Opera Wins Another Speed Test
By Anna RohlederAnnaMetro. Wednesday, April 25, 2012 1:35:35 PM
According to some estimates, Windows XP still powers up to one-third of the world's PCs, with an estimated 100 million users. That's an important part of the reason why the gadget review site Tom's Hardware used XP as the basis for a special edition of their Web Browser Grand Prix. The result?
Opera proves the be the best choice for XP users.
This was an overall result, based on Opera's performance in a number of different performance categories, from basic tasks like startup time to code rendering. Internally, winning Tom's Hardware test comes as a surprise:
"I had no idea we could win a hardware contest - we're a software company! But what we make is pretty hard too."- Opera employee.
Are any of you using Windows XP right now? What's your experience of running Opera? Let us know in the comments!


Swapnil RustagiSwapnil99pro # Wednesday, April 25, 2012 1:49:53 PM
Yes, typing from Opera 11.62 on Windows XP. Opera is great - but eats a lot of memory; not bad when I am not running any other applications, but an issue when I am running a big application like Visual Studio side-by-side.
Unrealmirakulix # Wednesday, April 25, 2012 1:58:32 PM
gabrielagnoro # Wednesday, April 25, 2012 1:58:32 PM
dżekdzek69 # Wednesday, April 25, 2012 2:27:18 PM
Anyway - I'm on XP too. Opera is really fast, although themed 12.00 is visibly slower. Also I don't know when memory usage started to be this big (I remember times when Opera was taking 300MB, not 600-800), but this is going to be hell, when I'll switch to Windows 7 again (only 2GB RAM)
nyc # Wednesday, April 25, 2012 4:23:18 PM
That´s why Opera is my choice for many years. Ok, some other features are crucial, too...
Satan D. Lucifersupertrol # Wednesday, April 25, 2012 6:30:46 PM
but im going to help some people having memory issues in opera
my RAM is 2GB and heres my opera:memdebug configuration
http://i.imgur.com/uoCsi.jpg
some opera:config setup that i did
-Disable "Cache Other" under disk cache tab(this means opera wont cache "OTHER" content like flash videos,mp4 and some multimedia content..downside is that in opera:cache you cant check those videos and audio to search for it.
-Disable Thumbnails
-Disable bittorent
-Disable unite,link
-Disable UI animations
-Disable Special Effects
and if you want ultimate reduced memory usage..
-Disable "Cache Docs and Cache Figs" both under Cache and Disk Cache tab in opera:config(NOT RECOMMENDED to me since it will make opera very slow and not cache'ing content in disk cache and RAM)
as im typing this i have 11 tabs open(2 YT videos the rest is document and images sites) and only using 232 MB of RAM right now.
hope kinda help other people.
a1abhi93 # Thursday, April 26, 2012 10:07:45 AM
Ayesh IceMYLANKA # Thursday, April 26, 2012 11:11:01 AM
U guys must fix that. And at the moment firefox is the best choice for XP users.
Hope opera 12 not slow on xp.
--Ayesh ice--
abdullahcommando987 # Thursday, April 26, 2012 6:18:45 PM
Stoyan PomakovMiniStoy # Thursday, April 26, 2012 6:56:02 PM
D1sasterp1ece # Thursday, April 26, 2012 7:32:11 PM
Charles SchlossChas4 # Friday, April 27, 2012 12:47:09 PM
Glad I could point Opera to another test showing Opera being the fastest
The Hobblerhobbler # Saturday, April 28, 2012 12:16:22 AM
Its running fine , no memory problems with Opera, seems fine with 512MB RAM here, fast enough.
I think the Flash Player causes all the memory hog problems.
espoirtchibinda # Sunday, April 29, 2012 7:16:36 PM
Babiuc Neculai-Petrubabiuc-neculai-petru # Monday, April 30, 2012 3:32:25 PM
Muhammad Shahmi Bin Said @ SaidiTechnosparks # Monday, April 30, 2012 4:47:11 PM
Kelisha G FerdinandsKelisha # Thursday, May 3, 2012 9:10:01 PM
raymond chiareemy557 # Friday, May 4, 2012 7:36:48 AM
jkforde # Tuesday, May 8, 2012 11:19:52 AM
Hellas # Saturday, May 26, 2012 9:54:54 AM
Lollo Andersenlollo10 # Tuesday, May 29, 2012 8:09:47 PM
Alice Greenalicesports # Monday, June 4, 2012 7:19:14 AM
Jeff Murrayboidsonly # Monday, June 25, 2012 11:56:38 PM
It runs fine on my old XP machine.
xolanisaxesh # Tuesday, July 24, 2012 7:14:32 PM