Happy 15th Birthday, Opera!

Opera is still my favorite browser after all these years.

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Free Browsing [Update]

I tried browsing again today on zero load and much to my delight, my phone’s net connection has both local and Internet connection:

I was able to update my antivirus software and even scrobble my Last.fm cache. Anyway, I didn’t do anything special to my GPRS settings, I’m using iNet using a proxy. I have no idea regarding the mechanics of free browsing, but to contribute something useful, I’m going to state some of my observations and also formulated the following pointers:

All of the FB sessions happened at night, at around 8pm to 11pm. I tried connecting at various times of the day, but it seemed it only happened between those times. Also, on one instance, the FB disconnected at around 12 midnight

Successful FB is a matter of luck, but to avoid any complications, it’s better to connect on zero load. Hell, if you have a spare Globe SIM, you can use this specifically for browsing. Then, try and try until you succeed.

You can still browse some sites even when FB is not activated, including G-Blogs, Globe Corporate site, myGlobe, myGlobe Forums and Pixlink. Yahoo Mobile used to be browseable as well, but I can’t open the pages for a few months now [EDIT: ummm, apparently Yahoo Mobile is still browseable, I didn’t realize I was inputting the wrong address, it’s http://ph.m.yahoo.com/, not mobi.yahoo.com.ph or m.yahoo.com.ph

I think you can only do FB using a desktop-class browser, such as Opera (Mobile or Mini) and some other browsers out there.

Browser Wars

In a few years, the Internet had became the primary application of computing, fueled by the need to get connected with the rest of the computing world. For the myriad programs that anyone can use to access the net, no other program can match the overall functionality of web browsers, and that is why there has been an intense competition among browsers out there.

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