Quite simply, this was a very poorly tested release and one can't simply place the blame on some of the bugs that are cropping up on restore causing problems. I have flashed mine both with and without restore and I experience the "having flash enabled on certain sites causes the browser to crash to desktop" in both cases. Web browsing, while never quite up to being a desktop level experience, now has the feel of playing a game of Russian Roulette.

I think Nokia's backup app more or less just does an overwrite of the existing files with the ones that are backed up. If they had done any testing whatsoever of common useage scenarios they would have encountered the numerous problems people are experiencing with restore. I don't get the feeling that any significant amount of QA was done on this release. There are many, many issues with this release and due to their "embedded image" upgrade method, we aren't likely to see the fixes until the next big upgrade. Nokia really needs to switch to a package managed approach to rolling out interim bugfixes and doing upgrades. At present, I get very reluctant to go through the multi-hour process of doing an upgrade and manually rebuilding my system only to find that some really nasty bugs are present in the release along with all those nifty new features. The embedded image option should be there for if a user really screws something up.

I'm at my work now and here the browsing experience is good. No problems with whatever website. Of course infrastructure-wise there are lots of differences between work and home. At home i use WEP, here i don't, AP's are of different brands, back-end network infrastructure is different, etc. So i have some troubleshooting to do at home.
What p*sses me off is that this only started to happen after i flashed the new firmware. I re-flashed twice. First time with the firmware local on my harddrive and immediately restoring the backup i made. Then i installed all my apps, yes, a multi-hour operation, specially when the whole world is using the repos, and then i found out about the browsing problems. Actually, i should have suspected something while i was not able to access the repos, but i blamed it to traffic.
Then i re-flashed with the image downloading using the update app and started browsing right away, without restoring my backup. Same story.

Now i have to figure out what is wrong, change AP's, change encryption configs, etc, etc.

Does anybody know what has changed in the networking part of the new firmware so i know where to look?

Ton.

I guess it depends on the new poweroption of the wlan.

its typical when you switch from always on to powersave mode.

The powersave mode could cause problems with some Routers.

Btw, I have the same problem here.

Unfortunately its not possible do change this settings by the wlan options.

so, i will flash back to the older firmware

Does Skype work on the old firmware?

Just an idea: have you tried to toggle the 10mW/100mW setting for the Wifi-Power?

What does that do? Limit the power of the Wifi radio? How does that affect the browsing experience?
BTW, haven't thought of that. Will try when i get home.

Ton.

same with me. it's almost impossible to use the tablet to surf the net at home since pages didn't load. it seems that the only page that loads is n800.tableteer.nokia.com though with some problems


very annoying

VERY ANNOYING????? It's an Internet Tablet that doesn't do Internet!!!

exactly!

internet radio also doesn't work properly - there are some noises like atmospherics in all stations i've tried

Maybe someone should open a bug in Bugzilla for this problem?

I wonder if this gconftool setting (discussed here) has now become the default in the new firmware? It might be worth trying the old value:

And seeing if it makes any difference.