Thread: [Announce] Opera Mobile 11
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craftyguy is offline craftyguy
2010-07-18 , 22:47
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#512
Originally Posted by silvermountain View Post
I highly subjective opinion and one that I am far from sharing.
I can't use flash in Opera, I can't auto-install repo's from Opera when installing a deb that requires a new one, the scrolling goes haywire, there is a lack of zoom-steps. Not sure what criteria you value but there are a lot of things that for ME makes Opera a pretty useless browser in its current state.
And there are a lot of things for ME that make Opera the best browser on the N900:
1) startup speed. microB is horribly slow loading the first page when it is first launched. firefox startup speed is still patheticly slow.
2) page rendering speed. still untouchable when compared to the alternatives
3) onscreen keyboard that is leaps and bounds better than anything Nokia has created on this device
4) correctly renders more pages for me than either MicroB or firefox
5) does not support flash, but flash on the other major browsers is horribly slow anyways (and thus unusable for me).
6) auto rotate landscape/portrait by default, and faster than microB
6) did i mention how fast it is?

I replaced the default browser with Opera a few months ago when Opera first came to the N900, and I have not looked back since. I once had to fire up microB to install something from the Ovi store, but the lack of content on the Ovi store means that I probably won't be doing that much anyways.