New Opera browser cuts startup time
New, smarter Opera browser cuts startup time by more than 80%
There are two types of people in the world: those who like to have only a few tabs open in their browser, and those who like to have a lot of tabs open in their browser. For the latter folks, we have good news. The new version of Opera has a new, smarter startup sequence, designed so the most important tabs load more than 80% faster.
“Every day, millions of people start their browsers. Many of these people have more than 10 tabs open, or even more than 50 if you really use the browser a lot. With the new, smarter startup we cut away almost all the startup time for the most important tabs for you, no matter how many tabs the user has upon startup,” says Krystian Kolondra, SVP of Opera browser for computers.
How it works
For more than ten years, the default setting when launching your Opera browser has been to start where you left off in the previous session. Now, with the addition of a smarter startup sequence, Opera is able to start more quickly by giving priority to the most recently active and pinned tabs. By prioritizing the tabs that are most likely to be important to you, most users will feel that they load instantly.
How fast is it?
Test results show an average improvement of 86% when testing startup time with more than 42 tabs in the previous session.
For a set of around 10 tabs, the gain is still above 50%.
Already unique, now faster and better
“This year, we have stepped up the game for browsers and cut as many pain points for users as possible. That’s why we have introduced unique features like VPN, native ad blocker, battery saver and video pop-out,” says Krystian Kolondra, SVP of Opera browser for computers. “For this release, we devote our focus to speed and performance, making the browser faster and more powerful than ever before.”
Opera 41 also comes with a range of other improvements. Video conferencing and Opera’s video pop-out feature are now powered by hardware acceleration instead of the CPU, which limits the need for CPU support and frees PC resources for other things, making the computer run more smoothly and decreasing battery consumption.
Opera’s personalized newsreader – one-stop news tailored for user’s needs – has received a long list of improvements, including an option to add a source even if the user doesn’t know the exact RSS URL.
Learn more about this version in our blog post.
Download the Opera browser here.
Watch the video.
About the startup-time research
The test was performed with 42 websites open in the session that had been saved in history. A Lenovo Yoga 300 i3, SSHD 8GB running Windows 10 was used.
Opera versions tested with the default settings:
O40 (40.0.2308.90) default settings
O41 (41.0.2353.40) default settings
Time was measured until the active tab was completely loaded and could be used, and the test was repeated 10 times and averages applied. A cold start means your browser has not yet been opened since restarting the operating system. A warm start happens when the browser has been closed and, without OS restart, you are launching the browser again. This is usually faster than a cold start, since some needed libraries might still be in RAM memory.
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About Opera
Opera enables more than 350 million internet consumers worldwide to connect with the content and services that matter most to them. Opera also helps publishers monetize their content through advertising and advertisers reach the audiences that build value for their businesses, capitalizing on a global consumer audience reach that exceeds 1 billion.
Opera is a trademark of Opera Software AS.
There are two types of people in the world: those who like to have only a few tabs open in their browser, and those who like to have a lot of tabs open in their browser. For the latter folks, we have good news. The new version of Opera has a new, smarter startup sequence, designed so the most important tabs load more than 80% faster.
“Every day, millions of people start their browsers. Many of these people have more than 10 tabs open, or even more than 50 if you really use the browser a lot. With the new, smarter startup we cut away almost all the startup time for the most important tabs for you, no matter how many tabs the user has upon startup,” says Krystian Kolondra, SVP of Opera browser for computers.
How it works
For more than ten years, the default setting when launching your Opera browser has been to start where you left off in the previous session. Now, with the addition of a smarter startup sequence, Opera is able to start more quickly by giving priority to the most recently active and pinned tabs. By prioritizing the tabs that are most likely to be important to you, most users will feel that they load instantly.
How fast is it?
Test results show an average improvement of 86% when testing startup time with more than 42 tabs in the previous session.
For a set of around 10 tabs, the gain is still above 50%.
Already unique, now faster and better
“This year, we have stepped up the game for browsers and cut as many pain points for users as possible. That’s why we have introduced unique features like VPN, native ad blocker, battery saver and video pop-out,” says Krystian Kolondra, SVP of Opera browser for computers. “For this release, we devote our focus to speed and performance, making the browser faster and more powerful than ever before.”
Opera 41 also comes with a range of other improvements. Video conferencing and Opera’s video pop-out feature are now powered by hardware acceleration instead of the CPU, which limits the need for CPU support and frees PC resources for other things, making the computer run more smoothly and decreasing battery consumption.
Opera’s personalized newsreader – one-stop news tailored for user’s needs – has received a long list of improvements, including an option to add a source even if the user doesn’t know the exact RSS URL.
Learn more about this version in our blog post.
Download the Opera browser here.
Watch the video.
About the startup-time research
The test was performed with 42 websites open in the session that had been saved in history. A Lenovo Yoga 300 i3, SSHD 8GB running Windows 10 was used.
Opera versions tested with the default settings:
O40 (40.0.2308.90) default settings
O41 (41.0.2353.40) default settings
Time was measured until the active tab was completely loaded and could be used, and the test was repeated 10 times and averages applied. A cold start means your browser has not yet been opened since restarting the operating system. A warm start happens when the browser has been closed and, without OS restart, you are launching the browser again. This is usually faster than a cold start, since some needed libraries might still be in RAM memory.
FIND OUT MORE:
Follow us on Twitter
Help us share Opera with the world
Become an Opera fan on Facebook
Watch our videos on YouTube
About Opera
Opera enables more than 350 million internet consumers worldwide to connect with the content and services that matter most to them. Opera also helps publishers monetize their content through advertising and advertisers reach the audiences that build value for their businesses, capitalizing on a global consumer audience reach that exceeds 1 billion.
Opera is a trademark of Opera Software AS.
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