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Originally Posted by krazy4katz
Hard to say...browser seems faster... but I hardly ever use it, but WHOA! The NYTimes just loaded immediately!
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Yes. I've had 3.0.2 for 3 days and the browser speed improvement is tremendous, both with WiFi and 3G connections. Plus, many more web sites work. I wish I could name them, but before 3.0.2 I didn't bookmark when I hit a problem (usually the too many pages message).
A remaining problem with some of the sites that interest me (slate.com, tnr.com, weeklystandard.com) is that the article font cannot be made as big as I like without running off the screen. Also, as JMikeD alludes to above, the article font can be gray rather than black. However, I just found a work-around for both the font size and gray-scale, posted by jozicka in the Links Every Kindle Owner Should Have thread:
This doesn't just make the home pages at tnr.com and slate.com K3-friendly. When you click on the links, the K3-friendly magic is retained.
I just tried this on one of my favorite more obscure sites, swaminomics.org (go there to get a feel for the real India). The home page is rendered nicely, but when I click on articles, I consistently get the message "Something didn't work quite right and we are unable to show the page you requested right now. Rest assured. Google engineers are already springing into action to solve the problem." I don't know if I feel totally assured, but I do appreciate the creative folks at google, even if they are going to eat dinner at the famous free cafeteria first before the promised springing. Heck, I'll even be satisfied if they go home to the spouse and kids and spring onto it tomorrow
