PSP™ General Discussion

[HiggsBoson1]

Come on Sony, stop with the AccessCo Netfront sub-par product and swallow the Japanese pride and adopt Opera for PSP and PS3.   Having been on holiday and had access to free Wifi at the hotel, my mates iPhone browser made the PSP's browser look like an embarrassing joke.

The PSP has far better resources than a iPhone, and should this be much easier to surf the web on, alas, that is not the case...

[Killzone_Kid]

PSP browser is not just web browser, it is part of the system and part of it is used in games and applications. you cannot just throw it out and replace with another browser. They can however release it as a stand alone application, like comic reader or skype i.e. so that you download and save it on the memory stick. Maybe one day.

[HiggsBoson1]

It would be simple enough to leave the old browser "engine" for old PSP game compatability, and remove access to it, integrate a new browser going forward.   The reason Opera is by far the best bet, is that it's extremely scalable, anyone that's used the mobile and desktop versions will know, it works on everything, and gives a very decent browsing experience. It would work excellently on PSP AND PS3, and the OperaLink functionality would mean bookmarks added to the PSP would appear on your PS3 (and PC) and vice-versa.

[Killzone_Kid]

Opera might be better than current psp browser but it is a ***** browser and it always was. It is the most awkward browser out there, even though they claim it is 100% standard compliant, it is bug ridden which doesn't make sense. On paper it is compliant in reality some bug with in it causes it to render differently.

Anyone that knows how to design a website also knows that eventually it will work correctly in every browser but opera.

[topperharley83]

google chrome ftw!!!

[JediKnight246]

If Sony ever put the Opera browser on PSP then it would probably be Opera Mini(With Flash 10, hopefully)

According to the Opera site the latest version of Opera Mini is 4.2.

[SilverFurore]

Killzone_kid, you're living in the past. Opera WAS a buggy piece of crap, but these days it's the fastest browser and less of a resource hog than IE and FIrefox while still being more secure than any open source browser.

Seriously.

As it stands I find my iPhone and PSP work together quite well. I game on the PSP and net surf on the iPhone but if the battery dies in one or the other, the other can take up the other's task even if less well. I'd love a different web browser on the PSP, but so long as I have another device that does it just as well I'm more than happy to leave my PSP solely for gaming.

[JediKnight246]

What Sony could/should do is leave the current browser for any PSP games that require it, and release a downloadable browser on the PlayStation Store, and that would open the door for browser add-ons downloadable from the PlayStation Store(if Sony ever did that then hopefully they would make a seperate Store for the add-ons)