Notices

I've recently moved to an N900 and on the whole I'm very pleased with it.

One thing I'm missing though (have come from Symbian devices) is the Opera Mini browser.

One of the reasons for this is that on OM you can use the back and forward buttons to very quickly scroll through your browsing history. The pages seem to be cached on the phone, so pressing the back button instantly takes you back to the previous page. I think you can scroll back about 5 pages or so before it has to reconnect to a network and reload the content.

On the N900 browser, though, pressing back seems to reload the whole page - firstly this means it's not instantaneous, secondly, if your connection has gone, you can't do it because it seems to require a network connection.

Why doesn't it cache a few pages like Opera Mini? (Or does it and am I missing something?)

It seems like a minor niggle but I find it makes quite a difference to the browsing experience when you're somewhere with an intermittent connection (on a train for example). Often you want to interrupt reading something on a page to click a link to check quickly, and then revert to the original page to keep reading. It is frustrating not to be able to just snap straight back if you've lost your network connection - or even if you still have the connection, to wait for it to reload.

It's true that neither MicroB or Firefox caches the pages. It actually kills performance and it will need some architectural changes in order to get caching to work.

Opera Mini would be great, as would Opera Mobile. Mini runs on Java, though, and to get a functional JRE in Maemo would probably be the first step.

This about:config entry controls the # of pages to cache, default is 0. Setting it to 1 will cache one previous page.

browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers

More info here - http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.se..._total_viewers

cheers for that - have tried setting it to -1 for a bit to see what happens. so far it seems to work with some pages but not others.