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maacruz is offline maacruz
2010-07-18 , 22:18
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#511
Originally Posted by silvermountain View Post
I highly subjective opinion and one that I am far from sharing.
I can't use flash in Opera, I can't auto-install repo's from Opera when installing a deb that requires a new one, the scrolling goes haywire, there is a lack of zoom-steps. Not sure what criteria you value but there are a lot of things that for ME makes Opera a pretty useless browser in its current state.
Flash 9 is becoming quickly irrelevant and always was a cpu hog, I don't miss it. For the repos there is already the application manager, running it from the browser is a small system integration issue, not an important feature for a browser. The scrolling goes haywire, this a serious UI bug in this current build that I hope will be solved. There is a lack of zoom-steps, no doubt about that, but the current zoom works ok most of the time. About my criteria: the UI is the most usable I've seen, and the fastest one (firefox is nice but sloooooooow), the rendering speed is very good, the javascript engine is the fastest one by far, and memory usage is quite low.
Before opera, slashdot had become completely unusable, now I can read it again.
 
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2010-07-18 , 22:47
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#512
Originally Posted by silvermountain View Post
I highly subjective opinion and one that I am far from sharing.
I can't use flash in Opera, I can't auto-install repo's from Opera when installing a deb that requires a new one, the scrolling goes haywire, there is a lack of zoom-steps. Not sure what criteria you value but there are a lot of things that for ME makes Opera a pretty useless browser in its current state.
And there are a lot of things for ME that make Opera the best browser on the N900:
1) startup speed. microB is horribly slow loading the first page when it is first launched. firefox startup speed is still patheticly slow.
2) page rendering speed. still untouchable when compared to the alternatives
3) onscreen keyboard that is leaps and bounds better than anything Nokia has created on this device
4) correctly renders more pages for me than either MicroB or firefox
5) does not support flash, but flash on the other major browsers is horribly slow anyways (and thus unusable for me).
6) auto rotate landscape/portrait by default, and faster than microB
6) did i mention how fast it is?

I replaced the default browser with Opera a few months ago when Opera first came to the N900, and I have not looked back since. I once had to fire up microB to install something from the Ovi store, but the lack of content on the Ovi store means that I probably won't be doing that much anyways.
 
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silvermountain is offline silvermountain
2010-07-18 , 23:33
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#513
We all have different preferences and priorities in a browser.
For me, Opera doesn't cut it. Yet.
That may well change one day but for now microB is by far my favorite browser.

Note: This is all based on using Opera on an N810 running Maemo4.
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The_Solutor is offline The_Solutor
2010-07-18 , 23:54
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#514
Originally Posted by silvermountain View Post
We all have different preferences and priorities in a browser.
For me, Opera doesn't cut it. Yet.
That may well change one day but for now microB is by far my favorite browser.

Note: This is all based on using Opera on an N810 running Maemo4.
Really the day when someone decided to switch from opera, used on the first release of maemo, to the stone age firefox browser, was the saddest day in the maemo history.
 
craftyguy is offline craftyguy
2010-07-18 , 23:57
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#515
Originally Posted by silvermountain View Post
We all have different preferences and priorities in a browser.
For me, Opera doesn't cut it. Yet.
That may well change one day but for now microB is by far my favorite browser.

Note: This is all based on using Opera on an N810 running Maemo4.
Yea I cannot speak to the N8X0/Maemo4

It's an excellent browser on the N900/Maemo5 though!
 
DeeGee is offline DeeGee
2010-07-19 , 20:01
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#516
Like someone else has already mentioned I'd also like the option for changing the browser id (just changing the id from opera mobile to opera desktop would be sufficient).
Nothing else makes me cringe as much as automatically thrown to gimped mobile version of page...
 
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2010-07-19 , 20:42
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#517
Why Google's icon has smaller resolution in the search bar? Is this going to be fixed?

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GeraldKo is offline GeraldKo
2010-07-19 , 21:49
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#518
Originally Posted by DeeGee View Post
Like someone else has already mentioned I'd also like the option for changing the browser id (just changing the id from opera mobile to opera desktop would be sufficient).
Nothing else makes me cringe as much as automatically thrown to gimped mobile version of page...
Did you try my suggestion here?

Here are some possible browser strings.
 
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2010-07-19 , 23:03
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#519
Originally Posted by GeraldKo View Post
Did you try my suggestion here?

Here are some possible browser strings.

I think that any power user is aware that user agent can be changed via opera:config, but a field in the normal configuration menu with a couple of predefined string can make the life easier for everyone else.

Many android browsers are equipped with three choices: Desktop, Android and Iphone. Also opera for desktop has many choices.

Why not provide opera mobile with this feature ?

Likely it's matter of 5 lines of code.
 

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2010-07-19 , 23:31
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#520
Originally Posted by The_Solutor View Post
Many android browsers are equipped with three choices: Desktop, Android and Iphone. Also opera for desktop has many choices.
got to "love" how that iphone is the only one they copy...
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