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I get this effect on literally every site when i scroll is anyone else suffering this? Really annoying when showing off this baby when theres chequer boarding all the time wtf!!!
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I get this effect on literally every site when i scroll is anyone else suffering this? Really annoying when showing off this baby when theres chequer boarding all the time wtf!!!
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The problem happens when you try to view a part of the page that has not been loaded yet, if you have a fast network connection you will barely notice it !
run www.speedtest.net on your phone
It's not a loading issue, it's a rendering issue.
I agree, it's very annoying -- I presume Samsung have done it so that scrolling is super-smooth and rendering is done on a best-effort basis, but I'd rather it rendered the page as fast as it can and slowed down scrolling if necessary on complex pages.
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It's not a loading issue, it's a rendering issue.
I agree, it's very annoying -- I presume Samsung have done it so that scrolling is super-smooth and rendering is done on a best-effort basis, but I'd rather it rendered the page as fast as it can and slowed down scrolling if necessary on complex pages.
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i agree fella, page fully loaded, via wifi, scroll and it cheques, is there anyway of reducing this any1?
StickyGeko said:
i agree fella, page fully loaded, via wifi, scroll and it cheques, is there anyway of reducing this any1?
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so it happens even after the page is fully loaded, that stinks. it may have something to do with the browsser being hardware accelerated, while all other android phones have browser rendered entirely by the CPU for al content.
maybe some implementation of the way samsung did this is causing the issue?
so after fully loaded, can you scroll faster than the web page can be rendered, meaning it cant keep up with itself?
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i agree fella, page fully loaded, via wifi, scroll and it cheques, is there anyway of reducing this any1?
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Probably not with Samsung's browser. You could try another browser like Opera Mobile though as that doesn't have any checkerboarding.
RogerPodacter said:
so it happens even after the page is fully loaded, that stinks. it may have something to do with the browsser being hardware accelerated, while all other android phones have browser rendered entirely by the CPU for al content.
maybe some implementation of the way samsung did this is causing the issue?
so after fully loaded, can you scroll faster than the web page can be rendered, meaning it cant keep up with itself?
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Yes you can scroll fsster than it can keep up....sometimes... sometimes its just only there for a second or 2
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Probably not with Samsung's browser. You could try another browser like Opera Mobile though as that doesn't have any checkerboarding.
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ok its only affecting the stock browser, ive just tried opera/opera mini and dolphin hd.... try as i may i cannot replicate the issue at all, used the same sites... so for whatever reason the chequer boarding is there... its only in the stock browser.... from my experience.... no biggy, phew
The stock browser isn't amazing anyway and it doesn't support text reflow, I am using boat browser atm and liking it.
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The stock browser isn't amazing anyway and it doesn't support text reflow, I am using boat browser atm and liking it.
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dude it does text reflow, ill put a vid on youtube showing it if you like?
**** text reflow on my sgs2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzC2XP1Yw74 ****
its obviously that Samsung has modified the browser to make it feel much smoother than other Android device and it looks like they've followed iphone steps in that, by doing the checkers to avoid rendering non-visible parts of the page.
and lastly, the browser is not hardware accelerated as other people think. Hardware acceleration will probably be implemented in Android's next release (Ice Cream Sandwich)
Checkerboarding maintains framerate.. I'm all for it since I cringe every time I see a phone drop to lower double digit frames/second.
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its obviously that Samsung has modified the browser to make it feel much smoother than other Android device and it looks like they've followed iphone steps in that, by doing the checkers to avoid rendering non-visible parts of the page.
and lastly, the browser is not hardware accelerated as other people think. Hardware acceleration will probably be implemented in Android's next release (Ice Cream Sandwich)
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Does this mean I will be able to watch BBC Iplayer HD (its using flash player) with a nice frame rate. At present It plays around 2 fps.
Dannyboyni said:
Does this mean I will be able to watch BBC Iplayer HD (its using flash player) with a nice frame rate. At present It plays around 2 fps.
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Good question,
I'll test for you now. I just thought, why not just use the iPlayer app? Gives you the option to stream at HQ (800KBPS) which on my WIFI, looks great.
Update: Just tested it in the browser, and it's as smooth as the APP. I'd say perfect framerate, apart from the odd jump here or there, but that may be due to connection as my WIFI is only on 1 bar in this room.
So good news
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Good question,
I'll test for you now. I just thought, why not just use the iPlayer app? Gives you the option to stream at HQ (800KBPS) which on my WIFI, looks great.
Update: Just tested it in the browser, and it's as smooth as the APP. I'd say perfect framerate, apart from the odd jump here or there, but that may be due to connection as my WIFI is only on 1 bar in this room.
So good news
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Did you enable Desktop user agent and go to the full bbc iplayer website. Could you test this exact video for me please, and let me know if you get smooth playback?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...ve..._with_Jools_Holland_Series_38_Episode_5/
What browser are you using as well. I do not believe you will get smooth playback when you play that video, cos I do not. So unless your galaxy s 2 is different from mine I dont know what to say.
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its obviously that Samsung has modified the browser to make it feel much smoother than other Android device and it looks like they've followed iphone steps in that, by doing the checkers to avoid rendering non-visible parts of the page.
and lastly, the browser is not hardware accelerated as other people think. Hardware acceleration will probably be implemented in Android's next release (Ice Cream Sandwich)
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Are you sure because the galaxy s browser is said to be hardware accelerated. Also no other android browser has such a checker board pattern, maybe related to Samsung graphics chip integration?
StickyGeko said:
dude it does text reflow, ill put a vid on youtube showing it if you like?
**** text reflow on my sgs2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzC2XP1Yw74 ****
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Thanks for the video but the issue isn't what you've addressed. On the SGS which I still own, if you zoom in further after the initial double tap (which reflows) it should reflow again using the text size you zoomed into. To describe in steps
1) Open website in overview like XDA
2) Double tap to zoom in and it reflows - this is as far as you demonstrated
3) Increase zoom by pinching for example to to the maximum zoom level
4) Double tap and it should reflow with the font still at the maximum zoom level.
The SG2 fails to execute the 4th step, instead it reverts back to the initial overview page. A workaround to achieve step 4 is to switch the phone to landscape then back to portrait mode after step 3, but that's not how it's meant to work.
Hope this clarifies what the problem is.
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Thanks for the video but the issue isn't what you've addressed. On the SGS which I still own, if you zoom in further after the initial double tap (which reflows) it should reflow again using the text size you zoomed into. To describe in steps
1) Open website in overview like XDA
2) Double tap to zoom in and it reflows - this is as far as you demonstrated
3) Increase zoom by pinching for example to to the maximum zoom level
4) Double tap and it should reflow with the font still at the maximum zoom level.
The SG2 fails to execute the 4th step, instead it reverts back to the initial overview page. A workaround to achieve step 4 is to switch the phone to landscape then back to portrait mode after step 3, but that's not how it's meant to work.
Hope this clarifies what the problem is.
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yeh i see what u mean now
hi all,
when using the browser in "heavy sites" it just isn't smooth(desktop view in facebook for EXM) .
there is a big lag between you swipe on the screen to the moment it acutually moves.
if you first touch the screen for a moment and than moves, the movment is instantly. i'm pretty sure it's a matter of some definition not something big.
it is pitty, cause this rom is great at everything but this point.
it's the same on every CM9 build i've been on.
allways full wiped before flashing
please help
Amir Weissbrot
help please..
does anybody has the same issue?
if you first touch the screen for a moment and than moves, the movment is instantly. i'm pretty sure it's a matter of some definition not something big
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The browsers don't have much RAM space on mobile phones. So they have to move some stuff (final rendering, Javascript engine ...) away to have the capability to move around on a website with very many HTML elements (such as Facebook)
Jellybean makes it a lot better, if you're a friend of living-on-the-edge then I recommend trying it out.
amirnew said:
hi all,
when using the browser in "heavy sites" it just isn't smooth(desktop view in facebook for EXM) .
there is a big lag between you swipe on the screen to the moment it acutually moves.
if you first touch the screen for a moment and than moves, the movment is instantly. i'm pretty sure it's a matter of some definition not something big.
it is pitty, cause this rom is great at everything but this point.
it's the same on every CM9 build i've been on.
allways full wiped before flashing
please help
Amir Weissbrot
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that is because they can't use gpu acceleration like in stock rom browser
EduMonzter said:
that is because they can't use gpu acceleration like in stock rom browser
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Why not?
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norpan111 said:
Why not?
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because samsung don't share these drivers. Its like with camera, cm9 camera don't have the same quality as stock samsung roms for the same reason
I'm using ezPDF Reader at the moment. It is the only PDF reader with plenty of features, including dual page view.
If I set the flipping animation to 3x it looks great.
However zooming is a big problem for me. If I try to zoom in and then pan or zoom out immediately, the app is unresponsive. It won't let you do anything until it has rendered what you have zoomed in to.
I don't know if other readers are the same, but not many other readers have dual-page view and some of them lock the minimum zoom to page width on landscape (I want to see the full page).
My friend's iPad 1 does a much better/smoother job at viewing PDF's than my brand new Nexus 10!
Any suggestions?
Hi, just try radaee PDF reader.
It's not as featured as eZPDF, but it's way faster rendering and zooming pages.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=radaee.pdf
But in short, you are right, still there is not a really good PDF reader for Android (Unbelievable).
eRadicant said:
I'm using ezPDF Reader at the moment. It is the only PDF reader with plenty of features, including dual page view.
If I set the flipping animation to 3x it looks great.
However zooming is a big problem for me. If I try to zoom in and then pan or zoom out immediately, the app is unresponsive. It won't let you do anything until it has rendered what you have zoomed in to.
I don't know if other readers are the same, but I'm quite sure no other readers have dual-page view and most of them lock the minimum zoom to page width on landscape (I want to see the full page).
My friend's iPad 1 does a much better/smoother job at viewing PDF's than my brand new Nexus 10!
Any suggestions?
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jdolmen said:
Hi, just try radaee PDF reader.
It's not as featured as eZPDF, but it's way faster rendering and zooming pages.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=radaee.pdf
But in short, you are right, still there is not a really good PDF reader for Android (Unbelievable).
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Will give it a go and report back, cheers
jdolmen said:
Hi, just try radaee PDF reader.
It's not as featured as eZPDF, but it's way faster rendering and zooming pages.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=radaee.pdf
But in short, you are right, still there is not a really good PDF reader for Android (Unbelievable).
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Mantano is a brilliant PDF reader... It's really smooth like butter.. Oki maybe not smooth as butter but it's muuuuuch better than the others in terms of smoothness..
Please find "SmartQ" in Google Play, it won't let you down.
Repligo.
Well the results are in.
jdolmen said:
Hi, just try radaee PDF reader.
It's not as featured as eZPDF, but it's way faster rendering and zooming pages.
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Above average performance but zooming out ain't pretty.
lutanica said:
Mantano is a brilliant PDF reader... It's really smooth like butter.. Oki maybe not smooth as butter but it's muuuuuch better than the others in terms of smoothness..
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Very smooth, nice UI. I like it but how come I can't view the whole page in landscape mode (zoom out fully)? A pretty basic feature missing, every other reader has at least a setting for it.
rrlu21 said:
Please find "SmartQ" in Google Play, it won't let you down.
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Best performance so far at viewing pdf's. Is very sluggish at viewing bookmarks and contents though.
PoisonWolf said:
Repligo.
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Not that great, perhaps slightly better than ezPDF in terms of performance.
^None of these options can pan and zoom at the same time. None of them can do dual page view in landscape mode.
ezPDF by far has the most/best features but its performance needs a lot of work
So it looks like I will be using multiple PDF readers depending on my needs.
But honestly, I would pay good money for a reader with the UI of Mantano, performance of SmartQ, and features of ezPDF.
edit: And when I say performance, I really mean smoothness. All readers were tested on my Nexus 10 running AOKP.
Moon reader can do dual pages in landscape but I haven't done much testing of pdfs with it otherwise.
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I use Repligo and it works great.
What about adobe reader ?
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Moon reader can do dual pages in landscape but I haven't done much testing of pdfs with it otherwise.
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Thanks for informing.
Just tried it, and it's average performance wise. It does feature dual page but not in a virtual book sense. Does a better job at zooming while in dual page view than ezPDF though/
nrage23 said:
I use Repligo and it works great.
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Well all the readers work great, but they don't all perform as well each other.
beeboss said:
What about adobe reader ?
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I don't know why I didn't try this earlier. Adobe Reader is quite good.
Surprisingly, it also features simultaneous pan and zoom.
Flicking between pages is slow though and still nowhere near the speed of SmartQ
Anyway, I recommend everyone try SmartQ Reader. Thanks to rrlu21 for the suggestion. This reader is very close to iOS speed and free!
rrlu21 said:
Please find "SmartQ" in Google Play, it won't let you down.
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smartQ....simple and fastest pdf reader so far. if only the same engine runs in ezpdf.....
Wa|t said:
smartQ....simple and fastest pdf reader so far. if only the same engine runs in ezpdf.....
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Yes, settings for fitting pages in SmartQ is useless
mag13 said:
Yes, settings for fitting pages in SmartQ is useless
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I wouldn't say useless. Would be nice if it had a "fit whole page" option in addition to "fit to height" and "fit to width". Currently, I'm switching between the two manually as I rotate my tablet.
eRadicant said:
I wouldn't say useless. Would be nice if it had a "fit whole page" option in addition to "fit to height" and "fit to width". Currently, I'm switching between the two manually as I rotate my tablet.
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Repligo works very well for me and I read a lot of PDFs. Obviously, though, everyone's requirements are different and I hope you find what you want. (I just wanted to defend Repligo, which is rock-solid for my needs...) :good:
bigbamboo5 said:
Repligo works very well for me and I read a lot of PDFs. Obviously, though, everyone's requirements are different and I hope you find what you want. (I just wanted to defend Repligo, which is rock-solid for my needs...) :good:
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Fair enough lol, but you should definitely give SmartQ a try (it's free)
Does SmartQ have cropping function ? Lots of tech/sci PDFs have wide borders. I crop them in Mantano and it works really good.
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Does SmartQ have cropping function ? Lots of tech/sci PDFs have wide borders. I crop them in Mantano and it works really good.
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Yes it does, haven't tried it though
another vote for mantano. it really is fantastic... and reads more than just pdf's
If you want smooth just force you on 2d in developer options. Problem solved. No stuttering at all.
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Hi, I noticed some of the stock features built in the S3 are very laggy such as:
- On screen magnifying lens (attached screenshot) - laggy, zoomed text looks pixelated
- Contacts app starts up VERY slow, sometimes takes up to 5 seconds
- Gallery app is pretty slow also (when you first open it, either from the camera app or from the app drawer, it takes 2-3 seconds to start up each time)
- General scrolling lags for a split second quite often (eg scrolling through news feed on the facebook app, or zooming in text on a webpage then scrolling around while zoomed)
- Messaging app has a few seconds delay to start up also
I need any sort of advice, either 3rd party replacement apps or settings I can make to improve the user experience, anything at all really that will improve the issues mentioned above (Devoper-Animations have always been off).
I am currently running WanamLite ROM v6.2 (stripped even further) with another 10-15 apps such as Facebook, Whatsapp, Evernote, nothing pretty heavy. (tried different roms such as FoxHound 2.0 running 4.1.2, same issues, I also tried different ROMs based on android version 4.2 which had many other bugs, but the gallery was incredibly fast & smooth)
Many thanks.
Smart tools app has a pretty good magnifying glass built into it.
Smart tools app has a pretty good magnifying glass built into it.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/...ult#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImtyLmFib3kudG9vbHMiXQ..
is this what you`re talking about ? because if so, I might have made myself misunderstood. I believe the magnifier glass built in the app is pretty much using the camera to zoom in then it focuses on whatever object you`re pointing the camera at.
I attached a picture as I should have done from the beginning. You can see which magnifier I`m talking about, and how pixelated the text looks.
it's just that no one wants to read your wall of text. explain your problem clearly in a couple of sentences
Glebun said:
it's just that no one wants to read your wall of text. explain your problem clearly in a couple of sentences
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Thanks for the tip, I edited it.
you really don't what your saying do you globum
stevee1953 said:
you really don't what your saying do you globum
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what?
Has anyone else had any issues with Dolphin? I tried using it to fill out my Sony registration and it absolutely went haywire.
It started out freezing and then it would unfreeze and move very glitchily for 5 seconds. Then finally the screen would go completely haywire and show nothing but white and light gray lines. It only affected the app itself, the actual nav bar was fine just the app screen was wonky as hell.
Has anyone else experienced this? I have tried clearing all app data, not that there was any cause that was the first time I opened it, and I uninstalled and reinstalled it. Nothing I did made it work.
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I got 8.5.1 version only because I want to have flash and mine crashes like crazy but I believe it is totally Dolphin's fault. It crashes on my Droid RAZR HD as well... I've heard people had more luck with Firefox, which I had no time to play with yet so can't tell you. The solution to it - get something that will work for you. There are plenty browsers to choose from.
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shangrila500 said:
Has anyone else had any issues with Dolphin? I tried using it to fill out my Sony registration and it absolutely went haywire.
It started out freezing and then it would unfreeze and move very glitchily for 5 seconds. Then finally the screen would go completely haywire and show nothing but white and light gray lines. It only affected the app itself, the actual nav bar was fine just the app screen was wonky as hell.
Has anyone else experienced this? I have tried clearing all app data, not that there was any cause that was the first time I opened it, and I uninstalled and reinstalled it. Nothing I did made it work.
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Using the latest 10.0 version or the 10.0.1 beta version? And have you get flash option on?
xlow78 said:
I got 8.5.1 version only because I want to have flash and mine crashes like crazy but I believe it is totally Dolphin's fault. It crashes on my Droid RAZR HD as well... I've heard people had more luck with Firefox, which I had no time to play with yet so can't tell you. The solution to it - get something that will work for you. There are plenty browsers to choose from.
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Adobe Flash Player was re-enabled in Dolphin Browser version 10.0.0, so I recommend you update. After updating, go into Dolphin's Settings > Web Content and set Flash Player to "Always On" (my preference) or "On Demand". I also recommend you have the latest version of Adobe Flash Player (currently 11.1.115.69) installed. You can download it from Adobe's Archived Flash Player Versions web page. Search for the list titled "Flash Player for Android 4.0 archives" to find and download it to your device and install it. You can ignore that it says "for Android 4.0", it will also run on Android 4.1.x. You can test that Flash Player is working in Dolphin by going to Adobe's Find Version web page.
I have both Dolphin and Dolphin Beta in latest version, it is the best browser that I can use on my TXZ/XZ. I like mozilla but I can't use FF or FF Beta on my devices, always crash and can't load a page, it's stuck loading and nothing happens!
I believe the v.10 looks nice but... I still prefer to use 8.5.1... more stable than 10 to me. At least when watching South Park during commercials it freezes. V10 is not a good product.
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shangrila500 said:
Has anyone else had any issues with Dolphin? I tried using it to fill out my Sony registration and it absolutely went haywire.
It started out freezing and then it would unfreeze and move very glitchily for 5 seconds. Then finally the screen would go completely haywire and show nothing but white and light gray lines. It only affected the app itself, the actual nav bar was fine just the app screen was wonky as hell.
Has anyone else experienced this? I have tried clearing all app data, not that there was any cause that was the first time I opened it, and I uninstalled and reinstalled it. Nothing I did made it work.
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check out Mikan Broswer from Cythia Project.
a browser that allow you to do a lot of customization.
i tried stock broswer, chrome, dolphin, dolphin HD, firefox, and many other browser and Mikan gives me the best user experience.
although you might need to setup all the short-cuts and buttons yourself in the beginning.
some features i liked (needed).
1. open offline "html" files
2. decided URL bar to shown at top or bottom, and add buttons on this bar
3. decided tab bar to shown at top or bottom, and add buttons on this bar
4. set font size of the browser UI, make it finger friendly, or even big thumb friendly
5. open URL directly using quick control.
6. add short-cut to other apps in browser (save click needed to move from browser-home-apps)
7. change web-site text size on the go.
8. invert rending - (avoiding the glare of a while background)
let me know your comment if you decided to try this out.
jaseli said:
check out Mikan Broswer from Cythia Project.
a browser that allow you to do a lot of customization.
i tried stock broswer, chrome, dolphin, dolphin HD, firefox, and many other browser and Mikan gives me the best user experience.
although you might need to setup all the short-cuts and buttons yourself in the beginning.
some features i liked (needed).
1. open offline "html" files
2. decided URL bar to shown at top or bottom, and add buttons on this bar
3. decided tab bar to shown at top or bottom, and add buttons on this bar
4. set font size of the browser UI, make it finger friendly, or even big thumb friendly
5. open URL directly using quick control.
6. add short-cut to other apps in browser (save click needed to move from browser-home-apps)
7. change web-site text size on the go.
8. invert rending - (avoiding the glare of a while background)
let me know your comment if you decided to try this out.
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I'll try it out a little later on my Note 2 first. Thank you.
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xlow78 said:
I believe the v.10 looks nice but... I still prefer to use 8.5.1... more stable than 10 to me. At least when watching South Park during commercials it freezes. V10 is not a good product.
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I'm with you there with 8.5.1 looking better, it also didn't have a damn Hot Apps icon.
Either way I tried 10.0.0, 10.0.1, and 8.5.1 and they all acted the same way. I really hate this. Dolphin is my preferred browser mainly because of how the tabs work, it has added Flash back, there are plugins (although I would like a browser with quite a few more plugins), the speed dial (because the icons are small, those big ass shortcut like FF has icons drive me insane), being able to have categories in Bookmarks, and a few other odds and ends. I haven't found one that really fits yet, I can do without plugins but the others are a must have for me.
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