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BlackBerry OS 5.0 Gets Tabbed Browsing At Last

The latest beta of BlackBerry OS 5.0 has tabbed browsing. Great! Except “switching between two or more tabs is, quite frankly, a huge pain in the arse as there is no keyboard shortcut.” I’d rather have Javascript performance that isn’t completely shittastic, personally. [BGR]

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  • thefastest

    would still be rather brilliant, and common sensical, to just use a webkit browser. why don't all mobile handset makers adopt this? what am i missing?

    thefastest

  • Joaquin

    @mathew: to be precise, Javascript performance on the BB browser. Why do people keep confusing Javascript and Java? one is a programming language and the other is a type of coffee grain! (oops).

  • mathew

    @zenpoet: Java is fine. It's JavaScript that's the problem.

  • Bigbadbikernerd

    @kleptoman: I'm just waiting for Skyfire. It will make it all OK.

  • SchuylerAquila

    Wow, next thing you know Blackberrys will be able to ring and vibrate at the same time!

    SchuylerAquila

  • kleptoman

    I totally agree. They would better served to try and implement better browser performance on their handsets instead of this bell/whistle...

    kleptoman

  • zenpoet

    Exactly why is the java shittasktic? Has someone just been asleep at the wheel, or is it just that difficult to make it work on a blackberry?

  • Wyatt Christopher Lewis

    hi rim, welcome to 2009.

    Wyatt Christopher Lewis

  • cjlopez

    @zenpoet: i'd also really love they focussed more on javascript. It was really painfull build a couple of webpages like the client wanted them to be with the limited javascrip and WAP there is this days.

  • iSmithx_is_stronger_than_you

    @Joaquin: no, both are programming languages. javascript is... obviously... for scripting. java is a platform independent language

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