Fastest Browser for mobile? - Opera or UC?

As you know that most of the people here love UC and others have no choice than to use Opera mini...

UC Browser
People like the browser. And there are powerful reasons for it. It is highly customizable and has a lot of options which can make the life of a geeky user comfortable. Moreover it is blazing fast because of its pre-fetch mechanism which apparently makes the browsing speed very fast. Also it is equipped with powerful download manager which is highly reliable. Even it does show you animation unlike its rivals.

On the other hand, when talking about the cons of UC, the worst problem with UC is its bad cookie handling and the pre-fetch mechanism (which seems to enhance the speed). Usually proxy browsers like UC cannot be expected to respect caching and content headers (from programmer's view). But for UC, it seems that it does not care about it at all. Pre-fetch would seem to enhance browsing and speed for normal sites. On the other hand it would make you load when using carefully planned dynamic sites/secure sites like wapSPELL. Unexpected results may include "Content expired" errors. Also you would be shocked to see the actions you never clicked on... eg. when you visit a topic, it may be liked by UC even if you do not want it to be. Also UC ruins the look of pages by opting its own layout that would sometimes make you feel like euuughhhhhh!!! Moreover, as I have seen, on some phones installing UC can be a headache.

Opera Mini
Opera Mini comes in-built in many phones that leaves no choice for the users. The version may seem a bit outdated but you can always update it for most of the phones... Opera mini is simple... No hassles... only beautiful browsing...

Opera Mini does not provide lots of geeky settings and menus. But it does include a very sleek interface which can be understood even by beginners. It would preserve the actual view of the pages be it web or mobile pages. The latest version of Opera Mini seem to respect the page headers (programmer's view) to a very good extent. Moreover, I think Opera Mini has stopped using pre-fetch in their new browsers because they could have understood the above mentioned issues as in case of UC and old Opera mini versions. Opera Mini is fast! It will not appear amazingly fast like UC because it does not provide you pre-fetching like it. There are valid reasons for it; do consider it.

Opera Mini will not show animations. :(

Conclusion
Finally it is your own choice. You have to explore what works best for your purpose. If you are more into accessing login demanding sites, we would recommend using Opera Mini and for general sites and for high access speed, UC.