Hey all, Mozilla Fennec Mobile Android Browser is out of pre-alpha stages and now in Alpha and available download!
Article, Details and Download Here:
http://www.wjddesigns.com/2010/08/27/new-mozilla-fennec-mobile-release-for-android-3/
All credits and love go to Mozilla!
And of course their Android Fennec Team.
downloaded it, did not install. any advice?
Never seen a file with an extension of .install, strange. How do we get it to work?
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http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-mobile-2.0a1&os=android&lang=en-US
The OP's link contained the maemo build. Corrected.
On another note, that was the fastest UNinstall I have done in a long, long time. If you are expecting a good browser, look elsewhere. This is horrid.
yeah, loaded it up and messed with it but dont like it
maybe play later again or might just uninstall
stock browser works for me
deficitism said:
On another note, that was the fastest UNinstall I have done in a long, long time. If you are expecting a good browser, look elsewhere. This is horrid.
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Agreed, I see why its an alpha version.
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Horrible, doesn't work at all. Why release something like this?
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On another note, that was the fastest UNinstall I have done in a long, long time. If you are expecting a good browser, look elsewhere. This is horrid.
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I agree. Even for an Alpha version it's extremely slow and crash-prone.
Startup times are horrible and it took up so much memory on my Incredible that the homescreen actually got cleared from the RAM and had to reload itself. Some websites wouldn't load and installing extensions was nearly impossible. Pressing the back button wouldn't always update the screen either.
It's one of the prettiest I've seen, though, but that's about all I can give it...
Cincybearcatfan said:
Horrible, doesn't work at all. Why release something like this?
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Alpha. It's not even close to a release version. At this point it's hardly more than a proof-of-concept.
Good concept....nowhere near release quality though
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So whats the verdict on this browser? Any good? Bright future and not yet there??
To answer your question its terrible not nearly ready yet
for me it took up over 60mb of memory, which is like half my usual available
Fennec is pretty bad, as in really really bad. Just as Firefox was when it first hit the bitstream. Now, Firefox is a great browser with great features and an even better price.
Instead of giving the Mozilla folks the finger, I suggest we applaud them for even getting this far. Yes, I yanked Fennec off my phone about 30 seconds after I was finally able to install it because the room started to stink, but I'll try it again when it has been made a little better.
Even our esteemed ROM cooks released some doozies when they first started. Today's ROMs run smooth with cool features and very few FCs anymore. So let's cut the Mozilla crew some slack, acknowledge their effort, and in another few months, we'll be amazed at the capabilities of Fennec (although by then it will be named Firefox).
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On another note, that was the fastest UNinstall I have done in a long, long time. If you are expecting a good browser, look elsewhere. This is horrid.
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Agreed, I usually give apps that don't wow me a couple hours of lifespan before I remove them.
This one got the ban hammer faster than anything.
Some things I noted:
They're doing nightly builds, so check in periodically to get the latest.
It isn't as feature-rich (or complete) as Dolphin HD.
The killer feature for me is Mozilla Sync - and it works. All my desktop Firefox bookmarks came in fine. If you're a Firefox user, Fennec is something to keep tabs on.
But it's not the release version. They're painfully slow in getting this project going, and I'm afraid by the time they have something ready for prime time, the mobile browser market will have already split between Dolphin or Opera.
[Edit: And for the Incredible, ensure you're getting the ARMv7 version.]
I would suggest downloading and installing the Nightly build found here:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/nightly/latest-mozilla-central-android-r7/
Loaded up only using 17 mb of memory, synce went fine, Been useing it for a day or so without any issue... Never goes above 28mb of mem usage on inc. Im using
the 8/29/10 nightly build.
Been using this browser for a couple days now (Just to provide some feedback to Mozilla since any feedback during the alpha stage is awesome for devs). While I agree that it is slow and glitchy, for an alpha build it's actually pretty impressive. Firefox Sync is amazing and I like the idea behind the scroll-to menus. For those of you freaking out about how terrible it is, download it again, run it for a little bit, coalesce your thoughts into a reasonable critique then submit it to Mozilla to help them better this project.
Remember, nothing will put iPhone users in their place like "Oh yeah? Firefox. Suck it."
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As you might have heard, TweetDeck has released its Twitter app for Android after what seems to be ages of development, at least for me, as I’ve been dying for this. Twidroyd has long been, at least in functionality, best Twitter app for Android, but TweetDeck hopes to change that by bringing the best Twitter app for PC to Android. Interestingly, its not a direct port of their iPhone app, rather, its been built from the ground to up to showcase the changes that TweetDeck hopes to roll out across its other platforms. I’ve gotta say, its looking great, but not quite there yet. Check out the video for a demo of the great functionality as well as the missing functionality. All in all, though, great job TweetDeck.
TweetDeck Beta for Android Video Demo With Download Link
Tweetdeck is nice, the font size is annoying though
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Tried it did not like it my self not enough options IMHO
from the apple store loling
Naw it's definitely not the best quite yet. It's lacking A LOT feature wise but it's on the right track. It's been the main one I've used since it came out yesterday. Just might replace my Twitter for Android in the end.
Sporkman said:
Tried it did not like it my self not enough options IMHO
from the apple store loling
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Dropped it like a accident at a nuclear power plant!
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FTW! yes now i dont ahve to run all the twitter apps (too cheap for twitdroid pro lol)
Didn't like it at all. Sticking with TweetCaster for now.
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Didn't like it at all. Sticking with TweetCaster for now.
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Yup, that's a def.. +1
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TweedDeck desktop is awesome. Can't beat it imo. TweedDeck for Android... another story. As someone said above, they have a long ways to go. ALTHO one think I do like, is the smoothness of the app. Thats all tho... I'm sure over time it will get better, but they have lots of catching up to do.
NovaFox238 said:
TweedDeck desktop is awesome. Can't beat it imo. TweedDeck for Android... another story. As someone said above, they have a long ways to go. ALTHO one think I do like, is the smoothness of the app. Thats all tho... I'm sure over time it will get better, but they have lots of catching up to do.
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Well said. Thats exactly how I feel. The app is really smooth and I like that it brings you back where you left off in every column, but they've got a lot of work to do. But with their apps for other platforms, I know they can do it.
What's wrong with TweetCaster?
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Didn't like it at all. Sticking with TweetCaster for now.
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same here!!
Not bad....
I dig it. It's not fully featured, but it is really smooth. I'll keep it to test it out for now, but I'm not getting rid of my primary twitter/fb apps. I'll keep those and reserve judgment on this app until the official release is out.
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I dig it. It's not fully featured, but it is really smooth. I'll keep it to test it out for now, but I'm not getting rid of my primary twitter/fb apps. I'll keep those and reserve judgment on this app until the official release is out.
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Same here.
Don't complain
To all of you that complains about Tweetdeck for Android. It's still beta and not the finished application. I can assure you there is frantic activity over at Tweetdeck support, and I don't doubt that this will be a killer app
I think it kinda sucks at least right now, all the other Twitter apps I've tried are better and actually have features. And it won't stop sending Twitter notifications which I don't want as it's constant and annoying. Oh and it's ugly..haha. I'm sure it will get better though. I like Twicca myself.
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I think it kinda sucks at least right now, all the other Twitter apps I've tried are better and actually have features. And it won't stop sending Twitter notifications which I don't want as it's constant and annoying. Oh and it's ugly..haha. I'm sure it will get better though. I like Twicca myself.
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In the app, hit Menu>>Manage Columns and turn off the notifications you dont want
TweetCaster lets you to disable all background notifications.
tweetcaster is really everyone main twitter app? over twidroyd pro and toutier?
i liking tweetdeck so far.. it is lacking some options.. but i like seeing my fb/tweets in one column. twidroyd is my fallback.
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tweetcaster is really everyone main twitter app? over twidroyd pro and toutier?
i liking tweetdeck so far.. it is lacking some options.. but i like seeing my fb/tweets in one column. twidroyd is my fallback.
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Thanks to whoever told me how to turn off notifications. I wasn't getting them then randomly this morning they started coming in. I just use Pure Messenger to read FB/tweets in one column and open Twicca/Facebook from Pure Messenger to post something. I like it because it's a widget. Is Tweetdeck going to put out a widget? I didn't notice one looking through my widgets.
Had Xscope lite on my Nexus as the default browser. The reason I loved it was because of the look, it was "lite" unlike the other browsers like Opera (which do run faster) I liked xscope because the top bar was minimal and scrollable.
With this new version they COMPLETELY changed it! Now it has a watermark that reads "trial version" totally TACKY! And two navigation bars!!! How can they make such a drastic change?!
Needless to say uninstalled. Now going to try to find an apk for the older version.
SUCKS BALLS!
I was very surprise too this morning when i install this new update going back to previous one too.
Please let me know if you find the previous version.
why not just stop being cheap and help support the dev by buying the full one?
Just installed the trial and bought straight away - can't believe I missed this!
bryanchapman9999 said:
Just installed the trial and bought straight away - can't believe I missed this!
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I think the original version looks better. Luckily found the apk for the original version. Glad you like it though.
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why not just stop being cheap and help support the dev by buying the full one?
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because the browser isn't even one of the top 5 available.
the dev hasnt been shy about charging more than it is worth becuase google "takes too much"
the full version isn't worth the asking price
Aye, dolphin did the same thing.
The original one had a very simplistic tab bar, but now with the HD version you need to swipe all the way to the corner of the screen to call upon a stupid popup tab bar.
I need to find how to save old apks, anyone know which folder they're stored in?
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because the browser isn't even one of the top 5 available.
the dev hasnt been shy about charging more than it is worth becuase google "takes too much"
the full version isn't worth the asking price
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Because its not in the top 5? Name what you think is better. For me xScope blows every browser away..only thing close is Dolphin (non HD).
About the dev charging too much?...its three dollars? You could find that on the ground in one day. Damn...I mean damn do we (Android users) need to support our devs...look, I have to say this on a dev forum
Full version is worth the price to many, but in a few weeks all of the old features that are missing at this moment will be replaced. Wait and see...this browser is going to be so complete. It's already number one in my book.
yeah. Xscope 5 is the best browser available. Its a bit slow and laggy on Vibrant, but its still very good. V6 changed everything, i downgraded immediately to V5 and emailed developer to maybe try to change his mind and go back to developing V5 (some extra features, more optimization, but keep the GUI)
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yeah. Xscope 5 is the best browser available. Its a bit slow and laggy on Vibrant, but its still very good. V6 changed everything, i downgraded immediately to V5 and emailed developer to maybe try to change his mind and go back to developing V5 (some extra features, more optimization, but keep the GUI)
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Improvements to v6 will be coming from the dev. On my phone its running faster then the older version...by far! Instant back and forward, faster page loads, ..better everywhere. Dev said he will be adding in more features that were left out but it does take time. He needs to make sure he does it right, or there would be bugs.
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Improvements to v6 will be coming from the dev. On my phone its running faster then the older version...by far! Instant back and forward, faster page loads, ..better everywhere. Dev said he will be adding in more features that were left out but it does take time. He needs to make sure he does it right, or there would be bugs.
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Yeah it definitely loads pages faster, but accessing tabs is a little more of a pain in the ass. You can't have the tab bar open by itself, the stupid control bar always has to be open at the same time.
kolyan said:
yeah. Xscope 5 is the best browser available. Its a bit slow and laggy on Vibrant, but its still very good. V6 changed everything, i downgraded immediately to V5 and emailed developer to maybe try to change his mind and go back to developing V5 (some extra features, more optimization, but keep the GUI)
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Agree. He shouldn't have changed the UI and just improved functionality. A lot of people don't seem to be happy with the changes. I emailed him too. Hopefully he gets it.
sirjoeyg said:
Agree. He shouldn't have changed the UI and just improved functionality. A lot of people don't seem to be happy with the changes. I emailed him too. Hopefully he gets it.
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probably he gets lots of email due to v6.....but he did respond to mine.
old paid version for free at xscope.net
sirjoeyg said:
Agree. He shouldn't have changed the UI and just improved functionality. A lot of people don't seem to be happy with the changes. I emailed him too. Hopefully he gets it.
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Personally, I hope he keeps doing what he's doing.
Sure there are things that aren't in the new one that were in the old one (such as a custom user agent per favourite), but the dev. has already said the additional features are coming.
There may be some ppl who don't like the new look, but others do, and it seems a lot faster than the old one. It's a total re-write, so I'm sure he's coded it much better having learned some lessons.
But hey, I only supported the guy 6 months ago when I bought it, so I'm sure my opinion doesn't count as much as those who are freeloading the unpaid trial version...
To avoid three presses to get to bookmarks, you can make bookmarks your home page, and start an extra tab leaving the bookmarks tab available. You can swipe between tabs to get to your bookmarks tab.
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probably he gets lots of email due to v6.....but he did respond to mine.
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Yeah they emailed me back. You have to love these guys for their customer service. They hooked me up with the paid old version off of xscope dot net. Its a zip file so have to DL it to the PC. Works great! The world is good again!
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Personally, I hope he keeps doing what he's doing.
Sure there are things that aren't in the new one that were in the old one (such as a custom user agent per favourite), but the dev. has already said the additional features are coming.
There may be some ppl who don't like the new look, but others do, and it seems a lot faster than the old one. It's a total re-write, so I'm sure he's coded it much better having learned some lessons.
But hey, I only supported the guy 6 months ago when I bought it, so I'm sure my opinion doesn't count as much as those who are freeloading the unpaid trial version...
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Please pat yourself on the back on my behalf.
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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Tehouster said:
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:
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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
Pierre Duc said:
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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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.
musashiken said:
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!
Does any on suffer with the same thing when scrolling on xda forums? Its like the browser can't keep up and all squares appear for a second or so till it finally settles down. Most other websites are the OK although I have noticed it on other ones too. I've tried dolphin browser too but the same thing happens.
Seems like it happens sometimes, but I use XDA Premium
I get this too- parts of the screen will be blank for a second or two, especially when scrolling from quickly from one end to the other. I have the default set to display 50 posts per page- maybe it might be more responsive with less posts.
Thanks for the reply guys. It does seem better on a post like this which only has a couple of reply. I just wondered why it happens on this site and others are OK
it's not only the amounts of posts, but the ads that are everywhere. so far there is no adblocker for the stock browser and adfree is only for rooted devices. lagfree are xda or tapatalk apps.
Ive found a fix... kind of. Switching the theme to classic in user profiles makes the forums much more usable
Browsers defo need a fix. Ive tried miren - fc if you leave the page, dolphin mini not powerfull enough and jumpy, stock is ok but can just close randomly. Im using dolphin hd which is an improvement but even oc and the custom roms dont remedy it completely but definately much much better.
Can only put it down to a bug. My sgs 2 does the same, my gtab done it until the devs sorted it out.
Classic view certainly is better - cheers for that
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Browsers defo need a fix. Ive tried miren - fc if you leave the page, dolphin mini not powerfull enough and jumpy, stock is ok but can just close randomly. Im using dolphin hd which is an improvement but even oc and the custom roms dont remedy it completely but definately much much better.
Can only put it down to a bug. My sgs 2 does the same, my gtab done it until the devs sorted it out.
Classic view certainly is better - cheers for that
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I agree it could do with a fix. Tonight I tried my cousins Ipad 1 and although it wasn't perfect it handled this forum better than our dual core tegra machines do. What was even more annoying was Google maps in street map mode was smoother at looking around than ours. Come on Google sort it out!
rob77 said:
Ive found a fix... kind of. Switching the theme to classic in user profiles makes the forums much more usable
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Yeah, changing the style to "XDA Classic" (bottom left) helps a lot.
rob77 said:
Ive found a fix... kind of. Switching the theme to classic in user profiles makes the forums much more usable
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Yeah, changing the style to "XDA Classic" (bottom left) helps a lot.
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nice find, will give it a try!
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Browsers defo need a fix. Ive tried miren - fc if you leave the page, dolphin mini not powerfull enough and jumpy, stock is ok but can just close randomly. Im using dolphin hd which is an improvement but even oc and the custom roms dont remedy it completely but definately much much better.
Can only put it down to a bug. My sgs 2 does the same, my gtab done it until the devs sorted it out.
Classic view certainly is better - cheers for that
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have you tried Dolphin for Pad or whatever it's called? There seems to be a tablet version of Dolphin Browser but if I remember correctly it was still beta. should be on the market though.
I prefer to browse xda using Tapatalk, but if you must use a browser for everything I suggest using Opera Mobile. The scrolling in Opera is a little choppy at times, but I almost never get blank areas on the pages while scrolling.
Bear in mind that much of these issues are due to the fact that most webpages these days have way more content and ads than mobile devices are designed to handle. Web developers need to learn to exercise some restraint and simplify their pages. I say stop visiting websites that are bogging down or crashing your device.