Im wondering everyone's favorite browser for Android? I was using Chrome as it came on my phone, I then switched to Firefox because it's what I use on my PC. I found Firefox to operate the best, except when it came to bookmarks. You couldn't organize them or make folders and that really irritated me. I switched to Dolphin, which I love the bookmarks, I can make folders and organize things the way I want. But Dolphin has a problem remembering passwords, it chooses here and there where it wants to work. It also has some pages that will just not work right or even allow me to type in some fields where if I go back to Firefox it works fine.
So, what's everyone find as the best? I need to be able to organize bookmarks, I like websites remembering passwords, and I like the on the fly switch between desktop and mobile view of websites. I like the visible tabs options for easy switching pages. I don't feel Dolphin is cutting it, I run into alot of times where it just unexpectedly shuts the browser app off and I loose everything. That's rather frustrating. I'm looking to test a new one out. I want to be able to transfer my bookmarks easily. When leaving FFirefox I had to manually one by one copy and paste every page URL and re-bookmark them....
robles4242 said:
Im wondering everyone's favorite browser for Android? I was using Chrome as it came on my phone, I then switched to Firefox because it's what I use on my PC. I found Firefox to operate the best, except when it came to bookmarks. You couldn't organize them or make folders and that really irritated me. I switched to Dolphin, which I love the bookmarks, I can make folders and organize things the way I want. But Dolphin has a problem remembering passwords, it chooses here and there where it wants to work. It also has some pages that will just not work right or even allow me to type in some fields where if I go back to Firefox it works fine.
So, what's everyone find as the best? I need to be able to organize bookmarks, I like websites remembering passwords, and I like the on the fly switch between desktop and mobile view of websites. I like the visible tabs options for easy switching pages. I don't feel Dolphin is cutting it, I run into alot of times where it just unexpectedly shuts the browser app off and I loose everything. That's rather frustrating. I'm looking to test a new one out. I want to be able to transfer my bookmarks easily. When leaving FFirefox I had to manually one by one copy and paste every page URL and re-bookmark them....
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My personal favorite is an older version of Opera Mini - v7.6.35766, to be exact. It has such a good interface, with a customizable quick dial on the new tab page, folder-able bookmarks, and even the ability to save webpages so that you can view them without Internet access. It also remembers login forms perfectly. I've been using it for years - every time a new version comes out, I try it, but none are as good IMO as v7.6.35766.
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Does anyone know about any programs that you can click and hold on a link in an email and pick what internet browser you want to use to open that link. I get a lot of emails and have three different browsers on my phone. Each one works great for certain things.
I see 60 people have looked at this. Does anyone else want to be able to do this with there phone or am I the only one?
Click and hold, I have no idea about. I accidentally got the ability to pick which browser when I installed JZ SmarTMort while trying to get a clipboard history -- it uses MortButtons to bring up a menu. You can get it here, if that sounds like what you want.
I only ever use it to select "Opera Mobile 9", but it is nice to know the options are there for when I eventually stop being lazy and use them.
That was just what I wanted. Thank you so much for finding it.
the previous android phones i'd been using on t-mobile all provided real, desktop/laptop-like web browsing experiences on the phone. not the constrained and formatted for mobile web http://[B]m[/B].espn.com type browsing. so i was a little disappointed when i activated my optimus v on virgin for the first time today and started browsing to notice that the mobile web always loads websites in the constrained format.
is this a limitation of the handset? is there a setting in the mobile browser that you can perhaps change to view it in real html? or is it a limitation of the network even (virgin/sprint)?
Every serious webpage has somewhere at the end of page an optiom to change to desktop version. For example when you go on Google it gives you desktop/html onl/mobile options.
By defult the site is responsible to decide which version to bring you. It does that by reading you device type, which saiz android.
For example facebook forwards you to touch.facebook.com on smarthphone and m.facebook.com for featurephones.
Any yes browser has a setting to "fool" site what you are using. You can chance user agent in setting all browsers can do this, the options are android/iphone/desktop.....
But i leave this to android, if you chance to desktop you will see desktop facebook, which is much worse than touch version. It is easier to just find at the bottom the link to change to desktop version for sites that think android should be viewing mobile optimized, sily them.
Change your browser's user agent to Desktop or something like that. Skyfire, Dolphin HD, etc lets you do that easily.
For the default browser, check this link.
I'm running my GTab using Vegan-Tab 7. Because of the screen size I decided to use the browser for accessing gmail and the other google web apps. However, I have formatting/scrolling issues with them. I've noticed this on a couple random (non-google) web pages as well though I can't remember them atm.
What happens, say for gmail is if I click on the profile dropdown the page will get too wide and I can't see the entire dropdown. The right side will be cut off until I reload the page. If I attempt to view the calendar I can't scroll down at all. If I use google maps I can't type the address in the field.
I believe this occurred in CM7.1 as well and using any browser (stock, dolphin)
Has anyone else encountered this issue? Were you able to tweak something to fix it?
When I have this problem with gmail, I zoom the page. Then I am able to scroll.
Not a solution, but a work-around.
You need to set your browser to view webpages either as android or custom. Right now, you have it set to viewing webpages as desktop.
@wasserkapf - thanks, that helps a lot for scrolling left and right...unfortunatly you still can't scroll up and down.
@goodintentions - ah, I see what that's doing... forces it to the basic html format. I found you can keep it on desktop and change google to standard html... but that doesn't help out with maps. Excellent web site btw... good background summary and nice list of resources. Really helped me out when I was getting started with this tablet.
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@goodintentions - ah, I see what that's doing... forces it to the basic html format. I found you can keep it on desktop and change google to standard html... but that doesn't help out with maps. Excellent web site btw... good background summary and nice list of resources. Really helped me out when I was getting started with this tablet.
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Wow, a smarty... or should I say a smartass?
Hi,
I am trying out the Galaxy Tab and I find it to be rather nice to use. However, I have encountered an issue that I have not been able to resolve. I have a favorite web site that I go to at least once a day. It displays poorly with the text over writing other text, to the point it is almost unreadable. The default browser offers the option of Mobile or Standard. The site opens in mobile mode and so I selected Standard and the page gives we an error 404, if I remember correctly.
The other issue is, I need to open a link on the site page that displays a PDF document and another link that plays a MP3 audio file, while staying on the web page. The Galaxy Tab will not allow me to have both open. If I have the PDF file open, I can't get to the MP3 file. If I have the MP3 open, I can't open the PDF without closing the MP3.
I wonder if the site needs Java or some other software to make it display and function correctly? Any ideas what I could be doing wrong.
Strangely, My wife's iP#d1 handles this site with ease. Also, my Google Cr-48 handles it just fine. I am at a loss to figure this out. If I can't solve this problem, the Galaxy Tab goes back tomorrow as I am tired of messing with it.
Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks.
I've noticed a few pages the stock browser renders odd, such as quoted text here on xda. Opera mobile works fine, scrolls smoother, and doesn't have text input lag. I'd recommend it.
Thanks for your reply.
I tried Opera, Dolphin HD and Beta 6, Maxthon and of course the default, Chrome. They all produced the same result. So far, only Safari renders and allow the PDF and the audio file to run concurrently.
care to share the two sites hence we can try a work around. try typing the command about:debug in address and hit go. New options will appear in settings, try changing the uid to desktop and rendering normal and disable wide page display. Just for a try!
mughalgxt said:
care to share the two sites hence we can try a work around. try typing the command about:debug in address and hit go. New options will appear in settings, try changing the uid to desktop and rendering normal and disable wide page display. Just for a try!
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Thanks for the good tips. Those changes made the browser's display much better. It got rid of the garbled text. Question, will these changes remain after a re-boot or do I need to reset each time?
The other issue of not being able to have multitasking while on the subject site remains. The site that I am trying to fully access is www.torahclass.com. When I select the link to open the audio file and then open the PDF the audio quits. I cannot get back to the web page. If I am on the web page, I can't get back to the PDF.
I just spent one hour at Best Buy and they had five different phone/tablet knowledgeable staff take a turn a making it work. No luck! I asked if it would work on the HP TouchPad and their response was no. However, they claimed the multitasking could be done on the Playbook. We were not able to test their hypothesis due to the fact that the Playbook did not have access to their wi-fi.
So, I am beginning to think that this is an issue with Android and WebOS that remains to be solved by Google and HP. I like the Playbook, but I am concerned about RIM's future. Owners might end up with no support from the mfg.
Anyways, thank you both for your help.
try xiialive app, when clicking on an audio stream in browser choose to play with xiialive and once started press home and continue browsing with the stream playing in background! Issue resolved.
Works. Thank you.
There are now several mobile browsers out there that do an excellent job of bringing the full desktop web browsing experience to mobile platforms. Yet for all their polish, there's one thing you still simply can not do on any mobile browser I'm aware of, and that's work with a drag/drop interface on a web page.
Now I get that there's a conflict between touch screen scrolling and drag/drop, but does that mean we should have no access to drag/drop at all? You'd think at least one browser dev by now would have thought to include a toggleable option to temporarily lock scrolling to allow the mousedown/mousemove/mouseup events to fire on the underlying web app. Or if they wanted to get creative, they could probably come up with a multitouch gesture to support drag/drop.
Is there something I'm missing that makes this a lot harder than I think? You'd think it would be a great selling point for any of the mobile browser's to say, "look what our software can do that can't be done on any other mobile browser!"
I thought about this too, It seems as simple as just a gesture to say, circle what you want and then drag and drop. I don't think it is that simple though, suppose we are missing something.
Did ya'll ever figure out any solution? I know on facebook you can't rearrange photos in an album using the mobile app or even the mobile webview. You'd have to be using a desktop so that you can drag photos around and drop them into the order that you want. Desktop view works well enough on modern Android devices but without drag/drop I still have to go to an actual pc in order to arrange photos which is an annoyance of course. Also, there's obviously other scenarios throughout the web where this would be helpful as well. I don't mouse connected to my Android device but I'm wondering if I should get one, maybe bluetooth, just so that I can experiment with it to see if it's actual normal pc operation that would allow left and right click behavior.
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Did ya'll ever figure out any solution? I know on facebook you can't rearrange photos in an album using the mobile app or even the mobile webview. You'd have to be using a desktop so that you can drag photos around and drop them into the order that you want. Desktop view works well enough on modern Android devices but without drag/drop I still have to go to an actual pc in order to arrange photos which is an annoyance of course. Also, there's obviously other scenarios throughout the web where this would be helpful as well. I don't mouse connected to my Android device but I'm wondering if I should get one, maybe bluetooth, just so that I can experiment with it to see if it's actual normal pc operation that would allow left and right click behavior.
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I am with you guys. Drag and drop will make android complete, and possibly, superior to everything else.
I used a keyboard and mouse with my HTC one s, trying to see if it made a difference, but, still no drag and drop within multiple web browsers.
There has to be a way to accoplish this within android web browsing.
Good news! The guys at chromium (google chrome developers) are working on this very issue! It shouldn't be long until we all can enjoy the drag and drop in android browser! Hopefully....
Puffin Browser
Puffin Browser by CloudMosa features Mouse Simulation (Virtual Trackpad).
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Puffin Browser by CloudMosa features Mouse Simulation (Virtual Trackpad).
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I tried this, but it is absolutely crap. It seems it uses a proxy and possibly monitors all your data traffic.
But why is there NO DECENT browser after FOUR YEARS of Android supporting dragging ???
Indeed just a simple gesture to start dragging. From then swiping over the screen is interpreted as mouse drag events until, e.g. the same gesture is played again. Soooo simple,
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Works in Opera Mobile Classic Version : 12.1.6