Quick Look, Netfront 3.5 Beta !
Posted by: Peter Murphy on Feb 09 2008
Yesterday I posted about the new Netfront Beta, and mentioned that it wouldn’t be available till the 11/2/08, Monday. Well it seems my intel was wrong, as I checked the link again today, and viola, hence the screenshot of the Netfront 3.5 favourites screen. I’ve only played with it for five minutes, but I had to let you know that you can
Now, it offers some really different rendering alternatives, and not a scrollbar in sight. At its default normal, assuming there’s no unavoidable mobile plugin on the page you want to view, it loads the full page, and you can pan through the page, left, right, up, down, with stylus or finger. Then the other end of the scale here is smart fit rendering, which will fit the page you are viewing to your screen resolution. There’s also a middle ground option as well, just fit as it’s called. That favourites screen is my fave at the moment, Netfront automatically detected my favourites and had them available without any effort from me at all. It’s like an animated carousel, and the addresses are animated as well, very slick little feature. Two initial observations, I checked RAM usage, and from my usual average of about 20 Mb available, I was down to a bit over 3 Mb. General loading of pages was average speed wise! As I said, I haven’t played with it enough to really give you a good overview, but my first impression is optimistic! Check it out for yourselves and tell me what you think!
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Ooo baby, baby it’s a wild world.
Ok. Now to the post. Hrmm — it’s pretty fast! It loads pages like Engadget in around 9-10 seconds and they become surfable after that. That’s pretty impressive! I do definitely want more than this zoom mode though — I do like Opera’s take on dynamic zooming.
But I can’t believe how much better this browser is than the 3.4 tech preview. I kept trying that out before but it was nowhere near this quality. The only big question at this point is RAM and playing nicely and not nuking my other programs when it gets hungry.