Browser that has true text reflow, pie control, and flash support - Sony Xperia Z Ultra

Does such a browser exist?
Looking for true text reflow, not that double tap zoom... But where you zoom in manually and it keeps reflowing text to show up on the screen.
-Looking for flash support in the browser with 4.4.x
-Looking for pie controls like the AOSP browser has in the labs section.
Any advice?

Not sure, but have you checked out Firefox? It supports add-ons and it has text reflow.
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I use dolphin browser and it works with pie and does run flash too

jaime4272 said:
I use dolphin browser and it works with pie and does run flash too
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Are you sure it has the same pie feature as aosp browser? Also known as quick controls?

We'll I use pie from gravitybox settings from expose framework module but I don't think dolphin it self has does capabilities.

LordManhattan said:
Not sure, but have you checked out Firefox? It supports add-ons and it has text reflow.
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no text reflow in firefox, its removed. a shame really...

Eddiemc said:
no text reflow in firefox, its removed. a shame really...
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What...
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LordManhattan said:
What...
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Try on latest CM11 and you'll see
http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/0...-webviews-in-kitkat-probably-not-coming-back/
It's a shame..

Eddiemc said:
Try on latest CM11 and you'll see
http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/0...-webviews-in-kitkat-probably-not-coming-back/
It's a shame..
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Well... that's disappointing! Didn't see that one coming...
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I'm exactly searching for the same thing... Text reflow, Flash and pie control (quick control).
I don't understand why the others browsers doesn't have those essentials features...
Any ideas ?
CCJ22 said:
Does such a browser exist?
Looking for true text reflow, not that double tap zoom... But where you zoom in manually and it keeps reflowing text to show up on the screen.
-Looking for flash support in the browser with 4.4.x
-Looking for pie controls like the AOSP browser has in the labs section.
Any advice?
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im back to 4.2.2!! without AOSP with quick Controls, are all Browser chid for me. Chid on Kitkat...

Try flashfox-flashbrowser
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mr.joshuanice said:
Try flashfox-flashbrowser
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has the Browser Quick Controls?

CCJ22 said:
Does such a browser exist?
Looking for true text reflow, not that double tap zoom... But where you zoom in manually and it keeps reflowing text to show up on the screen.
-Looking for flash support in the browser with 4.4.x
-Looking for pie controls like the AOSP browser has in the labs section.
Any advice?
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im also searching for same thing you are looking for
my phone's stock browser now to heavy to keep on Ram and i would not dare to clean it up because no way to export bookmarks ,saved pages ,etc..
please help

ahmad990 said:
im also searching for same thing you are looking for
my phone's stock browser now to heavy to keep on Ram and i would not dare to clean it up because no way to export bookmarks ,saved pages ,etc..
please help
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Give Boat Browser for Tablet a try. It has text re-flow (text sizing in the gear icon) and full screen with minimal controls. No Flash, though, you'll need something else for Flash player.

Habit Browser has all that....and way more customization in the history of customization...and faaaast!

He5aid said:
Give Boat Browser for Tablet a try. It has text re-flow (text sizing in the gear icon) and full screen with minimal controls. No Flash, though, you'll need something else for Flash player.
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Good idea! :good:

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Browser Hides Notifications...

Is there a way to stop the notification bar from getting covered by the full screen browser?
This annoys me as well. Any fixes other than using an alternate browser?
Morkai Almandragon said:
Is there a way to stop the notification bar from getting covered by the full screen browser?
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Nothing I'm aware of, short of using an alternate browser. You can always just press "Menu" whenever you feel like checking the Notifications bar though. Its a simple enough workaround.
i just tried overriding the default browser with the default android browser and i failed. this annoys me also.
If youre familiar with about:debug, run that and see if there is an option to change that. I only used it to change the ua string
psycho_maniac said:
i just tried overriding the default browser with the default android browser and i failed. this annoys me also.
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I used root explorer and replaced the HTC browser with the android stock one. Works okay for me, but breaks long-pressing. Can still select text via the menu.
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Hopefully the devs will figure out how to get around this in their Sense roms
xameius said:
I used root explorer and replaced the HTC browser with the android stock one. Works okay for me, but breaks long-pressing. Can still select text via the menu.
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after you did this did you have to fix permissions?

How to do text reflow in browser?

I can't seem to make this work, unless I rotate the screen from portrait to landscape and back again.
Can anyone tell me how to make it work after pinch zooming?
Thanks,
James
Doesnt seem to do it does it.... Very annoying. I like stock browser but looks like im moving to opera
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Nope, and I can't get it to do it on Dolphin HD either...
Very annoying!
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dolphin browser hd
What about it?
double tap to the screen.
That zooms out, and reflows, but doesn't reflow to the size you make the text with pinch zoom.
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jamesking420 said:
I can't seem to make this work, unless I rotate the screen from portrait to landscape and back again.
Can anyone tell me how to make it work after pinch zooming?
Thanks,
James
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Haven't had mine come through yet so I've not been able to test this but in the Techradar review they say:
"One gripe we do have is the text reflow, as it doesn't do it automatically – you have to double tap the screen slowly to activate it when pinching to zoom in."
Hope that helps
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That zooms out, and reflows, but doesn't reflow to the size you make the text with pinch zoom.
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why dont you try first? zoom in and double tap to the screen.it reflows in same size.
Thanks both for your comments.
Unfortunately I can't make it work even despite cCeT's arrogant reply.
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jamesking420 said:
Thanks both for your comments.
Unfortunately I can't make it work even despite cCeT's arrogant reply.
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thanks for your stupid comment even though i tried to help you.
cCeT said:
why dont you try first?
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This was the arrogant comment. Of course I've tried first, why else would I be starting a thread on the issue?
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thats you misunderstanding.
did you checked autofit pages box under the the browser settings before trying to do that?
What did you mean then?
I've tried the auto fit pages button, but it didn't seem to have any effect
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Thanks both for your comments.
Unfortunately I can't make it work even despite cCeT's arrogant reply.
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Confirmed, this does NOT work. Some oversight.
Like others have said, this does not reflow, it just zooms out to fit the text onto the screen...
this is a huge deal.
what about if you just load a regular page, zoomed out completely. then double tap somewhere, it should zoom in. does it reflow after a double tap in that fashion?
99% of my usage is just double tap on a place, and browser reflows teh text. i dont care about pinch to zoom reflow necessarily. any luck with double tap method?
Double tao appears to reflow correctly, but unfortunately that's not much good for many scenarios where I would like larger text
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Yep, as above. The Nexus S had this issue too but got round it with the + and - in the lower right corner. Text would be off the edge after pinch to zoom but tapping either the + or the - reflow it while maintaining the text size previously set. No such luck here though.
Guys my SGS1 had been lost for almost a month, but as far as I remember the stock browser would not reflow on "pinch to zoom", would only reflow on "double-tap to zoom", and only on certain pages that had clear resizeable DIV/TABLEs (html language)?

Stock browser text reflow?

Is there any way to enable text reflow on the browser, it's annoying to keep on navigating side to side.
If there isn't is there a mod in the works?
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jediknight111 said:
Is there any way to enable text reflow on the browser, it's annoying to keep on navigating side to side.
If there isn't is there a mod in the works?
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Just use another browser
ASD007 said:
Just use another browser
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This. Dolphin Browser HD is great.
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Settings, Advance, tick Auto Fit.
artesea said:
Settings, Advance, tick Auto Fit.
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I've enabled that option, no luck
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jphilippon said:
This. Dolphin Browser HD is great.
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I've installed that, prefer using stock for certain websites though
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jphilippon said:
This. Dolphin Browser HD is great.
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Doesn´t work for me, still have to navigate side to side
when i zoom
Always have this problem since ics, never on gb
On the Android stock ICS browser, you get text reflow by pinching to zoom and then double tapping on the zoomed text. I don't have S3, but would expect that works with the S3 browser since it works with the stock android ICS browser on the S2.
Also, there is a browser in the market based on the stock browser, I think it is called ICS+ or something, that does text reflow automatically without double tapping. Also Opera Mobile does text reflow.
Yes, just use Opera, its fast and the text reflow works great! I have no idea why Chrome and Firefox doesn't do reflow, I would think its one of the more obvious feature to have considering that scrolling from side to side is mega irritating
GeorgeP said:
On the Android stock ICS browser, you get text reflow by pinching to zoom and then double tapping on the zoomed text. I don't have S3, but would expect that works with the S3 browser since it works with the stock android ICS browser on the S2.
Also, there is a browser in the market based on the stock browser, I think it is called ICS+ or something, that does text reflow automatically without double tapping. Also Opera Mobile does text reflow.
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This is an issue on all Samsung (non nexus) devices I have ever had. It doesn't matter if it's a phone or tablet. I was hoping different for the sg3 I guess not. I have had the Moment, tab 7, 7plus, 8.9, 10.1, and Epic 4g touch
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yeah I'd recommend ICS Browser+, looks like stock ICS browser and text reflow included
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Somewhat on topic, if you get a MMS picture on the stock Samsung Text Message app you cannot pinch to zoom in on the picture, you have to save it first. Is there any setting to zoom in on a pic message??
bothfly said:
Somewhat on topic, if you get a MMS picture on the stock Samsung Text Message app you cannot pinch to zoom in on the picture, you have to save it first. Is there any setting to zoom in on a pic message??
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I don't understand why you can't download it first? On my HOX you click it in the message bubble and it opens a new screen with the picture at about 70% size and you can zoom in.
GeorgeP said:
On the Android stock ICS browser, you get text reflow by pinching to zoom and then double tapping on the zoomed text. I don't have S3, but would expect that works with the S3 browser since it works with the stock android ICS browser on the S2.
Also, there is a browser in the market based on the stock browser, I think it is called ICS+ or something, that does text reflow automatically without double tapping. Also Opera Mobile does text reflow.
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Tried ICS+, when I pinch to zoom it just "bounces" back to overview of the page
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yeah I'd recommend ICS Browser+, looks like stock ICS browser and text reflow included
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Tried ICS+, when I pinch to zoom it just "bounces" back to overview of the page
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Me too. It's highly annoying since I want to use this browser as the quick controls are great.
Guys.... I've used all Galaxy phones and this feature IS NOT available on any. You get text reflow at the default zoom level only. The hardware supports it because it's available on CM9, but not on Samsung based ROMS.
Those who say it works don't understand the question, it only works on one of the Opera browsers on the S3.
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I don't understand why you can't download it first? On my HOX you click it in the message bubble and it opens a new screen with the picture at about 70% size and you can zoom in.
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He's saying that to actually enlarge a picture from MMS you have to SAVE it to your gallery first. Samsung really doesn't know how to make an SMS program. They had it fixed with ICS on the GS2 and then they ruined it again with the GS3.
Just use GoSMS Pro, it's a lot better anyway.
well, I'm on jb official relase and text reflow works for me on stock browser, in advanced settings tick auto-fit and in accesibility settings set force enable zoom and minimum font to 12 pt

Looking for android browser that has gestures like webos browser

I'm looking for a browser where I can swipe in from the left/right to go back/forward. That's the only gestures that I want. Like in webos with the gestures patch. Is there one in android like this? I tried the browsers with gestures like dolphin but I don't want to press a button to go to a gestures screen then make my gesture. I want to just swipe left/right.
default browser gestures work ok but i lose the url/tabs bar if i enable the gesture control. I'd use this if I could keep the bar and have the gestures but I havent found a way to have both :S
I'll try any suggestions to test them out if they work for you
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31274122&postcount=3
perfect thanks, hm too bad i cant flip the back/forward though, i like back on left side, but best so far that i've used so i'll take it
You can program Dolphin gestures to do anything you want
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+1 do dolphin you can make it do whatever you want, highly customizable
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You can program Dolphin gestures to do anything you want
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+1 do dolphin you can make it do whatever you want, highly customizable
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..do you guys read? he said he doesnt want to use ****ing dolphin
Personally I do like the dolphins gesture support.
But if you insist, you may like this function.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23374080
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U1jtGbe9jA&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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eyeb said:
I'm looking for a browser where I can swipe in from the left/right to go back/forward. That's the only gestures that I want. Like in webos with the gestures patch. Is there one in android like this? I tried the browsers with gestures like dolphin but I don't want to press a button to go to a gestures screen then make my gesture. I want to just swipe left/right.
default browser gestures work ok but i lose the url/tabs bar if i enable the gesture control. I'd use this if I could keep the bar and have the gestures but I havent found a way to have both :S
I'll try any suggestions to test them out if they work for you
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You could try the Maxthon Browser. The tablet version works fine on the HP. Get it here:
http://www.maxthon.com/maxthon-mobile-tablets/
thx for the maxthon suggestion, it has the back/forward how i want it but i'll stick with xscope for time being, i've grown fond of it
plus maxthon seems to render pages a bit slower, plus i was having problems with it recognizing my swipes when i zoomed into the page. it would move the page more often than going back/forward. xscope seems to do this part a bit better, plus i've grown accustomed to the direction of the gestures now
Chrome
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Browser zoom

Might be a stupid question...I come from a long line of moto droids. On all of them, if I double tap in the browser, not only would it zoom, but it would also realign the now larger text to fit the screen. Is there a way to do that on the Samsungs? I hate coming in a news article then have to swipe side to side to read all the words
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Dopeskwyd said:
Might be a stupid question...I come from a long line of moto droids. On all of them, if I double tap in the browser, not only would it zoom, but it would also realign the now larger text to fit the screen. Is there a way to do that on the Samsungs? I hate coming in a news article then have to swipe side to side to read all the words
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These are not the Droids you are looking for
Is that a moto only thing? Or browser can't do that?
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Dopeskwyd said:
Is that a moto only thing? Or browser can't do that?
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Are you running stock browser on 4.3 or a custom rom? There's dozens of browsers to try though, I'm sure one will meet your needs.
In running beans 22 rom. Stock browser. Over the years I've fiddled with nearly every browser it there and I've always found the stock the most comfortable. Maybe that's because the zoom always worked the way I wanted it to.
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It's under settings>advanced in the stock browser. Check the box for auto fit pages
I last used the stock browser when I first bought the phone. Been using Dolphin browser ever since. When I double tap, it zooms in enough to fit the block of text that you double tapped on. It is useful in that it depends on where you tap it
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It's under settings>advanced in the stock browser. Check the box for auto fit pages
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This ^^^
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Son of a...I must be getting old. Thanks all
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