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[Hiatus]

I've tried Chrome on my iPad, and it ran pretty nicely—no issues at all. Switched back to Opera Mini few days later, though, as I just couldn't live without it. It loads pages quite fast, even when your connection is weak. Chrome does the same, but not as good as Mini. d: Haven't used Google Chrome on any of phones yet, but will at some point in the future!

 

[Meganium]

I had Opera Mini on my old phone, and yeah I gotta agree! Not only it loads quicker, but it eats less of my mobile data cap. The default Android browser eats a TON of my mobile data when I browse sites like PC, and it makes my phone unusable almost.

 

[Mark Kamill]

I'm also pretty sure opera mini utilizes cloud loading for websites to minimize the download size of each site. If you haven't an idea what that means, basically it loads the site on separate servers, and sends them complete back to you, in a compressed size. Or is that chrome? Anyway, one of those browsers definitely cloud computes the sites.

 

[Meganium]

I believe Chrome does that. I signed in with my Google account on my iPhone's Chrome browser and was able to access my desktop bookmarks without the necessity of typing urls, or bookmarking everything all over again.

& yeah, you are correct on the above. Which is why I saved soooo much mobile data in the past several months because of it. :D

 

[Legendary Silke]

I use Opera Mini sometimes... on my other Nokia, a Nokia 110. It's a feature phone, and yet web browsing is actually tolerable with it with Opera Mini as long as I don't suddenly go off and attempt to type a short story with a T9 keypad.

 

[Tsutarja]

I wonder if Opera Mini uses the same Opera engine that the DSi browser uses, which is based on Opera. But then again, I doubt it if y'all say it really loads webpages faster, considering that the Opera browser on the DSi XL is really slow with loading non-mobile sites.

 

[Legendary Silke]

I wonder if Opera Mini uses the same Opera engine that the DSi browser uses, which is based on Opera. But then again, I doubt it if y'all say it really loads webpages faster, considering that the Opera browser on the DSi XL is really slow with loading non-mobile sites.

Opera Mini has most of the rendering done on somewhere else (usually servers belonging to Opera) before the reduced content is sent to your device.

Nintendo DSi Internet Browser uses the actual Presto engine running on the Nintendo DSi to render pages.

Predictably, trying to render modern pages, even of the mobile variety, on a system with a single usable 133 MHz ARM9 processor (The 33 MHz ARM7 is secondary), 16 MB of RAM, and nowhere to page memory is difficult and full of "out of memory" errors. It's much easier to render pages when something else is doing the job for feature phones.

 

[Cordelia]

I use Firefox on my phone and tablet for the amazing lastpass addon, haha. Since I'm a premium user of lastpass it works out well :P

 

[Mark Kamill]

Opera Mini has most of the rendering done on somewhere else (usually servers belonging to Opera) before the reduced content is sent to your device.

Nintendo DSi Internet Browser uses the actual Presto engine running on the Nintendo DSi to render pages.

Predictably, trying to render modern pages, even of the mobile variety, on a system with a single usable 133 MHz ARM9 processor (The 33 MHz ARM7 is secondary), 16 MB of RAM, and nowhere to page memory is difficult and full of "out of memory" errors. It's much easier to render pages when something else is doing the job for feature phones.

That also explains why the 3DS browser sucks in the multimedia department, I have to reduce whole sites to just text to get them to load.

 

[Meganium]

The Wii's internet browser (also powered by Opera) is just as bad. :S Who even uses the browser on the Wii? xD I only used it once to browse PC and it's even more painful than browsing on a phone.

 

[Mark Kamill]

Yep. Thankfully the Wii U's is a god send. That thing, on the gamepad, is sublime.

 

[Buoysel]

I'm also pretty sure opera mini utilizes cloud loading for websites to minimize the download size of each site. If you haven't an idea what that means, basically it loads the site on separate servers, and sends them complete back to you, in a compressed size. Or is that chrome? Anyway, one of those browsers definitely cloud computes the sites.

I believe Chrome does that. I signed in with my Google account on my iPhone's Chrome browser and was able to access my desktop bookmarks without the necessity of typing urls, or bookmarking everything all over again.

& yeah, you are correct on the above. Which is why I saved soooo much mobile data in the past several months because of it. :D

Opera Mini does the cloud compressing. Google Chrome just saves your bookmarks on their servers, then allows you to download said bookmarks on other computers and mobile devices.

 

[Tsutarja]

I will say though.. the 3DS browser is much better than the DSi browser. It's at least able to attempt its best to render desktop websites, as I've been able to load PC just fine without the WIP Mobile skin on my 3DS XL's browser.

 

[Cordelia]

You couldn't make me browse on a DS omg...

 

[Tsutarja]

You couldn't make me browse on a DS omg...

There was a point in time when the DSi browser was all I had for browsing on the go without a laptop ;;

 

[Cordelia]

Hnnggg I just wouldn't browse on the go then haha

 

[Meganium]

Try browsing the web with a phone like this, then you'll know how bad it feels.

this was a phone i had in the past before i jumped into my first android phone, which was the T-Mobile G1 lolol

 

[Kanzler]

Is that even 3G able? Wouldn't all the websites look pre-2000?

 

[Meganium]

I don't think so..probably 2G. & yeah, every website you go to would look like you're browsing the net during the early 2000's or something maybe earlier, but with the keyboard it was easier to navigate/type.

 

[Mark Kamill]

I had to browse for the last year with the 3DS so I know those feels....