Great Browser for Touch??

[mfpreach]

Skyfire is ok when you absolutely have to use it, it is slow, and kind of annoying.

Opera mini is the fastest and the best for regular web browsing (not flash)

[ajones7279]

Whoa, Skyfire is slow??? When did this happen? OMG it's the end of the world.

I kid, I kid. But seriously, Skyfire is faster than Opera Mini for me on a lot of sites. I haven't installed Opera mini in ages. Only reason I used it recently was because it came on one of the custom Roms I flashed to. And the flash video and music in Skyfire is a plus. I loved being able to watch the NBA game on Skyfire because I couldn't get home on time

[munnarg]

I've been loving skyfire more and more each day. I especially like that it plays the videos like a good browser is supposed to. I was watching Forgetting Sarah Marshall on my phone as it was streaming online with hardly any lag and stopping to buffer.

[PPC6700Man]

Originally Posted by Spencer_Moore

most browsers dont ahve both at the same time except skyfire which u ahve to signup for the limited beta.....but opera 9.5 is a really good alternative minues flash but its kinda a memory hog

I got chosen for the beta!

[joe3789]

Originally Posted by superflysocal

Reading this thread made me just about to download skyfire (I have an invite) until someone mentioned that it cannot download. What a drawback!

Sorry SuperFly ... lol . But I have to take some of what I said back. I took a look at the Iris Browser again, today. It's quite improved on the latest v.1.0.10, just released 5/5/2008. But it's still slow. It renders very nicely, though. The MSN homepage "dashboard" even transitions nicely, although MSN took a decade to download. I find a good test for these mobile browsers is to go the desktop version of Facebook. The original Facebook site is too heavy for Iris at this time (I get the following error: "Memory usage exceeds process memory limit!"), which is wierd (Opera has no problem with the desktop Facebook site IMO). Maybe it has something to do with WebKit. The iPhone Facebook site loads pretty well in it, though.

[joe3789]

Originally Posted by joe3789

Sorry SuperFly ... lol . But I have to take some of what I said back. I took a look at the Iris Browser again, today. It's quite improved on the latest v.1.0.10, just released 5/5/2008. But it's still slow. It renders very nicely, though. The MSN homepage "dashboard" even transitions nicely, although MSN took a decade to download. I find a good test for these mobile browsers is to go the desktop version of Facebook. The original Facebook site is too heavy for Iris at this time (I get the following error: "Memory usage exceeds process memory limit!"), which is wierd (Opera has no problem with the desktop Facebook site IMO). Maybe it has something to do with WebKit. The iPhone Facebook site loads pretty well in it, though.

I got some more info yesterday from Torch about this browser.

"Hello Joe,

We are working on supporting Flash but it will not be free to
start. The Flash plugin carries a significant runtime fee. We hope
that will change someday. As for page loading, we are actually using
the Mobile IE network stack so our networking should be no slower,
and in fact should be faster since we added gzip and deflate support
to their stack. Our tests indicate that we load pages as fast as IE
as well. However we are rendering much more of the page and that
could be consuming considerably more CPU, making it appear to load
more slowly. I just tested the desktop version of facebook on my
phone and it works fine with our latest tree but I believe there is
an issue at login time that causes the IE SSL stack to use enormous
amounts of memory. We have someone working on this to try to find a
workaround."


Looks like this browser isn't as self-sufficient as I'd thought. It's dependent upon Mobile IE, something people already don't like. Slight improvements to it with gzip and deflate support aren't enough. Mobile IE in its current iteration needs to be segregated from the playing field.

[ycats]

Anybody able to view last night's season finale of LOST using Skyfire?

[diomark]

opera all the way.. unless I absolutely have to have flash, then skyfire..
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