Latest Browsers Capability Test: The World's Fastest is Opera

We know Opera released a new version of browser last week, Opera 10.6, provides users with a series of performance and functionality improvements. At the same time, Opera Cfompany also claims, Opera 10.6 is currently the world's fastest browser.

As we all know, the world's popular browser are Google Chrome, Opera, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft IE and Apple Safari and so on. Below, use the following three popular test suites for the five major browsers we listed. The suites named: SunSpider Benchmark, JSBenchmark (by Celtic Kane), and Futuremark Peacekeeper Benchmark.

The test version of the browser were Opera 10.5,Opera 10.6 ,Chrome 6.0.408.1,Chrome 5.0.375.86、FireFox 3.6.4 ,Safari 5.0 (7553.16) ,IE8,IE9 (Trial Build 3).

The test results are as follows:

SunSpider Benchmark
1. Opera 10.5 353.4ms +/- 1.1%
2. Chrome 6.0.408.1 489.6ms +/- 3.9%
3. Opera 10.6 517.4ms +/- 5.7%
4. Safari 5.0 (7553.16) 600.4ms +/- 1.1%
5. Chrome 5.0.375.86 635.0ms +/- 3.6%
6. Internet Explorer 9 807.4ms +/- 12.1%
(Trial Build 3)
7. FireFox 3.6.4 1396.6ms +/- 14.6%
8. Internet Explorer 8 7228.8ms +/- 9.7%

JSBenchmark (by Celtic Kane)
1. Chrome 5 459 ± 0
2. Opera 10.6 387 ± 0
3. Chrome 6.0.408.1 355 ± 0
4. Safari 5.0 (7553.16) 252 ± 0
5. Opera 10.5 211 ± 0
6. Internet Explorer 9 177 ± 0
(Trial Build 3)
7. FireFox 3.6.4 100 ± 0
8. Internet Explorer 8 59 ± 15

Futuremark Peacekeeper Benchmark
1. Opera 10.6 5244 Points
2. Chrome 6.0.408.1 5162 Points
3. Chrome 5.0.375.86 4897 Points
4. Opera 10.5 3323 Points
5. Safari 5.0 (7553.16) 2606 Points
6. Firefox 3.6.4 1939 Points
7 Internet Explorer 9 1919 Points
(Trial Build 3)
8. Internet Explorer 8 829 Points

And you can find IE9 run faster than the Firefox 3.6, it's very good news for Microsoft. In the Sunspider Javascript test IE 9 was almost 10 times faster than IE 8. The Opera 10.6 did not like Opera Company claimed, as the world's fastest browser, but Opera 10.5 but is far ahead of other competitors.

At the same time, Google Chrome 6 would often collapse. While Chrome 5 is relatively stable, but it's still inadequate compared to Firefox 3.6 and Opera 10.6.And the user think the largest improvement of opera 10.6 is not its speed, but the binding of the free antivirus software AVG.