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silvermountain 2010-05-14 16:47

What is your main mobile browser?
 
With so many browser options now for both legacy devices and the shiny N900 I'm curious as to what browser is the most popular.

So, even though you may well use a number of browsers - which one is your main/go-to browser at this time?

qwerty12 2010-05-14 16:48

Re: What is your main mobile browser?
 
Tear. It's unstable as ****, but I love its speed so much, I have no problems with doing a "rm -rf ~/.tear"

Kroll 2010-05-14 16:57

Re: What is your main mobile browser?
 
Tear.
May be Opera in the future, but now it is Tear.

AlMehdi 2010-05-14 17:08

Re: What is your main mobile browser?
 
Firefox or MicroB are my most used browsers. Sometimes Chrome as it is the best one at playing my favorite game visual-utopia. Tried both Tear and Midori but both don't even come close to my needs.

buurmas 2010-05-14 17:32

Re: What is your main mobile browser?
 
I want to like Firefox on the N810 so badly, but it seems unusably slow. I assume it's fine on the N900 with the faster processor. I like Tear b/c it's fast & straightforward & I've learned to work around its nastiest bugs (Diablo):
  • Don't hit DPad left in an edit box
  • Don't go to a page with a lot of Flash
  • Close it down & re-open it every so often (does it have memory leaks?)
  • After hold-tapping to open a link in another window, tap in a neutral area to allow it to jerk before doing anything else
That's all I can think of. I'm trying out Opera Mobile, though.

Quote:

Originally Posted by qwerty12 (Post 658597)
Tear. It's unstable as ****, but I love its speed so much, I have no problems with doing a "rm -rf ~/.tear"

Qwerty, what's the purpose of this command?

mathiasp 2010-05-14 17:37

Re: What is your main mobile browser?
 
MicroB/ N900.

Supports my browsing style of opening many pages from one (search, index) site best.

I love the overview the taskmanager and MicroB give for 12-16 pages. Much better than the tab solutions on this tiny screen, for me.

GameboyRMH 2010-05-14 17:44

Re: What is your main mobile browser?
 
MicroB on the N900, w/ Flashblock of course :cool:
On all my PCs it's Firefox 3.6.

kd_alex 2010-05-14 17:44

Re: What is your main mobile browser?
 
Currently MicroB does everything I need and does it well. I did not like Firefox which surprised me because I love it for the desktop.

On my last phone I used Opera mobile exclusively and think I am going to try it for N900.

kd_alex 2010-05-14 17:45

Re: What is your main mobile browser?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by GameboyRMH (Post 658668)
MicroB on the N900, w/ Flashblock of course :cool:
On all my PCs it's Firefox 3.6.

What does Flashblock do?

GameboyRMH 2010-05-14 17:47

Re: What is your main mobile browser?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by kd_alex (Post 658671)
What does Flashblock do?

Same thing as the desktop Firefox plugin - keeps Flash objects from loading until you click on them. It really speeds things up and it's good for security as well.

Here's a link:

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=625937&postcount=3


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