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It was more or less a clone of Opera mini (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolt_browser, http://cellphonequick.com/bolt-browser-3-0-now-available-at-...) running on Webkit (and some people argue that Opera should do it too).

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bolt renders webpages like firefox on Pc.... i don't see how it clones opera mini

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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