If you install the user agent switcher extension in Firefox you could set an iPhone user agent and go to GMail, it should load the iPhone version. Don't forget to clear your cookies before though

Even engadget said that microB was the best browser currently on the market, that has to count for something

Use MicroB mostly. Opera sometimes, because it has the convenience of portrait keyboard, but once the currently somewhat-not-progressing universal portrait keyboard for the N900 gets developed into something that works without bugs, I don't expect to see myself using anything but MicroB. For the time being, I'm just not a fan of Firefox (and yes, I tried 1.1). It's got some neat ideas but I'm significantly more in love with MicroB and how it does everything.

The only thing that will make me switch is if I still have the N900 long enough that MicroB becomes so outdated that it's useless.

Most of the time, I just use MicroB. It is nice, and it is the one that integrates the best with the operating system.

I liked Firefox Mobile, too, but it seemed very much unfinished and unoptimized last time I tried it.

I also tested Tear some months ago (but it was buggy then). I may test it again in some time.

using the Firefox now, but it doesnt have a portraitmode keyboard, which... well... makes it not as good as MicroB. Ive tried Opera as well today, and it reverts to mobile versions on most sites (Facebook being a big one for me, personally).

Im probably sticking to MicroB.

my vote goes for firefox n opera huhu

The poor browser was the main reason that forced me to switch from n900 to the milestone. Now opera is back to maemo, and the n900 is back on my hands.

That said, when in december i bought the milestone (after two monts of n900 usage) was greatly inferior to the n900 in different aspects.

Now the milestone is almost a completely different device, its battery was lasting in 6 ours (@550Mhz), its browser was poor, operamini was far from perfect, no tethering, no flash support, and so on.

Now (after six months) operamini for android is simply amazing, the battery covers more than a whole day (@1000 Mhz),it is incredibly fast, there is a wide range of customized roms, there is a wide range of tethering solutions working in access point mode and with wpa2 enabled, there is the just in time compiler and so on.

I still love the n900, it's openness and the idea behind it, but sadly I have to admit that android world runs while maemo/meego world is just slowly walking.

In that perspective, if microb seem poor and slow when compared to opera for maemo, it looks simply a stone age browser if compared to operamini for android and with some other android browsers skyfire, dolphin and so on.

Microb: Excellent, but no tab/open in background support. Also, could make better use of space. E.g., progress bar only needs a progress, not whole address. Few addons.

Fennec: Great, but slow. So slow. Too slow. Few addons.

Ice Weasel: Excellent, somehow less slow than Fennec, but no flash. Actual addons.

MicroB here mostly.
Although I like Opera UI better...

(since you asked FWIW).

I started using the dillo browser with tabs this weekend. This is faster than anything else I've seen. Not having javascript/flash/css is sometimes nice, and definitely speeds things up when you just want info quickly. Yet there's a lot of sites that you just can't view at all. The same goes for the netsurf browser.

Also using emacs-w3m and chromium. (Chromium is fast/full-featured, but still very buggy on armel.)

Other than that, I still use firefox, microb and epiphany. By "firefox" I mean the full firefox, not the mobile version (fennec). I tried fennec, but that was very frustrating.

Microb is still the most finger friendly, and firefox is the slowest, but most full featured. Google maps seems to work best in microb too.

Very difficult to run microb without hildon-desktop, and I don't like running hildon-desktop, so I generally don't use microb, though I wish I could use it more.

Honestly, I'm not happy with the current state of internet browsers in general, be it on maemo, windows, mac, sun, etc... It's ridiculous to have so many browsers. Personally I blame corporate web developers that build stupid features into their websites especially checking browser id strings and activeX stuff.