Hi gurus,
We, Company 100 Inc., is pleased to announce the availability of long-waited Dorothy Browser open beta for Windows Mobile 6.x!
Dorothy Browser, built upon WebKit engine, the best of breed browser engine, delivers the real Web experience to your mobile devices with unrivaled performance.
As an official contributor and maintainer of WebKit engine for Qualcomm BrewMP in the WebKit development community, we are dedicated to deliver the best performing mobile browsing experience to WM phone users, inheriting all the benefits from the open source WebKit community.
Please try out our latest beta version of our Dorothy Browser on your WM phones and experience yourself its flying performance.
The open beta can be downloaded from our Dorothy Browser website.
BTW, if you happen to be present at MWC in Barcelona, please swing by our booth, located in Hall1, 1F05, and check out our Dorothy Browser Emerald demo, an enhanced version of Dorothy Browser with advanced UI/UX leveraging OpenGL ES H/W acceleration.
Thanks for your interest in Dorothy Browser and hope you all enjoy it!!
Should you have any inquiry about our browser, please feel free to contact us at contact at company100 dot net any time.
I found this by doing a quick google search... But is there any particular reason why you do not share the url yourself??
Not really. The forum does not allow junior members to specify any external URL or email address inside the message.
mrcrowley666 said:
I found this by doing a quick google search... But is there any particular reason why you do not share the url yourself??
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I see... http://www.dorothybrowser.com/
I have tried this on 3 different sites so far with very mixed results.
It locked up my phone completly while trying to access google.co.uk This happened on 2 seperate occasions.
I tried touch.facebook.com and it renders this site very nicely indeed. I was most impressed with this one.
I also tried the full facebook site facebook.com I found it was able to render this site completly just how my desktop computer would. Very impressive Text was readable after zooming just a few times, even though the text was still tiny. Very slick rendering. Its a tad jerky while moving around the page i suspect my device is struggling a bit with the requirments.
I noticed ram usage is very high. I only had 25 mb left when i checked. Haven't seen a program use this much ram before.
All in all it looks very promising.
BTW my device is Omnia i900 with wm6.5
Just downloaded and installed the WVGA version. Massive improvement over the closed beta! Pages seem to load pretty fast too. Installed on Storage Card.
Bugs noticed:
* Can't zoom in or out when a webpage is still loading - as soon as a I try to scroll the page resets to overview mode.
* Settings page doesn't always show current settings (ie. Enable/Disable buttons appear to be not selected)
Feature Requests:
* Zoom slider and/or pinch-to-zoom please.
* Option to set manually the browser cache location
* User agent customisation
* (Optional) Flash support
Eagerly awaiting the next beta release. Thanks
Looks promising to me.
I have one request... Flash!
Thus far the only browser I've found that supports flash is SkyFire .. and I suppose Mach5 but you gotta pay for that one. Anyway both of those are server based browsers.
FLASH FLASH FLASH.
Gawwd is it too much to ask to watch HULU on my PPC?
Hulu has even blocked Skyfire now....grrrr
Can't detect server on my Touch Pro 2 on metro pcs. I can use it (browser) via wifi...but no data connection.
So i will stick to Opera 9.7....
mrcrowley666 said:
I have tried this on 3 different sites so far with very mixed results.
It locked up my phone completly while trying to access google.co.uk This happened on 2 seperate occasions.
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Hmm, I actually had a similar problem with another website - for some reason it loaded up really slowly / not properly either. Opening the same website in Opera Mobile 10 beta 3 had on the same phone with the same connection it had no issues.
Thanks! I've tried, and...it eats so much ram! I prefer Skyfire, who have flash support.
TechnoHippie said:
FLASH FLASH FLASH.
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Opera Mobile 10 (now in beta 3) supports flash, YMMV. Plugins need to be enabled in advanced options.
Plugin support is a must for mobile browsers now - Dorothy needs it as well, to stand a chance.
this is starting to become pretty cool. Interface looks good and pages look great after they render. Please think about including flick scrolling cuz it would help make moving through pages easier. It also seems buggy when trying to pan around. I hope you continue updating good ol dorothy! Big improvement over recent upgrades! please update us frequently too
Company100, can u guys use like a newer build of the Webkit browsing engine or something? Would like to be able to use the HTML5-enabled versions of GMail and the Google Buzz mobile websites.
Thanks
Life Saver.. Sort of
My entire peer set uses Gowalla which is only available for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry... basically every platform but WinMo. This is the first mobile browser that works with that particular site for WinMo. I still use Skyfire as my main browser for my Pure, but I bet the Emerald release of Dorothy will change that. I also found it faster on the sites it could access VS. Skyfire. So if you can hear me Company100 PLEASE include me in the beta as soon as possible for Emerald.
Shalom,
SAB
WOOOOW, I'm very impressed. Really cool browser. Rendering is awesome.
But needs some improvements in cinetic scrolling! and the browser graphics. Looks like a 90-tech-underground-site-style. Keep it simple and clean. Less is more
What about longpress menus? Like press'n'hold on a link opens a menu where you can open in another tab. OHHH, just saw it now. No tabbed browsing...
If I remember correctly, Webkit is partly LGPL licensed, more specifically, webcore is, that I know. I am unable to find source code related to Dorothy's port of Webkit on Winmo.
I understand that LGPL can be linked to closed-source applications, but the library themselves must comply with the license, which states that the source code must be disclosed.
As Dorothy browser does dynamically links to webkit (webkit-ce.dll), they do not have to release the source code of the application itself, only the source code of their branch of webkit. I think it is generally considered okay to not release themselves the code if the same exact code is available from another project's website. Additionally, the source code has to be as easily accessible than the binaries.
This post may seem harsh, and I am sorry if my tone is mistaken. I simply am curious and am not thinking that they are deliberately making it hard to get the source code. I think it is not malice, but simply carelessness. Those license are not easy to abide to.
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I will contact them directly too, but I posted there because I may have been blind and didn't see the source elsewere...
samueldr said:
If I remember correctly, Webkit is partly LGPL licensed, more specifically, webcore is, that I know. I am unable to find source code related to Dorothy's port of Webkit on Winmo.
I understand that LGPL can be linked to closed-source applications, but the library themselves must comply with the license, which states that the source code must be disclosed.
As Dorothy browser does dynamically links to webkit (webkit-ce.dll), they do not have to release the source code of the application itself, only the source code of their branch of webkit. I think it is generally considered okay to not release themselves the code if the same exact code is available from another project's website. Additionally, the source code has to be as easily accessible than the binaries.
This post may seem harsh, and I am sorry if my tone is mistaken. I simply am curious and am not thinking that they are deliberately making it hard to get the source code. I think it is not malice, but simply carelessness. Those license are not easy to abide to.
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I will contact them directly too, but I posted there because I may have been blind and didn't see the source elsewere...
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Does it exist something most updated or this project is "died"?
Hi fellas, I know this is an age-old question but there's seems to be scant information available on this. Let's share our knowledge to figure this out. This is the list I've come across during my short research:
Adblock Plus: Blocks only on Wi-Fi
Adguard: Removed from Play Store, anybody knows how it is?
Adaway: The best, but requires root.
These are the only mentionable ones I found. Do you guys know of anything better? Which is the best way to go for non-rooted device? Thanks ya'll.
i think you need to enable ad-blocking on your browser since you are not rooted cause you cannot apply system-wide blocking. some of the options are:
-AdBlock browser
-any browser that supports extensions like Firefox and then install adblock extension
-also these ones have adblock feature built inside: UCbrowser, Javelin, Dolphin, Maxthon, Naked Browser
good luck
Adguard Premium
I just installed Adguard app and it has a premium option that it claims will filter adds for applications as well.
Has anyone tried Adguard premium?
woomera said:
i think you need to enable ad-blocking on your browser since you are not rooted cause you cannot apply system-wide blocking. some of the options are:
-AdBlock browser
-any browser that supports extensions like Firefox and then install adblock extension
-also these ones have adblock feature built inside: UCbrowser, Javelin, Dolphin, Maxthon, Naked Browser
good luck
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I am surprised that this is the collective knowledge on this topic. ....?
Id like to know what options are available for non root devices.
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the pros and chins of these also.
I use adblock plus at the mo but it's stopped working well from about s month ago.
Mmbbmmm/b
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Hello,
i use a Samsung Phone. On this Phone, there is a Build-In Browser called "Internet". If i im right, it is a Browser based on Chromium 44. There are some features i like really much on this browser, others are not. So i wonder, if it is possible to combine this features, with some features of Chromium/Chrome to make a Custom Chromium / Chrome Browser? Mostly there are 2 features in Samsungs Browser, i wish to have in such a Custom Chromium: The Use of Firefox Account, to sync Firefox Bookmarks and Tabs also to Chromium on Android and the Fingerprint Sensor, to save Logins to Websites. Is there a way to do this and what do i need? Or is there such a Custom Chromium APK available?
I think you'll need the build-in browser's source
Do you have any idea, where i could get this Sources?
The original Tampermonkey is dead where Chrome forks on Android are concerned (don't care about switching to Dolphin/Firefox browser just for this), the app doesn't work and the forum thread hasn't seen any activity in nearly 4 years, so is there anything else like it, or a fork being worked on? Specifically an app based user script manager that will work with Chrome and its forks, and not a Firefox or other 3rd party browser specific addon.
Hi all. I want to use the DuckDuckGo browser, but apparently it doesn't have a built in adblocker. At least none that I could find. I need my browser to be able to block ads, while also being a privacy focused browser that blocks all the companies from spying and whatnot.
So should I switch to Bromite instead? It comes with an ad blocker already installed, and it's supposed to be privacy focused. But it seems to be absent from Fdroid, whereas DuckDuckGo is still there. Thanks!
Bromite
Bromite is a Chromium fork with ad blocking and enhanced privacy; take back your browser
www.bromite.org
Yeah go with Bromite imo.
They have GitHub here it is https://github.com/bromite/bromite
There's also ungoogled chromium as a secondary, which you can use extensions with, check that out as well.
Jfyi DDG has a few decent browser extensions iv used before, mostly on desktop though.
Good luck
For some reason that won't install. I put the APK on my phone, but it says "Installing" then "Software not installed". The only requirement that I can see is that you need to be using later than 5.0 android.