I use Opera on my netbook (Atom 1.6Ghz, very slow). Chrome is actually faster at rendering or interacting with pages - which is what benchmarks generally measur

I use Opera on my netbook (Atom 1.6Ghz, very slow). Chrome is actually faster at rendering or interacting with pages - which is what benchmarks generally measure. What they don't measure is how responsive the browser is. For me, Opera is far faster than Chrome at switching tabs, opening new tabs, having lots of tabs open in the background, having more than one tab loading at once, and eats less of my system resources than Chrome to achieve them.