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Alternative Mobile Browsers Tested For Speed, Usability, JavaScript Rendering

Posted by timothy on from the but-can-it-run-slashdot dept.

CNETNate writes "Do Opera Mobile, Skyfire, or Mozilla's Fennec have the power to take down the BlackBerry browser, IE on Windows Mobile, or Safari on the iPhone? This lengthy test aimed to find out. Speed, Acid3 compliance, JavaScript rendering capabilities, and general subjective usability were all tested and reviewed. So were Opera Mini and the default Symbian browser, but these two were unable to complete some of the tests and benchmarks."

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  1. Re:WebKit on Palm Pre? by amicusNYCL · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does Opera Mobile include the mouse gestures? Or, finger gestures, I guess. How does it distinguish between a gesture and scrolling?

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  2. Actually, this is brilliant by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    The real test is how fast you can get through their article on a mobile phone. Consider this a distributed browser speed test.