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Just wondering, has anybody come across a piece of software (anywhere) less useful than the native Jolla browser? Jolla, your supporters and customers have had to live with this shitty software now for over five years! I mean all it does is warm up the device (which I suppose might be useful in winter), the latest version with Seitseminen actually causes the Jolla Tablet to overheat und stop functioning. Well, it also drains the battery very quickly. Can you imagine what would happen to this planet if everybody in China tried to load the same lousy page at the same time? I'm sure that would be good for another 0.08 degrees of global warning.

Just some of my frustrating observations again today, trying to load a page like the German newsticker spiegel.de/schlagzeilen (but many more pages are just as bad)

• Page loads to about 87% and then just hangs, for several minutes (> 10 Mins)
• Page doesn't render. At least most of it doesn't. The text remains completely fuzzy
• Page becomes unresponsive. Moving up and down or sideways with your finger causes exactly nothing to happen

I thought Sailfish was supposed to do true multitasking. It certainly doesn't look like it. Otherwise loading a web-page wouldn't hang like that. To me it looks like something is exclusivle locking all Microprocessor cores until some event is recognised or a timeout of about 10 minutes happens.

Jolla, I am not familiar with your Software but am perfectly familiar with operating systems, device drivers and embedded software so here just a few random thoughts thrown into the pan:

• Can't you break loading and rendering web-pages into multiple tasks?
• If you have to have loops in these tasks give them sensible timeout values ( max 1s, in some small number of cases maybe 10s)
• Have a supervisor monitoring the list of tasks
• Any tasks running too long is interrupted and added to the bottom of the list for later completion, at the same time letting more successful ones complete more quickly
• Detect problematic tasks and just cancel them, fixing maybe in a later OS release. A browser which reliably displays some (or preferbly most) of a web page is much better than one which just warms up the planet while displaying nothing

Exactly what use is any mobile operating system today without a functioning browser ? I don't care if your browser doesn't display peoples advertising properly or has problems with things like Flash, but just hanging there displaying nothing is completely unaccaptable.

Just wondering, has anybody come across a piece of software (anywhere) less useful than the native Jolla browser? Jolla, your supporters and customers have had to live with this shitty software now for over five years! I mean all it does is warm up the device (which I suppose might be useful in winter), the latest version with Seitseminen actually causes the Jolla Tablet to overheat und stop functioning. Well, it also drains the battery very quickly. Can you imagine what would happen to this planet if everybody in China tried to load the same lousy page at the same time? I'm sure that would be good for another 0.08 degrees of global warning.warming.

Just some of my frustrating observations again today, trying to load a page like the German newsticker spiegel.de/schlagzeilen (but many more pages are just as bad)

• Page loads to about 87% and then just hangs, for several minutes (> 10 Mins)
• Page doesn't render. At least most of it doesn't. The text remains completely fuzzy
• Page becomes unresponsive. Moving up and down or sideways with your finger causes exactly nothing to happen

I thought Sailfish was supposed to do true multitasking. It certainly doesn't look like it. Otherwise loading a web-page wouldn't hang like that. To me it looks like something is exclusivle locking all Microprocessor cores until some event is recognised or a timeout of about 10 minutes happens.

Jolla, I am not familiar with your Software but am perfectly familiar with operating systems, device drivers and embedded software so here just a few random thoughts thrown into the pan:

• Can't you break loading and rendering web-pages into multiple tasks?
• If you have to have loops in these tasks give them sensible timeout values ( max 1s, in some small number of cases maybe 10s)
• Have a supervisor monitoring the list of tasks
• Any tasks running too long is interrupted and added to the bottom of the list for later completion, at the same time letting more successful ones complete more quickly
• Detect problematic tasks and just cancel them, fixing maybe in a later OS release. A browser which reliably displays some (or preferbly most) of a web page is much better than one which just warms up the planet while displaying nothing

Exactly what use is any mobile operating system today without a functioning browser ? I don't care if your browser doesn't display peoples advertising properly or has problems with things like Flash, but just hanging there displaying nothing is completely unaccaptable.