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Obligatory "what about Opera?"


Don't be silly. Everyone knows the only use of Opera is lifting their age-old features and advertising them as revolutionary.

- remembers 5.12


Ofcourse, I do love the Opera app for iPhone, which is a lot faster then the Safari standard.


That's because Opera Mini isn't a normal browser. It's something like a thin client. Opera's servers do all the rendering and shoot things to your phone in a little binary file which the app just has to display.

Opera Mobile and Opera Desktop are more conventional browsers.


There is a "thick client" opera browser as well. Good browser.


Kinda cruel to do speed test and ignore browser which advertised itself as the fastest browser on Earth not so long ago.




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