Add a self-proclaimed 'fastest in the world' browser

Opera director, Christen Krogh, confirmed that the 10.60 beta version of the browser outperformed Safari 5 and Google Chrome 5 .

Opera does not want to stay out of the speed battle between browsers.

Christen said, in some recent Javascript tests, Opera 10.60 beta is 50% faster than the previous version.

Many advanced features of HTML 5 are integrated in the 10.60 beta version of the next generation Webm audio and video codecs, Web Workers, App Cache . In addition, the ability to identify real world geographic locations (geolocation) has appeared in Chrome 5 also added in the new version

Another outstanding feature of the browser is Opera Turbo and is appreciated by the manufacturer. According to the director, when users have to surf the web at locations with slow wireless and congested wireless networks such as airports or Internet cafés, Opera Turbo will be the "savior" for them. This feature, he said, helps speed up browsing on the Edge network by up to 65% and approximately 50% for 3G networks.

In addition to the outstanding advantages mentioned above, Christen said the browser also improved simultaneously on tab display, search engine, ability to synchronize between systems .

Previously, Opera used to mock Google Chrome 5 by comparing its browser speed with potato boil time.