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Mobile Browser Wars
By siliconindia
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Wednesday, 14 September 2011, 22:18 IST |
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Bangalore: Mobile browsers are becoming very popular, more and more users are using these browsers to surf the internet than before. Many of them admit finding it easier to use Smartphone?s, Tablet and other mobile devices than using a desktop computer.
Mobile browsers are optimized so as to display Web content most effectively for small screens on portable devices, taking in consideration the bandwidth and memory capacity of the same devices. Several companies are fighting to come up with the ultimate mobile browser. From Apple to Microsoft, passing by Google and Mozilla the war has been everything but easy.
Opera Mini vs Firefox
Opera is one of the biggest names in browsers, opera emphasizes speed above all else and Opera Mini does not disappoint. Opera Mini Web Browser improves speed by operating a set of proxy cache servers to speed up access to popular sites, as well claiming an advanced rendering engine that is faster than anything else on the market. There is also a litany of other features, such as multi-window browsing, a startup page grid that lists the most often used websites, including your bookmarks. It also has online backup of your bookmarks and settings and "saved pages", keyboard shortcuts, among other features.
Opera mini does have a few problems. It does not support geo-location, that the browser can't get coordinates from your GPS. It also does not reformat the columns to fit within the screen like the default browser, among other problems.
Firefox, on the other hand is a full browser ported to run on mobile devices. It has all of the desktop browser features, such as Awesome Bar, Sync, and Add-ons, plus all the other features needed for a mobile browser, like pinch zoom, tabbed browsing, and so on.
The final version feels very similar to Opera Mobile. Rendering feels pretty good, but the size 14MB download, Official page says 17MB storage needed on phone, runs best on devices with 512MB of RAM or more.
If you have the hardware to run it, this is one of the best mobile browsers available, almost on par with desktop experience.
