Sailfish Browsers
 

What are people currently using as browsers on their Jolla phones?

Initially, I used the native browser, and while I found that did the job initially, with recent updates, it's just gotten slower and slower. Now it's at a stage where it's almost unusable, with pages slow to render and very unresponsive when navigating.

This led me into installing Firefox (Android version). This improved things a bit, but I still find that a substantial number of sites (particularly those with lots of Javascript) perform very poorly. The alternative is to use mobile versions of sites, but these fail to even render properly in most cases.

What are others using, any thoughts on hacks or tips to improve things?

Re: Sailfish Browsers
 

Using the native browser. As an opposite to your findings, I have found that it gets better and better each release, and have experienced no problems of slowness with it. (just shows that different people have different expectations...)

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I'm not that happy with native browser speed as well - even though it got a bit better with Sailfish OS 1.1.4.28.

Most of the time I use "Web Pirate" (available from OpenRepos/Warehouse). Works great for me and I like the way it plays videos (even adds cover-actions for video playback). It also offers more traditional tab browsing and you can add shortcuts to website like in Firefox.

Otherwise I also use Firefox Android app (mainly because of sync feauture).

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Like NokiaFanatic and unlike juiceme, I have also found that each update makes Sailfish Browser less and less usable. Sometimes it is that it gets slower, other times that the new UI makes it less intuitive to use. This got to the point that I stopped using it altogether two updates ago and switched permanently to Webcat as my main browser. I nearly forgot about Sailfish Browser, except for cases when I tap on a link in an email and this opens the built-in browser. Is there any hack for that? Make another browser the default?

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there was an opera browser in early sailfish demos in 2013 . Does someone know what happened or it was the android version

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I've become pretty accustomed to the default browser, and it fits my needs well enough. I'm not a heavy user to be honest, mainly just BBC Sport, Facebook, Twitter and Reddit, but it renders the mobile versions of those sites just fine, so I've not felt the need to change. No real need for bookmark sync with such limited use. Anything more complex and I'll switch over to my Surface Pro.

I use Weather or MeeCast for weather, Feed Haven for news, YTPlayer for extended YouTube sessions. It works.

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It was probably the MeeGo version that you could also install on Nemo.

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There's a hack described here: https://together.jolla.com/question/...fault-browser/

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I'm using the built-in browser since the previous update that brought the new UI and since I've discovered that disabling IPv6 in about:config makes it lightning fast. But I still have WebPirate installed just in case (and Webcat is nice as well, but I don't have that one installed anymore).

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Has anyone seen this? I saw it linked on reddit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8tjBpWCM0E (Chromium in Emulator)