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Tom's Hardware conducted an exhaustive 14-category battery of tests on all the major browsers to determine which browser is truly the fastest. So how did Opera do?

Tom's Hardware is known for their exhaustive, thorough reviews and articles that explore every nook and cranny of a product or technology. They have just published a new edition of their Web Browser Grand Prix in which virtually every significant aspect of the major web browsers is compared.

They test the following categories of performance:

• Startup Time
• Page Load Time
• JavaScript
• DOM
• Peacekeeper
• HTML5 Performance
• Acid 3
• Flash
• Java
• Silverlight
• Memory Usage
• Memory Management
• CSS3 Compliance
• HTML5 Compliance

The results were quite interesting, and show the strengths and weaknesses in all of the browsers.

Their conclusion?

"In the previous Web Browser Grand Prix, Opera had a small lead on our winner Google Chrome when the results were broken down by category. This time around, Opera wrangles a massive victory, dominating in eight out of the fourteen categories. This makes Opera the hands down winner of Web Browser Grand Prix 2. Though Google Chrome holds a scant lead in points when taking all benchmarks into account, Opera easily wins the speed race and owns over half of the wins per category. Right now, the Norwegian browser-maker is the only outfit that can claim to have "the world's fastest browser.""

You can read the article for yourself on Tom's Hardware.

Update:
An Opera employee has posted some information about the results of some of the tests that may be questionable - in short, the real-world performance of Opera should be better than what was shown in the article - so Opera would have been even BETTER were these taken into account.