Opera ups the ante in browsing speeds

Opera Software wants to improve the Internet experience by boosting web surfing speed on desktops and mobile. It says its Opera Turbo technology is just the answer for device operators and wireless carriers to offer such an experience. Poised for its debut in the second quarter, Opera Turbo boosts browsing speeds by leveraging server-side technologies to compress traffic by up to 80 percent.

On laptops, loading speed saw an average improvement of 71 percent--without the need to forego technologies such as Ajax and Flash. Several "optimization modes" can be configured for Opera Turbo. Opera Mini, a free browser catered toward mobile phones, already sport a similar server-side technology.

Despite having one of the smaller slices of the web browser market, an alpha of its flagship Opera 10 browser was known for achieving a perfect score on the grueling Acid3 test.

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