Best Web Browser for Treo Pro?

[jumanji1212]

Hi guys!

i´ve just donwloaded the new opera 9.5 beta for my treo pro and at the beggining worked fine, but now, when i close the app, and try to re-open it later, it freezes and do not open at all. it only appears the name of the last webpage i tried to open. so i have to do a soft reset and will work again, but soon or later, it happens once more

what do u think about it?

[jumanji1212]

i´ve tried to install it on the main memory, and it ´s the same

it doesn´t re-open after close it by clicking in the upper-right corner.

[Merrijk]

hi jumanjii,
I've had the same experience with the treo pro and opera mobile 9.5 beta. Basically if you use the built in task manager to kill Opera, it causes problems. There must be part of Opera that is not fully shutdown.
Until they resolve this, use the menu in the bottom right and select exit. This will shut opera down properly.

Im not certain but i think this is related to a bug with the opera widgets. Im not sure why but when ive had this problem sometimes the opera widgets folder/app is still running.

Id say get used to using the exit command in the menu, switch back to 8.6 or wait for the final version of Opera.

[lewcamino]

Skyfire FTW!

[sschlesinger]

I vote for skyfire as well.

[jumanji1212]

hi jumanjii,
I've had the same experience with the treo pro and opera mobile 9.5 beta. Basically if you use the built in task manager to kill Opera, it causes problems. There must be part of Opera that is not fully shutdown.
Until they resolve this, use the menu in the bottom right and select exit. This will shut opera down properly.

Im not certain but i think this is related to a bug with the opera widgets. Im not sure why but when ive had this problem sometimes the opera widgets folder/app is still running.

Id say get used to using the exit command in the menu, switch back to 8.6 or wait for the final version of Opera.

thanks, i´ll try this

[jumanji1212]

Skyfire FTW!

why is the best web brower 4 u???

[Merrijk]

Originally Posted by lewcamino View Post
Skyfire FTW!

Im sure Skyfire is great, unless your not in the US or Canada.

As far as im concerned international capability is a pretty key feature.

[sschlesinger]

Im sure Skyfire is great, unless your not in the US or Canada.

As far as im concerned international capability is a pretty key feature.

why would skyfire NOT work in any country except us and canada. its only a browser and thats it. It depends on weather u have a good signal or bad signal that mostly dictates how fast the internet.

[stevebrooks]

Opera 8.65 works perfect for me. I haven't tried the Skyfire yet.

[jumanji1212]

have u experienced very slow speed when browsing the net?¿?¿ i mean, with opera and internet explorer either. even loading google´s webpage takes ages!!!

[breezasib]

Will IE 6 mobile be released as as installable app or will it only be available in ROM on new devices?

[Merrijk]

why would skyfire NOT work in any country except us and canada. its only a browser and thats it. It depends on weather u have a good signal or bad signal that mostly dictates how fast the internet.

Skyfire's website says that the browser is only supported in US and Canada (http://www.skyfire.com/register). Apparently you can put in random numbers for the phone number during the registration process and get the cab. So i stand corrected.

BUT, they still dont official support its use outside the US. I think the reason is that skyfire uses its own servers (probably located in the US) to render the page and then sends it as a compressed image; Being outside the us means your introducing a 200ms delay (for us aussies atleast) to every action.

*completely non technical comment: does anyone else find the skyfire ceo product demos (http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=jSdT_PgFXds&feature=related) to be a bit weird and off putting; They seem way to sure of themselves and dismisive of other technologies they are borrowing from; it reminds me of the attitude of people during the dotcom boom. i dunno...

[sschlesinger]

Skyfire's website says that the browser is only supported in US and Canada (http://www.skyfire.com/register). Apparently you can put in random numbers for the phone number during the registration process and get the cab. So i stand corrected.

BUT, they still dont official support its use outside the US. I think the reason is that skyfire uses its own servers (probably located in the US) to render the page and then sends it as a compressed image; Being outside the us means your introducing a 200ms delay (for us aussies atleast) to every action.

*completely non technical comment: does anyone else find the skyfire ceo product demos (http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=jSdT_PgFXds&feature=related) to be a bit weird and off putting; They seem way to sure of themselves and dismisive of other technologies they are borrowing from; it reminds me of the attitude of people during the dotcom boom. i dunno...

Thanks for enlightning me about that I had no Idea guess I take somethings for granted here. To me though a browser is still a browser however now that u said the skyfire servers are most likely in the US it does make sense.

[gtkansan]

Ive been trying the open source IRIS browser the last few days. Its been good so far, very thumb friendly.

[jcrompton]

I still am a fan of Opera Mini which works great after installing JRebeiro_EsmertecJbed.cab

I will try SkyFire today though

[Emyas]

I live in Chile, in south america, and SKYFIRE work with any problems... great. but i use this only for web page with flash content, like youtube or others 'tubes' ... but for the rest, Opera is the better choice. IMHO.

Regards from the south of the world.

[theonetruecoco]

Hi guys!

i´ve just donwloaded the new opera 9.5 beta for my treo pro and at the beggining worked fine, but now, when i close the app, and try to re-open it later, it freezes and do not open at all. it only appears the name of the last webpage i tried to open. so i have to do a soft reset and will work again, but soon or later, it happens once more

what do u think about it?

I use Opera 9.5 with Tf3D and haven't had any issues at all with it freezing or locking up or anything along those lines at all. Not sure if it is a function of the TF3D or the build I am using. The issue may be the build...

[geek78]

hi
with my blackstone i use opera 9.5 but with the treo netfront 3.5 rc9 is the best solution... you can download it for free on the access web site.

[ratapoil]

My treo Pro get some curious issue with Opera 9.5 : when launched, all my "sounds & notifications" choices was deleted, no alarms at all was selected. It happens every time i launch Opera !
Are you experienced the same Issue with Opera ?

[baimo]

I just installed skyfire. i like it so far better than the others. I did not like opera 9.5 nor do i like pie very much. Overall i prefer not to browse on this phone as it has been a painful experience

[nitty917]

opera is great but cant disable the damn onscreen keyboard. keeps popping up.
Opera Beta2 works for now. But want to disable the keyboard completly,
anyone able to do so?

[DerBoxer]

The browser seems not to display german sites.

If You select one like www.bahn.de he decides to use the english version and he cannot display the german site from amazon and other german sites so I assume that they are rendering the pages on their servers and send the result to the browser.

[acidhax]

Dont. Skyfire is garbage.

[lcohen999]

Iris my friends...Iris

[Thunyapong]

I'm use Skyfire. It very good.

[aph]

I've used these browsers: PIE, IE6, Skyfire, Opera Mini, Opera Mobile, Picsel and Iris. Here are my rankings:

1. Iris
(compact; fast; standard WebKit rendering; cursor option)

2. Opera Mobile
(fast; good rendering; no cursor option; takes too much screen real estate)

3. IE6
(much improved rendering over PIE; cursor works well; much slower rendering than Iris or Opera)

4. Skyfire
(required for streaming video; Flash; works OK just slower because of server side processing)

[wachkar]

Netfront Browser is the best IE alternative

[DssTrainer]

Skyfire, Iris.... but even IE6 does a good enough job

[jazzrich9]

I just wrote up my thoughts on 4 browsers on my blog www.interscription.com/2009/04/20/a-mobile-browser-for-every-season/

I'm using UCWeb6 for a lot right now, but I really liked the bolt browser too, it just has some bugginess on our phone. I looked at Iris and Opera too, but they just seem slow compared to some of the other options. It's a shame because both of them give you a fairly full web experience on the phone without screwing with formatting too much.

[acidhax]

IRIS
http://www.torchmobile.com/download/
-1 Skyfire
-1 IE
+1 Iris

[DssTrainer]

Iris +1 too

[HomerMAC]

So i had this problem when i originally installed opera 9.5 beta...

I just got used to not closing out all programs and instead went and quit opera the "proper" way. Few days ago, i reinstalled all the software that was stable and finally got a extremely stable treo pro in my hands.

The opera build I'm using isn't the one from the opera website but rather one repacked from some other phone. (i think HTC) and re cabbed by someone. I believe I downloaded it from this site. This is the file name as I have it. I downloaded it from either here or treo central.

"Opera_v9.5_build_15233_QVGA.CAB"

This one doesn't have that bug which doesn't allow close via task manager.

Hope it helps. P.S. I installed that 1st before any other program if that makes a dif.

This build is also a bit more easy to use. the zoom etc. and the menu system is a bit more helpful although
the Official opera is kick@$$ by all means..

EDIT: I will attach the cab file in a while soon as i get it off my phone and onto my powerbook

attaching didnt work so im going to link to the thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=401715

[carlos2008]

:)ucweb is my default browser rightnow:)

[carlos2008]

I have in my treo pro the opera mobile ripped from the omnia, the zoom funtion is amazing, and the flash support is handy too.:):):)

[ginodp]

I vote for skyfire also. I'm in the Netherlads and I used Skyfire on my Nokia E71 and Blackberry, going to use it also on my new Palm Treo Pro when it arrives.

[LordLugard]

Just an FYI, the latest Opera Mobile 9.7 beta build runs fantastically on my Sprint Treo Pro. I have it installed to main memory. I'm really liking it.

[info[]box1]

Just an FYI, the latest Opera Mobile 9.7 beta build runs fantastically on my Sprint Treo Pro. I have it installed to main memory. I'm really liking it.


I second this also Opera Mobile 9.7 thumbs up for the palm treo pro...

[Ventrilo Host]

Blazer is working all right for me. Wished Opera had a PalmOS browser, though.

Here's one I found recently: http://www.mytreo.net/downloads/details-256.html?Xiino

But I haven't tried it, I haven't found the need so far.