Web Browser News - Webby: New, Free, Not so Good

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Webby is a free and, in my opinion, as of the current version (please read my review of version 2.0 here), not very good Pocket Internet Explorer / Internet Explorer Mobile plug-in. The new, 2.0e (2.1.0.1) version has just been released; in this review, I compare it to the previous, 2.0 version. Pros

1. The view modes have been extended: now it suports both Default and Desktop view modes, unlike in 2.0. Unfortunately, there's still no One Column support in the new version – the Skweezer-based one is a very bad solution. Example screenshots of the default view are here and that of the desktop view here. As can be seen, they work as expected.
2. Now, it really cleans up the temporary internet cache files upon request/exit.

Cons

1. Sometimes it crashes upon trying to save links. This screenshot, for example, has been taken when trying to save the contents of a link from my PPCMag test page.
2. There's still no way of opening a link in a new tab. The current way of multi-tabbing is really cumbersome if you would like to open the links in the current page in a new tab. All the alternate browsers have a much better approach.
3. Much as the author states the new version has better performance, that's not the case: page loading is as slow as was in version 2.0. I've measured 0:32/1:01 loading times on my HTC Wizard (compare it to the previous results) - that is, not at all better than with the previous version. It means the slowdown factor is about two.
4. If the current, system-level Connection isn't a The Internet one (and the particular URL you would like to see doens't match any system-level Work Exception), no error message will be shown, unlike with the case of PIE/IEM.
5. The (let's admit, pretty useless) progress bar has been completely removed (WM5 screenshot; WM2003SE screenshot) instead of having been fixed.

Verdict Still not recommended. There're much better free solutions: for example, Opera Mini or, if you have a pre-WM5 device, ftxPBrowser. Recommended links Pocket PC Browser review link collection