During last few days I was taking closer look to web browsers available on Maemo 5. This time I will give you something that we can rely more than just personal opinion, a benchmark! After you already know what it can do and if it is really good from analytical point of view you can choose one as default for your N900.
I used Browser Benchmark from Rightware, which is designed to check weather mobile browser is fast enough, with commercial version for use of browser developers, nevertheless it measures mostly …

When you get brand new N900 you already have MicroB, Maemo-tailored Mozilla-based default web browser, which would be good for most of us. But you still have a choice what to use and I’d like to show you possibilities.
First of all let’s see what happened to Fennec (named after small, desert fox) a.k.a. Firefox Mobile for last few months, since it was release candidate. It has it’s engine in common with MicroB, so I was expecting something really nice and fast. After starting Fennec (named Firefox in the menu, even …

Mozilla continues to develop its main product to offer a good browser for mobile phones: Fennec, the mobile version of Firefox, has reached Release Candidate status. Meaning that the first official stable version of the browser only needs to pass the final test of the developers. Back in November, we write a post about it (Firefox Fennec for Nokia N900) as it was a beta version still.
Fennec RC1 has the same engine as Firefox 3.6 and it also includes the so called Awesome Bar (a bar that displays suggestions …

If you remember we have already talk about this new browser of Firefox for handheld devices called Fennec. Back on that post (New definition of Mobility? & Just a little more on mobile browsing with the Nokia N900) I only wrote a few words about it because it was a very early version, more detail it was an Alpha version.
One month later, we finally got the beta version (beta 4) and a video devoted to show Fennec, in this case on a Nokia N900, and all the new stuff that …

Browsing as a subject again? That’s probably the thought of most of you when reading the new title of this post. However it looks redundant, the main idea is to show a fresh video showing the browsing power of the Nokia N900.
A nice thing about this video is also the TV-Out feature. You would see the browser through a LCD TV. The response and the clarity of the images are wonderful. Besides, this situation brought to my mind the progress on mobility. If you think it through, the Nokia N900 …