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yeah well. I donwloaded it. opened it up and saw massive numbers of buttons eating my screen real estate. So that was a minus. Appreciated the tabs. Then tried to go to a site and it crashed. Haven't touched it since.

Kind of reminds me of Sylpheed. NIce app. Lots of options, but falls down on the user interface front. On a small screen environment, massive amounts of GUI items is NOT good. Now if only the built in mail app would show images inline...

Actually, in full screen mode minimo has more screen real estate than Opera, not less. The buttons are SVG, not bitmaps, so it should be simple to allow them to be resized at will.

0.16.9 was unusable on my 770, so far 0.16.11 is rock solid. Depends on a whole lot of outside factors, I guess...

I'm using N800, sorry not mentioning that. It is obvious that these crashes are N800 related because in 770 it doesn't crash. Minimo for Maemo is getting better but as always there's something that need to be fixed. My experience with Opera in N800 is very good, crashes happens but so rarely that it is not irritating. I'll say: good work Antonio, keep up the good work. We'll have to use minimo more to see what's going on in N800. My intention is to start using it now even if it's crashing because maybe that way I can help to get info when and where those crashes happens.

I left a comment on Antonios blog.

An addition - Minimo never stopped loading the Engadget home page, I had to close the app after 5 minutes of waiting.

I like the improvements, they're a step forward but minor usability issues still need to be addressed. The inability to drag scroll the page is annoying - enabling "Pan Scroll" mode is only a temporary (and annoying solution) and also eats screen real estate.

In short, many niggles remain but it's getting better!

absolutely not true about screen realestate. i loaded the NYTimes on both browsers and the built in browser in it's default settings shows 6 more lines of text than minimo in it's default settings. As well the Minimo browser choked on a number of characters on the page.

i appreciate the effort but I'd still lose the buttons.

I wouldn't lose the buttons but size could be smaller or maybe even if it's possible modified by user.

The NYTimes may be showing more lines because the default text size is smaller on Minimo than it is on Opera.

You can lose the URL bar by clicking the "@" button, which makes more screen available to the web site.

The tabs obviously consume part of the screen and with only the toolbar shown it's obvious that the Minimo UI uses more screen real estate than Opera (tabs + toolbar) however the tabs provide a useful function so I think they're worth it.

I was speaking in terms of available vertical pixels for the page display. How that translates into lines of displayed text for a given page depends, of course, of the browser's internal settings (type and point size).

True, my comparison was apples-to-apples with a single page loaded in minimo as in Opera. In that case the minimo toolbar is actually a few pixels smaller than Opera's (without the URL bar).

I've been enjoying the new version (and the new buttons!) but have been having lots of problems with pages that never finish loading (Mostly on slashdot). It hangs the whole browser up, making it impossible to navigate, even in another tab. Pressing stop does nothing, and it's a little frustrating because the only fix is close and re-open Minimo with its lengthly load time. Still, overall the new version is a vast improvement. I really like the homebase feature instead of the bland bookmarks page before. Keep up the good work toniktoo!

Larry

P.S. Looks like the reason it's hanging on slashdot is that it's trying to do something with www.google-analytics.com Possibly some bad Javascript making it hang?