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Re: What internet browser do you use on the N900, and are you happy with it?

MicroB most of the time for the regular and trusted websites.

MicroB has the most well thought interface
(gets rid of desktop pc style tabs. Instead it offers browser windows integrated in your task manager that presents as a neat mini window overview - very cool!)

Firefox 1.1 because of adblock + noscript combo for certain new and untrusted websites.
Also I like to think that because of the above it can save us some battery power due to blocking of scripts and adds.
But the interface is too much of a desktop concept and the program can render your phone unresponsive for a few seconds which is painful when a call is incoming and the system struggles to get the phone app in front.

Re: What internet browser do you use on the N900, and are you happy with it?

MicroB is my first choice although i do have Firefox and Opera Mobile on my n900...

isn't superb when you can use PowerTwitter on n900? couldn't ask for more..

Re: What internet browser do you use on the N900, and are you happy with it?

Mostly Opera, MicroB just for Ovi store

Re: What internet browser do you use on the N900, and are you happy with it?

opera, definitly.

MicroB only for Ovi or links to maemo packages.

I just have been notified that there's an update to opera. How can one find out what's new in this release?

Thanks,
nexus

Re: What internet browser do you use on the N900, and are you happy with it?

im using microb and is pretty happy with that. just one annoying thing. bought an x10 min and that one present webpages much fast.(unless its flash)

Re: What internet browser do you use on the N900, and are you happy with it?

Yeah.. opera is fast and comes with portrait mode keyboard
but microB has flash .. so usually its either one of these..
firefox is slow but has gud add-ons

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Micro b is amazing. There is only one feature that wud make it perfect for me, and that is in portrait mode i want any website's text to wrap no matter what! So i dont have to use my finger to scroll horizontally every second (or more). Opera does that btw, but ff doesnt.

Re: What internet browser do you use on the N900, and are you happy with it?

What is a quick way to watch HTML5 youtube videos on the microB?

Thanks

Re: What internet browser do you use on the N900, and are you happy with it?

MicroB is the best browser I have seen on a mobile device, BUT it takes so many kbs in browsing that is heavy on the go if you have acces only to 2.5G like me. Opera wins on this, so I use Opera mostly on the go, and MicroB when I'm on wifi

Re: What internet browser do you use on the N900, and are you happy with it?

Quote:

Originally Posted by The_Solutor (Post 756023)

The poor browser was the main reason that forced me to switch from n900 to the milestone. Now opera is back to maemo, and the n900 is back on my hands.

That said, when in december i bought the milestone (after two monts of n900 usage) was greatly inferior to the n900 in different aspects.

Now the milestone is almost a completely different device, its battery was lasting in 6 ours (@550Mhz), its browser was poor, operamini was far from perfect, no tethering, no flash support, and so on.

Now (after six months) operamini for android is simply amazing, the battery covers more than a whole day (@1000 Mhz),it is incredibly fast, there is a wide range of customized roms, there is a wide range of tethering solutions working in access point mode and with wpa2 enabled, there is the just in time compiler and so on.

I still love the n900, it's openness and the idea behind it, but sadly I have to admit that android world runs while maemo/meego world is just slowly walking.

In that perspective, if microb seem poor and slow when compared to opera for maemo, it looks simply a stone age browser if compared to operamini for android and with some other android browsers skyfire, dolphin and so on.

You must have missed much during those two month... i am currently running Firefox in 1000 Mhz. My battery last normaly 30-48h, sometimes longer. So try to look around little..