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#1
With so many browser options now for both legacy devices and the shiny N900 I'm curious as to what browser is the most popular.

So, even though you may well use a number of browsers - which one is your main/go-to browser at this time?
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Tear. It's unstable as ****, but I love its speed so much, I have no problems with doing a "rm -rf ~/.tear"
 
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Tear.
May be Opera in the future, but now it is Tear.
 
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Firefox or MicroB are my most used browsers. Sometimes Chrome as it is the best one at playing my favorite game visual-utopia. Tried both Tear and Midori but both don't even come close to my needs.
 
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I want to like Firefox on the N810 so badly, but it seems unusably slow. I assume it's fine on the N900 with the faster processor. I like Tear b/c it's fast & straightforward & I've learned to work around its nastiest bugs (Diablo):
  • Don't hit DPad left in an edit box
  • Don't go to a page with a lot of Flash
  • Close it down & re-open it every so often (does it have memory leaks?)
  • After hold-tapping to open a link in another window, tap in a neutral area to allow it to jerk before doing anything else
That's all I can think of. I'm trying out Opera Mobile, though.

Originally Posted by qwerty12 View Post
Tear. It's unstable as ****, but I love its speed so much, I have no problems with doing a "rm -rf ~/.tear"
Qwerty, what's the purpose of this command?
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MicroB/ N900.

Supports my browsing style of opening many pages from one (search, index) site best.

I love the overview the taskmanager and MicroB give for 12-16 pages. Much better than the tab solutions on this tiny screen, for me.
 
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MicroB on the N900, w/ Flashblock of course
On all my PCs it's Firefox 3.6.
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Currently MicroB does everything I need and does it well. I did not like Firefox which surprised me because I love it for the desktop.

On my last phone I used Opera mobile exclusively and think I am going to try it for N900.
 
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Originally Posted by GameboyRMH View Post
MicroB on the N900, w/ Flashblock of course
On all my PCs it's Firefox 3.6.
What does Flashblock do?
 
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Originally Posted by kd_alex View Post
What does Flashblock do?
Same thing as the desktop Firefox plugin - keeps Flash objects from loading until you click on them. It really speeds things up and it's good for security as well.

Here's a link:

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=625937&postcount=3
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