<img attachment="opera3_t.png" align="left"><div style="margin-left: 180px"><a href="http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/browserSpeed.html">Browser Speed Tests</a> offers an in-depth speed comparison of dozens of popular browsers (in different versions and platforms) in several categories: <ul> Startup time Table rendering CSS rendering JavaScript Graphics (downloading and displaying multiple graphics) History (traversing back and forth) </ul> </div> The results are hardly surprising for those that have tried and used different browsers: Opera wins in amost every category. On Windows, it's almost twice as fast as any other browser in most of the tests. In fact, the latest version (8.0b1) only loses to older versions of Opera, where rendering speed is slower only in absolute terms (progressive rendering in Opera 7.x/8.x makes it <i>feel</i> like it's loading faster, but it reformats more often, using more time overall). On the Mac, it's the fastest at most categtories (even though it's still in preview release on that platform), losing only at startup speed (which is much better in the latest releases) and CSS rendering, where Safari 2.0 kills it. Even on Linux, it's the clear speed winner, coming in first in most cases. 'nuff said.