who knows that ‘1’ activates bookmarks view, ‘2’ activates search, ‘5’ activates window selector, ‘8’ activates full screen mini map, ‘9’ – go to dialog, ‘*’ and ‘#’ – zoom in/out. – minimap (I think it is just brilliant, but that is a question of religion) – lack of autocomplete feature for input fields – scrolling is very slow and jumpy, especially while trying to scroll when images are still being loaded – shortcuts are visible in the menu, so it is possible to learn them – go to page helper (although idea copied from OSS browser, it is developed even further) I’ve summarised my other impressions from this experiment below. So from my experience both browsers render pages almost equally good, but Nokia browser has faster and smoother scrolling. Sometimes part of valuable information is obscured by other page elements Text is wider than screen, impossible to read – requires constant horisontal scrolling Runs out of memory if too many posts in blog. Runs out of memory if too many posts in blog.Ĭolumns are rendered a bit strange – narrower than the page. Navigation on the site overall is very slow. Menu on the left site is impossibly slow. I’ve compared usability of the pages that I visit from mobile most often: Web site And both browsers I used in landscape mode. Unfortunately small screen mode arranges information on the page in a way that is considerably different to what you see on the PC, so it is changes the experience. Opera browser I used only in desktop mode.
I used Elisa 3G network and my home WLAN as connection.
I’ve installed Opera 8.65 EMEA for S60 3rd Edition. I’ve used Nokia N93 with 10.0.025 firmware for testing. I’d like to mention right away, that this comparison is very subjective. I’ve decided to compare Opera and Nokia OSS browsers to find out which one is better. I know souls behind both browsers, and I know that there are very talented and hardworking people in both teams and they are doing their best to deliver the perfect mobile browsing experience to the end users. Tero Lehto wrote in his blog in relation to that, that "Pohjoismaiseen kulttuuriin ei ole tavallisesti kuulunut kilpailevan tuotteen avoimella loanheitolla" ("Openly throwing dirt at the competing product does not normally belong to Nordic countries’ culture.") The article has been commented on some blogs, including Opera PR Manager Eskil Sivertsen’s blog. I guess it all has started from The Register controversial columnist Andrew Orlowski’s review of Nokia E70.
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