[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Azimuth21:
i'm working through browsers now, trying to figure out which one i like the most. here's a quick personal rundown of browsers I have installed...

Opera Mini 4

Positives:

SUPERFAST with the latest Jbed, absolutely the fastest browser in the WM market, hands down

Very light on cpu

Negatives:

can't select text

no easy way to quickly edit the current URL

can't copy link location

everytime i minimize then reopen the browser, i'm asked if i want to exit or resume Opera Mini. just gets annoying after a while

if i want to save the url of a page i'm on, i have to go to "add bookmark", then copy the url out of there. something else that's annoying is, if i'm zoomed in a page, and i click on a link, the new link loads and prevents me access to the zooming out feature. i have to be missing something here.

Opera Browser 8.65

Positives:

Good standards compliance as far as i know

Works with some flash, but not stuff like regular youtube

Tabbed browsing

Negatives:

feels sluggish, especially with tabs open

Opera Browser 9.5 Beta, build 4905 (aka 9.405)

Positives:

Fast

Customizable (zoom levels and stuff like that)

Negatives:

Only two zoom levels accessible

Clearly a leaked beta, with little niggles in the qVGA skin (for example, URL history is annoying)

Cannot be used with PCMKeyboard, because it inputs s p a c e s (<--like that) when typing in input fields

Page-Panning is slowed down because of FTouchFlo. There's a lag in screen movement when you pan around, but it works perfectly when I try it without FTouchFlo enabled. Therefore, should be fine for you, since you have built-in scrolling on your Touch

Netfront Browser Technical Preview v3.5

Positives:

Nice interface, I like the double-tap view because of it's ease of access

Negatives:

When loading a page (full browsing rendering mode), it'll load, then freeze for about 10 seconds, THEN allow you to finally browse the loaded page

Missing some features because it's a tech preview

Horrendous CPU Hog, you have to remember to go into bookmarks everytime you switch to a different application in order to prevent device slowdown

ibisBrowserDX v1.0

Positives:

Fast

Negatives:

Designed for usage with keyboard and pretty difficult to use with only the touchscreen (basic browser controls are hidden in a menu)

Internet Explorer Mobile from WM6.1 (with zoom-out feature)

Positives:

works perfectly with all Windows actions, like opening links, downloading things, etc

Negatives:

slow

zooming-out feature isn't that useful, because it's stuck inside a menu.

no built-in scrolling in IEM itself, but you can use FTouchFlo or the system-scrolling in your Touch with it perfectly fine.

I haven't been invited to the SkyFire beta, although I did sign up for it a while ago. Therefore, I can't comment on it. Looks really promising, though.

Hope that helps. I got CARRIED AWAY, hahahah.

By the way, this is my current setup:

Opera 9.5 build 4905 for long browsing sessions

Opera Mini 4 if I just want to quickly look up something, or if I'm surfing heavy sites like ESPN or Yahoo and want the speed.

Internet Explorer Mobile set as my default browser, to ensure there are no setup hassles when internet is crucial to something (for example, FlashVideoBundle, ytpocket.com, downloading files, etc)