Opera 10.5 beta breaks record with JavaScript benchmarks

The beta of Opera 10.5 is the world's fastest browser at the moment, according to new benchmark tests. Running the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark suite under Windows XP, Computerworld concluded that Opera 10.5 is nearly 15 percent faster than Safari for Windows and 20 percent faster than Google Chrome. Safari and Chrome are the current holders of the top two spots.

Released last week, the Opera 10.5 performance is courtesy of Carakan, a new JavaScript engine, as well as a new graphics rendering engine called Vega. Other enhancements include a revamped interface that supports various Windows 7 features, and the ability to mark individual tabs as private.

No ship date is available yet for the release of Opera 10.5, though you can download Opera 10.5 beta for Windows here. Opera says that betas for Mac and Linux platforms will also be ready at that point.

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