Sometimes I feel like its just as bad as the stock web. But I do like the copy and paste in Dolphin HD.
The opera browser is smoother than the stock browser.
yeah dolphin sucks! i'm thinking of trying the firefox browser
yeah firefox is a good browser u should also take a look at skyfire great browser
Is there a google chrome one out yet?
I liked skyfire, but I dont like all those random buttons at the bottom of the screen. I wish there was a google chrome one
Have you tried dolphin mini?
Miren browser is the best one I've found.
Sent from my rough sketch of a Vibrant on a brick.
Xscope is pretty good too. Seems to be nice and smooth for me.
Miren keeps opening up new tabs every time I open my web browser. I noticed I had like 12 tabs of the same screen :/
I noticed Xscope opens a new tab every time I open the browser. Is there a way to stop it?
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Sometimes I feel like its just as bad as the stock web. But I do like the copy and paste in Dolphin HD.
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It helps if you mention which ROM you are using to recommend a good browser, I will report experiences running Froyo.uvka6.
I use 4 different browsers on my phone, each for specific purposes.
For most sites I use either Miren or Dolphin HD 2.3.0 (it's an old version but it's not laggy like 3.x & 4.x). Miren has copy paste too. When I want to view Flash-based sites I use Dolphin (standard, not HD):
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mgeek.android.DolphinBrowser.Browser&feature=search_result
It's not as feature packed as HD or Mini but Flash videos play super smooth on this browser, probably due to low overhead.
Opera Mobile is kinda quirky, some sites still won't dislay properly (just like the desktop version) and flash support is limited to ads. There is one feature in that Opera Mobile surpasses all android browsers: The ability to download from file hosting sites such as filesonic, fileserve, mediafire, etc. that simply won't work with other android browsers. It's why I keep it on my phone, when I need to download Opera Mobile is the man!
I'm not a big fan of proxy-based browsers such as Skyfire or Opera Mini. My biggest beef with Skyfire is on certain sites like ESPN.COM you can't choose which video to play, it will only play the first video on that site!! Grrrrrrr!!!!!! I don't like the GUI either. Skyfire is worthless if you are running Android 2.2 or higher since flash is built-in. If you are running Android 2.1 or lower and want flash then your only choice is Skyfire.
Firefox is currently RC but sloowww and no flash support but so far the only android browser to support scrollbars.
There are a few others out there (xScope, Maxthon, UCWEB, Infinity, Boat). I'm going to give the same advice I always give. Try them all and decide which one you like best. All browsers have their pros and cons but it all comes down to personal preference.
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I noticed Xscope opens a new tab every time I open the browser. Is there a way to stop it?
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That never happened to me but I did experience a few force closes with the latest builds so I went back to 6.0.5. It takes longer to load but is more stable than new builds.
I really love the opera mobile browser, its pretty smooth and faster than stock.
Lifehacker did a comparison of some mobile browsers recently:
http: // lifehacker. com / #!5785273 / android-faceoff-which-browser-wins-out-on-speed-features-and-usability
(Can't post outside links yet, just remove the spaces)
I like Miren Browser.
It works for Iphone / Ipad. They claim an android version will available soon. Until then is there a work around for accessing the video feeds on BTN2GO.com
try using dolphin browser then go to setting and choose desktop/not android as the client thing (forgot what it is called)
I tried Dolphin & Dolphin Mini which has an iphone & ipad user agent.
No Luck
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.xos.android_sec
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I tried Dolphin & Dolphin Mini which has an iphone & ipad user agent.
No Luck
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You need to use Desktop user agent as was suggested. Using iphone/ipad will still just get you the mobile site (iphone/ipad has an btn2go app, and one is being worked on for android). Since android does flash, you should be able to stream it once you get btn2go.com to think you're on a 'desktop' computer.
does anyone know the correct way to spoof webpages into thinking your using the site from a honeycomb tablet? Right now, most sites will give the phone version of website rather than a tablet optimized version. On Dolphin HD you are able to try a few different user agents, but the only tablet one is the iPad. This works good for most websites but i feel like there is a benifit to being seen as a android tablet rather than as an iPad. I know i could just switch it to desktop mode but then that would ignore tablet optomized versions of sites.
Dolphin does have a custom user agent category, but i dont know what a user agent for a android tablet (such as the galaxy tab 10.1) would be. I tried using just "Android 3.0" and i got the tablet version of google to work (normally you get a mobile version). I dont really have a HC tablet to test out to see if my touchpad is getting the correct version of the site. Anyone have any suggestions?
and yes i know there is not a whole lot of tablet optimized sites at the moment.
In the default Android browser enter in the URL "about:debug". You won't see anything happen, but if you open the menu and go to settings you should see some new options to select from. Scroll down and you'll notice a new section labeled "Debug". Under here you will find the "UAString" setting. From here you can set it up as an iPad or even a desktop browser.
If you want to check which browser your device is using, you can always go to a site like FindMeByIP.com which can tell you what browser you are using.
hockey4life0099 said:
does anyone know the correct way to spoof webpages into thinking your using the site from a honeycomb tablet? Right now, most sites will give the phone version of website rather than a tablet optimized version. On Dolphin HD you are able to try a few different user agents, but the only tablet one is the iPad. This works good for most websites but i feel like there is a benifit to being seen as a android tablet rather than as an iPad. I know i could just switch it to desktop mode but then that would ignore tablet optomized versions of sites.
Dolphin does have a custom user agent category, but i dont know what a user agent for a android tablet (such as the galaxy tab 10.1) would be. I tried using just "Android 3.0" and i got the tablet version of google to work (normally you get a mobile version). I dont really have a HC tablet to test out to see if my touchpad is getting the correct version of the site. Anyone have any suggestions?
and yes i know there is not a whole lot of tablet optimized sites at the moment.
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Opera mobile is your answer, it has a tablet and desktop setting.
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Another thing I've noticed is that you can't use the tablet version of say... Yahoo.com/tablet optimally because the window in WebOS's internet browser is movable.
That means that when you try to slide through news stories, it doesn't work because the whole window moves.
Sent from my HP TouchPad
OK I have a strange problem.
I own 2 acer a100's
The newest one won't allow me to go to gameloft.com wap site but the old one will allow me to do this they both have both are on android version 4.03 the only difference I can see is the older tablet image version is different
Older tablet image version is Acer_A100_AV041.RV16RC02_WW_GEN1
Newer tablet imager version is Acer_AV041_A100_RV01RC01_WW_GEN1
Could this be the issue why I can't view wap sites on my new acer a100?
I got to adobe on the old site and I can see the mobile version of the flash player but on the new on it says the device is not supported.
This is the message I get from gameloft
Sorry, but there are no available games for your mobile. If you are using a web browser, please try to connect with your WAP browser
I have been search on here and the net for over 6 hrs but cant find the answer why one works and the other doesn't
Please help and thanks in advance
AcerA100Nnoob said:
OK I have a strange problem.
I own 2 acer a100's
The newest one won't allow me to go to gameloft.com wap site but the old one will allow me to do this they both have both are on android version 4.03 the only difference I can see is the older tablet image version is different
Older tablet image version is Acer_A100_AV041.RV16RC02_WW_GEN1
Newer tablet imager version is Acer_AV041_A100_RV01RC01_WW_GEN1
Could this be the issue why I can't view wap sites on my new acer a100?
I got to adobe on the old site and I can see the mobile version of the flash player but on the new on it says the device is not supported.
This is the message I get from gameloft
Sorry, but there are no available games for your mobile. If you are using a web browser, please try to connect with your WAP browser
I have been search on here and the net for over 6 hrs but cant find the answer why one works and the other doesn't
Please help and thanks in advance
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Depending on what browser you are using, have you tried changing the user agent?
how do you change the user agent. Using the default browser that came with the os.
krankdroid said:
Depending on what browser you are using, have you tried changing the user agent?
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AcerA100Nnoob said:
how do you change the user agent. Using the default browser that came with the os.
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not sure what browser comes with acer tablets. i am guessing it is the ICS browser. as i remember. that browser does not have the option to set user agent. try to get something like dolphin browser from the play store. go into settings and look for user agent settings. if your browser is set to desktop, ipad or something like that, a lot of sites will not redirect you to a wap version.
it is worth the try
Hi,
I like working on the website Codeacademy.com, and would love to do so on my android tablet (kindle HD), or even my phone (razr HD). However, every browser I've tried has had a terrible time with this website: browsers love to zoom in too closely when I start typing, they have trouble scolling in a text window within the main window, etc. (just try it, you'll see what I mean).
Does anyone have any suggestions for a browser that would fare better? Or perhaps dolphin has an add-on that would mitigate the problems? I have trouble believing that I'm the only one who likes to use this popular website on an android device.
Any help is appreciated.
EDIT: The kindle is restricted in its browsers by default, but I haven't had any trouble downloading apks and sideloading, so that's not a limitation to worry about.
Me too
I am looking for it too. It would be awesome if codecademy made an android app for its exercises
jwdink said:
Hi,
I like working on the website Codeacademy.com, and would love to do so on my android tablet (kindle HD), or even my phone (razr HD). However, every browser I've tried has had a terrible time with this website: browsers love to zoom in too closely when I start typing, they have trouble scolling in a text window within the main window, etc. (just try it, you'll see what I mean).
Does anyone have any suggestions for a browser that would fare better? Or perhaps dolphin has an add-on that would mitigate the problems? I have trouble believing that I'm the only one who likes to use this popular website on an android device.
Any help is appreciated.
EDIT: The kindle is restricted in its browsers by default, but I haven't had any trouble downloading apks and sideloading, so that's not a limitation to worry about.
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I've tried it too and it's very frustrating. Thanks for mentioning CodeAcademy since I only knew about it since I read your post
Sent from my Kindling Fire A-Pad
dncjor said:
I am looking for it too. It would be awesome if codecademy made an android app for its exercises
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Agreed-- though I feel like they shouldn't have to! This website isn't doing anything particularly advanced--it's just a text box to type in--and I feel like one of the myriad android browsers should be able to handle it. Especially since each one has a different unique problem with the website.
Okay, looks like Maxthon browser works tolerably well. Good browser overall, actually.
Jwdink,
Good to know Maxthon worked for you. I tested many, including Maxthon, and I always get the same problem.
When I click on the box to type, and try to move it up or down, everything goes white and I have to find the box again...
I tested with chrome, opera, firefox, dolphin, dolphin beta, and others less known browsers, and always the same problem happens
Now I'm gonna test with firefox beta..
I emailed codecademy some days ago concerning this matter but got no answer
Did you notice the site doesn't have a mobile version? Maybe if they can create one, it could fix the problem
jwdink said:
Okay, looks like Maxthon browser works tolerably well. Good browser overall, actually.
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Maxthon didn't fare to well for this task on my rooted Kindle Fire running Gingerbread .......I sometimes have success with the latest release of Firefox (not the nightly edition) but many times will have to refresh the page to get the coding input box to respond "halfway" normal.
Even on my Windows 7 laptop the site has issues and I've tried IE9 and the latest Chrome. Maybe I'll try Firefox on the laptop today. On the tablet I find myself reading the tutorial from the website on whatever browser I'm using but will not try to implement the code there. I'll just open up my good old text editor and code there using what I learned on the site and then run the code on "x" interpreter (in my case the Python) and it's much easier to do it that way.
When I have the lesson running correctly I will return to the website and "attempt" to complete it on there either possibly with Android Firefox or on the PC so it will keep track of my progress. Otherwise I would get WAY to frustrated trying to get every little step to run in the browser's input box!
And yes, a dedicated app for this website would be ideal
Sent from my SCH-R880 using xda app-developers app
Huh, sounds like this site just isn't designed to work on anything but a traditional PC... I wonder what the big difference is?
Codecademy answered my email. Here it is:
"Original message
DEC 31, 2012 | 07:17AM EST
Please, I am a codecademy student and want to ask if you have any recomendation for a good way of using the site on android devices, because it is very difficult to do the exercises on the browsers for android.
For me, and others users, like this guy:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2073107
and, I believe, many others students, it would be very very useful if you could make a codecademy app for android, where we could do the exercises.
Thanks for reading...
Douglas
Sent from Samsung Mobile
JAN 02, 2013 | 03:26AM EST
Linda replied:
Thanks for the nice feedback! Unfortunately we're at the moment focusing on the learning experience with desktops and laptops and support for mobile phones and tablets comes only later.
Linda
Customer Support
Codecademy"
I took the liberty of showing this xda topic to reinforce the importance of this matter for more than one student. And, as the topic had only a few comments when I wrote the email, "This guy", is you 'jwdink'
You could try Naked Browser, which till now has given me a cohesive desktop like interface,
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fevdev.nakedbrowser&hl=en
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I don't think its very effective to work on codeacademy from your tablet especially if you aren't using a real keyboard. Codecademy has problems with browsers in osx and windows and I can't imagine how it would work on a tablet which browsers that do much less. Codecademy gives me issues everytime I use it, some courses are sometimes impossible to complete unless codecademy themselves fixes them. Python last summer was uncompletable due to weird errors which tooks weeks to fix.
Also, something you should be doing is after you complete courses, go make something with your newly gained knowledge. I can go through every single course in there and might not have a full understanding without actually making something, plus, you have to get used to dealing with the unexpected because everytime you code, theres going to be some problem. You can't code much things comfortably in Android either, at least I haven't been able to.
Try using ucbrowser.
I've tried Firefox, dolphin, boat and maxthon but for me uc browser works best. I'm talking about web browsing in general, uc browser is my pick for mobile web browsing. I've never visited code academy on ucbrowser though. Give it a shot
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Foxfire & disable autocorrect/autocomplete
To use codecademy on my rooted Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 (n8013) tablet I used Foxfire (stable or beta) browser and I disabled the keyboard's autocorrection/autofill/autocapitalization functionalities.
Tested but couldn't use stock browser, Chrome, Dolphin and Opera. Tested but couldn't use Swype keyboard and Google downloadable keyboard. Something weird happens connected to the shift key.
Should say my Samsung's running stock (Cyanagenmod) Android 4.2.2, no bloatware. Don't know if that matters or not.
Espier Browser
Have you tried Espier Browser? I just tried it and I could resolve 2 python exercices successfully
thetearer said:
Try using ucbrowser.
I've tried Firefox, dolphin, boat and maxthon but for me uc browser works best. I'm talking about web browsing in general, uc browser is my pick for mobile web browsing. I've never visited code academy on ucbrowser though. Give it a shot
Sent from my HTC Sensation using xda app-developers app
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Thanks, uc browser seems to be the best for codecademy, I have tried almost all the browsers named in this thread an with uc browser on android 2.1 all works fine to me.
luisfmp said:
Thanks, uc browser seems to be the best for codecademy, I have tried almost all the browsers named in this thread an with uc browser on android 2.1 all works fine to me.
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Hey,
Im trying to use codecademy and khanacademy.org but im using a Sony Xperia Z2 Tablet (stock rom). Ive tried UC browser as well as many others (chrome, naked, firefox, dolphin, maxthon, boat, maybe more) with no luck. Code isnt selectable or pastable, and sometimes i cant even delete.
I dont have access to a computer at the moment and would really like to take advantage of the interactive tutorials on those sites. I even bought a mouse thinking it would make text selection easy but i now realise android mouse support is lame and just emulates a finger.
If anyone has any solution for this, please let me know.
jwdink said:
Hi,
I like working on the website Codeacademy.com, and would love to do so on my android tablet (kindle HD), or even my phone (razr HD). However, every browser I've tried has had a terrible time with this website: browsers love to zoom in too closely when I start typing, they have trouble scolling in a text window within the main window, etc. (just try it, you'll see what I mean).
Does anyone have any suggestions for a browser that would fare better? Or perhaps dolphin has an add-on that would mitigate the problems? I have trouble believing that I'm the only one who likes to use this popular website on an android device.
Any help is appreciated.
EDIT: The kindle is restricted in its browsers by default, but I haven't had any trouble downloading apks and sideloading, so that's not a limitation to worry about.
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Hello jwdink,
Thank you for asking this question almost two years ago. Like you, I recently stumbled across the delimma of learning to code at codeacademy.com with my nextbook tablet device.
The solution that works perfectly for me is to request the desktop version of the web browser.
A quick review of the steps involved (Recent Google chrome at time of writing):
Click the menu button
Select "Request desktop site"
The page will reload automatically to a closer version of codeacademy that you are familiar with on the desktop site.
Yuki
Yhurp
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Yuki Tow SvC App said:
Hello jwdink,
Thank you for asking this question almost two years ago. Like you, I recently stumbled across the delimma of learning to code at codeacademy.com with my nextbook tablet device.
The solution that works perfectly for me is to request the desktop version of the web browser.
A quick review of the steps involved (Recent Google chrome at time of writing):
Click the menu button
Select "Request desktop site"
The page will reload automatically to a closer version of codeacademy that you are familiar with on the desktop site.
Yuki
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Thanks so much, currently on my Samsung Tab S 10.5 with a logitech keyboard, and works extremely well with codecademy now