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A Peek at AT&T's New Browser, Pogo

Posted by Zonk on from the another-way-to-play dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ars Technica takes a look at Pogo, a browser from AT&T with new features like a 3-D history and bookmark view. The browser's currently in a private beta and Ars' comments aren't all necessarily glowing — particularly in the areas where performance is concerned. 'It requires Windows XP SP2 or later or Windows Vista, and its minimum hardware are surprisingly steep: a 1.6GHz processor, 2GB of RAM, and a video card with at least 256MB of VRAM. Seem like a bit much for a web browser? It is, and as we found out, these requirements posed some major challenges for us during our testing.'"

12 of 239 comments (clear)

  1. Re:2GB of RAM??? by tomtomtom777 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's not just made for Vista. It's modeled after Vista too.

  2. Re:Doesn't sound very good by bugnuts · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are you saying ATT won't have Pogo Stick?

  3. Linux by prakslash · · Score: 5, Funny

    Since it doesn't run on Linux it will never achieve widespread mainstream acceptance on the desktop.

  4. How well does it spy on you? by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 4, Funny

    I want it to report simultaneously to the DHS and the NSA, when I change my vest and underpants.

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    "Flyin' in just a sweet place,
    Never been known to fail..."
    1. Re:How well does it spy on you? by palewook · · Score: 4, Funny

      wonder how many backdoors at&t will build into it

  5. Problems aside... by noidentity · · Score: 5, Funny

    On the plus side, it reports all your browsing activity to AT&T.

    AT&T
    Your world delivered
    (to us)

  6. 3D history? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, I'll need special glasses to see my history?

  7. Pogo? 2 Gb?? To run a browser??? by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 5, Funny

    Walt Kelly was right: "we have met the enemy, and he is us".

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    No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
  8. I can't help but wonder... by Steauengeglase · · Score: 5, Funny

    ..since I'm an AT&T customer, it feels like there are two unasked questions.

    1.) What is AT&t going to do to make sure that this is the only browser that I use? Certainly something more than a silly EULA. How about automated litigation if I step a foot off Ma Bell's Farm?

    2.) What can Bell do to offer me more choice with their browser? In other words how can they help me by blocking anything other than a heavily proxied port 80. Mail, it should sit on AT&T's webmail, where they own it and copyright whatever I say. FTP, thats for terrorists. We need more choices, you know, like cable TV.

  9. Re:2GB of RAM??? by krewemaynard · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does anyone else see a problem? Yeah.

    I need more RAM.
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    I saw it on Slashdot, it must be true!
  10. Lex 2.0 by Speare · · Score: 3, Funny

    a browser from AT&T with new features like a 3-D history and bookmark view

    Lex turns to the clueless paleontologists, "This is Pogo! I know this!"

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    [ .sig file not found ]
  11. Re:Biased review... by Lord+Grey · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... a fully patched IE 7 running as non-administrator on Vista ...

    Semantically equivalent to, "I drive a Pinto, but only in reverse."
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    // Beyond Here Lie Dragons