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Originally Posted by barryem
Maybe in an emergency I might have been glad it was there but it wasn't something I'd have used by choice.
I'm not sure I ever found any serious use for the web browser.
Barry
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I'm not sure, but I think you were relating your general experience with the experimental browser, whether on WiFi or 3G. What you wrote seems to be what everyone says about the browser, but I am an enthusiastic user of it.
I've actually used the experimental browser, over WiFi only, extensively. Some of the problems you described can be avoided by keeping javascript and images disabled. That speeds things up a lot and makes many sites accessible that won't work when js is enabled. There are some sites that require js, so you can temporarily enable it to attempt to see if their pages will open with the exp. browser, but some (surprisingly few in my experience) will never open at all.
Virtually all news, magazines, blogs, and forums will work. I made a basic website that consists of nothing but links to around 50 of the sites I check out regularly, and that is my "homepage." From there I just tap the site I want to visit, so I almost never have to tortuously enter anything manually. Once I have an article opened, I switch to "article view." Then, regardless of how the text was formatted or what the page looked like normally, the content I want to read appears exactly like the pages in an e-book on the Kindle. That is huge for me, since I don't like to read on an LCD phone or tablet, and I never see an ad or any extraneous garbage that even respectable sites place on the left and right and even right in the middle of the content one is trying to read.
So that's why I'm trying to find out if I could websurf via 3G with an old Kindle when I was unable to connect to a WiFi hotspot or my home router.
Since hardly anyone uses the browser, and Amazon still calls it experimental after seven years or so and has never improved it, I worry Amazon will leave it off in future firmware.