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Don't Miss Out On This New Browser, A Must For Pda Owners With Data Plan

DON'T MISS OUT ON THIS NEW BROWSER, A MUST FOR PDA OWNERS WITH DATA PLAN:
www.SKYFIRE.com
Watch The Intro On The Home Page

It's kinda nice, but it's another of the page through a proxy as an image browsers. The page is reformatted on their servers and then sent to the phone.

This has been around. It is in a Beta right now that you have to sign up for and be invited to. Been waiting months for the invite and basically giving up. Getting mixed reviews.

This is kinda old news. I have the beta of skyfire, it actually works fairly well. I have several wishes/bug fixes that I sent to skyfire, but overall it is fairly fast and pretty much plays any website you can navigate to.
I still use opera for most of my daily browsing, but I hope that skyfire gets better after the beta testing.

Skyfire
i got the skyfire download but everytime i've tried to browse..it keep saying that the network was lost eventhough i have data plan, i can browse internet with opera mobile 8.5
thanx

I didnt like it....will stick with Opera and PIE+

Meh, I just got the beta2 today. I'm not too impressed with it so far. There's lots of great things incorporated into it, but when you try to flow through pages you just can't do it. When a page loads, you have to zoom into it before you can enter text into any field.
I like to get online, do what I need to do, and get off--bam--finished. This new beta makes it very hard to do that. I've looked for ways to fix it this in its menus, but I just can't find anything. If someone knows how to fix it, let me know .
The things I love about it most are you can get on java based sites, watch embedded video, and hear embedded audio.
All in all, I'd have to say this is just a so-so browser. Great for the casual user who is multi-media focused.

I have the beta as well and I'll stick with opera 9.5. Plus I'd rather not do password work through a proxy server.

I use mini more. But sky is nice for some things. Mini is faster for me....beter syncing. rss. better rendering. better ui. sky does flash.

I just downloaded Sky today, I was let into the beta. And I will say that it's a little harder to use then the other browsers, but in making up for that. It actually delivers on what it says. I can't watch youtube on PIE or opera. I can on Sky, once flash is in the other browsers, Sky will have nothing, but until I find a browser that can play flash.. This rocks for all kinds of things, last.fm, and youtube are great, though I hate the zoom, and it needs some kind of volume control built into the browser.

Opera mobile when it is fully released will have flash. Last.fm plays better with pocket scrobbler. Hit me up over IM and I can send u a cab.

I actually like skyfire, but i noticed I can't go to any .Net sites. Whats up with that? Anyone?

Just got the beta this weekend
Good:
Renders pages well
Plays flash movies
Bad:
Stupid long startup time
Retarded "First you need to zoom!" UI concept. Just awful. Really awful
Text doesn't go into textbox, pops up for input.
Pretty much zero configuration
They should just rename this this to what it is: Streaming online pron viewer.
If they cut the start up time in 1/2, eliminated the need to zoom first (Start in desktop view, tap + hold to bring up the zoom box), and let you customize the way the interface works, they could have a winner. As it is now, Im suprised they consider this even a beta. It has nothing more than core funcitonality, which is more alpha to me.

anybody else get the feeling that even though the page load itself is pretty quick the browser on the whole sorta lags

I downloaded it tried it uninstalled it. it was a memory hog, makes you sign in every time (why can't it remember user information?), it's another one of those we reformat the web for you portals.
Crashed on my device almost immediately.

Got my E-mail yesterday and it works great. It uses a lot of memory though. But so far I like it.

another browser that will require money
I don't get these browsers, instead of updating HTML tags via the W3C we get these browsers that reformat pages before delivering them to the PPC.
I installed this, tried it, had it first complain about memory issues, then crashed when I tried to open the crosswords link on the NY Times page, and uninstalled it.
What exactly are the memory requirements for this thing?
Some specs would be nice.
It's not something I'm going to use.

emkorial said:
Just got the beta this weekend
Good:
Renders pages well
Plays flash movies
Bad:
Stupid long startup time
Retarded "First you need to zoom!" UI concept. Just awful. Really awful
Text doesn't go into textbox, pops up for input.
Pretty much zero configuration
They should just rename this this to what it is: Streaming online pron viewer.
If they cut the start up time in 1/2, eliminated the need to zoom first (Start in desktop view, tap + hold to bring up the zoom box), and let you customize the way the interface works, they could have a winner. As it is now, Im suprised they consider this even a beta. It has nothing more than core funcitonality, which is more alpha to me.
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ROTFLMAO, streaming online pron viewer. BWAAAWBWAAA

I love this program. It's awesome. It does have some limitations others have noted, but if you're looking to stream media, or view a page as it's shown on a PC it's the way to go.
If you're looking to USE a webpage, read, etc, I'd rather use pIE. But I like having both.
I love that it can play ANY streaming media I've thrown at it and look / sound great.
If you haven't already, check out this streaming media site: http://www.hulu.com
It has full episodes of many online shows, with very limited ads, for free! No signup! it's sponsored by NBC and FOX and it's 100% legit. It works GREAT in Skyfire!

Finally
A browser that does all. Opera+PIE+Skyfire. I can now with all three do everything I need to lol. Lets see if firefox can integrate the three. or someone.

My biggest annoyance with Android's web browser

Android comes with a seriously awesome web browser. It can easily browse regular desktop versions of web pages even over EDGE with no major problems. I'm so glad to leave crippled mobile versions of web pages behind me forever.
EXCEPT
Google, of all places, seems to have some kind of lock preventing the Android browser from gaining access to the desktop versions of their websites. They come up with the mobile versions by default, and even if you click the button to switch it to the desktop version, it doesn't. It takes you to yet another mobile version that is just styled a little closer to the desktop version, but it's by no means identical.
Google built this browser, they know that it can handle desktop webpages, why won't they let us do that with their own sites? I find it really annoying to deal with crippled versions of Google's web pages. In Gmail I can't edit my contacts, in YouTube... I don't know what the hell's going on... all I see is large ugly text, in Google Search I don't have the convenient switch to image search while viewing web results. It's FRUSTRATING.

chefgon said:
Android comes with a seriously awesome web browser. It can easily browse regular desktop versions of web pages even over EDGE with no major problems. I'm so glad to leave crippled mobile versions of web pages behind me forever.
EXCEPT
Google, of all places, seems to have some kind of lock preventing the Android browser from gaining access to the desktop versions of their websites. They come up with the mobile versions by default, and even if you click the button to switch it to the desktop version, it doesn't. It takes you to yet another mobile version that is just styled a little closer to the desktop version, but it's by no means identical.
Google built this browser, they know that it can handle desktop webpages, why won't they let us do that with their own sites? I find it really annoying to deal with crippled versions of Google's web pages. In Gmail I can't edit my contacts, in YouTube... I don't know what the hell's going on... all I see is large ugly text, in Google Search I don't have the convenient switch to image search while viewing web results. It's FRUSTRATING.
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I really dont know why your browser does that, but I have access to the regular google.com classic view page. I can pic between web, images, local, news.. etc.. I can also log to igoogle.com

I can aswell

Most mobile sites have a link to view the regular site. Google has this.
go to www.google.com then you see on the bottom Mobile is default choice, click on CLASSIC to view the regular website version

Anyone else having an issue with the browser where after a while it no longer renders the pages?
It shows the progress bar filling up and done, but just a blank page.

quedijo said:
Anyone else having an issue with the browser where after a while it no longer renders the pages?
It shows the progress bar filling up and done, but just a blank page.
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Yes I've had that problem as well as not being able to get into market have no clue why. Frustrating!!!

I keep having this problem too. The only thing that seems to solve the problem is a restart. I dont know if it has anything to do with me clearing the cache but it IS verry annoying.

Yeah, even killing the browser process doesn't do it either.

quedijo said:
Anyone else having an issue with the browser where after a while it no longer renders the pages?
It shows the progress bar filling up and done, but just a blank page.
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thats network issues with thew the 3g when i disable 3g it worked but sometimes it wont

i think it has to do with your cache i wish they come out with a new firmware that lets you save programs to sdcard or cache to sd card

I'm having the same issues. It was working when I first got the phone, but now it only gives me the option for mobile view.

I found a solution to the most annoying, biggest mistake from Google. For those who loved iGoogle and cant find it, here it is:
www.google.com/ig/i?source=mofe
And here is an alternate BETA site from Yahoo as backup:
http://beta.m.yahoo.com/

brooklynite said:
I found a solution to the most annoying, biggest mistake from Google. For those who loved iGoogle and cant find it, here it is:
www.google.com/ig/i?source=mofe
And here is an alternate BETA site from Yahoo as backup:
http://beta.m.yahoo.com/
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I guess Google found out the shut down the site.
Yahoo's Beta sucks.

[Q] Touch Pro 2 Internet page and Frontierville (cringe)

OK...I know noone's gonna wanna hear this. I talked my wife into buying Touch Pro 2 for her and myself. Everything mostly works well. With the new Opera 10 I can at least see YouTube videos. However, my wife really wants to be able to play farmville, frontierville, whateverville on facebook. Does anyone know if any browsers will support this?
Secondly. On the "Internet" page of the SenseUI, there are 4 bookmarks. She and I have the same. Is there any way to change these bookmarks? Is there anyway to set it so they're changeable at will? I did attempt to search for this here, but the options suggested aren't the same on my phone. On my "internet" page, I have bookmarks and browser as softkey options. Not "options" or "menu." Any help would be wholeheartedly appreciated!

Skyfire browser is going to be the most PC like experience.
That is my opinion. There may be someone else that has a better solution.

I would, but Skyfire is no longer supporting WM. The proxy servers that WM's version of Skyfire uses is going offline 12/31/10. :-/

uZard Web P
"uZard Web P" browser supports Flash, and should be able to play Facebook games:
http://www.uzard.com/en/down/download_windowsmobile.asp

problem downloading files

when i try to download a file from f.ex megaupload i only get a html file ...
i tried the astro solution but nothing.. anyone has solved this?

I regularly download things from websites. Alot of files from emu sites and they lead to megaupload.
They work fine for me.
Ive tried it with alot of browsers, stock, opera, opera mini, boats, dolphin.
Cant see any reason why downloading a file would give you the html page instead of the file.
What browser do you use?

i use the one that comes in xperia play...
i have just tried to download a file from fileserve and got .html again

Try getting Opera Mobile from the market place (its free) and try with that.
I personally do not like the stock browser. I find it slow, sluggish and jerky.
My set up is Opera Mobile for Wi-Fi and Opera Mini for 3g connection.
You will not find a faster browser than Opera Mini, it compresses data up to 90% on a seperate server before the data comes to your phone. Excellent for speed and if you are on a data plan to save MB usage.
The only downside for Opera Mini is it doesnt support flash. (which is why i use Opera Mobile too). Bookmarks can be synched automatically between both browsers.
Anyway, try another browser and see if downloading works.

ok i´ll try
thank you

Flash player browser for zenfone2

Puffin browser (fast & flash) - from play store works great on ZenFone 2
Anyone else,like me been trying all sorts to try and watch livestreams etc etc..
Give this a whirl... its free too,for now and is flawless

https://www.puffinbrowser.com/index.php

Puffin browser is not the solution. Is not free, only 2 weeks trial then flash will stop to work.
Puffin is a server side browser, flash game won't work anyway and they monitor all you visit so there's no privacy surfing the net with it.
Dont forget all the scam in web page, no plugin to stop them with puffin, with firefox you can have desktop like experience now just tweak it in 'about;;config", mobile version is optimized to run on old device too so make it faster for a good device like zf2 {before last OTA, now seem wifi is tarped and slowest then before}
If you don,t living in US puffin is too slow and crappy server connection, i can use it only through vpn to get reasonable speed in c.. europe, due to dedicate lan and US dns.
however you can use wathever server based browser, most vpn provider can offer this kind of service whit releable security, safenest and speed.
Ggot sub with purevpn and realy is fast like hell {not ever but by the way..} all is routed through gigabit dedicate fiber lan and they realy care about your privacy..

Ginuz said:
Puffin browser is not the solution. Is not free, only 2 weeks trial then flash will stop to work.
Puffin is a server side browser, flash game won't work anyway and they monitor all you visit so there's no privacy surfing the net with it.
Dont forget all the scam in web page, no plugin to stop them with puffin, with firefox you can have desktop like experience now just tweak it in 'about;;config", mobile version is optimized to run on old device too so make it faster for a good device like zf2 {before last OTA, now seem wifi is tarped and slowest then before}
If you don,t living in US puffin is too slow and crappy server connection, i can use it only through vpn to get reasonable speed in c.. europe, due to dedicate lan and US dns.
however you can use wathever server based browser, most vpn provider can offer this kind of service whit releable security, safenest and speed.
Ggot sub with purevpn and realy is fast like hell {not ever but by the way..} all is routed through gigabit dedicate fiber lan and they realy care about your privacy..
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Thanks ginuz,maybe you do a tutorial re above cos that made absolutely no sense to me being a noob, for when puffing runs out?
Flash player is important to me..
Anyone else got a work around should this time trial end ?
Let's have em please ..
I am using puffin only for live stream..I don't give a hoot who wants to know what I'm watching...because it is the path we are all travelling..sooner or later just add greed and time

Dolphin has flash support.
Sent from my ASUS_Z00AD using Tapatalk

corrsea said:
Dolphin has flash support.
Sent from my ASUS_Z00AD using Tapatalk
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Yes but no cracked flash players work on zen

timbernot said:
Yes but no cracked flash players work on zen
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Buy the product if you like it....dont use cracks......

Link please?

Puffin i think use server check, so Mac, device imei are usualy used, i dont think cell number or device serial number, so easy to change with terminal script. Also Xposed module to fake device data can be handy.
Ill tell you next week if you can renew trial period or flash will be gone

stackoverflow.com/questions/5575064/install-flash-or-air-on-intel-android-android-x86
This works for me on firefox

Ginuz said:
Puffin browser is not the solution. Is not free, only 2 weeks trial then flash will stop to work...
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Not anymore, according to the play store description (see screenshot below).
I am not a big fan of Puffin browser and wouldn't use it normally (there really isn't that much flash content about now anyway, apple got their way and HTML5 became standard) but it is worth having just to use for watching (generally nefarious) live sports streams, which all seem to use flash. I can attest to it working for those purposes, as I have been using it to watch cricket recently. If that is all you want flash for then it's a good simple solution IMHO.

Well, with ads blocker will usefully for video chat, the only things cuze speed test like ookla is useless, using apk now. Anyway html5 is worst solution for streaming, audio sometimes will gone or video stuck or connection drop have no solution then restart video.
I got skygo on-demand with chromecast working on rooted zf2 and you know phones operator sometimes give you free mobile data so I don't care too much, but I'll try the posted solution for lollipop.

timbernot said:
Puffin browser (fast & flash) - from play store works great on ZenFone 2
Anyone else,like me been trying all sorts to try and watch livestreams etc etc..
Give this a whirl... its free too,for now and is flawless
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Still doing the job and still free
IMHO , better than any flash player on any other phone ,:good:
Where, freezing and restarting usually the frustrating fix.
This is still flawless on livestream.com streams