Skyfire Mobile Browser for S60v5 is out

does it run smoothly? i'm hesitant to install anything to my n97 mini just yet...(that's not the way a smartphone should be!). but i will eventually.
 
FINALLY. I've been checking for the past 2 weeks almost everyday to see if it was out. I also hope that it will run smooth on my 5800 though.
 
Speaking of Opera Mobile - do you see any advantages over Opera Mini?

I don't. Moreover, Mini renders even faster (by way of Proxy servers) - the "Opera Turbo" option in Opera Mobile does not seem to have much impact (beyond reducing image quality to where it's ugly).

EDIT: Never mind.
 
advantages over opera
- so far, no memory errors!! (w/30 minutes of use watching "Community" off NBC.com - I still have about 15M of RAm left.
- pages load relatively fast (imo, faster than opera mobile/mini for larger sites)

disadvantages
- UI looks a little corny.
- rendering in not perfect-looks pixilated...
 
I think a Opera Mobile/native browser combo almost makes browsing on the N97 a complete experience. Opera is faster, but the native browser does more stuff. I was hoping Skyfire would add to it (by playing Hulu, for instance) but it is toooooooo slow.
 
Tested on my 5800xm,had Ucweb7, Swiss Manager and Music Player running,had around 37mb RAM left, opened Skyfire, and all the other had been shutdown and i had 15mb left lol,but it does work smoothly,still a RAM hog though.
 
additionally, if your watching a flash video and get a text, you can switch to messaging, write your text, send, and switch back very fast. But, the video will continue to play in the background. Some may see this as good or bad. Personally, I liked it- multitasking using handy taskman with Skyfire running is FAST.

edit: videos stop playing after about 20 sec... guess im just a fast texter :)

Does anyone know how to make a profile where the screen does not blank out into standby/energy saving mode?
 
This has been a problem with Skyfire since its first release. There is a program that you can use. I think its called "always on" or something like that. It keeps the back light on all the time and keeps the video playing. This works only for video. If you wanted to stream a radio station or some other audio only website. You are stuck with having your backlight on, and thus draining your battery.
 
unfortunately you have to use an app such as smartlight to keep the screen from going out. i've used smartlight for years now and its my favorite by far.
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (SymbianOS/9.4; Series60/5.0 NokiaN97-3/20.2.019; Profile/MIDP-2.1 Configuration/CLDC-1.1) AppleWebKit/525 (KHTML, like Gecko) BrowserNG/7.1.18124)

Nice -it kept all my bookmarks after i logged in
 
I like it. It looks great, and after you zoom in it will render the images and such to a sharp image.

I was able to stream from last.fm, but i couldn't get pandora to work.

I did notice that I didn't have any memory errors, but it did close the rest of my applications. Not sure if it was skyfire or not.
 
I'd advise you to skip it, Roger. It's laggy, cluttered, and confusing. The fonts are hideous. I prefer the native Mini browser for all its faults.
 
Interesting that it runs so poorly on the N97, because it runs fine on my lowly 5800. It's pretty fast and renders pages well. Not sure if I'm ready to give up the Nokia browser completely, but I like it.
 
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