'm sorry)

civitasster Monday, March 22, 2010 10:22:20 PM

Bolje. Vratite gumb okna na vrh!sing

Rafael Luikrafaelluik Monday, March 22, 2010 10:23:42 PM

Opera 10.51: 86 failures here... faint

Why Firefox does haves an "Yes" in everything here?

ludmar Monday, March 22, 2010 10:30:54 PM

good work! yes

HellShoot Tuesday, March 23, 2010 1:43:01 AM

The best...gets better.

Approved. yes up

Leonardo Ruelasleonardo1693 Tuesday, March 23, 2010 2:29:36 AM

I Love it!!!! !!yes up yes yes up up yes yes yes yes up yes up up

Caroloperainchicago Tuesday, March 23, 2010 3:32:40 AM

will download tomorrow

Diego Schild Smithstekonaza Tuesday, March 23, 2010 3:38:36 AM

Originally posted by rafaelluik:

Opera 10.51: 86 failures here...


84 here... o.o

theInfiltrator Tuesday, March 23, 2010 7:59:10 AM

Great browser and now even greater, good work!

mshinoda Tuesday, March 23, 2010 1:39:45 PM

party drunk

SergejsUsergejsu Tuesday, March 23, 2010 4:01:17 PM

No drag'n'drop in Google Docs? Unlike in Firefox?
But in other aspects very nice indeed smile

Shane Bundyoperabaker Tuesday, March 23, 2010 4:17:51 PM

Originally posted by tekonaza:

Originally posted by rafaelluik:

Opera 10.51: 86 failures here...

84 here... o.o



I got what they got: 78 O.o

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks Tuesday, March 23, 2010 4:28:47 PM

Originally posted by Shane Bundy:

I got what they got: 78 O.o


Ditto (Lower is better) up

Cutting Spoonhellspork Tuesday, March 23, 2010 5:43:24 PM

UserJS can mess up your results. 78 should be what you get with a clean install in a new folder/profile. If you do not have exactly 78 failures, it would be very good to know your exact Operating System and Hardware config.

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks Tuesday, March 23, 2010 6:44:06 PM

Originally posted by Cutting Spoon:

UserJS can mess up your results.


I use UserJS and I still got 78.

Cutting Spoonhellspork Tuesday, March 23, 2010 7:01:42 PM

SPECIFIC UserJS. All I know is, people can often fix a bugged score by turning off their entire collection of UserJS temporarily. For example that guy who had 69/100 in Acid3, it was either UserJS or UserCSS that caused it. So if certain people have more than 78 failures, the first thing to try is disabling UserJS. The same remedy goes for Peacekeeper crashes and other headaches.

If someone running a vanilla copy of 10.51 does not have 78 failures, they need to put up some extended information about their OS and Hardware.

operafana Wednesday, March 24, 2010 5:07:40 AM

Awesome!! Opera Rocks!!!! headbang

United I.T.F Tae Kwon DoMiker1111 Wednesday, March 24, 2010 5:56:30 AM

white fonts in the settings shocking!!! kills the eyes trying to read them!

Rafael Luikrafaelluik Wednesday, March 24, 2010 1:13:38 PM

Originally posted by DanielHendrycks:

Originally posted by Cutting Spoon:

UserJS can mess up your results.

I use UserJS and I still got 78.


I don't even use UserJS...

Well, that's ok, I don't really care about this results, I use Opera since it was - according to tests - the slowest..

prd3 Wednesday, March 24, 2010 2:07:51 PM

Originally posted by pjd123:

also did the v8 test with google chrome 5 beta and opera 10.51


The V8 benchmark is useless since Chrome is cheating.

Originally posted by pjd123:

try the 5.0.356 chrome beta (50% faster than this one, i'm sorry)


That's completely wrong. Something is obviously broken on your end.

Cutting Spoonhellspork Wednesday, March 24, 2010 4:18:22 PM

The "Widgetise" Unite application works with the Peacekeeper site. I honestly think it doesn't affect scores much, but it was a definite surprise.

bottona Wednesday, March 24, 2010 5:40:53 PM

1 giorno 6 ore 10 minuti e 45 secondi

Piet-Jan pjd123 Thursday, March 25, 2010 9:06:08 AM

Originally posted by prd3:

Originally posted by pjd123:
try the 5.0.356 chrome beta (50% faster than this one, i'm sorry)

That's completely wrong. Something is obviously broken on your end.


And on my girlfriends laptop too? i don't think so
scores on the laptop (Intel T3200, 3GB memory, Vista)
chrome beta 5.0.356.2 - 3602pts
opera 10.51 - 3138pts
safari - 2315pts
firefox - 2108pts
ie8 could not finish the test

Try it yourself. Search for the 5.0.356.2 beta version of chrome and all of you will see it scores way more points than opera 10.51...i have a rather slow internet connection (cable 1500 download 250 upload) but with chrome almost every page comes on screen rightaway en finishes very very fast

Piet-Jan pjd123 Thursday, March 25, 2010 10:31:11 AM

also take a look at this test
http://www.willemvlot.nl/FutureBrowsers032010.pdf
the 5.0.342.5 is 1,5 times faster than 10.50 beta in peacekeeper...i know the 10.51 is faster than the 10.50 beta but not 1,5 times

Besmir Godolebgodole Thursday, March 25, 2010 11:32:04 AM

At the annual Pwn2Own hacker contest, yesterday, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/25/pwn2own_2010_day_one/ , a researcher/hacker says why he uses Opera (look at the end of the article).

Rafael Luikrafaelluik Thursday, March 25, 2010 2:49:32 PM

Originally posted by bgodole:

At the annual Pwn2Own hacker contest, yesterday, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/25/pwn2own_2010_day_one/ , a researcher/hacker says why he uses Opera (look at the end of the article).


I think that he cited a bad point, I believe that Opera would continue to be the securest with a big market share.

Cutting Spoonhellspork Friday, March 26, 2010 4:50:44 AM

Doesn't hurt that Opera's source viewer has an "apply changes" button either. You can test changes to a website without first being able to access its code. It makes for some pretty funny screenshots.

Jaxtrawjaxtraw Friday, March 26, 2010 5:34:13 PM

Just upgraded today, and there's a noticable speed improvement; in particular those uber-irrtitating "lightbox" modal windows finally work on my aged (AthloxXP 1.7GHz) machine, rather than staggering and stalling.

richcocopuff Saturday, March 27, 2010 10:58:54 PM

all this speed is for naught if 10.51 hangs even before any cntent shows up.

kalevi passikpassi2 Sunday, March 28, 2010 9:42:34 AM

no opera 10.51 no no

Bob Constansbobconstans Sunday, March 28, 2010 7:13:56 PM

I updated dutifully today - NOT faster - EVERYTHING slower now.
Plus, I had to spend a bunch of time figuring out the new setup and getting it (sort of) the way I want it.
I am NOT happy at all with this upgrade - I wish I had not done it and I will NOT be doing it on my laptop. And this is the first time in all my MANY years of using it that I truly regret doing an upgrade.
I am a very PISSED-OFF Opera user, right now.

Guga ChaidzeBelizer Sunday, March 28, 2010 8:23:37 PM

This is fraud Opera is not the fastest and still has a lot of problems. Firefox runs faster on my PC. But I do use Opera too, as it has many good features.

StelianLZ2SDC Sunday, March 28, 2010 9:02:15 PM

Originally posted by Belizer:

This is fraud Opera is not the fastest and still has a lot of problems. Firefox runs faster on my PC.


Hm...
I do not believe this.
Can your link from Peacekeeper or SunSpider to see how your FF is faster than Opera? Just curious.

Unfortunately should I admit that on my laptop, Chrome is still faster than my Opera. sad
Definitely it is characteristic of my system, but I hope Opera, soon put a Chrome spot. There still much to be desired in Data operations.

My test of a Peacekeeper:
http://clients.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/results.action?key=38tM

On the SunSpider:
Opera 10.52 3337 - 475.8ms +/- 2.4%
Chrome 5.0.363.0 - 463.8ms +/- 5.8%

SONY VAIO VGN-C190P; Intel Core (TM) 2 CPU 2.00 GHz; RAM 1.5 GB; Windows 7 Ultimate x86

bwvandorn Sunday, March 28, 2010 10:14:21 PM

Nothing but problems. Tried it for 2 days then went back to version 10.00. sad cry down

Guga ChaidzeBelizer Sunday, March 28, 2010 10:24:36 PM

Well test showed me the same - Chrome is fastest but anyway it takes much more time for opera to open any site than FF here at home and the same is at the office.

prd3 Monday, March 29, 2010 6:47:09 AM

Originally posted by Belizer:

This is fraud Opera is not the fastest and still has a lot of problems.


You are the fraudster. Independent tests confirm that Opera is the fastest.

Guga ChaidzeBelizer Monday, March 29, 2010 10:01:03 AM

There are two types of people. Some trust independent tests and other rely on what they see. I believe people will find out who is who.

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks Monday, March 29, 2010 11:44:53 AM

Originally posted by prd3:

Independent tests confirm that Opera is the fastest.


And independent people.

Johnice ReidTheCookieLadyCafe Monday, March 29, 2010 2:38:55 PM

Well, everything was a minor irritation in this Beta version, today there are major frustrations, no images or too few to identify where you are exactly. I work with images and not having them appear is a major issue. I have closed Opera several times and nothing improves (this has often worked in days prior to now)I am ready to reinstall it and that is a huge headache.

Anyone else having this issue?

prd3 Monday, March 29, 2010 8:49:37 PM

Originally posted by TheCookieLadyCafe:

Anyone else having this issue?


Nope. Sounds like your installation is broken.

But this is NOT the right place to post problems. Use the forum for that.

Cutting Spoonhellspork Monday, March 29, 2010 10:35:07 PM

Why not just give a proper explanation, perhaps wait for someone to figure out the problem? You probably just enabled Turbo by accident.

daft01 Wednesday, March 31, 2010 7:20:42 PM

opera rocks!! so fast, its installed size it's only 10mb, compare to chrome 70mb! and FF 25mb, i love this browser.it's honnest.

Cutting Spoonhellspork Monday, April 19, 2010 6:30:00 PM

Well, non-SSE2-capable PCs will not perform at full speed. Even so, 10.51 feels a little faster than 10.10 on my Athlon 4 and Athlon XP. If you have lots of tabs in your session, the startup may be slowed by a virtual memory allocation problem that some users have experienced.

Perhaps there could be a small disclaimer that very old PCs are better served by 10.10, not sure what else they could say. Opera will only push a silent upgrade if you tell it to do so, all of my upgrades have been done manually.

Johnice ReidTheCookieLadyCafe Tuesday, April 20, 2010 9:03:19 PM

I will reinstall for now, though I am switching to Ubuntu, a lenux OS and will need to transfer everything Opera!

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