http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/May 28th 2010 7:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/May 28th 2010 8:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/]]>May 28th 2010 8:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/I personally think the Chrome ads are a bit better thought, tho. It's easier to make fun of something, the tricky part is to come with something original on the first place.]]>May 28th 2010 8:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/
On the other hand, it did quite handsomely prove the point: "We're still trying to catch up with Google".]]>May 28th 2010 8:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/May 28th 2010 9:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/May 28th 2010 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2OS2pwrZTI&feature=related]]>May 28th 2010 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/May 28th 2010 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/
Opera - "Chrome's got faster rendering but we have better sense of humor. We think!"]]>May 28th 2010 10:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/I think internet explorer would lose ]]>May 28th 2010 10:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/
The funniest part of the Opera ad was the red herring connection.

(For the record, I don't like Chrome. At all.)]]>May 28th 2010 11:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/May 28th 2010 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/
I would be laughing at that even if I was the CEO of google. c'mon, the company changed their page loads to show parsecs and jiffies.]]>May 28th 2010 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/May 28th 2010 12:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/
"to see the epic video"

Come on Engadget, do your editors really need to pander to 13 year olds by writing like them? I hope the words "epic" "win" and "fail" all fade into obscurity before I start throwing thesauruses at semi-literate teenagers.]]>May 28th 2010 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/
Opera is faster at loading pages, faster in JavaScript, and gives around x2 the score in the Peacekeeper browser benchmark. Opera even beat Google to release the first browser with WebM support.

If they were slower there wouldn't be any point in making fun of Chrome like in the above video ;-)]]>May 28th 2010 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/
GLARGEN BLARGEN OPEREN!! HA HAR DEE HAR HAR!!!

Vikings! yeah!

Chrome ftw]]>May 28th 2010 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/
Internet explorer vs cooking potatoes. GO!]]>May 28th 2010 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/
THIS

must be read by eveyrone.
(lest they fail at winning epicly)]]>May 28th 2010 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/
The fact that I misspelled 'everyone' makes this all the more ironic :(]]>May 28th 2010 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/May 28th 2010 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/
ass crack sensored at 17 seconds lol.]]>May 28th 2010 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/
the Google Ad was deceptive, the "speed" test rendered from local files. Even Netscape 4 rendered local files near instant.

That's what Opera is lampooning, not the potato..]]>May 28th 2010 5:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/May 29th 2010 3:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/
Way to totally miss the point of all of this!]]>May 29th 2010 7:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/
It doesn't let me tear out tabs from one window into a different window, though this is forgivable since I mainly use tabs in the title-bar anyway.

The widgets floating about as separate windows really pisses me off. What's the point? I've already got desktop widgets, so what reason is there for having extensions run outside and separate from the browser?

What's with the constant stream of alpha releases for Linux? Why are we stuck with the (hideous!) 10.10 version? Why isn't there a link on the main website for the alpha builds, instead of my having to Google it?

And don't bother telling me about the built-in mail client. Something as basic as marking read messages as read, it fails to do. I'll stick to my desktop mail client, thanks.

Web browsers being what they are, there isn't much to criticise, but I dislike just about all of Opera's defining features. And for goodness sake, if the desktop client is so fast why is the Wii client so goddamn slow?]]>May 29th 2010 8:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/there are 2 things here that collide though.
1: dragging down refreshes the tab instead of undocking it.
2: dragging up or to a different window undocks the tab, but when the tabs are in the titlebar there is no room to move it up.

so you either have to drag the tab all the way to your taskbar, or resize the opera window.]]>May 29th 2010 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/.]]>May 30th 2010 4:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/
lol really? I thought was a reference to the IRC (Internet Relay Chat) "brotherfranciz slaps anthonyt around a bit with a large trout"]]>May 31st 2010 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/Jun 9th 2010 3:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://labs.opera.com 10.54 was released in May there.]]>Jun 20th 2010 5:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/May 28th 2010 7:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/I did think the fish fighting and the book he was reading was pretty funny, lol.

I don't use Google Chrome or Opera. I use Maxthon 3, which has proved it's quite speedy as well.]]>May 28th 2010 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2003/02/14/). :D]]>May 28th 2010 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/May 28th 2010 6:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/May 28th 2010 7:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/
I'll have to agree. Potato cannon + lightning machine > comedy.]]>May 28th 2010 8:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/May 28th 2010 8:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/
I laughed more at "lightning machine" than I did at the ad :)]]>May 28th 2010 10:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/
I think it highlights my problem with the google ads, which is that lightening, potatoes, and all the crap google compares to chrome have nothing whatsoever to browsing the web. It's faster for me to walk to work than it is for someone to eat a sandwich. Who cares?]]>May 29th 2010 12:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/May 29th 2010 4:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/
Cheers. 8^)]]>Jun 11th 2010 7:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/May 28th 2010 8:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/May 28th 2010 8:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/May 28th 2010 8:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/
. . . as are people who's only comment is how much they don't like fanboys.


[oh and yes, irony recognized]]]>May 28th 2010 8:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/
Let it be irony boy, the world depends on our silence.]]>May 28th 2010 9:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/
Sent from my laptop]]>May 28th 2010 9:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/opera-parodies-googles-chrome-speed-tests-mercilessly-video/What about now Ott is it ready now?]]>May 28th 2010 8:02AM