I went back to the stock Browser to see how multitouch was after the OTA update, and man, how underwhelming.
The multitouch is pretty much the same as Dolphin of course, but I definitely got used to Dolphin's full screen view. That status bar just sticks out like a HUGE sore thumb in the stock browser now...
Now only that, I love being able to double tap in Dolphin and seeing all the open tabs, instead of having to press Menu... then Windows... Then choose my tab...
Anyone else sticking with Dolphin? I think there's just too many extra features. Now that I've tried it, I can't go back!
I'm actually moving back to stock browser, I didn't realize how slow dolphin was.
muncheese said:
I'm actually moving back to stock browser, I didn't realize how slow dolphin was.
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Slow how? In zooming, page loading, or something else? They seem the same speed to me...???
Also, the zoom in/out buttons on the stock rom are also really ugly now, since they're not on Dolphin either.
dolphin didn't really impress me. the zoom was never that smooth and I never got used to the gestures didn't seem worth the effort. stock browser always seemed to load quicker. the new zooming seems to format the page better. I think the new pinch is absolutely perfect.
stock all the way, though I could see if you were used to specific features you'd stay with dolphin.
The only advantage Dolphin has now, over the stock browser, is the ability to download Youtube vids. On this gorgeous huge screen, the status bar isn't really as much of an eyesore as it was on the G1.
I see... It does seems a bit smoother to zoom...
Is there a way to remove the zoom buttons and the status bar without being rooted?
If not, is there a way to remove them with root?
Paul22000 said:
I see... It does seems a bit smoother to zoom...
Is there a way to remove the zoom buttons and the status bar without being rooted?
If not, is there a way to remove them with root?
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Best bet is to contact Loccy. He was able to hack the stock browser on 1.5 and 1.6 to hide the status bar and the zoom buttons.
I like the tab mgmnt. Home page/bookmarks.
Dolphin MT but it also reformats text. Default when you P/Z is iphonish where it doesnt reformat the text.
Paul22000 said:
Slow how? In zooming, page loading, or something else? They seem the same speed to me...???
Also, the zoom in/out buttons on the stock rom are also really ugly now, since they're not on Dolphin either.
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Page loading. I love the left/right swipe to change tabs on dolphin though, as well as the gestures, but if I'm on my phone, page loading > tabs
xManMythLegend said:
I like the tab mgmnt. Home page/bookmarks.
Dolphin MT but it also reformats text. Default when you P/Z is iphonish where it doesnt reformat the text.
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double tap right after doing the pinch to zoom, it'll format it without zooming
xManMythLegend said:
I like the tab mgmnt. Home page/bookmarks.
Dolphin MT but it also reformats text. Default when you P/Z is iphonish where it doesnt reformat the text.
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Oh wow, you're right. I just noticed this.
When you zoom in with pinch/zoom on stock browser, it doesn't reflow text. If you rotate the phone and then rotate back, it DOES reflow the text. And then if you zoom out, it reflows the text. So only zooming *IN* with P/Z is fubar'd. (The zoom in/zoom out buttons reflow text just fine in both directions.)
Is this a "feature" or a bug with P/Z on stock browser???
[Edit]: Actually... It looks like reflow isn't working in Dolphin either until you rotate landscape and back??? Google must have broken something in the OTA??
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Best bet is to contact Loccy. He was able to hack the stock browser on 1.5 and 1.6 to hide the status bar and the zoom buttons.
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PM'd. He hasn't posted in more than a month on XDA though. I wonder if he left the Android scene.
My Htc Artemis died, so I decided to get the Touch2, its much faster and it brings manilla which is very nice, the problem is it doesn't have no soft buttons, so there is no way to play old games, but this is a problem in modern PDAs, anyway what is really annoying its the zoom bar, what's the point, there is a new opera version, new office, new copilot, and the zoom bar only works with the old pre installed programs, I've sent an email to HTC and they say the zoom bar is a powerfull tool.
I hope someone here can design something to make it work in new programs or anythinf else, anyway I will send another email to HTC to ask them to make the zoom bar work in new programs, its a hard choice having new programs and a completly usseles bar bellow the screen, or old software with the zoom bar working.
yes even i feel only in opera 10 that zoom bar should have been supported. yes its a powerful tool, and you sir are wrong about it. its really good, one of the best feature. but its opera 10 or any other devs fault that they didn't support it.
Is there anyway to use the zoom bar in oprea?
unfortunately you cannot. there are some tweaks out there that can get it ot work but it does not work well.
htc worked on the opera 9.7 to enable the zoom bar.
I orignally was also searching for a way to use the zoom bar but after using opera 10 for awhile, I found that it really does not need to use zoom feature as much so I think just with a bit more expereince you may found that it's fine to live without it.
Now that you mention it i dont need it as mutch as I origionaly thought
Opera 10 does not have scalable zooming. It just has 2 zoom levels, zoomed in and zoomed out. Therefore the zoom bar does not work.
Does anyone know how to prevent tabs that are open from refreshing when you switch between tabs on the stock broswer? That's the most annoying thing in the world when you switch between tabs and it has to refresh. With 1 gig of RAM, this shouldn't happen. It certainly doesn't happen on my galaxy note. I appreciate any feedback!
I've had the tabs refresh when I minimize the browser but not when switching between the tabs.
Best option is to grab another browser, like opera or dolphin HD.
Ok, so I'm spoilt coming from a HTC One with its excellent browser and text flow. . but what have LG done?? None of the browsers I've tried (stock, chrome, Dolphin) even manage to do paragraph text flow on double tapping. Seems they align text to the left, but dont properly word wrap. Worse, LG have messed up the fonts, so pages dont appear as they should with some fonts in the incorrect size and colour.
Has anyone found a browser which is usable?
are you running custom dpi?
anyway try firefox or other browser