I'm pretty disappointed. Before today I was using aosp browser on my gnex, and using double tap after pinch to reflow text. In kit Kat on my new n5 however, it appears to be broken on every browser I try. I have tried cm11 aosp, chrome, dolphin (with and without jetpack), boat, next, naked, and lightning. This is a critical feature for me, as I find side scrolling on websites to be retarded, and changing text size usually causes sites to look weird and text to overlap.
I am on the latest purity ROM.
Is there anything I can do? What does everyone else do? Can you guys just read tiny text, or do you side scroll?
Help please!
Opera. Turn word wrap on in settings.
You might star the issue at https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=62378 and maybe Google will pay attention and fix this
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I downloaded dolphin browser HD from the market last night to give it a try. I wanted to see if it would make the browsing even smoother and faster than it already is on frf91, or run flash better or something. I don't notice anything different. I understand that it has a lot of great features like gestures, tabs, add ons that the regular browser doesn't. But as far as just the performance of page loading or scrolling or anything, do you guys see any difference? What do you like about it?
Lol you answered it in your own post.. It's about the extra features it has
Right I was just wondering if people saw a performance increase in certain types of pages or something. Or if anyone was noticing speed increases.
I don't see any improvements whatsoever with speed. For Dolphin, I have a bunch of gestures set up that makes my lift a lot easier by having a shortcut to "select text".
I guess the only other thing that helps is the convenient access to wipe history and cache. You can also set it to private browsing mode so it never remembers history.
I like being able to exit/close the browser
I have noticed a few features that make Dolphin browser great.
First is the UAs (user agent settings) can be set to desktop client always. I hate going to about:debug every single time on the N1 stock browser. The MT3GS has a stock browser with UAs options in the stock settings. Not having that, after already having it in a stock browser is just annoying.
Downloading is much more efficient with Dolphin for me. I have been able to get everything posted on xda through rapidshare and others. If I am about to download something on my computer, I chrome to phone the link, and use dolphin to download it and astro to move it to the root.
Text clarity is much better on Dolphin. This was especially noticeable when reading text sites, like the news.
The flash player is on Demand, which is annoying when your first testing it out, but I have grown to love that feature. Especially when a lot of sites are fattened up with flash advertisements and useless widgets all over the place. News sites are the worst of all. Even when your in an EDGE only zone a news story should load fine, but an animated advertisement loading in the middle of the page will slow you down.
Downside. I can't seem to establish a secure connection when attempting to connect to a website using verisign to verify the secure connection. I don't know if it is the secure connection that isn't working or the verification? I emailed Dolphin, maybe they will tell me.
I use Dolphin primarily, but the great thing about Android is that you can run both of them, or either of them whenever you please. Getting the best of both worlds.
What I like the most is the simple refresh and stop button next to the address bar
I just wish it had a better theme...the theme tries to be too flashy and the additional themes are equally as gaudy...a simple stock browser theme (same tabs and buttons and whatnot but with the stock android theme styling) would be great...oh well.
Just so I know, dolphin browser uses the default webkit browser core, correct? And it just basically is like the default browser with different settings, UI, and "skin" overtop of the default browser.
no one uses xscope?
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no one uses xscope?
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Only for downloading files that Dolphin Browser seems to not want to download...
Skyfire 2.1 has improved alot. Its fast, the multi touch is better than it was with 2.0, and its flash player works much better than before. I use this when browsing casually (not logging in anywhere.) Love to watch worldstarhiphop videos with it cause flash 10.1 performance sucks on that site.
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i use xscope. although i like that dolphin has ability to sync bookmarks
Nope, stopped using Dolphin HD for a couple reasons:
1) It has tabs, which is awesome, but it's a little too complicated to reach them compared to the old dolphin. I liked being able to swipe down to bring down the bar.
2) It's buggy as hell. I've uninstalled and reinstalled it about three times now. Sometimes it doesn't register my clicks, sometimes it brings about the crazy screen problem, and sometimes it just doesn't try to load my pages.
I just wish the stock android browser had tabs implemented.
Xscope has 0 bugs and its fast
The ability for fullscreen mode. That's most important to me as I don't want the notification bar to waste space and to prevent further lcd screen burn in for my N1.
Although that feature is broken in the recent version but a fix is coming.
kolyan said:
Xscope has 0 bugs and its fast
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Fast yes. Zero bugs? No... it doesn't do text reflow on XDA forums properly vs. Dolphin.
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I do. Downloaded X-Scope and Dolphin the same day. There was something Dolphin did that I did not like, but can't remember what it was. But it was often enough it annoyed me. Never had an issue with X-Scope
Love xscope lite. Looks great, great features. many people don't know this but you can set up Flash to run automatically vs. "on demand"
I wasn't sure if all the browser improvements on 2.2 were just for the stock browser but doesn't seem anyone has noticed a difference in speed between stock and alternatives.
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Fast yes. Zero bugs? No... it doesn't do text reflow on XDA forums properly vs. Dolphin.
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Not sure what you mean by text reflow, but I set it to "wide" in one of the settings and it made the xda forums look exactly the same as dolphin/stock browser.
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With this run side to side with dolphin hd 4? Will you be posting updated betas or how else do we get them?
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With this run side to side with dolphin hd 4? Will you be posting updated betas or how else do we get them?
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Nope. It installed on top of my version 4. Still, pretty stable for a beta. And if i can get hold of updated betas, Ill release them too.
Thanks for the link Sacred. Been waiting for this one...
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Thanks for the link Sacred. Been waiting for this one...
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Hey I was just curious as to why you would recommend this over the stock browser (cm7 nightly 75). I used dolphin back when I think it was in version 3 and although impressive I didn't really see the value in it. Just wondering if anyone can provide some user experiences. Thank you so much!
Ummmm, yeeeeeah I would recommend it without a doubt. It's has the speed of a 4g stock browser i would say even on 3g and it loads pages very quickly.
I'm not impressed. It is definitely better than the stock browser which is horrid - lack of features and loads extremely slow. However when compared to my daily browser, Opera, it feels gauky.
Compared to opera it loads just as fast, displays flash just as well, webpages look just as good. But the app itself just doesn't look good.
Dolphin has the tab bar on top, which makes it easier to access, but it isn't done well. I would rather have them remove that and use the tab page they have that is similar to sense previews. It takes up too much space and is IMO ugly.
The guesture menus are a great idea. And they are easy to bring up. Again, however, I don't like how they look. Either they should take up the whole screen rather than just part. Or have a transparent background so that they are "overlaying" the webpages.
Also, I had it FC on me a couple times while loading pages and changing settings. Not an issue for me as its beta.
The one thing I really like about it over any other browser I've used it that you can change the user agent in settings easily! Opera you can, but you have to edit the opera:config and its a pain.
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I'm not impressed. It is definitely better than the stock browser which is horrid - lack of features and loads extremely slow. However when compared to my daily browser, Opera, it feels gauky.
Compared to opera it loads just as fast, displays flash just as well, webpages look just as good. But the app itself just doesn't look good.
Dolphin has the tab bar on top, which makes it easier to access, but it isn't done well. I would rather have them remove that and use the tab page they have that is similar to sense previews. It takes up too much space and is IMO ugly.
The guesture menus are a great idea. And they are easy to bring up. Again, however, I don't like how they look. Either they should take up the whole screen rather than just part. Or have a transparent background so that they are "overlaying" the webpages.
Also, I had it FC on me a couple times while loading pages and changing settings. Not an issue for me as its beta.
The one thing I really like about it over any other browser I've used it that you can change the user agent in settings easily! Opera you can, but you have to edit the opera:config and its a pain.
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Remember, its the first beta. It'll get stable over time.
I know, that's why I said the FC's weren't an issue...
Private betas are considered warez, and are not allowed to be posted.
Its been a little while since i started noticing this so i am not sure if its the rom i am on (kinda doubt it) or just an update to chrome, but i used to be able to fling to the bottom or top of a web page with ease in chrome. Now it seems that the "fling" option has been removed or is just not working ????
I am fairly certain that its something that will need to be fixed from google but just incase i am on Axiom S 2.8.1b and fusion kernel.
is this bugging anyone else or am i the only one? I cant take it anymore!!!!
Hey guys,
I bought Swiftkey3 for Tablet, to replace the limited default keyboard. It works great in almost all ways, but when I have the keyboard dock attached, opening up new pages in my browser (chrome, standard browser, firefox) the suggestions stay on the bottom on the screen. It's not the end of the world, but it's pretty annoying.
I can't find any reference to this issue online. Has anyone run into this before?
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Hey guys,
I bought Swiftkey3 for Tablet, to replace the limited default keyboard. It works great in almost all ways, but when I have the keyboard dock attached, opening up new pages in my browser (chrome, standard browser, firefox) the suggestions stay on the bottom on the screen. It's not the end of the world, but it's pretty annoying.
I can't find any reference to this issue online. Has anyone run into this before?
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Absolutely - I've been trying to fix this too!
I've poured over the "Advanced" settings and the rest. This is so annoying as it takes away from the screen real estate - when the text input area has gone away. I really don't think that this is their intended behavior.
Has any other Swiftkey 3 Tablet users figured this out? Please let us know.
Thanks!
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Absolutely - I've been trying to fix this too!
I've poured over the "Advanced" settings and the rest. This is so annoying as it takes away from the screen real estate - when the text input area has gone away. I really don't think that this is their intended behavior.
Has any other Swiftkey 3 Tablet users figured this out? Please let us know.
Thanks!
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Hi guys,
It is well-known issue. Please see here: http://support.swiftkey.net/forums/116697-4-swiftkey-tablet-bugs-/suggestions/1946201-asus-transformer-physical-keyboard-autocorrect-i
Please register to Swiftkey forum and vote for it so we can increase the chances to have it fixed.
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Hey guys,
I bought Swiftkey3 for Tablet, to replace the limited default keyboard. It works great in almost all ways, but when I have the keyboard dock attached, opening up new pages in my browser (chrome, standard browser, firefox) the suggestions stay on the bottom on the screen. It's not the end of the world, but it's pretty annoying.
I can't find any reference to this issue online. Has anyone run into this before?
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I'm on version 3.0.4.343 trial for about a week now. For me the predictions immediately go away when switching from word processor to stock browser, but they "stick" in Chrome. Here they do go away by hitting the back button
I have a fix for you
Install Keyboard Manager form the market and all will be solved! :victory:
Keyboard Manager
This is a minor concern for me but I'm surprised at this user functionality and hopefully someone can shed some light on this.
I just got a verizon s3 SCH-I535 and I'm pretty annoyed that when using the browser, if you pinch to zoom in or out, you then have to remove your fingers from the screen and then re-touch it to pan/swipe around. I've been using these phones for so long that I'm in the habit of being able to zoom and pan around while in constant contact with the screen and transitioning gestures. It's much faster and fluid that way.
Transitioning from a zoom to a pan while in constant contact with the screen = DOESN'T WORK
Transitioning from a pan to a zoom while in constant contact with the screen = WORKS
I'm guessing it a samsung firmware bug but I was hoping...
a.) Someone can verify their phone does this too on stock rom so I know it's not just mine.
b.) Maybe someone is using a custom rom that this works the way I want it to.
Basically I just want to be able to zoom and pan while keeping at least one finger in constant contact with the screen. It's annoying to have to pick up and re-touch after every zoom gesture.
Thanks for any insight.
Could someone at least please verify that their phone behaves the same way? Zoom in on a web page and then, keeping one of the two fingers you zoomed with on the screen, attempt to swipe around the screen. Doesn't work for me but I have noticed it works on photos in the gallery. I even tried downloading several different browsers with no luck.
I can confirm.
Just got mine for xmas, was using sgh-t959. I dont know if you could do it on the vibrant or not. I dont think I ever tried before.
What you don't know could fill a book.
Looks like the Samsung stock browser to me. They modded the Android browser. Works correctly on Chrome and Dolphin.
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Looks like the Samsung stock browser to me. They modded the Android browser. Works correctly on Chrome and Dolphin.
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Thanks! I tired a couple other browsers including Dolphin with no change, but I just downloaded Chrome and it behaves the way I would like it to. :good: