Opera 10.5 pre-alpha is on Carakan, by far the fastest Javascript rendering available
Look, we know there is a "Ain't nuthin wrong with Safari" crowd out there who isn't interested in other browsers like Firefox, Chrome and now Opera. That's OK, just head over to the next story.
For those who are interested, Opera has an Alpha release of their new Javascript Engine, Caraken, that is damn fast on slower connections (like the Mifi here at the parents' vacation house). Lifehacker ran some tests and it clobbered everying out there on Javascript tests, sometimes doubling or
tripling the performance of Chrome.
I'm using Gmail which seems faster on Opera than either Chrome or Safari but can't vouch for any of these tests personally.
Download it for Mac here. Again, please remember that this is an unstable development build. There are known bugs, unimplemented UI elements and surprise crashes.
It also has some nice pre-caching features for slow connections that are help the holiday work go by a bit easier...
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"new Javascript Engine, Caraken, that is damn fast on slower connections"... w00t? The Engine is measured by how fast it runs code, it has nothing to do with the connection speed.
Correct, genious.
If you're going to be sarcastic, make sure you spell things correctly, the spelling nazi's will eat you alive, genius :p
"nazi's"
*sigh*
Well to be fair, s/he only referenced the "spelling nazi's" and made no mention of the grammar Nazis.
@OS X Copycat
You failed.
"nazi's"
Epic fail. Genius. Win.
Perhaps some might identify this technique as "caching of javascript objects marked as unsafe for caching"?
I hate this Opera BS. They claim to have this revolutionary, fast browser, while in fact it is seemingly the slowest browser I've ever used on any platform. Add to it the awful incompatibilities, and you get a terrible mix.
It may be fast enough on slow connection with its Turbo thingy, but on a 256K+ connection, it's just rubbish. Pure, Windows-like rubbish-
It's to fast it keeps on crashing everytime.
Its a developer build
I have tested Opera 10.5, and it does indeed have a faster javascript engine than safari and chrome. However the HTML & CSS renderer are much slower (about ie7 speed) than chrome and safari.
im writing this from opera 10.5 and this site loads way faster than safari, firefox or camino..
sweetwater.com also feels faster
Who gives rats a$$ about java news unless its about java on the iPhone?
Java != Javascript
netscape navigator 1.0 ftw
Mozaic 1.0 FTW!!! ha. you can't get any older then that.
Brought my old PHS 300 as well as the new MiFi on my Christmas travels... ended up reverting back to the trusty Cradlepoint... afraid the MiFi just doesn't seem to have the same speed and reliability.
Agree!
Very funny theres no difference between the two versions, whats the point of jumping so ridiculously far in the version number for google, if the cant translate that in performance.
tried it and instantly deleted it as it does not support gestures, gone back to webkit
Does not support gestures for going back and forth between web pages... big disappointment and why oh why does it always focus on the last tab if you open multiple ones at once and not on the first tab like every other browser out there.
Thanks for articles
thnks for articles