This article’s subtitle should be “Firefox 7 sucks. Seriously.” but, since we’re only using titles here and nothing more, be sure to keep that in mind – this article is about Opera 11.52, but I also messed with Firefox 7.0.1 a bit and I really got scared of what I discovered. Anyway, the idea is that Opera just got updated from 11.51 to 11.52 a few hours ago and, to make it all even more interesting, Futuremark released a brand-new version, still in Beta stage, of its popular browser test Peacekeeper, so…
… take a look at the image above and figure it out for yourself – from the score of 1557 obtained with Opera 11.51, Opera 11.52 jumped just a bit, reaching 1576 points. The test was run using my old Windows XP computer and with a quite a few tabs open, so this makes the Firefox 7.0.1 result even more surprising – I didn’t save any screenshot for that, but with only two tabs open, Firefox 7.0.1 didn’t even manage to score 800 points! I am sure some Firefox fanboys will go for my throat on this one, but there’s no need to bother – before doing that, just install Opera 11.52 on your computer, then get Maxthon, then run the benchmark on all three!
Why Maxthon? Well, I didn’t bother messing with Chrome once again, but Maxthon really surprised me, since this one’s still faster than Opera and, in case you still didn’t take it for a spin, surely a browser to check out as soon as possible!
Oh, yeah – Opera 11.52 new features? Nothing new, just a few fixes, including a bug that I remember encountering more than a year ago – crashes that occurred while downloading via BitTorrent have been finally fixed! For the whole list of changes, go take a look here. That’s all, folks! 
