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Opera, fastest browser. Again.

Published on February 10, 2010 in Browsers. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Opera has always been the fastest browser in the world, but Safari and Chrome put him in a bad position during ~1 year. Nowadays Opera is working in a new javascript engine called Carakan. Opera has launched a pre-alpha version of Opera 10.50 (with Carakan) and it was more less as fast as Chrome.

Now, Opera has released Opera 10.50 beta, which you can download form here. Right now it’s only available for Windows but it will be working in Mac and Unix-like (Linux, …) OS soon.

Let’s see how fast it is… (tests in Windows 7 Professional 64-bit)

Opera 10.50 beta: 367.2 ms +- 4.1% (link)
Chromium (one of the latest 4.x versions): 399.0ms +-2.1% (link)
Google Chrome 4.0.249.78: 481.0 +- 5.4% (link)
Chrome 5: 525.4ms+- 6.9% (link)

If you are in Linux or in Mac and don’t want to wait for Opera 10.50 beta, you can try Opera 10.50 pre-alpha here.

I hope more people use this browser, as it’s not very used although it’s technically one of the best browser, much more better than Firefox (if you don’t count extensions). Opera comes with almost everything and it works fine, this is why they don’t want extensions. Some freatures that Opera comes with by default are: bittorrent, good download manager (yes pause and resume work), good rss (advanced rss program, not the normal rss), something like Adblock, mail client, Opera Unite (share easily whatever you want from your own computer), and of course all the things that others have: bookmark manager, history manager, private tabs/windows, spelling checker … If you’ve never used it, you should give it a try, you won’t be disappointed.

How to fix Internet Explorer

Published on February 4, 2010 in Browsers and Windows. 0 Comments

It’s a shit, and if you don’t like it you just don’t use it, you have plenty alternatives. But… there’s a problem. In Windows almost all the applications that use a browser use Internet Explorer, for example Steam. There’s an addon called Chrome Frame. It’s developed by Google to run Chrome inside Internet Explorer, but it’s done to be run only if the page request it or if you enter in the urls by typing cf:http://url.com

But there’s a way to force Internet Explorer to render pages with Chrome, and you will never ever use it again! Now I can play CSS and visit webpages with Chrome inside Steam :D . So if you want to do this, follow the steps:

1. Install Chrome Frame, if you don’t have it you can download from here.
2. Now you have to do a registry modification. Just go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\ChromeFrame and create a new key called OptInUrls.
3. In right side panel create a new String with * as name.

You can also download this file that does the same, (I’ve used it, it works fine).

Thanks to askvg.com for the help.

Edit: It works fine, but it doesn’t do what I wanted, it doesn’t work well in Steam. Inside Counter-Strike Source it displays Internet Explorer though pop-ups work with Chrome.