Chrome hunting by Opera 10.5 pre_alpha
26. Dec, 2009 
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Now latest Google browser has a new name in the list of competitors. Yes! new Chrome is hunted by new Opera 10.5 pre alpha.
Opera 10.5 pre-alpha introduces Windows 7 support and a slight re-design, along with a rocketing new JavaScript engine.
Empirical testing was done on an HP desktop running an Intel Core 2 Q6600 at 2.66GHz with 4GB of RAM and Windows 7 32-bit, the pre-alpha scored 435.6 milliseconds in the Sun Spider JavaScript benchmark. By contrast, Google Chrome 4.0.266.0 is the most recent development build, notched at 510.4 ms. The current stable build of Opera was more than 7.5 times slower, at 3284.4 ms.
