http://www.phonescoop.com/news/item.php?n=5484
Hell yeah! Loved it on my WM devices, and one of the few things I truly miss about WM.
Oh wow, Steel was bought by Kolbysoft. Hopefully it will still be free.
Silverlight!?! On android. Well that would mean Netflix on my phone!!!!
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Silverlight!?! On android. Well that would mean Netflix on my phone!!!!
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yea im pretty sure i just pee'd a little after reading this
Skyfire was, IMHO, the best browser on WM... full flash support, silverlight... drools! And it was surprisingly smooth and well executed. And no need to wait for Adobe to give us flash, since they did server side processing of all the flash.
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Oh wow, Steel was bought by Kolbysoft. Hopefully it will still be free.
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No, Steel was created by Kolbysoft, Kolbysoft was bought by Skyfire.
This looks really good... If it comes out before Opera.
Is it faster?
Antiskunk said:
This looks really good... If it comes out before Opera.
Is it faster?
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Yes and no... it uses server side processing, much like Opera Mini, so it loads pages faster, but until the whole page is loaded it won't display.
I think Skyfire is better than Opera by a pretty wide margin.
Related
THIS IS A NEW BROWSER IT CAN WATCH ANY VIDEO LIKE YOUTUBE AND LISTEN TO ANY MUSIC ETC..
HERE IS THE LINK
http://www.skyfire.com/
ENJOY
is not download!
Already a thread about this and it's a beta and only available to to the U.S.
Yeah But It Is A Promising Project
YOU CAN ALSO TRY MINIMO
FIREFOX ON MOBILE
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minimo/
please please PLEASE! search the forum before u post, there are threads about this!
Unfortunately!
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YOU CAN ALSO TRY MINIMO
FIREFOX ON MOBILE
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minimo/
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Stop yelling at me
minimo is the mozilla's mobile browser =) xD
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Stop yelling at me
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LOL! Wow, that made me crack up laughing.
mods, pls delete this thread.
no offense but what does minmo have to do with this broswer
cjmedina said:
no offense but what does minmo have to do with this broswer
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I agree... Minimo makes really good use of it's name... I has "minimal" improvements over what's currently out there (except SkyFire).
private beta says its not available and will email when it is.waste of time
Can anyone tell us when this will be available? Or perhaps where one might come across a beta install
you guys are so danm mean so what if sombody mention it already no need to attack the guy like that
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you guys are so danm mean so what if sombody mention it already no need to attack the guy like that
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true, there is massive hostility with these bumbaclots!
Opera can play youtube videos as is. (not opera mini)
downside is you get 30 days free then you have to pay and the prog is huge. But in this community we flash so frequently that 30 days then gets reset with the reflash.
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....But in this community we flash so frequently that 30 days then gets reset with the reflash.
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Too true. But I do look forward to the day when I find the perfect ROM, even if I do actually have to start entering my serial numbers again.
Currently DCS1.5 (slightly modified to my taste) has been untouched on my device for just over a week, which is already some sort of world record.
I'm just looking forward to Firefox Mobile. But it's only supposed to be released soon after Firefox 3 for desktop, so still a bit of time to go...
well said---------
about DCS v1.5
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Too true. But I do look forward to the day when I find the perfect ROM, even if I do actually have to start entering my serial numbers again.
Currently DCS1.5 (slightly modified to my taste) has been untouched on my device for just over a week, which is already some sort of world record.
I'm just looking forward to Firefox Mobile. But it's only supposed to be released soon after Firefox 3 for desktop, so still a bit of time to go...
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Where did Johan come from!? This DCS 1.5 is quite the rom. I myself made small mods to it and have been running it since 1.3 and don't want to get rid of it. I'm almost hoping that duttys wont be as good but I will have to re flash when Duttys new rom come out. I would say it is the most fast and stable rom out right now.
personally i didnt even know of all these different browsers for all of our phones and after i tried some of them id have to say that i actually like Skyfire the most. Does anybody else know of any other ones.
http://yovia.com/blogs/webdesign/2010/02/26/websurfng-on-your-mobile/
WebKit browser & Dolphin browser for Android.
are there any out that support flash for the android?
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personally i didnt even know of all these different browsers for all of our phones and after i tried some of them id have to say that i actually like Skyfire the most. Does anybody else know of any other ones.
http://yovia.com/blogs/webdesign/2010/02/26/websurfng-on-your-mobile/
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The one I am really excited about is Fennec - basically Firefox for winmo.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fennec
Maybe not a big deal from a users' perspective, but as a web developer this really excites me.
kemberdog said:
id have to say that i actually like Skyfire the most
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I had the best expirience with skyfire, too!
For those who couldn't able to download Mozilla firefox's latest beta!
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/releases/
Just go here through your web/mobile browser and find the version you want to test! and for X10 download the armv7 version or the one with the suffix r7!
the beta 4 is pretty solid and stable, but I am testing the pre beta 5 version
And for those who says it is available in the market! It isn't for everyone...
If you are running on stock SE 2.1, chances are lesser...
Note: I am not responsible if you smoke your mobile as all these versions are still in beta/pre-alpha!
Firefox in Android, great.
One question: how light is this version? Latest Firefox versions for Windows/Linux/Mac OS X are heavy and eat a lot of RAM. Hope this changes in Android.
beta 4 is still huge and takes ages to start up. I cannot remember but about 10mb for the app? It lags when you open complicated webpages.
FF lags like hell for me. I tried beta 4 for a few days. It's a great browser, but they need to lighten the load a little.....It's just too tasking for its own good! I shouldn't have to kill all my other tasks just to get webpages to load. And flash is very spotty still
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FF lags like hell for me. I tried beta 4 for a few days. It's a great browser, but they need to lighten the load a little.....It's just too tasking for its own good! I shouldn't have to kill all my other tasks just to get webpages to load. And flash is very spotty still
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I prefer Dolphin Browser Mini.. Mozilla is not done yet. :/
The market version of ff is 18mb.
Anything over 5mb otherthan a game is crap. My rule, sorry.
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I prefer Dolphin Browser Mini.. Mozilla is not done yet. :/
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Skyfire is like lightning for me Thanks, though!!
lightyear420 said:
Skyfire is like lightning for me Thanks, though!!
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Skyfire is good, but Dolphin is my option!
Latest update (2.25.2011) seems much better, but I still had to take it off my phone. 14mb is too much without App2SD and everything else is sluggish since (on my phone) there's not much space left internally. I liked the Sync thing, it showed exactly what was the last pages on my desktop, but I use Chrome mostly and that syncs across computers too.
Reformatting the text still doesn't seem to work correctly.
Some jpgs were rendered poorly
confused on single/double tap to zoom, ran through preset sizes and returned to original. I suppose it works better if you have dual touch.
lag on touch, so you may "Next" twice
stable beta5 out!!
Visit this link from your mobile web:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/m/
FF on the desktop is pathetic, makes me wonder why they even bother with an Android version. 14-18mb for a browser? Really? I'm confident they've included a dishwasher+coffee maker and a sauna in there.
What can it do better than Miren Browser which can do all of the above in just a little over 2mb, and with great aplomb!
Are you kidding??? FF on desktop is the ****!!! There's literally nothing better for desktop pc that FF4 beta....I dunno what you're smokin', but where I come from, we don't touch any other browser. lol
^^ haha tell me about it
There was a time when I used to be a firefox user too, but the 3.xx versions started sucking ass. I then moved to the 4.xx beta and it's a lot better than before. The sluggishness and insanely high resource usage remains though :/ and they still haven't fixed it despite ELEVEN betas and being over a year in active development. Last time I checked there's one more beta due soon, may be more after that, too
tbh i think that the stock android browser has worked best
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tbh i think that the stock android browser has worked best
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I personally like skyfire the best. It's got partial flash which saves on battery (according to the message when it loads ) and fb is integrated into the browser...speedy as hell, too!!
If firefox would just load pages faster I'd use it exclusively...I love the fact that they have sync working finally!! I've been dying to try it, but I can't get any web pages to load at all, even on my home wifi network with 15MB cable internet lol.....and all my background apps are killed, too
if someone can port the micro b browser from maemo 5 it would be great!
that is one kick ass browser!
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tbh i think that the stock android browser has worked best
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true that, and on the desktop, ive tried IE9, FF4, and Chrome dev.. tested them for an amount of time, and have to say chrome beats both of those, both in speed and interface..
but thats just my opinion
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true that, and on the desktop, ive tried IE9, FF4, and Chrome dev.. tested them for an amount of time, and have to say chrome beats both of those, both in speed and interface..
but thats just my opinion
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Latest Chrome beta is fast as a rabit after drinking coffee.
I´ve tried FF on Android and it's very very very heavy and slow... i´ve felt like trying to move a elephant with my fingers. Back to Dolphin HD.
Lofwyr said:
Latest Chrome beta is fast as a rabit after drinking coffee.
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LOL
I've always had issues with the dev channel betas so I finally moved onto the stable releases.
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LOL
I've always had issues with the dev channel betas so I finally moved onto the stable releases.
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then you are obviously doing something wrong ive been using dev chrome close to the day it came out.. only issue i had was a while back, when i couldn't scroll up a page with the mousewheel anymore.
but ok, can't really tell that i had a lot of benefit using the dev version above the stable one..
I have it working on my Droid x its awesome. But some apps that came with it don't work. Other than that the 3d ui looks great. Runs great. Is anyone else using this app? If so what do you think of it?
This has been labeled as warez in xda since it's a leaked beta. But I suppose people can talk about it as long they don't share the apk file..
I've played with it for a while but because I can't choose the default phone and browser app, I stopped playing with it. Also eats lots of ram.
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This has been labeled as warez in xda since it's a leaked beta. But I suppose people can talk about it as long they don't share the apk file..
I've played with it for a while but because I can't choose the default phone and browser app, I stopped playing with it. Also eats lots of ram.
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I didn't know that but I can't post links anyways. I can't wait for it to be out of beta. I might buy it.
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This has been labeled as warez in xda since it's a leaked beta. But I suppose people can talk about it as long they don't share the apk file..
I've played with it for a while but because I can't choose the default phone and browser app, I stopped playing with it. Also eats lots of ram.
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Did you get the gallery app, weather page that comes with it to work?
Yeah i like the look of SPB more than Honeycomb. I hope its doesn't get bought by RIM like they did to TAT.
Its faster than ADW EX for me.
Anyone get it to work with the evo?
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Anyone get it to work with the evo?
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Did you try it and get compatibility error?
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Yeah i like the look of SPB more than Honeycomb. I hope its doesn't get bought by RIM like they did to TAT.
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I really doubt that's going to happen. SPB is a big company from what I understand (google them).
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Anyways, I did try it out, but had to remove it since I kept getting unending "Activating..." and reloading.
But my impressions while I did use it were:
3D look very cool. But not especially useful.
Instant tap and click widgets very useful and great idea.
Lack of app drawer is undesirable.
It has some cool stuff, but isn't anything "groundbreaking" imo. SPB charged consumers about $30 for this on WM and Symbian I believe, doing the same on Android would be quite insane (considering it doesn't add any huge benefits like it did for those OS). I'm curious to see what they plan to charge, and it's something I could consider using as my default launcher... but nothing truly fantastic about it imo.
I used SPB at great lengths with my Windows phones. It was a resource hog, but it still ran smooth and looked awesome.
Didn't know they were actually working on Android...cool
Yep says its not compatible with my device.
works with the epic unfortunately.....
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Yep says its not compatible with my device.
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Does it say spb loading overtop of that?
It takes forever to load on my Samsung I9000, but works well once it does. Amazingly smooth and the widgets look great. Could take some getting used to though!
http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/12/22/google.pushes.first.nexus.s.firmware.update/
So apparently the first update for the nexus s. 2.3.1 was suppose to address the browser lag.
I've been creeping the Nexus s forum for a bit now and was wondering if the browser is as smooth as the galaxy s.
It seams like the browser when compared to the Atrix(had and returned) is a bit smoother.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm3BJ2vKpGM
What are you guys experiencing right now?
The Galaxy S browser is special, it's hardware accelerated. The NS one isn't, and thus isn't as smooth.
Do you think Google will release the same update down the road? Have they acknowledged this problem yet?
There's alternative browsers such as Dolphin Browser HD. They work fine... at least for me.
It honestly does not make sense that Google would not address the browser lag. I hope it gets addressed asap cause I love going on worldstarhiphop
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There's alternative browsers such as Dolphin Browser HD. They work fine... at least for me.
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Even with dolphin HD it lags. It even lags on the market website when you have the app screenshot on the page, how ironic...
The thread about black wallpapers here is impossible to scroll with NS. Disappointing and unacceptable.
No I don't think its been fixed yet. Galaxy s is a special case cause Samsung hardware accelerated it for that phone. How ironic, Samsung giving a better update over Google.
Opera !!! FLASH WORK
NO LAGG AT ALL !!!
Opera need to be ORIGINAL browser
On my side it feel somewhat slow when there is a Flash applet in the page and I try to zoom in while the page is still loading. But after that it seems to be fairly quick to respond.
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On my side it feel somewhat slow when there is a Flash applet in the page and I try to zoom in while the page is still loading. But after that it seems to be fairly quick to respond.
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Is this with Opera or the stock browser?
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Is this with Opera or the stock browser?
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try opera (full)
you WILL LOVE IT MAN !!! LOOOOVE IT ! 10000000%
FLASH, web pages WORKING SUPEEER SMOOOTH !!! suuuuper fast
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try opera (full)
you WILL LOVE IT MAN !!! LOOOOVE IT ! 10000000%
FLASH, web pages WORKING SUPEEER SMOOOTH !!! suuuuper fast
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It is lag free indeed, I just tried it. It's missing all the options/plugins from dolphin though but so far so good. Thanks for the tip!
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try opera (full)
you WILL LOVE IT MAN !!! LOOOOVE IT ! 10000000%
FLASH, web pages WORKING SUPEEER SMOOOTH !!! suuuuper fast
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Can you try www.tested.com please?
this nexus doesn't seam to be scrolling too well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt1MmcE3ZOY
Just curious if it's his phone.
It's actually a bit choppy on Opera 11... weird. First site that I've seen that made Opera 11 slow down a lot. If you think that's bad though... try that site on the regular android browser. It's basically unresponsive lol. There's something at the top of that page that's causing the browser to bog... perhaps a bit of bad website code?
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Can you try www.tested.com please?
this nexus doesn't seam to be scrolling too well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt1MmcE3ZOY
Just curious if it's his phone.
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If you think that's bad though... try that site on the regular android browser. It's basically unresponsive lol.
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Nah it's not that bad at all. Sure it's not great, but it's quite usable.
You know what, I had the same issue with my nexus s, really bad lag, even swiping down the mobile Facebook page was stuttery. I only just had mine, and it was already rooted with natarchy's kernel on and overclocked to 1.2Ghz. Also with clockworkmod flashed. So I thought this was a deal breaker, so last night I found s method using a nandroid backup off here to flash it back to stock, relocked the bootloader, and took it upstairs to charge up, ready to take back today. Well, guess what, tried it out again while lying in bed, and on every single big site I could think of, even like engadget. Like all the YouTube browser tests it was really quick, so I thought I'd put flash back on to measure the impact it had, which was minimal. The wife has an iPhone 4 so I pinched her phone and did a side by side comparison of browser load speeds and the nexus s was constantly a bit quicker, so, take from this what you will, is it rooting?, maybe it was the governor I was using, or the kernels, but it is more than respectable now. Also, scrolling through big pages is smooth too btw.
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It's actually a bit choppy on Opera 11... weird. First site that I've seen that made Opera 11 slow down a lot. If you think that's bad though... try that site on the regular android browser. It's basically unresponsive lol. There's something at the top of that page that's causing the browser to bog... perhaps a bit of bad website code?
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I had opposite results ...opera browser was choppy on tested.com but stock android browser was fine.....not super smooth but just fine.
A little off topic but is there ANY way to get an unlimitedbdata plan if you have a new account?
If not...its back to sprint and bye bye GS2 for me. Already over the 2G mark and only twobweeks in!
Thanks
Never mind!