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Re:Bolt Browser discontinued by server102 on Tuesday December 13, 2011 @09:53AM (#3347628)
bolt renders webpages like firefox on Pc.... i don't see how it clones opera mini
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Re:Bolt Browser discontinued by greut on Wednesday December 14, 2011 @04:41PM (#3353727)
The strength of Opera mini are Opera's servers that precompute and massively shrink any web page for you[1] using their proprietary OBML. So did Bolt[2]. Firefox on PC don't use any Mozilla servers to render the page for you. Neither does Firefox on Mobile. These really are two classes of web browsers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Mini#Functionality

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolt_browser#Data_compression

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