A Mozilla engineer has uncovered something embarrassing for Microsoft – Internet Explorer is cheating in the SunSpider Benchmark. The SunSpider, although developed by Apple, has nowadays become a very popular choice of benchmark for the JavaScript engines of browsers.

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Mozilla has released the seventh beta of its upcoming browser, Firefox 4.0. The Firefox 4.0 development has hit a slightly rough patch recently resulting in the release date for the final build pushed back to 2011. However, there is good news with the new beta – it has finally overtaken both Chrome and Opera, both…

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In this article we will tell you about two Opera extensions that will allow you to access or view GMail and Google Reader in your Opera Browser in iPad Mode (iOS Mode). Both GMail and Google Reader look amazing when viewed on an iPad, so why not get the same looks while accessing them in Opera Browser.

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A couple of days back, the Opera team announced that Opera 11 will have extensions. Today, they have released the first alpha of Opera 11 and as promised it has the extensions. The first thing you will notice is the installation – it has been simplified a lot. It took maybe 2-3 clicks only.

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Opera is one of the most solid browsers around. It is very fast, extremely customizable and has a lot of functionalities which others do not have. Opera is also a very strong supporter of web standards. It is one of the first browsers to pass the ACID 3 test. However Opera has always been confined…

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There are a lot of JavaScript benchmarking tools. Google has the V8 benchmark suite, Apple has SunSpider and Mozilla had (and still has) Dromaeo. Of course there are independent ones like Peacekeeper as well. Today, Mozilla has released a new JavaScript Benchmarking tool called Kraken. Kraken is largely based on the SunSpider test; with Mozilla…

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Both Opera and Google are obsessed with the speed of their browser. With each release, each claim to be the fastest browser. Google has even gone on to make a game to demonstrate the speed of its browser Chrome. With today’s release of Opera 10.60, Opera is now claiming that it is the fastest browser…

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Opera has just released Opera 10.60 for Linux, Windows and Mac. It is basically an improvement over Opera 10.5x. They claim that Opera 10.60 is 50% faster than Opera 10.50, making it the fastest browser.

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Watch Opera’s latest spoof on the Chrome potato gun speed test.

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