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Bolt Browser discontinued

• Egregore 15y ago
  It's the first time I've read about this browser, has anybody experienced it, what can you tell about it?
• greut 15y ago
  It was more or less a clone of Opera mini (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolt_browser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolt_browser, http://cellphonequick.com/bolt-browser-3-0-now-available-at-android-market/ http://cellphonequick.com/bolt-browser-3-0-now-available-at-...) running on Webkit (and some people argue that Opera should do it too).
  • server102 15y ago
    bolt renders webpages like firefox on Pc.... i don't see how it clones opera mini
    • greut 15y ago
      The strength of Opera mini are Opera's servers that precompute and massively shrink any web page for you[1] using their proprietary OBML. So did Bolt[2]. Firefox on PC don't use any Mozilla servers to render the page for you. Neither does Firefox on Mobile. These really are two classes of web browsers. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Mini#Functionality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Mini#Functionality [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolt_browser#Data_compression https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolt_browser#Data_compression
• deleted 15y ago
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• intheory0 15y ago
  Great browser for Brew phones. :/ this is too bad but given shrinking featurephone market share understandable.
• amolsarva 15y ago
  I used this browser quite a bit. It was very good. It rendered fonts beautifully and it played media inline, without launching a new media player. These are advantages over Opera Mini. Also, it used Webkit as its core rendering engine (as opposed to Opera) So it was really good!