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[1/27/09][APP][VGA] Conflipper Opera 9.5 build 15529

Courtesy of, modified by, Conflipper.
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showpost.php?p=670519&postcount=2
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Here I had it cabbed up in VGA last night. Didnt feel like posting it, plus had to leave for work.
a lot of the same issues with 15233.
Pros
Full Flash Support
Full Javascript support
"Invisable" right slide zoom
Fast page loads
Mobile/Desktop controls
Advanced Menus
Cons
Blank-home page
No Auto Rotate
No Touch Wheel
Fast mirror [DOWNLOAD BELOW (FIXED LINK)]
http://www.mediafire.com/file/1ey4ghctgiw/Conflippers_Opera_15529_VGA.cab
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Alternate mirror(s) w/ flash (more mirrors):
http://rs50.rapidshare.com/files/190489443/Opera_9.5.15529_VGA_Flash.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/1904808..._15529_VGA_and_Flash_Lite_3.1_CE-OS_20757.zip

Acceptable said:
Courtesy of, modified by, Conflipper.
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showpost.php?p=670519&postcount=2
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Any word what this Conflipper guy from ppcgeeks did to modify it from the others floating around? I want to put it on my site, would like to explain and credit accordingly.

tried to dl it but it says "Invalid File. This error has been forwarded to MediaFire's development team."

red_hanks said:
tried to dl it but it says "Invalid File. This error has been forwarded to MediaFire's development team."
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That's what you get for relying on Rapidshare and friends.
Register a ppcgeek account or grab it off my site in the Web Browsers section.

New Link
http://www.mediafire.com/file/1ey4ghctgiw/Conflippers_Opera_15529_VGA.cab

after a soft-reset opera loads every time. How to disable the autostart of opera?

meow! damnit, im renovating my apartment so i dont have internet atm so im doing this on my HD atm. i registered at ppcgeeks to get the file but i cant acess my hotmail account and the mediafire link just opens it directly. wont let me save the file. what can i do?

hobs0n said:
meow! damnit, im renovating my apartment so i dont have internet atm so im doing this on my HD atm. i registered at ppcgeeks to get the file but i cant acess my hotmail account and the mediafire link just opens it directly. wont let me save the file. what can i do?
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Go on my site, blownfuze.org, go to the web browser section, click the link to the file, type in xda and xda for the user and the pass and it's done. Also posted the non-Conflipper version floating around.

d0ugie said:
Go on my site, blownfuze.org, go to the web browser section, click the link to the file, type in xda and xda for the user and the pass and it's done. Also posted the non-Conflipper version floating around.
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Worked like a charm, thanx a lot! I owe you bigtime
Damn opera is faster now!
a few things im missing from the built in one tho,
1 it doesnt move to landscape when i flip my hd, any easy way to get this to work?
2 it doesnt support the hd's back button

So whats so great about this? How do I make it my default browser as opposed to the Opera already on my Pro?

Gotta wait till I leave this basement to test it with a good signal

hidavi said:
So whats so great about this? How do I make it my default browser as opposed to the Opera already on my Pro?
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it'll overwrite ur current opera
much much faster compared to previous version, imo, atleast on my diamond

Thanks. How do I keep this thing from starting up on boot? Its really annoying and I don't see it in the Windows startup folder.

using it now and there is a number of announces going on. I don't know it's the skin but:
1) if the page (in full screen) is loading and I scroll/pan it will jump out of full screen mode. however, if the page finished loading and I scroll/pan it stays in full screen mode.
2)screen/skin response is a bit laggy at times. I really feels it is skin related because if I click a link in my RSS reader to open in opera it would show that the page is loading but doesn't show that a new tab is open until after (roughly) 10 seconds (where as in earlier builds it is shown immediately). I think this is somehow related to the jumping out of full screen problem.
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3) when double tap to zoom in, the wait it to focus is a bit longer than usual. restarted and this problem went away.
4) I really prefer the zoom slider at the bottom of the page a) because it's much smoother and responsive, b) because I'm left handed so it's better access.
good things:
1) I like that as you type the text area follows along, even though I have a good size screen I know smaller screen users would appreciate this.
2)it seems faster but some of the discrepancies I mentioned above sort of made this improvement moot.
3) it uses sip that is set at default (tested with TouchPal)
4) got a 59/100 in acid3 test (I think the test is somewhat flawed because it seems network dependent, I ran the test 3 times, I got 59, 57, 60. so I took the middle value of the 3. if I should use the average of these 3 it would be 58.6666∞, technically 59)
5) scroll velocity is back. but it doesn't "refresh" the page as you scroll/pan, so you'll be seeing a lot of gray area even if your height and width buffers are set up to 1028 (although this size helps a lot while reducing velocity to 150).
all in all, I will be using it.
** for those who can't enter text/comment on xda after hitting the "post reply" button while using opera, all you have to do is set user agent spoof to 3 in the config. for the last 5 builds I had to do this to be able to post comments here. not everyone has this problem.
** can anyone post the "image.css" file that should be found in the folder "opera9\styles\"

Guys, if anyone of you used Opera 2520, how does this compare to it? Just wanted some insights that's all!
All the best!

What does "Full Flash support" mean? Youtube (and some other sites) only like in previous versions, or is it really FULL flash support now?

I really doubt it's full flash. It won't do CNN, Yahoo, ESPN, etc. videos. It does some of them at least on my 2520 version.

Yeah the flash addon just makes it really slow. Gonna disable it.

I cannot tell if it's flash that's making it slow, i know those darn stupid scripts make it slow! disabling it is real fast but only do it to websites that don't use those stupid scripts!

c4Lvin said:
I cannot tell if it's flash that's making it slow, i know those darn stupid scripts make it slow! disabling it is real fast but only do it to websites that don't use those stupid scripts!
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disable "delay script execution" in config maybe that will help.

Browser Issue in 2.1

I have tried to like 2.1 (Thanks Damage for the almost perfec ROM). My majoe issue with ti is the non-working Facebook integration but another issue really bugs me:
Whne using the Browser in 2.1 many mobile sites come up zoomed WAY out and completely unusuable unless you double-tap to zoom in. I tried changin te mobile view option in settings with no avail. These are the two sites that I use on a regular basis where it happens (probably more but didn't test):
http://m.facebook.com
http://matrixwireless.mris.com (site I use regularly in the field for my job)
In 1.5 these two sites come up perfectly formatted but in 2.1 they both come out with such small text its unreadable.
Any ideas if this can be fixed or if its an issue that inherent to the HTC browser in Android 2.1. If so looks like I'll be staying on 1.5 or the forseeable future.

Try Dolphin Browser, it's great! ^^(unless you absolutely MUST use HTC's browser, but I fail to see why, unless Dolphin doesn't support flash... I haven't needed flash on my hero at all)

pwc realtor said:
I have tried to like 2.1 (Thanks Damage for the almost perfec ROM). My majoe issue with ti is the non-working Facebook integration but another issue really bugs me:
Whne using the Browser in 2.1 many mobile sites come up zoomed WAY out and completely unusuable unless you double-tap to zoom in. I tried changin te mobile view option in settings with no avail. These are the two sites that I use on a regular basis where it happens (probably more but didn't test):
http://m.facebook.com
http://matrixwireless.mris.com (site I use regularly in the field for my job)
In 1.5 these two sites come up perfectly formatted but in 2.1 they both come out with such small text its unreadable.
Any ideas if this can be fixed or if its an issue that inherent to the HTC browser in Android 2.1. If so looks like I'll be staying on 1.5 or the forseeable future.
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In settings in the browser uncheck open pages in overview and see if that works.

pwc realtor said:
I have tried to like 2.1 (Thanks Damage for the almost perfec ROM). My majoe issue with ti is the non-working Facebook integration but another issue really bugs me:
Whne using the Browser in 2.1 many mobile sites come up zoomed WAY out and completely unusuable unless you double-tap to zoom in. I tried changin te mobile view option in settings with no avail. These are the two sites that I use on a regular basis where it happens (probably more but didn't test):
http://m.facebook.com
http://matrixwireless.mris.com (site I use regularly in the field for my job)
In 1.5 these two sites come up perfectly formatted but in 2.1 they both come out with such small text its unreadable.
Any ideas if this can be fixed or if its an issue that inherent to the HTC browser in Android 2.1. If so looks like I'll be staying on 1.5 or the forseeable future.
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Browser not resizing some pages correctly

Hey folks ... first post, and I did try to search for this but came up with nothing.
Wondering if there's a fix or workaround for this. Some pages, when I load them, are not resized correctly for the browser. I would post a link, but ... you can google search for "best of the web today" and the first match is a page that does this wrong-resize behavior.
While it's loading, it is sized correctly. But once it completes loading, it resizes and it's too wide, so I have to scroll horizontally to read it.
This is just one example, but there are many pages that do this.
If I stop the page load before it's 100%, then it stays sized correctly for the browser (well, the block indents still run off the right side, but this seems to be true for every single thing that has block indents). So something that happens when it completes the loading is the problem. FWIW stopping it at like 95% doesn't seem to affect the content.
Any of you seen this, or know how to get around it? It's becoming quite annoying.

have you tried an alternate browser?

no ... is there an alternate browser that 1. doesn't embed ads and 2. supports flash?

tried it in skyfire, same problem.

flash isn't supported with android except the new 2.2 froyo build. even then, most official froyo builds haven't been released. there is a froyo build for the aria built from cyanogen mod source, but flash hasn't been figured out yet.
a lot of people like dolphin browser. opera mini is pretty popular as well.

@mattbollenbach, I think the OP may have meant "FlashLITE support", one of the nicer HTC features, if you ask me. I don't know if there are other browsers that support HTC's FlashLITE, but it shouldn't take too much to test that out.
Personally, the only thing that annoys me about the browser is when I load it, google is my homepage and it never displays correctly... haha, always way to big for the screen. Obviously, this is nothing more than the tiniest of gripes.

Enable animated GIFs in stock browser

I notice that animated GIFs are still not enabled by default in the browser after the Froyo update. Does anyone know how to do this?

FMXP said:
I notice that animated GIFs are still not enabled by default in the browser after the Froyo update. Does anyone know how to do this?
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I'm interested in this also

Sub'd for hopeful solution

my friends droid 1 has the froyo update and it has animated GIFs... this has been my biggest complaint about the OS. I go to spikedhumor.com and I enjoy my daily GIFs, but can only (semi) enjoy them because the wife is present
I hope this is in the final build of Froyo.
I have been posting on the google code site about this issue since early 2009.
one of the google reps on the page replied with a way to implement it, and I posted it on this site elsewhere a while back. I'll repost it here with a link to the source.
If you want to work around this with your own Android build, you'll need to modify C++ code, rebuild, and
reflash your phone. You'll need to make two fixes to the released sources.
1) edit the function should_use_animated_gif() in
external/webkit/WebCore/platform/graphics/android/ImageSourceAndroid.cpp (around line 217). Return true
to animate gifs.
2) Change setRGBA() in /WebCore/platform/image-decoders/ImageDecoder.h (around line 173) to call
*dest = SkPackARGB32(a, r, g, b);
instead of
*dest = (a << 24 | r << 16 | g << 8 | b);
With these changes, gifs will animated correctly on large memory devices like Droid and Nexus One.
There's no code path for animating gifs in arbitrary applications like Gallery, except by rewriting it to host a
WebView modded as described above.
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FMXP said:
I notice that animated GIFs are still not enabled by default in the browser after the Froyo update. Does anyone know how to do this?
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Have you tired it with the latest build of Adobe Flash Player? Found here > http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=763584

Animated GIFs have nothing to do with flash. Nothing whatsoever.
Animated GIFs are several images (GIFs) contained within the single shell GIF.
They typically trigger browsers to play it which makes it look animated.
This is similar to how the boot animations and some live backgrounds are done on Android devices. Except they do it with PNG files.

i havent gone to any .gif sites but the forums that i visit regularly that have .gif avatars play just fine since the update to 2.2

uptheforest said:
i havent gone to any .gif sites but the forums that i visit regularly that have .gif avatars play just fine since the update to 2.2
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that is where i usually see gifs as well, but not working for me. just shows the one picture.

Running unrooted 2.2 on my dX gives me Animated gifs. Default settings in stock browser, not sure if anything else i did may have enabled them but basically they just work.
Feel free to point me to look at some settings for you guys if you want to try to make it work on your phones, im new to android (Smart phones in general actually) so ill need some points.

[Q} Why use "browser" over Chrome?

I used stock for a little while and was really liking chrome on my N7. I just went through a few ROMs and settled on one (see sig) which has the original android browser on it just like Galaxy Nexus has. My question is why would anyone use that over chrome? What are the pros and cons of each browser?
Thanks in advance.

Some use browser due to it supporting flash, personally I stick with browser because I'm used to it, like the quick settings function, and have all my bookmarks saved with it so all I have to do is sync.
I do keep chrome installed as I do have occasional use for it.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda premium

well i havent played with the new chrome version(s) but back then when most of us tried chrome it was hella 1) buggy 2) slow 3) didnt support flash. and i believe it had that annoying feature of constantly refreshing pages (again not sure if newer versions have smoothed everything out)
and the fact that it's the stock browser was quick, snappy and that it was able to synce my google bookmarks too, it was a winner winner

Chrome is trash. It's slow, no flash, text is blurry. The only redeeming quality is that it syncs with chrome desktop.. But even that isn't enough to save it from being a horrible mobile browser
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The constant refreshing pages is annoying as heck. Hate that! Safari on my iPad Mini does the same thing. Pisses me off. It's not even a memory issue either, cause I'll leave the tab and come back and it still refreshes smh
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thevuman said:
Chrome is trash. It's slow, no flash, text is blurry. The only redeeming quality is that it syncs with chrome desktop.. But even that isn't enough to save it from being a horrible mobile browser
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The constant refreshing pages is annoying as heck. Hate that! Safari on my iPad Mini does the same thing. Pisses me off. It's not even a memory issue either, cause I'll leave the tab and come back and it still refreshes smh
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So true !
I was a die hard Chrome fan on my laptops etc, so when it came to Android I never looked back.
Until literally a couple of months ago, I though I'd give a different browser a go.
I'm afraid to say, EVERY other browser I tried, was better than Chrome.

Being rooted, I replaced the default N7 browser with the AOSP browser and side-loaded flash. It works great. Fast browser and excellent flash videos.

AOSP browser is just smoother than Chrome... a light feather gossamer touch is all that is needed to scroll up or down - and apart from frighteningly fast page download speeds, it's also Adobe Flash compliant.
The one feature missing, that would make the AOSP browser a 10 marks out of 10 browser is 'text-flow' (pinch zoom, and text 'flows' and automatically reformats into the space created, instead of going off the edge of the screen). But even Chrome doesn't have this feature.
Dolphin Browser Beta - (http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dolphin.browser.lab.en&hl=en) has 'text-flow' , but unfortunately isn't entirely stable... and doesn't support Flash.
An interesting new contender is the (relatively) new WebKit version of Opera...
Opera Browser Beta - (http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opera.browser.beta).
Smooth scrolling and a nice 'clean' interface... supports 'text-flow'... but not particularly fast... and doesn't support Flash. Like Dolphin Browser Beta, it's also a bit flaky.
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So for me, it's going to be the AOSP browser everytime... it's fast, smooth and supports Flash. It's not perfect, but it's the best Android browser available... IMHO, of course.
Now... what was that question about Chrome again?.
Rgrds.
Ged.

I can live with Chrome pretty much, it's slowly getting better with each update. But it would be follish to reject the fact that AOSP Browser is faster and simply more appealing in terms of UI. Though the address/search/control bar in the upper part of the screen takes too much space, while Chrome's panel is minimalistic (though nowhere as close as Opera Beta one - the smallest bar evar)
Lack of Flash support in Chrome is again not a big trouble, since it's not OFFICIALLY supported in 4.1.x and above => Browser tends to crash from time to time forcing me to completely close it and reopen with opening all the tabs again or wait until it opens the same cached tab again until it hangs dead once more. HTML5 is more than enough (at least for the sites I visit from my tablet)

I'm thinking of changing browsers from Chrome soon, lately EVERY click gets that popup balloon and I have to click it again, even if there is no other buttons around what I pressed, it's getting kinda annoying. And what they do with the text, instead of just displaying everything nicely, browsing the forum looks awful. These two 'features' should be disabled somehow, other than that I don't mind chrome. It's not the best, but not the worst either.

GedBlake said:
The one feature missing, that would make the AOSP browser a 10 marks out of 10 browser is 'text-flow' (pinch zoom, and text 'flows' and automatically reformats into the space created, instead of going off the edge of the screen). But even Chrome doesn't have this feature.
Rgrds.
Ged.
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If you zoom to where the text goes off the page, double-tap the screen to make the text flow reformat back to fit the screen.

Groid said:
If you zoom to where the text goes off the page, double-tap the screen to make the text flow reformat back to fit the screen.
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Yeah, I know about the 'double-tap'... it just enlarges/zooms... but doesn't reflow - or at least on my version of AOSP browser it doesn't.
If you have (or know of) a version of the AOSP browser that does that... then I would be most interested in it.
So any download links, CWM/TWRP flashable's... or even something I can 'push' to /system... or maybe flashable ROMs... that would be most appreciated.
Such a browser - (AOSP, Adobe Flash Compliant... and Text-flow capable) would be the sine qua non of browsers... IMHO.
Rgrds,
Ged.

Yes, if I just double-tap it zooms or zooms back. But if I have zoomed the text too much to fit the screen, a double-tap will re-flow the text to fit the screen. The ASOP browser I'm using shows in All apps as Version 4.1.1-eng.sparkyman216.20120801.074324. I think I got it from an XDA thread but I'm not sure which one. It is dated 8/5/12 and is about 1.6 Mb. I have the .apk available if you want it.

Groid said:
Yes, if I just double-tap it zooms or zooms back. But if I have zoomed the text too much to fit the screen, a double-tap will re-flow the text to fit the screen. The ASOP browser I'm using shows in All apps as Version 4.1.1-eng.sparkyman216.20120801.074324. I think I got it from an XDA thread but I'm not sure which one. It is dated 8/5/12 and is about 1.6 Mb. I have the .apk available if you want it.
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Sounds ideal!
And it also sounds like 'not all AOSP browsers' are born equal!
I would definitely be interested in a copy of your .apk... probably going to have to too screw around with some ODEX stuff to make it work.
But if I can get text-flow working in an AOSP browser... with Flash Support... that would be great.
Rgrds,
Ged

OK, the process once you get the browser.apk file: you must be rooted and have a root file explorer like 'Root Explorer' or 'ES File Explorer'. Navigate to /system/app, mount as R/W, and rename BrowserProviderProxy.apk and BrowserProviderProxy.odex by adding a .bak extention (i.e. browserproviderproxy.apk.bak). Copy browser.apk into /system/app. Verify the permissions are set as owner=Read Write, Group and Others as Read. Restart the N7. Place a shortcut for Browser from the app drawer on your dock or home screen. Try it out. (Sideload Flash from the Adobe website if not already installed.)
I just noticed you have a custom rom and kernel. I don't know if this works with that combination. I'm stock rom, and kernel and rooted. You might want to check some cyanogenmod forums. If you want to pm me with your email, I'll attach the browser.apk file.

Dolphin. <<<<<<emphasis on the period.
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