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Re: [Announce] - Helium Mobile Browser for N900

yeah...it feels real fast.....its a welcome development...

Re: [Announce] - Helium Mobile Browser for N900

wow. there is much to be done like more settings and some parts arent working like context menu. but it is fast.

Re: [Announce] - Helium Mobile Browser for N900

ouuu, it's realy fast!and websockets+SSE...so cool!
what about User Experience and Usability?
auto zoom (doubleclick on element) sometimes zoomout so many (page is too little)-help double click again.
sometimes i can't open links (for example from google search)
need fullscreen
need adBlock
need java console
and maybe need extensions...or only userscripts and usercss

and what about start's arguments for example -url -fullscreen -hideui
it will be usefull for webapps ;)

Re: [Announce] - Helium Mobile Browser for N900

Glad to see it supports Flash!

[Edit] Is there any way to change the default search engine from google.fr to google.com or google.ca?

Re: [Announce] - Helium Mobile Browser for N900

Why is this an [Announce] thread if the program is old and abandoned?

Re: [Announce] - Helium Mobile Browser for N900

Great work ! thanks but it needs full screen i tried flashearth.com and it worked !

Re: [Announce] - Helium Mobile Browser for N900

Thanks,
it's a v good start. But it chokes on my favorite (rather heavy, I admit) online newspaper : www.hln.be
I need to kill the application to continue regain my CPU (it consume constantly +60%).

Any idea ? Or is it still way too early to expect a site like that to be usable, compared to less heavy sites ?

I can only second Byakabs on his wishlist. Maybe I can also add request to import microb and/or Opera userids/passwords ? It would ease for me the transfer because I have already so much stuff saved.

Thanks again.

Re: [Announce] - Helium Mobile Browser for N900

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Originally Posted by mauron85 (Post 1234451)

I've used sources from their github. I think that helium has potential. What exactly are you missing? Probably we can do something about it. It currently has good support of HTML5, which I will require later for my webapp project. I've also tried your port of QtMWeb browser, but considered it less stable than Helium. So Helium is currently better option.

You can't clear the history, there is no password manager, there is no download manager, it is not integrated with maemo5, the program segfaults on exit, etc.

Even my QtMWeb which is not even an alpha quality is more useful than helium in some aspects. And QtMWeb is as abandoned as helium is. Making a browser is not a task for one man ;)

I admit I didn't use you build, but mine for a while, a few months ago. Gave up when PhomeME Opera Mobile appeared.

BTW you may want to join me and zeq (and romaxa) in our efforts to bring latest fennec to maemo5. It scores 329 on html5test.com, while hellium scores 248. fennec does sunspider for around 5000ms, while hellium - for 13468ms (I did the tests while writing this post on my device, OC to 805, thumb-compiled Qt, fennec 16a1)

Re: [Announce] - Helium Mobile Browser for N900

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Originally Posted by lancewex (Post 1234528)

Why is this an [Announce] thread if the program is old and abandoned?

I know that, there is deb package somewhere on the forum. But as far I know, this app is not in any of repos (and never was).

I can remove word Announce, if that's the only thing that bothers you. ;-)

Re: [Announce] - Helium Mobile Browser for N900

It definitely has the potential and it needs a surgery to get right.I mean a little bit tweaking might save the earth.