Not sure what you mean by browser disconnects ? There is limited memory available for the browser and its not hard to get the browser to stop working.

The new firmware is better but still not perfect.

I tended to stay in the "low bandwidth" simple pages like :

[Link: news.bbc.co.uk]

As you may know I am still without my ipronto, perhaps one day it will come back from Philips repair service :-)