Not OP, but while the article lists some things that make web browsing on mobile more irritating, the single worst thing about mobile web browsers is unmodifiab

Not OP, but while the article lists some things that make web browsing on mobile more irritating, the single worst thing about mobile web browsers is unmodifiably short cache times, combined with the fact that switching to another app sometimes, but not always means you've accidentally closed the app. Unlike desktop browsers, mobile browsers will not allow you to leave a page open and come back to it without reloading the page, which makes them effectively useless for so many situations. Even just locking the screen while on a page may result in the page being reloaded as soon as you return and unlock the screen. One of the major original benefits of having an always-on internet connection was the ability to look thinks up on the fly; to spend 10 seconds checking something on Google before continuing with what you're doing. With my N900, I used to be able to move through a webapp action by action, locking my phone to get out of the metro car, unlocking it on the way up the escalator, locking it for the walk to work, unlocking it on the elevator, and completing what I was doing as I sat down at my desk. On modern mobile web browsers, this is impossible as far as I can tell. I can't even read the same webpage reliably in a dozen 10-15 second increments over an hour, because many of the times I unlock my phone to look at it, it reloads. If I'm really lucky and don't forget to leave it alone, it may eventually position the scroll back where I was. Of course, that takes up the 10 seconds I had, so now I'll roll the dice again in five minutes when I have 10 more seconds. This is the single biggest problem I have with mobile browsing: I can't actually use the phone as a web browser the way I use my desktop web browser. The tabs are useless because they don't load and keep content. Multiple-action webapps are useless because the browser won't remember where I was even though I haven't deliberately exited the application. Articles or blog posts longer than 5-6 screens are pointless because I will not be able to read them in the times I have, because the browser assumes that I'm doing nothing else for the next 5 minutes nearly every time I open it, "Wait, wait, let's start over from the top, shall we?" Infuriating. TL;DR: the biggest problem with mobile browsing is the browsers, not the content.