I recently flashed my n800 tablet to os2007 bora and internet browsing is so much faster and more responsive with the old opera browser. For large websites page load times are almost the same as microb from start to stop but opera just renders the page much sooner and let you read while loading. For simpler pages like forums opera is just much faster all round. I dont have to wait for everything to load before scrolling or clicking links. Text input using the screen keyboard is better in os2007 as well.

Only drawback is javascript engine on opera is outdated and some pages will lock up or just not work. Fortunately os2007 lets you use microb as well for the odd webpages that dont work in opera.

Quite dissapointed that they did not make much improvement to the moziilla browser. I feel the underlying engine is too resource hungry for the internet tablet.

I think Nokia did a pretty good job with the performance of MicroB, considering the constraints.

As far as I know, the only reason Opera seems faster is because it is throwing away all that Flash and JavaScript that MicroB can successfully execute.

Regards,
Roger

Yes, try disabling JS and Flash in MicroB and get back to us about the performance.

tried disabling js with microb. on some pages the initial rendering is faster on others it actually slows down the loading. So not much success with that. Most of tte time i disable flash on both browsers.

I hope the webkit browser will be ready soon for for os2008. I like the flash performance in os2008.

Just to throw in that almost no site on the Web officially supports Opera 8 these days. Expect a big number of broken sites.