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	Texrat	2009-08-31 , 13:48
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Originally Posted by rcadden

From my experience with Maemo, Microb sucks. It is actually one of the reasons that I gave up on Maemo in the first place. For an OS that powers supposed 'INTERNET Tablets', it's awful. The last version of Opera that we had several OS' back was better by quite a bit. When I use the new one, I'll have the opportunity to change my experience. People have opinions, and we're free to express them.

Ricky, sorry, that statement is too broad.

If I want to access amazon.com or youtube.com on my N800 or N810, using microb, then yeah: I'll get the impression that the browser sucks. But then I go to well-designed, lightweight sites and enjoy a MUCH better experience. Turns out it isn't microb at all-- it's hardware bottlenecks on the devices (hopefully corrected on the N900).

So this goes to the point of journalism, which in its best sense avoids sweeping statements unless they're obviously justifiable. In this case, microb turned out to be an incredibly powerful and useful browser that was hamstrung by elements "out of its control".

EDIT: GA corrected me-- performance problems are partially due to inefficient legacy code in microb. So can we say it "half sucks"?

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